#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.

one said anything for a few moments. The 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 back, tears in her eyes

at me. The smudged makeup under her eyes from the night

“No. It didn’t get that far. Thankfully, a friend of mine saw what was happening and stepped in and took me to the

bad not telling them that I was actually picked up by a talking skeleton and carried to a werewolf’s apartment, so I just left

up at me through her tears. “I’m glad you’re okay,”

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

night, 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

home.

relief after being cooped up in an office all day, and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed nights like this more than

store for me, because Lisa was crossing the quad and heading directly

stopped in 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

hey,” I said nervously

wave when I realized that she was indeed headed

hand flew forward and grabbed one of

free

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

she didn’t seem to care. She clearly just

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

like some sort of

me with her sharp,

fucking bitch!” she screamed, spit flying out

the sidewalk. I grabbed

tightened around my

couldn’t breathe.

of me, but the longer she choked me, the weaker

vision started

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

and screaming like a feral

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