I struggled to get back into her room on crutches. Scott and Casey went to get their car and were going to wait for me out front. Casey was right, though. I needed to try and at least let her know I cared, instead of ignore her and treat her like the asshole she thinks i am.

Reina seemed surprised that I was visiting her again. She looked better. Her face wasn't as bruised and the scar on her cheek seemed to fade a little bit. It was a relief to know that she was at least okay.

"Hey..." I trailed off, balancing unevenly on my crutches. "Mind if I sit?"

She didn't seem to mind, so I rested my crutches on the side of her hospital bed and sat down on the hard plastic chair. All I could hear was the slow beeping of the monitors as i tried to ignore her intense gaze.

"How are you feeling?" I asked.

"Alright." She shrugged, doodling something on the notebook in her lap. "I mean, for someone who can't remember the past two years, I'm doing alright."

I actually smiled for the first time in two weeks once she said that.

"Yeah." I laughed, turning to look at her. "So, did Casey fill you in on who I am to you? Or, was?"

"The love of my life." She quoted in the air with her fingers. "I guess. Right?"

The look in her eyes doesn't feel the same as it used to. There's no love there. It pains me every single time I look at her because I'm so in love with this girl, and she has no idea who I even am. It's like all that hard work I put in was for nothing, and I can't stop thinking about that. All of that work... for nothing.

"Um, yeah." I finally sighed. "I wanted to come here and apologize for last week. I didn't mean to react like that. It's just hard for me. Probably not as hard as it is for you, but I don't want you to think of me as that asshole again Reina. We have so much history. Two years worth. I've worked so hard to get to where we are you just have no idea."

"Well I'd like to know." She said quietly. "If you were the love of my life, then I want to know more about us. Obviously we had chemistry if I dated you. I'm not exactly the dating type."

I laughed again, causing her to smile at me. She definitely wasn't the dating type before she met me. I wasn't either. Chemistry wasn't a question for us. After we had sex? Chemistry definitely wasn't even a question.

"I wasn't either." I said. "We both weren't until we met each other. Then you just..." I smile again, shaking my head in disbelief. "You got me to fall hard for you. I worked my ass off to make you mine. We got a house together at the start of this past semester."

"We have a house?" She asked,, her eyes growing wide.

"Yeah. Well, it's an apartment. But it's somewhere to live."

I peek over at her notebook and see that she's drawn a bunch of different flowers. Roses, sunflowers, tulips. It was pretty good, too. She seemed embarrassed, because she started to cover them up with her hand, so I sat back into my chair again and just stared at her once more. It looked like she was deep in thought until she closed her notebook and put it onto the table to the left of her bed.

"I'm being discharged today." She finally said. "Casey told me I could stay with her and Scott at their house until I figure things out, but do you think it would be okay if I stayed with you?"

"Yes." I immediately blurted out, sounding like an idiot. "I'd like that."

"Me too." She replied. "I want to remember you... and us. Maybe if I'm in our house my memory will start to come back."

I didn't expect for her to make up her mind so quickly like this, or for me to get what I wanted so quickly either. But maybe, just maybe, I can honestly win her back. Or, even better, maybe being in our house will bring her memory back like she said.

"Maybe it will." I finally replied.. "Let's go home then."

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"Alright." Scott announced, closing the door to our apartment behind him. "Reina, your meds are going to be on the counter by the stove, and Justin yours are going to be by the sink."

"You really don't have to stay with us guys." i said to Casey and Scott. "I'm sure we can handle ourselves."

As soon as I said that though, I saw Reina look around for the first time. It didn't look like she remembered anything, but she caught me staring at her and blushed. It's kind of funny to watch her be so nervous around me again. It's also funny to know I still have that effect on her.

"For the first couple of nights we should." Casey said. "You know, just to make sure everything is going to work out."

"Plus you guys need to relax." Scott chimed in, opening up different cupboards in the kitchen. "You guys go sit and relax. Casey and I will cook some dinner and then we can all watch a movie or something. Sound good?"

The both of them were just making themselves at home but I didn't really question them because Reina was looking at me weirdly. She looked like a lost puppy again. Maybe she looked scared. I couldn't decipher the expression on her face.

"Reina, are you alright?" I asked.

"Yeah. I'm just feeling a little light-headed." She responded quietly, placing her fingertips to the sides of her head. "Now it feels like i'm getting a migraine."

"Here, come sit down."

I placed my hand around her side to help her. At first, she moved away, but then she eventually leaned into my touch and allowed me to lead her into the living room. I like the fact that Casey and Scott would be in the other room making dinner, that way Reina and I can have some time together. There's still a lot that we need to talk about.

Once we both sat down, she let out a sigh of relief I think, before she rested her head on the back of the couch.

"I feel a lot better." She said. "It was really loud in there with the pots and pans and stuff."

"Yeah. I know what you mean." I reply.

I'm awkwardly sitting on the couch with a gap that could fill two states it seemed like between us. I wanted to hold my girl badly. I wanted her to remember me, and i wanted us to talk about what happened and be thankful that it was over with. But that can't happen. Instead, this was the hardest part. Having to re-introduce myself was weird and so strange. I felt like I couldn't be myself with the one person who knew me best.

"Can you tell me how we met?" She muttered, pulling the blanket off of the couch to put it on her.

I watched her hug her knees up to her chest as she looked at me intently. She looked so cute right now. I wanted to kiss her so badly. I caught myself biting on my lip so I quickly released it, realizing she was waiting for me to say something.

"How we met..." I trailed off, letting out a laugh. "Um, we had been introduced once or twice by Scott, but we finally knew of each other when we had psychology together."

"Sounds kind of boring." She smirked.

"Kind of. Until I saw you at one of the parties at our frat house. You were in this red dress... it was tight and it looked like the color of a rose almost. You looked down right gorgeous. I, uh, was going to go over to talk to you and you tripped. So, I caught you."

I brought my gaze back to hers and she was staring at me with that innocent look again. Like she was confused and like a lost puppy because she remembered nothing from that night. She did blush though, before she brought her fingertips onto her lap and started to twirl the t-shirt she was wearing.

"Then what happened?" She questioned, raising her eyebrow at me.

It was too quiet in here, and the temperature was rising. I felt hot, way too hot. I wanted to take her right here on this couch. I wanted to kiss down her neck, run my hands up her shirt, take off her fucking panties... feel her up a little bit.

"Justin." She repeated, bringing me back to reality.

I was focusing on her fingers twisting her shirt. She kept twisting it into a knot, and when she tied the knot the skin of her stomach kept showing. It was distracting as fuck.

"Right." I said. "Sorry, um. After that... we, uh- well." I couldn't find the right words to say.

"I didn't lose enough memory to forget who I am." She said, the corners of her lips turning up a little bit. I smiled at that too, debating on whether or not to tell her to lay down on me. It's way too soon though. She barely knows me.

"We were both kind of drunk. We were also both horny, so... I took you up to my room and, yeah."

It seemed like she was undressing me in her mind as soon as I finished that sentence. I wanted her to continue looking at me like that and to never stop. Then, as if she read my mind, she tore her gaze away and stared back at her fingertips. I wanted to ask her what she was thinking but when I heard sniffling I knew the answer.

"Hey." I soothed, moving a little bit closer to her. "Reina."

"I-I don't remember anything!" She cried. "You look at me like you're so in love with me, and I feel nothing. You're so sweet, nothing like I remember hearing about you. But you're a stranger, Justin. I want to remember us."

"And maybe you will." I say. "Reina, look at me."

It seemed like the events finally hit her, because she was sobbing so loudly. I was put into an awkward position. I don't know what to do right now. Like she said, I'm a stranger. But right now she's completely breaking so fuck it.

"Come here." I say calmly, pulling her into my chest.

She fell into me without question, wrapping her arms around my neck. I breathe in her hair, her scent, and take it all in because lord knows when I'll be able to do it again. Her body felt so good to hold. It felt like home.

"I hate this." She cried into my shirt. "I'm so sorry I can't remember."

"Are you actually apologizing?" I asked. "Reina this is not your fault."

"Y-Yes it is!" She sobbed. "My stupid fucking brain just had to fucking forget!"

"Baby-" I stopped myself, feeling her body immediately stiffen. "Sorry, Reina I-"

She pulled away and looked at me almost with a look of disgust.. I knew I just fucked up. It just felt so natural to say it.

"Reina." I tried again, but she stood up.

"This is just so fucking weird." She sniffled, wiping away more tears. "I'm going to go help with dinner."

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