ALIVE HOSPITAL*

"She's gone from his memories. Just her" Layla muttered.

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FEW MINUTES LATER*

Two doctors are already in the ward with more nurses, all busy with checking Roonie's consciousness status.

Nurse Layla couldn't hide her excitement, her face might just tear off if she smiles wider than she's doing right now, and then there's another thing...

Her heart is racing.

She has been seeing Roonie every single day for months, and even in his unconscious state, there's no denying to his hotness, but now that he's awake, she got a proper view of his face.

His facial expressions are madly attractive, especially the way his thick brows move anytime he frowns.

She couldn't stop biting her lip, trying to control the rhythm of her heart.

His friends are by the other side, watching the doctors with keen interest.

The bandage was unwrapped from Roonie's head since the head wound is completely healed, though it left an obvious scar beside his ear.

"Are you telling me I got shot in the fuçking head and was in coma for five months? It sounds as impossible as it looks. I'm not the type to get defeated" Roonie said, the frown still intact on his face.

"Just how much damage did his memories experience?" Hyce muttered.

"What's the last thing you remember?" The head doctor asked after checking his eyes.

"I don't remember any fuçking thing and it's the most annoying part. What the fûck happened?" He replied, looking pissed.

"You remember getting into college three years ago, right?" Axel asked.

"Yeah" Roonie replied calmly.

"And then... The freshers night party? That's where you met Axel, Rebekah and me... remember? We became friends that night" Hyce said.

"Yeah... Rook was being a jerk at the party and I hated him at first sight. What the hell is he doing here?" Roonie replied.

"Oh shit...not that memory" Rook said, looking away from him.

"That's not important right now, so what happened after the party?" The doctor asked.

"The next day after the party, Xavier called me to his office to give me a job. I refused, but he said if i do it, he'd give me my mother's grave location. I agreed" Roonie replied.

"What job did he give you?" Hyce asked quickly, and Roonie's eyes went clouded as he gritted his jaws, trying to remember.

His head made a loud noise, and blood came out of his nose in drops.

He grabbed his head with his right hand.

"Oh no!" Nurse Layla quickly took some tissue and wiped the blood.

"Roonie!" Uncle Edward rushed in with Kara, and she threw her bag down before hugging him tight in bed, shedding tears of joy.

"I'm not dead, stop the tears" Roonie said, and she nodded on his shoulder.

"I'm glad you're back"

"How are you feeling?" Uncle Edward asked with a large smile.

"Crazy, I dunno what the hell happened to me and I was told i graduated college already? I'm going fuçking mad here" Roonie replied.

"You'll get used to it, and you'll hear the rest of the story later. For now, just rest" Uncle Edward said, understanding immediately.

"Nurse Layla, please stay and attend to him. Everyone else, please follow" the head doctor said, leaving the ward

Uncle Edward followed him with the rest of them, and they went to his office.

"Did his memories go back in time or what? He only remembers things from three years ago" Hyce said.

"Something like that, but the sole purpose of that is to forget about that one person" the doctor replied.

"I know. The job he was given by Xavier is to be Pearl's shadow and protect her" Axel said.

"Now she's out of his memories? Meaning he forgot Richard and everything related to Pearl too?" Kara asked.

"Even better" Axel said.

"I second that" Uncle Edward added.

"But it won't take long. His brain only needs time to prepare, and the memories will come back" the doctor said.

"Thank you, doctor. I can't imagine him waking up and remembering her then we telling him she's dead." Kara said .

"That's disaster... She's literally his life, and that'd kill him. If possible, may his memories of her never return, I can't lose him" uncle Edward said.

"So what's the next step?" Rook finally talked.

"Create new memories with him" the doctor replied.

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