The End Of Summer

Chapter 7

Sage
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Me and Scarlett race towards the room, Galen leading the way.

She is awake.

Aspen is awake.

She will get to live more.

I push ahead of Galen with Scarlett on my heals and burst through the door.

Andrew is staring shocked at Aspen, who looks more confused than I had ever seen the so intelligent girl.

Immediately I am sobbing, gasping for breath and running towards her. "ASPEN! Your okay! Oh gosh, I thought you weren't going to make it." I cry into her shoulder.

Scarlett is hugging her too but at least she isn't crying.

She smiles a little and attempts to joke. "Too bad your still breathing." Scarlet says.

Aspen sits crying and hugging us "oh my gosh... What happened. Wait Scarlett what happened to your hair?"

"You were sitting on the rock with Andrew and you fell off." I answer her.

"Who is that?"

It's amazing how 3 words can make your blood into ice, your heart drop in your chest, your breath shake, and your arms weak.

My best friend doesn't know who her first love was.

"A-a-Aspen? Don't you remember andrew?" Scarlett asks shakily, I don't think I had ever seen Scarlett so shaken before.

"No... She doesn't remember me." Andrew interrupts. "She remembers that I hit her with a door and that's it." He says slowly.

At that moment two people burst into the room. One is a lady with short red hair, and the other a bald guy.

"Ohhhh my baby!!! Oh my gosh!" The woman runs forward, embracing Aspen, who begins to cry.

"Mom! What happened?" She sobs.

The room is already crowded when the doctor walks in.

"Wow, fan club! Alright, I'm going to need everyone that isn't family to leave the room for a moment please." He says.

I slowly leave the room with everyone else except Aspen's parents.

We wait in the hall for what seems like hours until the doctor comes out.

"Alright I know your all wondering what happened to your friend, she has hit her head quite hard, and damaged her memory of probably the last few weeks. It may come back tomorrow... It may take a few weeks, it also might take a few years."

So she remembers us... But not all that had happened in the last week or 2 or 3... She didn't remember how close we already are, she doesn't remember the party or Andrew or Nathan's cheating, or really much from camp at all.

I can't believe what I am hearing, I was speechless.

Scarlett is my voice. "Can we go talk to her alone?" She asks quietly.

"If that's alright with her parents." Says the doctor, then he walks away.

Scarlett beats me to the door, making her way in.

"Can we talk to Aspen please? Alone?" Scarlett asks the women that was Aspen's mom.

"Who are you?" The dad asks.

"Umm... We are her friends... I just want to know what she remembers of us." I ask.

The dad narrows his eyes, then laughs, which honestly shocks me. "Sure, honey." He says and leads his wife out.

I brush off how weird her dad is and go to stand by Aspen.

"So... Um what all do you remember?" Scarlett asks.

"A lot actually," she says. "Basically everything except this Andrew kid. I remember the party's and Nathan and everything, I just don't remember that kid." She explains.

Well... That isn't confusing. "But how? The doctor said anything in the last 3 weeks would be forgotten." I explain.

This seems to actually stump Aspen. But her mind is sharp and quick and soon I see something come to her. "Maybe anything that like was new in the last 3 weeks. I remember everything about you guys because I knew about you before 3 weeks ago, Sage, you were already dating Nathan so I knew about him." She explains.

That actually makes sense.

"Ok... So he said your memory might come back tomorrow or it could take... A while, so me and Sage need to think of things that might jog your memory." Scarlett says.

"Yeah! Like sometimes I don't remember my dreams but then I see something that was in my dream and I remember it! That could help right?" I ask.

"Maybe, but guys it might just take a while, and until then I'll be fine. As long as I have my friends here with me. I don't know what I would do without you guys. I didn't have a lot of friends back home." She confesses.

"Yeah... Neither did I." I say shortly, I don't want to take her moment by explaining the drama in my life, and I think somewhere deep inside me I think they will judge me.

I know they wouldn't, they aren't those kinda people. But then again... I have been wrong before.

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Ok I know it was a longer wait... Sorry, please understand that we have now started school and so updates will be slower... We will try to keep up but we are just busy... Thanks everyone for reading