A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

Chapter 1

Her head throbbed as she opened her eyes and tried to get her eyes to focus. Reaching up she touched her head and it was soaking wet with blood. She blinked repeatedly trying to fight the tears that were trying to form in her eyes because she knew they would only make her somewhat blurry vision even worse. Her tears won the battle and began to fall down her cheeks as she leaned back on what was behind her.

"Hey, are you okay?" she heard a mans voice call out to her.

Looking up she tried to see who it was but her eyes still weren't focused and her tears still poured out of her eyes as the man reached her side. "What happened?"

"You don't know," he asked her.

"No," she said through her tears. "Where am I?"

"Cody call 911," she heard him say as she felt him put something around her shoulders. "Your clothes are ripped."

She wrapped her arms around herself. "I don't know what happened."

"It's okay. What's your name?"

She blinked repeatedly at the person in front of her realizing that her vision was becoming clearer even though her tears were still falling. "I-I don't know," she said quietly.

"It's okay. Mine name is Ted."

"They're on their way," she heard the other guy said.

She wiped her tears with her arm. "I'm scared."

"It'll be alright the police are on their way and an ambulance-" he began but she cut them off.

Shaking her head she said, "Will you come with me?" She said looking into his eyes searching for the answer she wanted to hear.

"Well, I don't know, we are supposed to be somewhere tomorrow," he said feeling her eyes searching him for answers that he didn't think he had.

"Ted, we'll be okay. We have a couple of hours to kill." He turned and looked at Cody.

"Okay," he said looking back at the girl. He sat down next to her and put his arm around her. She lay on his chest and that's when he knew that he couldn't leave her.

"My head hurts," she said as the sirens began to sound close by.

He took her hand into his disregarding the blood that was on them, "don't worry you'll be fine. I promise." He said as a police car pulled up behind the parked car in the parking garage.

"She doesn't know who she is," Ted said to Cody. "They are going to release her and she doesn't know where she is. We have to take her with us."

"Ted, think rationally about this the police will find out who she is. Someone will report her missing and she can go home. Get her memory back and everything will be fine."

The policeman walked out of her room and over to the two of them. "No one has filed a missing person report on her. She had no i.d. on her."

"What about her memory?" Ted asked.

"The doctor said it was from the blow to the head. They stitched her up but the memory will take some time to come back. Well hopefully it will come back."

"Hopefully?" Ted was concerned now.

"The doctor also said that there are a small percentage of people who have had concussions because of trauma to their head that do not regain their memory. We are going to do everything we can to find out who she is."

"Was she raped?" Ted inquired.

"Yes, they did a rape kit on her and it came out positive. We have no doubt that this was a robbery rape scenario with the bruises she also sustained all over her body."

"Will she be in the hospital over night?"

"No, they are signing her release papers now. I am going to take her to the police station until we find somewhere temporary for her to go."

"Can I take her?"

"Sir, do you think that is the right thing to do? We don't know anything about this woman."

"It doesn't matter. I don't want her to be put in a random home somewhere."

"Ted, I think you should-"

"Cody, I've made up my mind," Ted said looking at him than back at the officer. "I want her to come with me. I'll keep in touch with you daily if need be while we are traveling and you search for where she came from."

"Okay, well than you can sign the release papers and the hospital will release her into your custody." He said pulling out his note pad to write his information down. "Oh, you should know that she was asking for you."

"Was she?"

"That happens sometimes in amnesia cases the first person that they come in contact with they tend to trust with their lives."