#Chapter 43: Mean Girls

Nina

When I got home, Jessica and Lori were both furious.

“Where were you!” Jessica yelled as soon as I walked in the door. I didn’t even have a chance to hang my jacket up.

“You totally ditched us,” Lori chimed in, folding her arms across her chest. ” We thought you got kidnapped or something. Then that freak typhoon hit and you still weren’t answering your phone.”

“Okay, mom and dad,” I said, tossing my bag down on the counter. “I’m sorry. Just, you know… I was lonely, and there was a cute guy.”

Jessica let out a big sigh. “Well, you could’ve at least let us know you were leaving,” she said. “But I know with

everything going on lately, stuff like that happens.”

Meanwhile, Lori didn’t seem convinced at all. She had always been more intuitive than Jessica and could always see through a lie, but she didn’t say anything this time. Still, seeing her hurt expression made me feel awful for lying and I couldn’t let myself walk away like this.

I took a deep breath. “Actually,” I said, looking at my feet, “that’s not what happened. I did something really stupid, and honestly I’m lucky that it didn’t turn out worse than it did.”

Jessica and Lori were silent. When I looked up at them, they both looked concerned and confused. I sighed and continued.

“I didn’t watch my drink at the bar and I got drugged.”

Jessica gasped and clamped her hand

over her mouth, her eyes wide. Lori, without a word, ran over to me and threw her arms around me.

for a few moments. The longer Lori held me, the more I felt like I was going to cry until I couldn’t hold it in anymore and I started sobbing into Lori’s shoulder. Jessica came over and rubbed my back, tears in her eyes as

bit to look at me. The smudged makeup under her eyes from the night before made

didn’t get that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine saw what was happening and stepped in and took me to the

let out a sigh of relief. I didn’t feel as bad not telling them that I was actually picked

up at me through her tears. “I’m glad you’re

see Enzo or Luke at all for a few days. By Wednesday, I started to wonder if they were avoiding me, or if… They were doing something to the guy who tried

up work with Tiffany and was heading home. We had spent the day in her office treating students, since there

home.

a welcome relief after being cooped up in an office all day, and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed nights like this more than anything; feeling the

seemed that the universe had something else in store for me, because Lisa was crossing the quad and heading directly for

up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing her skimpy cheerleading

I said

she was indeed

her hand flew forward and grabbed one of my

hair free from her surprisingly strong

dirty, pathetic little slut!” she yelled, yanking

she didn’t seem to care. She clearly just wanted to

me to the ground, my laptop and notebooks falling out of my bag and slamming on the concrete. I groaned and attempted

sort of

with her

screamed, spit flying out of her

throat and throttled me, hitting my head on the sidewalk. I grabbed her wrists and attempted to stop her, but it was no use.

tightened around

couldn’t breathe.

get her off of me, but the longer she choked me, the

started to

else scream. I heard the sound of people running toward us and saw two guys grab Lisa by her arms and

like a

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