Brave Angel

Chapter 10

Song: Force of Nature ~ Bea Miller

" I don't know why but my hands are shaking I can see you coming and I stand here waiting Yeah I get tongue tied in the conversation It's an F'd up, bad, sick situation"

Happy Reading Loves. xo.

I feel a hand on my leg and slowly open my eyes. I smile once I see Dylan standing next to me. He smiles softly and takes a sit in front of me. "Hey, how are you feeling?" I sit up slowly, noticing that the pain in my torso was now almost gone.

"Better. I guess." I shrug my shoulders, still maintaining eye contact with him.

"You guess?" He frowns confused with my answer.

I look down and play with few of the strings that hang loose from the blanket. "You have no idea how disappointing I am of myself" I swallow the lump that was forming in my throat. "I couldn't defend myself against that pack of..." I stop talking not being able to find the right name to call the group that attacked me. "I hate feeling weak." I say almost in a whisper.

"Did you get to see who they were? do you remember?" He rubs my leg soothingly and I look up at him.

I shake my head no "It was dark in the hallway and they were wearing black hoodies with some sort of mask" I chuckle a little bit and look down at my hands again for a brief second before locking eyes with Dylan. "They planned this thing out good. I thought I was going to die."

Dylan moves closer to me and takes my hand. His thumb traces circles on the back of my hand as if to reassure me that I was very much alive. "Does Eric know?" Great the one I don't ever want to talk about or see. "Where is he? I thought he would have been here."

I sigh and get comfortable "I don't think he knows I'm here. I've been here for 3 days now and he hasn't showed up once. He's probably with his new girlfriend Lynn." I quickly bite my lip realizing my mistake.

Dylan's eyes go wide "But she's an initiate. It's against the rules."

Shit I've done it now. Although I should really care less what happens to Eric or specially Lynn. I guess I'm not as horrible as I thought I was. "Dylan, I ...you need to promise me this stays between us." I hold his large rough hand in both of mine. Only with both of my hands I can fully cover his hand, while he can just wrap one of his hands around mine effortlessly.

"Oh no. I've already lied once for you I don't plan on doing it again. This is against the rules." He says it so fast and I give him a pleading look. He groans and places his hand ,that was now on my thigh instead of my leg, on top of my hands. "Fine. This stays between us but this is the last time I lie and keep secrets for you. Okay?"

I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding and smile "Okay. Thanks." I remove my hands from his and embrace him in a hug. Well at least try to, since i'm moving a little slower today he beats me and wraps his arms around me first. "How did you find out I was here?" I say still not letting go of the hug.

"My friend told me, he was the one that brought you here." He's the first one to pull away from the hug and I lay back down on my pillow. "I was livid on the fact that you hadn't showed to training during lunch and that's when he told me that you were in here."

"I'm sorry" I say a little sad that once again I wasn't fulfilling my responsibilities as a leader in training. Max and my dad have so much faith in me and I'm letting them down. This is not going like I had planned at all.

"You don't need to apologize, It's not your fault. Do you remember anything about the guys who attacked you?"

I nod and I look at the nurse waking across the room. Then back at Dylan who was waiting patiently. "There were 3 guys. I also remember that one kneeled down in front of me and said 'This is just the beginning'"