#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.”

a lot lately,” she grumbled as

adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It was just a

sloshing coffee on the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed

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

way he looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

Jessica about everything, but right now I had to get to

later. But I’m gonna

nodded, then turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the

already exhausted from all of the dirty looks and whispering from other girls. I kept my head down

making me feel even more like a pariah. I just tried to keep my head down

at my notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked

please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag for my

scoffed. “I told you to stay away from both of them,” she growled. “We had a deal,

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

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

team by the

with herself, stomped off to sit back with her gaggle of bitchy

the room

be the only person at

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

and down. “Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she said, pulling a piece of paper off

this.”

the paper

whirled around to see a group of

said, waving

her arm around my shoulders and guided me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my

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