Chapter 10
Beep beep beep beep was all I heard as I opened my eyes, I looked around the room all I could see was the ceiling. There was a funny smell the usual hospital smell, I wrinkled my nose only for the smell to become a lot worse. I tried to sit up but a hand gently stopped me, I studied the face in front of me I couldn't recall who it belonged to. There was a woman and a teenage boy in the room who where they? "Hello Tilly sweetheart" the lady said softly, she looked very very happy to see me. I looked into her eyes in hope that I would find some incline as to who she was "I don't mean to sound rude but who are you?" I asked. She looked up at me and the look on her face was awful, at that moment I realised that I had suffered some form of memory loss.
"What happened" I at least wanted to know what had happened and why and how I had gotten into this mess. "You were in an accident" the boy answered, he looked sad too just like the woman. I looked up at him. "What sort of accident?" I didn't understand why I was lying in a hospital bed when I was feeling perfectly fine. "A road traffic one, do you not remember anything about that day? we went camping and on the way back the accident happened?" Camping? I didn't recall ever going camping and especially not with a strange person. I just wanted to go home, wherever that was I didn't know but I didn't want to be in this position any longer.
Three days later I left the hospital, The woman took me to her house. Once there she explained to me that she was my mother. But I had no recognition of her being my mum or having a brother, In the living room I noticed pictures hanging up of two children a boy and a girl. They both looked a like, I slipped a mirror out of my pocket and studied my face and found a recent picture of the boy and the girl. I saw similarities between me and the girl in the photo's. I knew that the coming weeks would be really difficult for me trying to adapt to this life, I prayed that my memory would come back because I felt bad for being so evasive and sometimes ignorant to my supposed family.
"How are you feeling Tilly?" Will asked, he had explained to me who he was just after I came home, I didn't remember him but I really had to try. It got so frustrating sometimes, small bits would come back to me but then they would leap out of my mind again leaving me even more confused. "I don't know, I feel confused about everything. I just want everything to go back to normal, what ever that is" I sighed, I left the room and went up to my bedroom I wanted to be alone. Even up there it was really odd. There was all this stuff in there which was supposed to be mine, I probably took some of those things for granted previously. But at that moment I wished I could have at least one memory of being in the room and using the things inside it.
Around about a week after I came home and had physically settled at the house, there was a knock on the door, I contemplated just staying where I was but I got up and opened the " I said as I studied the person on the other side of the door. It was another teenage boy with spiked hair. He pulled me into a tight hug, he smelt rather nice actually. I stood in his embrace for a few seconds and something came to me, a name came to me. I had to figure out how to say it."You're Simon aren't you" I asked feeling nervous and excited at the same time.
His face had lit up at the sound of the name, it appeared to me that I had gotten his name right."Yes yes I am, you remembered me wow Tilly that's amazing" He hugged me again. "I don't know how I know you but I definitely know your name" I said with a warm smile."It was my car you were in when the accident happened" he said in a sol um voice, I looked up at him. "I was?" I questioned, I ran my hands through my hair racking my brain for a memory, suddenly something came to mind. A yellow car but that was all that came.
"Yellow car" I announced totally out of the blue, Simon looked at me with relief. "Yes, that was the car we were travelling in, Do you remember my brother Andrew?" he asked looking nervous. I looked at him blankly. Andrew? Andrew who? was all I could keep thinking. I really did feel awful not being able to remember anybody's name. I was getting really really tired and since the accident I seemed to have slept more than I thought was normal. I blanked his questioned completely. "I don't mean to sound rude but I'm going to go back to bed, when I have to think a lot it tires me out, I'm really sorry Simon" he gently put his hand on my right shoulder. "I'll come back and see you when you're up to it okay" he said with a gentle smile. "I'd like that actually, thank you for coming today" I added.
"No problem, bye for now" he waved as he left. Simon gave me butterflies it was a great feeling. I really did wonder what it was which made me remember him. I knew there had to be at least something. I figured it would be a good idea to ask Will who Simon was, Were Will and I close? I didn't know. But I knew I had to find out some answers sooner rather than later. I did wonder if I went to school and what my interests were. Did I have any friends? was I a nice person? all of those questions played on my mind almost 24/7.