#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.”

1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled

my bag on my shoulder. “It was

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

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

looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

told me that there was nothing between you before, and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt. I just

about everything, but right now

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

towel to start cleaning

the dirty looks and whispering from other girls. I kept my head down and sat in the

to keep my head down and pretend like I was looking at my

to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with an angry expression on her

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

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

all of this is out of my control. I didn’t ask to

her arms 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 to get that position #Chapter

by the end of the semester.

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

first to leave the room

ran into Lori in the quad, who seemed to be the only

rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t take this anymore. I

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

this.”

paper

I whirled around to see a group of

waving the paper

and guided me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from

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