#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

bag on my shoulder. “It was just a

glaring at me as tears streamed down

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

looks at

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

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

you everything later. But

start cleaning up the coffee

my head down and sat in the back of the lecture hall; the girls who I sat next to got up

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

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

Lisa,” I said, rummaging

scoffed. “I told you to stay away from both

of this is out of my control. I

arms across her chest. “Who knows what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I know, you probably slept with

the whole team by the end of the semester. You’re

with herself, stomped off to sit back with her gaggle

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

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

not a bullseye exactly,” she said,

this.”

the paper

I whirled around to see a group of

funny?!” I said, waving the

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

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