Hello peoples. My new fanfic, based on Remember December by Demi Lovato. Hope you all will like it. I know it won't be perfect, but hey, a girl can try.

I don't own KC or the song. Boo hoo.


Carter awoke to a pounding headache. But that wasn't the only problem. His vision was filled with unfamiliar faces, all of them looking concerned.

"Carter? Are you okay?" a girl asked. She had short black hair, and Arab features. She was wearing cotton pajamas, a boomerang strapped to her waist.

"Who...who are you?" he asked. The headache was starting to grow.

The girl's face twisted in confusion. "Carter, it's me. Aarya."

He had never heard that name before. "I don't know you."

"That's too bad," a boy next to her snorted. He had dirty blonde hair and pale skin. He, too, was wearing cotton pajamas, but instead of a boomerang, he had a sword strapped to his side.

"Peter!" another girl scolded. Her hair was white with pale skin. She was also...what was up with the cotton pajamas?

Looking closer, he realized that her hair was actually white. Not like the super bright blonde, but actual white. Who were these people?

"Whatever, Oddette," the boy, Peter, snorted.

"Don't call me that!" Odette snapped.

Aarya looked at Carter apologetically. "Sorry about that, Carter. I'm going to go get the others to see." She stood up and left.

Peter peered at Carter uncertainly. "Dude, are you sure you don't remember me? I'm your best friend."

"And you know well enough to call me Ette, not my full name," Odette added, glaring at Peter.

"Um...no. I don't know either of you. Or whoever that girl was," Carter said. He tried to stand up, but as soon as his his feet touched the floor, the pain in his head increased.

"Stay on the bed," Ette said. Carter figured he should call her that, considering her reaction to her full name.

Aarya came back with four more people.

"I guess I should re-introduce you to them," Aarya sighed. She pointed to herself. "I'm Aarya. This is Peter." She pointed to Peter. "Ette, who's real name is Odette." Odette glared at Aarya.

Aarya pointed to the girl with brown hair with blue highlights in it. "And here's Paige."

Paige smiled. "I can't believe you don't recognize your girlfriend, Carter. How sad.

Aarya's face heated up. "Shut up, Paige."

"Well, it's true."

Aarya ignored her and pointed to a buff-looking kid. "Hunter."

"'Sup, Carter?" Hunter nodded at him, but Carter detected a note of hostility in his tone.

"Irma." A girl with blonde hair waved at him. She was small, but she was probably undoubtbly fast.

"And Saul." The last one was a boy with black hair. He nodded at Carter, but said nothing.

"Do you really not remember us?" Irma asked.

"Um...no."

"We were battling the House of Life," Paige said.

"The House of what?"

"Life. Now stop interrupting," Paige snapped. "We were battling a group of people. What Nome were they again?" Paige asked.

Odette shrugged. "I don't know. The Twenty-First?"

"Gnomes?" Carter asked, thinking of garden gnomes.

Irma shuddered. "I hate those things. No. N-O-M-E."

Carter had the distinct feeling he had heard that before.

"Anyway," Paige continued. "One of them cast a spell on you and made you lose your memory. You hit your head pretty hard. It was a good thing that we got to you before that weirdo girl did. Zia?"

Aarya scowled and smacked Paige's arm. "Don't talk about her."

"Okay, okay. Gosh, Aarya. Calm down," Paige grumbled, rubbing her arm.

Carter frowned. Zia...he knew that name. A girl. Someone he knew. Someone he cared about.

"And by the way, Aarya is your girlfriend," Ette added.

"What?"

"Shut up, Ette!" Aarya said hotly. She looked at Carter. "You should rest. You hit your head hard."

Carter didn't remember anything. He was pretty sure he had never met these people in his entire life. But he didn't argue. He just closed his eyes and went to sleep, shutting out all sounds.


Zia paced around the library, searching through scrolls and jotting down notes.

Sadie appeared beside her, reading the notes Zia was writing down. "Zia, you should probably rest. We'll find him. I promise."

"I don't know, Sadie," Zia sighed. "This has me so worked up..."

"Amos is Cheif Lector, and-"

"I know he's Cheif Lector, Sadie."

Sadie shot her a look that said Can I continue please? Zia shrugged, showing that she didn't care.

"Amos has his best magicians searching for Carter. We will find him, even if we have to strangle the answer out of Apophis.

Zia smiled weakly before returning to her notes. She didn't know why she was so worked up over Carter's disappearence. The people who took them...

"No."