Blurry Memories (Solby)

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[Sam's PoV]

      "Hey Sam!", I heard someone whispering from behind me. I turned around to see Colby standing at my door. "What do you want?", I whispered politely. It was already dark outside and I sat beside my table while I looked at the old Sam&Colby youtube videos. Colby wanted to say something as he saw what I was doing. "Is this our youtube channel?", he asked. "Yeah..", I shighed as I turned back to the monitor. We didn't upload anything since the accident which was now over 9 months ago. In the first few months I got flud over by comments and direct messages by fans that were worried and asked why our channel was dead. I never replied to those because I just didn't know what to answer.

      As I was lost in thoughts I didn't recognise Colby walking towards me and leaning over to look at the monitor. "You never wanted to talk to me about our youtube channel.", Colby then said. I just looked at him.
He took my mouse and clicked on one of the videos.
I still looked at his face. Something about his looks just amazed me. Some strands of his brown hair where on his face. His eyes were fixed on the screen in front of us. He wore a grey T-Shirt and some sweatpants.

      "Hey! Sam! Are you even listening to me?", Colby then asked, waving his hand in front of my face. "Uh.. um.. what?", I asked blinking two times, trying to come back to reality. Colby pointed at the monitor where one of our exploring videos were playing. "I know this place-", he started saying but I interrupted him before he could keep on talking. "You can remember that we were there?", I asked hopefully. "Well- no, like I was there.", the smile that I didn't even realise was dancing on my lips faded quickly as he said those words.

      "But there's like, I don't know, it's weird.", Colby then said. "What do you mean?", I asked. "There's like a voice and I think also another person but like it's so hard to get a clear picture in my head..", he answered going back a few steps and then letting himself drop on my bed.

      "That means you start to remember again!", I said exited. "Well.. yeah um.. I guess so.", Colby said as he looked back up and right in my eyes. Our eyes locked for a second. There it was again, that weird feeling in my stomach.
"You know, um well, it's just a thought but do you think we could go there? I feel like I'll maybe be able to remember you a bit more when I'm right there.", Colby pointed at the screen again. "Uh, yeah, yeah we definitely can. When? Tomorrow?", I asked fast. "Now.", "Now?", "Yes. Now.", Colby said still not looking away from my face. "W-why now? It's 2:34am", I started to stutter, because of his blue eyes that were staring at me. "I don't know I just made progress remembering you, what if tomorrow I won't be able to?", Colby's voice got a little hysterical.

      "Ok, then let's go.", I said without hesitation. Colby needed to process the fact that I just said ok for a second but then he started to stand up from my bed as well as I started to get up from my chair. "I'll grab some fresh clothes.", Colby said starting to walk to his room again. "Yeah.", I said and did the same.

      He actually starts to remember me? Like for real?? Is this really happening? After so much time has passed. After all those tears, something's finally happening.

      I thought as I changed into other clothes. After that I grabbed my car's keyes and started to walk down the stairs as quiet as possible.

      I waited at my car outside of the house. I looked up at the clear night sky. Whenever I do this it triggers an unwanted memory to come up again. The night where we got kidnapped. The night where Colby got shot. The police never found the offender. That means he's still out there. He could wait for us. He could try to kill him a second time. I would just like to know why he chose us? Why would he try to kill him?

      "Can we go?", Colby said. He stood right in front of me. Again I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't notice him coming out of the house. Then we both got in the car.

      The ride was silent but it was a comfortable silence. Colby looked out of the window and I concentrated on the road. After a 20min ride we arrived at the old motel. It got abandoned 10 years ago. There was a gate around the big house and in front of the motel there was a huge pool. "We're here.", I said and got out of the car. We both hopped over the fence and then started walking towards the pool. I started talking about the first time that we where here and as I was talking I didn't notice Colby suddenly turning around to look at me.

      He smiled. "Sam?", he then said and grabbed my shoulders. "W-wha-?", Colby pulled me in a hug. We have never hugged each other since he was back. At first I froze but then I relaxed and hugged him tighter. "What was that for?", I asked as he pulled away again. He laughed and looked around excited like he was going to tell me big news. "Here look", he laughed and pointed at the pool. "The sticker.", He said. "Uh yeah I glued it on there.", I said still a bit confused. "I know.", Colby said with a big smile on his face. "What-? Wait, actually??", I then said and began to smile as well. "Yeah and you remember when we stopped filming we just sat there by the pool and talked about the most random things!", Colby said. "Yeah, you asked me if we could get a puppy and then I told you-", "That we should probably talk with the others first.", Colby finished my sentence.

      Now we just stood there smiling at each other. This is it. The beginning of going back to normal. The beginning of getting back my best friend.