CHAPTER 13

A WOLF WITHOUT HER MEMORY

BY POWDERJINX

CHAPTER 13

TANNER’S POV

A few days later and my mum had invited me to her place of work once more. She always gave the excuse of forgetting to drop the house key in my school bag, but I knew it was more than that. We rarely got to see each other anymore as she had been spending a lot of time in the hospital and when she came back home, I was already asleep. So she had been using this as a means to get us to spend more quality time. I wasn’t going to call her out on it though. I sighed as I walked into the hospital. Luckily the nurse in charge of the logbook was on a break so there was no one going to pull me into an unnecessary conversation and since I had been a recent visitor, the nurses and guards were used to me so they didn’t have any problem letting me in.

But I had to say, after what happened the last time I was here and finding out that the anemic patient had woken up. I felt disappointed a bit because I didn’t get to meet her in person or even apologize for taking the liberty of kissing her. I wondered if she felt it or if people in commas don’t feel anything.

“Oh my Gosh, Tanner, have you been listening to anything I have been saying.” My mum yelled clapping her hands together as I jolted out of my reverie. I hadn’t realized that I was already in my mum’s office as I looked at her and saw that she wasn’t happy. Damn it, I fucked up this time.

“Sorry mum, did you say anything?” I asked knowing quite well that I was looking for the trouble who was intent on finding me anyways as my mum growled, letting her claws come out for a brief moment before she took control back and said,

“You were supposed to answer my question, I asked you why you hated coming to the hospital. You never come here willingly after school, unless I forget to give you the home key.”

“Come on mum, it is not like that. Um, I had been sick and the smell of antiseptic just turns my belly and ruins my appetite.” I said the first thing that came into my mind.

“Oh yes. You said you were sick, yet you don’t let your beautiful and hardworking mum, who is also a doctor take care of you. I feel like a quack now.” My mother said as I smiled at her and replied,

“Come on mum. It was just a minor sickness and I am here now. Besides, don’t tell me you have forgotten about my….abilities.” I said wiggling my eyebrows as she heaved and said,

“Okay Tan, I get it. You are a big boy, but to me, you will always be my 5-year-old son that used to be scared of thunderstorms.” She said as I covered my face in embarrassment.

“Gosh mum, please just give me the house key, let me go, and spare me this embarrassment,” I said as there was a knock on the door and we both glanced up to see who it was. It was a nurse holding a clipboard she smiled at me and said,

“Sorry for barging in unannounced but I have to borrow your mum for some minutes. I promise I will bring her right back.” She said to me as I turned to my mum who was already reaching for her lab coat.

“Is anything the problem, Martha?” She said as I looked back at the nurse. So her name was Martha huh?

“Yes, Dr. John is having issues with patient 45H. He won’t see anyone else except you and he is getting a bit violent.” Martha replied as my mum turned to me to say something but I waved her off saying,

“Mum take all the time you need, I am right here, I won’t go anywhere,” I said as she smiled at me and mouthed the words thank you before she left with the nurse.

I sighed heavily as I looked around the office. It had only been a few days but it seemed like home part two. Mum was quite fast in fitting in here. All her things were all over the place.

I decided to do the one thing that Leo was always fond of, to pass away time and that was playing video games. He had been installing a lot of games on my phone, trying to get me to try it out and I had been giving excuses so this seemed like a perfect opportunity to do something different. Besides, it was better than doing nothing.

I finally settled for the game titled PUBG. I got to google the name because I had no idea what it means, but the controls were pretty basic and I was soon playing the game. The first thing I noticed was that I was falling from a plane, and so were trillions of other characters. What the hell? And why did my player have just a pant on? This game was already getting me hooked.

“Shit, I am being shot at,” I yelled as I started using my controls to get away from the open fire. Was that a frying pan? I used it on the unfortunate person near me, who I smacked and smacked and smacked till he died. I took all his ammo and had quite a large number of things.

This was getting interesting. Now I see why Leo was always gaming, this had to be the best thing ever. It was getting interesting as I kept on killing and running around the place. I even got in a car where someone was driving and I was busy taking out other players when to my surprise, the bloody nigga started shooting at me.

“Dude, that is SO UNCOOL,” I yelled in my mouthpiece, trying to escape when I heard someone laughing in the game background. Damn it, my enemy was a Russian.

“Die motherfucker,” I heard him say as he kept on chasing me. Damn it I had to do something, I had to throw a bomb at him or I was going to die. Just as I reached for it, I was shot dead as I stood up in anger and frustration.

“Arggggggh, I was so damned close,” I said slapping hard on the table as I vented my anger. To say I was pissed off was an understatement, I was still pissed off, but I was distracted by my phone ringing. Looking at the ID, I saw that it was Leo. Why was he calling?

I picked up the call and his voice came floating into my ears.

“Bro, where are you?” He asked as I looked puzzled but I managed to reply,

“ I am at the hospital, why?” I said as I looked at the time. We didn’t schedule any meetups, did we? I pondered within me.

“Oh okay. I could have sworn that I saw you online at PUBG. Maybe it was just someone that had the same userID as you.” He said as my eyes grew wide with shock, did he hack my phone or something. I was a bit puzzled but there was no way that I was going to let him know that I was playing it. He would never let me live it down. I decided to just change the topic.

“Anyways how is Lia?” I asked as I could hear his signature sigh and I smiled.

“Every time I talk to you, you always bring up Lia. What is the deal between you two? You like her or something?” He asked as I quickly coughed and said,

“What? Dude…come on that is so…wrong. Besides I….” I paused as I saw the door open again and my mum entered, so I quickly said instead,

“You know what? I am going to call you later okay? I gotta go.” I said as I pocketed my phone and faced my mum who said,

“Was that Leo? How is he doing?” She asked as I sat back down in my chair and said,

“Leo hasn’t changed He still plays video games, but all in all. He is fine.”

LIA POV

It had been two days since I told my brother what I suspected and it had been two days since he had been glaring at me silently, refusing to believe what I was saying. I wasn’t even sure either of what I was saying but it was something that I sensed and I was afraid that I was right but apparently, my twin wasn’t in the mood of finding out. He kept on telling me that I should forget about it and I did….well I told him I did after all.

Right now, I was watching Astoria play with some dominoes as she looked awed by the way it was all falling on one another and she had been following it to see where it was heading. I smiled at her innocence. I had tried on several occasions to play this game with her, but she seemed more interested in playing it with Leo, while I was the best option for what to eat.

Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t angry at this. Rather I think she had observed us closely to know what our strong and weak points were, and she knew that Leo was better at gaming, I sucked at gaming a lot. I rather read or watch BL movies and Leo sucked at cooking too. So it was a win-win.
As I left them to their game, I decided to go through my phone and see if anything was happening on Facebook. I had been pretty preoccupied and I was sure that I had a lot of messages waiting for me.

I saw that Tanner had been one of the people who had sent me messages and I had gone through it. I hadn’t talked to him since that day that we talked….mostly because I had nothing to say and also because he was so dumb to realize that I liked him. It was so frustrating because the boys were so fucking dumb. But he also showed that he just saw me as his best friend so there was no need in putting up false hope.

“Are you going to reply to his texts or are you going to bend the hell out of your phone,” Leo said startling me as I slapped him hard on his shoulder.

“Dude, stop reading my messages,” I said as he shrugged it off and said,

“You are being a baby. Besides I came here to tell you that you should prepare lunch. Astoria is starving and so am I.” He said rubbing his stomach as I rolled my eyes and said,

“You can just go out there and hunt rabbits. Why are you bugging me?” I glared at him but he just gave me a puppy look that I couldn’t resist and sighed again.

“Fine, I will prepare something. Now go back there and keep Astoria busy. Before she eats one of the dominoes or worse.” I said shooing him away before going back to my phone. I decided that I wasn’t going to give Tan an answer yet and dropped my phone. I walked into the kitchen and switched on the gas when I heard a shriek behind me and a glass shattered on the floor.

I quickly whirled around in shock, mistakenly and stepping my both feet on the glass but that wasn’t the big deal now. Astoria was looking squarely at the fire, as tears were rolling down her eyes. She seemed frozen and wasn’t moving.

“Is something wrong Astoria? Can you hear me?” I said snapping my finger as Leo rushed here and saw that my feet were bleeding and his eyes turned golden immediately.