#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.”

just magically appear around 1 you a lot lately,” she

bag on my

slammed the coffee pot down, sloshing coffee on the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at

the team doctor,” I replied. “But not for long. I’m gonna talk to the dean

he looks

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and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt. I just wish you were honest with me,

about everything, but right

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

to start

down and sat in the back of

I just tried to keep

I looked up to see

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

“I told you to stay away from both of them,” she growled. “We had a deal,

out of my control. I didn’t

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

the end of the semester. You’re such a

started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off to sit back with her gaggle

the room so I could

Lori in the quad, who seemed to be the only person at

god,” I said, rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t

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

this.”

grabbed the paper

whirled around to see a group of students

is funny?!” I said, waving the paper in the

grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can. “They’re not worth your time. It’ll

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