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Prologue

My day long intense basketball training session had finally finished, I was starving, exhausted and hungry. I was lying down on one of the benches texting my friends about plans we had for tomorrow while waiting for my parents to pick me up so I could go home, have dinner, a hot shower and curl up in my bed.

"Emerson!" I looked away from my phone at the sound of my name, I hated my name and requested all my friends to call me 'Em' or 'Emmy' I had one friend who changed my name for me and started calling me Emery and it stuck with all my basketball teammates but what made my name worse was my last name, technically I was Emerson Grayson.

I looked over at the car and noticed it was my parents, of course it was. My parents were the only ones that still called me Emerson, well my sister as well but only when she was angry with me.

I was ecstatic that I was going home, it gave me a chance to do a bit of studying after eating and showering before going to sleep. I was a Junior in high school and had finals this week.

I sat up and grabbed my bags and headed over to the car, I placed my bag in the boot before going and getting in the backseat.

"How was training sweetie?" mum turned in her seat and looked at me while dad drove.

"Horrible, I can't believe they wanted to start the intense training so early. I had finals this week and then the summer break starts soon and I'm off to that basketball camp. Normally the intense training starts the week everyone gets back from camp"

"Maybe they're hoping you can get a head start and you'll be able to take home a championship win next year. Aren't most of your varsity members seniors?"

"Yeah they are but I don't think Sarah is coming back next year. Did you hear what happened to her parents, something went wrong with their investments and they lost all their money. Sarah's parents can't afford tuition anymore"

I went some fancy school a town over from where I lived, they had this incredible basketball program that I wanted to be involved in. So my parents sent me there while my younger brother and sister attended the school in our home town.

My sister was a year younger than me and my brother was three years younger than. My sister and I rarely got along, mum always said it was because we were so alike but I didn't think so. I thought we were complete opposites, there were times I wished we looked different but we had very similar features that caused people to think we were twins, they only thing we didn't have in common was our hair and eye colour. She had dark brown hair while mine was blonde, her eyes were brown while mine were bright blue. Everything we shared, the full lips, almond shaped eyes that people always said were doe like.

I fell into an easy conversation with my parents on the way home when my mum's phone rang.

"Elena, I thought you were at the party with your friends?" Elena, my sister spent most of her weekends with her friends getting drunk at whatever party they had decided to hold for the weekend.

This is where we were different, I went to a private school and was so focused on basketball that I spent my time either training or studying rarely having time for my friends but I was lucky that most of my friends were on the school team with me. Whereas Elena was a part of the cheerleading squad with her two best friends, one of which was so perky and annoying it was unbelievable.

"Alright, we will be there soon. We're just on our way home from picking Emerson up from training"

All I could hear was mum's side of the conversation but I wouldn't be surprised if Elena was complaining that we couldn't be there straight away. I let out a sigh and shunk in the backseat, all I wanted to do was go straight home but now I knew I wouldn't get that option. I knew Elena would have gone there with her friends and boyfriend, who of which can drive but instead was bugging mum and dad to pick her up because she was being a sook.

Mum eventually got off the phone from Elena and told dad where the party was and we started heading that way. I didn't say anything to my parents, ignoring mum's attempts at a conversation and closed my eyes putting in my headphones for the rest of the journey.

I took notice of when we finally pulled over and came to a stop, I even noticed when someone got in the car beside me but I didn't open my eyes and acknowledge Elena. She was being a sook for whatever reason and wanted to leave the party early.

Elena leaned over and yanked on my headphones pulling them out of my ears. I snapped my eyes opened and turned my head to glare at her.

"How was training Em?"

"Long and hard Elena, I was looking forward to going home having something eat, having a hot shower and then getting in bed but no you had to ring mum and beg her to come pick you up from your party" I snapped at her as I grabbed my headphones and put them back in.

I knew I shouldn't have snapped at her, something could have happened that made her want to go home early. As much as we didn't get along I was always there for my younger sister when she needed me, I was her older sister and would always be there if she did need me no matter how often we fought.

I had gone back to having my eyes closed and ignoring my family but it wasn't until I heard a scream over my music that I opened my eyes just in time to see that dad had lost control of the car, we had gone off the bridge and were heading towards the water.

We hit the water with a thud and quickly began sinking to the bottom of the river while the car was filling up with water. I looked over at Elena and she was unconscious and in the front I could see dad trying to get his seatbelt undone and I could see my mum not moving at all. I was so scared that we were going to die down here and Jeremy, my baby brother was going to be left with only uncle John and aunt Jenna left as family.

I started pulling on my seatbelt like dad just hoping I could get free but it wasn't any use but I wasn't willing to give up, I couldn't let Jeremy be left alone.

I heard someone tap on the window and looked over, there was someone at dads window but he was pointing towards the backseat. I don't know how he did but he managed to get the door open and Elena's seatbelt off and took her out. I started freaking out more now that there was more water filling the car, I noticed dad had now stopped moving. I hoped he was just unconscious and not dead.

Just as I was starting to get light headed and dizzy causing me to give up on my seatbelt my door opened, the person there didn't look anything like the guy that saved Elena so I could only hope that he would be back for my parents soon enough.

When we finally reached the surface I was coughing and choking trying anything to get more air into my lungs but I noticed that Elena was nowhere near us, I looked over and saw flashing lights further down. I hoped Elena was there and they were helping her as well as getting my parents out off the car and water and everyone would be fine.

I was still struggling for air when we reached the land and I tried to stand but my legs gave out on my and I fell over hitting my head on something on the way down causing everything to go black.

When I woke up I had a killer headache, all I could do was roll over and put a pillow over my head just hoping it would help get rid of it. I tried to think back on what I did last night that would cause me a headache this bad but I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember anything. It was all blank, that was when I shot up in the bed and looked around the room. Nothing looked familiar at all, I started to panic.

"Good morning sunshine, glad to see you're awake about time too. I was getting bored waiting for you to wake up" I looked over at where the voice was coming from, it was a girl that had an olive complexion, brown curly hair and brown round almond shaped eyes.

"Do you know who I am? I don't remember anything"

"That's no fun, I was hoping to find out some information on your sister" I stared at her as she walked over and plopped down on the end of the bed I was in, there was one tiny bit of information I could out of her and it was that I had a sister.

"I have a sister?"

"Yes you do and no I can't contact her. I don't even know her name"

"Do you have any idea what my name is?"

"Nope, now go shower and get dressed while I think of something to call you because sunshine will get boring after a while" she pointed towards a door that I assumed was the bathroom. I got up off the bed and headed towards the bathroom. When I entered it I caught sight of myself in the mirror

"Are you sure you aren't my sister, we look similar" I asked the girl in the other room but all I got in response was a laugh.

Thinking I wasn't going to get a response, I climbed into the shower and enjoyed the hot water that came from it.

When I exited the shower I realised I had no clothes, so I grabbed a towel and wrapped it around my body and headed back out to the bedroom. The girl was gone but there were clothes spread out on the bed, a pair of tight black skinny jeans, a green top and a leather jacket as well as a bra and some underwear.

I left the room in search of the brunette hoping she would give me any more information on anything I couldn't remember and I found her sitting in what appeared to be a kitchen.

"There you look much better, now I believe I will call you Summer"

"Do I get any say in the name?"

"Not unless you can tell me your own" I frowned at her, I had no idea what my name was but there was something telling me it wasn't Summer. "Excellent, now eat" she pointed to the food on the counter.

"If you're going to call me Summer, what am I going to call you?"

"You sunshine, can call me Katherine" she gave me this one sided smirk that almost seemed mischievous. I couldn't remember anything and I sure as hell just hoped this wasn't going to end badly. I shrugged as I took a seat at the kitchen counter and started eating the food that was in the take out containers.