Not Just Perfect

Switched

{ Cam's perspective }

I started pacing back and forth in the waiting room. I needed to know if Alex was okay. If she was dead my life would be over, but I tried to not think about that situation. Finally the nurse called me in. "Cameron...Dallas?" She read off of a clip board. "Yes?!" I was eager to see her. "Right this way." She lead me into the room. She was awake and breathing! "Alex! I'm so glad your okay! You don't know how worried I was! I cried for like an hour!" I was so excited to know that she was okay. "Uhhh... Are you the doctor?" Alex looked so confused. "Baby, stop. I'm not in the mood for jokes." I chuckled anyways.

"Uhhh, listen...doctor, do you know where my boyfriend is?" She seemed serious but I knew she wasn't. "Right here!" I giggled at her joke. "Okay..your cute and all but I have a boyfriend and he's probably worried about me...Jack! Jack is his name!" I didn't know what she was trying to pull. "Jack..." "Gilinsky!" She answered.

"That's him! My five month boyfriend!"

she wasn't kidding... Thoughts lingered in my head as I fell to the floor. I didn't know what was happening. "Are you okay!?" "DO YOU NOT REMEMBER ME!?" I screamed. "Uh.. I'm really sorry. Cousin.... Friend?" She questioned. "She doesn't remember me?" I croaked out to the nurse. "She seems to have severe memory loss... More like a switch. Her brain is switching around or completely forgetting people." She looked concerned. "W-what?" I swallowed my tears. "Alex..." "Yess..?" "What about prom..?" I asked, calmly, trying to spark her memory. "Oh yeah!" A smile lit up my face.

"Jack and I went together!" It immediately turned into a frown. It all hit me at once. I realized the situation. I started to have a melt down. "No...no...no....NOO!" I screamed. This can't be happening! This has to be a dream! I crashed my car and my five month girlfriend doesn't remember me... And it's all my fault... I almost killed her too. It was all hitting me at once I couldn't take it. "NO! YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER!!! CAMERON, CAMERON DALLAS!!! YOUR FIVE MONTH BOYFRIEND! WE DID EVERYTHING TOGETHER ALEX... EVERYTHING!!!!!" I yelled at the top of my lounges, then started to burst out into tears. "YOU H-HAVE TO R-REMEMBER... YOU HAVE T-TO!!!" The nurse and doctor pulled me out of the room as I chocked on my tears and screams.

"LET GO OF ME!!" I whaled. "Listen we now how hard this is on you right now, but she can't take that pressure it will lesson the chance of her remembering you anyway.. So if you come back into this room, be prepared for the worst, okay. No screaming or crying or yelling at the patient.. Thank you." They both walked away and left me there, a mess in the hall. I just curled up and cried.

*two hours pass*

I finally stopped crying and tried to face reality. "Cameron it's over... She doesn't remember all that you guys have been through, she doesn't love you, she doesn't know you...she doesn't remember you. Get it together Cam. She's in love with your friend..." I whispered to myself. Jack walked up the hall with flowers, he then saw me against the wall. "Cameron..." I didn't respond. "Listen I know you hate me, but is Alex, your girlfriend..okay?" I laughed like a crazy person. "Cam..." "She's not my girlfriend... She's yours." I smiled. "Listen Cameron, I know what happened was wrong and I apologized like ten times..." "No seriously she loves you... And she doesn't remember me... So go have fun with your girlfriend." "What...?" He looked as if he actually felt bad.

He just walked into the room. Twenty minutes later he came back out. "Come in here Cam!" I got up and walked to the room, trying not to make eye contact with Alex, but then saw she was asleep. "There is something we have to tell you." I swallowed loud and hard. "Yes..?" I was scared for the news. "Jack will have to act like Alex's boyfriend to keep her stable." I charged at Jack. "NO!!" I threw punches, but Alex's parents held me back. He just stared at me cautiously. "We can't confuse her, but there is a promise. Based on all the information we gathered... She will remember you, Cameron. We just don't know when. It could be in five minutes or... Thirty years, but one day it will hit her, and all at once... Everything."

"Oh..." I didn't know what to say. I was happy that she would remember it all at once but I also didn't want it to be thirty years... I wanted it to be five minutes. I walked out of the room. I still couldn't believe what was happening right now. I lost everything and I wasn't sure how to handle it.