My Hockey Alpha
#Chapter 108: Dreaming in Red

Nina

After Enzo picked me up off the floor, I felt my vision begin to flicker before everything went black. I opened my eyes a few moments later to find myself back in the forest clearing. Cora was no longer sitting across from me, but as I dug my fingers into the blanket of soft red fur surrounding me, 1 realized now that she was laying underneath me. I sat up, looking around. My body felt light and nimble, and I could see out of both eyes now. All of the pain that had overtaken me before from Edward's beatings was gone. My stomach, which had just been full of searing pain from Edward's claws digging into me just moments earlier, was now fully healed without so much as a scar.

“Am I dead?” I asked as I looked around

Cora lifted her head and shook it back and forth. “No. You'll be fine. You're just here for now until they fix you up.”

“Who's “they"?”

"Enzo, and that other woman,” Cora replied. “The nurse.”

“Tiffany?”

“Mhm. She's patching you up as we speak.”

I smiled, imagining that Tiffany was deftly fixing up my wounds. If I was going to trust anyone to take care of my injuries, it would be her. I was glad that they didn't take me to a hospital, where the doctors would have only made my trauma worse by locking me up in another room with fluorescent lights. I stood, then, and started to walk around the forest clearing.

Lori sighed and spun the bottle. It spun for several long moments; she had spun it hard and fast, and it went around quite a few times before finally landing on Jessica.

"Oooh!" Matt said, grinning.

“I- Uh- 1 didn't- You don't have to, Jessica,” Lori said nervously. Her face was a bright shade of red. Jessica smiled as she absentmindedly twirled a strand of blonde hair around her finger. “I don’t mind.”

I watched as Jessica and Lori kissed for the first time, a smile spreading across my lips to see them finally realizing their feelings for each other. I wondered if they were worried about me right now, though, and my smile faded.

Now, everyone looked at me expectantly; I reached out and spun the bottle, but I knew it would land on Enzo. When it did, my friends bantered once again.

"Ooh, you could cut the tension with a knife, it's so thick.”

“Shut up!” Smack.

Enzo stood and walked around the fire, stopping in front of me. I looked up at him, my heart racing a mile a minute, but this time, I was more excited for the feeling of his lips than I was afraid of it. He crouched in front of me and placed his hand under my chin. His glowing red eyes were locked on me, unwavering, loyal.

He kissed me, swift and hard, and his lips lingered on mine for several long moments before we slowly pulled away.

Without another word, Enzo stood and walked back to his spot on the other side of the fire.

The scene paused again, and everyone became frozen in time. I felt Cora sidle up to me, and as I closed my eyes, tasting Enzo’s kiss on my lips, I knew that she was saying goodbye. I was waking up, now. I reached out and tangled my fingers in her fur, letting out a deep sigh.

“It's probably gonna hurt a lot when I wake up, huh?” I asked, my eyes still closed.

“Probably. It's okay, though.”

"When will I see you again?”

Cora didn't answer. I opened my eyes to see her one last time, but when I opened them, I was no longer sitting by the campfire. I was laying in the dark infirmary. It was quiet -- was I alone? It must have been nighttime.

I slowly turned my head, feeling that the pain that was there before was still there, but it wasn't so bad now. My eye was less swollen, so I could see better than before, and the pounding headache was gone entirely. The only real pain was the one in my abdomen, where Edward had cut me with his claws.

I realized then that I wasn't alone. There was a warmth in my hand, and the sound of soft breathing next to me. I looked up and smiled to see Enzo sitting beside me with the same unwavering, loyal look in his glowing red eyes as he did on the night that we played Spin the Bottle.

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