#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.”

magically appear around 1 you a lot lately,”

my shoulder. “It was just a

the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears

floor and bit my lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But

looks at you,” Jessica said, her lip

#Chapter 21 Pariah

it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt.

wanted to be honest with Jessica about everything, but

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

and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another word, I ran out

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

more like a pariah. I just tried to keep

someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with an angry

please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag for

both of them,” she growled. “We had

this is out of my

the team

so you could fuck the whole team by the end of the semester. You’re such a little

whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself,

I was the first to leave the room so I could get

who seemed to be the only

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

down. “Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she said, pulling a piece of paper off of my back.

this.”

the paper and

slut! $5 blowjobs,” the paper said. I whirled around to see a group of

funny?!” I said, waving the

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

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