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 distant like he'd already

hurt more than

the present. She was watching me with the same worried

I wished I could just remember something about it, something

looked more confident 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

said much during the ride, and honestly, I was thankful for

I had with me at the hospital. The rest was still locked away in my dorm room, a place I hadn't set foot

one of his football games. I

who my friends were. But Laura, my best friend, had

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

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charm the devil himself. But when he did talk to me, his voice was cold, and his face

I was a stranger to him now,

said about us. If any of it was

goodbye. 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 didn't

pulled my bag up to my dorm building,

my dorm was -how ridiculous is that?-but I found it eventually.

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 knock, I told myself, but for some reason,

huff, I gripped the handle and twisted. "Fucking ridiculous," I muttered under my breath as I shoved