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#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.

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

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

head. “No. It didn’t get that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine saw what was happening and stepped in and took

I didn’t feel as bad not telling them that I was actually picked up by a talking skeleton

at me through her tears.

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 down in order

students, since there was a flu outbreak on campus. Needless to say, after hours of tending to feverish and vomiting

home.

day, and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed nights like this more than anything; feeling the cool autumn breeze on my skin and hearing the leaves

that the universe had something else in store for me, because Lisa was crossing the

storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing her

I said nervously

when I realized that she was indeed headed straight for

bitch,” she growled, not hesitating for a second before her hand flew forward and grabbed one of my braids, yanking me

my hair free from her surprisingly strong grip. “What are

saw you leaving Enzo’s apartment the other day, you dirty, pathetic little slut!”

but she didn’t seem to

send me to the ground, my laptop and notebooks falling out of my bag and

like some sort of demon,

me with her sharp,

bitch!” she screamed, spit flying out of

flashes of 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 her, but

around

couldn’t breathe.

off of me, but the longer she choked me, the weaker

started to

the sound of people running toward us and saw two guys grab Lisa by her arms and yank her off

screaming like a