#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,” she grumbled as she

my

at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What is your relationship with

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

way he looks

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it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt. I just wish you

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

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

grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another word,

down and sat in the back of the lecture hall; the girls who I

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

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

said, rummaging through my bag for my

you to stay away from both

this is out of my control. I didn’t ask to be the team

arms across her chest. “Who knows what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her

so you could fuck the whole team by the end of the semester. You’re such

amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off to

the lecture, I was the first to leave the room so I could get ahead of Lisa and her

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

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

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

this.”

grabbed the paper and

paper said. I whirled around to see a group of students

this is funny?!” I said, waving

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

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