Bullied Once, Loved Twice

Chapter 31 - Growing mistake

His eyes opened, confusion filling his mind as he glanced around the room, it was unfamiliar to him, however, Liam did not care and slowly shut his eyes to try and return to his slumber.

He groaned as a knock on the door awakened him again, he didn't know who was knocking at such an early hour, the only way to find out was to get up, but the covers simply were too comfortable at the moment.

The knock resonated another time but slightly louder, having no other choice, Liam pulled the covers off and pulled himself up, his feet dragging behind as he made his way to the door, he was surprised at who stood behind it.

"Hey... Sorry to have woken you, mate. Do you have a minute?"

Liam frowned as he looked at Devan, he didn't know how he was here considering his hospital situation.

"Devan..? How..  How did you get here? Shouldn't you be at the hospital?" Liam expressed in surprise, anger boiling up at the back of his throat, knowing how reckless this was.

"I don't have much time. Just let me talk to you real quick." Devan said as he tried to walk in, being blocked by Liam with an angry expression.

"Do you know how worried Matheo is!? You should be going to him not me!"

"You don't understand. I'm here for you, there's something you need to know." Devan said as Liam jaw tightened, his anger getting worst by the second.

"Listen, I did not just fucking fight Narcia for you! Get your ass to Matheo now!" Liam said before a claw dashed from the dark, gripping his throat tightly.

"Please... I need to tell you about—"

...

A sudden shaking of his shoulders woke Liam, a frown crossing his features as he opened his eyes.

His breath was erratic, sweat profusely coming out of his forehead, making him wipe it off quickly.

"Were you having a nightmare?" Narcia asked as Liam took in the view, they were still sitting in the waiting room at the hospital while waiting on information from the doctors.

"I think so, I must've dozed off..." Liam said as he sat up more straight, rubbing the back of his neck in confusion.

"I heard you mumble Devan's name... You sure you're alright?" Narcia said as she gently rubbed Liam's back while the boy pushed hair out of his face, laying his forehead in his palm.

"Anything new since I fell asleep?" Liam asked  to try and change the sunject as he heard her sigh, probably because he had avoided her question.

He didn't understand what he had dreamt to begin with, there had to be a meaning to it.

"Doctors said that he has stabilized, they got Matheo in the room earlier to start infusing blood into him again." She told him before Liam nodded, rubbing his face in worry, wondering just how grim the situation was in the room.

Liam pushed his hands back, dragging his hair along with a sigh as he leaned on his knees, how did things grow out of proportion so quickly?

What also worried the boy, was that dream he had, as much as he tried to remember, the dream still seemed to stop at Devan trying to tell him something.

He scratched the back of his head, slowly standing up with a stretch, his muscles were quite sore from having yet to recover from sleeping on the floor the night before.

He made his way towards the vending machine he saw at the end of the wall, each step felt heavy with a feeling he couldn't describe.

He wanted to know what Devan had to say.