Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not

Author: Alyson Derrick Listening Length: 7h 43m

What would you do if you forgot the love of your life ever even existed? Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. They also had a plan: to leave their small, ultra-conservative town and families behind after graduation and move to California, where they could finally stop hiding that...

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WHEN I WAKE FOR THE third time, the room comes into focus much faster. The haze that was hanging around the edges of my vision has cleared, and the pain in my head has settled into more of a dull ache. I finally feel like myself, or in control of my own body at least.

My mom is asleep, curled up on a tiny couch under the window, the night sky pitch-black on the other side of the glass. My dad is passed out in the recliner, his work boots dangling off the end and onto the floor.

I breathe in, remembering where I am, and why I’m here.

There was an accident. I was in a coma… I was in a coma for… two weeks? TWO weeks?