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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.

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

finally, pulling away a bit to look at me. The smudged makeup

Thankfully, a friend of mine saw

was actually picked

up at me through her tears. “I’m

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

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

home.

up in an office all 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 crunch

for me, because Lisa was crossing the quad and heading

as she approached. She looked strung out on something, storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides

I said

realized that she was indeed headed straight for

hesitating for a second before her hand flew forward and

wrench my hair free from

leaving Enzo’s apartment the other day, you dirty, pathetic little slut!” she yelled, yanking my hair so hard that tears came

didn’t– It’s not what you–” I said, but she didn’t seem to care. She clearly just

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

some sort of

her sharp,

spit flying out of her mouth

throttled me, hitting my head on the sidewalk. I grabbed her wrists and attempted

around my throat.

couldn’t breathe.

her off of me, but

started

toward us and saw

like