What We've Become

Chapter Nineteen: Remember Me

Chapter Nineteen: Remember Me

Spencer's POV:

Who am I?

"Spencer, baby?" the mysterious and handsome stranger with dark hair and contrasting striking blue eyes asked her. Apparently her name was Spencer considering he's used it multiple times in previous sentences. "It's me, Cody. Do you remember who I am?"

Spencer slowly shook her head back and forth, and watched in bewilderment with certain levels of sympathy when Cody dropped his head into his lap and looked on the verge of tears. She didn't know why he was crying, but she felt a strange urge to try and comfort him.

"Spencer," another man came to introduce himself. "I'm Dr. Miller. Do you know why you're here?"

She silently shook her head again, but this time, there was a piercing pain that shot through the inside of her skull. She leaned forward to put her head in her hands and slightly groaned.

"Do you know where you are?" he asked another question while tilting her head up and checking her eyes with a small but immensely bright flashlight.

"No." This time, she spoke the word out loud, even though her voice was slightly hoarse, not wanting to hurt her head again.

"You're in a hospital," Dr. Miller began slowly, giving her time to absorb the news, putting the flashlight back in the shirt pocket of his dark blue scrubs. "You had a malignant tumor in your brain, and we operated on it roughly a week ago. We successfully removed the whole tumor, but because the brain tends to function haphazardly, you seem to have contracted retrograde amnesia. You were in a coma for almost eight days. The good news is you may get your memory back in a short time span like most of the other patients. The bad news is there's a chance that you may not get it all back at all."

After Dr. Miller finished his monologue, Spencer sat back in her hospital bed and tried to process all of the information she was just handed. It certainly was a lot.

There's so much about herself she'd like to know again like: What did she like to do for fun? Did she play any sports? What did she do for a living? Where did she live? What was her full name?

Most importantly; Who is the stranger, or Cody as she was told, next to her? What was his significance in her life? Did he mean anything to her? Did SHE mean anything to HIM? She must've if he stuck around all this time.

"Thank you," she found herself telling the doctor.

He simply nodded curtly before exiting the room to give Spencer and Cody some privacy.

Spencer watched surreptitiously as Cody ran a hand through his hand and suddenly looked at her. She turned her gaze away, slightly embarrassed for being caught staring. But who could blame her?

"Hi," she greeted weakly with a small wave of her hand.

This caused a small smile to break out onto his lips before he returned her simple gesture with a wave of his own. "Hello."

"So you're...Cody, right?" Spencer tried, hoping her short-term memory hadn't failed her.

"Yes," he chuckled. "The one and only Cody Henry, at your service."

Spencer giggled before asking him what was on her mind. "Can you tell me anything about who I am? I wish I could remember, but it seems like the old brain just isn't doing it for me."

"It's not that old," he waved off her side comment. "Let's see, where do I begin? First off, your name is Spencer Reyes. You are twenty-three years old, and last year, you graduated Harvard with your medical license - at the top of your class. You work in this hospital as a general surgeon. You live in your own house not too far away from your place of work in this lovely city of Manhattan in New York, by Central Park."