Chapter 2: Mason Snaps
I woke up the next morning by my phone ringing, I groaned rolling over, I open my eyes and reach for my phone, my head pounding I answered it,
“Hello?”
“What the fuck Alexa you were supposed to come home last night,” Mason begins to say.
“First of all I told you I was going out for the night, your not my father, your my boyfriend, and if you keep it up I’m leaving,” I reply sternly.
“You didn’t tell me shit!” He screams.
I hang up my phone, get up, grab my things and leave Laurel’s, I drive back home to Mason’s sighing, I did have much of my things at his place, it was always like that though, I change and get ready for work, ignoring Mason as he yells,
“Alexa fucking answer me!”
I look at him, “I have to get to work, I’ll deal with you later.”
I leave with him still screaming at me, my phone chimes, I peeked at it seeing a text from Nate,
NF<3- Hey Alexa, it’s Nate, I just wanted to check on you, how are you doing?
Me- I’m okay, I’m on my way to work now, Mason’s losing it, I’m sure there will be a huge fight when I get home tonight.
NF<3- I’m still in town, if something happens text or call me I’ll come pick you up.
Me- Okay Nate.
NF<3- I mean it Alexa, I’ll be there in within 5 minutes if you need me.
Me- I believe you Nate.
NF<3- Good have a nice day at work
Me- Thank you.
I drive to the hospital, park, get out and head into the hospital, where Daryl pulls me aside as soon as I walk into the doors,
“Alexa what happened to you?”
“Nothing, I got in a fight.” I reply, lying to him.
“With who Alexa? Please don’t say Mason again....” Daryl says looking at me.
He always had a thing for me, I just have been with Mason and Daryl knows everytime Mason hurts me, I don’t have to tell him, he can tell when I lie to him,
“It was Mason, he’s lucky he’s not in jail forever.” I say as I clock in.
Daryl pulled me into a hug, “If he does it again, come live with me, I have that spare room still, I never got a roommate.”
I hug back, “I’ll think about it okay?”
He nods, “Okay.”
My pager goes off, “Gotta go they need me.”
“Okay page me if you need me for anything.” Daryl replies as his pager goes off.
I nod, “I will.”
I took off, running through the hospital halls towards my first patient, a 4 year old boy who fell and broke his arm, I walk into the room, there’s complete chaos and everyone’s screaming,
“You shouldn’t have left him alone Tim!” A lady shouts.
“Now Helen, kids get hurt sometimes, calm do-,” hes cut off by Helen.
“Don’t tell me to calm down! I’m not the one letting him climb tre-” she says
I butt in then, “Alright enough yelling! It’s not going to make us help your son any faster or better with you screaming!”
Helen shuts up and looks at me,so does Tim, Helen opens her mouth,
“Who are you?”
“Your son’s nurse, I will make sure he is okay, now I need you guys to leave the room so we can help your son.” I say calmly.
Helen tries to protest but Tim says, “Hunny let’s go, she’s right, she has a degree we can trust her to fix our son.”
With that they leave and we work on there son, the rest of my work day was hell page after page, a few patients got violent, putting hands on me, one shoved me so hard my hand went through the ER trauma room window. My day sucked and I was fighting the hangover I had, pretty good. When it was time to go home, I clocked out and headed home in my car. I parked and got out, went inside, and closed the door behind me, Mason was in the living room, he looked up when I walked in,
“Bitch you’re late,” he says.
“No I’m not,” I reply putting my purse on the counter.
He gets up, stumbles over to me, I can smell the alcohol, I scrunch my face up,
“Yes you are! You should have been home 3 hours ago!” He hisses.
I roll my eyes, “I was at work!”
He stepped towards me, “Yeah sure.”
I looked at him in disbelief, “You’re fucking insane.”
He slurred words at me, “Bitch, I am not!”
Then everything changed, he became a monster, he grabbed me by the throat and dragged me upstairs, chocking me, I gasp for air, unable to catch any, I try to kick him, which my foot connects with his leg, pissing him off more, he throws me against the hallway wall, I cough as a begin to get air again, I push myself up with my hands and stand up as Mason closes the distance between us, he grabs my arm, squeezing it tightly, he backs me towards the stairs and as I’m at the edge of the step,
“Have a nice fall cunt,” he says then pushes me down the stairs.
I fall backwards, tumbling down the stairs, I land at the bottom, trying to breath as I fell intense pain, I push myself up and grab my purse, I push passed Mason who tries to grab me but I shove him hard enough he falls down the stairs himself, I run into Mason’s room and quickly pack my stuff, then run to the bathroom and pack my bathroom stuff, once I have all my things, which wasn’t much since I didn’t leave much at his house, I grabbed my purse and keys, putting my stuff into my car as Mason grabs me and drags me back into the house, I fight back, he throws a punch, connecting to my eye, bruising it badly, I knee him in the nuts and shove him as hard as I can, he stumbles backwards and falls to the ground, I bolt out of the house, get in my car and drive off, pulling my phone out of the cup holder, I hit Nate’s number, tears streaming down my face,
“Alexa?” Nate says.
“Nate, he did it again,” I sob as I drive.
“Alexa he hurt you again?” Nate asks.
“Yeah, I had trouble getting away, but I’m driving,” I say
“Alexa come to Luxury Suites, I’m in room 507, tell the front desk to give you a key, I said it was okay, do you have your stuff that you kept at his place?” Nate asks
“Yeah I packed it all, why?” I ask.
“Bring it up with you, you can stay with me for awhile, I’ll sleep on the couch you can have the bed.” Nate replies.
“You don’t have to do this, I have friends I can stay with Nate,” I reply as I drive towards the hotel.
“I want to help you Alexa, please let me, I know you have friends you can stay with, but stay with me, I’ll get you through this differently then they can, I’m an expert at all things bad, my life hasn’t been a cake walk,” Nate says.
I hesitate before I reply, “Fine I’ll stay with you, I’ll try things your way, but if they don’t work out, I’m going to my friend’s Daryl’s.”
“Deal, give me a week, if things aren’t going good, your free to leave, but please give me a week to try to help you,” Nate says.
“Fine, I’ll be there in a few minutes, I’m getting on the highway now,” I say.
“Okay see you soon Alexa,” Nate says.
“Okay Nate,” I reply.
We hang up, I put my phone playlist to a song Conor Maynard made a cover of,
I sang along as I drove down the highway, after about 10 minutes I get off of an exit and head towards the hotel, I park, grab my stuff and get out. I walk into the hotel, walk to the front desk,
“Hi, Nate Feuerstein is expecting me, he told me to ask for a key to 507,” I say to the lady behind the desk.
“One moment please, miss...?” She says.
“Alexa,” I reply.
“Miss Alexa, let me call him,” she says.
She makes a call you to Nate’s room,
“Of course Mr. Feuerstein, ” she replies before hanging up.
She types into her computer for a moment, swipes a key card, then hands me it,
“There you go Alexa, Nate’s waiting for you, the elevators to the left will take you to his floor,” she smiles.
“Thank you,” I say looking at her name tag, “Marley.”
She smiles, “You’re welcome have a nice day and enjoy your stay.”
“Thank you again.” I reply before walking towards the elevators.
I press the button, wait for it to come down, I step on, hit the number 5 and wait as it goes up, I get off and look at the doors until I find 507, I put the key into the card reader and it turns green. I turn the knob and push the door open, reveling a huge room, that looks like an apartment, I look around in awe as I close the door, I hear footsteps, then see Nate standing in shorts, no shirt and barefoot, towel drying his hair, seems he just took a shower. I stood there in my scrubs that had blood on them now from the fight with Mason, Nate dropped the towel when he saw what I looked like he came over to me and took my stuff from me placing it on the floor, he took my hand, leading me towards the bathroom, he pulls me inside and makes me sit on the edge of the tub, he sits on the closed toilet lid, he grabs a first aid kit and cleans me up, then grabs a clean towel,
“Shower, then we’ll talk after ordering some room service okay?” Nate says looking at me.
I nod at him, “Okay.”
He walks out of the bathroom, I undress and step into the shower, I hear footsteps come in and then leave again, I wash up and step out, forgetting I didn’t bring clothes into the bathroom, I go towards the door and stop when I see clean clothes on the sink, but the only thing that was mine was the bra and underwear, I got dressed pulling on the t-shirt that was way too big on me, but covered my ass, it went halfway down my thighs and was one of Nate’s shirts, it had NF written on it, I smiled and put my dirty scrubs in the empty hamper in the bathroom. I walked out, Nate was leaning against the counter scrolling through his phone, he looked up for a moment, we locked eyes and I blushed deep red, he smiled,
“Wow,” was all he said.
I look at him and walk towards him, “What?”
“You....your really gorgeous and you look beautiful.” He replies.
I blush more, “Thank you Nate, but I’m still technically taken.”
“So? I bet he doesn’t compliment you or do anything nice for you,” Nate replies.
“He doesn’t, he used to, but it stopped about a year ago, he started drinking more, partying a lot, not coming home, probably cheated to,” I reply looking at the ground.
I feel Nate closer to me, I feel his hand gently touch my face, I jump and back away, Nate looks at me,
“Easy, I’m not going to hurt you Alexa, I’m not like that,” Nate says.
I stay silent, then my phone rings with the song R U Crazy by Conor Maynard,
Nate looks at me,
“Is that?” He says.
I nod, “Yep, like clockwork, we fight, I leave, he calls at some point later.”
“Answer it, put it on speaker,” he says.
I nod, answer the call placing it on speaker,
“What the fuck do you want Mason?”
" For you to get the fuck back here you little slut! I’m not done with you! You’re an ungrateful, little cheating bitch who needs to learn how to give it up to her man!” Mason yells.
“Excuse me? I never fucking cheated on you, you piece of shit!” I yell back.
Then I hear a females voice chime in, “Maybe if you gave it up, he wouldn’t do what he does.”
I recognize the voice, “Shut the fuck up Tara, or I’ll fuck you up.”
“Oh I’m so scared,” she replies.
“You should be bitch,” I say as Mason says,
“I’m going to go fuck Tara again, see you when you get home Alexa.”
“I’m never coming back Mason, it’s over, go abuse Tara maybe shell deal with your pathetic ass.” I say then hang up, blocking his number.
Nate looks at me, I don’t speak, I can’t even think straight, Nate just hands me the room service menu, along with a pad of paper and a pen, I silently look through it and write down what I want, then grab my wallet, pulling out money, Nate looks at me,
“I got it Alexa, put your money away.”
“Are you sure? I have enough money,” I say.
“Yes I’m sure, I’m rich, I got this, you just be you.” He says with a smile.
I smile back as he phones in room service, then pulls me to the couch, making me sit, he hands me the remote,
“Pick anything,” he says.
I smile and hit the Netflix button, I scroll through, finding Z Nation, I put it on the first season first episode, Nate smiles,
“I’ve been wanting to start this.”
I smile, “Well we can watch it together I heard it’s amazing and has some funny parts too.”
Nate smiles, “Awesome.”
We watch it until food arrives, we pause it and I grab us each a soda from the fridge, then sit on the couch, restarting the show as Nate sits down, handing me my plate. We eat, then watch Z Nation for a bit, I end up falling asleep on the couch with my head rested against the arm of the couch.
Nate’s POV:
I look over at Alexa, she’s passed out, her head against the arm of the couch, I pause the show, get up, pick her up and bring her to the room, laying her down, I cover her up, kiss her on the forehead and quietly leave the room, leaving the door open so I can see her, I lay on the couch and put Live PD on TV. I fall asleep about an hour later.
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