Why didn't you let me know?

Ray has been unconscious since we brought him in last night. According to the nurse I asked, he was injected with wolfsbane. It was a miracle he survived without any effect. Well, we can't talk about that until we know he's okay.

As for the female Omega, though she wasn't injected with anything, she was stabbed and beaten.

No one knows exactly what happened to her, so we are all waiting for her to regain consciousness. This way, we will know what happened to her.

Most of the teachers claimed they might have been the victim of the man who has been kidnapping Omegas. It's easier to believe they took Ray since he's red-haired. However, the same can't be said for the female Omega, since she has black hair.

Could it be that the kidnapper is back to randomly taking any Omega they set their eyes on?

"He will be okay." Sky placed his hand on my shoulder. "Ray has always been a fighter. You don't have to worry about him."

Storm, who was sitting next to me, cast dark glares at Sky, who pretended like there was no one else in here aside from the three of us — Ray, him and me.

I can't tell why Storm decided to stay here with me. It came as a shock when he offered to take turns in monitoring Ray during the night —after the nurses administered treatments to him.

The only time he left my side was when he returned to his dorm to have a bath. We were lucky that this happened on a weekend. Else, the teachers would have been breathing down our neck for missing classes.

Sky only came over in the morning, when he heard the news from the students. No one knows how the others got to hear about it. But they did. Before the sun fully rose, almost all the students at the Academy heard the news.

"Brys? Are you okay?" He gently shook my shoulder.

"Hmm." I forced a smile, "the nurses said he will regain consciousness before the sun goes down." I glanced out the window —at the sun that was still shining bright, "there's still time."

Yet, I can't help but feel a certain fear at the thought of losing my friend. I held his right hand with my left, and gently pressed it, hoping the slight pain might cause him to open his eyes.

His hand has gotten warm, much to my relief. Last night, aside from his stomach and chest, the rest of his body was cold. But now, his body is as warm as mine.

"Let's take a walk, it will help cheer you up," Sky suggested.

I shook my head at the offer, "I can't leave him here. Should I be the one in the same predicament, Ray won't leave me."

Though I've not known him for a long time, I feel closer to him than to the friends I have on Earth. He's one of the few individuals I know who will do anything to help me out in my desperate times —Just like Phillip.

Sky nodded, "then, I will stay here with you until he regains consciousness."

Storm shot a glare at him, but he didn't so much as blink. And that was how we spent the second night. I sat on a stool next to Ray, while the two glaring werewolves sat on either side of me, each trying to out-glare the other.

With the two werewolves beside me, it was difficult for me to think about Ray and the possibility that he might not wake.

I don't know for how long I sat straight on the stool before I slept off, with Ray's palm in mine —don't judge, I was afraid he might be taken right from under my nose.

***

"Brys?"

I felt a hand on my hair. It was soft and soothing. I purred, hoping the hand won't cease running through my hair.

"Brys!"

I was startled from sleep. With my breathing a bit fast, I glanced around the place. The two chairs, Sky and Storm sat on, were empty. It seemed they had returned to their dorm.

However, that wasn't what caught my eye. It was Ray.

"Ray?" I sat up from the stool and crouched over him. I placed my hand on his cheeks, to be certain I'm not dreaming about him being awake.

"Can you help me up?" He asked with a grimace.

"Sure!" I placed my hand on his back and helped him sit up before I enveloped him in a bone-crushing hug. "Don't even do this to me, ever!" I sobbed.

The tears that refused to fall days ago, fell in quick succession. They rolled down my cheeks, and to his back, soaking through the material of his clothes.

"What's wrong? You are making it seem like I died, or something like that." He chuckled, sounding so much like the Ray I know.

"Of course, you did!" I released him from the hug and placed both hands on his shoulders. "You scared me, Ray. Don't ever do that again!" I hugged him once more.

I don't think I've been this scared all my life —not even when Phillip had an appendix operation. At least with Phillip, I know he will survive, but with Ray, I don't know the effects of the drug he was fed. It was among my fears.

"I won't." He sighed, "I apologize for making you worried about me, Brys. Trust me, it wasn't intentional."

"Yes!" I sat back on the stool and took his hand in mine, "what happened that night, Ray?"

He sighed, looking tired. There were circles around his eyes despite being asleep for close to two days. He sighed once more before he locked his eyes with mine. "I was caught by those kidnapping Omegas."

A gasp left my mouth at his words. I opened and closed my mouth, but no sound came out. I was shocked by what I heard. It made me lose all coherent thought.

"I went to the general library to browse the assignment the teacher gave. I was—"

"You've been sneaking out of the dorm every night for days, and that's because of an assignment?" I raised a doubting brow at him.

"Okay, the truth is this. I was trying to locate the kidnapped Omegas —"

"Bloody hell!" I hit my right palm on his bed. "You were trying to locate the Omegas, and you didn't tell me about that?"

I stared hard at him. I had this urge to slap him hard, but I restrained myself from doing so. He just woke up, I can't put him back in Coma.

"I know you will feel bad, that was why I never wanted to tell you. You are uh… Reckless. I was afraid you might get hurt should you—"

"Damn hell! Do I look like a damsel to you? Who the hell even sowed such a thought in your pea-sized brain? If only I had known, I wouldn't have ventured out to look for you! I would have left you there, to die!" I rose from the stool and paced the floor.

The thought that Ray will attempt to do such a task alone, made me mad.

"But it's for the best. Had we both been out there, who would have rescued us?" He smiled, trying to ease the tension between us.

"For the best?" I fumed, pissed at him.

"Had you been the one, you wouldn't have let me know, Brys. You would have tried to protect me from the shadows, and that was what I did." He yawned, partially closing his eyes as he watched me.

"But…." I trailed off.

What he said just now is the truth. Had I been the one in his shoes, I wouldn't have let him know —I would have protected him from everything.

"I'm glad to be okay, Brys." He smiled at me, "I wouldn't have been caught though had it not been for the Omega, who was at the wrong place at the wrong time." He sighed, "she almost got us killed."

"She?" I immediately turned towards the bed the female Omega was lying on when I slept, but the bed was empty.

The only indication that someone slept there was the rumpled bed, and the pillow kept in the middle of the bed.

"Where is the Omega?"