#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.”

you a lot

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

said, glaring at me as tears streamed down

doctor,” I replied. “But not for long. I’m gonna talk to

way he looks at you,”

#Chapter 21 Pariah

told me that there was nothing between you before, and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is going on

honest with Jessica about everything, but

everything later.

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

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

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

down next to me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside

please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my bag

“I told you to stay away from both of them,” she growled.

remember,” I replied. “But all of this is out of my control. I didn’t ask to be the team

her chest. “Who knows what sort of dirty deal you made to be the team

so you could fuck the whole team by the end of the semester. You’re

herself, stomped off to sit back with her gaggle of

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

into Lori in the quad, who seemed to be the only person at this

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

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

this.”

grabbed the paper and winced.

whirled around to see

think this is funny?!” I said, waving the

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

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