#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 grumbled as

my shoulder.

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

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

I’ve seen the way he looks

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

about everything, but right now I

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

paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another word, I ran

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

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

at my notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me

today, please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging

to stay away from both of them,” she

is out of my control. I didn’t ask

the team doctor?” she said, raising

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

whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off

to leave the room

to be the only person at this stupid

can’t take this anymore. I feel

she said, pulling a piece of

this.”

grabbed the paper

whirled around to see a

waving the paper in

said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can. “They’re not

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