Faking

Chapter 36

For the past few days, I have been trying to help Grayson remember who I was.

They were all futile attempts and it only seemed to ignite more anger from him. As time went by, he grew more ignorant towards me and seemed to hate me more.

I was getting no where and I finally realized something. What if he really doesn't remember me? What if his memories never came back?

I shuddered at the thought, but I knew it could really happen. The doctor did mention that it was a possibility. This only seemed to down my mood more and all of my motive seemed to die down.

Since I was sitting outside the hospital, I decided to go back in and try to talk more with Grayson. That was the only thing that made me happy lately. I realized that I was starting to fall in love with him more as I talked to him. He only seemed to hate me more, but he didn't push me away anymore.

He did call me rude names, but I ignored him most of the time. He probably didn't mean them. Hopefully..

As I entered his room, I noticed how there was a girl sitting next to Grayson's bed. They were talking politely and laughing at something that seemed to be funny.

I didn't know who the girl was and tried to contain my anger. When I entered, they both turned around and Grayson said, "You're back again?"

I nodded and the girl stood up. She pulled out her hand and said, "Hi, my name is Olivia. I'm a volunteer at this hospital."

I took her hand and shook it lightly. I replied, "Oh, hi. I'm Madison."

She nodded at me and turned to look at Grayson. She smiled at him and said, "I will see you later Grayson!"

He nodded and waved at her.

I didn't want to, but I glared at how graceful and beautiful she was. She walked like she was doing ballet and her movement showed how gentle she was. She walked positively yet softly.

From the background, I heard Grayson ask, "What do you want this time? Are you here to tell me about 'our past' again?"

Suddenly, I realized something. I realized that no matter what I did, Grayson might not be able to remember me. He could have forgotten about me because he didn't want to remember. Ever. He would fall in love with someone else like that Olivia girl and never think about me. I tried to keep my emotions in check, but I could feel how weak I was becoming.

I shook my head gently towards Grayson and said, "No, I am actually here to tell you that you win. I tried everything for the past few days and nothing is working. I will leave you alone now."

I could feel my eyes welling up with my tears and quickly turned around to face away from him.

I could hear Grayson huff and he said, "Well, I'm glad you finally realized."

I turned around by his hurtful words and he seemed shocked by the emotions displayed on my face. I said, "Okay, I am so sorry that I burdened you these past few days! Maybe this whole thing meant nothing to you, but I tried my best to get my feelings to cross towards you! Obviously, you don't care enough."

I saw a lot of emotions cross through Grayson's eyes but he just said, "Leave." I nodded and said, "Gladly."

I slammed the door shut on the way out. I slid down the door and thought, 'What am I going to do now?'

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Grayson's POV:

I was very angry at that girl. She has been bugging me for the past couple days. Who was she to make me this angry?

At first, I thought she was just plain rude and stupid, but as she came more often.. I just couldn't get her out of my head. She's been in my head and wouldn't leave it alone. Whenever I thought of her, I would just get a headache and I hated it.

Some part of me felt like I knew her while the other part just didn't want to remember. Ugh.

I was still struggling with what she just said to me. Why was she giving up? Didn't she say she wanted to talk to me more? Get me to believe in 'our past'?

The door to my hospital room opened and Tristan walked in. He looked at me and he seemed to be furious. He said, "What did you say to Madison this time?!"

I didn't know why, but I could feel some sort of jealousy rising up when he cared about her like that.

I masked that emotion quickly and shrugged nonchantly. Tristan glared at me and said, "You are a jerk forgetting about her. You are a filthy jerk and a stupid ass."

I narrowed my eyes at him and said, "Why do YOU care? It's not like she's your girlfriend."

I heard Tristan murmur, "I wish she was." For some odd reason, this angered me more and I wanted to hit him.

Suddenly, Tristan looked at me with determination and said, "I didn't want to say this when you are in the hospital, but before you got into this accident.. you were working at the construction site for Madison. She doesn't know this because you wanted to keep it a secret from her. She truly cared about you and she wanted you to work things out with your father and step-mother. So, you did. You convinced your dad to work for his company and you got started with business. You gained a lot of insight and you actually made your father proud. Due to all the busy work, you didn't have time for Madison. You thought this was for her, but you only hurt her in the end. When she heard about you going to the hospital, she came all the way here forgetting about how mad she was at you. She cares about you so much, but how on earth did you forget about her? Don't you think you're a jerk?"

I consumed this new story told by Tristan. Something seemed to flicker in my brain. They were all images of something, but before they got clearer, everything blurred back.

My headache grew stronger and I let out an angry sound. Tristan suddenly looked worried and came over to me, but I shouted, "Get the fuck out!" He seemed to understand because he left as quick as he came.

The whole day this Madison girl wouldn't get out of my head. What is she doing to me?