"Oh my god! Jason, are you alright?" Reyna rushed into the hospital room. Ever since she heard from Doctor Marshall that Jason woke up from coma, she ran there as fast as she could.
"Reyna?" Reyna looked up and scrowled as she saw Piper Mclean standing next to Jason's bed.
"Hey." Reyna muttered. It's wrong to assume that Reyna and Piper aren't friends. In fact they were, just not particularly close ones. They hang out in the same group and everything but they both knew that they loved Jason. If Jason hadn't been in coma for the last two years, Reyna could have sworn she would have become Jason's girlfriend. However, Piper had a different story. She claimed that if Jason haven't been in coma, Jason would be hers. Nevertheless, they both don't know what would have happened since Jason fell into coma.
"He just went back to sleep." Piper whispered. Reyna nodded. She knew it wasn't exactly Piper's fault that Jason woke up when Piper was here but went back to sleep just as Reyna arrived but she couldn't help feeling jealous.
"Is he alright?" Reyna asked. Even though Reyna despite Piper for loving Jason as much as she did and often avoided asking Piper questions about Jason, she knew Piper won't let anything bad happen to Jason.
"He's fine, I think. He just opened his eyes and went back to sleep." Piper replied keeping her eyes on Jason. Reyna looked uncomfortably around the room. It's getting awkward.
"Visitor's hour is over!" a nurse came into Jason's room abruptly and glared at Piper and Reyna. "In fact, it was over five minutes ago. You should have known that. Now out!"
Reyna sighed as she and Piper sauntered out of Jason's room. She could have came earlier if it weren't for her Latin lessons. She only got less than three minutes with Jason, and they weren't even alone. In fact, Jason wasn't even awake.
"Reyna?" Piper called softly.
Reyna looked up. "Yeah?"
"When Jason fully wakes up from his coma, can we call it a truce fighting over him for a least two months?" Piper asked.
What? What is this? Did Piper have some evil plan up her sleeves? What if Piper wanted Reyna to stop fighting over him so she could take him all for herself? This sounds so..un-Piper-like.
"I mean, he got a lot to catch up from two years and I just don't want to pressure him with his love life yet." Piper said persuasively. "You know it's best for him."
Best for him? Maybe Piper is right. As much as Reyna wanted Jason to be hers, she didn't want to hurt Jason. Maybe it is better to relieve him from his love life while he catch up with other stuff first. Damn, why does Piper always have to be so persuasive.
"Okay." Reyna nodded slowly. "Truce." she held out her hand for Piper to shake. Piper shook it firmly and smiled.
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"I heard your bro is finally out of coma." Nico blushed as he saw Thalia. Blush? You might be thinking 'oh Nico blushed cuz he likes Thalia!' but no. Nico swears that he doesn't like Thalia that way. It's just that Thalia is well..intimidating. First of all, she is a senior. And really, it's her personality. She always have that rebel kind of attitude Nico admires. Never mind, you might take it the wrong way if he elaborates further.
"Yup." Thalia nodded. "I haven't visited him much, you know. I think Piper and Reyna have been though."
"Is everything okay with him? Like did he became totally weird after two years in nowhere or I don't know, what is coma?" Nico shrugged. He knew coma is something like a deep sleep and shit but really, he isn't the type who investigates stuff as deep as coma and sleep. It just doesn't make sense to him.
"Oh that." Thalia's face fell. "The doctor said he got amnesia by a head blow."
"Amnesia? Like he lost his memory? All of it?" Nico questioned. What? This can't be true. People only have amnesia in movies, right?
"I'm not sure. Hopefully, his memory would come back but the doctor said it might take a while." Thalia had a determined look on her face. "Or if his memory doesn't come back, I'll force it to."
Nico laughed. This isn't exactly an appropriate situation to laugh but it's just Thalia. Even Nico knew you can't force a memory to come back but this is how determined Thalia is when something bad happened to someone she loves like her brother.
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"Jason!" Leo bounced beside his best friend's bed excitedly as Jason opened one of his electric blue eyes. "How are you feeling, man?"
"Who are you?" Jason frowned. "I don't know you."
Leo grinned. "Are you trying to get me back for putting jello in your sneakers two years ago? I mean, that's two years ago. Thought you'd be over that."
"What?" Jason's eyebrow went up confused.
"I take that as…you've forgotten about that?" Leo shrugged. "Okay, what is it now? What have I done to you cuz I seriously forget what I do two years ago."
"Two years ago? I don't know you." Jason insisted.
"Fine." Leo rolled his eyes. "If you want to play this game, I'll play along. Hello, Jason. I'm your best friend. L-E-O. Leo. Got it?" Leo said slowly.
Jason blinked. "Okay, Leo."
"You seriously don't know who I am?" Leo waved his hands in front of Jason's face.
"No?" Jason looked at Leo doubtfully.
"Well, I could use my old jokes on you again! What are we waiting for?" Leo grinned.
"Leo!" Percy entered the room and pulled Leo back.
"What?" Leo protested.
"We can hear you from outside. You were really loud!" Annabeth hissed. "Anyway, he doesn't remember you!"
"Oh, so you're in the game too!" Leo groaned.
"You didn't know? He got amnesia! Doctor Marshall said he doesn't remember anything from the last three years. Which means he was still in middle school at that time and you didn't know him yet!" Percy quickly filled Leo with the details.
"You serious? Amnesia? Doesn't that only happen in….movies?" Leo laughed nervously.
Annabeth rolled her eyes, "No?"
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Okay. Who are these people? I think I woke up and saw this pretty girl with choppy brown hair beside me. I'd never seen her in my life.
"Jason!" she cried.
"What?" I managed to mutter quietly. Maybe too quietly as my eyelids flutter back to sleep. Who is she and how does she know my name?
Maybe a day later, this boy that looked like Latino's Santa Elf came along and introduced himself as Leo. I could swear on anything, I don't know him either but he had this crazy idea that I was playing a game with him pretending I didn't know him.
Gosh. When would things go back to order? And nobody explained to me why I am in a hospital bed. I tried asking my doctor but he just ignored me. How rude. The nurse? Why do I even need a nurse? If you ask me, I'm perfectly capable to going down to whatever cafe they have here and get those crappy hospital food. In fact, I could get out of this hospital now. I'm feeling fine.
The door cracked open. Ugh, what is it going to be now? A girl claiming to be my long lost sister?
"Jason!" a girl with spiky black hair ran in smiling.
"Who are you?" I stared at her as a skinny boy with scrawny black hair came in after her.
"Thalia. Don't you remember me? I'm your sister." Thalia laughed. "Long lost, you can call it."
Bingo. Some long lost sisters. I feel so psychic. "So you're my lost long brother?" I looked at the boy behind her.
"No." he shook. "I'm Nico. Nico Di Angelo."
It was like a thunderstorm hit me. Nico. Nico Di Angelo. Wasn't he the one who only comes to school whenever he felt like it? "Hey, Nico!" I was relieved that I knew somebody.
"So do you remember me?" Nico's eyes were shining.
"Of course!" I scoffed. "How could I forget the person who had this huge crush on Emily Reece?"
Nico blushed. "Um..actually…I don't like her anymore."
"Fat chance." I laughed. "Anyway, why do you look so..old? I mean, no offense but it's like you have an age lift."
From a corner, my supposedly to be long lost sister although we look nothing alike except for the eyes laughed. "Emily Reece." and bursted out laughing again. Okay. This is awkward.
"You should look at yourself." Nico handed me a mirror. Ew! I look like I was in high school. Not that high schoolers are ugly or anything but it's like I missed out 3 years of my life.
"Does he know yet?" Doctor Marshall stepped into the room.
"Know what?" I asked impatiently putting down the mirror.
"Um..no." Nico shook his head. "Although I'm sure he's wondering why he looks so old now."
"Did you do some plastic surgery to my face?" My eyes widened. "I don't want any surgeries!"
"Right." Doctor Marshall nodded and turned to Thalia. "I can see what you mean. So how do you suggest to break it to him?"
Thalia shrugged. "I don't know. Use Nico? He doesn't even remember who I am."
I was starting to feel pissed. They're acting like I'm not even in the room and remember? I never met that girl in my life before.
"Hello?" I said annoyed. "I'm still here, you know. If you want to talk about something I don't know about, please take it outside." I gestured towards the door.
"Uh..well." Nico scratched the back of his head. "Jason, how old are you?"
"Duh! 13?" I raised his eyebrows. "We are the same age."
"Damn." Nico muttered and gave a bright, cheery fake smile and said "What if I told you, you are actually 16?"
"The fuck? No, I'm 13! Is this some kind of joke?" I looked at Nico suspiciously.
"What Mr. Di Angelo is trying to tell you is that you are, indeed 16. Two years ago, you suffered from a head wound which led to your brain having some problems which caused you to have amnesia." Doctor Marshall explained.
"Amnesia?" I laughed slowly. "Doesn't that only happen in movies?"
Nico nudged Thalia and whispered. "I told you."
"Unfortunately, no." Doctor Marshall stated. "We believe you have lost three years of your memory due to the head wound. To help us recover your memory as quickly as possible, we must know what the latest memory you own."
I thought deeply. It's kind of hard. It was like having a really long sleep and forgetting everything that happened. (AN: Sorry, I don't know anyone or have coma before so yeah..I don't know how that works)
Wait, isn't there one time Reyna got a D in her report card threw a huge fit? No, how about the time where Gwen injured her ankle? I think that comes after Reyna throwing a fit after her poor grade. How about the time where Dakota drunk too much kool-aid and had to go to the hospital?
"I don't know." Jason said truthfully. "Maybe the time where Nico tried talking to Emily but got really scared and Emily thought Nico lost his voice?"
Nico's face turned red. "That…"
Thalia laughed as Nico blushed harder.
"Do you remember what day it was?" Docter Marshall asked. I shook my head.
"That was the last day before Christmas holiday during Grade 8." Nico muttered loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Aww. Nico still remembers that exact date." Thalia giggled.
"Shut up!" Nico's face went beet red again.
"Do you recall any accidents, minor or major that happened to Jason that day?" Doctor Marshall inquired.
All of us shook our heads.
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Judge Zeus looked across at Principal Stones of Goode High. "What? This case could earn me millions of dollar! You have no idea."
"I'm sorry." Principal Stones shook his head. "Jason is your son! We can't, I'm sure nobody would allow you to judge a case if your son is a part of it."
"Part of it? He's not! He had nothing to do with the Shootings!" Judge Zeus insisted. How dare that Principal even thought that Jason would know something about the Shootings.
"Being a victim of the Shootings, he might remember facts about his killer and whatever he says would be marked as evidence." the Principal reasoned. "You being his father might want to protect him, change his point of view or manipulate his thoughts."
"Me? I'm a judge." Zeus squinted his eyes. "A well-known one. I know what is appropriate to do and I would not do such things."
A knock came from the door. Principal Stones sighed. How can he convince Judge Zeus to quit this case? They already got Judge Hawkins taking the case after Zeus. Of course, Zeus was a better judge and it was extremely hard to get him two years ago. However, it's even harder getting rid of him. Zeus is worried about the amount of money he lost as apparently, he quitted two other cases to do this one as it involves the school his children go to. It's simply not right allowing a judge to still be judging an on-going mystery while his son could be a witness of the case. "Come in."
Mr. Brunners walked into the meeting room making eye contact with Zeus. He looked worried and seemed to have something important to announce. "Sir, I thought you, both of you might want to know something about Jason."
"What?" Zeus snapped. "Did you finally realize he is not a part of the shooting? He just unfortunately appeared at the wrong place in the wrong time? I bet the shooter isn't even meant to shoot him."
"No." Mr. Brunners paused. "Your son got amnesia. The doctor thinks he had forgotten the last three years of his life, which included the Shooting. He probably won't have any impressions of it so he would not be able to provide and sorts of evidence."
Zeus glared at Principal Stones. "Seeing my son got amnesia and won't be able to serve as a witness. Can I still be the judge of your friggin shooting?"
Principal Stones realized he had no reason to say 'no' to Zeus. "Fine." He rubbed his temples gently trying to relieve the muscles around his eyes and walked out of the meeting room.
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OMG! First chapter and I already gotten 6 favorites and 7 followers? That's like..so fetch! Gawsh..watching Mean Girls last night is really getting into me.
Anyway, although this chapter hardly has any drama in it or whatsoever, I hope you enjoyed it :) I'm going to update the next chapter (which I hope would include stuff you won't see coming) as quickly as possible to hook you all back into the story..Review!
Kisses, Emily