chapter Nine

It was fun all through the week, I tutored Richard till he improved, and of course, his gestures and kind of intimate actions that were hard to define, and I had to ignore, but I guess we became closer than what I thought and I was even surprised.

Time flies by quickly. A week before prom, I introduced Richard to my mom, and she smiled. Richard then took me out and we had fun. He kissed my forehead this time before telling me not to avoid him this time.

Prom night….

I had already arranged everything. Richard was coming to pick me up in less than an hour. I was with Lily. We had prepared and were waiting. Jonathan asked Lily to be his prom date. Jacob and Michael were going with each other, "they're here," Lily said.

Lily opened the door and Jonathan came in and put a flower on her hand, then he kissed her.

Richard came in and others, "Where's Cassy"

"I'm here" I was wearing a green long linen dress with no hands, and a golden belt on my waist, a side cutting a green heel with a green bracelet

And my hair was styled and fixed with beautiful things

Richard was also in a green suit.

"Why do you look so beautiful in anything you were"

"I take that as a compliment" I said and pinned a red rose on his chest while he wrapped a flower on my hand, "shall we" he led me to his car,

"You drive?"

"Yeah, surprised?" I shook my head.

Prom was nice, we had fun and danced and Lily and Jonathan won prom king and queen. During prom, Richard dragged me to the studio,

"I had no idea you could dance"

I laughed, "I'm full of surprises"

"I know that"

I turned to look at him when he kissed me all of a sudden, I held my breath as I didn't know what to do or how to respond, he then looked at me,

"I like you Cassandra, no, I think I'm falling in love with you"

"Richard-"

"Shh, don't say anything, don't give me an answer yet, I just want you to know my heart" he wanted to kiss me again but I carried my face away.

"Richard, I don't know how to kiss"

We stared at each other and then he laughed. "I'll teach you"

He then kissed me again and I tried to emulate his style, when we left the building, we said goodbye to lily and the others, then got into the car, the atmosphere this time was silent, he looked at me and smiled, "I hope you won't start avoiding me again"

"I won't" I smiled,

"Can you slow down a little, I'm not really in a hurry"

"To leave me?" He joked

"You wish"

His countenance changed and he said, "The brake isn't working"

"What? Richard a car's coming"

"Ahhh"

A car Immediately collided with us.

Richard woke up with a streak of blood from his head, he looked at Cassandra who had shielded him from the accident. She had a gash on her forehead and a lot of blood was on her face and her gown was soaked up with blood,

"Cassandra!! Cassandra!" My ear had a faint whirring and I slipped into a concussion.

When I woke up, my headache, I immediately looked around, I was in the hospital, I tried standing when Jonathan, Jacob and the others came in, along with my mom and the doctor, and Cassy's mom,

"Where's Cassandra, how is she?"

"How are you feeling son, I was so scared"

"I want to see Cassandra, how is she"

"Richard, I uh.." Jacob tried to say

"You see-" Jonathan began but couldn't continue,

"Miss Evans is alright, but there was a part of her brain that was touched, so she might have amnesia"

"What?"

"I encourage you not to force her to remember everything yet"

"Richard you have been asleep for three days now"

"I want to see Cassandra" lily helped me stand up as we walked to her room, she was awake, when I rushed to her she suddenly had a fearful expression,

"Oh my God, She doesn't remember you" lily gasped.

"Who are you, let go of me!"

"It's me Richard, remember?"

"No, no, mom make him let go of me, mom" Cassy started crying.

Yeah it was something that wasn't expected, Cassy remembered everyone but forgot me, my existence, my heart, our love, I was at the hospital every time trying to get her attention or at least get her to remember me…

A day, a week, a month till she was discharged, all my attempts failed.

"I'm tired mom, she just can't remember me no matter what I do, I don't want to lose her neither am I giving up on her"

"I think I can help you"

After being discharged from the hospital, lily told me that everyone planned to go to Richard's house as they were already invited, since my mom had already agreed I didn't insist, I wore a marine blue striped t shirt tucked into a black trouser with black sneakers, we got down in front of Richard's house.

"The doctors said you must be fully recovered enough to have your memory already" lily told me

"You mean to just ask if I remember Richard don't you?" I rolled my eyes.

"He's really hurt Cassy, he needs you to remember, not having you is killing him"

"Don't play on my emotions, fine let's see if anything would come up, if it doesn't then I guess I didn't love him too much for him to have an impact in my life" I walked away, Richard invited us in and to the dIning table, although we talked amongst ourselves, Richard kept on looking at me either subconsciously or intentionally, a sudden memory jolted from somewhere but it was blurry and hard, I kissed someone and that passion was not just something, I could feel it in my body even right now.

Richard's mom came in, she was smiling as she sat down, she then looked at me interestingly.

"I haven't seen you before, what's your name?"

"My name's Cassandra ma'am but you can call me Cassy"