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I was sitting on the comfortable bed, and I had my legs hanging as I devoured the food given by Jane. I had so much time to myself till I had healed since the day before when she took me out of the room. I mainly thought about how alpha and everyone found out about me sneaking out with Grey, and I was also thinking about him.
Sometimes I got lost in my thoughts while thinking so hard about the same thing, the same fact, and the same incident. And the maple syrup on the pancake dripped down to my lap without my knowledge. I took a big bite and swayed my legs at the delightful taste, and I was once again thinking about how I was going to face my pack members... will they hate me? Reject me? Taunt me more? Bully more? Look down at me?
I was brought back to my senses when I heard the door open and clicked closed. I craned my neck and saw Jane on her phone while twirling her hair's end with her free hand. She stood there for a while doing something on her phone, and after a few seconds, she tucked the phone into her pocket, and her attention was on me. I stared at her while trying my best to lick all the maple syrup around my mouth.
My tongue tried its best to reach as far as possible but eventually failed when Jane pressed a tissue on my lips.
"I can bring you more if you want," she said.
Suddenly I was thinking about why she was treating me well all of a sudden. Then I remembered it was because of my sibling, whom I never knew about. But deep down, I felt happy that I was getting all the care because of her. Then again, I wondered how it would've been if she was with me? What did she look like? And something told me she might've been someone kindhearted.
Jane sat next to me without another word and took out her phone again. As she went through doing this and that, I stared with my lips parted. I had seen phones a few times and used one when I had to take a group photo of some betas. But looking at the way her finger swiped here and there while typing letters, it amazed me how technology has improved without my knowledge.
I was definitely living under a rock all this time.
By the time she was done doing whatever, I was also done with the pancakes. I wiped my fingers with the tissues Jane gave, without licking them like a greedy one though I hoped to do so. But I didn't want to make her mad. So, being polite, I wiped all the dripped syrup and cleaned myself.
"Done?" she asked.
I nodded.
Then we were awkwardly staring at each other, obviously because of our past.
"Look. It's really awkward between us right now. I am not telling you to forget whatever I did to you, but I hope we can have a peace agreement between us." she said.
I looked at her, confused. It sounded as if we were enemies, going to be allies. She might've bullied me and mistreated me in many ways, but I never saw her as my enemy. I hated her with all my guts on some days, but I didn't fail to notice her good sides.
I got the paper that I used the day before from the bedside table. Then using the same pencil as before, I scribbled;
'Okay. We can be friends.'
She took a while to read my messy handwriting.
"Sure... By the way, do you like phones? I saw you staring." she said.
I shyly nodded and wrote;
'I don't know if I like them. I've never had one.'
"I can give you my old one if you want," she said.
'REALLY?!' I wrote in capital letters to show my surprise.
"Yep," she said.
Then she got down from the bed and walked over to her closet. She messed around and searched in there for a good whole minute while cursing under her breath for not keeping her closet in order. Then she returned to me with an old phone.
She handed it over to me, and I took it with both my hands as if it was the most amusing thing I'd ever seen. And no doubt, it was.
"I think it's charged. Let me show you how to use it." she again sat next to me.
And she started showing me how to switch the phone ON and OFF. Then she showed me where I could save other people's contact numbers and how to call someone. She showed me the process by dialling her new contact number. She also showed me where the camera was and where photos would be saved.
Suddenly all the information was too much for me.
"You can learn the rest as you use this, eventually," she said.
What amazed me was how everything was inside those small boxes called 'apps'. How could a small thing like that save so many things inside? I had no idea.
"I will teach you about these things sometime later, okay?" she said, and I nodded enthusiastically.
Then I pressed on the camera app, and it gave me the front camera. I squeaked when I saw my beaten-up self in there. I didn't know I looked that worse.
"See. You look like shit." Jane nonchalantly commented next to me.
I grinned and went close to her. Then I snapped a very ugly picture of both of us where she was glaring at me while I looked like a couch potato with a swollen face.
Then I went to where photos were being saved to look at the old ones taken by Jane. She didn't mind me and went scrolling through her phone.
I secretly went to the contact app and got the keypad. I glanced at Jane to make sure she wasn't looking.
Then I started typing the numbers I remembered from Grey's phone number. As I typed the whole thing, I counted the number of digits there, and it was complete. And I was grinning to myself. I sighed in relief as I was able to do it secretly.
"Don't save his number with his real name. Put something like umm... 'Mia' or 'Emily' or something. So others won't know." Jane suddenly said next to me.
I quickly hid my phone behind me, but too late. She had seen everything.
"You can't hide anything from me, buddy. You are under my care, under my supervision," she said, teasing me more.
I scowled and scooted away from her.
"Tell me if you need to talk to him. I can do the job." she offered, but I furiously shook my head.
"Why not?"
I started writing on paper.
'He asked me to call him only if it's an emergency. I don't want to scare him.'
Jane read the two lines again and again. I only guessed it for the way her eyes moved throughout. Then there was a second of comfortable silence.
"Do you believe he will be back for you?" she asked.
I nodded.
"I am happy you stupid one found a lover. You can finally get away from here, hmm?" she asked.
I faintly nodded again.
"It's okay. I know how exactly every omega feels. Sometimes I think about it too... but I can't help it. I was taught to hate you all. If there's going to be a change, it should start with me, from the younger generation of this pack. And not the old ones who think and try to fill the little one's brains with these tainting ideas."
'Thank you.'
"For what?"
'For thinking like that.'
"You are too naive. You know that, right?"
I nodded.