My parents came back a few weeks later.
They didn't meet me at home and they called. I told them I was at the hospital and it made them so worried. They rushed down here and seeing them softened my heart. Luckily, I was discharged.
As they prepared to pick me up, I fought off tears as I saw them standing at distance waving that I came.
"Nova," mum took me in her arms staring at me. Overtime my eyes became puffy because I cried a lot. I also lost weight from the drugs they put me on.
"You look like shit."
I gave a weak smile while dad wrapped me in his arms. He opened the car for me and the minute I got in I sat towards the end of the window so they didn't see when I cried.
When I got home, everywhere seemed different.
I shut my room door acting like everything was fine but mum suspected something. She saw me crying in the shower one morning and asked what went wrong. I gave an excuse, lying about a school project I was supposed to submit after the summer holiday.
I told her it wasn't going well and she bought the act, comforting me.
She said, "Look it's very okay to make mistakes and not do it right in the first place." with a calm look. "You can still fix it, have faith."
Somehow those words connected to my present life, cause I did make a mistake and not do it right.
One night, Jared and his mate were having sex again. This time, my parents heard me scream from my room and they came rushing.
"What is it dear?"
I held my belly in pain. Dad and mum checked my stomach as I yelped. Mum covered her mouth astonished on what she saw. "Did someone bully you at school?" she asked.
I nodded a no, hoping they'd drop it.
"Then who did this to you!" dad yelled.
"Please dad, just let it be." I pleaded.
"Why should we?" mum's voice trembling.
"It's not a battle we can fight. The Alpha is the reason I'm in so much pain.m
"Did you break a rule?" dad asked.
"No," I sniffled. "I just happened to be unlucky."
"How dear?" mum asked.
"Can you tell us what's going on at least?" dad asked with a trustworthy look that made me want to cry. I hated that I put myself in this situation. I hated that they'd have to live with someone I did.
I began sobbing hard narrating what happened. I left no part out and by the time I was done telling them mum sunk to the floor unable to grasp it all.
"God, Nova." dad said. "Why did you do something like that without telling us?"
"I'm sorry." I muttered, feeling so ashamed.
Mum but in "How do we face people with this illegitimate child? People are going to talk."
She was right, it was sort like a tradition to have a baby for your mate in Moonstone pack. No one understood anything outside having a mate.
This was exactly what I feared. I didn't know how they were still on my side right now.
"I don't know." I replied.
My wolf was dying inside. While mum and dad thought of what to do, in a little part of my head I thought I wasn't going to make it.
"We have to migrate."
"What??" I stared at dad and so did mum. We had lived in Moonstone pack all our lives. I couldn't even imagine leaving my friends but then this same life was at stake.
"The pack won't let go of it." dad said.
"We are guardian wolves. They should be lucky they have us." mum said pressing her lips together.
"If we bring the war that happened years ago, it won't end well." dad advised. "We better lay low."
As the head of the house, his words were final. I found myself packing and bidding my friends farewell. The documentation was the toughest part. Dad made us disguise as normal regular wolves knowing they might reject the proposal.
Jared didn't contact me since that day so I sent a message to him.
There was this frown on his face the instant he showed up at the coffee shop, Campbell's a popular place in the pack. His arms were folded impatiently as he stared at me deeply with a mysterious look.
"Are you out of it?" he said coldly. "Don't ever text me out of the blue again."
"Yes, you know what? You're right." I said, wiping off tears with my oversized blue cardigan.
He stared at me with his blue eyes, with a slight cock of his brow. "Huh?" Like he didn't expect those words, he muttered, clarifying. He knew how obsessed I was with him. Just a few days back, I was crying that he shouldn't leave me.
"I should have done the needful a long time ago." I continued. "I still don't know why I waited. Maybe I hoped. I hoped that you'll come back for me."
Believe me, I want to stay. I want to take the pains.
But I can't.
My child depends on me right now. I have to take good care of it.
"I, Nova Willows, hereby accept your rejection. I solemnly swear to walk away from your life forever. I also denounce my role as the guardian wolf of Moonstone pack."
"I accept your rejection, Nova." Jared sniffed the air saying. "Why is your smell different? You smell like me." he declared making a move to walk towards me when I stood up.
He wasn't supposed to know I was pregnant for him.
"Probably because I was your mate." I said with a fake smile holding off more tears. "Um, I'll take my leave now, Jared."
I walked out the coffee shop getting into dad's car which was parked in front of the coffee shop. I took one look back only to see his new mate walking into the restaurant; she glanced at me once, before she ran into Jared's arms. He hugged her kissing her in front of me.
My palms fisted that minute. It was just like a blade was pierced through my heart. I braced myself knowing I had to get to the car.
I tried going only to notice Jared's gaze on mine, they looked strange like he was enchanted. I sighed immediately thinking I might be seeing things.
"Is it done?" dad asked.
I snapped out that second, "Yes dad." I entered the car staring at both him and mum as I said those words.
"Good, now let's go." As dad drove the car, I stared at the both of them sitting in the restaurant. They seemed to be on a date. My hands crept to my chest region with tears coming out of my eyes.
Some heavy rain began to fall as we drove bringing mists to the window screen. I drew heartbreak on it with my hands creeping to my belly with a genuine smile.
If forgetting him was what it took to raise my child, I'll do it. I can't wonder about him anymore. What he's up to, what he isn't up to, I just had to move on even if it hurt.