When Two Different Worlds Collide (Demi Lovato)

7. If she remembers

Chapter Seven

Demi's POV

Do you ever have that odd feeling where you are awake but your eyes are too heavy to open? That's how I felt. I was lying on top of someone. Though who it was I wasn't quite sure until a couple of seconds later when they talked. "This is all my fault." He whispered. Alex's voice was merely a whisper so quiet and sounded so frail as if it was broken or as if he was trying so hard not to break down into tears in a second or two.

"No...No it isn't." Jack disagreed with Alex. His voice was further away from Alex's but I assumed that was because I was laying on top of Alex.

"I should have never took her to the beach Jack. What was I thinking?" Alex muttered the last part as if he didn't want anyone else to hear it.

"Dude this isn't like all the times when we were teenagers and we knew there was going to be danger but we did whatever we were going to do anyway. This isn't like the time where you got really cocky a few years back and almost got yourself killed. This isn't your fault. You didn't know what would happen." He continued. There was silence for a few minutes before Alex cleared his throat.

I then realised my eyes were slowly starting to open. I was suddenly aware of the immense pain inside my head. I cursed under my breath as I tried to sit up but the pain in my head was too intense. "What happened?" I asked as my eyes fully opened

"We had to sedate you." Sebastien replied to me.

"Why?" I asked him.

"Because you wouldn't stop screaming." My heart thudded against my chest as my mind reminded me of the little girl in the room being told her mother passed away. My heart hammered even more when I realised I'd seen that girl before. But where I did not know.

"I've seen her before." I thought to myself over and over again. I didn't realise I said my thoughts out loud until a very confused Alex spoke up seconds later.

"Seen who before Demi?" Alex asked me as my mind reminded me of a scene from my past.

Flashback

"Mummy? Why do I need to take these?" I asked as I pointed towards the pills on the table.

"They're for your night terrors honey." My mum explained.

The seven year old me didn't understand what a night terror was but it sounded very scary. So I brought the glass to my lips before I popped the pill in my mouth and took a gulp of water and swallowed the pill.

"And remember honey don't say a word or the man in the van will come and take you away from us and we don't want that now do we?" She asked.

I shook my head at her. "No mummy." I replied.

"Good girl." My mum replied. "Now go play."

Flashback ends

"I-I can't tell you." I told him. Now I was older I knew there was no man in a van coming to get me but something stopped me from telling him.

"Demi...You can tell me anything." Alex tries to say. But I shook my head at him refusing to say a word about the medication or the fact that as I got older they became more like flashbacks then night terrors. I didn't want him to think I was crazy or insane. I didn't want him to freak out and most of all I didn't want him to take me into a mental hospital to cure me.

"I can't tell you." I whispered. "I...just can't tell you."

Alex sighed finally giving in, knowing there was no point in trying to make me talk if I didn't want to. Alex tried to change the conversation.

"Okay...what made you scream?" Alex asked me.

"I don't know." I admitted and that was the truth. I didn't know why my mind forced me to have a night terror or why it happened while I was awake. In fact it wasn't a night terror if it happened while I was awake. So what happened? Why did it happen on the beach when that man came towards me? I didn't realise I was shaking until Alex put his arms around me.

"Demi what's going on?" Alex asked me a second later.

"I-I don't know. I really don't know." I told him.

"When's the last time you ate something?" Sebastien asked.

"Like a proper meal?" Sebs nodded his head

"My breakfast...yesterday." I replied to him

Maybe that's why all of this happened. I thought to myself.

"Rosie take us to the nearest food place." Alex ordered. I know it sounded weird and kind of strange but I hadn't realised we were in a car until then.

"Yes sir." Rosie replied a second later.

Unknown POV

"She can't stay with him!" I yelled at the men in front of me. One cleared his throat

"Excuse me sir but I don't think he's going to let her go so easily." He told me. "I hear he can be very protective of the ones he loves."

"And we've been trying to do that for the last few years!" Another voice shouted out

"She is completely in love with him and now she..." I cut the woman off by raising my hand.

"If you hadn't forgotten what your job was then we wouldn't be in this situation!" I reminded her.

"We knew what our job was!" The woman answered back.

"She went off to college like most kids do and fell in love with him. It's not our fault that she won't listen to us."

"No but it's your fault she hasn't been taking her medication. Do I need to remind you what could happen if she remembers? If she's around them for a long period of time. My guess is she's already having flashbacks because there's at least two month supply of them!" I snapped at them.

"Now find her! Kill her if you have to but make sure she never finds out who she really is!" I ordered.

"What about Alex? He's not just going to let her go."

"Then we find them both and if Alex knows we kill him as well."