#Chapter 21: Pariah

Nina

The morning after my motorcycle ride with Enzo, I woke up to dozens of Twitter notifications. Still blinking the sleep out of my eyes, I scrunched up my eyebrows as I opened my phone and started to read all of the notifications.

“Wowwww @ninaharpı, alone time with Enzo, huh?”

“Enzo must be joking if he’s hanging around with that ugly nerd @ ninaharpı!!”

“What a slut, messing around with two boys from the hockey team at once. Save some for the rest of us @ ninaharpı!”

I sat up in bed, my eyes glued to the phone as I opened Twitter and realized that someone snuck pictures of Enzo and I last night. There were pictures of #Chapter 21. Pariah

me talking to Justin in the parking lot, a picture of me as I shoved Justin to the ground, Enzo wiping the tears from my cheek, and getting on his motorcycle together.

I knew I shouldn’t have trusted him. This was just another step in the game he was playing with me!

As I looked at the time, I realized that I had class in twenty minutes. I jumped out of bed and threw on some jeans and a t-shirt, quickly braided my hair and brushed my teeth, and ran out of my room.

Jessica was standing in the kitchen when I came out of my room. She looked up from making her coffee briefly, then looked back down. Even in that brief moment, I could see tears in her eyes.

“It was really nothing,” I said,

assuming that she already saw the #Chapter 21 Parian

photos. “Justin was harassing me and Enzo just happened to show up. He drove me home.”

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adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It was just a coincidence,” I

said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What is your relationship with him, really?”

team doctor,” I replied. “But not for

he looks at you,” Jessica said, her lip

#Chapter 21 Pariah

time believing it then. Now I know

with Jessica about everything, but

said, “I’ll tell you everything later. But I’m gonna

a paper towel to start cleaning

girls. I kept my head down and sat in the back of

feel even more like a pariah. I just tried to

looked

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag for

to stay away from both of them,” she growled. “We

“But all of this is out of my control.

of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I know, you probably slept with someone to

so you could fuck the whole team by the end of the

students started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped

was the first to leave the room so I could get ahead of Lisa and her

be the only person at this stupid

“I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve

she said, pulling a piece of paper off of my back.

this.”

the paper and winced.

paper said. I whirled around to see a group of

waving the paper in

me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it

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