Chapter 21

I stayed alone for a couple of minutes until the guy came back. Silence except for the beeping sound. All I smelled was the scent of the coffee. "Ummm...you're...Wes, right?" I asked. "Yeah." He looked happy.  

"You stayed every night in here for me?" He nodded, "I wanted to make sure that when you woke up you'd see me first." That seemed really nice of him. I just smiled. Then the door opened. It was a couple and, what I thought, their daughter. I just looked at them. They looked familiar. "Jaden these are your parents and your little sister." Wes said.  

"Mom...Dad...and Danielle." I said softly.  

They looked really happy, "Hello honey, how are you feeling?" My mom said moving a strand of my hair from my face. I just managed to smile.  

"Has the doctor told you about her condition?" Wes asked.  

"Yeah." My dad said.  

"Great to have you back." Danielle said.  

"Maybe we should let you rest up." Dad said.  

"Oh yeah." My mom said wiping her tears away. They walked out and right before they left Danielle said, "Bye! I'll see you later." I waved good-bye.  

"What time is it?" I asked.  

"Almost 10:00. We should go to sleep." He said.  

The next couple of days I got to know Wes more. "So you're supposed to be my boyfriend?" I asked sitting crisscrossed on the bed. He was sitting on the bed next to me. "Yeah, I asked you to be my girlfriend at a baseball game. I even made you a picnic for your birthday, until we were in the car crash." He started to make a sad face. "What happened?" "A big furniture truck was moving left to right a lot and I didn't see it and then..." Then neither one of us said anything. "While you were in the coma I was really frustrated I even punched the walls with my fist until they started bleeding. I blamed it on myself." I looked at his injured hand wrapped up. Instead he changed the subject, "Anyway, after the car crash your necklace I gave you fell off. I found it on the ground." He put it in between his fingers. It said 'Love Life' in cursive.  

He gave me that? "That was mine?"  

"Yeah."  

"Do you mind putting it on me?" I lifted my hair and turned my back on him. He wrapped it around my neck and clipped it on. I touched it with my fingers. "Thanks." I said. He leaned in towards me and kissed me on the lips.  

"Sorry." He said kind of blushing.  

"It's okay," I smiled, "We are boyfriend and girlfriend, right?" He started laughing. "Why does it say 'Love Life'?"  

"Because you're supposed to live life like you're young, wild, and free." "We got along really well, didn't we?"  

"At first we didn't but then we met each other more."  

"Before all this did you really like me?"  

"Of course I did." He put his hand on my hand. "I love you." I leaned in and kissed him first this time.  

When I touched his warm lips I felt a spark in my head. I got closer to him and moved my hand up and down through his hair. He put his hand on my waist. I looked at him in the eyes. He still had stitches from the car crash. He had beautiful blue eyes and a smile that you could never forget.  

I didn't really know him well enough and I kissed him. I couldn't remember anything. I started to get frustrated. How could I not remember anything? I thought. I started to flash black to what I could remember, my name is Jaden Moreno. That's it. I couldn't remember my parents, my sister, or anybody. I barely knew who I was.  

The doctor walked in, "How are you feeling?"  

"I'm kind of angry at myself for not remembering anything. Is that okay?"  

"You shouldn't be mad. It's okay to be like that as long as you're feeling okay. Everyone has different reactions. No brain is ever the same." I felt a little relieved. "So you don't remember anything at all yet?" he asked.  

I nodded my head, "It's driving me crazy!"  

"Calm down. It's normal." He started flipping papers back and forth on his clipboard. "According to your results, here, you are pretty much okay."  

"Can I go home yet?" I asked.  

"Not yet. I want to take a couple of more tests just to make sure you're okay and if everything seems fine I'll let you leave after tomorrow."  

"Thanks, Doctor." "No problem." He said leaving the room. I was going to go home.