Natalie looked up as Mrs. Davidson walked in.
"Hi, Mrs. Davidson."
"You can call me Viki, I just wanted to see how you were settling in."
"I'm fine, thank you. I have a favor to ask if you don't mind."
"Not at all."
"I was wondering if you could find someone named Seth Anderson. He was the last person I remember and if he can tell me what happened after I got sick maybe I can begin to fill in the blanks." Natalie watched and immediately sensed there was something wrong with her request, why wouldn't someone tell her the truth?
"I'll do my best, you just get some rest and get better, how does your head feel?"
"It's better, thanks."
"Cristian Vega called early and asked if it was okay if he came over to see you. I told him it was, are you up for more company?"
"Sure." It was odd but it seemed like Cristian could give her answers to all the questions she had, and there were a lot of questions.
Cristian took a deep breath and prepared to go into Natalie's room. Mrs. Davidson had reminded him not to upset her, but he knew Natalie was probably on a quest to find out the truth and she wouldn't rest until she had what she wanted.
He walked in and Natalie was furiously pounding the keys on her keyboard.
She looked up, mumbled a 'hi' and they went back to what she was doing.
Cristian sat down and watched her, finally she gave up and slammed the laptop shut.
"What were you doing?"
"I have a diary on my desktop but I can't remember the password. That could tell me all about my life, everything if I could only guess the stupid password."
Cristian wasn't about to tell her that it was probably the name Seth, after all he didn't want to upset her. He couldn't imagine not being able to remember Jen and a part of him wanted to giver her what she was looking for but he couldn't.
"Thank you for coming by to visit me," she said pulling her knees up and resting her chin on them. She needed to remember or she'd go crazy and just maybe Cristian could help her do that.
"How do you feel?" asked Cristian. She still had a bandage on her head and once again he was reminded that it was his fault.
"Fine." Natalie decided to ask him questions until something jogged her memory. "So how did we meet?"
"We met through Jessica."
"Really? Is she my friend?"
"Not really, why do you ask?"
"Because she just doesn't seem like the kind of person I would like. That came out wrong, it's just well it doesn't seem like we would have that much in common."
"Yeah, you two are pretty different," he said smiling.
"So do you have a girlfriend?" she asked out of the blue.
"Yes...no...not really. We're not together right now," said Cris wishing that he had Jen to go home to, but she was with Al and thats the way it would stay until he could walk.
"But you still love Jen and I know she loves you."
Cristian looked at her, that was exactly what she had told him the night she had got in the accident. "What did you say?"
"I said Jen still loves you...how do I know that?"
"You're starting to remember, you said that to me once."
"I did?" Natalie's brow creased with concentration as she tried to remember when she had said them but the memory eluded her, she knew it was there, she just couldn't catch it and it was so frustrating that she wanted to scream.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah," she said looking up. "I was just trying to remember something else, maybe you could tell me everything you know about me, that will help me remember."
"The doctors want you to remember on your own..."
"I don't care, everyone isn't telling me the truth, I want to know why I'm not in Atlantic city, why I'm not living with Roxy and how I got to Llanveiw, you have to tell me, please!"
"I can't. I have to go, I'll see you later."
"Okay," said Natalie sighing as he walked out the door. He knew what this big secret of her past was and he had refused to share it with her. A small part of her felt betrayed, she need to remember everything and there was only one person she could ironically count on for answers and that was her mother, Roxy.
Cristian stopped in the hallway, it was his fault that she'd lost her memory and he couldn't even tell her everything to make it right again. He hated her frustration and his inability to do anything about it. She had remembered that Jen had been his girlfriend but that was insignificant to everything else she couldn't remember and he knew that he was to blame.
