#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.”

around 1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled as she

my shoulder. “It was just

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

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

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

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

with Jessica about everything, but right now

you everything later. But I’m gonna be late for

to start cleaning up the coffee she

other girls. I kept my head down and sat in the back of the

making me feel even more like a pariah. I just tried to keep my head down and pretend like I was looking

notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked

I said, rummaging through my

from both of them,” she growled.

this is out of my control. I

folding 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

the end of the semester. You’re such a little

with herself, stomped off to

the lecture, I was the first to leave the room so

ran into Lori in the quad, who seemed to be the only person at this stupid school who didn’t hate me right

her. “I can’t

she said, pulling

this.”

paper

I whirled around to see

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

from my hands and

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