#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

my shoulder. “It was

she said, glaring at me as

I replied. “But not for long. I’m gonna talk to the dean today and

he looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

honest with Jessica about everything, but right now I

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

grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled.

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 and moved seats when

just tried to keep my head down and pretend like I was looking at my

me. I looked up to

today, please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging through

to stay away from both of them,” she growled. “We

out of my control. I didn’t ask

made to be the team doctor?” she said,

team by the end of the semester. You’re

Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped

leave the room so I could get

the quad, who seemed to be the only person at this stupid school who didn’t hate

her and walking with her. “I can’t take this

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

this.”

grabbed the paper and

$5 blowjobs,” the paper said. I whirled around to see

waving the paper in the air.

away. “Ignore them,” she said, grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in a trash can. “They’re not worth your time.

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