#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.”

magically appear around 1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled

on my shoulder.

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

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

looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

with Jessica about everything, but right now I had to

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

a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she

down and sat in the back of the lecture hall; the girls who I sat next to got up and moved seats when I

I just tried to keep my head down and pretend like

down next to me. I looked

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through

away from both of them,” she growled.

this is out of my control. I didn’t

be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I know, you probably slept with someone to get that position #Chapter

could fuck the whole team by the

pleased with herself, stomped off to sit

was the first to leave the room so

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

her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve got a bullseye on my

a bullseye exactly,” she said, pulling a piece of paper

this.”

grabbed the paper and winced.

I whirled around to

think this is funny?!” I said, waving

from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can. “They’re not worth

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