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, I 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.

“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 particular place.”

clearing didn’t look

the clearing that

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

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,

shook its contents out, then held it up for everyone

was silent for

she said. “It’s just a

in. Lori shrugged, while James and Enzo stayed

said, shaking the bottle gently.

throwing his hands up in surrender.

middle of the circle, right next to the fire pit. “Sorry,

“I’ll play.”

looked over at him, he was staring right at me from

her hands. “Nina,

quietly, my eyes still locked on

“I’ll go first.” She spun

then finally landed on Matt, who looked devilishly pleased as Jessica leaned over to him and gave him a

go next,”

spun for several long moments; she had spun it

“Oooh!” Matt said, grinning.

Uh- I didn’t- You don’t have to, Jessica,” Lori said nervously. Her

smiled as she absentmindedly twirled a strand of blonde hair around her finger.

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