UNFAZED - Book Three In The Unknown Identity Series

Chapter 1 - The Days

Jay pulls away from me, and beams down at me.

"I love you." Her voice. It was just so...sweet, soothing, calming.

Days like this, we couldn't ask for more. These are the days we've been waiting for. The days when everything around us slowed down, if only it was real.

If only it was real and not some cruel fantasy my brain has created to torment me when I'm actually awake.

But I must remain unfazed by the reality of things, and focus on now, the made up fantasy I desperately wish was real.

"I love you too. And nothing will ever change that."

She giggled her sweet laugh and closed the small distance between us again.

Slowly, it all starts to fade away. Her touch. Her lips. Her hair. Her eyes. Everything starts to disappear into this smoke. The desolate feeling returns when I come back to reality.

But, the one thing doesn't leave, it stays. The moment replays over and over in my mind.

Her.

Her and I.

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I wake with an excruciating headache. It feels as if my heart has moved up to my forehead and now I have a heart beat there, weird I know. The feeling doesn't stop, it only grows. Grows more painful by the moment.

The room seems silent, that is until the slight beeping of a machine is caught in the moist air. My vision is blurry. It's hard to see where I am, and everywhere I look, everywhere my eyes flicker to, the blurriness continues to luxuriate.

A groan rumbles deep down in my throat, it completely dry and at a loss of moisture. I don't know how long I've been out for, but it seems like minutes. When I was last awake, all what I remember is the doctor telling me something...

I don't know what. My mind can't recall back the memory. My mind can't call back anything other than me saying something.

Something that sounded like go...no.

Why was I saying no?

Then, it hits me, like a heavy book being thrusted at my chest. Just as my sight was back to being normal, it returns back to the previous state of blindness. But this time, it wasn't because of the haziness that crowded my head, it was because of the tears.

The tears that have been gathering up inside of me for all this time, it all comes spilling out in this moment. The barrier now broken, I quietly sob and stare up at the white ceiling with rectangles outlining it.

"Please,"

"You're awake!"

I was startled from the thought when someone very familiar walked into the room. David. My instant reaction was to shove my face into the very limp hospital pillow that they provided me. I cowered away in the sheets, the instant pain from my chest and sides sufficiently fills my body.

I wince in pain as more hot, fresh, salty tears run down my cheeks and onto the white sheets.

"Keith?"

"Please, leave." I choke out.

"Are you alright?" He frantically asks, striding over to my side and grabbing hold of my arm gently and pulling my up so I face him.

"D-don't touch me."

"Keith, I'm not here to hurt you. I promise. Do you remember anything? Anything about our- Keith!"

My world is spinning. I can't see straight. My body falls forward, involuntarily. I'm unable to control my movements as I fall forward, my ribs being crushed by my knees.

I yell in pain and try to fight the sudden hijacking of my body, but it only causes more pain. More unbearable pain.

"Hold on! Let me get a doctor!"

My chest is in pain, my arm and leg are in pain too, but I don't know why.

I hardly remember why I'm here, why am I here?

My eyes flicker back in forth between my arm and leg, one is in a sling across my body, I assume that it will be a cast soon...while my eyes land on my leg that lays heavily on top of an elevated surface. The pain shoots again, attacking my heart.

I yell again, and at that, doctor Goldstein comes rushing in, ordering me not to move a muscle; which is hard when it feels like my insides are not intact any longer. Another doctor with a white lab-looking coat come rushing in and pads to the other side of me, adjacent to Goldstein.

They both place their hands gently on my shoulders and push me down. I scream in agony and I feel my ribs moving, shifting. And it hurts like... well, I don't know how do describe it.

It's indescribable.

"Please...make it stop."

"We will, just lie down and take deep breaths. In and out."

I do as I'm told and I hear a heavy hitch in my breathing, obviously the other heard it too as they look at me with wide, peering eyes.

"Please, help me, please...make it stop."

The pain only enlarges. Taking over every part in my half functional body.

"Please, get her. Please...g-get Jay."

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