BLACKFOREST REIGN

CHAPTER TEN

He slowly opened his eyes and closed them again and reopened them once more.

As he tried to shift, he felt immense pain all over his body.

Just then a rush of last night memories came crashing down on him. He gulped down the lump that seemed to form in his throat, he felt it dry up.

He felt his face heat up, his eyes were teary, his nose flared. It hurt.

Everything hurt, from his body to his heart. His mind reminded him of what went on last night. He and Pat fought.

He knew that Pat would do something but the extent of their fight yesterday left him on a hospital bed. He was reminded how Pat nearly tore him apart. His soulmate.

The look in his eyes had been dead. Pran wanted to believe that had not been the Pat he knew, but he now realised, he didn't know Pat at all.

He never knew him to begin with,he just heard of him. 

The opening of the door made Pran look towards it. He saw his mother, father, Andrew and Wai enter.

As soon as his mother saw him, tears ran down her face. Pran felt sad. He didn't want his mother to see him in this state.

He was covered in bandages and plasters. The room fell silent as his mother's cries pierced through his heart. He wanted to call out to her  but he didn't trust his voice 

"My son," she stated, "Oh! my poor boy. Why! Why did this have to happen to you?" She sniffed, "What did we do to deserve this treatment?" she stated in between her cries. 

"Mum please don't" he managed to say. Seeing his mother cry because of him, hurt him. He never once wanted to make his mother cry. 

"Honey" his father called out, giving support to his wife as she sat down. 

"Just look at you. My poor boy" 

"I'm fine mum, there's no need to - " 

"I have every right to cry, be angry, be upset. I have every right,"

Pran fell silent,

"You have been asleep for a week now. I had no idea when you would wake up or if you would wake up. All I could do was have hope" she sniffed.

That took Pran by surprise. He had been asleep for that long? But everything felt like it happened yesterday,

"I swear to you. I'm going to make him pay for what he has done to you" she was determined.

His father didn't say anything, he too was in too much shock over what happened. 

His eyes landed at both of his friends, he could see they too were in turmoil. 

"_" 

"Where is he?" Pran decided to break the silence that decided to engulf the room.

He was left with Wai and Andrew. His parents had left to find something to eat for all of them. 

"He's detained in the dungeons of the High Council" Andrew had been the one to answer. 

A frown formed on Pran's forehead, "After what happened, Mrs Canel thought it was for the best" 

The dungeon was where they kept their criminals. Was Pat already subdued to being a criminal now? 

"I hope he rots down there" Wai stated, "He almost killed you"

"Let's not forget who's at fault here to begin with"  Andrew glared at Wai

"Are you seriously going to blame us for what he did to Pran? "