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room, kept me in a seriously appalled state. The s

tay there anymore or even stay within feets from him. It was so disheartenin

w left me with nothing but t

ss I felt within my heart. I looked outside the school's environmen

down my face in relentless torrents. My body shook with

of the night. The pain was suffocating, making it hard to breathe

ent directly towards the building entrance, and I saw Grey walking out– well, pract

elids and eyebrows. His sunken cheeks and the dark circles under the eyes were ver

me fading into insignificance. All that mattered was the

avoid letting him come any closer t

main road to the school's gate but I already knew what h

little I believed I knew about him helped me to think ahead of him in that moment as I was determined more th

s swirled like a tempest. Tears of anger and bet

tightly, my knuckles were white with

screen but I wasn't so focused and everything felt so jumbled up so, I turned on the windshi

e a cruel loop: walking in on my fiance with another woman

ward the other road, my anger and hurt boiled o

d, but I could only see a reflection of a car light that got m

ugh my hair as a result of the speed with which I drove my car in a frantic

my mouth and the last thing that filled my ears were the sound of glasses shattering. And in that fleeting

ff the road, and I felt a strange sense of

around me went blank and dissolved into a dark void

harsh beeping of machines that now sounded more clearly, and the sterile smell of hospital antiseptic. Groggily, I opened my eyes to find myself surro

that shot up through my head was s

an cladded in white said as walked up to me and pick

realization hit me, what

move, but a sharp pain shot through my body, forcing me to remain still. Tears pri

but the sudden dryness that rose up in my thro

extending a medium sized plastic cup filled with

nd then gulping down the cool and satisfying content in

tasted so good.

er now?" He asked me an

n response, "but,

ion because my mind

ad a very serious accident. It's a miracl

y in disagreement, "bu

accident, actually. This is the fir

began to sink in. At that moment, I was overcome with emotion. A small s

should be happy because it's a miracle." He

ked him in the midst

o console me when we were distract

on darted t

claimed and then move

aming her face with delicacy and making her round cute brown eyes which still glimmered with youthfulness, stand out. Her fi

fined features and poised demeanor. The luxurious fabric draped elegantly across her shoulders, accen

hugged her curves in all the right places, exuding understated sophisticat

earlier but I had to explain a few thin

As she approached me, I could see a warmth flood her eyes

he gasped, a faint teary

is." The do

ealize had entered, ca

lue orbs were dull and looked sad but there was a

ingers had combed through them multiple times. His angul

indeed

ade it." He said, his vo

was. In fact, the only one I knew who stood in that room with me, was the doctor and tha

in shock at the way I behaved, I

" He asked, "like she'

e's giving us, like we're stran

d, as she was also experiencin

ately panic flooded my bloodstream and I moved away from he

m with unspoken demands to tell them to leave

them and took three steps toward

you will shock you all but I hope that you handle it with maturit

ing in a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that affected her temp

octor escaped the mouth of the lady as her palms

severally in confus

laimed while I star

mories are stored. So right now, she doesn't recognise you both or anyone from a specifi

w who they were? And wha

e that she'll start to r

l were they

or not. We just have to wait and see

ar dropped from her eyes while she

octor said and turned to leave,

rything you just said." I

but the woman put her hand up

lled me softly an

ng that you've lost your memories as a result of the ac

at can't

round my body and suffocating my entire being. The air in my lung

labored and the

ked her again, not sure

ooked over her shoulder to the completely emotionally disorganised man who wa

gone and the question of who I was will continue to be a ta

d to be my stepmother said as she patt

azy vision, I wondered, was

live but why did I feel dead on