Thea's POV
When we got back to Masons house I just ended up marching back upstairs to my room.
I had everything under control until I jumped onto my bed only for me to miss my king size bed completely and end up on the floor.
How the hell do I miss a king size bed?!
"FUCK" I yell out in pain.
"Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK"
"Thea? Are you okay?" I hear Mason say rushing into my room.
"Just peachy. I was just saying hi to my best friend. Meet Floor, floor meet Mason" I say sarcastically.
I slowly pick myself up from the floor feeling pain shoot throughout my body.
I feel a hand being rested on the back of my back making me tense up at the sudden contact but I start relaxing when I notice that it's Mason.
Usually I would have fought him for touching me but I'm too tired to do that right now.
"Your bleeding" Mason says almost in a whisper and I glance back at him with a tired look.
"I'll deal with it later" I say about to bounce back into bed but I was caught mid air by Mason.
"We'll deal with this now" He says already carrying me off somewhere as if I was a little kid being taken to their bed.
I don't start an argument I just move closer to him and wrap my legs around him wanting to feel as if someone actually wanted me with them instead of just wanting me for destruction.
I close my eyes just wanting to drift off to sleep.
He doesn't say anything about it he just continues walking.
After a while of walking he starts bending reaching out for something
He finally sets me down in a counter or something making me finally open my eyes to see that we are in a bathroom.
I look at him tiredly as he starts to get some stuff out from the first aid kit.
I stand up from the counter and turn my back on him to remove my shirt and start to take out the bandages. When I finally have them in my hand I look down at them only to see them covered in blood.
"It's only a little bit of blood" I mutter not realizing that he heard.
"It is not a little bit of blood" He corrects taking the bandages out of my hands and inspecting them himself.
I turn back to look at him and then turn to look at my back to the mirror.
New wounds and old scars that are fading out and that mark that will be on my body forever.
M.W
I don't feel anything as I look at the brand and at the faded out scars that you can't see unless you know where to look.
I start to see the blood coming out of the new wounds and with that I turn back around to let Mason do his thing.
Through the mirror I see him inspecting the wounds. He puts his finger up and starts to trace them carefully.
I feel electricity run through my veins but as soon as he starts to trace over the M.W mark i suck in a deep breath of air.
Finally I see him get a cotton ball and put alcohol in it.
"This is gonna sting" Mason mutters, reminding me of the day before we got into the jet accident.
He finally dabs it onto my back and I scrunch up my face from the pain of the alcohol.
The number on thing I hate about when I clean my wounds is the rubbing alcohol.
I sink in my teeth onto my bottom lip waiting for it to be over.
"Can you go any more slower?" I say sarcastically closing my eyes shut from the burning sensation.
"I could but I'm pretty sure you'd like me to go faster" Mason says deciding to be a smart ass.
"Just go faster!" I shout already wanting this to be over with.
I see him go faster through the mirror and he seems concentrated on cleaning my open wounds.
In that moment i started to notice how attractive he was under the lighting.
Mason is much taller then I am. About 6 something while I reach at 5'5. He makes me feel short.
His brown hair is alway in place, you can never catch him with a bad hair day as far as I've noticed, His dark green eyes always have a mischievous and mysterious tint to them, they always remind me of the Forest, the way his jaw that looks like it can cut my finger if I touch it, he has faint freckles across his nose that you can see if you look at the right place, his tan skin alway shining in the sun, the way he commands respect when he comes into a room without even saying anything.
Hell he even has Marcelo, Dominic, and Jakes respect and that's hard to earn.
I even get chills when he walks into the same room I am at. It's weird because I've never gotten chills for anyone.
Mason meets my gaze through the mirror and we stay in that position before I look away.
He doesn't say anything though. He just grands the bandages and starts to wrap it around me.
I couldn't help but watch him do it. He was so careful and gentle with wrapping me up.
"This is the second time, Thea" Mason says and I sigh. "You should be more careful with them"
"it'll be fine. This isn't my first rodeo" I say and just as I was about to walk out he grabs my wrist and spins me around until I'm up to his chest.
God even through his shirt I can feel his muscles.
That's hot.
...
"Promise me" Mason says caressing my cheek while looking down at me in a tone that leaves no room for an argument.
This could have been a sweet moment.....if it wasn't for my big mouth.
"Why do you care so much? A few hours ago you didn't care about the wounds opening" I say looking up at him recalling how he slammed me onto the wall.
I knew why he slammed me onto the wall. He thought I hurt his daughter and if I were in his shoes I would have done the same.
Something about the way his eyes changed from being soft and caring to dark and emotionless made a chill run down my spine.
I've gotten that look so many times but for some reason his affected me differently and I didn't like it.
He let's go of my wrist and that's when I take a few steps away form him.
"Fine then. That's the last time I try to be nice" Mason says storming off.
I take in a deep breath of air before I sigh out and look at where he was standing a few seconds earlier.
It's just a business deal, Thea. That's why your here. Nothing else.
Suddenly everything from what happened today came to me and I started to feel tired.
Going over to my bed I lay on my stomach and I thought that I would have drifted off to sleep right away but instead I ended up laying there for about 2 hours of just thinking.
2 hours turned into 4 and by the time it was already 3 in the morning.
I was looking at through the Balcony door when I heard light footsteps coming near.
Looking at my door under the door I see a shadow underneath before it just opens.
There I see a little shadow dragging along what seems to be a blanket.
A smile makes a way onto my face realizing that it's Sierra.
Or is it? Have I gotten into any trouble with a midget?
I don't think so.
Sierra closes the door and proceeds to walk over to my bed until she reaches the light stand and turns it on.
I close my eyes faking sleep and I start to hear shuffling. Slightly opening my eyes I see that she is trying to climb up the bed but failing miserably.
Finally she gets onto the bed and I shut my eyes close again.
"I'm sorry if I'm bothering you right now. I know that you are asleep but I hope you don't mind if I sleep with you. I'm.... I'm having nightmares.... and I don't want to worry dad about them" Sierra says in a sad tone that makes me open my eyes.
She jumps a bit and I see her shuffling away.
"It's okay, bumblebee" I say. "I get them too"
"You get nightmares, too?!" She ask surprised and I slowly nod.
I lay on my side and it hurts a bit but not long before I get into a comfortable spot.
I lift up my blanket and pat the space in front of me. She flashes me the biggest smile and lays down in the spot.
She covers herself with her own blanket before I put my blanket over her.
"Common go to sleep, it's already really late" I say and she nods her head slowly.
"Goodnight, momma" I hear Sierra whisper before I slowly hear her breathing slow down.
I was too tired to think about it and That's when the drowsiness starts to set in. My eye lids felt like they were feeling heavy before I just fell asleep.
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Two weeks have passed since that day and Sierra is now back in kindergarten. Mason drives her to school and i pick her up.
And secretly get her ice cream but Mason doesn't need to know that.
The guys have flew back to their homes and Marcelo never reached out to me after that day.
Right now I'm on my own floor doing work and trying to open up a hotel here. It's been on the works for a couple of months already before the wedding even and right now it's being remodeled.
Mason is out working at his office. After that day he's just been ignoring me or sometimes he seems like he's trying to chose his words to talk to me during Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner.
Sierra has her own bedroom which was the one that I went into but she always sneaks into my room and that's how it's been ever since that night as well.
I down at my watch and see that I'm 20 minutes late to pick up Sierra.
I jump up already running down the stairs while trying to put on my shoes. Just as I got off to the last step I ended falling on my back.
"Pinchependejasolosabescomocaerte" I say to myself.
(Authors note: no it is not all gibberish. Thea is just talking fast)
I look up slowly feeling like someone is staring at me and see Mason with an unamused look and Sierra looking at me wide eyed.
"He he" I say
"Are you okay?" Mason ask.
"Just peachy" I say picking myself up from the floor. "Just wondering, how long were you guys there?"
"Since you opened your door in a rush" Mason says and that's when I have the urge to facepalm myself.
"Mom, your so silly" Sierra giggles and I tense up at the word.
I'm still getting used to her calling me that. After Lucas I was just a mess.
"Why don't you go put your backpack away and change so you won't get your uniform dirty?" I say and she nods eagerly before running upstairs.
I watch her run off to my room where she basically took over half of my closet.
"You know you don't have to let her call you mom?" Mason says making me jump a bit since I forgot he was there.
I just kinda smile at him before I look back at the stairs in case she was still lingering around to hear us.
"I don't think she would have called me, a random lady who she met two weeks ago, call me mom if she wasn't comfortable with it. She didn't even refer to her own mother as mom when she rarely talks about her. Hell I don't even call Alyssa mom." I say the last part to myself.
"Are you okay with her calling you mom?" Mason ask and I think about it for a bit before I shake my head no.
"Don't bother making Lunch me and Sierra ate on our way here. Also I'm taking you guys out to dinner, be ready by 6." Mason informs me before his phone starts ringing not giving me a chance to say anything.
I look at him go in shock since he hasn't said a word to me until today.
I go upstairs to go change and see Sierra pop out of my room already in a cute blush dress.
"Can you help me with my hair?" She ask giving me her hair brush and a hair tie.
Why is she so cute?
She leads me to her room and that's when I realized that doing her hair will take about an hour and a half.
A few hours later
Finally applying a little bit of mascara I check the time to see is just about to hit 6.
Looking over at my contacts and my glasses I decide to go with my glasses too lazy to put on my contacts.
I grab my black purse as I head out from my room and make sure everything is in there.
Wallet, gum, pocket knife, lip stick, candy bars, lip gloss, phone, pad, taser... check.
"Thea, we're leaving!" I hear Mason shout from downstairs.
"Coming!" I shout back already on my way down the stairs.
I check my purse once again to make sure everything was in there before I get my phone and notice a notification from Jefferson.
I open it and see the updates on Christopher's movement right now.
Deciding not to worry about business right now i nite my phone and shove it back into my purse.
Taking my last steps down I see Sierra in the blush dress but this time she has a black leather jacket over it and the doll that Abuelita sent to her upon hearing about her.
"You look so cute, Sierra" I comment bopping her nose.
She giggles and hugs her doll.
I turn to look at Mason in a black suit And see him looking at me up and down with a spark of mischief in his eyes.
I don't think I've ever seen Mason in casual wear other then that time I was on his floor coming out of Sierras room.
"Ready?" Mason says noticing me looking at him.
I nod and take Sierras hand as Mason opens the door for us.
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We finally arrived at a restaurant named Roxanas and see all the design to make it look fancy.
When we enter the waitress is already leading us to a private booth and we set down looking at the menu.
Looking at all the fancy names in Italian making me confuse because I don't know Italian.
I know Spanish, Russian, and English but not Italian.
"I recommend the tagliatelle ragù Neapolitan" Mason says and I look up to see him not even looking at me instead looking at the menu.
I just nod with what he said because I have no clue what this whole menu says.
I look over at Sierra and see her smiling down at the menu.
"What are you getting, Nugget?" Mason says and I see his eyes turn soft.
"The Ragù" Sierra says happily
The waitress comes back again with our drinks and she starts speaking Italian to Mason.
"Siete pronti per ordinare?" The waitress says.
" Sì, avrò Il normale, e shell avrà il tagliatelle ragù napoletano" Mason says.
"E avrò il ragù!" Sierra says.
(Authors Note- since you guys are reading from Thea's POV I won't translate because Thea doesn't understand them)
Wow I never knew Sierra could speak Italian.
Wait it actually makes sense considering that She is Italian.
The waitress is just staring at me like why the hell am I hear and I glare at her. She shifts her glaze to look at the ground before she leaves.
"I want a puppy" Sierra says all of a sudden.
I look over at Mason who is just looking at Sierra amused by her comment.
"Golden Retriever? Husky? German Shepard? A Saint Bernard?!" I say excitedly looking at her.
I've always wanted a dog.
She just looks at me like I'm crazy.
"How am I suppose to know what their names are?" Sierra says and I look at her shocked while Mason bursts out laughing.
I look over at him and see the lighting of the room hitting him in all the right spots highlighting his toned skin as he laughs.
His laugh was so captivating that it made me smile at his laugh that sounded genuine.
Soon enough though it died down as the door opened again to reveal the waitress with our food.
"Thank you" I say as she sets my food down.
The plate had a pasta which look delicious the only thing wrong with it was how small of a portion it was.
"Posso fare qualcos'altro per te?" She says to Mason.
"No grazie" Mason says and the Waitress leaves with that.
I dig into my food and it was just as delicious as it looked.
The taste of the sauce and the different seasoning that was in it that all meshed together was incredible.
Hell I even let out a small moan at the star of it.
"If only it weren't such a small portion" I whisper to myself after a few minutes.
I look down at the empty plate with sadness in my eyes.
"Why do they make the food so small?" Sierra questions looking sadly at her empty plate too.
I look over at Masons plate to see that he still has food on his plate.
How? I don't know.
"Just shove the whole thing in your mouth" I say and he glances at me before looking back at his food.
"Unlike you guys, I actually like to enjoy my food in a slow pace" Mason says and eats a mouthful of whatever he ordered.
It looked like it was two big noodles stuffed with something inside it and covered in tomato sauce.
"Do you get filled by eating that?" I ask still hungry.
He doesn't reply which makes me mentally roll my eyes.
"I'm still hungry" me and Sierra mutter to ourselves as we look at our empty plates.
We both turn to look at each other and as we do so I reach over to my purse under the table and take out two chocolate bars and slide one to her from under the table.
She doesn't look down she just takes it and smiles at me as a way to say thank you.
I smile back at her and give her a wink and then I open the chocolate bar and secretly start eating it.
The taste of the chocolate melting into my mouth was so good that I just had to close my eyes.
This wasn't regular chocolate this was hand made chocolate by my Abuelita that she mailed me from back home in Mexico.
"I know you guys are eating chocolate" Upon hearing that I jolt out of my small trance and look at Mason with wide eyes.
He finally finished with his plate and Sierra brakes her chocolate and slides it across to him as if to say that they are making a trade.
"I share my chocolate and you don't talk" Sierra says and this time I burst out laughing.
"Were going somewhere after this" Mason states all of a sudden.
"Oh my god, he finally decided that he has had enough and has been planning my death" I say as a joke but he did not take it well.
Or so I thought.
I see his lips twitching upwards and I smile to myself satisfied.
"YOUR GOING TO KILL US?!" Sierra yells and we look at her wide eyed as we can see her actually freaking out.
"No... it was a joke" I say trying my hardest not to laugh.
"Oh" she says turning red.
"Where are we going?" I ask.
"It's a surprise" is all he says.
"Thea, Jake come on!" Elizabeth shouts at me and Jake who are following behind with Dominic and Marcelo.
"Where are we going?" Jake ask as we continue to walk.
"It's a surprise dude" Noah says with a grin on his face as we soon reach a waterfall.
It's beautiful.
"Time for skinny dipping!" Elizabeth shouts excitedly.
We all just look around and then I start to strip along with Elizabeth.
I don't know if it was the alcohol talking but soon everyone starts to strip and dive into the waterfall.
I smile at the memory before shaking my head.
"Let get going" Mason says as he suddenly is standing in front of me offering to help me stand up with Sierra at his side.
I take it and follow him back to the car.
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Edited- 3/2/20