Chapter 5
Ever since the experience, my back had been acting up, but the doctors weren't saying anything. 'I am gonna ask Butch when he comes in today.' The clock hits 1 PM and almost instantaneously Butch walks in. In his hand he has a bunch of white roses "These were the ones you were gonna buy right? How would you have done that? No matter, hope you're feeling better."
"Hey Butch, could you check something for me? I've had this annoying pain in my back ever since yesterday." He stares at me and then nods. I turn around and button up my hospital suit. I move it and bend away from Butch. "So? Anything there?" His expression… I couldn't describe it if I tried.
It seemed like a missconstrued face of emotion. Happy, disgusted, sad… "What is it?" He put his hand forward and took a light hold of something "There is something sticking out of you. It seems like a tiny little… nail." I can feel it. It feels really weird. "I'm gonna try and move out ok? So sit still." Slowly I can feel it pull out. It doesn't hurt as much as one would think, but it gave me an incredible need to vomit.
"It… it can't be… that man… when he pushed you he knocked it free…" I like back at him again to see him hold a long and sharp object "What is that? And what are you talking about?" His face turns almost shining. He was that happy, he was probably holding himself from crying.
"I need to go get someone." Butch walks out, object still in hand. He soon returns with a doctor, who takes a close look at my back "It seems you're right, it's free. Jessica is in no more danger" The doctor walks out again and it's just me and Butch.
"Butch… you need to explain to me. What is going on?!" I stare at him, fearing for my life that he just did something horrible. "Jessica… I'm so happy… You're not gonna die. I can talk freely. I love you Jessica. My real name isn't Butch. My name is Cooper and I'm your fiancé" What?
"Butch what do you mean… Cooper? That's the name I remember from my dream. Talk freely? I'm so confused" He puts his hand on my shoulder, crying. "When you were young, you were in a grave accident at your grandparents home."
"You were spending time with your grandparents, just sitting and having fun in their basement, when a massive earthquake hit. The whole building collapsed on you and some pipe pierced your back leaving that there fragment in you."
"Ever since then you have been living on the edge. Every heart beat could be your last. I have no idea, how you could live so long without anything happening, but it happened when we were in a field of flowers. Your heart rate was so fast that it pierced your heart slightly."
"When we got here we found the fragment and doctors deemed it impossible to retrieve, as it was too close to your heart. So to avoid further accidents we gave you some medicine… Amnesiacs. So you forgot me, but I didn't forget you. They last for about a month so you'll get your memories back in a week."
I was in shock. Utterly dumbfounded. How could all this have happened and I hadn't known. "That's impossible… How could I forget someone like you?" He looks me dead in the eyes and say "Laura isn't real. The part about her getting hit wasn't real either. Everything that happened then was between you and me. But you forgetting me was too tough. So I took on the name Butch while here, so I could still see you."
I don't know what's going on. Feels like the whole world is spinning, and I'm in the eye of the storm. My breath turns quick, I begin sweating and my mouth dries. I have no idea what to do… until he kisses me.
