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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.

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

to look at me. The smudged makeup under her eyes from the night before made her

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

I didn’t feel as bad not telling them that I was actually picked up by

through her tears. “I’m glad

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 choked it down in

since there was a flu outbreak on campus.

home.

and the campus was quiet. I enjoyed nights like this more than anything; feeling the cool autumn breeze

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

something, storming toward me with her fists balled up at her sides and her hair a mess. She was wearing her skimpy cheerleading uniform with no jacket, which was

I said nervously

wave when I realized that she was indeed

before her hand flew forward and grabbed one of

hair free from her surprisingly strong grip. “What

pathetic little slut!” she yelled, yanking my hair so hard that tears came to my

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

enough to send me to the ground, my laptop and notebooks falling out of

like some sort of demon,

her sharp,

bitch!” she screamed, spit flying out of her

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

grip tightened around

couldn’t breathe.

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

vision started

us and saw two guys grab Lisa by her arms and yank her off

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