The girl woke up groggy and disoriented, her head felt as if someone had chopped it with an axe. She groaned and reached to put her hand on her forehead only to notice the tubes coming out of her arm. She let out a panicked cry and looked about frantically. She was in a hospital, she was hooked up to noisy machines that made her head hurt.
Why does my head hurt? She asked herself. She closed her eyes and concentrated but nothing came. She looked down at her hands, hoping she might find the answer written on her palms. To her surprise she actually did find an answer on her hand. It was written in her left palm in black marker. It said, "My name is Emma." She looked at the four words and scrambled to remember if it was true. Again, she came up with nothing.
"What happened to me?" she asked, finally touching her injured head, only to yelp in pain and looked back down on her hand to find flakes of dried blood. Her stomach began to twist like silly-putty. Tears stung her eyes.
The door opened to let in three teenage boys along with a man in a long white coat with a clipboard in his hands, who she assumed was a doctor. Behind the doctor was a police officer holding a notepad.
She looked closely at the boys, trying to see if any of them looked familiar, but sadly, she didn't recognize any of them.
The tallest one looked at her wearily, he wore a white tank top and green swim trunks and brown flip flops. Next to him was a boy wearing a red tank top, blue swim trunks and what looked like a black sock on his head. He gave her a sympathetic smile, revealing a gap between his two front teeth. The smile wasn't much, but it made her feel a little better. The shortest one wore black swim trunks and a red Hawaiian shirt, his eyebrows were pierced and he had a goatee. He was looking at her as if she was a member of a freak show at a circus.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Eddward Hart," the middle one said, "But everyone calls me Double-D." He indicated the tall guy on his left, "This is Ed." Then pointed to the guy on his right, "And this is Eddy. We're the ones who found you."
"Found me?" she asked, "What do you mean?"
The doctor put a comforting hand on her shoulder, "We're going to need to have a long talk."
"So, let me get this straight." She began, "So you found me out cold leaning against a fence with a butcher's knife stuck in my head."
"Yes." Double-D confirmed.
"It was nasty." Ed commented.
"Well, at least that explains my headache." She said.
"Do you remember what happened?" the police officer asked her.
"Nope. Nothing." She said, "I tried remembering what happened when I woke up but all I got was a headache."
"Oh, well. What's your name, girl?"
"My name?" she looked down at her palm, and showed them, "According to my hand, my name is Emma."
"Why would you write your name on your hand?" Eddy asked.
"I have no idea."
"You don't remember anything else?" Double-D asked. 'Emma' shook her head, "Sorry."
"Well, I'll write a report and check any missing persons cases for any albino pre-teens." The officer said, writing something down in a notebook and leaving.
"Wait, I'm albino?" She exclaimed, inspecting her pale white body, "wait, what's albino mean?"
"An albino is someone who was born without any pigment in their skin."
"So that's why she's so pale?" Eddy asked.
"Exactly."
"So she's not a ghost?" Ed asked. Eddy and Double-D both face-palm, 'Emma' simply looks at him with concern and asks, "Are you sure he doesn't have a head injury too?"
"Nope." Eddy said with a sigh, "That's just Ed."
"Eddward?" a thin man and woman with black hair rush in, both looking concerned.
"Mother? Father?" Double-D manages to say before they rush to embrace him.
"Thank Goodness you're all right!" his mother exclaims.
"Of course I am. What would make you think otherwise?"
"Edwin?" Another woman calls, a woman with blonde hair dashes in with a red haired man and a young red haired girl (cough cough SARAH cough cough) The woman grabs him by the shoulder and begins to shake him "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, Mom." Ed replies, confused.
"Eddy!" Another blonde woman along with the largest man 'Emma' had ever seen run in and inspect Eddy. "What happened?"
"Okay, I'm confused." Emma says, cradling her aching head in her hands.
"We all got a call that you three were in the hospital." Eddy's mom explains, "So what happened?"
"These boys saved this girl's life." The doctor announced patting the boys on the back, "They found this girl half alive with a butcher's knife in her head on the street and called 911."
The parents and Sarah look at 'Emma'.
"Um… hi?" she greets them, "I'm Emma, I think?"
A week later, 'Emma' is discharged from the Peach Creek Hospital and into Phoebe and Morgan Hart's custody, at Double-D's request. After a very in-depth tour of the house and a lengthy list of the rules of the house, they finally make it to the last room of the house.
"Here we are!" Double-D announces once they reach the guest room, "Your room!" Emma looks around the mostly empty room. The walls are bare except for a single painting of pears, a twin bed with pears on the covers and on the throw pillows. The dresser is a pale green as well as the vanity. The window looks out onto the cul-de-sac where Zoe, Kevin, Jimmy and Sarah are hanging out on Jimmy's lawn.
She admires the room with a small smile, until she sees her reflection in the vanity's mirror. On her forehead and up into her hairline is bandaged from the butcher's knife she took to the head, she frowns when she sees it and she tries to cover it with her hair, but fails. Double-D sees this and slips out of the room and grabs one of his spare hats and places it over her head, hiding her bandage!
She looks in the mirror, then turns and smiles at him, "Thanks Double-D!" she reaches out to give him a hug, but stops herself, confused as to why she stopped. Double-D shakes his head and shakes her hand.
"You're very welcome, Emma." He motions towards the window, "You ready to meet your new neighbors?"
"As ready as I can be."
"I'll take it."
(Author's note: okay, I said that it's a spin off of Easymac120's EEnE fan fic, and it is. I just needed to establish Emma's memory loss problem first for plot reasons, don't worry, everyone else will come in soon, I just needed to get this part done. M'kkkkaaayy? Zoe is in the next part so you know it will be awesome.)
