Sherlock Minter vol 4

Jerome

I ended up in an alleyway somehow, I don't remember how I got there but I remember standing there, looking at a wall, not really remembering anything. I just know that I stood there, trying to remember why I stood in the middle of an alley in London at 10AM. Especially since I hadn't slept tonight.

"It's alright Jerome, get home. You know nothing about Sofia Minter, you have never heard about Simon's little sister before" a calm voice said, and I just agreed. I had no idea who that Sofia Minter was, and who was Simon. The steps of the person left the alley, but I didn't register who it was or when. I just stood there trying to remember why I was in London. I lived in Florida, I think...

Much later I felt a hand on my shoulder, I turned around and met eyes with a brunette guy. He had green eyes that stared at me up and down, not saying a word. He then turned to a blond girl beside him.

"This is the one, right?" his deep voice asked and the girl nodded slowly before taking a few steps around me, looking at me. 

"He knows absolutely nothing" another voice said, I turned around to look at the guy to my left, this one had one brown eye and a green one, his hair was blonder than the girls and he had a tattoo on his neck, it looked a bit like a bird but I couldn't see it properly from here.

"This is why we need to stop Louise, do you understand how confused everyone will be when Jerome get's back to the house?" the girl asked the other two. Jerome... was that me? I recognized the name, but I wasn't sure. It felt like it could be me.

"Can you reverse it?" the first guy asked.

"No, not a chance. Louise is too powerful" the girl replied, stopping right in front of me. Her eyes was the bluest blue like the still water mirroring the sky. "Go find the other three, get them back to the house. Make them not ask questions, I'm gonna try get Jerome here to remember his own name" the girl's voice was strict, she seemed to be in charge. "I'll meet you in the park at 11" she then told the guys who then quickly disappeared, leaving me alone with her.

The girl were staring at me for a long time, looking very determined.

"What is your name?" she then asked me.

"J-Jerome?" I questioned, not at all sure if I was right, the girl didn't seem that happy but let it go. 

"That'll do, remember that" she told me getting closer to me.

"Why are you in London?" she then asked me motioning around her.

"I-I don't know" I stuttered, this girl was really scary.

"Great" she muttered before motioning to the ground. "Sit" she ordered me. I did as she said, to scared to do anything else.

"Do you know what I'm doing here?" I dared to ask her quietly, she sighed.

"You don't need to be afraid of me, I won't hurt you" she told me before sitting down as well. 

"You are in London to visit your friends, you travelled here with your best friend, and roommate, Mitch. At the airport you met up with Lachlan, who's from Australia, Rob, who is from Canada like Mitch, and Preston and Landon who are from Texas, they are cousins.

"Then you met up with the british friends, Simon and JJ and their daughter Melody" she explained to me, keeping it simple. But I knew none of the people she mentioned, why did she call that Mitch guy my best friend, I had never met him before. Had I?

"Who?" Was the only thing I said and she sighed and mumbled something about that Louise person she mentioned earlier.

"The people I mentioned is your friends. You've known them all for years. They will help you to remember the rest" the girl explained.

"And who are you?" I asked her, she made a grimace before shrugging like it was nothing, even though it definitely was.

"It doesn't matter Jerome, it's better to not know me for a little while" she told me before standing up, holding out a hand for me to take. "Now we have to get you home, you've missed breakfast and the guys must be really worried" she explained to me. I took her hand and let her take me home, she seemed to know where I was supposed to go, I had no idea where I was.