WARNING: SENSITIVE ISSUES AHEAD.
Chapter 32
"Ha? Wha-What are you talking about?" I tried not to shout at her. "Are you kidding me? Chris... hey... I saw him..."
She shook her head. "I'm telling you the truth. No one entered here but me."
I don't want to believe her. "B-But! Look! I'm okay now! I did it with him! He calmed me! He's real, I'm telling you. He came... he came for me." I said with broken voice. I sound like a kid convincing her but heck, I know the truth. My alpha came for me.
Chris sat at the bed, beside then held my hand. "Because of the suppresant's side effects, you been sleeping for 2 days, Kyle." She said. "And I'm afraid to tell you but..." she stopped for a moment. "No one goes here but me during the time that you're we're sleeping."
I'm lost of my words. I can't process what she just said. All I can do was to stared at her, unbelievably, hoping she'll take back her words but she didn't. She just squeezed my hands and shook her head.
"I'm sorry, Kyle." She caressed my hands. "That day, you're the one who relieved your heat. Not your alpha..." I saw her bit her lower lip. "I was at the other side of the door, guarding you. And when I entered the room after a few hours, I found you in your unconscious state on the floor. I'm the one who cleaned and took care of you. I'm the one... not your alpha."
Silence consumed us. I seriously don't know what to say. What Chris was saying was way different from what I remember. I can feel my alpha yesterday, he was real from my memory.
His touch felt so real.
His kisses felt so real
His whispers felt so real.
So why can't I made myself believe Chris?
"Chris, I---" I didn't finish my words when the door suddenly opened. A little boy entered the room.
"Mama! Where are---" the little guy stopped then frowned. "Who are you?" Then his eyes lowered down to my and Chris's linked hands. "Why are you holding Mama's hands?"
'Mama?'
I looked at Chris with confused eyes. My own issues momentarily vanished after I saw the kid. "Mama?"
Chris awkwardly laughed. "Hehehe, yeah?"
Then the kid whose at the door, ran towards us and pulled his 'Mama' away from me. "Who are you?! Why are you here?!" He darted me sharp gazes. "Why are you in my Mama's room?!"
Again, I looked Chris. "Your room?"
"Hehehe, yeah?" I looked at her intently. "We don't have other room, you know. We're not as rich as you." She said. "You know what, let's go to kitchen first, let's eat. I'll tell you, Clayton everything while we're eating." She said as she swooped her son up then looked at me. "Let's go, Kyle?" Her voice stated that she was inviting me.
"MAMA!" Her son squealed.
"Shut up, Clay. Or else you'll be eating okra for whole week!" She warned as she widened her eyes.
"NO!" Clayton hugged Chris. "I HATE OKRA!" He burried his face on Chris neck. Chris chuckled then headed the door. Before, Chris and Clayton totally left the room, Clayton lifted his head and mouthed at me. 'I HATE YOU ALSO.' then he stuck his tongue out.
I was entirely blown with the sudden information. Chris got a brat? Oh shit. This is really unexpected.
I gathered my strength and made my way out of the room. My head was aching a little bit but it's manageable. Based from what Chris said, I was sleeping for 2 days, then this was the last day of my heat. Beside from the headache, I felt my stomach empty, it was grumbling.
After fixing myself, I went out of the room. The house was small but I think it just fine for Chris and her son. There's another room beside the room I slept in. The next room's door was painted witg red paint and there's a 'DON'T ENTER IF YOU'RE NOT CLAYTON and mama' sign hanging on it. The 'and mama' was just added so it was smaller. It was poorly written and I think Clayton was the one who wrote it.
The kitchen was just few feet away from the room. The small living room was placed in betwen the kitchen and the rooms. It was consist of one long brown sofa and two single seat sofa. A flat screen T.V. and a small table. The living room has a lot of toys and educational books. One glance is enough to tell that there's a kid living here. Everywhere is a mess.
I was looking around when Chris made out of the kitchen. "Sorry, our house was messy." She shyly said. "I got no time to clean it last night because you know." Yeah, I know what she was saying. It's because of me.
I smiled. "It's fine. I should be the one to apologize. I made you worried and took care for me without knowing that you had child to take care of." I said. "I'm sorry Chris for burdening you."
"No need to apologize." She shook her head. "It was my own inhibition to helped you. I was glad that you're now okay and---" she didn't finished her words when Clayton suddenly yelled from the kitchen. Our gazes turned to him who was standing in front of the kitchen's door.
"Aren't we going to eat?! I'm hungry!" He said.
Chris chuckled. "Yeah, yeah we're coming!" Clayton just rolled his eyes and entered the kitchen again. I heard Chris whispered. "Sorry, that kid was not used of other people but me."
I smiled. "It's fine. It's not his fault." I said. "Anyway Chris, can we talk later? Just us."
She nodded. "Of course. Later." She said. Then, we heard Clayton yelled again.
"MAMA!"
Chris scratched her cheek. "Coming!"
The three of us ate the food that Chris prepared for us. She cooked fried rice, eggs, hotdogs and sauteed vegetables. I was eating my food while watching Chris whose attending her son. She was cutting the hotdogs into bite sizes and then she put some vegetables on Clayton's plate. She only got to eat her own food when Clayton's started eating his food.
"Hmm... hmm..." Clayton's humming while chewing his food when he noticed that I was looking at him. "Why are you looking at me?" He said with his mouth full.
"Hey, that's rude." Chris said.
"But staring is rude too." Clayton defended.
"But still, you have to respect someone whose older than you." Chris said as she wiped her son's mouth. "Come on, apologize."
Clayton narrowed his eyes. "Him, first."
"Clayton." Chris said in authoritative voice.
I suppressed my laughter and tried to plastered normal smile on my lips. "No, Chris. He was right, I was rude for staring at him." I said. "I'm sorry, young man."
Clayton looked at me intently. "Accepted." He said then placed his gazes back to his plate. "I'm sorry too, mister."
I smiled. 'He's so cute.'
We finished our food without Clayton speaking. I don't know if it's good or bad thing because after we finished his food, he leave the kitchen and went in to his room.
"I think he didn't like me." I said to Chris whose washing the dishes. I insist of helping her but she said not to.
She chuckled. "I don't think so. Because if he really do, he won't talk to you at the first place." She said as she opened the faucet. After that, no one's talking. The sound of gushing water was the only thing you only hear.
I cleared my throat. "About earlier..."
Chris turned the water off and dried her hands using the towel hanging at the oven's handle. "Yeah..." then she faced me. "What I said earlier was true, Kyle." I started to breathe heavily. "After that night, you collapsed in exhaustion, so I took you to bed. I was so worried because you stayed unconscious for couple of hours. I want to call your parents but I don't think that will be the right thing to do, you're super messed. I want to call either Amanda or Leo but I don't have they're number, your phone has security pattern so I can't open it. I only know few students at school. Most of them was not close to your friends, they didn't know what their numbers are. Even they're social media accounts, Leo doesn't have one while Amanda..."
I shut my eyes closed then spoke. "Amanda's social media accounts was all named after anime characters or written in Japenese." I hissed.
"Yeah....I can't find which was the right one."
'What the fuck with coincidence. Tsk.' I thought.
I sighed. "That night, are you sure..." I bit my lower lip. "Are you sure that no one really come?"
Her eyes wandered. "I'm sure. The door and windows were locked. I was sleeping there in the sofa, guiding you. Within those days that you were unconscious, I spot no one, not even a single silhouette of... your mate." She said. "I'm sorry but I think the side effects of the suppressants you take made you think that your alpha came for you. But I swear, no one did." As she finished her words, my tears started to fall.
"Okay... haaa... so he was really tuned out." My tears were falling so I wiped them off. I felt Chris made a move and suddenly, I felt her embrace enveloped my body. My small sniffles turned into loud bawl. I was crying my heart out while Chris was tapping my back.
He promised me. That everytime I needed him, he'll be here beside. But where is he? He broke his own bullshit promises! I only needed him once every 3 months! That's all I'm asking for him! I respect his decisions, his wishes but he can't even made himself fulfilled his promises!
He sucks! A lot!
"I hate him... he's a fucking liar." I whispered.
Chris hushed me. "Do you really meant that?" I want to say 'YES!' but this damn mouth of mine didn't want to do it. "If you really do, you can come to me. I'll take care you more than he does." She said.
I slightly pushed her off. "Are you kidding me? After I found out that you had a brat, your flirting with me?"
"Why? I only had child. But have a mate." She said nonchalantly. I frowned and looked at her intently. "What? I meant it when I say I liked you to be my friend and I don't really have a mate."
"Then why..."
She flashed a smile on her lips. It was a very sad smile, you could feel her feelings just by looking at her face.Then she leaned at my ears and whispered.
"I was raped when I was 14."
During my whole ride back to our house, I can't forget Chris's face and what she said. I thought she's just weird clingy girl who keeps on pestering me. But after spending time with her and got to know her story, I felt ashamed for everything I did to her.
I sighed and remembered the things she said before I left.
"Oh, what's with the face?" She chuckled but then she her smile faded. "Ah... you pity me? Well, who wouldn't? A female omega who got raped because she's in heat. So unlucky."
I clenched my hands. "Have you reported this before? To the police?"
She sneered. "I did! But you know what they say? 'It's not alpha's fault that you got raped, it was because you didn't take suppressants while you're in heat. You drove them to you by your scent', haah..." she clicked her tongue. "I felt so helpless that day,
later on, I found out that I was pregnant. After that, a letter arrived, saying that the alpha who raped me will help me raising the child by means of sending money. Imagine, I'm an orphan, barely to support myself then BOOM! I got another mouth to feed!"
This is the sad thing about being omega. The discrimination. I already experienced it before, with Andie and Maggie, and with those bastards who tried to harass me before. Us, omegas, often to hear other people's stereotypes about us. That we attract alphas with our scent. That we want to be fuck by them. That our body was used for alpha's own pleasure and that our only role was to give birth of alpha's offspring. Sadly, until now, laws and policies to protect omegas was still nowhere near the light of justice's eyes. They will listen to us but they barely made a move to help us. At the end, we'll be the the only one who will protect ourselves from the preying eyes of other gender types in this society.
Everytime I heard those words, I felt like a trash. But I kept on ignoring them. Such fools like themselves deserves nothing from me. But I'm different from other omegas. Some of then were much weaker than I am.
"Chris..."
She shook her head and smiled at me. "But I never regret having Clayton. He was the sole reason why I kept on living. My son was my source of life. He gave me another reason to believe in myself once more." She said. "His father might be an asshole, no, he's really motherfucking asshole! But my son... he's my angel."
Chris never shed a tear but I know how painful it is for her to open up and I'm sure, she's doing this for my sake.
"You knew his father?"
She looked at me intently. "Of course... I will never forget him. He's the one who named Clayton."
Before I left Chris's house, I bid goodbye to Clayton who still ignoring me. Of course, I can't blame him. I was a total stranger in his eyes then he saw me inside his mother's room, holding her hands. It his natural instincts to protect his mother. This made me believe that the kid was an alpha. He was protecting his omega mother. Clayton was matured for his age, Chris really raised him well.
'I wish to see him again.' I thought. That kid Clayton... I felt something in him. But I can't describe what it is.
The taxi I'm riding in, pulled over. I'm already in front of our house. I paid for the ride then went out.
I was nervous, they don't know where the hell did I go. I'm sure they're sick worried of me. But I can't tell them what happened. Even if I felt pissed to my alpha, I can't afford to unveil our situation to my parents.
I opened the gate then entered. My heart beating so fast. I was about to open the main door when someone from the inside opened it. It was mother.
"Mother, I---" I haven't managed to finish my words when his hand landed on my face.
"Where the hell have you been?" His serious voice were creeping me down to my voice. This wasn't the first time seeing him like this but still, he still terrors me.
I gulped before answering. "I... I stayed at Amanda's house..."
"You what?" His voice risen a little bit.
"I stayed at Amanda's house." I said. "Mother, sorry---" was once again, his hand landed on my face. I don't know why he did that.
"Mother, I---" before I could finish my sentence. Someone called me.
"Kyle!" My eyes widened when I saw Amanda, she came out of our house. She hurriedly hugged me. "When did have you been?"
That moment, I felt my blood drained. My mother's peircing eyes was stabbing me. I don't know what to say anymore. I'm cornered.
My mother spoke. "Amanda darling, can you go inside first? I have to talk to my son."
Amanda looks like she's hesitating. So I nodded at her. "Go." I said so she got nothing to say anymore but to follow. That left me and my mother.
"Tell me honestly, before I slap you once more." I shivered hearing his voice. "Don't try to lie again, Kyle Eulesis. Or else, you'll regret what will I do next."
-DriewNrocinu