Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

PART 3 - CHAPTER 140

JESS

The campus felt like a ghost town, and I was the ghost haunting it. Familiar, yet foreign.

It's been a month since I woke up in the hospital with a blank slate where my memories should be.

A whole month, and I still didn't know who I was-at least not in the way that mattered. I didn't remember people. Faces, names, the ones I was supposed to love all of them were missing.

Yet, somehow, I knew I liked salt over sweet, preferred summer to winter, and I could still remember how to solve equations or where the states were on a map.

But faces? They were blurry. Names felt like smoke, slipping through my fingers every time I tried to grab hold.

According to the doctors, the part of my brain that got injured was where I stored memories of people-people I cared about. They kept telling me to stay hopeful, that things might come back, but I wasn't so sure. Every day that passed, it felt like h would never get them back.

College seemed like the only escape from it. Nobody here knew me, at least not personally. I wasn't disappointing anyone by not remembering. I wasn't seeing that flicker of hurt every time I failed to recognize a face.

I'd see it in my parents' eyes, brother Josh's, and even Luke's-

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he barely looked at me. His face was cold and distant like he'd already given up

more than I

about this?" My mom's voice brought me back to the present. She was watching me with the same worried look she'd worn every

I could just remember something about it,

so I think I'll catch up fine." I tried to sound

from the driver's seat. He hadn't said much during the ride, and honestly, I was thankful for that. I wasn't sure

at the hospital. The rest was still locked away in my dorm room, a place I

happened, I had flown out to see Luke play one of his football games. I fell, hit my head, and the

family, and who my friends were. But Laura, my best friend, had been the one to fill in the important

He was the type of guy that would make

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But when he did talk to me,

stranger to him now,

If any of it

Josh told me, it felt like something in my chest cracked open, and for reasons I couldn't explain, it hurt. I didn't know why- hell, I didn't even

to my dorm building, forcing myself

to remember where my dorm was -how

the door, staring at the knob like it held all the answers I couldn't remember. This is your room. You don't need to knock, I told myself, but for

huff, I gripped the handle and twisted. "Fucking ridiculous,"