Lost (TIANA!!!)

Chapter 12

Who were these people? What caused these burns of my back? When did this happen? Where did this happen? Why was I here? 

The blond girl leaned over me. "You should rest a little," she said. "We have to check on Marella, and then we'll come back to you. Don't worry, we'll explain everything. I promise. You'll remember again." 

As they turned away, the black haired girl with the silver tips stifled a sound that sounded like she was going to cry. Her twin rubbed her back, as they turned away from me. I strained my neck to see who was this Marella girl that they were heading over to. She was in a pile of blankets and pillows on the bed opposite me. She looked unconscious. I studied her, and winced. If I thought my burns were bad, hers were terrible. They covered her whole body, and made her almost look black and burned. 

Everyone was crowded around this Marella, making wild gestures and an awful lot of noise. If I was this Marella girl, I wouldn't be happy to wake up to what sounded like a menagerie of noises. 

Marella P.O.V 

Cold. So cold...

Too cold. Cold, cold, cold, cold, cold....

Freezing. Icicles. Ice everywhere. Frozen insides. 

Cold, cold, cold, cold......

Noise. Noise. Noise. 

Too much noise.

Cold, Noise. Noise. Cold. Cold. Cold. 

Lights. Lights. Bright, bright, bright, bright. 

Cold, cold, cold, cold..........

With what seemed like the greatest effort of my life, I forced my eyes to pull open, just so I could slap whoever was making that terrible noise that was ruining my subconsciousness. It took a lot of pain, but my eyes suddenly flickered open. 

This first thing I perceived where faces. Faces. Lots of faces. I knew these faces. There was..... I squinted and tried to count them and name them from what I could see with my blurry vision. 

Blond hair, with two little dots of brown. Must be Sophie. 

Lets see, this one was harder. Ice-like eyes, but that could be anyone, and a strange blond.. lump? Ohh. Must be Keefe That lump must be his horrendous hair. 

The next one was easy. Fitz. Duh. Who else has neon teal eyes?

The last two were also easy. The first, I could literally feel the darts coming out of his eyes when he stared at people. And the jagged bangs. Big giveaway. Totally Tam. Then the one beside him. Concerned looking eyes, long black hair, silver tips, no need to look more. That was Linh. 

There was somebody missing though. I squinted harder, but there was no strawberry blond hair, no striking periwinkle eyes. Dex. Where was Dex? 

Fighting the urge to sleep, I used all my might and shoved myself up. Immediately, I felt the ice-cold emptiness inside my gut. It nearly destroyed me, how empty it felt. 

"MARELLA!" was the first noise I heard, and my fist acted on it's own accord, racing in that direction. I heard a bang, and an OW, and I saw a disgruntled Keefe holding a hand to his nose. I glanced around quickly and saw that my squinty eyes had not failed me. Dex wasn't there.  

I sat up, and stared at the bed across me, where I saw somebody staring back at me. Dex. But the worst thing was the empty look in his eyes when he saw me. 

 "What happened?" I asked quickly. 

Tam looked dead inside as he told me that they still didn't have Biana and that she had gone with Ruy. The way he said it was like somebody had just told him that his greatest love just died.

Then Sophie stepped up and explained how some unknown flame source had freed them and destroyed the cave they were stuck in, and how I was found in the wreckage, basically dead. Then, she said slowly. "Dex, ummmmm, has been washed." 

"Why?!" I demanded. 

"His mind was about to break, and we thought that if we washed away the memories, and then gave them back, but altered them to make them less, well, heartbreaking, then maybe he would be ok. But, oh, it's all gone wrong!" 

I didn't believe it, and I stood up using all my strength and walked over to Dex's bed. 

"Dex?" I asked slowly. 

"Your name is Marella right?" he said. I wanted to cry in relief. 

"Do I know you?" he said again, and I felt like something had just punched me in the guts. The coldness in me has never felt colder. 

This has turned into a Tiana and a Marella and Dex story. Lol. I'm so sorry for making Dex lose his memory! I just figured out that it is going to be a whole lot harder for me to write now that Dex doesn't have his memory. Oh gods. Hope you enjoyed though, and please don't hurt me for hurting the cinnamon roll! Bye!!!!!!

Luna.