Amnesia // Luke Hemmings

Chapter 19

*Luke's P.O.V.*

I wipe my eyes and nose one more time before I'm able to tell her the truth. After all this time, a year to exact, I'm finally able to tell her everything. "Are you sure you're ready for this?" I ask her, I don't want her to take this all in badly. She nods her head. I'm hoping that this doesn't drive her insane or make her crazy like me.

I extend my hand out, "Can I see your phone real fast?" She pulls a confused look before she takes out her phone. She then hands it to me, I take it and I walk outside of the room. I look through her contacts before I find who I can talk to, her parents. I nervously click on it and I hear the phone to ring. After about 4 rings, there's an answer.

"Hello?" It's a woman's voice.

"Hi, is this Mrs.McVey?" My hands are shakily holding the phone.

"Luke." Her mother breathes in.

"So, I'm guessing this is her?" I say, realizing that was a very stupid question to ask her.

"What do you want?" She snaps at me

"You're daughter's going to know the truth about you know, that. She needs to know, and I'm going to be the one to tell her. Before you say anything, I'm still going to tell her regardless because she deserves to know, after all this time. You can't just keep this hidden forever, so just-"

"It's fine Luke," She pauses and whispers something to someone in the background "I guess we can't keep this from her forever."

I let out a large amount of air as I say, "Thank you so much. I'll make sure she understands everything. Don't worry about anything, I've got this all under control-"

She cuts me off once more "Don't worry, I trust you Luke. Plus, you were always my favorite boyfriend that she's had, not that she's had any other, but you still were. I know you'd be the right person to tell her. Thank you for calling me, please keep my daughter safe."

"You're welcome and I will." I hang up the phone. This is it now. I click the lock button as I check the time. I've been chatting with her mother for about five minutes now. Before I walk back inside of the room, I clear the call log. I don't want her to know of the conversation we had. I enter the room and I hand her the phone back. Now or never.

"Please listen to the whole story before you say anything. Don't ask any questions til' the end, okay?" She simply nods.

"Okay, here goes nothing." I pause "So it all started when you left somewhere. God knows where you weren't, but you never came back.Your parents had called me around one in the morning asking if I were with you, but I wasn't. They explained the whole situation and in no time I was with them helping them search around. You went missing for around a week at the most. We didn't find you until someone had spotted the girl from the Missing Girl posters that were posted all over the city. I even was considering buying an ad for you on the side of milk cartons because I thought it would help. Anyways, this man, I don't recall his name had kidnapped you." I pause for a while for she can take all this information in slowly.

"He took you when you were out, wherever you were. When he took you, he had given you this thing where you would forget everything, and I mean everything. You would forget all your friends, your past birthday parties, even your family. But after all that, you forgot me. They had found the guy once the witness came to the police station and gave her details. Apparently, the man had been known to kidnap young women and he would either sell them to other men for their own pleasures or he would rape them and then he would kill them. I'm not trying to frighten you at all, the man has been locked away in prison for life. You were then placed in the hospital for the minor concussion that you had gotten. He may had hit you or I don't even know. I went to go visit you every time you were asleep and one day you had woken up while I was there." I continue.

 "You didn't recognize me and you began to scream really loud. I tried to calm you and I tried to get you to be a little quieter, but you wouldn't stop screaming. I guess it was the post trauma that made you afraid of me. I remember you started crying, you still had make up on, and you're mascara was all running and you were also yelling out, "Don't hurt me please!" and I couldn't handle it anymore. I walked out because I didn't know what to do anymore. I couldn't continue being obsessed over you anymore, despite our relationship. You didn't remember me and you never would. I had to try to get over you for the sake of the band. No one else knew about you other than me. The time you came in with Calum, my heart shattered. I couldn't believe my eyes, it was you. You had walked in with Calum. What hurt me the most is you looked at him the way you used to look at me like that. I was so upset that day, hence the reason I had that episode where I sort of freaked out. You were so confused when you found the photograph, deep down I wished you had remembered everything from the past from that, but sadly you didn't. Your parents tried getting your memory back as best as they could but they couldn't. That's basically all the events that have led up to today." I look down onto the ground.

I return my gaze at her, and I see her eyes filled with tears. I bring her to me and I hug her tightly. "I didn't mean for you to cry." I whisper.

"It'sokay Luke. I just, I understand everything now. The reason I'm home schooled, everything. Everything makes sense. I'm I am so, so, so thankful that you had told me all of this." She cries into my shoulder.

"I also forgot a detail."

"What is it?" She looks into my eyes. God, her eyes are so damn beautiful. They may be just brown, but they are the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Even if they're red from crying.

"I had written a song entirely for you."

"Really? What was it called?" She squeaks.

"Amnesia."

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