Love In Brainstem

Grin Grin!

Annabel's phone rang continuously. At the third ring, she dashed out of her room and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" She said.

The conversation she had with the unknown caller wasn't really in hearing, but after the call, Annabel was tensed up with Fear and anxiety. She hurriedly ran to take her purse, then car keys, and headed outside.

She kept calling Leah, but her line wasn't going through. She headed to St Catherine's hospital, where Bryan had been admitted a few minutes ago.

Bryan, her boyfriend was unfortunately involved in a car accident between his personal car and a trailer. He happened to have lost control of his car brakes, and bummed into the trailer, resulting in an accident that left him unconscious. Luckily, onlookers had called the ambulance for him, which has rushed him to the hospital before Annabel was called because she happened to be the last person he spoke with before the accident.

Annabel couldn't help but cry out her eyes, seeing Bryan's pitiable state. From what the doctor said, he would take time to heal, as his brain and spine were damaged, he would be using a wheelchair, but Just for a maximum of 3months, since the fracture wasn't a severe one. The doctors also stated his chances of having dementia, a sickness indicating loss of memory.

Annabel was torn apart, does it mean Bryan would regain consciousness and not remember all they shared?

She consoled herself with the fact that he would be okay soon, at least the cold hands of death didn't take him. She decided she would always come around so he gets to be one of the friends he would have to meet in this new life of his.

Bryan spent 3months at the hospital, getting better. With Annabel always visiting him from time to time.

2weeks before his discharge, Bryan was kidnapped. Annabel couldn't hold it anymore.

She had to start investigating and left, And there's too much There is little for a change.

She couldn't get to him somehow, somehow, another girl who had always loved Byran had gotten to him, gotten familiar with him, and more like began dating him.

It took Annabel months to find where her lover was staying, and it broke her to see Christine, have Bryan all to herself.

It was her and Bryan all those years, while Christine was always the one looking for attention.

Now, she had defeated her in some way.

Annabel never accepted defeat, she kept trying to show her face to Bryan, who was not Alex by name, by chance just if he would remember but her didn't. One day, while she went to the grocery store to get some stuff, Bryan, now Alex had strolled in too.

"Bryan" she called coming close to him.

"Who is Bryan?", he asked!

At this, Annabel knew there was something really wrong. She just had to win him over by starting a new friendship with him,.there and now.

She reintroduced herself as Annabel peters, and him as "Alex Romeo".

They started off again as pretty good friends..

Alex, never went any where without the company of Annabel, somehow he was attracted to her, and he couldn't understand why too.

While he sat next to her, over a cup of wine, he could see flashes of things run down his memory."Anny!"

Who is she.. he would ask Annabel?

But Annabel didn't want him to find out she was also excited in his past life, told him it was all an illusion.

He got to love Annabel more deeply than he did Months back as Bryan. Annabel was so fulfilled as a lady, she quit school for 6months, just to be with the man of her dreams, Hoping he gets better, and now here he is., Recovering and sound. Even though he can't remember his past.

Christine, who saw she was losing out from both ends quickly decided to tell Alex his past as Bryan, tracing every accusation to Annabel as the master-minder of the accident that made him be enslaved of dementia.

While she said all of these, flashbacks came in a hurry to Alex's brain, much more than he could contain.

He could see Annabel and also discovered he had loved her too in his past, just the way he does now, but more.

He got to remember how slyful Christine has always been. While all of these happened, he heals his head in pain screaming, while Christine made her way out of the hospital without raising the least alarm.

Alex was diagnosed again. Because of what made him fall into trance, the doctor decided he wouldn't allow anyone to visit, so they don't remind him about anything in a negative way. So it doesn't cost him permanent brain damage, and eventually death.

Because of this, Annabel couldn't see Alex for 3 good weeks. deep down, she kept hoping he was okay.

She would dress each morning, go to the hospital, and drop beautiful rose flowers by his window, that was exactly what he normally did for her when she was sick, those years as Bryan.

She would watch him sleep off from a distance, and wish she could eliminate whatever caused him pains.

On the fourth week, she was allowed to go see him, and when she got there, Alex was seen to be sleeping, but in the actual sense, he wasn't.

She knelt by his bed, resting her head on his bed and holding his hands.

Just then, she could hear music..

Her Favourite one at that. The one Bryan composed for her last year.

The music that consoles her soul and reminds her that she is loved by him.

At first, she thought she was in a trance, not until he raised his bee chin up and planted an affectionate kiss on her thin red lips.

"I remember everything about you now, I don't care about others, but you have been a major part of my old life and this new life I've come to find...

Can we start all over again Anny?"

Annabel couldn't hold back her tears, for months she had been waiting for the day her Bryan would come back to her.

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"Yes, I agree"

She said, and she drew closer to him, kisses and hugged him tightly.

It was later discovered that Christine was behinds Alex's accident.

She was the master-minder. And when she saw he survived it, without being confined to a wheelchair, she paid the doctor to make sure he administered something that would foster a permanent brain loss so that he would be unable to remember Annabel, and then she could come into the picture. But if eventually she couldn't, she would let him waste as a disfigured adult.

Unfortunately, love healed his lost memory. Love made him find life again

Brought gave a new meaning to his life.

She was sentenced to 14years imprisonment for attempted murder.

Love indeed heals.🖤

Thanks for reading people, and see you tomorrow

28 Dec. 2021, A CandyBoy Publishments