I see my mother's eyes widen as I ask her the reason for me being in the hospital. I realise everyone looks confused and I can swear that I look even more confused than them. Even, doctor's face has a quizzical look.

"What did you just say?", my mom asks.

"Why am I here?", I inquire.

"No. What did you say AFTER that?"

"The last thing I remember is getting ready for my first day of 11th standard"

"Sweetie! Stop joking ! It's not the time for your silly pranks"

"Pranks? I am serious Mom. I really don't remember anything beyond that and my head hurts"

She looks at my father and then both of them look at the doctor. The doctor asks everyone to leave the room except my mom. Both of them have a serious conversation for a minute. I try eavesdropping but in vain, I can just hear some murmurs. My mother comes and sits beside me.

" Sweetie, Do you remember your name?"

"Yes. My name's Alicia. Right? But why are you asking that? "

"And do you remember your father and Carla ?"

"Yes I do. Carla's my bestfriend Mom. But I don't have a clue why you are asking that. I remember all of it "

" Okay sweetheart! I know you remember all of it "

"Mom! Please tell me why am I here!"

" You had a car accident. Don't you remember it?"

"Accident? Me? No. I don't remember it "

"You really don't? I'm serious"

"No Mom! I'm just telling the truth"

"Okay darling! Remember the 'Annual Fest 2019' you had this year. You were so happy after you performed the couple dance with Alan ?"

" Couple dance? It's still 2018 Mom! I don't have any idea what you are talking about !"

"2018? No dear, it's 2019"

"I think I'm messing up the dates. By the way, Who's Alan?"

"You don't remember Alan?"

"No, Mom. I don't remember anyone by the name Alan! Are you serious mom? You know, it's not right time and I'm not in the state to joke around with"

My head starts aching again. It's just  too much. Is this the way you treat a person in hospital bed? Tossing at them a whole lot of questions? Questions which didn't even make sense!

I feel losing my consciousness. My eyes blur cutting out my vision of the world around me and I fell into oblivion.

I wake up and hears murmurs coming from beyond the doors.

"Doctor, What is the matter? Why is she behaving like that? She remembers other things but she forgot the past one year" That's my mother's voice.

"That's strange. Mostly the patients forget whole of their lives. Their name. Their friends. Their family. But, this case just tells a different story. Though it's not completely absurd. It's just a rare condition known as 'Retrograde Amnesia'. The patient loses access to some part of memory more likely closer to the traumatic experience. The lost information can range from some specific event or even general memory" 

"Does all of this has something to do with her head injury?"

"Certainly. We'll have to examine her properly. We need to figure out the other damages too. Though we have performed the surgery, she'll take quite a time to heal"

"Will she get her memory back? Will this affect her overall health?"

"It's too early to say that. Sometimes patients recovered and got their memory back but there are also the cases where the patients lost few pieces of memory for ever"

I lost some memory! That was not true! Surely, I didn't remember how I ended up here but except that, I just remembered everything. My parents, my friends except the guy named Alan.

Great! My life's always playing jokes on me! But this was not a joke!Losing my memory is damn great deal! I looked up at the ceiling of hospital room as if addressing the god who wrote my fate,

"Memory loss!Really? Too dramatic! What,Is this some movie going on where the lead loses her memory! God! Are you serious?"

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