Chapter 108 Dreaming in Red


    After Enzo picked me up off the floor, I felt my vision begin to flicker before everything went ck.


    I opened my eyes a few momentster to find myself back in the forest clearing. Cora was no longer


    sitting across from me, but as I dug my fingers into the nket of soft red fur surrounding me, I realized


    now that she wasying 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 ws 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 d 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.


    “Do you live here all of the time?” I asked.


    Once again, Cora shook her big red head back and forth. “This isn’t real. I just live inside your head,


    and it seems like you’ve subconsciously taken a liking to this particr ce.”


    I thought back to the night that I found Justin in the forest clearing — the night that I discovered that he


    had been turned into a rogue — but this clearing didn’t look anything like that. It took several moments


    of racking my brain as I tried to remember where I had seen this ce before to finally discover where I


    was.


    “Oh!” I finally said out loud. “It’s the clearing that we all went camping in.”


    Even though that was the very ce where K had tried to drag me through the portal, I supposed that I


    did make some happy memories with my friends in this very spot. As I remembered my time here, the


    tents that we slept in slowly popped up around me like a pop-up book, followed by the campfire. It


    quickly turned from a scene of a bright and sunny day to a cool and quiet night, with only the fire to


    illuminate the camp. With the firelight flickering, Cora’s fur looked almost like it blended in with the


    mes as sheid beside it.


    I thought even harder then, remembering the time I spent with my friends here. Just like the tents, they,


    too, popped up around me like a pop-up book. There was Lori and Jessica, and Matt and James,


    and… Enzo. They were all sitting around the fire, frozen in time like a picture. The only spot that was


    empty was mine, so I sat there and shut my eyes, remembering how we had yed spin the bottle.


    “Hey!” Jessica said,ing to life and jumping up. She picked up an empty beer bottle and shook its


    contents out, then held it up for everyone to see. “Who wants to y Spin the Bottle?”


    Everyone was silent for a moment.


    “C’mon, guys!” she said. “It’s just a game.”


    “I’m down,” Matt chimed in. Lori shrugged, while James and Enzo stayed silent.


    “James?” Jessica said, shaking the bottle gently. “What do you say?”


    “Oh, alright,” James said, throwing his hands up in surrender. “I guess it could be fun.”


    “Well, looks like we have a majority vote here,” Jessica said, setting the bottle down in the middle of the


    circle, right next to the fire pit. “Sorry, Nina and Enzo. You guys don’t have to y if you don’t want to.”


    “I’ll y.”


    Enzo’s voice was firm and sure, just like it always was. When I looked over at him, he was staring right


    at me from across the fire pit. My heart started racing, even though this was a memory — I had already


    lived it.


    “Yay!” Jessica said, pping her hands. “Nina, you’re ying, right?”


    “Sure,” I said quietly, my eyes still locked on Enzo.


    Jessica grinned. “I’ll go first.” She spun the bottle.


    The bottle spun around several times, then finallynded on Matt, who looked devilishly pleased as


    Jessica leaned over to him and gave him a peck on the lips.


    “Lori, you go next,” Jessica said.


    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 finallynding on Jessica.


    “Oooh!” Matt said, grinning.


    “I- Uh- I 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 wouldnd 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 ced 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.


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    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 onest time, but when I opened them, I was no


    longer sitting by the campfire. I wasying 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 ws.


    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 yed Spin the Bottle


    My Hockey Alpha Chapter 108


    Dreaming in Red


    After Enzo picked me up off the floor, I felt my vision begin to flicker before everything went ck.


    I opened my eyes a few momentster to find myself back in the forest clearing. Cora was no longer


    sitting across from me, but as I dug my fingers into the nket of soft red fur surrounding me, I realized


    now that she wasying 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 ws 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 d 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.


    “Do you live here all of the time?” I asked.


    Once again, Cora shook her big red head back and forth. “This isn’t real. I just live inside your head,


    and it seems like you’ve subconsciously taken a liking to this particr ce.”


    I thought back to the night that I found Justin in the forest clearing — the night that I discovered that he


    had been turned into a rogue — but this clearing didn’t look anything like that. It took several moments


    of racking my brain as I tried to remember where I had seen this ce before to finally discover where I


    was.


    “Oh!” I finally said out loud. “It’s the clearing that we all went camping in.”


    Even though that was the very ce where K had tried to drag me through the portal, I supposed that I


    did make some happy memories with my friends in this very spot. As I remembered my time here, the


    tents that we slept in slowly popped up around me like a pop-up book, followed by the campfire. It


    quickly turned from a scene of a bright and sunny day to a cool and quiet night, with only the fire to


    illuminate the camp. With the firelight flickering, Cora’s fur looked almost like it blended in with the


    mes as sheid beside it.


    I thought even harder then, remembering the time I spent with my friends here. Just like the tents, they,


    too, popped up around me like a pop-up book. There was Lori and Jessica, and Matt and James,


    and… Enzo. They were all sitting around the fire, frozen in time like a picture. The only spot that was


    empty was mine, so I sat there and shut my eyes, remembering how we had yed spin the bottle.


    “Hey!” Jessica said,ing to life and jumping up. She picked up an empty beer bottle and shook its


    contents out, then held it up for everyone to see. “Who wants to y Spin the Bottle?”


    Everyone was silent for a moment.


    “C’mon, guys!” she said. “It’s just a game.”


    “I’m down,” Matt chimed in. Lori shrugged, while James and Enzo stayed silent.


    “James?” Jessica said, shaking the bottle gently. “What do you say?”


    “Oh, alright,” James said, throwing his hands up in surrender. “I guess it could be fun.”


    “Well, looks like we have a majority vote here,” Jessica said, setting the bottle down in the middle of the


    circle, right next to the fire pit. “Sorry, Nina and Enzo. You guys don’t have to y if you don’t want to.”


    “I’ll y.”


    Enzo’s voice was firm and sure, just like it always was. When I looked over at him, he was staring right


    at me from across the fire pit. My heart started racing, even though this was a memory — I had already


    lived it.


    “Yay!” Jessica said, pping her hands. “Nina, you’re ying, right?”


    “Sure,” I said quietly, my eyes still locked on Enzo.


    Jessica grinned. “I’ll go first.” She spun the bottle.


    The bottle spun around several times, then finallynded on Matt, who looked devilishly pleased as


    Jessica leaned over to him and gave him a peck on the lips.


    “Lori, you go next,” Jessica said.


    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 finallynding on Jessica.


    “Oooh!” Matt said, grinning.


    “I- Uh- I 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 wouldnd 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 ced 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 onest time, but when I opened them, I was no


    longer sitting by the campfire. I wasying 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 ws.


    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 yed Spin the Bottle