#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 lately,”

and adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It was just a coincidence,”

down, sloshing coffee on the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What

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

the way he looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

hard time believing it then. Now I know something is

everything, but right now I had

you everything later. But I’m gonna be late

and nodded, then turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee

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 next to got up and moved seats

even more like a pariah. I just tried to

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

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

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

“But all of this is out of my control. I didn’t

knows what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she

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

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

first to leave the room

the quad, who seemed to be the only person at this stupid school who didn’t hate

her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel

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

this.”

grabbed the paper

$5 blowjobs,” the paper said. I whirled

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

wrapped her arm around my shoulders and guided me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from

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