Chapter 8 - Jared's Guilt
Jared sat staring at Janel…She'd been out for 3 days…Her hand had gotten infected and was slowly making its way up her arm…Emily and Sam cleaned her wound out for a straight hour and then carefully sewed it up and bandaged it and started her on penicillin shots every 6 hours.. She'd had a bad fever for two days and the third is when it finally broke. Jared was holding her left hand in both of his…He hadn't left her side at all…He had been sleeping in the chair or on the floor next to her…He had to be there when she woke up.
Emily walked into the room and the morning sunlight was shining through the window and she walked over and put her hand on Jared's shoulder and said, "Don't worry so much…She'll be okay…We just have to be patient and let the infection get cleared out." Jared said, "I can't lose her Em. I just can't." Emily said, "Jared…She's gonna be okay."
Jared said, "Emily…I phased on her, I cut her hand, she could've died from the infection…She's never gonna forgive me for this…And to make matters worse I imprinted on her…I can't take it back and I can't do it again…I'll be doomed to love her forever even if she never wants to be with me again."
A soft voice said, "Why do you have to be so dramatic Jared?" Jared and Emily looked at each other and then over to the bed and Janel's eyes were open slightly. Emily said, "I'm gonna go get Sam." Jared moved over to sit on the bed next to Janel and touched her cheek and said, "You scared me Janel I thought I was going to lose you." Janel said, "I'm not going anywhere."
They were quiet for a minute and Janel opened her eyes more and was looking into Jared's eyes and said, "So…You're a wolf huh…And what exactly is imprinting?" Jared laughed his nervous squeak laugh and said, "Well…It's kind of an involuntary process for help wolves to find soul mates…When a werewolf finds someone he loves and is destined to be with, we get this weird feeling that we really can't explain that lets us know were supposed to be with that person forever."
Janel said, "And you did that to me? You want to be with me forever? But why…I'm no body special." Jared said, "You are someone special…To me…If not to anyone else…then definitely to me." Jared's thumb went over Janel's bottom lip softly.
Janel's left hand came up and touched his cheek, while her right hand carefully came up and went around his shoulders and pulled him lower to her…she could feel the warmth of his chest through his t-shirt and then her t-shirt. Janel's left had left his cheek and snaked its way up Jared's shirt sleeve feeling his muscle tighten under the skin as her hand slid up further and gripped his shoulder and pulled him lower as their lips slowly met.
Sam opened the door and saw the two kissing on the bed and quickly closed the door…Emily said, "What's wrong?" Sam said, "Wrong door." And shook his head and walked away. When Emily peeked in the room she giggled and re-closed the door again.
Jared pulled back and said, "You wanna get up?" Janel nodded and said, "I feel like I've been asleep for years." Jared said, "3 days…And Janna said she's going to kick your ass for going into the woods alone." Janel giggled as Jared stood up and helped Janel sit up…She moved around and pulled the covers back and noticed all she had on was a t-shirt. Janel said, "Uh…Where are my clothes?" Jared said, "There was blood all over them so Emily took them and washed them then put you into one of Sam's t-shirts."
Jared walked over and grabbed her jeans, tank top and pull over hooded sweatshirt. And helped Janel get dressed…She pulled her hair over her left shoulder and walked out of the room with Jared. Sam and Emily had left a note about going grocery shopping. Jared and Janel spent the remainder of the day walking around and talking…Turns out Janel did forgive Jared…She was just only freaked out a little because of him phasing in front of her.