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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.

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

that asshole’s 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

It didn’t get that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine saw what was happening and stepped

them that I was actually picked up by a talking skeleton and

me through her tears. “I’m

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

her office treating students, since there was a flu outbreak on campus. Needless to say,

home.

a welcome relief after being 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 leaves

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

my tracks as she approached. She looked strung out on something, storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing

said nervously with

I realized that she

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

hair free from her surprisingly strong grip.

Enzo’s apartment the other day, you dirty, pathetic little slut!” she yelled, yanking

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

notebooks falling out of my bag and slamming on the concrete. I groaned and attempted to stand,

like some sort of demon,

her sharp,

she screamed, spit flying out of her mouth as she attacked

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

around my

couldn’t breathe.

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

started to

running toward us and saw two guys grab Lisa by her

like a