#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 lately,” she grumbled

my shoulder. “It was just a coincidence,” I

said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What

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

he looks at you,” Jessica

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

about everything, but right now

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

turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled.

other girls. I kept my head down and sat in the back of the lecture hall; the girls who I sat next

like a pariah. I just tried to keep

I was looking at my notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see

please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging

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

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

“Who knows what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?”

the end of the semester. You’re such a

started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself,

first to leave the room so I could get

the quad, who seemed to be the only

I said, rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t take

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

this.”

the paper

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

is funny?!” I said, waving

she said, grabbing the paper from my

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