Chapter 13

Colin and Bright both watched as the door slammed shut.

"Gosh, I didn't think she'd be so sensitive.  Maybe you should lose her Bright, you know if she's not really for you---" he rambled on.

"Colin" Bright said.

"Hmmm" Colin said as he finally stopped mumbling and looked up at Bright.

"Dude, that wasn't my girlfriend"

"Oh really, oops.  I guess I could see how that would upset her.  So who is she?" he asked with a look of befuddlement on his face.

"Amy…Amy Abbott"

"Oh, she's your sister.  That's cool.  Now that I think about it, I could see the resemblance.  Same sandy hair, same eyes, but she must have gotten all those tears from your mom or something"

"Colin, do you remember Amy?" Bright said again cutting him off.

"Should I?"

"Do you?"

"Not really, should I?"

"Geez, this is going to be tough" Bright said sighing.

"Have we met?" Colin said, still utterly confused.

"Amy was your girlfriend" Bright said, looking at Colin's face for some guidance in how he was taking it.

"Oh crap.  I guess I screwed up, didn't I?"

"Think so buddy" Bright said.

"Were we close?" Colin asked.

"You too were joined at the hip.  The three of us were always together.  The two of us were always goofing off and when we weren't you were off making out with Amy" he said chuckling at the memories.

"How is this possible?" Colin asked.

"How is what possible?"

"That I remember everyone except for her"

"Dad, I want to leave right now!" Amy said as she slammed the car door.

"Well I'm afraid that's not possible Amy, seeing as how your brother is still in their talking with Colin" Dr. Abbott said.

As Dr. Abbott said Colin's name, Amy felt her inner self escape.  She burst dramatically but understandably into tears.

"Amy, what's wrong honey?" her mother asked as she turned around in her seat.

"I don't want to talk about it," she said as she wiped her face, trying to convince her parents that it wasn't all that bad, "I just want to go home" she said as she watched Bright heading back towards their car.

"Amy, are you okay?" Bright said as he buckled his seatbelt and got comfortable.

"Will someone please tell me what is going on here?" Dr. Abbott demanded of his children.

Bright looked to Amy.  Amy shook her head.

"Well, we're not leaving this driveway until someone tells me what is going on"

Bright again looked over at Amy.

"Fine!" Amy yelled, "He didn't remember me! Okay, are you happy now?  He remembered everyone except for me!  Can we go home now?" Amy screamed as her face became covered in tears.  Bright wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in tight for a hug.

"Oh Amy, we're so sorry sweetie!" her mother said.

"Yeah well…god forbid anything ever works out for me the way I want it to.  I should be used to disappointment, right?" she said as she laughed to herself.  She was trying to be brave on the outside, but everyone knew, including herself that she was really crushed on the inside.

"I'm sure he will remember you Amy" Dr. Abbott said, "Once he finds out who you are and you start spending time with him, I'm sure things will come back to him."

"Actually, Colin knows who Amy is now.  I just told him," Bright said.

"What did he say?" Amy asked eagerly.

"He didn't understand how it was possible"

"How what was possible?" Amy asked.

"How it was possible that he remembered everyone but you," Bright said quietly.

"Oh," Amy said as she leaned her head against the car window, "Dad, can we please go home now?"  As she felt the car moving, she sighed and closed her eyes.

"Amy! Amy! Open the door sweetie, you have to eat something!" her mother pleaded from the hallway.

"Go away!" Amy yelled.

A few minutes later, there were more knocks on her door.

"I said no mom!  I don't want to talk about it and I don't want to eat anything!" Amy screamed.

"Amy, it's Bright.  Please let me in," he said calmly, unlike the worried tone her parents always spoke to her in.

Amy slowly got off her bed and opened the door for her brother.  She found him with a plate of brownies and a glass of milk.

"Comfort food" Bright said with a laugh.  Amy laughed too, and moments later found herself crying again.  Bright placed the food on the floor and opened up his arms for his little sister.

"Amy, I am so sorry that this happened to you.  You totally don't deserve this, not after everything you've been through"

Amy nodded in response.

"I was thinking maybe we could go down to Denver this weekend and give it another shot, you know.  Just you and me, we could take the bus down there like old times" Bright said.

"Okay" Amy said, with a smile on her face for the first time in a long time.