The plot thickens…another tragedy that leads to the main plot…
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Lost Without YouThe next two weeks, Summer and Seth spent almost every single minute together. Summer didn't know much, but she knew that she was totally dependent on Seth. If anyone would have asked her for her address or telephone number, she would have to ask Seth first to check.
But since she always was with Seth, that was not a problem.
Seth had been taking off some weeks at work just to be there for Summer. He couldn't leave her alone with the baby and this new situation. He knew he needed to be there for her, and he wanted to. Maybe his love would bring Summer back to him.
One day, the little family went out to do grocery shopping. Seth hated to shop for groceries, but he left nothing untried to get Summer's memory back. He figured that the surroundings of the grocery store would help.
Seth pushed the shopping cart with the baby in it in front of him, dragging Summer behind. She kept looking around for anything familiar and became frustrated when there was nothing.
As the cashier told the sum that had to be paid, Seth took out the wallet he had in his jeans pocket and frowned. He smiled excusingly at the cashier. "This is embarrassing…" he mumbled. "I don't have that much."
He turned to Summer. "Could you get the money I've left in the glove compartment out of the car?" he asked and handed her the keys.
Summer hesitated to take them at first. "You really think I should get it?"
Seth nodded. "Of course. You know our car, don't you?"
Summer nodded slowly. "The black Range Rover, right?"
"Exactly." Seth smiled and gave Summer a quick kiss on the lips. "You can do that."
Smiling back, Summer left the store.
Seth stepped aside for the next customer, waiting for Summer to bring more money.
Just when Summer had taken the money out of the car, she felt the earth beginning to tremble. Slightly at first, but becoming heavier by every second that passed. She heard some women around her screaming, and when she realized that an earthquake was hitting Newport Beach, she started to panic.
Summer had always been afraid of earthquakes, and now she was completely alone. She felt how the concrete under her feet trembled heavily, and how the glass of the grocery store was shattered. Out of a reflex, she started to run, run away from the parking lot, towards the park she spotted behind it.
She breathed heavily as the awful noises around her increased. The shockwaves sent Summer down to her knees.
Totally stricken by fear, Summer curled up and just sat in the middle of the park and wished for this nightmare to end, crying like a baby. Nothing was more terrible than earthquakes, but was much more terrible was to live through them alone.
When the earthquake started, Seth quickly reacted and grabbed his baby out of the shopping cart. He ran out of the store, just before the glass doors cracked down. Seth pressed the little baby that had started to cry now tight to his chest and curled up on the parking lot, trying to stay away from the building as far as possible.
The terrible noises around him made Seth almost go crazy. He tried to save his child, but right now, he wasn't able to save his wife. All he could do now was to wait for the earthquake to end.
It seemed like an eternity until the terrible shockwaves finally ended. But when the roaring of the earth had stopped, Summer looked up and scanned her environment. People around her stood up on shaky legs and tried to find their friends or relatives.
Summer saw a young mother hugging her child closely and smiled to herself, even though she was still upset about what had just happened.
Knowing that your beloved ones were fine was the most important thing. Suddenly, Summer realized that she needed to find somebody too.
She got up on her feet and walked towards the grocery store on shaky legs. They would be waiting for her.
In the middle of her way, Summer stopped. She had absolutely no plan who would be waiting for her.
Was anybody at the store at all?
Had she even been to the store when the earthquake had started?
Fear rose inside of her, and Summer felt how panic seemed to lace up her chest. Her breathing became heavier as she desperately tried to remember who she had been with when the earthquake had started. But like so often these days, her mind was completely blank.
A young brunette woman recognized that Summer was some kind of lost and went up to her. She laid her hand on Summer's shoulder. "Can I help you dear?" the woman asked, smiling friendly.
Summer flinched from the woman and stared at her. Did she know her? Or was she really a complete stranger?
Even if she didn't remember it, Summer knew that through her entire life, she had never been so confused and scared.
Just when Summer was about to explain herself, a little boy came running up to the woman who had wanted to help her. "Mummy, Mummy!" he shouted, his eyes red from crying. The woman spun around and went on her knees, hugging her little son tight, tears of joy streaming down her own face.
When Summer watched that scenery, she smiled at first, but when she realized that she had no one, another panic attack rose in her. The only solution she had at that moment was to run as fast as possible. She didn't know where to, but her fear just kept her running, far away from the earthquake place, to the place she belonged.
If only she knew where that was.
When the woman looked up to where Summer had been standing before, she found no one. The only thing she could see was the figure of a young woman that ran as if being chased by the devil, her long brown hair flying behind her in the wind.
The little boy tugged at his mother's sleeve. "Mommy, where is the woman running?" he asked.
The woman frowned and shrugged. "I don't know honey. Maybe she's just scared."
The woman didn't know how right she was.
Next chapter: Ghosts