• Chapter 1
    “Get her up.” Silence. “NOW!” The clank of metal on metal woke me from my sleepy state. I looked around and only saw nothingness observing me. Then a door opened and light raced toward me so fast I was blind a moment.
    “She’s up,” a figure that had just appeared in the light came up and crouched in front of me. “Do you know where you are,” he asked me. I shook my head, trying to remember.
    “How about your name, do you know that?” I shook my head again.
    “You’re dead.” I must have looked uncertain. “No, really. Believe me.”
    I looked around but my eyes kept coming back to him. He was good looking, I’ll give him that. His eyes were a shade of blue I couldn’t name, bright and mysterious. From what little light I had, I could assume his hair was a deep brown or light black. He looked about my age. His style was messy but it looked good on him. “Come on,” the other man said. His voice was gruff and husky. They left the room then. The boy, Julian as he told me later, came back and talked to me. A month later, I think, Julian came back with a man. “Let’s go.”
    They, the man and Julian, took me to brighter room. “His name is Zack, by the way.” Julian whispered to me as we walked there.
    “W-where am I?” my voice came out shaky and weak. No one answered me. In the room there was a chair and a man.
    “This the new one?” the man in the chair asked. Julian nodded quickly.
    “Sir, do you know where I am, what my name is?” I asked. Everyone looked surprised.
    “Do you wish to remember?” the man said, to me this time. I nodded “Please sir.”
    “But if you remember your past you’ll forget us, and Julian.” I was horrified. I had begun to love Julian. Lose my love but gain my past, or keep my love and never know.