My Rejected Heart

Chapter 13

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Muffled voices surrounded me as I opened my eyes. I looked around the room I was in before I realized where I was: the pack house’s infirmary. What the hell was I doing here?

I looked around once more, noticing the people. Mel stood in the corner with a sad look on her face, Jake held her in his arms, brushing strands of hair away from her face. I saw my brothers, sitting on the chairs in the room. And lastly, I saw both Zane and Drew, bickering in hushed tones.

My bed creaked as I tried to sit up. Everyone’s head turned to look at me. In a flash, everyone was by my side.

“Oh Ari, please don’t scare me like that ever again!” Ethan cried out as he engulfed me in a hug. I hugged him back, but I kept wondering what he meant by scaring him. What happened? Why am I here? Why is everyone so worried? All those questions swarmed my mind as I tried recalling the events that happened.

Suddenly, everything came back in a flash. The wrestling match with Zane, the angry Drew, Drew sleeping with Dana, sneaking outside, and then fainting. Why the hell did I faint?

Ethan let go of me and placed a kiss on my forehead.

“Aribear!” cried Sammy, as he hugged me with his tiny little arms. I pulled him to my lap and placed a kiss on his cheek.

The door opened, revealing Dr. Murray, the pack doctor. Her face held a mask of emotions, ranging from fear, to anxiety, to confusion, to sympathy. She walked over to my bed, looking at Sammy in my lap then back to me.

“Sammy, can you please get off your sister? I need to check to see if she’s okay. Can you do that for me sweetie?” Sammy got off of me, and ran into Ethan’s open arms. He lifted him up and faced me once again. I looked back at Dr. Murray, afraid of what was coming.

“Arianna, I have some alarming news. Firstly, you fainted because of the lack of food that you ate today. You’re very malnourished and I’m putting you on a strict diet plan to help you gain more weight,” she breathed in a heavy breath before continuing, “Now, the thing I wanted to tell you was, many of your ribs are cracked or fractured. You’re right leg has a fracture that has been incorrectly healed. Also, you’re left arm is fractured as well. The problem with this is the fact that many of these injuries date back to almost 3 years. Arianna sweetie, it’s best if you tell us how you got these, and how you fixed them?”

My eyes widened completely as what she said sunk in. I had to tell her about my father’s beatings and the cruel treatment I get by the teen pack members. I couldn’t do that. Everyone would find out and everyone would hate me more.

“Um, well, uh...”

God, I couldn’t do this. Everyone’s gonna hate me for ratting them out. All the adults of the pack don’t know about any of my treatment and this will just make them punish their kids harder. Oh, god, what about my father? I know it isn’t his fault that he hurts me, it’s the alcohol’s, but he’s still my dad and I can’t just hurt him like that. I already lost one parent, I don’t need to lose another!

“Arianna, dear, please tell us. This is for your own good. Has someone been hurting you?”  Dr. Murray’s voice rang out in the eerie silence room, as everyone waited for my answer.

I scanned the faces of the crowd. Drew and Zane had stopped their fighting to look at me, and both held a mixture of curiosity, horror, and sympathy for me. I looked over at Ethan, who was now accompanied by an equally worried Olivia. They both gave me sympathetic smiles, and nodded their heads, as if to say ‘go on and tell them the truth.’ My gaze drifted down to Sammy, who was looking clueless as to why the sudden tension was in the air. I pulled away from my sightseeing to look back at Dr. Murray, who smiled sympathetically and put her hand over mine, gesturing me to go forward. Just as I looked up, I realized that almost the whole pack was in here. I gulped nervously. ‘Come on Arianna, you can do this. You can finally be free of any harassment,’