Amnesia

Chapter 6: coming home

As we pulled up to a big house a look of amazement washed across my face. Then Nate laughed at me, when I asked him why he was laughing he responded "That's your house!"
"Really?"
"Yes!"
"Wow, will you come in with me?"
"Absolutely!"
So we both got out of the car and began walking to the door hand in hand. But as we were about to open the door I stopped Nate looked at me with a confused look and asked "Liz, what is it?"
"I'm nervous."
"Don't be babe, soon you'll remember it all."
"Okay."
So we continued on and opened the door. What was revealed was a beautiful grand room with a chandellier and an elegant staircase.
"Oh my goodness gracious this is beautiful... I live here?"
"Yes!"

In the other room we heard my mom say "Oh they're here!" Then her high heels clacking she came scurrying in to greet us. "Hey guys! Good news your sisters here Liz!"

"Oh." I said looking down because I don't remember her and feel guilty about it.
My mom then grabbed my arm and dragging me and Nate she scurried back to the other room which was also very extravagant.
I took the beauty of the room in and as I looked around my gaze fell on my sister. As I looked at her she smiles then slowly approached me and awkwardly hugged me. When she let go I said "Hello"
She then said very fast "I know you don't remember me, but I'm Amber and I'm two years older than you!"
I looked at her wide eyed "Okay, and you go to eastern Carolina university?"
She very excitedly responded "OH MY GOSH, YES!"
I looked at her with a very sarcastic look then said "Mom told me that; I didn't remember that from before the accident." Her excitement dropped and she just sighed.

So I turned to Nate and then said "thank you for everything babe it means a lot! Love you!" and kissed him good night. Once he left my mom came over and said "Hun, you seem like you had fun!" I nodded and smiled then said "He really loves me!" "Yes, yes he does! Do you want any cookies?" I nodded then followed. As we walked Amber followed us.

Once in the kitchen we sat at the kitchen table each enjoying cookies and milk. Or at least I started out enjoying that till Amber began interrogating me till I stood up and yelled "AMBER LEAVE ME ALONE YOU ARE DRIVING ME EVEN CRAZIER THAN I FEEL!" She looked at me wide eyed and then began to cry between and the sobs explaining she thought she lost me. Which of course made me feel guilty but I refused to apologize so I got up and strutted up the stairs, then I realized I don't know where my room is. Which really ruined my dramatic exit. Then my dad came out of a room and I was embarrassed to ask but I did "uhm dad where's my room?" He pointed me in the right direction then went on his way. I carefully opened the door closed my eyes took a deep breathe then flipped on the light. The light revealed an amazing room every teenage girl would dream of. It was blue and and white, it had a chandelier and two windows! I went in and sat on my bed looking around like a kid in a candy show, because the room was truly amazing! But once the amazement faded so did my wall of fake emotions, causing me to begin to cry. I sobbed because I hate this. Not remembering anything, and breaking people's expectations and replacing them with disappointment. Then I fell asleep.

I was then rudely awoken the next morning to a scream.

Then it happened a flashback to the accident I remembered who I was running from.... He was tall, wearing all black, and he was angry. He was yelling at me saying "You stupid whore." "Why did I bother?" I was breathing heavily, shaking, and crying. We were in a dark basement and I screamed. Then I was back in my room, and I was out of breath. The only two things I thought to do were call Nate and cry. Nate answered the phone then realized I was crying and breathing heavily and he began to panic speaking so fast I could barely understand. "Is everything okay? What's going on? Do you need me?" Once we both calmed down a bit. I simply asked "Will you please just come over. I can only talk to you." He simply agreed then we hung up.

I was out in my thoughts when a knock at the door brought me back to reality. Then in came Nate and relief hit me like a truck. He hugged me, kissed my forehead, and handed me starbucks! I couldn't help but smile! He's truly the best thing in my life!

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I got dressed and Nate and I decided we were going to go get chipotle! But the scary part is he let me drive for the first time since the accident we got about 1,000 feet of stop, go, stop, go then got out and switched places and Nate drove! Once at chipotle we were talking and Nate said " So I know it was something you remembered that caused the incident this morning... So can you tell me what it was or anything about it, you don't have to though." I responded and said "I don't know if I was raped or he attempted to rape me." Nate's face went from supportive-boyfriend to holy-shit-did-I-hear-that-right. Then he said "Liz, oh my goodness are you okay? And who is this creep?" I said " yes I'm okay, and I don't know who but I don't think he raped me because he was saying things like 'why did I bother' and, 'you stupid whore' and he looked so angry." Well if you remember anything else please tell me. I nodded, then we got up and left. Once in the car I asked "Can we please not go to my house? I'm uncomfortable there." He nodded then took me hand in his and kept the other on the steering wheel. We decided to go to his house, and we watched The Last Song. Because he's a great boyfriend who will do anything to make me happy! We were cuddling when I fell asleep.

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I woke up cuddled up next to Nate. I looked at my phone and realized it was now 2am so I called my mom who answered like I'd waken her up. "Hello, Hun is everything okay?" "Yea, I'm at Nate's can I just stay here for the night since I can't drive yet?" she simply said "yea, night" then went back to sleep. At this point Nate woke up and pulled me close and asked "What time is it?" and when I said "2am "he got this look of shock on his face. I said "It's fine I'm allowed to stay the night." He smiled then readjusted himself so he could wrap both his arms around me. By this point we realized neither of us were tired. So we got up and ventured to the kitchen and made macaroni and cheese! While the water was boiling and I was sitting on the counter Nate danced over to me took me off the counter and said "Will you dance with me?" I smiled as my face blushed as red as a fire truck, but I nodded and he took my hand pulled me closed. We began to sway back and forth perfectly in tune with each other my arms around his neck his around my waist. I rested my head on his chest. It was perfect then the timer went off and our priorities flipped from dancing to oh-my-gosh-food! We ate our macaroni then went back to the couch in his basement where we had fallen asleep earlier and laid down and cuddled and talked till we both fell asleep.