Hello! So, i didnt realise that i haven't updated anything of my story since Sept. tsk tsk... anyway, here's an update. Thank you for all of yous who are still reading my story! And i hope I'm still keeping you guys interested... if not, please let me know. Again sorry for the type errors.. and... anyone wants to greet me belated happy birthday? hehehee.. anyweiz, cheers! i'll let you guys get on reading!

"Charlie… you're awake," Joey murmured.

Charlie looked blankly at the very beautiful stranger in front of her; gazing at the brown orbs that help concern and worry. Charlie blinked more as she pulled herself out of the brown-eyes-induced daze and looks around the room.

"Where am I?" she whispered, asking herself more than the woman with her.

Joey pulled away, giving Charlie her personal space, worry and hurt masked her face.

'What's wrong? She didn't even recognise me?' Joey asked herself as she sat herself on the chair beside Charlie's bed.

"You're in the hospital," she answered in whisper.

"Why?" Charlie asked, once again looking at the very attractive stranger. 'She looks very very familiar. Who is she?' she asked herself.

"You had an accident 3days ago," Joey explained.

Charlie nodded.

"And… uhm… not to be rude but… what's your name?"

Joey sharply turned to look up at Charlie; hearing Charlie's question, answering and confirming her own, broke Joey's heart. It broke her heart not because Charlie couldn't remember, but because it showed the severity of the accident.

'What if she doesn't end remembering me?'

Joey unconsciously bit her lower lip as the tried not to let the tears fall from her eyes. Charlie noticed the woman's obvious distress state and the obvious hurt in her beautiful face; and Charlie doesn't know why but she hurt as well, looking at the woman who was willing herself not to cry. It pained her more unexplainably, compared to her headache and very sore body.

"I'm sorry," she murmured automatically and tried to seat herself up to reach for the broken woman.

Joey saw what Charlie was trying to do and so she stood and stops the woman.

"Don't move," she said, involuntarily holding Charlie's hand.

Charlie automatically relaxed at the familiar, loving touch of the brown-eyed-stranger.

"What's your name?" she asked again.

"My name is Joey," Joey said and tears fell from her eyes. "I'll go get the Doctor for you," she added and hurriedly left Charlie's room.

Once outside, Joey unable to support her own body, leaned in against that close door of Charlie's room, as she finally let her tears freely fall; devastated that Charlie, although it wasn't her fault, didn't lessen the hurt that Joey felt, knowing that the love of her life couldn't remember her.

Charlie stared at the now close door, unaware of the tears that streamed down her own face.

"Joey," she whispered in her now empty room, trying to remember where she heard that name before or where she saw the beautiful stranger before.

The face that she couldn't remember but felt so attached to…

"How are you feeling, Charlie?" Rachel asked.

Ruby, Ross and Angelo are now present in Charlie's side. As soon as Joey informed Rachel that Charlie had woken up, she phoned Ruby straight away and then decided to go home, thinking she won't be needed in the hospital; not when Charlie couldn't remember who she is and what she is in her life.

Ruby after receiving the call from Joey, excused herself in class and reluctantly advised her father of Charlie's condition, whom she assumed advised Angelo. And now, all three of them are present in Charlie's side, with Ruby seating next to Charlie on her hospital bed.

"Like I've been hit by a car," Charlie answered.

Rachel smiled at Charlie's attempt of humour, knowing full well that the Police Officer was just trying to lift the mood.

"That's understandable," she said. "Now Charlie, can you tell me what do you remember?"

Angelo and Ross both tensed at the question, knowing what Charlie discovered just before the accident. Ruby remained oblivious to it, looks at her older sister expectantly.

Charlie frowned and tried to remember what she can but came up blank. She doesn't know what she supposed to remember. She remembers her name that was given; she could remember Ruby of course, and her Dad and her boyfriend Angelo.

"My name," Charlie started, "my sister Ruby, my dad Ross and my boyfriend Angelo," she stated.

"I remember you as my friend Rachel and Leah as my housemate and her son VJ; I remember being a police officer…." Charlie paused, "I don't think I've forgotten anything."

Rachel nodded as she scribbles on her notes.

"Oh, there's one thing," Charlie added. "There was a woman here earlier when I woke up. I feel like I know her, I think I saw her from somewhere but I couldn't be sure."

Rachel, Ross, Angelo and Ruby looked at Charlie frowning.

"Joey?" Rachel queried.

"Yes," Charlie answered. "Joey. She was here and… well… maybe we're friend but I don't remember her. Where is she by the way?" Charlie asked expectantly.

Rachel eyes Charlie. Ross and Angelo looked at each other, although it was only Angelo that was able to feel relieved. Ruby gasped at her sister's revelation.

"She's your friend and your wedding planner," Ruby informed her sister, leaving out the part that she was actually in love with the said woman.

It was now Charlie's turn to frown.

"My wedding planner?" she asked looking at everyone.

Everyone nodded.

"I'm getting married?" Charlie asked again, surprised and bordering on panicking.

"We're engaged, Charlie," Angelo stated.

Charlie gasped in shock and was pretty sure that it would be the perfect time to have a panic attack. Charlie felt her headache intensified as she process the information of her being engage to Angelo; sure he's her boyfriend but as far as her memory could go, she doesn't remember every loving Angelo the way she should. And so, to have known that she was bound to marry him… Charlie was devastated to say the least and to put it mildly.

"I… I can't remember," Charlie said.

"How was the visit?" Gaby asked when she saw Joey entered the house.

Joey ignored the question and went straight up to her room. Now more than anytime did she want to be alone. She thought back to how close she and Charlie to being freely together, only to be pulled back to square one. She looked at the dried ambrosia that she framed and placed on her bedside drawer, tears freely falling from her eyes.

Joey took the framed flower and gaze at it. She and Charlie tried to fight their feeling, they tried to ignore it and move on to their normal life before each other came to one another's life and completely alter it. Joey thought back to what kind of heartache she and Charlie had endured in the process of avoiding their feelings, to finally giving in to it and let themselves fall into the bliss of loving each other. Joey remembered how it crossed her mind that she wouldn't have it any other way, because it led her in Charlie's arms. That whatever happened, they must've done something or she must've done something right, that made her end up in the loving arms of Charlie Buckton.

But now, now… with the accident just as Charlie decided to finish it off with Angelo and her not remembering her; now Joey was not sure what to make out of the things.

'Surely it shouldn't be this hard and painful if… if it's really meant to be,' she thought.

"Joey?"

Joey looked up to see Gaby's head poking in, inside her room, interrupting her from her painful musings. After seeing Gaby, Joey without a word averted her eyes back to the frame in her hands.

"What's wrong?" Gaby asked, inviting herself inside Joey's room and took it upon herself to seat next to her friend.

Joey remained quiet. Gaby nodded.

"That bad, huh?" she commented.

Finally, Joey turned to look at Gaby and there… against her will, threw herself in Gaby's arms and burst out in tears; crying shamelessly and clinging onto Gaby as if her life depended on it, letting herself cry her heart out, hoping earnestly that her crying would lessen the pain that she's feelings.

Gaby bit her lower lip and held Joey in her arms; running her hand up and down the woman's back. Once again, noting how she had never seen Joey so broken before and all these was because of loving the infamous Charlie.

After a while of Joey crying and sobbing and Gaby providing Joey comfort that she needed; Joey's tears and sobs finally subsided, leaving her very exhausted.

"Better?" Gaby asked tentatively.

Joey nodded, still clinging on to Gaby's for dear life. Gaby waited for Joey to explain her outburst and fortunately for her, she didn't have to wait long.

"She woke up," Joey whispered.

Gaby frowned. She expected to hear Charlie got worst, reason for Joey's breakdown. Now she's confused.

"She doesn't remember me," Joey added.

"Oh," Gaby mumbled.

"Amnesia?" she asked.

"Amnesia?" Ruby asked.

Ruby, Ross and Angelo were outside Charlie's room, discussing Charlie's condition with Rachel.

Rachel nodded.

"A rare case of amnesia," she confirmed. "This type of amnesia is called anterograde amnesia. This form of amnesia is characterized by the inability to remember new information. Charlie remembers her names and the people that she had known for a while or events prior to the accident with clarity. However she couldn't remember her recent experiences and the people together with it," Rachel further explained.

"But how come?" Ruby asked again.

"I'm not quiet sure how to explain. But, in the simple term, there's an area in our brain responsible for memories. There's the long-term memory and short-term memory. The recent event from Charlie's life haven't been registered in the long-term memory and due to the accident, the short-term memory part had been disturbed. It caused Charlie to forget the most recent memories she has."

"Will she get her memory back?" Angelo asked.

"There's a chance that she could and there's a chance that she wouldn't be able to. I think it really depends on how hard the impact was on her brain," Rachel said.

Angelo nodded. Half of him wants Charlie to gain her lost memory back and the other half was somewhat relieved that there would be a chance that she won't and for him, it's like another chance for him and Charlie to build their falling relationship back on track.

Ross didn't know what to feel. The lie he made to get his daughter to do what he wants was now being somehow experienced by her daughter herself and Ross didn't know how or what to make of it.

Ruby turned and willed herself to face her oblivious sister. She couldn't believe what she just heard. Charlie had just found her happiness only to be taken away from her, together with it, her memory.

"Hi Sis," Ruby greeted stepping inside the room, leaving her father and Angelo to talk to Rachel.

"How are you feeling?"

"Confuse?" Charlie answered, still getting her head around the idea of being engaged.

"Did I really got engage with Angelo?" she asked.

Ruby seats on the side of Charlie's bed and nodded reluctantly.

"Well… I'm guessing I'm 'that' into it, seeing I actually had a planner," Charlie mumbled, remembering the attractive woman when she opened her eyes.

"I want to see her," Charlie declared.

Ruby frowned at her sister.

"Who?" she asked.

"I want to see my wedding planner," Charlie clarified.

Charlie didn't know why, but something inside her, yearn to see the brown-eyed-woman; something inside of her, longed to see her beautiful wedding planner.

"I want to see Joey."