#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 she

bag on my shoulder. “It was just

the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What is your relationship

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

the way he looks at you,” Jessica said,

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Now I know something is going on without a doubt. I just wish you were honest with me,

wanted to be honest with Jessica about everything, but

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

nodded, then turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another

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

tried to keep my head

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

please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging through

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

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

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,

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

with herself, stomped off to sit back with

room so I could get ahead of

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

rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve got

a bullseye exactly,” she said, pulling a piece of paper off of my back.

this.”

the paper

said. I whirled

funny?!” I said, waving the paper in the air. “Fuck

she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a

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