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-

PART 3 CHAPTER 140

288 Vouchers

was cold and distant like he'd

than I expected

present. She was watching me with the same worried

wished I could just remember something

than I felt. "I wrote all the exams. The information's still in my head, so I think I'll catch up fine." I tried to sound positive like I

much during the ride, and honestly, I was thankful for that. I wasn't sure

nodded, grabbing my bag-an overnight one, the only thing I had with me at the hospital. The rest was still locked away in my dorm room, a place I hadn't set foot

Luke play one of his football games. I fell, hit my

in most of the blanks, telling me about our relationship, our family, and who my friends were. But Laura, my best friend, had been the

to know why I'd been with him. He was the type of guy that would make any girl

22:04

twin 3-CHAPTER T

11 288 (ouchers

face that could charm the devil himself. But when he did talk

was a stranger to him now,

about us. If any of it was true,

Josh had relayed the message, explaining that Luke thought it would be easier that way. When Josh told me, it felt like something in my chest cracked open, and for reasons I couldn't explain, it hurt. I

bag up to my dorm building, forcing myself not to dwell on

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.

couldn't remember. This is

and twisted. "Fucking ridiculous," I muttered under my breath as