Found

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"Why can't you just trust me on this? I'm not always wrong John." "But I know there's something off about her, she was gone for 3 hours yesterday and didn't even tell anyone. She's hiding something." I rolled my eyes as I watched him pace back and forth by the tree, his hands clenched into fists at his side. I crossed my arms over my chest as I argued with him, "Well maybe it's a personal thing, we can't just assume that it's something bad. Let me talk to her." He looked at me with a contemplative look and for a moment I thought that he would deny me that as well, but after a long silence he sighed and nodded quickly.

"Fine, but if she says or does anything suspicious I want you to take her down. No questions." My eyes widened slightly as I listened to the man that I was with take on a hostile and dangerous tone, I didn't like how his demeanor had changed lately and it seemed to be going farther downhill. "Ok, I'm going to go talk to her now. I'll see you later alright?" He merely grunted in acknowledgement as I left and I wondered if I should try and give him some type of comfort but quickly diminished the idea, I needed to figure this out before John tried to take it into his own hands.

(Time Skip) The woods were silent as I walked in front of Loren and I glanced back every now and then just to make sure she was still there, "So, what's this about? Did I do something wrong?" "No no I just wanted to ask you a few things, but nothing bad…." I continued to walk until we came up to a small clearing with a few fallen trees for us to sit on, I was quiet for a moment as we sat and thought about what I wanted to say. Should I ask her if her camp really got wiped out or should I ask about her weird disappearances? "Hey Wren, you okay? You look kind of pale, are you getting sick?" "Uh no I'm fine really I just…I want to ask you something kind of important."

She nodded and leaned forward with an interested look on her face as my mind fumbled around to piece together the right words and after another silent minute I finally opened my mouth, "Are you really who you say you are? And did what you say happened really happen?" I almost wanted to vomit as the words came tumbling out and I saw her expression change to one of neutrality and she sat straight once more, her stare wandered around the forest but it never met my own. I had begun to wonder if I had offended her when she finally sighed and slowly raised a hand to her head and gripped her hair. At first I thought she was just frustrated but my mind went numb as she pulled off a black wig to reveal medium brown hair with lighter highlights.

"No, I'm not who I said I was. But please listen to me alright? I'm not here to attack your camp or weaken it so it can be attacked….I'm here to rescue my good friend." She was here to rescue a friend? But no one here had said anything about past groups nor had they recognized her whenever she was in camp. "But I don't understand, no one recognized you from camp." She nodded a bit soberly now and tossed the wig aside before looking up to me, her eyes now a light blue and I realized that she had been wearing contacts as well. "I know, they wouldn't recognize because they don't remember, their head has been filled with lies to replace the real memories." "I don't understand-" She stood abruptly and moved forward so fast that I almost fell from my seat as my sentence was cut off and she stared at me with a fierce and intense gaze, "It's you Wren. You're my friend and you were in an accident that messed up your memory and John twisted it into his own."

No…..no no no no this wasn't happening! I didn't want to believe any of what she was saying but the conviction in her eyes and the truth in her voice told me otherwise. But how could all these months of my life just be a lie? Was I even engaged to the man that I thought I knew or was that a twisted lie as well? I had to find out one way or another but we still had a lot of talking to do. "….Ok….ok lets say that I believe you alright? So what's your real name?" "Charlie." "K, Charlie, your saying that I knew you right? How long has it been since you had seen me other than when you found us?" She looked down once more and the mood seemed to sadden as she sat next to me, "You had left a note saying that you were leaving for a month or two and just needed some time alone….but you never came back. It took us six months to find you." "Six months?!" she nodded again in a drone type of way and continued to talk in a dull tone, "And your name isn't Wren, its Orella. John has lied to you this whole time and he's not the one that loves you, the one who really loves you is waiting for us at a cabin a little ways off in another part of woods. And you leaving broke him, we have to go back."

I opened my mouth to tell her that I couldn't just up and leave but all of a sudden my vision flashed and memories that I didn't know about flashed before my eyes and racked my brain. There were a few of Charlie and a dog and cat…..Artimus and Bongo….but then there was a tall man with no facial features and snow white skin. I couldn't remember his name but he seemed so familiar and they memory left my body with a warm feeling. By the time my vision returned to normal I noticed that Charlie was shaking me slightly and calling my name with worry in her voice, "Orella what's going on? Are you okay?" It took me a minute to collect myself but when I was finally able to speak again my words came out slightly stuttered, "I-I saw it Charlie! I…I saw some of my memories, I saw us and Bongo and Artimus!" I hadn't realized that I was smiling but Charlie began to smile as well as my excitement grew and my feelings of love rushed to me like a broken damn and it was almost a bit over whelming.

All this time I had been acting as if I was someone else and being with someone whom I didn't even love….I had been betrayed and now it was my turn to strike back. "Charlie, I can't go back yet. I have to confront John about this, I can't let him get away with what he did to me. You need to go back to the cabin and tell the tall man that you two need to meet me by the edge of camp tomorrow night, no sooner." "But Orella what if-" "No, I have to do this. I can take care of myself Charlie, I promise. And I have stronger connections with most of the people there than John does. Trust me." She seemed to be at war with herself on whether she should actually listen to me or not but in the end she agreed, waving sadly as we went our separate ways for what would be that last time…..tomorrow I was going to reveal John for the backstabber that he was, and I was going to get my life back.