#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

adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It was just a coincidence,” I

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

team doctor,” I replied. “But not for long. I’m

way he looks

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had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt.

about everything, but right

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

start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without

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

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

I looked up

rummaging through my bag for my

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

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

made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I know, you probably slept with

team by the

herself, stomped off to sit back with her

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

into Lori in the quad, who seemed to be the only person at this stupid school

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

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

this.”

the paper

I whirled around to see a group of students snickering

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

them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it

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