My head is heavy, my eyes can barely open and everything’s blurry. Good news is I can tell that I’m inside of a hospital bed, bad news is I don’t how in the hell I got here. I don’t know who I am, I don’t know why I’m in so much pain and I want to go home but I don’t even know where home is. 

All of a sudden I feel someone caressing my shoulder, I look up and there’s a man above me. “Nina, you’re going to be okay.” a deep, rugged voice reassures me. His voice gives me chills, like my soul recognizes his. I don’t know what he looks like because my eyes are almost completely shut but the way he touches me and the way he speaks to me heals every part of me. 

“Hello sir.” I guess the doctor just came in, “You can call me Leek.” Leek, so that’s his name. It’s pretty strange, but I’m sure it fits him. “Oh, well hi Leek. Nina’s condition is pretty severe. Luckily she didn’t break any bones, but it seems like she was in some type of accident and we found a lot of Adalimumab in her system. When she wakes up she might have amnesia.” Awake? I’m already awake. I try to extend my lips apart for some reason I’m not moving at all. What’s happening to me? I focus on my fingers, I attempt to lift up my index finger. I just end up twitching. “Did you see that?” All of a sudden I feel my finger being gently rubbed. “Her finger just moved.” He babbles, “When will she wake up?” 

“It usually takes a few more hours.” 

“Well, have the cops been called? When are they going to take me in for questioning? We need to keep her safe because someone kidnapped her; I don’t want her getting hurt again.” He articulates. “The police will be here shortly; we called them as soon as you checked her in.” 

“They’re taking a pretty long time considering the circumstances.” He grunts, “Well, she’s safe now. Just try to calm down; maybe you should sit.” 

I hear him sigh, he must really care about me. For some reason I’m not frightened by the words kidnap, all of this feels like a dark dream I can’t get out of. I try moving again and I finally am able to sit up; I open my mouth to talk but I notice I can’t feel anything. I look behind myself and there I am, laying down with my eyes closed. What the hell is happening? I get up from the hospital bed and I stand over my unconscious body. My eyes are swollen, I have stitches on the side of my mouth. My arms are bruised; someone beat me until I was black and blue. What did I possibly do to deserve this much pain? I feel my soul weighing down to the thought that someones still after me. On top of that the police aren’t here yet; I’m not safe. I look behind me and there’s Leek, sitting down in the waiting chair. Maybe I do have some type of protection… But he was becoming anxious as well. 

All of a sudden I hear a knock, I put my focus on the door and I see Leek ready to open it. Fear arises, “DON’T OPEN IT!” Somehow, someway I’m back into my body and I’m conscious. “YOU’RE AWAKE” Leek cheers, “They said it wouldn’t be for a few more hours.” I roll my eyes, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just don’t open the door. I have a bad feeling.” He scratches his dome, “Wait, why?” Before I can tell him to lock the door a detective comes bursting in. “COLLINS?” He gasps, all of a sudden I see his fist go right into the detective’s nose. He doesn’t stop there, he punches him a second time and at this point his face looks like a fountain full of blood. The detective begins to pull his gun out, “LEEK! WATCH OUT!” I squeal, and I jump out of the hospital bed. Just when I thought I could attack him I fell just inches away from his feet. The detective jumps back, Leek grabs his gun and aims it at him. “Don’t fucking move!” Leek shouts, “I SAW YOU WITH LENO! I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING AND IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN ON MY WATCH!” Leek continues to back away from Collins while Collins has his hands up. “I’m going to need you to leave.” Leek demands, the detective begins to move closer to Leek. “I can’t do that, Leek.” Collins calmly expresses, “Give me back my gun and I promise no one will get hurt.” 

“DON’T TRUST HIM!” I yell, “Shut up, bitch.” Collins grunts, “You really want to help the girl who ruined your relationship?” What? No I didn’t, or at least I don’t have any memory of doing that. “What’s he talking about?” I wonder, “It’s nothing. Don’t listen to him.” Leek fires the gun and I could’ve sworn that it hit Collins. He jumps up in fear but apparently he’s fine. “Leave or the next one will go in between your eyes.” Collins begins to back away from Leek and he exits the room. Leek closes the door and locks it, “We’ve gotta get out of here.” Leek picks me up and we go over to the window. Luckily we’re not far from the ground, he turns the latch and unlocks the window. He puts me against the wall, then he lifts the window up. I try to get up onto my feet but my legs feel extremely weak. “Don’t move, I’ve got you.” Leek picks me up once again and he takes me through the window with him. He lands on his feet and all of a sudden I feel him let go of me. My head hits the ground and I can already feel a headache coming on. “SHIT!” Leek shouts, he’s sitting down rocking back and forth with his ankle in his hand. “I twisted my ankle, I’m sorry for dropping you.” I crawl over to him using just my arms and waist. “I’m okay, really. You don’t have to…” Before he could finish his sentence I made it over to him and I began to rub his ankle. He grabs my hand as if he’s trying to stop me, I look up and into his eyes. He begins to look in mine, he leans his head towards mine and he presses his lips onto mine. His lips feel so nice, I feel like I can do this all day but suddenly I remember what Collins said. I jolted my head back, “Do you have a girlfriend?” I blurt, Leek gets up with a limp in his walk. He attempts to pick me up, “Let’s not talk about that right now.” He utters, he puts me over his shoulder and we make our way to his car. 

Flashing red and blue lights appear in the distance, “Leek what are we going to do?” He places me in the backseat and closes the door without saying a word. He runs towards the driver seat, he slides into the car and he slams the door. He starts the engine and he speeds off into the sunset. The whole time I’m in the back seat I can’t help but wonder where we are going. I don’t ask because I know he’s in a stressful position at the moment, he could get in real trouble for what he did earlier. I don’t know how we’re going to prove that the detective is in the wrong; especially because I can’t actually remember a thing. I just know he’s dangerous, I could feel it in my gut. 

Leek finally stops driving, I raise my body up to see where we are. It’s a white two story house with a beige roof. There’s a light yellow picket fence, the front door is red and there’s a rocking chair right in front. “Where are we?” I question, “A friend's house.” He informs me, he gets out of the car and he makes his way to me. He opens the door and carries me to the house, “Does your leg still hurt?” 

“Yeah, but I’ll be okay.” He knocks on the door a few times,

We wait a moment for someone to answer, then finally this beautiful older woman answers the door. “Oh my God, what happened?” 

“Hey, I’m not sure if you know Nina, but your daughter does and I was wondering if you could keep her here. She’s not safe anywhere else; there’s someone after her.” He notifies, “Of course I know Nina, and I will definitely let her stay here for as long as she needs.” She trembles, “Come in, come in.” Leek walks into the house with me in his arms. He sets me down on her couch, he sits down with me and he begins to talk to the woman. “Do you know a man named Zy?” He asks her, “Yes.” She rolls her eyes, “He’s my daughter's brother.” 

“Oh, wow I didn’t know that. I thought it was someone she was dating.”

“Ew, hell no. For one, Kimmy is a lesbian.” 

“Well her brother kidnapped Nina and now she doesn’t remember a thing. They say it’s from trauma to the head but I also believe she’s been through so much that she wanted to forget.” The woman comes near me and begins to hold my hand, “I’m so sorry this happened to you.” She looks deep into my eyes and all of a sudden I feel a tear roll down my cheeks. I have no clue what happened to me, but to see someone pitying me doesn’t feel good at all. “My name is Debra, just so you know… I’m calling your mother.” Debra grabs her phone off of her glass coffee table and she dial a number. My mom is the last person I want to speak to about this. I know she cares about me, but in some ways I don’t trust her because she let me get raped by my own father. How will she protect me now? “I’ve got to go to the police station, I know they’re looking for me after I took you out of the hospital.” Leek jolts towards the front door, “WAIT!” I shout, he jumps out of his skin and looks back at me. “You okay?” 

“Thank you for everything.” I slightly grin, “It’s no problem when helping a friend.” He smiles back at me and then he continues to walk out of the door. I hear Debra talking to my mom, “Okay, see you soon.” She hangs up the phone and comes over to me. “Do you want to lay down in the guest room until your mom gets here?” 

“Yeah, that sounds fine. Thank you.” 

“TERRY! COME DOWN HERE PLEASE!” She calls for someone, we wait for what seems like forever for them to come down. Finally she goes upstairs and I guess she’s getting whoever she was calling. I look around me and there’s several baby pictures of a pretty girl; there’s a gold dragonfly sculpture sitting right in front of the frame. The wallpaper in her house is a light brown color with floral patterns painted across. It must’ve taken so long for them to finish the interior design in this beautiful home. I wish I had a beautiful house with a beautiful family living in it. Instead I just have my mother… The woman who could never protect me even if it depended on my life. I mean look at me, my legs aren’t working, I can’t remember anything but my life as a thirteen year old. I mean why in the hell wasn’t my mom the first one to know that I was kidnapped?

 After a while Debra and some man walks downstairs, “This is Terry my husband, he’s going to help you get upstairs to your room.” To have another stranger carrying me isn’t as uncomfortable as I imagined, I feel protected in a way even though I don’t have a clue in the world who these people are. And apparently they know the guy who did this to me. Zy? I think his name was… I wonder what I ever did to him. Terry finally sets me down on the comfy bed and I feel myself drifting away already. I hope tomorrow is easier than today was, I hope no one gets hurt trying to protect me and lastly I hope my memory comes back sooner than later. 

April's Revelation

Sneak Peak

Amnesia

April 7th



My head is heavy, my eyes can barely open and everything’s blurry. Good news is I can tell that I’m inside of a hospital bed, bad news is I don’t how in the hell I got here. I don’t know who I am, I don’t know why I’m in so much pain and I want to go home but I don’t even know where home is. 



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