Elizabeth woke up and looked around her. She was in a hospital room. What for? She looked around and saw someone sitting by her bed but couldn't see the face, the person was looking at the other side. She looked at the room and realized she was at General Hospital. Where was Audrey then? She looked again at the person and she saw him smiling at her.
"-Hi, you are finally awake!
-Hi
-How are you feeling?
-Like I got hit by a train! Where's my grandmother?
-She went to get a coffee.
-What happened to me?
-You don't remember?
-No
-Ok, you and Nikolas were on your way to my house when you got hit by a drunk driver. Emily was already with me. We were supposed to go catch a movie.
-Oh! Can I ask you something else?
-Sure, anything.
-Who are you?
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"-Elizabeth, I'm Lucky! Don't you remember me?
-I never saw you before in my life. "
At this moment the door opened and Audrey walked in. When she saw Elizabeth was awake, she put her cup of coffee on the table and hugged Liz tight. Elizabeth started crying on her grandmother's shoulder, and Audrey was gently stroking her hair.
"-Gram, who is this guy? Elizabeth asked
-Elizabeth, this is Lucky. What is the matter?
-She doesn't remember me Mrs. Hardy"
Lucky was helpless. When he heard about the accident, he spent the night pacing the hallway while the doctors were with her. It took her two weeks to open her eyes. The first time she did, Lucky was home, taking a shower before coming back. The second time was now and something was wrong.
"-I'll go get Tony Jones, said Lucky, getting out of the room."
Elizabeth talked to Audrey while Lucky was out, and she asked her grandmother to keep him out of her room, he was scaring her. It looked like he wanted something out of her, and she didn't know what. He was making her nervous. Tony examined her, and said that it was probably temporary selective amnesia. The only thing they could do was wait it off and not push it. Audrey asked Lucky to leave, that Elizabeth wanted to be alone for a while. lucky cried all the way to his apartment over the garage. Why every time something was going great in his life God had to go and mess it up? Even if it was only temporary, how could he live with Elizabeth not knowing who he was? She just asked him to leave her alone, she never did that before.
Audrey left Elizabeth a little later and Liz was getting ready for bed. This had been a really strange day. She couldn't stop thinking about the guy she found at her bed. He really looked like he knew her, but it was impossible. At this thought, a soft knock came on the door, and a guy in a wheel chair came in.
"-Hi, he said, thought I'd come see you before any nurse confide me to my bed. Glad you are OK.
-Are you going to be? She answered, looking at his wheel chair
-Oh that? They don' t know if I'll ever walk again, but at least I'm alive, which is more than I can say for the guy who hit us.
-Us? Oh so YOU'RE Nikolas?
-Of course I'm Nikolas, what is the matter with you? He asked gently"
Elizabeth started crying and Nikolas got to her bedside and took her in his arms. She cried a while and talked to him.
"-I woke up and a guy was here. His name is Luke I think
-Lucky?
-Yeah that's him. He told me I was in a car accident with a guy named Nikolas. Later a woman came in here, a nurse, and she talked to me like I was supposed to know her. After that, another woman came in, her name was Laura, and she told me how happy she was that I was ok, and she couldn't bear to lose a "daughter". I don't even know her! How could everyone know me when I just got into town?
-Just got into town?
-Yeah, I left the family I was living with in Boulder, to come live with my grandmother and my sister.
-Elizabeth, how old are you?
-I'll be 15 in two months"