Smoke and shattered mirrors

Chapter thirteen: Amnesia is a detour. Just ask Merci

I close my eyes to find peace in sleep. Topher had dropped me off a little while after dinner at Berkley Hander's diner. I especially liked the deep fried chicken sticks and garden veggie platter (wherien I ordered a second plate for the veggie fries.)

Topher's preference, however, was Bert's hamburgers. He must've ate three in one sitting. Which made me wonder how he keeps a slim-like physique.

But I needed a good night's sleep. But the news article and my full stomach kept me awake. 

My clear mind organized the tidbits of information circulating around me. The found car with my blood... The found traces of my blood... The emails... The shrink appointment... The person I was about to meet... But where? were will I meet the person I rushed out of Dr. Muria's office for?

I hate how disorganized everything is. My amnesia is really starting to piss me off.

So I grabbed a pen from my bedside drawer and retrieved my diary from beneath the floorboards. In a blank page, I started to make a timeline:

October 19 2011- Had my sixteenth birthday; An accident occurs. (Fled the accident? Or  someone helped???)

October 20 2011- Had a shrink appointment; Acted strangely (Reference to Shrink CD); Had cuts and bruises (Probably acquired from the 19th); Left to meet someone.  Got two weird emails that day and October 31.

October 20 2011- Brought to St. Bernard's mental ward because of my amnesia (As said in my medical report), admitted for medical resonances and treatment. But no such luck! After six painful months, I was finally found by my relative.

March 13 2012- Brought home by Aunt Caroline; Met Rory, Kylie and Topher.

March 13 2012 (Midnight)- Found my diary, discovered my alter ego and finds out the partial truth about October 19...

March 14 2012- Went to Family's grave; found kylie's boyfriend's grave; Met Brandon Asher (ex) and plots with Topher.

I put the diary back to where it belongs. Staggered helplessly to bed and fell asleep. It was sad that there were no further things to add in my timeline. One hour later, I still couldn't sleep. So I open my laptop and scroll down the messages in my email account.

Hey there! will you please meet my mother Yin? she nags me to do my homework every where! My serene place is the desert , I especially love the cold dunes! But I don't even really get  algebra. Mother is aiming too high! ( Lucky girl with the name M-e-r-c-i , you!)

Somehow, that message has a hidden secret. I can feel it in my bones that I once knew what it held. 

"M-E-R-C-I." I said. Absentmindedly re-reading the message. "M-E-R-C-I."

I repeated again and again in my head. Then I count the letters in my name. Five.

"Oh my God..." I choke. My fingers fumbling for the pen and a scrap of paper. I wrote the message on the scrap and crossed out the every five words to reveal the true message.

Hey there! will you please meet my mother Yin? she nags me to do my homework every where! My serene place is the desert, I especially love the cold dunes! But I don't even really get algebra.Mother is aiming too high! ( Lucky girl with the name M-e-r-c-i , you!)

I was astonished by what it read: Meet me where desert dunes get high.

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