#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.

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

you?” Lori asked finally, pulling away a bit to look at me.

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

as 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 it at

at me through her tears. “I’m

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.

Tiffany and was heading home. We had spent the day in her office treating students, since there was a

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

for me, because Lisa was crossing the quad and

fists balled up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing her skimpy cheerleading uniform with no jacket, which was odd considering how chilly it

said

when I realized that she was indeed

her hand flew forward and grabbed

yelped, trying to wrench my hair free from her surprisingly strong grip. “What are you

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

didn’t– It’s not what you–” I said, but she didn’t seem

my laptop and notebooks falling out

some sort

with her sharp,

spit flying out of her mouth as she

head on the sidewalk. I grabbed her

tightened around my

couldn’t breathe.

I tried to get her off of me,

started

scream. I heard the sound of people running toward us and saw two guys

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