Love Me Always (I Hate You...I Think) Read Free Page A

water in his hand. Jake had set me
on the bed and stepped back. Tyler sat next to me.
He placed the bottle in my hands and looked me
over.
"Are you okay?" Tyler asked worriedly.
I nodded crossing my legs and opening the
bottle of water.
"She remembers the first night Oliver and
her met."
Tyler's eyes widened, "Really?"
    "Yeah then she decided to stop breathing.
Oliver must have taken her breath away that first
night, eh?" Jake nudged me with his elbow as he
sat down next me too. "Did he sweep you off your
feet?"
I grinned at him. I liked Jake. He was a nice
guy.
I shook my head to answer him. "It's just-"
Tyler and Jake stayed silent waiting for me
to continue.
"I just feel so hollow," I told them honestly
let more tears run down my cheek.
    "I have never felt this way in my whole life.
I don't know what is wrong with me. I just feel,” I
paused thinking of the right word, “broken."
    Jake wrapped and arm around me shoulders
pulling me to his side and laying his chin on top of
my head.
"You're not broken, Ever. Your brain is just
temporarily out of order."
    I started laughing. Jake smiled. It was hard
to remain sad around Jake. And Tyler, might be
quiet a lot but he was the sweetest kid I had ever
met. I say kid, he's older than me but he was like a
little brother I felt I wanted to protect.
    If anyone was ever mean to him I'd kick
there ass. Well, I have been crying a lot lately and
emotionally drained. I doubt I'd look very scary or
could do much damage, but I'd damn well try. I
paused mentally thinking about what I just said.
"When have I started cursing so much?" I
muttered mostly to myself.
"Talking to yourself is the first signs of
losing it," Jake chuckled.
    "Oliver and Jake curse a lot. I think you
have been hanging around them too long," Tyler
answered me.
    "You know though," Tyler started
thoughtfully. "You might not remember us but
your body does."
"If you say that's what she said I will slap
you, Jake," I told him giving him a look.
Jake laughed holding up his hands
defensively.
    "See that's what I mean," Tyler continued,
"You knew he was going to say that, and you still
curse a lot. So the memories are there. They are
just locked up."
    He looked at Jake this time. "Maybe she
blocked it all out because of everything that's
happened. I mean, Ever, you got kidnapped by
Eien. Watched Jet get shot. You felt guilty about
what happened with Jet and all the guys that got
killed during the fight. Oliver went to jail. You felt
guilty about that too. Then Eien shows up and
shoots you, you’ve been through so much."
    "I get it. It's like your bodies telling you
knock it off. Stop with all the mayhem and stress,"
Jake agreed.
    "So how do I get my body to stop whatever
it's doing and give me my memories back?" I
questioned.
"I don’t have an answer for that sweetie,"
Jake smiled sadly.
"Maybe you need to confront what
happened with Eien," Tyler muttered.
"Confront it? I can't remember it."
    "I don't know. It was just a thought. I'll look
into amnesia cases and see how others got there
memory back okay?" Tyler offered. I wrapped my
arms around his neck and hugged him to me tight.
"Thank you."
    "Do I get any love?" Jake pouted. Laughing
I released Tyler who kissed me on the cheek and
left the room. I hugged Jake around the waist.
    "There's your love. Now get out. I'm going
to take a shower and clean up this mess," I told him
looking around Oliver’s room.
"Good," Jake grunted nudging a pair of my
underwear under a pillow.
I raised my eyebrow at him as he looked
over at me.
"They're clean," I told him.
He scrunched up his face. "You’re my
sister. That-" he shuttered. "Yuck."
    He stood up heading for the door mumbling
something about how nasty seeing my underwear
was. Picking up a pillow, I launched it at his head.
It hit him and he jumped about a foot in the air and
turned around beaming at me.
    "Welcome back, Ever well sorta. I missed
ya kid," Jake told me. His grin was so big the skin
around