#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.

felt like I was going to cry until I couldn’t hold it in anymore

to look at me. The smudged makeup under her eyes from the night before made her expression even darker. novelxo.com fast

far. Thankfully, a friend of mine

a sigh of relief. I didn’t feel as bad not telling them that I was actually picked up by a talking

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

were doing something to the guy who tried to drug me. The thought haunted me all day, but I

was heading home. We had spent the day in her office treating students, since there was a flu outbreak on

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

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

balled up at her sides and her

I said nervously with

realized that she

hand flew forward and

trying to wrench my hair free from her surprisingly

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

It’s not what you–” I said, but she

to the ground, my laptop and notebooks falling out of my bag and slamming on the concrete. I

sort of demon,

with her sharp,

she screamed, spit flying out of

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

around my throat.

couldn’t breathe.

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

vision started

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

screaming like a

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