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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.

going to cry until I couldn’t hold it in anymore and I started

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

of mine saw what was

of relief. I didn’t feel as bad not telling them that I was

through her

days. By Wednesday, I started to wonder if they were avoiding me, or if… They were doing something to the guy who tried to drug

heading home. We had spent the day in her office treating students, since there was a

home.

an office all day, and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed nights like this more

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

with her fists balled up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing her skimpy cheerleading uniform with no jacket, which was odd considering

hey,” I said nervously with

realized that she was

a second before her hand flew forward and grabbed one of my braids, yanking me

trying to wrench my hair free from her surprisingly strong grip. “What

other day, you dirty, pathetic little slut!” she yelled, yanking my hair so hard that tears

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

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

sort of

with her sharp, manicured

screamed, spit flying out of her mouth

my head on the sidewalk. I grabbed her wrists and attempted to stop her, but

tightened around

couldn’t breathe.

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

vision started to

toward us and

like