#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.

was going to cry until I couldn’t hold

at me. The smudged makeup

that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine saw what was happening and stepped in and took me

that I was actually picked up

up at me through her tears. “I’m

see Enzo or Luke at 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

since there was a flu outbreak on campus. Needless to say,

home.

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

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

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

said nervously

that she was indeed headed straight for

a second before her hand

hair free from her surprisingly strong grip. “What

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

said, but she didn’t seem to care. She

released her grip on my hair and shoved me 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, but she was on top

like some sort of demon,

her sharp, manicured

flying out of

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

grip tightened around my

couldn’t breathe.

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

started to

heard the sound of people running toward us and saw two guys grab Lisa by her

screaming like a

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