#Chapter 21: Pariah

Nina

The morning after my motorcycle ride with Enzo, I woke up to dozens of Twitter notifications. Still blinking the sleep out of my eyes, I scrunched up my eyebrows as I opened my phone and started to read all of the notifications.

“Wowwww @ninaharpı, alone time with Enzo, huh?”

“Enzo must be joking if he’s hanging around with that ugly nerd @ ninaharpı!!”

“What a slut, messing around with two boys from the hockey team at once. Save some for the rest of us @ ninaharpı!”

I sat up in bed, my eyes glued to the phone as I opened Twitter and realized that someone snuck pictures of Enzo and I last night. There were pictures of #Chapter 21. Pariah

me talking to Justin in the parking lot, a picture of me as I shoved Justin to the ground, Enzo wiping the tears from my cheek, and getting on his motorcycle together.

I knew I shouldn’t have trusted him. This was just another step in the game he was playing with me!

As I looked at the time, I realized that I had class in twenty minutes. I jumped out of bed and threw on some jeans and a t-shirt, quickly braided my hair and brushed my teeth, and ran out of my room.

Jessica was standing in the kitchen when I came out of my room. She looked up from making her coffee briefly, then looked back down. Even in that brief moment, I could see tears in her eyes.

“It was really nothing,” I said,

assuming that she already saw the #Chapter 21 Parian

photos. “Justin was harassing me and Enzo just happened to show up. He drove me home.”

just magically appear around 1 you a lot lately,” she grumbled as she poured her

my shoulder. “It was just

suddenly slammed the coffee pot down, sloshing coffee on the counter. “Bullshit,” she said, glaring at me as tears streamed down her cheeks. “What is

the team doctor,” I replied. “But not

the way he looks at you,” Jessica said, her lip

#Chapter 21 Pariah

you before, and I had a hard time believing it then. Now I know something is going on without a

wanted to be honest with Jessica about everything, but right now I had

I said, “I’ll tell you everything later. But I’m

towel to start cleaning up the coffee she spilled. Without another word, I ran out

and whispering from other girls. I kept my head down and sat in the back of the lecture

more like a pariah. I just tried to keep my head down and

me. I looked up to see Lisa sitting beside me

today, please, Lisa,” I said, rummaging through my

scoffed. “I told you to stay away from both of

is out of my control. I didn’t ask to

team doctor?” she said, raising her voice. “For all I know, you probably slept with someone to get that position #Chapter

whole team by the end

other students started whispering amongst themselves. Lisa, pleased with herself,

the lecture, I was the first to leave the room so I could get ahead of Lisa and

be the only person at this stupid school who didn’t hate

and walking with her. “I can’t take this anymore. I feel like I’ve got a bullseye on my

exactly,” she said, pulling a piece of paper off

this.”

the paper and winced.

$5 blowjobs,” the paper said. I whirled around

I said, waving the paper in the air. “Fuck

from my hands and crumpling it before throwing it in

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