#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

adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It was

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

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

the way he looks

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

with Jessica about everything, but right now I

later. But I’m gonna be late for

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

I got to class, I was already exhausted from all of the dirty looks and whispering from other girls. I kept my head down

like a pariah. I just tried to keep my head down and

next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside

said, rummaging through my

from both of them,” she

of my control. I

and huffed, folding her arms across her chest. “Who knows what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising

by the end of the semester. You’re such

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

lecture, I was the first to leave the room so I could get ahead of

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

with her. “I can’t take

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

this.”

paper and winced.

whirled around to see a group of

said, waving the paper in the air.

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

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