#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.”

a lot lately,”

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

pot down, sloshing coffee on the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What

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

the way he looks at you,” Jessica

#Chapter 21 Pariah

then. Now I know

Jessica about everything,

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

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

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

like a pariah. I just tried to keep my

at my notebook, someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with an angry

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

to stay away from both of them,” she

I replied. “But all of this is out of

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 her

by the end of the semester. You’re

Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off to sit back with her gaggle of

lecture, I was the first to leave the room

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

can’t take this anymore. I

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

this.”

grabbed the paper

the paper said. I whirled around to see a group of students snickering

said, waving the paper in the air. “Fuck

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

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