Chapter 2: A new home

Will returned after a short five minutes and had brought a nurse with him. The name tag on her shirt read 'Laura'.

Laura the nurse walked up to me and checked the machines around me. She told me I was healing very well. Apparently I had a few broken ribs and a lot of cuts and bruises, but all together it wasn't that bad. She pulled the tube out of my nose, which I was thankful for, as I've always hated those things. The needle in my hand went out as well.

"When can I leave?" I asked.

"When the doc comes around tomorrow, you should ask him, but I think you should be able to leave tomorrow evening. But still ask the doctor to be sure all right?" she answered me before leaving the room in quite a hurry because of her pager that was beeping like crazy.

Will then turned to me, looking me over before speaking, the first time since he had re-entered the room.

"Do you have a place to stay?" he asked me.

"I don't know, I don't remember having a home, any relatives or friends." I said, looking away from him, my mood saddening. "I just can't remember anything" I whispered.

I heard him swallow, looked over at him and saw how he opened and shut his mouth a few times, hesitating to say something.

I watched him do that and wondered what he was trying to say and why it was so hard to tell me. It was as if he didn't really want to tell me, but felt like he should. Or maybe he was just shy.

The latter seemed to be true because when he spoke, finally finding his courage to do so, he blushed slightly. Someone else might not have noticed it, but I did, as I was watching him closely. I wondered if I had always done that, staring at people to find out more information from their expressions.

"You… you're always … welcome to stay at my place … if you like" he said softly. "At least, until you regain your memory of course. And when you do, we can see what you could do from there."

I felt my eyebrows raise at his proposal, I hadn't been expecting that. "I really don't want to be a bother –" I started, but he cut me off.

"You wouldn't be one, don't worry about that" he said. "So, what do you think?"

Will really was a sweet guy, but yet, I didn't know anything about him, except for his name. But that's the same way in his case; he didn't knew anything about me either, yet he was proposing me to stay with him until I retrieved my memory.

I don't know if I was completely sane at the time, but I felt like I could trust him, so I replied: "Yes I would like to, thank you very much"

He smiled shyly at me, which reminded me of the way he blushed when asking me.

"Hey can I ask you a question?" I asked him.

He raised his eyebrows at me and told me I could.

"Why did you blush when telling me I could stay at your place?"

He raised his eyebrows even further and asked me: "I did?" I nodded at him and he said: "I didn't know I did so I don't know why I did it, sorry for not being able to answer your question."

He then walked to the window, turning his head away from me.

"It's okay" I told him hesitantly.

He continued to watch out of the window, not saying anything for a while. I knew he wasn't telling the me the truth. I could tell from the way he looked away, didn't say anything on the subject anymore, not saying anything anymore at all.

But I decided to let it go, if he wasn't comfortable with telling me.

I changed the subject. "Where do you live anyway?" I asked him.

"Wolf trap, Virginia." He said, still looking out of the window. It was dark outside, visiting hours would soon be over, I guessed.

I didn't reply, just looked out of the window, for as far as I could see of course. I could see lights of a city in the distance, and I wondered what city that could be. I also wondered in what hospital I was in. Just as I was about to ask him, he turned back to me and started speaking.

"Look I have to go, I have an evening lecture to give" he said. "I will see you again tomorrow all right?"

I nodded my head. "See you tomorrow."

He smiled and after a quick 'bye' he exited the door.

I turned back to the window, looking at the lights in the distance again. I found out something of him; he gives lectures, I thought. But what about? I will ask him later, together with all my other questions I had about him. Hell, I was going to live with him, I want to know something more about him than only his name. I think that's a bit logical.

As my mind was still running, I felt my eyelids go heavy and closed them, falling into a deep sleep.