Before Your Memory Fades Novels & Stories

I can’t even imagine what things were like before I lost my memories. Zach must’ve noticed my change in mood because he pulled me into his strong arms, “I know I’m overbearing and have a lot to do to get you to trust me again, but I want you to know I’ll always be here for you, babe. I swear it, I would do anything for you.” I looked up into his eyes while mine watered, “you don’t know how stressed I am with not only the amnesia but the…you know…from last night.”

Sa kabila ng lungkot at sakit na dumagsa sa dibdib ko, nagawa ko pa ding ngumiti at magpakawala ng buntong-hininga. "Did you know that when you're freed, not only your memories will disappears but as well as the memories of the people you've met. So, in the end. Everything will be erased." muli akong nagbuntong-hininga. "In the end, it'll be wasted. It will lost its existence. It won't have meaning at all."

**** ~ Flashback ~ Before heading to the library, Evelina and Rissa are on their way to the opposite end of the class to the library. Evelina walks and she stops from her path, she just remembers that there was something she forgot. Seeing Evelina's reaction stop, Rissa asks her. "Eve, what's wrong? Is there anything you left in the classroom?" "No, I forgot something. That actually, I wanted to return the book in the library," she replied.

I take a deep breath before I open the door and stride inside the house, my eyes immediately running across the familiar sight as I shut the door behind me. I stand there for a while, just gazing across every opening, and inch. The sounds of our laughs blended as we tease each other ring in my ears and I start to question how it come to this. How did those memories fade to become one of pain and sadness? Why did this happen? Why now? •A SHORT MEMORY• "Emerson, stop!" My giggles fill the air around us as Emerson continues to stuff his face in my neck, his nose tingling my skin and exciting my nerves.

I remembered my mother singing “When it all fades away, remember you have God and your family”.

Summer's face had gone very still. "Gray," she said softly. "There's no fixing it," I said. "I need you to understand that. It's going to get worse. I'm going to forget things. I already do. I might forget my dad. I might forget Crew. I might forget myself eventually." I looked at her. "I don't want to forget you. I know that probably sounds strange given that you've only been in this house a short time but it's true. And I keep video clips on my phone, of conversations, of moments, so that when I lose them I can find them again."

Forgetting itself. Silence. Absolute silence. Understanding settling. Haven was dying. Not physically. Consciously. Her awareness was eroding. Her memory dissolving. Her self disappearing piece by piece. She was forgetting herself to death. "How long?" Haven asked. Calm voice. Accepting voice. Unsurprised voice. "How long before I forget everything? Before I'm gone?" "Maybe years," Marcus said gently. "Maybe months. Consciousness degradation is unpredictable. Could accelerate. Could plateau. Could we don't know. This has never happened before. You're first bridge to survive this long. First to reach this stage. You're pioneer. Even in dying."

The place was so silent that her footsteps could be heard. Sad memories of how she, Mama Samantha, and Gio used to go to church every Sunday flood back. The happiness, the joy of having a family, the peace of being extremely poor but happy was all she remembered. Warm tears flowed down her left eye to the corner of her lips. "Nothing lasts forever" She remembered Mama Samantha's last words. Truly nothing lasts forever on this earth, but even pain. Weeks ago, Alita was at the edge of breaking and begging her late parents and Mama Samantha to guard her soul to an eternal end. The kind of end where she would feel no more pains, the kind of end she would 'Remember to forget' what pain feels like