#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 poured

on my

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

team doctor,” I replied. “But not for long. I’m gonna talk to

he looks

#Chapter 21 Pariah

there was nothing between you before, and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt. I just wish you were

honest with Jessica about everything, but right now I

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

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

down and sat in the back of the

I just tried to keep my head down and pretend like I was looking at

notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my

you to stay away from both of them,” she growled.

remember,” I replied. “But all of this is out of my control. I

deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising

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

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

to leave the room so I could get ahead of Lisa and

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

rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve got a bullseye on my

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

this.”

the paper and winced.

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

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

me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands

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