#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 she poured her

sighed and adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It was

glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What is your relationship with him,

lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But not

I’ve seen the way he looks at you,” Jessica

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was nothing between you before, and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is going on without

with Jessica about everything, but right now

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

sniffled and nodded, then turned away and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled.

kept my head down and sat in the back

to keep my head down and

sat down next to me. I looked up to

I said, rummaging through my

from both of them,” she

out of my control. I

dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I know, you probably slept with someone to get that position #Chapter 21

by the

started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off to sit back with her gaggle

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

be the only person at this stupid

walking with her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve got a bullseye on

a bullseye exactly,” she

this.”

grabbed the paper and winced.

slut! $5 blowjobs,” the paper said. I whirled around

waving the

arm around my shoulders and guided me 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. It’ll

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