Chapter 2: You Need a Name

I just sat there wondering who I was as the person that took care of me was cleaning up. Come to think of it, I didn't know her name. She seemed nice but I was still a little uneasy with the fact that I couldn't move and she had all of these medical things around me. If she wanted to, she could inject me with something and I wouldn't know if it was going to hurt me or make me better. I looked around the room and realized that she wasn't there. 'Where did she go?' I started to get nervous but it wasn't long before I heard the door shut from behind me. I really hated how I couldn't see who entered the room. She pulled a chair up to the side of the bed and sat down.

"Well, since your going to be here a while, I guess I should introduce myself." She said. Something about the way she was looking at me made me feel a lot better."The name's Tina, and I'll be here to help you get back to full health and to find out who you are."

There was a pause where I should have said something but couldn't. I heard the door open and close from behind me. 'Who else is here?' I wondered.

"Paul, what are you doing here?" I heard Tina ask him. They were both out of my view. "I thought you weren't going to be back till next week."

I heard them kiss then a male voice said,"I only told you that so I could surprise you. What are you doing up so late anyway?"

I started to get worried. What if he took me as a threat? I could be in big trouble. I heard his shoes walking across the hard wood floor. It didn't take long till he was in my view. He looked me up and down as I did him. He was a tall man maybe 6 foot 4, he had brown eyes, a short beard, and short brown hair. He was surprisingly skinny for his height. I looked at his face again. I saw that he was smiling at me. The threat level in the room immediately lifted.

"Well looks like you took quite a spill." He said, with a giggle in his voice, "Hi, I'm Paul. What's your name?"

Before any time was allowed to pass, Tina said with a guilty voice, "He can't talk. That's the only thing I wasn't able to save."

Paul took Tina's hands and looked at her, saying, "How do you know? Maybe he couldn't talk before you met him. Have you thought about that?"

She looked at her feet and quietly said, "No, I haven't. I guess I have a long ways to go before I'm like you."

"You could look at it that way." Paul said, which made Tina sad. "Or you could see it as you are that much closer to being like me."

"Listen, Sweetie, you look tired. Why don't you go to bed?" Paul asked, sitting down in the chair, "I'll watch. You know something, he needs a name."

Tina looked at me for a little while, thinking about a name. 'I hope she doesn't give me a Nancy name,' I thought to myself.

"How about Jack?" she asked me.

Jack. That wasn't such a bad name. I liked it. So I tapped my fingers to say yes.

"Whats that mean?" Paul asked, looking from me to Tina.

"It means he likes it." Tina said, letting out a big yawn after. "Excuse me. I think I'll take you up on that offer, Dad. I haven't slept for about three days now."

So Paul was her dad.(B/N: Wait a minute... Didn't he say they kissed earlier? That will definitely confuse your readers. Perhaps adding something like "it must have been on the cheek" or something along those lines.) 'It all makes much better sense now.' Tina turned said good night to us and left the room. When she left, Paul adjusted himself in the chair to get in a comfortable position. He then took out what I think is the pad that had my records on it. He looked at it for what seemed like forever. I finally just shut my eyes and went to sleep.

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'It's been about five months since I woke up under that bright light. My arm has healed and today is the day I'll get to take the cast off of my legs, and try to walk.' I heard the door shut from behind me and soon saw Tina and Paul walking to the end of the bed. I welcomed them with a big smile that said today's the day.

"Well looks like some one wants out of those casts." Paul said, chuckling at me.

"I don't know. He may need to stay in them for a few more months." Tina said, trying not to grin but unable to stop herself.

In the past few months, none of my past memory came to me, but I had become part of the family. I watched as Paul went to go get the scissors to cut off the cast and Tina stayed behind holding my hand, giving me a big smile. Paul returned with a big pair of scissors and asked if I was ready. I shook my head. 'I have been dreaming of this day for so long.'

"Here we go." Paul said, as he made the first cut.

It didn't take him long to cut through the first layer of the cast then the second then finally the third which was the last. I shivered as the ice cold scissors touched my leg. 'This is it. The moment I've been waiting for since I can finished with my left leg then started on my right. I felt Tina moving my left leg to check it.

"All seems good here." she told Paul. "Jack, I want you to move your left leg for me."

I really wanted my leg to move so I used all of the force I had and just about kicked Tina off the bed. It moved for the first time in a long while. I could hear Paul and Tina laughing at what I just did.

Then Paul said, chuckling, "I think it's safe to say his left leg works."

He finished with my right leg shortly after the kick incident and Tina did the same for it as my left but this time, when she asked me to move it, she backed up. I moved it but this time I didn't use that much force. Both of my legs worked. The next step is walking. My heart started to rush with anticipation.

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