#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.

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

were you?” Lori asked finally, pulling away a bit to look at me. The smudged makeup under her eyes from the night before made

“No. It didn’t get that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine

was actually picked up by a talking skeleton and carried

at me through her tears. “I’m glad you’re okay,” she

Wednesday, I started to wonder if they were avoiding me, or if… They were doing something to the guy who tried to drug me. The thought haunted me all day, but I choked it

the day in her office treating students, since there was a flu outbreak on campus. Needless to say, after hours of tending to feverish and vomiting students, I was

home.

and brisk, a welcome relief after being cooped up in an office all day, and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed

that the universe had something else in store for me,

she approached. She looked strung out on something, storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing her skimpy

I said nervously with

realized that she was indeed headed

her hand flew forward and

my hair free from her

little slut!” she yelled, yanking my hair so hard that tears came

what you–” I said, but she didn’t seem to care. She

hair and shoved me hard enough to send me to the ground, my laptop and notebooks falling out of my bag

like some sort of

with her

spit flying out of her

light as Lisa grabbed me by the throat and throttled me, hitting my head on the sidewalk. I grabbed her wrists and attempted to stop

around my throat.

couldn’t breathe.

her off of me, but the longer

started to

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

screaming like a

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