#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.

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

look at me. The smudged makeup under

of mine saw what was happening and stepped in and took me

telling them that I was actually picked up by a talking skeleton and carried to a werewolf’s apartment, so I just left it at

at me through her tears. “I’m glad

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 me. The thought haunted me all day, but I choked it down in order to

spent 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 exhausted and just happy

home.

and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed nights like this more than anything; feeling the cool

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

out on something, storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides and her hair a

I said nervously with

wave when I realized that she was indeed headed straight

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

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

pathetic little slut!” she yelled, yanking my hair so

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

falling out of my bag and slamming on the concrete. I groaned and attempted to stand, but she was on top of me in

some sort

with her sharp,

she screamed, spit flying out of her mouth as

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

tightened around my

couldn’t breathe.

as I tried to get her off of me,

started

us and saw two guys grab Lisa by her arms and yank her off

and screaming like a

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