Chapter 2: The other Adam Freeman

"What?" Adam muttered.

"I think you have amnesia" Watch mentioned frowning a little bit.

"Maybe"Adam admitted wondering how much of his life here changed. He was sure that he hadn't dreamed what he remembered…

"Well just in case I'll introduce our family to you" Watch said"Our father is called Carl Freeman, our mother is Laurel Freeman nee Hall, our sister name is Claire and I'm your adoptive brother since we were five, you call me Watch because I have the strange habit of collecting watches"

Adam who didn't wanted to be considered crazy just said: "I think I'll have a hard time remembering a few things"

"It's not that bad since we have moved to another place, we have moved to "Claire said encouragingly and added"We are in the Springsville Memorial"

"Oh"He said.

"Mom has had a bad time since we arrived here and Dad…"Claire mentioned.

"Claire"Watch said warningly,

Adam pondered on what they have said.

Then a doctor entered his room, the doctor was…

"Doctor Payne" Adam said breathlessly.

The old doctor raised his eyebrow and said: Yes, I'm the doctor assigned to your case-He made a pause-You were in coma for almost a week…It's a good thing that you can read fairly well-He wrote something on a pad. Apparently he thought that he read his nametag on his coat.

"What?" Adam asked surprised but it kinda made sense with all of the things that were happening now.

Doctor Payne looked at him curiously but said nothing then proceeded to check him, and noted that indeed he was in a very good condition for a person who was knocked by a car and in coma for a week.

"Since you are in a good condition I think you can leave tomorrow's afternoon'He said to his relief since he wanted to search for answers.

Claire decided to go and tell her parents about the good news and find somewhat "decent" clothes for her brother to use when he was "freed" from that "terrible place"as she called it. Adam giggled softly since his sister even in the world he remembered was like that.

After a few minutes he decided to talk to his "brother" and said trying to sound uninterested: Would you mind if I asked a few questions?

"Sure"He relied with a little smile "It would be good for your memory"

Adam sighed: Where did we live? Did I have any close friends?Or what did we used to do for fun?"

"Well we used to live in Kansas until we were eleven, then we moved to Whitby " Watch started" In Kansas we had this friends Mike, Sammy and Denise…you were fairly close to Denise since she was our neighbor, then when we moved to Whitby we had Luna and Nick. About what we used to do…you liked to ride your bicycle or play ping-pong while I liked to read and play chess, so to spent time together we tried to do what the other liked"

Adam pondered on what he heard, not much of his life had changed except the fact that he had moved to that place called Whitby (apparently it was in England) when he was eleven instead of Springville.(and that Watch was adopted by his parents).

The day after, he was free to go to his house and he was glad for it.

His house wasn't the same as the one he moved in the first time he moved to Spooksville, it was bigger (as Watch said their father had got a raise, a fairly good raise). His family tried to keep him in his bed because he was still recovering (or at least his mother said that and no one dared to deny it).

Watch and Claire had gone to school (he would have to go next Monday), his father had gone to work and his mother was working at home for the week but she had gone for groceries,so he had the house for himself and decided to enjoy himself before thinking how to get back to his reality.

He looked at his bedroom; he noted that there was a great deal of photographs and drawing sketches, also some things that would be considered mementos of his friends (Sammy,Mike and Denise had given him some).

His hearth stopped when someone knocked his door. He said: "Yes?"

It was his mother, she scolded him for being out of bed but he convinced her that he needed to stretch his legs a little because he felt a little numb.

He looked at the sketches in awe, they were very beautiful and looked like they were drawn by a professional. He was never good for drawing so he was curious about them.

"Mom?"

"Yes?"

"Who made them?" He asked pointing to the sketches.

She smiled a little and said: Your friends Luna and Nick, they made them for you when we were moving to here…the ones that are "scenes" were drew by Nick and the "views" were drew by Luna…But some of them are yours…

"Really?" He asked surprised "I remember that I wasn't good at it"

"Since your friends were fairly good at drawing they taught you and Watch a thing or two about drawing and painting" She said " Maybe you can draw something to spend your time before going to school, after all you have three days"

After she left he decided to look at the photographs and sketches.

He recognized his Kansas's friends, in his world he didn't put those photographs to show but here all of them were in his wall. The others were new to him, but he saw that his Whitby friends were like the ones he had in his world, they seemed to had a lot of fun.

Then he decided to draw something but nothing came to his mind. Until, he looked at his window and saw the Templeton Castle…

"Yes…I could draw that" He thought and started to draft the castle.

Then the doll ring sounded.

"Since you are walking again, could you open the door?" His mother yelled to him. She sounded as if she was on the office.

"Okay"

He walked to the door and when he opened it…

It was Sally.

"Hi" He said/ muttered.

"Hello, I'm Sara Wilcox…Call me Sally if you want" She said offering her hand and he accepted it and shook it.

Then there was an awkward silence before she said: "My mother send to yours this" Ans she gave him a basket with muffins " A welcoming gift to the town"

"Tell her that I say thanks"His mother yelled.

Sally smiled and said: "Then… I think I will see you at school"

"Yeah"

He looked at her as she walked down the street, her house should be three streets down his new one, but she was going on the opposite direction. Maybe,she was going to her friends?

Their first meeting had been strange for him since she had practically thrown information at him about Spooksville and asked about his supposed girlfriend. Now it was strange to meet someone who you already know, also she seemed a little different from the Sally he knew, she was more…nice-ish? And less interested on him.

As he returned to his drawing (which was going on the right direction), he decided that it was a good thing that he has meet two of his friends. Now he had to befriend Sally and find the other two.

Sally seemed nicer here but less eager to befriend him since she hadn't try to make a conversation when she delivered the basket, but he could get to know her and find things in common.

Cindy had been a good friend of his on the other world. Nice, polite, sweet Cindy. If she was anything like this here, it would be easy to befriend her since she had been eager to make friends when they had helped her to rescue her brother, and even if the circumstances were different now…she had been friendly to everyone who seemed nice (which had been a weakness of her in the Ted Tane's case)

But with Bryce…there would be a little problem. Hot-headed,smart-ass, James Bond-like but loyal Bryce. He remembered that at first they didn't got along well since they had different temperaments, but as the time passed by they became best friends but it had come with the time and…well, he would think about how to befriend him when he found the dark haired boy.

Yes, maybe he could befriend them on his way to his world and it could be that Watch had already met them.