Remember me

1- alarm clock

I'm awoken by the sound of a constant beep coming from the left of me. I whine and lift my heavy arm to turn off my alarm that I don't remember setting on my phone. I groan in annoyance when the beeping doesn't stop. Shouldn't it have stopped by now?

Unless my mother has bought me an actual alarm clock just to annoy me because she knows that as soon as school starts back up, I'm not going to be able to get out of bed willingly.

When my hand touches what I think is my annoying alarm clock, that I feel like has been going off in my head for hours, I hear a sudden gasp.

"Erica!" I recognise the voice as my mothers, and I hear heavy footsteps coming towards me, then my bed slowly dips, and a warm soft hand holds my own.

I realise that I haven't opened my eyes yet, so I slowly peel my eyes open and start squinting as the bright, fluorescent, white lights flood my vision that gives me a slight pain at the front of my head.

I quickly close them again to try and relieve the pain that is starting to reach the rest of my head and becoming unbearable.

"Hi honey, are you feeling okay?" my mom asks me as she sees me slowly open my eyes.

"I-I'm...feeling fine," I say but it comes out strained, like my voice hasnt been used in years, "actually, can you get me a glass of water and some pain killers, please, but I don't want it in a normal cup, can I have it in my special cup please?"

Ahh my special cup. It's really more of a mug than a cup, and to think of it, it's not really that special other than the fact that it is shaped like Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty. I think I has some sentimental value to it but at the moment I couldn't tell you what it is.

I rack my brain to try and remember where I got it from but the memory doesn't seem to erupt in my mind, I probably bought it from a shop that I went to on holiday, but when I think about it I don't know why I would have bought it if I've never watched the show.

"Honey, actually-" before she can finish I hear the door open and a soft voice that I don't recognise start speaking.

"Hello, miss Monroe, it's nice to see you awake and well, how are you feeling?" the man speaks as I try to pry my eyes open again to see who it is.

As my eyes adjust to the artificial light I take in my surrounding and realise that I'm not in my nice, warm bed with my many pillows and my soft cream coloured carpet and instead I'm in what looks like a hospital room.

The mattress is firm and I only have half the amount of pillows on the bed as I do at home and the floor is a white linoleum with duck egg blue and silver, what you could call, crumbs sprinkled evenly that is starting to peel at some of the edges of the squares.

My face grimaces as I look at the floor, why would anyone choose that flooring? I think to myself before I realise that the main reason why I was opening my eyes again was to see the mysterious face that accompanies the voice that just asked me how I was feeling.

Wait, my brain starts to register where I am. I'm in a hospital. Why am I in a hospital? Have I had an accident? Was it a car accident? Are the passengers I was with okay?

My thoughts are interrupted as my mother speaks again, "Erica, honey are you there?" she says as she waves a hand in front of my face to take me from my thoughts. Once my head stops circling with questions, I realise I was staring at the doctor who I haven't given an answer to.

"I'm okay, I feel okay, why- what-" my head clouds with more questions as I repeat the same answer I gave my mother a few moments ago.

At least I think it was a few moments ago, unless I've lost all construct of time and every second that goes by is actually a minute and my body is going ten times faster than everyone else's, and that if I'm in hospital right now, it is because they've just performed a surgery on me to test a new time travelling idea they have been working on for years, and by they I mean the undercover aliens working at Harvard University, who will soon enough take over the planet and call it their own, and we, as a human race have to ship off a new Adam and Eve to start new life on a new planet.

My mind wanders off again and I don't realise that the doctor has left after saying he will give me some space and for my mom to answer any questions I have.

Simple enough to say. Its hard when you have too many questions floating around in your head and you can't choose which one to ask first.

My face contorts as I am trying to think of what to ask and my mom notices my struggle and answers one of my many questions for me.

"Erica, you were in a car accident."

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A/N: first chapter, done. thank you for giving this book a chance, I hope you keep on swiping! it would be much appreciated if you can vote and comment please and leave any thoughts on what you think so far.