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Chapter 21

#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.”

magically appear around 1 you a lot lately,” she

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

slammed the coffee pot down, sloshing coffee on the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed

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

seen the way he looks at you,” Jessica said, her

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

wanted to be honest with Jessica about everything, but

later. But I’m

then turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee

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

even more like a pariah. I just tried to

my notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked

Lisa,” I said, rummaging

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

“But all of this is out of my control. I didn’t

and huffed, folding her 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 someone to get that position

whole team by the end of

other students started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself,

room so I

into Lori in the quad, who seemed to be the only person at this

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

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

this.”

paper

said. I whirled around

is funny?!” I said, waving the

me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can. “They’re

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