Hey guys! I've been desperate to write this for a few weeks and here is the first chapter. I'm only going to continue if I get a good response from the first chapter. If I do, I will let you know what kind of posting schedule I'll be on. Enjoy!

I wake up staring at a bright light on a white ceiling. I try to sit up, but my head hurts so bad that I can hardly move. I begin to panic.

"Hello?" I say shakily. "HELLO!" I begin to get louder, I can feel my eyes welling up and I start to cry. The sound of fast footsteps gets closer to me. I see a dark skinned woman standing over me.

"She's awake!" she yells to someone behind her. She's dressed in scrubs. "It's okay honey stay calm." A nurse and a doctor come in behind her, they all stand over me. That's when I realise I'm in a hospital. The other nurse sits me up in my bed, she has red hair and fair skin. I look around at them, the Doctor is tall, he has greyish brown hair.

"What's happening?" I ask. I'm scared to death.

"You've been in a coma for 6 weeks, can you remember anything honey?" I scan my brain for something, anything, my mind feels blank. I manage to grasp onto something in the darkness of my head. My name.

"Alice, that's my name. I can't remember anything!" I cry harder. The nurse strokes my head trying to calm me down.

"It's okay Alice, we'll figure this out, I'm Nurse Jackson, and this is Nurse Brittany and Dr. McAndrew." I take a few deep breaths and Nurse Brittany hands me a cup of water. The cold sensation on my chapped lips feels so weird. Once I catch my breath. I notice the beeping sound from the machine I'm hooked up to. I have an IV drip in my hand and a cannula tube on. Nurse Jackson dries my eyes with a tissue. I feel a little more calm now.

"How did I get here?" I ask. "Why does my head hurt?" Dr. McAndrew pulls a clipboard up from the end of my bed, he flicks a page up.

"You have had a traumatic brain injury, which explains why you can't remember anything, you have a severe concussion Alice. You fell from quite high up." I'm so confused.

"I fell? From where?" I sip more water.

"You were on a cliff in the Monterey Bay Area. You hit your head on the way down and landed on a ledge, lucky for you there were some bystanders who called 991 immediately." How is that Lucky? I could've died, well I guess the lucky part is that I didn't die. I hear a voice from out in the hallway, it's a girl.

"Nurse Jackson I-"

"Not now Emma, go find Kenji." She says. I look over to the girl who is staring through the glass wall in my room. She's beautiful and so thin. She looks over to me and then walks away.

"Was I alone?" I ask Dr McAndrew.

"Yes, we have no background information on you whatsoever, so, as much as we know you need rest, we also need you try and find something in your mind, some kind of memory." I nod. He nods back and leaves the room after saying something to the Nurses, I wasn't really listening.

"You're probably starving, let me get you some toast." Nurse Brittany smiles brightly at me and heads out of my clean white room.

"I'll just be out there at the nurses station," she points across the hall. "Keep drinking your water and give me or Britt a shout if you need something." She smiles, strokes my head one last time and leaves.

All I can think of is what the hell I was doing on a Cliff in Monterey Bay. I keep drinking and searching my mind, like Dr McAndrew said. I look to my left and see the LA Skyline. It's dark out so it must be getting late. Naturally I'm not tired having been asleep for 6 weeks. I cross my legs trying sit a little more comfortably. I look ahead of me and there is a digital clock on the wall, it reads 22:04. My legs feel weird but I'm desperate to get up and walk. I slowly pull my legs aside of me, I grab on the stand my drip is attached to, pull the monitor of my finger and try to push myself out of my bed. The floor is cold, but it's nice. I'm standing up facing the window. I try to take a step and suddenly my legs give way and I fall to the floor giving a loud thud.

"Alice!" I hear Nurse Jackson yell, she runs in and helps my back into my bed. "What were you thinking?" she says sternly. "You've had a serious head injury, you can't walk yet!" I'm thankful she says 'yet'. She puts the sheets back over me.

"Sorry, I just wanted to try. I didn't realise." she sat on the edge of my bed.

"Well if you want to get out of the room we can get you a chair and take you round the halls a little bit?" I nod and give a weak smile. She gets up and begins to walk away. "Stay put young lady." I begin to see her personality more. After a few minutes she walks back in with a wheel chair and Nurse Brittany. Brittany takes my sheets off of me carefully and helps me swing my legs over the edge of the bed again. Nurse J positions the chair next to my bed and puts the breaks on. Each of them took one of my arms and helped me into the chair.

"We can take this out now right?" Brittany says to Nurse Jackson. She nods back and they unscrew the plastic tube attached to my hand, leaving the needle and everything else on my hand. They pick up an oxygen tank from behind my bed and attach it to the back of the chair.

Before I know it we're out of my room and in the hall away. Nurse Jackson starts to speak but I wasn't paying attention, because I noticed something on my legs, scars, dozens of them. What could they be from? I look up to my arms and noticed there are even more there.

"Alice?" Nurse Jackson says. "You okay honey?" she stops the chair. I don't reply. She walks around me and crouches down at my knees. She sees what I'm looking at.

"Did-" I pause. "Did I do this?" I ask her. She looks sympathetic and nods. My heart sinks, I don't know who I am but I didn't expect to be this person. It was terrifying to think that my life wasn't a happy one.

"You know, Alice," she says, "when you came in here, they were- they were fresh." I feel a tear run down my cheek, she wipes it away. I admire her honesty. "Hold on a sec." She walks back over to the nurses station and when she comes back she has a cardigan and a blanket. She helps me get my arms into the cardigan and drapes the blanket over my legs. All the scars were covered. I guess I felt a little better. She continued to wheel me down the hall, I listened to her this time. We stop outside a room.

"This is Kara and Charlie's room." I see a girl with blonde hair sitting on a couch on the far side of the room. "Kara this is Alice, she woke up about 20 minutes ago."

"Hey." she says not even looking up from her fashion magazine.

"And this, is Charlie, he's in a coma just like you were." I see little boy, about 12, lying motionless on his bed. "Kara, get some sleep." Nurse J says wheeling me further down the hall. She gestures to different rooms with other patients saying who they are, some of them my ages, some older, some younger. We get in the elevator at the end of corridor. "There's this great group of kids here that I want you to meet, I think it would be good for you to get to know them."

I don't even know who I am, how could some nurse know what would be good for me? We reach a room with graffiti all over the windows. It says 'THE SWAMP' in cool writing. She knocks on the glass and we're in the doorway. There is a group of teenagers sitting in there. They look up at us.

"Guys, this is Alice." she says. A boy with dark hair stands up and walks over.

"Oh you're awake!" I nod.

"This is Jordi, he came and played his guitar for you a few times while you were in your coma." I smiled at him and he smiled back, he looked embarrassed, I know I was.

"I'm Leo," a boy who was also in a wheelchair came over and shook my hand. He was bald with amazing eyebrows. He was kinda cute, so was Jordi. "And this is Dash and Emma." He gestured to a dark skinned boy and the girl who was outside my room when I woke up. "Don't give Jordi all the credit, we all tried to get you to wake up! I played all of Taylor Swifts albums to you!" He laughed.

"Yeah, and watched basketball with you, even though you couldn't see, I thought maybe the annoying squeaky shoes would wake up." I laughed at him.

"I read to you, everything from Paper Towns to Shakespeare." she smiled.

"And Kara, she painted your nails for you." Jordi said. I looked down at them. They were blank. I looked back at him confused. "She took it after though. She just wanted to freak Nurse J out, they were this washed out blue colour, it looked like you had lost the blood flow to your hands."

"It worked too, and I thought no one could pull the wool over my eyes." Nurse J said with a sassy tone.

"Um, it was really nice meeting you guys, I guess I'll see you all around." Nurse J took that as her cue to take me back to my room.

"You getting tired yet Alice?" she says as we walk down the hall.

"Not really, my head hurts."

"We'll get you some painkillers, they'll make you pretty drowsy, so you'll probably get a good nights sleep anyway." We got back to my room. When we got in, Nurse Brittany was putting a plate of toast on my table. Her and Nurse J helped me back into my bed and brought me some painkillers and I ate my toast. Although it was just toast it was amazing. All I could think of while I drifted off to sleep is what would tomorrow bring? I pushed the table away, lowered my bed and closed my eyes.