It was early morning. She was standing in her hospital room looking out the window. She knew she had been there for three days and she knew something bad had happened to her.
She walked out the room and out in the hallway. She wanted coffee. She liked coffee. That she knew too. She went to the little room for the patients. There was a couple of tables with chairs and a television in there. She hadn't seen any other patients in there the first couple of days but today a man was sitting in there with a deck of cards, doing a solitaire. He looked up as she entered.
"Wow, you look like shit," he said.
She knew he was right. Her face was badly beaten up.
"You ain't too pretty yourself," she fired back, seeing he had a big wound on his forehead.
"Touché," he laughed.
She went to pour a cup of coffee. She would have gone back to her room but she couldn't stop looking at him.
"You're staring at me," he suddenly said.
"I'm sorry. It's just that you look so familiar," she said.
"I'm Seth Rollins," he said as if she should know that name.
She must have looked like a questionmark.
"I'm a professional wrestler. I work for WWE. Do you like wrestling?" He asked.
She looked down at her coffee.
"I don't know," she said.
"Well, have you watched it before?" He asked.
"I don't know," she answered, feeling even more stupid.
He gave her a weird look.
"Anyway, maybe you've seen my face on the internet or something like that. What's your name?" He asked.
She sighed.
"I don't know," she said for the third time.
"How does someone not know their own name?" He asked.
She might as well tell him. She had nothing to lose.
"I woke up here three days ago. They told me I had been found in an alley. I had been beaten up badly as you can already see in my face. I had no wallet or purse or anything on me so they don't know who I am. I have memory loss because of the attack so I don't know anything. The doctors say it probably will come back in time," she answered.
"Oh shit, I'm sorry for asking," he said.
"Don't be. It's okay," she said and walked out the room.
"Hey wait," he yelled after her down the hallway.
She stopped and turned to look at him. He came down to her.
"I know I can be a prick sometimes and I don't always think before I act but you don't have to leave because of me," he said.
"I don't. I just don't know how to react around people these days so I tend to stay in my room," she said.
"Please come to my room. You said I looked familiar. Let's find out if I might be able to trick something in your memory. If not, then at least we had a nice conversation," he said.
She shrugged her shoulders.
"Why not?" She said and followed him to his room.
She sat on his bed.
"What exactly happened to you to give you that pretty face?" She asked and pointed to his wound.
"Oh, I went head first into a table last night and it cut me open. They kept me here over night to make sure I don't have a concussion. I'm waiting for the doctor to stop by and give me the thumbs up to be released," he answered.
She nodded.
"By the way, I need to call you something. Since you can't remember your name, I'll give you a temporary one. I'll call you Star," he said.
"Star?" She asked and laughed.
It sounded a bit stupid but also a bit sweet.
"Yeah, Star is a good name. There's a million of them in the sky but somehow one of them always shines a bit brighter and you tend to look at that one. You're that star in this boring place," he said.
She blushed.
"Ah, here we go," he said and pulled out his phone.
He opened the internet and googled his own name.
"Here, take a look. There's a lot of stuff about me," he said and handed her the phone.
She looked through the headlines of the articles but nothing stood out. She went to look through the pictures.
"I know this," she suddenly said.
He looked at her. She turned his phone with a picture of him with two other guys.
"Believe in The Shield," she suddenly said, surprised by her own words.
"Yes, that's right," he hurried over to her and sat next to her.
He pointed to the two other men.
"That's Roman Reigns and that's Dean Ambrose," he said.
"I don't remember any names or anything else but I know I have to believe in The Shield. I just don't know why," she said and laughed.
"Well, we were huge. Today we're broken up but we're still good friends," he said.
He took the phone and opened YouTube.
"Let's see... Here, I got it. TLC 2012. We had a great match," he said and started the video.
He handed her the phone again.
For 30 minutes she sat there watching the match. She was blown away, loving every moment of it. He was just smiling. He couldn't help but feel proud. Not just proud of what he was doing on the screen that seemed to make her happy but proud that he had made a little breakthrough with this strange girl that the doctors hadn't been able to.
"That was amazing," she said and handed him the phone back as the video ended.
"Thanks," he said.
"So to answer your question earlier, I definitely like wrestling," she said, making him laugh.
The doctor entered his room.
"Hello Seth, I'm here to see if I can clear you," he said.
"Cool, I'm ready to leave this place," Seth said.
"I better leave then," she said.
"Star, wait," he said.
She turned around to face him. He reached out his arm, his hand folded into a fist. She did the same and put her fist to his.
"Believe in The Shield," he said and winked at her.
She smiled and walked out of his room. He could hear her yelling as she walked down the hallway.
"Believe in The Shield!"
15 minutes later she heard knocking on her door. She turned around to see Seth standing there.
"The doctor cleared me," he said.
"That's good. So you'll be going home now. Lucky you," she said.
"You'll be going home soon too, don't you think?" He said, immetiately regretting his words. "Oh shit, I'm sorry, I forgot for a second..."
"It's okay. If I ever get my memory back and remember where I actually live, yes, then I'll be going home. Till then they're keeping me here," she said.
She turned around and looked out the window again. He walked over to her and wrapped his arms around her from behind, dragging her into him.
"What are you looking at?" He asked.
"The birds. I like seeing them fly, especially the big ones like the crows. They are beautiful," she answered.
He looked at them for a couple of seconds in silence while holding her like that.
"It was really nice meeting you. You are a special girl, Star, and I don't just say that because of what you've been through. There's something about you I can't quite figure out but I know that I like it," he said and kissed her cheek.
He let go off her and she turned around.
"I can't thank you enough for today. It might not mean a lot to you or any doctor here that I remember I like wrestling but it means so much to me," she said.
"I can only imagine," he said, sticking out his fist to her again.
She bumbed her fist against his.
"Believe in The Shield," they both said.
"Goodbye Star," he said and walked out of the room.