#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.”

1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled as

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

at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What is your relationship with him,

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

way he looks at you,” Jessica said, her lip

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

everything, but right now I

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

away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up

of 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 I sat next to got up and moved seats when I sat #Chapter 21:

tried to keep

me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me

said, rummaging through my

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

remember,” I replied. “But all of this is out of my control. I didn’t ask to be

you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her

team by the end of the

amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped

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

who seemed to be the

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

“Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she

this.”

paper

I whirled

waving the paper in the air. “Fuck

from my hands

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