#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.”

around 1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled as

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

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

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

the way he looks at you,” Jessica said, her lip

#Chapter 21 Pariah

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

with Jessica about everything, but right now I

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

and grabbed a paper towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another word,

the time I got 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

me feel even more like a pariah. I just tried to

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

I said, rummaging through my bag

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

is out of my control. I didn’t

what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising

fuck the whole team by the

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

leave the room so I could get ahead of Lisa and

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

and walking with her. “I can’t take

looked me up and down. “Well, not a bullseye exactly,” she said,

this.”

the paper

paper said. I whirled around to see a group

is funny?!” I said, waving the

grabbing the paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it

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