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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cold and

more than I

honey. You sure about this?" My mom's voice brought me back to the present. She was watching me

remember something about it, something

in my head, so I think I'll catch

deep voice came from the driver's seat. He hadn't said much during

The rest was still locked away in my dorm room, a place I hadn't set foot

to Josh, when it happened, I had flown out to see Luke play one of his

Josh filled in most of the blanks, telling me about our relationship, our family, and who my friends were. But Laura,

with him. He was the type of guy that would make any girl fall -

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god, with a face that could charm the devil himself. But when he

stranger to him now, just like I was

confused me was what Laura had said about us. If any of it was true, why

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 know him anymore-but it

my bag up to my dorm building, forcing myself

I had to pull up a campus map just to remember where my dorm was -how ridiculous is that?-but I found it eventually. Room 312.

in front of 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

twisted. "Fucking ridiculous," I muttered under my breath as I shoved the door