#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.”

you a lot lately,” she grumbled as she poured

on my shoulder. “It was just a

she said, glaring at me

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

seen the way he looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

then. Now I know something is going on without a

to be honest with Jessica about everything, but right

“I’ll tell you everything later. But I’m

to start

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

pariah. I just tried to keep my head

next to me. I looked

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag for

told you to stay away from both of

all of this is out of my control. I

what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all

whole team by the end

other students started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped

leave the room so I could get ahead

seemed to be the only person at

her and walking with her. “I can’t

up and down. “Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she said, pulling

this.”

grabbed the paper and

said. I whirled

funny?!” I said, waving the

“Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can. “They’re

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