That's All That I Remember

Chapter 2

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S BEEN RIDING A MOTORCYCLE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE TOUR!?" Ally exploded on Dinah.

"Exactly what i said... She gets her friends to rent them for her whenever we are in a town with them in it..." Dinah fiddled with her fingers.

"And you've kept this from us! Why would you not have let us known?" Ally was fuming.

"She asked me not to..." Dinah mumbled.

"SO?! SHE'S BEEN PUTTING HERSELF IN DANGER!" Surprisingly it wasn't Ally who blew up but Camila.

"Don't you think i know that?" Dinah groaned, frustrated with this round and round that has been going on since the other girls found out about Lauren's 'extracurricular activities'.

"Yeah well you have been letting her put herself in danger for the past month so..." Camila sassed.

"Hey! She has been careful, plus she said she's done this before!" Dinah glared at Camila.

"Alright you two, you need to calm down. Dinah go to your bunk Camila go to your own." Normani ordered the two younger girls.

"And we don't want to hear you two arguing for the rest of the night." Ally added in.

Without another peep both Dinah and Camila retreated to their own bunks while giving each other the stink eye, both girls secured in their bunks with their headphones in Ally and Normani are huddled in the living area of the bus. Meanwhile Lauren was just having the time of her life not caring about anything at the moment other than the wind whipping past her and the sound of the motorcycle roaring down the interstate.

"How are you feeling today?" The therapist asked Lauren as they sat in the living room area of the bus.

Instead of answering Lauren turned away from the therapist and looked as Dinah giving her hand a squeeze.

"Lauren answer her, i can't keep answering for you if you want to get better." Dinah squeezed her hand back while whispering to her sweetly.

Pleadingly Lauren looks at Dinah like a lost little puppy. Unable to say no to lost pup Lauren, Dinah turns her attention to the therapist giving her a look, silently the therapist nods her head.

"She's been doing a little better, she doesn't wake up every 3 hours from a nightmare anymore, just once a night so far this past week. Lets see what else, OH! she actually started opening up to the other girls. She went up to Ally yesterday morning and asked if they could go to waffle house. Of course Ally was ecstatic to go since she loves waffle house but i think she was happier that Lauren had asked her..." Dinah began rambling about Lauren as Lauren herself smiled slightly seeing that Dinah looked proud of her.

"Dinah as glad as i am that Lauren is getting along with the others i need to know how her memory is going." The therapist interrupted.

"Uhm, she doesn't retain anything from her dreams..." Dinah tries to recall a time where Lauren has ever mentioned remembering something. Although the therapist notices Lauren tense at Dinah's answer.

"That's not true is it Lauren, what have you remembered?" The therapist watched Lauren.

Too quietly Lauren whispers something too incoherent for either the therapist nor Dinah to hear.

"Lauren its ok, your safe, tell us." Dinah says smoothly.

"It- it c-comes in s-snippets, r-riding t-the m-motorcycle a-a-and the pain..." Lauren struggles to let out, her eyes shut tight as if in pain, remembering her vivid dreams, her memories.

"Shh, i got you Lauren." Dinah pulls the Cuban onto her lap and gently rocks her.

"That's enough for today, i'll see you all at the next stop." The therapist smiles sadly at the two girls before closing her notebook she had been writing in and leaving.

"Are you mad at me?" Lauren asked timidly from Dinah's lap.

"What? Why would i be mad?" Dinah pulls away a little to look down at the fragile girl in her arms.

"I didn't tell you about my memories..." Lauren mumbled playing with her fingers shyly.

"Of course i'm not mad, I could never be upset with you because you were scared." Dinah whispered into Lauren hair, gathering Lauren's hands into her own.

"Promise?" Lauren said her tiny baby voice.

"I promise." Dinah strokes her arm to soothe her.