#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

sighed and adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It

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

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

the way he looks at you,”

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

be honest with Jessica about everything, but right

said, “I’ll tell you everything later.

sniffled and nodded, then turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another word, I

from other girls. I kept my head down and sat

just tried to keep my head down and pretend like I

was looking at my notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with an angry expression on her

today, please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag

stay away from both

I replied. “But all of this is out of my

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

by the end of the

pleased with herself, stomped off to sit back with her gaggle

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

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

can’t take this anymore. I

“Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she

this.”

the paper and

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

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

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

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