#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,”

adjusted my bag on my shoulder.

glaring at me as tears

looked down at the floor and bit my lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But not for long. I’m

looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

it then. Now I know something is going

with Jessica about everything,

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

towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled.

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

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

I looked up to see

I said, rummaging through

both of them,”

replied. “But all of this is out of my

be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I know, you probably slept with someone to get that position #Chapter 21

the whole team by the end

amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off

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

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

“I can’t take this anymore. I feel like

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

this.”

grabbed the paper

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

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

and guided me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it

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