Amethyst: Hm…I'm on a roll…considering we already had all this stuff written ;) Third chapter - enjoy!
Floramon: We don't own Digimon. Deal with it.
Forgetting Someone Like YouChapter 3: Waking Up Is So Hard to Do
Why is it so dark? Why can't I move? Who am I? Where am I? I feel so lonely. Why? Why do I feel so empty? Why can't I feel anything?
I try to open my eyes, but they don't seem to want to open. Am I sleeping? Is this all just a dream? I hear voices around me, but who are they?
"Oh my god? Rika! What happened to you?!" a female voice screamed. Rika? Who's that?
"Please, try to calm down Ms. Makino," a male voice said. I can't recognize who these people are.
"Calm down?! My daughter looks like she's dead! Please doctor! Tell me what happened to her?!" the female voice was hysteric. Who are these people? What happened to Ms. Makino's daughter? Rika, was it? Well, I hope she's ok.
"Please, Ms. Makino lower your voice. You're daughter is breathing on her own and is in a slight coma right now so she can hear you," the doctor's voice said calmly. The lady didn't say anything, all I could hear were her sobs. Poor lady. I hope Rika will wake up soon. Who ever she is.
"I can't believe it! I come back a few days later and find that Rika is going to die! Oh Mom! I thought you were joking!" Makino cried. Oh no! Rika's going to die? I don't want Rika to die! Ms. Makino seems like such a nice lady. I wish I could comfort her. She seems so sad...
"Be quiet Rumiko! Rika's not going to die! She's a strong girl. She'll be just fine, I bet she'll even wake up in a couple of days," a different lady said sternly. The new lady seemed elderly. Rumiko? Is Makino's name Rumiko? Maybe that other lady was Rumiko's mother. I'm happy she has someone to calm her down.
"Please, follow me, I will tell you the details in the other room," the doctor said. I heard a door open and close. I guess it is best that I don't eavesdrop.
I think I'm in a hospital. Maybe Rika is in the bed next to me. Or am I Rika? That would mean that I am the daughter Rumiko was crying about, but if I were her daughter I would remember her voice. And I can't remember anything. So I guess I am not Rika...
A very long time has passed. When will I wake up? I'm tired of being naked in the dark. I can't feel anything. I can't move. The only thing I see is darkness.
I don't think I have any friends or family, since all the voices I hear are for Rika. Rika is a lucky girl. I hope she knows that. I wish I had friends that would cry for me. When will Rika wake up? I am tired of hearing her friends and family cry about her! When will I wake up?! I want to leave this stupid place! I don't want to hear Rika's stupid friends and family cry about her!
Suddenly everything became white. After a while I realized I was staring into a light. I got up. I could feel the warm covers on me. I could feel! I looked around. I could see a beautiful painting with such beautiful colors on the wall. I can see colors!
"Am I awake? Or is this just a dream?" I asked out loud. "I can talk?!" I questioned myself. "I can talk!" I yelled happily. I looked to my side, and there was a curtain.
"That's probably where Rika is..." I sighed while falling back onto the bed I was in.
I looked to my right. My eyes spotted the call nurse button. Should I, or shouldn't I? Hmm, choices. Well I am hungry, but I want to see who this Rika person really is.
I got out of my bed and pulled the curtain to reveal the one person that has been haunting me.
I gasped. Rika looks beautiful! She has long purple-ish black hair and a figure that could rival a super model! No wonder she has so many friends and family that care about her, but her room...her room is so vacant. Why is that? I thought she would have a bunch of flowers and get well cards scattered all around her room.
"I wonder how I look like?" I asked no one while closing the curtain again. I knew my hair was an auburn color since I had some of it in my face, but I don't even know what color my eyes are!
I stopped in the middle of my room to get a better look at my surroundings. Hmm...my room is filled with flowers and cards. Flowers and cards?! I ran to a bouquet of assorted flowers and read the card.
"Get well soon, Rika. I mean it! I don't know how flowers would help but still. Praying for you, Jeri."
What are these flowers doing in my room? These are for Rika, not me! I picked up a card laying on the coffee table by my bed.
"Hey Rika,
WAKE UP ALREADY! SCHOOL'S NOT THE SAME!!! Hehe. Sorry. I don't know what came over myself. I would have erased that part, but it's written in pen. Please don't hurt me when you wake up. Actually, hit me, please!! I haven't gotten scared or threatened in a long time. I miss that! Man, I know I sound weird, but Kazu and I really do miss you threatening us. We tried bothering Eri, but she doesn't react like you. Remember all the good times we had and all the bruises you gave me and Kazu? Man, I barley realize that you're like a big sister to me and you're in a coma or something! This really sucks. Oh no! I'm running out of space!
please get well as fast as the speed of light,
Kenta."
Who is this guy? Does Rika hit him? He seems like a nice guy. Why would she hit him and this Kazu character?
I put the card down. I should stop reading Rika's get well cards, it's not polite, they were from her friends.
"Rika's room is this way, Mr. Nonaka," a female voice said turning the knob of the door. I crawled into bed just as the door was fully opened.
A woman in nurse's clothes and a man in a business suite came into the room.
The nurse gasped. "Oh my god!! You're awake? Now why didn't you call on me, Ms. Nonaka?" she gasped checking on me.
"Hey, why is all of Rika's stuff in my part of the room?" I asked as the nurse was taking my temperature. She looked up at me with confusion.
"Hmmm? Oh no sweetheart, you are Rika," she said pointing at me. I scratched my head. I am? But why don't I remember anyone?
I arched an eyebrow. "I think you got the wrong person, lady. Rika's behind the curtain," I said pointing to my left.
"Huh? Oh no! You really are Rika! The person in that room's name is Neko. You are Rika, sweetie," she said checking if I had a fever.
"I don't understand..." I said rubbing my head.
"I'll be right back, excuse me," she said leaving me alone with the guy in the suite. We were really quiet. That man was really cool looking. He was tall, had reddish/brownish hair, really cool purple eyes. I wish I had purple eyes...
"Umm...Hello?" I asked not knowing what to say to him. He sat on a chair next to the bed.
"Hey, princess.... Do you know who I am?" the man asked.
"I'm sorry, but I don't. I didn't even know who I was until just a minute ago. I'm sorry..." I trailed off. The man smiled.
"I'm you're father, Rika. Masutaro Nonaka. I'm a lawyer. Nice to meet you," he said holding his hand out.
"Um, Rika... Nonaka?" I said shaking his hand with an unsure look on my face. He chuckled lightly while nodding. I smiled happily in return. At least I have my name and my father down.
"Do you wanna know how long you've been here, how you got here, and why you can't remember anything?" my dad asked me. I nodded.
"You have been in the hospital for a grand total of one week. For two day's you could not breathe on your own, had a bunch of scratches, and a big ol' bump on your head, but a day later you were breathing on your own and you were really well bandaged. Today's the seventh day you're here. You must be very strong if it only took you about a week to wake up and actually be able to walk around. I was really surprised that I found you awake at all," Dad said leaning back in his chair.
"Have you ever visited me? I never heard a voice that sounded like yours before..." I asked.
"Yeah, but I never thought you would be able to hear me, so I just sat quietly reading a book or something," Dad said holding up a book.
"Hehe. Is that a good book?" I asked reading the title.
"I dunno, I was gonna read it if you weren't awake, but talking to you is way more fun," he said patting my head.
"So, how did I get KO'ed anyway?"
"Hmmm? You were hit by a speeding car when you ran away from something. The car stopped, but then went around your body. Hit and run. It's a good thing two people were there to take you to the hospital. A boy and a girl. The boy called an ambulance and the girl wrote the car's license plate number down. The boy is actually the son of a good friend of mine," he said matter-of-factly.
I cocked my head to the side, raised an eye brow, and scratched my head showing that I was really confused. My dad laughed.
"I know this may be a little too much for you to understand, but this is all true. I'm going to get you some food and call your mother to tell her you're awake. You know, she thought you were dead a some point?" he laughed walking out the door.
I sighed. Alone again. I looked around again, I saw a rectangular shaped thing. A remote! I smiled happily picking it up, while pressing the "power" button.
"Now for more news about Rika Nonaka, the Digimon Queen as the children call her. We do not know whether she is out of her coma or if she is awake. Her mother and father have been keeping this very quiet. But we know she's not dead, that's for sure!!" the news reporter said laughing at her stupid joke. (A/N: I hate the news! They always say the stupidest things! {looks around} back to the story)
"Her friends at her school are very sad about this, but the person most effected by it is the Digimon King, Ryo Akiyama-" I turned off the TV. What is this digimon? Why am I the Queen of it? Do I actually rule these things? Maybe I'm a leader of a cult? Is the Digimon King my boyfriend? gasp Am I married to him?!
I shook my head. "I can't be. I think I'm too young," I said shaking my head at the thought.
The door opened and my father stood there. "Hey daddy!" I said waving to him.
"Hey, sweetie, guess what I brought you?" he said handing me a bentou. I don't know if I would like what's in it but I'm starving! I took out the chopsticks and ate everything.
"You're hungry. Hey, your mom and grandma are going to be here. I even spoke to your doctor, he said you can go home whenever you're ready," dad said patting my head again.
"Ok. Do I have amnesia?" I asked after swallowing some fried chicken. Dad nodded. "Oh then that would explain why I don't remember anyone..."
"It's ok princess, the doctor said it was temporary, but I like you this way because you didn't really like me all that much...." dad trailed off. I scratched my head.
"Why wouldn't I like you? You seem like a very good daddy!" I said patting his head. He smiled.
He explained how he left my mother and me, for his job, and I hated him for that. He says he really regrets it now. I think I will forgive my dad. He is really nice after all...
-school: one week later, lunch-
I have to go to school now. The doctor says I might remember things if I go there. I looked at my schools schedule. These two girls were in all of my first three classes. They said they knew me, but I don't think I should trust them. They said I should eat with them. Maybe I should, but I'm so confused.
"Rika! You're back! Hey!" two guys said hugging me from behind really tight.
"Umm, can you please let go? It's kinda getting hard for me to breath," I gasped. They let go as soon as I told them to.
"I'm Rika, but you already know that. You two are…?" I said while balancing my tray of food on my left hand and offered my right hand to them, making them flinch. The two boys looked at me strangely.
"This is Kazu and that is Kenta, they used to be your favorite human punching bags," the girl, Jeri I think, introduced the two boys.
I gasped. "Human punching bags? Oh my god! I'm so sorry! I hope I didn't hurt you!" I said bowing to them apologetically.
"Oh no! She's gone crazy!" They said running away.
I scratched my head. "What's up with those guys? I was only apologizing," I said to Jeri.
"They are very strange. You'll get used to it," Jeri said shaking her head in a disapproving matter.
"Do I want to?" I asked looking at her with a weird face.
"Haha, that's what I said when you first introduced me to them," the other girl, Eri, said walking outside to a tree. I followed her, with Jeri at my heels. There was the boy from my first period class, Henry, and there was the girl and other boy from my third period class, Alice and Takato. There was also three little kids and handsome boy with a really nice build.
"Hello Rika, nice to see you again. Have you seen Kenta?" a robot thing said in front of me. What the hell IS that thing?!
"Rika! Rika!! Rika!!! I've missed you!!!" a little white thing said jumping one my head. Oh my god!
"Ahhhhhhhh!!!!" I screamed throwing the white thing off my head.
A red fire ball thing flew by my feet. "Hey toots stop looking so terrified will ya? Bada boom!" a purple thing said throwing another fire ball.
"What's wrong with Rika, Takatomon?" a red dinosaur said to Takato.
"C'mon Rika, Momentai!" a white and green bunny thing said on a tree branch.
"What's wrong Rika?" a yellow fox thing asked just appearing in front of me.
"Ahhhhhhh!!! What are you things?! Some kind of mutant animals?!" I said running away. I bumped into something, looking up I found it was the handsome boy.
"Why are you getting so freaked out Rika? You're hurting Renamon's feelings," he said pointing to the fox thing.
"Do you hate me, Rika?" the white thing flew on the boys shoulder. I got a good look at everything around me. A little girl was playing with a brown and pink bunny thing. Jeri was talking to a giant lion hybrid with a human. Eri was petting a pink-ish white thing with a heart on it's chest.
"What the hell are you people? Mutant caretakers?! Leave me alone!" I yelled running away from the boy.
A/N: Please credit Evil Queen for this chapter, since she wrote it. Good day!
Note From Evil Queen: if anyone's confused about the Rika's accident. Well, let's just say that when the car hit her she flew a couple of feet and she landed on her head.