CHAPTER 23

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Justin spent the whole day at the hospital with me by my bedside. Occasionally, doctors would come in and run a few small tests on me. Demi and Max came later in the day. They all spent the day with me until the night.

We were laughing all day while they were telling me stories of us together. I checked the time on my phone, which Demi gave back to me this afternoon. It was 9:46 at night.

Justin got up to talk with the doctors before leaving, while Max looked around my hospital room. Demi stayed at my bedside with me.

                “So are you ready for the surgery tomorrow?” she asked.

                I looked at her confused. “What surgery?”

                “Oh they didn’t tell you yet? The doctors are gonna perform surgery on you. If you don’t get this surgery, there’s not much of a chance that you’ll be able to return to normal.”

                “Oh… Yay?” I said.

                Demi laughed. “You know, Justin’s paying for it.”

                “All of it?”

                “Yep. I’m helping too, but he insisted paying the majority of it.”

                “How much is it?”

                “Around 20 grand.”

                “Wow! That’s a lot!”

                “Yeah, I know. But it’s worth it.” Demi said with a hug.

                “Thanks. He’d really do that for me? Pay that much?”

                Demi nodded. “I know right? He’s so generous though, you gotta admit. I think he’d do anything for you.”

                “He is really generous. He’ll been so kind to me all day. He even got me these.” I said pointing to the bouquet of roses.

                “AWWWW!!!” Demi gushed picking them up. “That’s so romantic!”

                “Oh, it wasn’t anything romantic. Just a feel-better gift,”

                “Are you sure?”

                “That’s what he said. Besides, he likes this other girl.”

                Demi looked confused. “Who?”

                “I don’t know, he won’t tell me her name,”

                Demi was confused, but then she smiled. “I think he’s talking about you.”           

                “What?” My eyes widened.

Justin… likes me?

                “I mean, obviously he’d want to keep it a secret from you and say it’s another girl. What else did he say about ‘her’?”

                “He just said that he and this girl both liked each other and that they had a thing going on, but since my accident, everything kinda changed between them.”

                “It’s you. I’m pretty sure. I mean, you and Justin, before your amnesia, did kinda have a thing—“

                “Wait. I liked Justin?” I said pointing myself.

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