Season of Love

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

There is a distinct in and outness Mason experienced after collapsing. He remembers hands keeping his head up and different voices telling him to stay awake. One very harsh one tells him he can't get into a coma before his best friend's wedding. He tried. He really did fight the sleep and the pounding pain in his head that caused his vision and hearing to fritz. Most of all, he remembers the comfort and warmth around him during the whole thing. Hits of arms picking him up flood his memory but the face is always distorted.

He closes his eyes as he lets the events play through his head. He wants to know what that feeling was. He wants to grab on and never let it go. 

That moment plays in his head over the past few days of Mason staying in the omega ward of the hospital and he was ready to leave. He had been there one too many times in the past and he didn't exactly want to be here again, and so soon upon his arrival back. But, he had a concussion from being slammed into the van. Considering the other men's state, Mason is fine with sleeping in the fancy exclusive room of the hospital. He can't complain too much. Besides, they were worried due to Mason releasing a few pheromones. Something about the stress may cause him to go into heat? Not that Mason paid attention. He made it to his late-twenties having very few heats under his belt co.pared to other omegas his age. He's fine, but these people are cautious.

So Mason sits in the middle of the bed. A tray of food in front of him and the TV on. He chows down on the pudding as he rotates his focus between the scenery out his window, people watching below it, and watching Golden Girls. He had managed to convince one of the nurses to give him a second pudding cup, so he savors the snack as he enjoys the quiet loneliness he had become used to. 

He had findally got see Quint since being bavk due to the hospital situation. Apparently people can clear put a schedule real quick when someone they care about goes to the hospital. Other than that, only Rose and Nia had come to see him.

A knock on the door drawls Mason out of his daze. His head still pounds from the slightest loud noise but he coughs out a come in as he swallow's a spoonful of pudding.

The nurse peeks her head in with a smile. "You have some visitors if you'd like."

He waves her in. Why she felt the need to escort his friends in when they've been here a bunch, he doesn't question. But he is still answered when a little girl shoots through the door and launches herself into his bed. Her small arms wrap around his torso and she giggles, "Mason!"

Behind her follows the teen omega who had been watching Charlotte and Elias. When they have all entered the nurse takes her leave and closes the door behind her.

What the fuck are they doing in his room?

Elias stays by the wall. The teen boy backs up a bit, his face looking panicked. But he is shoved by Elias who leans against the wall behind him. The boy stumbles forward and trips into the side of Mason's hospital bed.

He looks up at Mason and immediately starts bawling. "I-I-I'm so s-sorry! It w-won't happen again."

He can smell the kids pheremones dripping off him. An omega. He's heard that with strong emotion, the scent of the emotion can mix with the pheromones. The teens emotions slip into his as he gets more worked up. Mason lets the smell imprint in his brain. He'd never had this experience before. Before now, this was just a rumor.

"I just wanted- I just w-wanted to see the guy I-I like." He tries to explain. "I didn't th-think something-g, hiccup, bad li-ike that would happen."

There's a scoff from the other side of the room. From Elias' direction Mason can hear him mutter a quick, "he's using you. What else did you expect."

The teen boy whirls around. His face quickly scrunching up with anger but the tears not stopping. "NO HE'S NOT!"