Can you Remember? #Wattys2016

Chapter 6: Late At Night Part 1

UPDATED: SEPT 6, 2020

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Later that night, I lay wide awake in my bed wondering why everyone has been acting so weird towards me. The popular girls had talked to me like I was one of them (which I wouldn't be in a million years), my mom is acting as if she had no idea of who I am, and my small group of friends are more protective and questioning since my accident. To make matters more confusing than they already were, I still don't know what to do about the whole Sage situation. One part of me wants nothing to do with him and to just stay no longer knowing who he is while the other part doesn't and wants to give him a chance. Of course I shouldn't be thinking like that; new people I end tend to not mix well. For all I know everything they claim could just be a lie, and they're stringing me on for their own selfish purposes. I just really want to remember what happened in the last seven months or so, but I can't no matter how hard I try. It's frustrating and makes my brain hurt trying to figure things out. I know I should give it a rest for now and just unravel it piece by piece, but I just can't help wanting to have answers right this instance.

My thoughts dispel and my train of thoughts are interrupted by a soft rapping sound coming from my window on the far side of my room. I thought I was imagining things at first and stayed quiet straining my ears to see if the sound would happen again. When nothing happens, I assume I just made the whole thing up because I was tired, but it came through again. I follow the sound with my head and spy a figure peeking through my window. I throw my pillow at it and jump up on my bed ready to swing another pillow.

"Kade can you open up the window? It's me Sage; I want to talk to you for at least a minute," the voice from the window says. I pad over softly on my tile floor as I make my way to the window and look downwards. The guy named Sage was holding on to the silver pipe that ran down the length of the house and by the window with one of his hands gripping the ledge. He then holds out one of his big hands for me to grab onto and pull him into my room, but I didn't know if I really should. I mean was it in my best interest? Seeing my dubious expression, he says, "Please Kade. I just miss you, and I want to talk to you and hear your voice." Hesitantly, I reached out for his hand and heaved him upwards. I knew I would probably regret this decision and would beat myself over it later, but my curiosity had been peaked.

"What did you want to talk about?" I asked him once he was fully in my room and managed to catch his breath. Turning my back on him, I walk over to my fluffy and nice smelling bed and flop face down on it. I still clutched my pillow in my hands in case he tried to do anything stupid while he was in my room. I may be the type of person to do stupid shit with my friends, but letting a strange boy in my room in the middle of the night was not something I normally do. Sage then walks to the corner and sits in the banged up navy blue bean bag chair that I found at a garage sale down the street before he starts to speak again.

"To be honest with you, I didn't think you would actually let me in your room, but anyway I'm grateful for it. I wanted to, no needed to, talk with you to get you out of my head. Anytime James, Ann, or I try to call or text you, you ignore us and don't even attempt to listen. I know it's hard for you because you did lose some of your memory, but it's hard for me too. I miss you, or the Kade I'm familiar with. This way that you're acting, this isn't the way you were when you were around me. It's concerning to see you behave like this."

"What do you mean by 'familiar' with?" I ask suspiciously, narrowing my eyes at the last part of his little improv speech. How else was I supposed to act when this was who I was. I wouldn't have just changed the way I was to appease someone else wouldn't I?

"You were like this when I first met you, but your personality changed after a while of knowing each other. I guess you don't remember it, but I mostly knew the changed you. Even so, I still know the you that you are acting like right now."