Memories Bring Us Back

    Alyssa Hart is just a girl who goes to Alden-Conger High School. One night as she laid down from an exhausted day, she didn’t realize her life would change that night. Alyssa woke up on a mattress on the floor in a dark room with a little window. She jumped up from her bed and ran to the window when she looked out, she spotted another window with a boy standing behind it. She pounded on the window and shouted, “HELP ME PLEASE!”

The boy blew on the window so it was foggy and wrote on it, “We can help each other.”

Alyssa nodded her head in agreement.

The boy then picked up a cup with a string attached. “Hello?”

Alyssa looked around the room and spotted the same cup. “Hello?” she answered.

“My name is Cody, what’s yours?”

Alyssa paused before answering, “Alyssa, I wanna go home.”

The boy looked back through the window. “I know me too and we can help each other.”

Alyssa looked at him and said, “Okay, deal.”

The boy nodded. “Okay so, we need to break the window.”

“Isn’t it a far jump?” Alyssa said with a concern.

“It is not a window, it’s more of a door. Do you still have your phone?”

Alyssa dug around and found her phone under the pillow. They picked the cups back up. “Yes, what kind of person kidnaps someone and does not take their phone?”

“The boy laughed. “Okay, give me your number”

“Smooth,” Alyssa said with a laugh.

“Wow,” the boy laughed.

Alyssa gave him her number and he called her. “So now we have to break the window on the count of three.”

“What? How am I supposed to break the window?” Alyssa waited for him to answer.

“With your foot. Okay, on the count of three.”

“1…2…3!” Cody and Alyssa both kicked the window and it shattered into pieces.

“OMG that was fun,’’ Alyssa laughed.

Alyssa and Cody both looked through the window and they saw pathways leading in different directions.

“Okay, we are gonna pick the same one and keep walking until we meet each other…Okay?”

Alyssa nodded her head they both crawled out of the window and walked to the path that was the farthest but looked like it was leading them to each other.

“We will stay on the phone with each other, okay? I promise,” Cody said reassuring her.

“Okay, I trust you,” Alyssa said with a slight smile.

They both started walking on the path, the farther they walked the more it seemed like it was never going to end.

“So it looks like we have a while, tell me about yourself,” Cody said as he tried to make a conversation.

“I am from a small town and I am only 16.” Alyssa paused. “What about you?” she asked.

“Well, I am also 16 and I used to go to Alden-Conger but I got pulled out,” Cody said with a sigh.

“Wait, are you Cody Johnson?”

“Yea why?” Cody asked with confusion.

“I go to Alden. They told us that you moved away.”

There was silence on the other end of the phone. “Wait, what’s your last name?” Cody said anxiously.

“Hart. Alyssa Hart is my full name, why?”

Cody paused. “I remember you and I know this sounds weird, but I also liked you because you are different from everyone else,” Cody said with a smile on his face.

After about 30 minutes of walking the same path they grew more tired. “I have had the same scenery the whole time,” Alyssa said with a yawn.

“Me too but we should almost be there,” Cody said, trying to get her to stay awake.

About two hours later Alyssa saw a glimpse of a door in the distance, “Cody I see a door!” she yelled in the phone.

“Me too.”

They both started running towards the door. When they reached the door they both stopped and stared at it.

“At the same time we open it?” Alyssa asked.

“Wait! I need to tell you something, every time I see you through that window, I’ve been having déjà vu and then it hits me.”

Alyssa just stood there listening to him, “I remembered you and I were in a car crash and this isn’t real.”

“Cody, what are you talking about? This is real.”

Cody stood there thinking, “No it’s not.”

“Yes, you’re Cody Johnson and you went to Alden-Conger,” Alyssa said as she grew more scared.

“No, I’m Cody Johnson and you’re Alyssa Gilliam and we both graduated from Alden-Conger five months ago.”

Alyssa started to have a panic attack when all of a sudden a memory popped into her head.

“Alyssa are you still there?” Cody asked when the phone went silent.

“I just remembered the accident and you and me. We are,” Alyssa said, trying to remember.

“Dating…we’re dating,” Cody said as he smiled.

“Yeah, let’s get out of here,’’ Alyssa said with a giggle.

“1…2…3…” they shouted and both grabbed the door handle and pulled open the door.

When they stepped through there was a huge flash of light that made them close their eyes. When they opened their eyes they saw doctors around them checking them for injuries. Alyssa turned her head and saw Cody looking over at her.

“I told you. Thank God for iPhones because that battery lasted a long time,” Cody said as he started laughing.

Alyssa laughed, “And thank god for memories.” She smiled at him.

They both reached out and held each other’s hands. After about an hour of being checked by doctors, they were put into a room while they waited for a doctor to come back in.

“Well, we have good news,” the doctor said as she walked in. “You guys only have a mild concussion, but you were in a coma. The good news is we got that taken care of and you should be able to leave in a couple of days.”

Alyssa and Cody looked at each other. “Thank you doc,” Cody said as he turned his head to look at the doctor. She smiled and walked back out of the room.

“Well I guess that explains the weird world we were trapped in,” Cody said looking back at Alyssa. They held each other’s hands the rest of the time they were in hospital not letting go of each other.