#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.”

magically appear around 1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled as she poured

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

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

at the floor and bit my lip. “I’m just the team doctor,” I replied. “But not

way he looks

#Chapter 21 Pariah

I had a hard time believing it then. Now

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

tell you everything later. But I’m gonna

to start cleaning up the

from other girls. I kept my head down and sat in the back of the lecture hall; the girls who I sat

tried to keep my head down and pretend like

someone sat down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me with an angry expression on her

Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag for

stay away from both of them,” she

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

her arms across her chest. “Who knows what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team doctor?” she said, raising her

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

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

leave the room so I could

be the only person at this stupid school

said, rushing toward her and walking with her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve got

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

this.”

grabbed the paper

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

I said, waving the paper in

grabbing the paper from

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