#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

adjusted my bag on my shoulder. “It

“Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What

down at the floor and bit my lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I

looks at you,” Jessica said,

#Chapter 21 Pariah

believing it then. Now I know something is going on without a doubt. I just

I wanted to be honest with Jessica about everything, but right

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

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

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 I sat

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

me. I looked

I said, rummaging through my bag for

away from both of them,” she growled.

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

team doctor?” she said, raising

fuck the whole team by the end of the semester. You’re such a

students started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself, stomped off to

the lecture, I was the first to leave the room so I

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

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

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

this.”

the paper

paper said. I whirled around to see a group of

said, waving the paper in the

paper from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in

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