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"I was in a coma," Nina breathed, staring at her 'brother' in disbelief. She couldn't believe it. Did that mean everything that she remembered was a lie?

"Eddie, what about Trudy and Victor? Where are they?" she asked suddenly, but all she did was get her hopes up.

"Who are they?" Eddie replied, dumbfounded.

Nina let out a frustrated sigh before continuing. "Fine. Then what about these names: Fabian, Amber, Alfie, KT, Willow, Jerome, Mara, or Joy?"

The boy only let out a short laugh. "You're joking, right? Or are you absolutely insane?"

She decided to take that as a 'no'.

"How about Patricia?" Nina asked hopefully. This was her last attempt at trying to get him to remember anything. If he didn't remember Patricia then there was definitely no hope.

Eddie began to shake his head, but stopped suddenly.

"The only Patricia I know of is the girl over there," he replied, nodding towards the bed on the other side of the room. "I think the doctor said her name was Patricia Williamson. She's been here for about two weeks, and it doesn't look like she's going to wake up anytime soon… But how do you know about her? Nina, you've been in a coma for nearly two months."

Nina felt her breath hitch in her throat. Two months? She had been asleep for two whole months.

It took her a few more minutes to work up the courage to ask another question. "Eddie, what about Gran. Is she okay?"

She had to know. In the world she had thought was real, Gran had been her only family. She didn't know what she would do if her Gran wasn't well.

Eddie glanced over at her with sorrowful eyes and Nina felt her heart sink. "She's been dead for five years."

Suddenly, Nina felt sick to her stomach. Gran, the only family she had, was dead. Instead she had been replaced by parents; two people that Nina wasn't sure if she even wanted in her life.

"Eddie," she whispered, trying to stop the tears that threatened to escape. "What happened? I don't remember anything."

He looked extremely hurt by that statement, but she could tell he was trying not to show it. She could only imagine how hard this was for him. With a deep breath, he began.

"We're in Liverpool, England. We just moved here a few months ago to be with dad. He's lived here for quite a while now because he got a decent job. When mom finally gave in, the three of us moved from America to here. We were only here a couple of days before you got in an awful car accident…"

He trailed off, which Nina was grateful for. She didn't necessary want the details of how she ended up in a hospital bed.

Without any warning, the door to the room was thrown open and two people entered. One of them she recognized immediately.

"Mr. Sweet?!" Nina exclaimed as she stared at the man in disbelief. For some reason, everyone seemed to ignore her words.

"Oh I missed you so much!" The woman, who Nina assumed was her mother, cried as she engulfed her in a gigantic bear hug. "Nina Miller-Sweet, don't you ever scare me like that again!"

Of course, Nina faked a smile and tried to act enthusiastic throughout the remainder of the hospital's visiting hours, but there was an aching pain in her chest.

When her parents and Eddie left, she watched as the day workers at the hospital left and the night shift people arrived. The doctors came in and removed the wires and tubes before leaving once more. It took a while, but finally the lights were turned off and Nina was left in complete silence.

And then she did the thing she had been waiting to do all day. She rolled over, buried her face into her pillow, and let out a loud scream.

She couldn't believe it; everything was a lie. Nina Martin had never really existed at all.


As the night went on, Nina only lied in bed. She couldn't go to sleep, not with all the questions that kept resurfacing in her mind.

That's when Nina found herself staring at the other side of the room. She glanced around aimlessly until her eyes locked on something, the empty chair beside Patricia's bed.

The dirty blonde haired girl quickly hopped up and made her way over to her roommate's bed before plopping down in the chair. She observed the lifeless form before letting out a deep sigh. She looked so vulnerable. The Patricia she had known would have hated to look vulnerable. In fact, she would have probably slapped her in the face for even thinking that.

Nina let out a small chuckle as she remembered her old friend. But soon enough, the dreadful, heartbroken feeling that she had felt all day long soon returned. What if Patricia didn't even act the same? What if she was… nice?

Finally, she began tired of the silence and decided to speak to the only person she really could. Even though Patricia couldn't hear her, it still made her feel better to talk to someone.

"Um, hey, Patricia. I know you probably don't want me talking to you right now. You'd probably pour water on my head and yell at me for being up too early. You never were a morning person," Nina recalled, a genuine smile growing on her face for the first time that day.

"So, apparently I made everything up. Anubis House, the boarding school, Sibuna, everything. I still don't see how that's possible. I mean, it was all so real… And I miss Fabian. A lot. I mean, you have to know how that feels, right? You don't have Eddie anymore. I wonder how your life's been going without him. I can't remember a time when you were truly happy until the day you two became a couple…"

She trailed off and fixed her light blue gaze on Patricia's pale face. "I know you would normally kill me for saying this, but I need you, Patricia. I need a friend to talk to; someone that I knew as Nina Martin, not someone who knows me as Nina Miller-Sweet. I can't talk to Eddie, and I don't know where anyone else is, heck, I don't even know if they exist…

"Please, Patricia, wake up. Wake up for your best friend, Nina Martin."

And then something truly amazing happened. A subtle beeping came from the machine beside Patricia's bed. Nina felt excited wash over her as she watched the auburn haired girl. Next thing she knew, a pair of familiar greyish blue-green eyes were staring into her own.


I hope this chapter was okay. Comments, critique, suggestions, etc. are welcome! The next chapter should be out soon, depending on the response this gets.

Also, I would like to take a minute to tell you guys about something. The city next to mine had just suffered from a gigantic F5 tornado that hit an elementary school. Only 32 of the hundreds of kids there survived. Could you guys pray for that town for me, or at least wish them good luck in rebuilding?

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