CHASING FIRE (COMPLETED)

CHAPTER SIX

At the tranquil : Ailment

Liam’s point of view

My heart seems to break now,
I don’t want to see Belle under pressure,
It hurts me to see her in pain.

*Flashback…

I become worried when minutes have passed already and Belle still hasn’t return from the comfort room

‘What took her so long?’

I waited for a few seconds…

‘Belle…’
I finally decided to go after her in the comfort room. I felt something wrong this time.

*heart beats

When I got there, I see no Belle.

‘Where the hell did she go?!’

I started to panic. I walked around to the area hoping that I can see her.
But no, I can’t find her.

*Dialing Quint

Only Quint knows this place better but
Damn it! He didn’t answer my call!

I don’t know what I’m going to do now,
I just suddenly felt my tears falling down running through my cheeks.

For the first time,
I saw myself crying outside. I never cried in public.

‘Come on! Answer me!’

I kept calling him
Hoping that he’ll answer my call…

‘Message call cannot be reach, please try again later’

‘Message call cannot be reach, please try again later’

*1 new message

‘Dude, we’re here in the hospital’

*End…

I was very worried at that day when I found out that Belle was in the hospital.

3 months have passed already since bell lost her consciousness,
we’ve been waiting for her to wake up for almost 91 days.

Earlier, when she woke up, my heart broke into pieces seeing her in pain.

Though, she keeps denying the fact that she was hurt
but her eyes…
says it all

*Door opened

The doctor came out to Belle’s room looking so worried and confused.

We asked him what happened since he let us all out a while ago while having a deep conversation with Belle all alone.

He paused for a minute…

“I don’t know why and… how did she had that…” he started then he sighed and handed a medical note to us. 

“She has a retrograde amnesia”

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Quint’s point of view

I did a research about retrograde amnesia as soon as we heard it.

I fired up my laptop and opened my favorite search engine and typed in amnesia.

I had to search through a lot of things that came up then I found a promising page and read:

Retrograde amnesia is when previously formed memories are lost. In some cases, the memory loss extends back decades, in other cases the person loses only a few months of memory.

I skipped over retrograde amnesia when I read something…

Generally, due to a head injury, the extent of the injury will sometimes give an indication of recovery functions. Patient will have no memory of the ancient or just before.

Sometimes they can lose the knowledge of which people are, even close relatives such as partners and parents.

I stopped reading.
So this means…

she can possibly forget us?

I kept reading trying to find out if there was a cure.

Treatment is never 100% guaranteed.
The best thing for patient is to talk to people and try and do things they normally do before, hoping to jog their memory back.

However, sometimes in that case those lost memories never come back and family and friends shouldn’t pressure the patient to return of said memories as it can have an adverse effect on the patient’s recovery.

I sighed

Ok, so it sounded like the best thing for Belle now was to go back to normal life but not get bombarded with information.  

I sat there for ages just staring at the screen.

I wanted Belle back without a doubt in my mind, but at the same time I don’t want to hurt her further.

I would try to make her happy and gain her memory back in a non-pushy way.

I just hoped I was strong enough for this.

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Belle’s point of view

I was finally told hours later what’s wrong with me.

I have amnesia, and I can’t believe on it

I still remember the people surrounds me.

Liam

Quint

Mom

Leo

I still remember them lol

“Belle? You ok?” Leo asked with a puffed eye

“Hey what’s wrong? I’m fine, ok?” I said that made him rushed a hug to me.

Do they really believe that I forgot them?

“Look, I don’t have amnesia ok? So stop staring at me with that puffed eyes”

“But Belle-”
“I said enough” that made my brother shut.

I don’t want to talk such things like this especially if it is not true. I rather sleep than talking some nonsense things like this.

I turned away from them and closed my eyes.

‘It will never happen

NEVER’

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/ailment means illness/