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Voicemail of 2nd April' 2015

07:32 p.m.

"Hey, love. It's been quite some time, huh? A month I guess... wow.

"I'd say time flew by fast but that would make me an absolute liar, because in reality every single second has drawled on to feel like hours."

He sighed, making me think that he was sad again. In his defence though, who in his situation wouldn't be sad and frustrated? Then however, he laughed a little.

I hadn't realised how desperately I had been missing that warm laugh of his until then.

"For the last couple of weeks I have been trying to contact every person that we, your parents and us, were friends with. Someone had to have some clue as to what had happened, you know.

"And so today I finally found that someone, Ems. Remember Mr. Arnolds, your dad's school friend? It was him. I went to see him in his office today. He was shocked to see me, to say the least. And then he just bear-hugged me! I'm not kidding; he most absolutely did do that! Ugh. Not one of my most treasured memories.

"But then soon after that he became all serious and apologetic. And then he gave me this...this package that your parents had left with him for me, instructing him to give it to me if I were to ever come to him for help.

He took a deep breath, having spoken the last few sentences in one single inhale, and then continued.

"And now I have some news for you. It's kind of bittersweet, but then I always did like odd flavours and bittersweet fits quite nicely I guess.

"So, the sweet part is that I now know where you are-"

He laughed breathily.

"-and I've never been happier to know of an address in my whole life! The fact that very soon I'll finally be seeing your beautiful face again is overwhelming. Seriously, love, my breathing still hasn't returned to its normal rate, and I don't think that it will anytime soon."

I couldn't help but smile at this, even though I knew that I had no memories of him and that I wouldn't have recognised him; because same as his laugh, his happiness was just contagious like that – at least to me it was.

Realising a second too late that he had stopped talking, the smile slowly started to melt from my face.

Why had he stopped talking?

It was then I remembered him saying that his news was bittersweet – he was now gathering up the courage to tell me the bitter part. Instantly dread filled every inch of my body, making my skin crawl as goose pumps appeared on it.

"Now comes the bitter part: I also know why you weren't there when I woke up; why nobody would tell me anything about you and; why... why you still aren't replying to my voicemails."

His breathing slowed down, his breaths coming across the phone's speaker in soft puffs. After a second's deafening silence, he added in a quiet voice,

"It's because you don't remember me,

"You woke up the very next day of our accident, but you had lost your memories of the last four years. That includes how we met in London, fell in love and then got married."

He sighed agonisingly slowly.

"You forgot it all, love.

"You forgot me."

He chuckled forcefully, not knowing then how horribly his forced laughter would affect me now.

I closed my eyes shut, trying to block the fresh batch of tears burning behind my eyelids. I knew that he couldn't possibly hear or know this then, but I still silently apologised to him for all the pain and heartache I had unknowingly caused.

"I was in a coma and the doctors didn't know whether I'd wake up or not. So your parents did what they had to do; they kept my existence a secret.

"And I'm glad they did that, love. I truly am! I mean I was in a coma for four years, Ems. I don't even want to imagine the amount of havoc that would've reeked in your life had you found out that you had a comatose husband."

He sighed once more before continuing.

"So that sort of messes up my plans to whisk you away into the sunset."

This time it was me who snorted. I couldn't believe he was cracking jokes when he had just learnt such a devastating truth.

'Amazing dork' my former self had called him on the night of the accident. I guessed she must have been right then.

Now when he began to speak, his voice held a new found measure of confidence and vigour.

"But don't you worry though, love. I'm coming for you. I have already booked myself a flight and tomorrow noon I'll land in Lincoln, the city where you're hiding from me. I'll find you and I'll fix this mess. I promise I'll make everything okay. Everything will be just the way it used to be. I promise.

"I love you with all my heart and soul, Ems; and I intend to remind you that you do too."

I took the phone away from my ear as the voicemail beeped to its end. Squinting at the screen, I just mindlessly stared at it for a few moments.

Do I though? Do I love him with all my heart and soul? I wondered to myself.

However, before I could begin to ponder upon this, my mind threw back a more demanding question: Can I even love someone whom I don't know the first thing about...?
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Lyrics of song "Scientist" by Cold Play:

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you
Tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets
And ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles
Coming up tails
Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh, take me back to the start

I was just guessing
At numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart

Questions of science
Science and progress
Do not speak as loud as my heart

Tell me you love me
Come back and haunt me
Oh, and I rush to the start

Running in circles
Chasing our tails
Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard

I'm going back to the start

Oh [x4]
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So this is chapter 10 guys. Please comment your thoughts about Emma's reaction to all of this. I need to know if you guys are in-phase with all of this that's happening.

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-zainab.