#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.”

seems to just magically appear around 1 you a lot

bag on my shoulder. “It was just

counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks.

down at the floor and bit my lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But not for long. I’m gonna talk to the dean

I’ve seen the way he looks at you,” Jessica

#Chapter 21 Pariah

that there was nothing between you before, and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know

everything, but right now I

“I’ll tell you everything later. But

turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning

got to class, I was already exhausted from all of the dirty looks and whispering from other girls. I kept my head down and sat in the back of the lecture hall; the girls who I sat

even more like a pariah. I just tried to keep my head down and

I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with an angry

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

stay away from both

I replied. “But all of this is out of

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

fuck the whole team by the end of the semester. You’re such a

with herself, stomped off

first to leave the room so

seemed to be the only person at this stupid school who didn’t hate me right

rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve got a bullseye on my

me up and down. “Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she said, pulling a

this.”

grabbed the paper and

I whirled around to

I said, waving the

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

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