#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.”

to just magically appear around 1 you a lot

my

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

doctor,” I

seen the way he looks at

#Chapter 21 Pariah

time believing it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt.

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

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

towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another word, I ran

I was already 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

like a pariah. I just tried to keep my head down and

sat down next to me. I looked

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my

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

I replied. “But all of this is out of my control. I didn’t ask to be the

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

fuck the whole team by the

started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off to sit back

the first to leave the room so I could get

I ran into Lori in the quad, who seemed to be the only person at this stupid school who

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

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

this.”

grabbed the paper

slut! $5 blowjobs,” the paper said. I whirled around to see a group of

funny?!” I said, waving

them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing

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