#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

adjusted my bag on my

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

“I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But not

he looks

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

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

everything later.

away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning

got to class, I was already exhausted from all 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

feel even more like a pariah. I just tried to keep my

to me. I looked up to see Lisa

Lisa,” I said, rummaging

you to stay away from both of them,”

out of my

be the team doctor?” she said, raising

could fuck the whole team by the end of the semester. You’re such

amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off

the room so I

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

with her. “I can’t take this anymore.

exactly,” she said, pulling a piece of

this.”

grabbed the paper and winced.

said. I whirled around to see

waving

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

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