Chapter 3

Rikki's POV

"Rikki, look out!" Zane yelled.

I turned around and saw a rock thrown at me. I quickly ducked, but I didn't duck quick enough. The rock hit the top of my head and I fell to the floor.

The room started to spin. I could hear Zane screaming my name.

I saw a girl right before I passed out. She looked familiar. I couldn't place the face. Then, I realized who the girl that attacked me was.

Emma.

I woke up screaming. Why would I dream that? I looked at the clock. It was early enough to call Emma and see if she was okay.

I dialed her number and got her voicemail again.

"Really Emma," I said. Why couldn't she answer her stupid cell? I felt my phone heat up in my hands. I look down. My phone is steaming. I wasn't even using my hands to heat it up.

I dropped the phone and stared at it. How did I do that?

I got up and got ready and headed for work.

I was on my way to work when I saw a little café. The place was opened for its grand opening.

I walked into the place and immediately saw Zane. I had a pain in my chest. I understand Cleo's advice, but I can't stay away from him. He looks up and sees me. Zane get's up, grabs his coffee and starts to leave.

"Zane!" I called after him.

He didn't turn around.

"Can we please talk?" Still didn't turn around.

"I'm sorry!" I screamed. He stopped and turned around. I could see tears in his eyes. I was about to say something when I feel a sharp pain in the back of my head. I fall to the ground and see Zane running toward me. I try to get up, but I am hit again. The force keeps hitting me until, finally, I black out.

I saw a girl running. She had blonde hair and froze any water that was heading toward her.

Two men were chasing her. They had buckets of water and guns. Why would they have buckets of water? That won't kill her. They shot at her.

They vision disappeared and I went back into blackness.

I woke up in a hospital bed and saw a guy sleeping in the chair next to the bed. Who the hell is he?

I looked around and felt a pain in my head. I touched the back of my head. There was a bandage all around my head.

What happened?

I heard the guy waking up and I looked at him. When he opened his eyes and saw that I was awake he got up out of his chair and hugged me.

Why is this strange man hugging me?

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"Umm… Who are you?"

He let go of me and looked into my eyes.

"What?" he asked. I could see the worry in his face.

"Who. Are. You?" I emphasized every word.

"It's Zane. Your, well it's hard to explain. Rikki, what else do you not remember?"

"Who is Rikki? Wait, who am I?"

I don't remember anything. Not who I am. Where I live. Who I know.

"You remember nothing?"

"Nothing at all."

"Wait here while I get a doctor." He left the room.

Why don't I remember anything?

Wait.

I remember something. A girl being chased and freezing water with her hands.

Wow. I have lost not only my memories, but my mind too.

I don't know how long I sat there, but Zane and the doctor came into the room.

"Hello Ms. Chadwick," the doctor said.

"Who?" I asked.

"You. You were right Zane. She has lost her memory."

"That's why I got you." I heard him say something like "stupid doctor" under his breath.

"Ms. Chadwick, do you remember anything at all?"

"All I remember is this blond girl running away from two guys. They threw water at her and she froze the water with a wave of her hand." I looked up and saw them looking at me. "I know, I'm crazy."

"Rikki, you're not crazy," Zane said.

"I think I am going to keep her here for a couple days," said the doctor.

"Thank you," said Zane.

He looked at me. "You really don't know who I am?" he asked.

"No. I'm sorry," I said.

He ran over to me and said, "Don't be sorry, Rikki. It's not your fault. The ass that did this to you should be sorry."

"Can you tell me what happened to me? How I got here? What you mean to me?"

He filled me in about how I got in the hospital. I don't understand why someone would do this to me.

"Did you see who did this to me?" I asked Zane.

"No. When I turned around, I saw no one."

Right then, something hit me. A memory, I mean.

I feel a sharp pain in the back of my head. I fall to the ground and see Zane running toward me. I try to get up, but I am hit again. The force keeps hitting me until, finally, I black out.

"You did see. I remember you running toward me while the force was still hitting me."

"No. I turned around when I heard you fall. Nothing was hitting you." I looked at him and saw that he was telling the truth, but I know that he was running toward me when I was being hit.

"Wait. You remembered something?" he asked

"That's all I remember though. It felt like a brick hitting me."

"Don't worry. We'll figure out who did this and get your memory back."

He looked at me and walked toward me. While he was doing so, he knocked over a glass of water and the water splashed onto my arm.

Zane ran to the door and locked it. Ten seconds later, I had a tail.

"What the hell!" I screamed.