#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.”

you a

sighed and adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It

“Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What is your relationship

down at the floor and bit my lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But not

seen the way he looks at you,” Jessica said, her lip

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

I wanted to be honest with Jessica about everything, but right now I had to get

you everything later. But I’m gonna be

turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up

from all of the dirty looks and whispering from other girls. I kept my head down

pariah. I just tried to keep my head down and

looking at my notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with an

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through

away from both of them,”

“But all of this is out of my control. I

to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I

so you could fuck the whole team by the

started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself,

lecture, I was the first to leave the room

quad, who seemed to be the only person at this stupid school who

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

“Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she said, pulling a piece of

this.”

the paper and

whirled around to see a group of

said, waving the paper in the air.

and guided me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can. “They’re not

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