Chapter 30

Marissa’s POV

I slowly opened my eyes and groaned, I felt like my body was a giant weight on fire. Why do I feel like this? I tried to sit up but that only resulted in more pain all over the course of my body. A doctor walked in the room as I was laying back down and did a double take on me. “Something wrong doctor?” I asked as if he didn’t expect me to be up.

“Well no one exactly expected you to wake up, specially not now after all this” he looked genuinely surprised. “Care to fill me in?” I asked. I don’t exactly know what’s been going on for the past couple of days.

“Well you passed out on your birthday, and well that was one week ago. We ran every test possible and we couldn’t figure out why you fell un-conscious. Your stress level was a little high but other than that there was nothing out of the ordinary. You wouldn’t wake up for days and everyone has been so panicked” He studied me as he talked, s if I was something that needed to be figured out.

“Well where is everyone?” I asked. if I had been un-conscious for a week then surely someone would be here right? “It’s past visiting hours, there are two people still here. Your mother and your boyfriend, they’re down stairs in the cafeteria though” the doctor said. I nodded and thought about it, what really did happen to me? nothing like this is like me.

“I guess it was just a minor problem, so can I go home with my family today then?” I asked hopefully. “Well I don’t know, you just woke up randomly and we still don’t know what’s been going on with you” the doctor wavered, unsure of himself. “We have a doctor back at our house, she can take care of me” I offered. He was merely a human so he wouldn’t exactly understand the term pack doctor.

“If you have a qualified doctor there with you then I don’t see why not, I’ll go and get your release forms” the doctor smiled before walking out. leaving me in my own pain. I slowly moved my legs over the side of the bed and slipped off. I had to hold onto the side of the bed to keep myself up but I managed to walk inch by inch. I looked around too see I was in a regular hospital room, the curtains were shut seeing as how it was night.

“Marissa” I voice strangled voice came from the door. I snapped my head to where I saw Zane standing with his mouth gaping open. I thought Alex was here since the doctor said my boyfriend but I guess he assumed Zane was. Zane was standing there as if he couldn’t believe it was me. A smile slowly spread onto his face as he began walking towards me.

“I didn’t know if you were going to come back” He said pulling me into a hug.

“I will always come back” I whispered. I didn’t know why but I felt as if it was the right thing to say. As I stared into Zane’s eyes I knew I belonged there. No matter how mad I got at him, or how many mistakes we both made. We always ended up regretting those things and our love was the one thing that kept coming back.

“I love you so much Marissa” he spoke while he looked at me intently. I knew I loved him too, this moment made me realise it though.

“I love you too Zane” I smiled to him. He smiled and leaned down towards me. His lips gently brushed mine before the pressed to the surface. The kiss was full of passion, longing and love. We had been though and waited long enough. I kissed him back with every piece of me knowing that this is where I belong. I pulled apart from him and stared into his eyes.

“I guess it’s finally clear now” I said to him.

“I was scared that I was going to lose you to Alex” he said. His face was full of happiness and so was mine until he mentioned Alex. What was I supposed to do about that? I told Alex I wouldn’t just leave him for Zane but here I was kissing Zane.

“Alex” I whispered to almost to myself. But based on the frown that appeared on Zane’s face I guess he heard.

“What am I supposed to do about Alex?” I asked almost panicked. I wasn’t about to leave Zane because my heart made the decision and there was no turning back.

“You have to tell him and he has to understand. We’re mates Marissa, he will get that this kind of love just can’t be ignored” Zane said strongly too me. we had quickly grown attached to each other, he wasn’t letting me go now that he had me.

“I guess I'm going to have to tell him” I sighed. I still had a grip on Zane so he was supporting me right now. I still felt as if I was weak and could not hold my own body weight. “I need to sit back down” I let go of him and staggered back over to the bed where I sat and faced him. “Where is my mother?” I asked, I was happy that I got too see him and all but I also need to see my mother since she was probably freaking out right now. not to mention she wasn’t even supposed to be here for this long. she was supposed to leave again a couple days after my birthday for another business trip.

“She just went down to get some food, she was getting coffee when I came back up so she shouldn’t be long” Zane said as he walked towards me. “Marissa you’re not going to go to that fighting academy right?” he asked as he took my hand in his. I couldn’t say anything because I didn’t know. It’s not like we could come out and tell his dad that we were mates because he would know that we’ve known since Zane’s birthday and question why we waited so long to tell everyone. He would know something was up, If everything went as it was supposed to then I would have been wearing his mark right now and we would have been around each other a lot more. A lot of people are going to question us.

“I don’t know Zane, how are we supposed to explain this to your dad and the pack. Everyone’s going to know something was up” I said nervously. I don’t think telling the pack that he rejected me would be a very wise option. Then they would see me as something he didn’t want, I didn’t want to be in that vulnerable position.

“We will lie about it, we could tell them that we chose to keep it a secret” he said but I shook my head. I did not want to start off with a lie.

“I don’t want to lie to them, I’m just afraid of what they will think of me when they hear that you rejected me. They’re going to think I begged you to take me back and that I wasn’t good enough for you” I said sadly.

“They will not think that Marissa. I was the stupid one not being able to see what was right in front of me. We can just tell them we had some minor complication that is our business and we did not start the mating process right away. It hasn’t been that long since my birthday anyway” He reasoned.

“Yes it had Zane, your birthday was like three months ago, no pair of mates ever wait that long.” I hissed back at him. Just as I was about to say something else my mother walked in the room with a bright smile on her face.

“I heard you were awake” she said happily as she walked over to where I was sitting with Zane. “You don’t know how happy I am know that I know my daughter is safe and awake” She said, I saw little tears sprouting in her eyes and I frowned.

“it’s ok mom, I don’t know what happened but I don’t think it’s going to happen again” I tried to reason, although it wasn’t very convincing seeing as how I have no idea what the heck is wrong with me.

“You don’t even know what it is! It came right out of the blues. I'm taking time off to stay with you and make sure you’re ok.” She said with no room in her voice for argument on the topic. I smiled though, I would love it if my mom stayed around for a while. “So what are we talking about? I know you guys were on about something ever since I saw your face when I walked in” She said. My mom stared at me and I knew I couldn’t lie to her, she could read me so easily that she would know I was lying as soon as the words came out of my mouth.

“We were just trying to decide how we should tell the pack that me and Zane are mates” I sighed and said. she smiled and clapped her hands excitedly.

“That meant you two are together now?”

“Yes mom, but I don’t want to lie about it. And I don’t want them to think little of me either. I just don’t know what to do, and then there is also the problem of Alex!” I yelled exasperated. I didn’t know what to do with all these problems.

“Whoa there one issue at a time, and don’t worry the pack will understand. Just tell them you and Zane were unsure at first and now that you guys are completely sure you decided to come out with it” my mom said reasonably. It wasn’t quite the exact truth but it was close. Zane was unsure and that I too gave up on the option of us.

“I guess” my voice came out slightly uneven. I still don’t know if everything was going to work out as easy as it sounded.

“And for the Alex, he will understand honey. He knows you and Zane are mates” I rolled my eyes as my mom said this. If she only knew that I told Alex that I wouldn’t just up and leave him when Zane wanted me. I held my resolve for about a day before I gave into him, being in coma for two weeks doesn’t really count since I was kind of un-able to make up my mind and tell one of them.

“Well I hoped you and Zane would work out all your problems” I gaped at my mom as she said that.

“We didn’t have any problems” I said defensively. I never told her about all the things we did to each other, but she didn’t really have to be told I guess.

“You may be able to lie to everyone else but I'm your mama, you can’t lie to me Marissa Hale” I laughed at how serious she sounded.

“I guess I’ll just have to deal with the whole Alex thing when it comes down to it. Maybe tomorrow I’ll call and let him know that I’ve woken up and we could talk” I reasoned out loud.

“Don’t make to poor boy wait, he’s been here almost every day checking up on you. When you get home tonight you can call him and then you two can see each other and work things out tomorrow afternoon. I’ll let you take the day off of school to get used to everything again” My mom said. but what really got to me was the fact that she said Alex has been coming every day to check up on me.

It was sweet of him but know I feel even worse for what I'm about to do. I looked at the two people beside me and knew that everything was going to be ok though. I had my family and I had Zane, that made everything ok. Whatever was going to happen next I knew that I had nothing to lose because everything was already too good for anything to be able to bring me back down now.

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So Zane and Marissa finally get a taste of that happily ever after. Thanks to everyone for reading and voting. please comment on what you think and vote! Thank you to everyone for your support, especially my fans!!