The Unknown
Tori woke up in a dark room and couldn't find anything that she found familiar. The teen began to sit up when her head began pounding and she fell back with a cry of pain. She heard footsteps running into the room and she shut her eyes once more, trying to compose herself for whoever was there.
"Are you okay?" The masculine voice she heard earlier asked. The teen still couldn't put a face to the voice and reluctantly opened her eyes to see her rescuer. A man in his mid twenties was looking down at her concerned and she had no idea who he was. He had dirty blonde hair and dark brown eyes, almost black as they looked over Tori. The blonde let her eyes wander the room and she began to panic when she didn't recognize anything.
"Where am I? Who are you?" Tori asked in a panic as she scrambled to stand up and move away from the man. He tried to restrain her to keep her still, but she struggled and he let her go. The teen stood on the opposite side of the bed of the man, wobbling, and tried to focus on his face. Her vision went blurry when she rushed to stand up and she grabbed the bed in front of her for support.
"My name is Kevin Tran and this is my apartment. I brought you here after I dragged you out of the water and got you breathing again," he said even thought it sounded slightly wrong, even to him. He knew he was simply saving her life but he knew that the teen in her condition might take it the wrong way. "You now know my name, may I know yours as well?" He asked without making any more moves towards the frightened teen.
The blonde opened her mouth to say her name but she couldn't think of it. She closed her mouth and thought for a moment before realizing she didn't remember anything, and it scared her even more. "I.. I don't know my name," she told him, with pleading eyes for him to tell her her name. "Do you know my name?" She asked hopefully.
The man was slightly taken aback that she didn't know who she was. He remembered that her bag was out in his car and decided to go see if she had any identification to try and bring back her memory. "I don't know your name, sorry. But I might be able to find out. Promise me you won't leave this room and I'll go find your name for you, alright?" He told her and then walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.
Kevin was wondering if she hit her head on anything when she was pulled under water. He grabbed his keys and walked out of the building and ran down to his car and grabbed her bag. The man didn't even bother to look for identification but decided to bring up her bag to her so she would maybe recognize it. Kevin raced back up to his apartment and walked calmly back into his room to find the teen looking out the window, her arms wrapped around herself and the moon reflecting off her blonde hair.
If only she were mine, Kevin thought wistfully before closing the door behind him and getting the girl's attention. He held up her bag and raised an eyebrow. "Do you recognize this bag?" He asked hopefully.
Tori looked over at the man who walked back into the room and looked at the bag he was showing her. She thought hard but didn't recognize anything about the bag. "I don't. Is it mine?" She asked, confused and scared as to why she couldn't remember anything.
Kevin sighed and nodded his head before sitting down on the bed and beckoning her over to join him. "I promise I won't hurt you. I just want to help you find yourself again," he told her while he opened the bag and picked up a wallet.
Tori slowly made her way to the bed once more and sat down beside him but keeping a distance between them. When he was about to open the wallet, she grabbed it from his hands and opened it herself. The first thing she noticed was a picture of three people, two boys and a girl. She knew that the girl in the middle was herself, but she didn't recognize the two boys with her. Tori flipped the picture over and read the names on the back. "Dustin, Tori, Shane," she muttered to herself. She then looked up at the man sitting beside her quietly. "Is my name Tori?" The blonde asked him, holding out the picture fore him to see.
The man hesitantly took the picture and looked at the girl in it and then at the name on the back. "I suppose your name is Tori," he told her slowly. He read over the other names, trying to think if he knew a Shane or Dustin. Kevin knew that his friend Shane lived out in Florida with his girlfriend and definitely didn't look like that. He was becoming frustrated that she didn't know anything about her herself or her life. He put the picture down and watched as she pulled out her driver's license.
"My name's Tori Hanson and I'm 17 years old," she said, looking confused. Tori looked at the picture of herself glaring at the camera on her license. "How come I can't remember anything?" She asked angrily, dropping the card and her wallet back on the bed and stood up and walked over to the window once more.
Kevin looked concerned at the girl before it changed to sympathy, wondering how he would react if he couldn't remember anything one morning waking up. "You must of hit your head when you were pulled under the swell," he told her, slowly standing up and moving behind the teen. He gently wrapped his arms around her waist, wondering what her reaction would be. A small smile came to his face when she relaxed into his arms and he rested his chin on the top of her head. "You're welcome to stay here until you remember where you live and who your family," he told her softly.
Tori lent into the man behind her, not knowing if she should know him or not. She closed her eyes and an image jumped out at her. She could see a small boy in a yellow t-shirt running towards a small girl in blue with a dandelion in his hand. The teen ripped her eyes open and felt fear wrap her in its cold embrace. She didn't know what she just witnessed but she guessed it was from her past that she couldn't remember. Tori pulled away from the man and rushed to the bed and grabbed the picture of herself and the two boys she didn't know but knew that she should.
"Where are you going Tori?" Kevin called out, following her and grabbing her arm none to gently. The teen reacted quickly and displaying feats she didn't know she could accomplish, flipped the man over he shoulder and heard him hit the ground with a thump. She then raced out of the apartment and down the stairs as fast as she could.
Tori opened the door and was out in the cool night. She didn't know where she was or where she wanted to go but she chose a direction and ran away from the man she didn't know. For some unknown reason, she didn't feel safe around him and wanted to find the people in the picture to find out if they could help her. The teen didn't care that her hair was still soaked and that she was only in surfing shorts and bikini top, she just wanted some place to call her own, until she remembered.
Kevin lay on the ground regaining his breath before realizing that Tori had run out of his apartment into the unknown. He felt responsible for her and knew that she had to be found and kept safe from harm. When he raced out the front doors, he looked left and right but didn't spot the girl. So close, he thought angrily, I almost had her. Kevin made his way back up to his apartment and walked into his room and noticed that all of Tori's things were still on his bed and all that she took with her was the picture. A smirk crept on his face and he grabbed the identification while looking for his phone. He knew one way he would be able to find her and have her returned to him. Once the man found the phone, he dialed the number he wanted and began to set his plan into action.
A/N: This took much longer to write than I thought. I need your thoughts on where you think this should go, so please leave me a nice review, however short. You know the drill, more reviews, faster I update!