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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.

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

at me. The smudged makeup under her

my head. “No. It didn’t get that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine saw what was

as bad not telling them that I was actually picked up by a talking skeleton and carried to a

through her tears. “I’m glad you’re

all for a few 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 get through classes

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 outbreak on campus.

home.

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

something, storming toward me 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

said

I realized that she was indeed headed straight for

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

to wrench my hair free

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

I said, but she didn’t

hard enough to send me to the ground, my laptop and notebooks falling out of my bag and slamming on the concrete. I groaned and attempted to stand,

some sort of demon,

her sharp, manicured

out of her mouth as

throttled me, hitting my head on the sidewalk. I grabbed

grip tightened around

couldn’t breathe.

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

vision started

running toward us

like a feral