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As I ran through the meadow, enjoying the summer breeze, I could feel a presence following me. Not a dark presence, nor a good one. Butterflies beat against my stomach as I felt it get closer and closer, hearing the soft footsteps descending behind me. The forest was ahead of me, dark and gloomy. I slowed as I neared the tree line and turned. A tall man with dark hair slowed as he reached me, a smile spread across his face.
"You beat me!" he proclaimed, reaching for my hand. I jerked it away, not sure of how I felt about this man. His smile fell from his angelic face and was replaced with a worried frown. "What is it, Elena?"
"Nothing, I'm fine." I answered, my voice almost unrecognizable. He stepped closer to me, and I took a step back feeling branches pressing into my back. "Do I know you?" I asked.
"Yes, you do. I'm –"
I slowly awoke, my body feeling tense and aching. I tried to open my eyes; they felt as if they were glued shut. All I could feel was a blanket laid across my body and a slight sting in my right arm. I could feel my heart racing and I started panicking. I tried to calm myself down and start slow. I wiggled my toes and flexed my fingers, okay, those worked. I rolled my eyes around and slowly my eyelids gave way and I could open them. The light stung my eyes for a few minutes as they became adjusted. The walls and ceiling were a blinding white, and there was a television attached to the wall across from me. I looked to my left, where there were machines that were blinking, and to my right was a man slumped over in a chair, he looked to be asleep. I tried to focus on his face, but half of it was facing away from me. I felt a button in my hand and decided to press it, I've already assumed I was in a hospital room, maybe this button called for a nurse. Just then a short woman ran into the room, dressed in dark blue scrubs. She looked at me with wide eyes and rushed to my side.
"How are you, Miss Gilbert?" she asked. All I could think of was who is Miss Gilbert?
"Who?" I asked in turn. She checked the machines by me and looked over my chart. With a worried look on her face she turned back to me.
"I will be right back. I'm going to get a doctor." She turned and rushed out of the room.
"Elena?" a male voice broke through the silence. I turned quickly to the man now getting up quickly from the chair. "You're awake!" he exclaimed. He rushed to me as I flinched away from his touch. Our attention was drawn to the doorway where a tall man in a white doctor's coat strolled in. He looked to the man standing next to me first.
"Mr. Gilbert, remember what we had discussed before. The trauma she went through has impaired her memories. You will have to be patient and not upset her." He then turned to me. "Hello, Miss Gilbert. My name is Dr. Wood." He walked to my bed side and held out his hand for me to shake, which I accepted. "Now, you must listen to me closely. A month ago you were in a terrible accident and suffered very bad head trauma, and you have been in a coma since then." He explained. My mind was running around in circles. I understood the concept of what he was saying, but the fact that what had happened to me has caused me not to remember anyone worried me beyond reason. He had called this man by the same last name, could he be my husband? Am I even old enough to be married? "You look like you have plenty of questions. Mr. Gilbert can fill you in while I order some CT Scans for this afternoon." With that, he and the nurse walked out of the room, leaving me with this man.
"Elena, my name is Jeremy. I am your younger brother." He started. Shock already started consuming me. I have a brother?
"How old am I?" I asked. "Tell me everything, please." He pulled the chair closer to the bed and sat down.
"You are 17, your birthday is actually next Tuesday. Our parents died a year ago, it's just you and me. And, well, our friends, too. There is a lot more that I need to tell you, but I can't here. As soon as they let you go home, I'll tell you everything." He explained.
"Our parents died?" I asked. My heart fluttered at the thought. I don't remember my parents, but it is very sad to think that they aren't even here. That they won't be taking me home and taking care of me.
"Yes, in a car accident, which you were in as well." I laid my head back on the pillow and closed my eyes. I could hear him dialing a number on a phone.
"Bonnie?" he paused. "She's awake… Okay, see you soon."
I opened my eyes again as he stuffed his phone back in his pocket. "Who's Bonnie?" I asked.
"Your best friend and my girlfriend." He smiled.
We sat in silence for what felt like hours when a beeping tone echoed through the room. He took his phone out and flipped it open and close as he stood. He walked out of the room and down the hall. As I waited for his return I examined the room. On the window sill were tons of vases, some containing beautiful blooming flowers, others already wilting. A teddy bear leaned against the window staring back at me. I felt around on my arms and all the way up my head, my hair was very long and matted against my head, I tried running my fingers through it but gave up as they kept getting tangled within the locks. I stretched my aching legs and bent my knees up and down, getting the blood flowing through them.
"Elena!" I female voice boomed through the room, I jumped at the disturbance of the silence. An ebony skinned girl galloped to me throwing her arms over me in a hugging embrace. Since Jeremy had already filled me in on Bonnie I accepted the hug with a forced smile. She backed up apologizing. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm just so excited to see your eyes open." She proclaimed.
"Hello, Bonnie." I muttered. She looked to Jeremy in confusion.
"I thought you said her memories were all messed up?" she asked, accusingly.
"I told her you were coming." He explained. Jeremy left to get another chair, and Bonnie took the one Jeremy was in previously.
"How are you feeling?" she asked, calming down.
"Achy." I brushed my hair away from my face.
"So many people are going to be excited about this, don't think I'm just the crazy one." She jokingly informed me. I smiled at her comment and pulled myself up into a sitting position, which alerted her. She stood quickly holding her hands out to me. "Do you need help?" I shook my head, smoothing out the blanket.
"Jeremy said there is a lot he needs to tell me, but can't here. Why is that?" I asked. Hoping Bonnie would give me more information than he would. She looked out the door and back at me.
"He is right. We really can't talk about it here." I sighed and averted my eyes from her. "Don't be upset. You will understand in due time." She leaned back in the chair and relaxed her arms across her stomach.
"I had a lot of dreams." I said. The last one sticking in my head. Maybe she would know of this dark haired man. She waited for me to continue. "The one before I woke up is the one I really can only remember. I was running through a field and a man was chasing me."
"Who was it?" she asked. I looked at her with an obvious face. "Sorry. It's going to take a bit to get use to this. What did he look like?"
I raked my brain to remember his features. "Dark hair, tall, and these piercing blue eyes." Bonnie smiled.
"Probably Damon. Every girl comments on his eyes. I would have to agree with them, though, they are his best quality."
"Who is this Damon guy? In my dream he was offended that I didn't know who he was." I asked.
"He will be offended in real life as well." She chuckled. "But, he'll get over it." I waited for her to tell me who he is.
"Is he another brother of mine? Or boyfriend?" I asked. A small part of me was hoping for a boyfriend response, he was a dashing man. She chuckled again.
"Definitely not boyfriend and Jeremy is your only sibling. He's just a friend. Actually, your boyfriends' brother." At that moment Jeremy walked in with another man, toting chairs. This strange man was very attractive with tousled blonde/brown hair. He walked over to me after setting his chair down and stuck out his hand. I shook it with obvious confusion written all over my face.
"I'm Alaric. A friend of yours." He informed me. I smiled, appreciating his directness.
"Hi, Alaric." He smiled as well.
"It's good to hear your voice, Elena." He took a seat, and everyone continued staring at me.
"She saw Damon in a dream." Bonnie blurted out. "I told her he is her boyfriends' brother." Alaric and Jeremy nodded their heads in agreement. But, I could tell that they were still keeping much from me.