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A/N:I'm not english native speaker, so you might find some typos or grammar mistakes, I do apologize for that.
Chris and Evana trained together in the gym for about an hour and a half. After they were done with their fitness routine, they relaxed a little talking about trivial stuff. It was then that a sharp pain arose in his head, making him grab hold of his head and let out a scream.
"Chris, are you alright?", Evana asked moving to his aid, "What's going on?"
"I don't feel that good", he told her truth still holding on to his head and Evana helped him to sit down on the chair that was in front of the sewing machine.
"We should go see a doctor", she expressed her concern, as she grabbed him some water, "You were still under treatment when you ran away."
"It will pass… ", he responded trying to fight that pain, "I just breathed wrong during the exercise…"
"Stop lying to yourself! This is not because of the exercises.", she almost scolded out of concern.
"Don't worry Eva… It's already passing."
"Of course I do get worried!" she stated the obvious, "You're living with me… you're under my watch!" she said caressing his arm as she was kneeling by his side.
"Under my watch…" Chris repeated feeling another sting in his head.
"What?" Evana asked confused.
Chris shook his head in confusion, "Claire… Claire…" he repeated constantly as he rubbed his forehead.
Evana watched the man, not knowing what to say or what to do until he rested his arm on the sewing machine table and rested his head on his arm and agonizing in pain. "I'm going to take you to a hospital!" Evana said grabbing him gently by the arm.
"NO!", he yelled out loud, pulling his hand away from her grip with a considerable jerk, "I don't want to go to hospital!", he spoke harshly, making Evana take step away from him. She knew that he wouldn't hurt her but she couldn't help but be a little scared. She didn't know how to calm him down or how to handle this situation, "I am sorry, Eva!", Chris apologized noticing her reaction, regretful for raising his voice at her, "I didn't mean it!", he huffed holding on to his head, "I just don't want to go..."
"It's alright...", she moved to his aid; she was more concerned about him than she was scared that he would hurt her.
Chris closed his eyes and his face scrunched up in pain. Very slowly the pain eased up and his mind was flooded with random images. Prominent among them was the images of a red haired girl and he realized that it was all his memories from the past. He recognized that woman and he knew her first name.
"Claire", he mumbled opening his eyes and came face to face with Evana, who gave him a very worried look, "I remember", he told Evana, "Eva, I remembered!", he exclaimed happily grabbing hold of her shoulder.
"You do?!" she expressed her astonishment.
"Yeah, she's my sister!", he told her nodding joyously, "She's my younger sister!"
"Oh that's great!", she shared his happiness, feeling glad that he remembered after so long, "I am so happy for you!", she told him and in the celebratory excitement, threw her arms around his neck and hugged him.
Chris was slightly taken aback by that gesture but he didn't waste too much time being daze and wrapped his arms around her slender body, hugging her tight as well. He enjoyed the feel of her being in his arms, and for a moment, he forgot about Claire. He just wanted to make the most of the moment and delve in the sensation of Evana being so close to him.
It took Evana a long minute to realize that she was hugging Chris and she pulled away from him immediately. They both looked in each other's eyes caught in a moment, before Evana cleared her throat and stepped away from him feeling slightly embarrassed. Although she was bubbling with happiness inside that, he had hugged her back.
"So… uh now you know that you're not alone in the world" Evana tried to start a conversation to ease the awkwardness between them.
"I'm still alone in the world… I just know her first name, I don't know how or where to find her."
"Oh, well… she might be looking for you." she stated the probable fact.
"I hope so…" he said with uncertainty.
"Come on, why wouldn't she?" she asked his reasons for that kind of skepticism.
"Because I remembered I'm not a good brother…" he admitted running a hand through his hair.
"What do you mean?"
"Apparently I have disappeared from her life a few times because I have this vague memory of the time when she lectured me saying 'you have to stop running away like that and getting all of us worried all the times'"
"Oh… so you have that habit of running away like you did from the hospital." Evana commented with a slight laugh.
"Yeah, that's what it seems", Chris told her sheepishly, "But this time I cannot go back to the damn hospital."
"Why not?"
"Because I saw on the news that sometime after I ran away from there, the hospital was destroyed and there was several victims… I cannot tell exactly since I don't understand your language."
"Oh man, that's really bad then. Maybe they believe you are dead too."
"Maybe…" he sighed heavily looking down, "All I have is you Eva…" he spoke looking up at her.
Evana blushed a little after his words and then after a brief moment of hesitation, she lifted his face up so he looked at her and took hold his hands, "You are starting to remember and that's what really matters. It's just a matter of time until you can go back to them and stop getting them worried." She spoke with a warm smile.
"But what about you?" he spoke with a line of worry across his face.
"What about me?" she asked him in puzzlement.
"Getting my memory back means I'll have to leave you… and get you worried…" he spoke avoiding confessing his real feelings.
"I won't be worried knowing you will be fine… and with your family."
"You could be part of my family too…"
"What?!" Evana eyes widened in shock and she unconsciously stepped backing, making herself trip over her own foot. Chris swiftly wrapped an arm around her waist to stop her fall and steadied her.
Evana's reaction made Chris re-think what he had just said. Possibly it was too soon, so he had to improvise another meaning to what he had spoken, "Like friends…" He stuttered, "family of friends… friends that we see as family."
"Oh, that kind of family… right! Like Yana and I are friends, but we see each other as sisters."
"Yeah, something like that!" Chris had to agree and helped her stand up, "Except I don't want to be your brother…", he added in an undertone.
"What?!", she said in blushed surprise, having heard what he said in an undertone.
"What?", he said confused not aware she heard him.
"You said something?" she gulped wanting to confirm if what she heard was right.
"No, I didn't…", he denied shaking his head, "You heard something?"
"No…", Evana shook her head too embarrassed to say what she heard, "must be the wind." She gave him an awkward smile, "But anyways it's not like you can't send me a message or call me when you get back to your family. I mean we can still stay in touch."
"Yeah", Chris said in a tone of realization and then smiled, "I forgot you have a cell phone."
The blonde let out a light laugh, "Yeah I do", she spoke with a smile, "So is your head all better?", she asked him.
"Yeah I guess", he replied touching his head, "Not hurting and I am not dizzy anymore."
"That's good then, but I still think you should take some rest", she suggested speaking out of concern, "I'll just go and get some groceries. Do you need anything?"
"I am fine and I can come with you to the store."
"Okay", she let out a sigh knowing she couldn't convince the guy otherwise, "Let's change and head out then."
"Okay", Chris gave her a nod and they both left the gym to head back to the house.
Chris and Evana were doing the groceries when her cell phone rang, "Oh, it's Yana, excuse me." Evana told Chris, "I have to get this."
"Yeah sure", Chris nodded in agreement, "I'll get stuff on the list."
"Thanks", she expressed her gratitude and moved away to a place with less disturbances and answered her phone, "Good morning sis!" Evana greeted her best friend.
"Code red... I repeat code red... lock your doors, stay away from window and get under you bed." Yana whispered with a warning tone.
"Yana?!", Evana checked her phone screen to make sure it was her friend on the other end, "What are you talking about?" she asked puzzled.
"The big bad wolf is looking for you", Yana again spoke in some childish code and it made Evana laugh a little.
"Yana, what are you talking about?", she asked her friends holding her laugh.
Evana heard Yana curse out of defeat, "Where are you?", she asked the blonde woman in a simpler way. "I'm at the market, why?"
"Are you alone?"
"No… Chris is with me…as always."
"You have to be careful! Don't let him see Chris with you!"
"Who?" Evana asked starting to get worried and looked back at Chris.
"I just saw Stan walking in the street near your house."
"What? He never went to my house!"
"He just did it!"
"I can't believe it!"
"Listen, don't go back to your house right away, I'm going to keep watching Stan and I tell you when you can go back."
"Are you watching him?"
"Yeah! It was a coincidence that I just came to pay you a visit, but fortunately I recognized him first and I managed to hid before he could see me."
"Dammit! This guy doesn't know when to quit! I don't want to see him again!"
"So talk to him once and for all and put an end to this before he sees Chris in your house and have the wrong… or right idea of him…since I don't know the current status between you and Chris after yesterday..."
"Shut up! This is no time for jokes."
"No, it's not, but I am the one near the devil, so I need some escape valve!"
"Sis, don't lose track on him. I'm going to entertain Chris, but you'll have to tell me Stan's track so we don't end up bumping into each other."
"Okay." The two disconnected. Evana sighed in concern at the same time she needed to recollect herself to face Chris again.
"Is everything alright?" Chris asked when Evana walked to him
"Yeah… it was just Yana telling me her dramas." She replied with a smile.
"What did she say?" Chris asked casually.
"Uh... she wanted to meet us at a cafe..." she made up an excuse.
"Why?"
"I don't know, she didn't say... we'll only know when we go there. She said it's important."
"Hmm, okay let's go then, get a table and order drinks and wait for her."
The pair headed for a nearby café. They ordered themselves some drinks, in lieu of waiting for Yana. They talked casually and joked about a few stuff, Evana making sure that Chris didn't pay too much attention to time they spent just waiting for her best friend. When too much time elapsed, Chris took note and commented that Yana was not showing up.
"Well, Yana has a gold fish memory! I'm going to send her a message right away… maybe she changed her mind." Evana told Chris, retrieving her cell phone from the purse and began typing, "Are you done there? When you get green code, I need you to come to the café nearby the market ASAP! I just lied to Chris saying you wanted to meet us." she sent the message.
"I can't go there! Code is super red. Stan is waiting for you in front of your house!" Yana replied Evana could feel her heart almost jumping out of her mouth. She did everything to not demonstrate her concern.
"I can see in your face she's not coming, right?"
"She won't… she had an emergency and she's busy with that…"
"I see… you know. It's almost lunch time and we didn't do the groceries and just drinking the juice now got me kinda hungry, so I was wondering if we could go somewhere else and have real lunch?"
"It's a great idea!" she spoke with a large smile, "We could also do other things we haven't in town after that, what do you think?"
Chris smiled in agreement, but he couldn't help the thought of how interesting some time ago Evana was reluctant about his invitations and now she was the opposite, "Yeah, that'd be great!"
The pair left together to enjoy their afternoon…
Thank you SUPASTAR89 and Xaori for the reviews. I'd like to thank my bestie JennaWilliams for all the help with the story and chapter!
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This time we didn't have an extra chapter like in the previous week, but I have plans for an extra one shot fic for next weekend, besides the regular update, but I won't promise for now. Stay tuned.
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