March Story Contest

Remember Me Chapter 1
By: Shinabella
Age: 12

I was awakened by noises. Tons of them. Sirens, Lights, Screams, and little rain drops on my cheeks. I looked but could not see anything. “Mom? Dad??” I yelled. But nobody heard me. I lay there soaked, Covered in dirt and even pieces of glass lay around me. After what seemed like hours, a tall woman started shouting. “I found the girl!” Many people ran to me. I was lifted onto a thing that looked like a moveable bed, but felt like rock. “Hurry!!!!” I heard people gasping and the sky getting dark. Fire was all around us. I saw two other people in the ambulance with me. “April are you ok?” A girl asked. I tried to shake my head but I had trouble. I did not know what was happening, or what had happened. “She can’t breath!!” The girl said. She was right. I was coughing like mad. 2 people jumped up and put something over my face. I felt like the air was enclosed in just my mouth. I had no taste. No sense of what was happening. Everything. Went. Black. 

Beep. Beep. BEEEPPP. 

I awoke with a start. Nurses, Doctors, and a girl about my age.
“Who are you?” I gasped. Nurses left, Doctors escorted their selves out of the room as I spoke. Well, Tried to any way.
“Your parents, Silly!” They giggled. This was not a laughing matter. I looked around the white room, only to see a picture of bones. Cracked, Fractured, Broken, Even missing. I could not tell. The 2 adults looked at each other and left the room. I was scared.
“Why doesn't she remember us?” The lady next to the man asked. The 2 doctors sighed. 1 spoke up while the other one left.
“She can’t remember anything. She had a concussion on the way here is what we expected, so her brain is not fully back to remembrance.”
He spoke quickly, the words spun in my head. He was right. I could not remember anything.
“What do you mean...?” They asked.
“I am so sorry. She may not ever remember you again. Maybe she will but I doubt it. To soon to tell.” He left leaving the two in shock.
“What do we do.” They leaned against the wall outside of the white room and slid down to sit. “We work up to remembrance.”

The man said. I was more scared now, these people were trying to get me to remember them when I had no idea who they were! “Come on, August, Lets go home.” The woman took the girl by the hand and started to lead her out of the room. I just couldn't remember.. It was hard, because whenever I started to remember pain would shoot through my mind or, worse, my hand, arm, and then my neck. I had this twitch. And it hurt, bad. I couldn't even remember my NAME. Nurses would come in from time to time trying to get me to remember things. Once, a man came and visited me, I am not sure WHO he was. Or if he knew who I was.
“April, Honey, Can you hear me?” I jerked my head back and I tried not to listen to him. “April....” I stared into his blank eyes.
“Shish.” Ye that was my 'yes'. And He could not understand it. I think he waited there for about 1-2 hours.. It was hard. We just stared at each other. Blankly. Maybe we blinked- Maybe. I doubted that I would ever remember him. And I could tell he thought I would never know who he was. “Goodbye, April.”

He got up, and left the room. I kept staring at him until the door closed. Truth is, I saw something. Something in his eyes. A part of me just kept saying “Father. Dad. Pa.” But I just could not accept it. Pain started shooting through my head and I lifted my arm. However, It dropped back onto my bed and smashed into the buttons and my bed freaked out, up, down, up, down. I tell you, I was so sick after that, I wound up sleeping for about a day or so. I woke up around 3:00 AM on a Saturday morning, still tired and not feeling well. There was about a foot of food on my desk and the smell was dreadful. Nurses were just staring at me and I tried to go back to sleep, But I couldn't. Not with them standing there, watching. I made a face at the one, and she left. I tried it with 3 more and they left as well. But the last, wasn’t budging. Just staring. And she wasn't a nurse, either.