Memory Loss

Chapter Nine

Chris

I got home and I spent all evening thinking about Katie, it was strange, I couldn't get her out of my mind, I was definitly drawn to her.

When I woke up the next morning I was still thinking about her, and it accured to me that maybe it was beacuse I wanted answers and she was the only friend I had that hadn't been testing me, maybe she was waiting for me to ask her questions. I grabbed my phone off my bedside table and looked at the screen, I still couldnt remember the four digit code to allow me acess. It was driving me nuts, I couldn't contact anyone, look at my pictures, my texts anything. I had asked Brett, my parents, Tiffany but no-one knew it. Tiffany and Brett both told me I like to keep my phone private and I was suprised that Tiffany didn't find that odd if im honest but I guess that just showed what kind of realtionship we had, she must trust me totally.

Downstairs mum was making breakfast, bacon, eggs, sausages that kind of thing, it was nice to see somethings never changed. Later on this afternoon it would be a roast dinner for late lunch/ early dinner just the same as every Sunday since I was little.

"You staying home today darling?" Mum asked me putting a plate in front of me.

"Yeah I think so, I think we might need to ring the phone company and get them to unlock my phone though or help me sort it out because I really want to get into it and see if it helps me remember things."

I grabbed the ketchup from the middle of the table just as dad went for it. He nodded for me to take it.

"You rang them didn't you dad?" Sophie asked, I couldn't get used to her being 15.

"Oh yeah, they said they could reset your phone if you go into a store but there is a chance you could lose some data if you had things stored on the phone rather than the sim card." He told me.

"I don't want to chance lossing anything. I have an idea on who might be able to help me get into it though, well I just know I haven't asked her yet." I told them all.

"Who's that sweetie? I thought you asked all your friends." Mum asked finally tucking into her own breakfast.

"Just a girl at work; Katie, she said we're friends."

Beside me Sophie nearly choked on her breakfast, I eyed her suspiscouly.

"You think it's a silly idea?" I asked her.

Shaking her head she took a sip of her tea.

"I think what you sister was going to say was that if your friends and your girlfriend don't know its unlikely that someone you work with will know." Mum told me.

"I guess, but I really feel like she might be able to help," I told them all, I mean what was the harm in trying?!

After breakfast I jumped in the shower and got dress, I had promised Dad I would help him in the garden so I didnt take my time. By the time I'd made it out there though he had already cleared all the garden furniture off the grass and was getting the lawn mower out of the shed.

"Dad let me do that," I told him taking the mower of him.

"Thanks son, I think i'll go back inside and had a rest." By rest he mean't beer, it was Sunday afterall.

As I started up the lawn mower I wondered if I ever help him before the accident, I remember doing it as a kid, he taught me and then he would get me to do it once a week and every month it earned me a tenner. I doubted I did it now, although Katie had said Sunday was my day off I expected I spent it with Tiffany or my friends. Daydreaming I nearly hit the fence, correcting my position I carried on wondering what exactly it was I did with days.

I finished in record time, and as dad still wasn't back I decided to put all the furnture back and the lawn mower in the shed, then I took the last of the grass to the compost bin at the bottom of the garden. Mum clearly still loved to garden, the flowers in the beds on the outskirts of the grass looked beauitful.

Knackered I laid down on one of the sunloungers I had just reposistioned and began wondering what my life was going to be like now, would mum and dad act differently with me, would my friends and what was going to happen with me and Tiffany. Tiffany look so different from the girl I remember, well more grown up. I was attracted her that was for sure she was gorgeous but I still felt like I didn't know her and hearing things about myself from her felt odd. Mum was trying too hard to get me to remember, constantly quizzing me and Dad wasn't trying at all I wasn't sure what was more frustrating. My friends and Tiffany just seemed to boombared me with information hoping I would sudennely remember something. The only person that seemed OK with me going at my own pace was Katie, she didn't question if I did something unsual and when I told her I liked a song on the raido she didn't tell me if I liked it before or not unless I asked her. I remembered back to the pervious day.

She was just teaching me how to use the till when a song popped on the radio, she was singing along to it happily and it wasnt untill it had finish that I spoke.

"I like that song, its very... up beat," I told her.

"Yeah I love it, its called Drive By by Train, it is good, I like singing along to it, always cheers me up." she smilied.

She carried on telling me about the till code and what to do if I input something wrong when I turned and asked.

"Did I like it before, before the accident I mean?"

"Does it matter if you did or didn't?" She asked.

"I guess not..." I trailed off.

"You did like it before." She told me smiling. 

I remember feeling so grateful that she had just told me what it was called, and not whether I was mean't to like it or not that I couldn't help but smile.

I must have fallen asleep because when I opened my eyes Sophie was standing above me.

"It's time for food sleepy head." she told me.

"Thanks Soph."

Standing up I followed my long grown up baby sister.