Just Like That

Chapter Four

I wake up in what looks like a hospital bed. My head is pounding, and there is a boot on my foot.

There is a blonde haired boy, two brunette haired boys, two blonde girls, and a dirty blonde haired boy. All of them whom I have no idea who they are.

A doctor comes in.

"Lexi?" He says my name.

"Yes, sir?" I reply.

"Ah, good. You know your own name. Can you identify any of these people?" he asks me.

I scan the room full of people. Not a single face is familiar to me.

"No, sir. I can't." I answer honestly.

Just about everyone in the room has tears in their eyes. One of the blonde haired girls walks over to comfort the boy with deep brown eyes and light brown hair. The dirty blonde haired boy speaks up.

"C'mon, Jenny. Seriously?" He questions the blonde apparently named Jenny.

Jenny replies, "She admitted her feelings for Daniel. She said I could have Niall."

Everyone in the room gives her a strange look, and then looks at me. Even the doctor.

"Why are you all staring at me?" I ask.

"Because." Says Jenny, "you told me when we were on the phone that I could have Niall. You said you liked Daniel."

She waits for a response.

When she doesn't get one, she's asks me, "Don't you remember??"

"I don't even know who you are. Nor do I remember that conversation. Or any-" I pause.

I get a flash back. It's of the tallest boy. The brunette. He's choking someone who is hurting me. My mom. My mom was hurting me. And Derek, my brother was the one standing up for me.

"Derek." I whisper quietly.

He immediately comes over to my bedside. I hug him.

"Thank you." I say

He looks at me, confused. "For what?" he asks.

"Standing up for me." I say.

"No problem, Lex." He says. he smiles at me. "I just hope you get your memory back. I haven't had time to talk to you, and so a few weeks ago a few things were left unexplained." He eyes the blonde haired boy.

They all leave me to rest.

***

The other blonde haired girl (not the one named Jenny, the other one) I have a flashback of. A few, actually. One of them, we're dancing and singing terribly to a song that I can't quite put my finger on the name..

Would you wanna run away too,

Cuz all I really want is you,

You look so perfect standing there, in my American Apparel underwear,

And I know now, that all sold out/all so down

I couldn't quite make out some of it, but I remember. Her name was Destiny. Is Destiny. She's alive. She's my best friend. Who kinda left me out, because she and my guy best friend Jacob (the dirty blonde), had gotten to be closer friends. And I guess I just wasn't there or something.

When the doctor comes in with Derek to tell me I'm free to go tomorrow night, I tell him what I learned today.

"That's great! You knew them the most, and the longest. Memories must have come back over the past two months. You should be back on track fairly soon."