Chapter 130: Iris

She waited for him to come around to her side of the truck to help her out, her insides jelly. She was surprised by how hard it'd been for her to tell him about the accident. She'd been avoiding it on purpose, of course, so it shouldn't have been surprising that it was rough to talk about, but still, it was even worse than she'd thought it was going to be.

Strange as it sounded, it was the week after the accident that was just a giant black void in her brain that scared her the most. Try as she might, she couldn't remember any of it. She wanted to. She lay awake in bed and tortured herself with that time period again and again.

But it was just gone.

Which was freaky as hell. She couldn't imagine how shaken she would've been to wake up without any memory at all. That thought was even more terrifying.