#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.”

just magically appear around 1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled as she poured her

my shoulder. “It was just a coincidence,”

the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at

bit my lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But not for long. I’m gonna

way he looks at you,”

#Chapter 21 Pariah

there was nothing between you before, and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is

to be honest with Jessica about everything, but

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

a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without

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

just tried to keep my head down and pretend like

me. I looked up to see Lisa

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag for

you to stay away from both of them,”

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

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, you probably slept with

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

pleased with herself, stomped off to sit back with her

first to leave the room so I could get ahead of Lisa and

be the only person at this stupid school who didn’t hate

rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t

a bullseye exactly,” she said,

this.”

paper

I whirled around

think this is funny?!” I said, waving

guided me away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can.

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