Rewind

grieving after he lost Evelyn, or is he simply gothic?
      While he was departing his house, he comes out in a hasty speed not entirely looking in front of him that I don’t get a chance to warn him nor swing out of the way, and he bumps hardly into me. As if the world decided to push my limits even more, I lose my balance at the top of the staircase, but just before my feet completely slips from the step I was currently standing on, someone quickly holds me steady from behind and pushes me so that I’m completely standing still and balanced.
Lexi.
“What the hell Adam? Are you trying to end her life for real?” Lexi yells harshly at Adam, who looks completely and utterly confused at the sight in front of him- maybe even shocked.
“Lexi, it’s okay.  It was an accident,” I assure her calmly.
“Are you okay, Evangeline?” Lexi eyes me worriedly, so I answer her question with a simple nod as grateful as ever that the only side effect is a rapidly pounding heart and not a broken neck.
“What are you doing here?” Adam directs Lexi with the question and not me- probably because I’m also looking as puzzled as ever to why I’m here too.
“Yeah, what are we doing here Lexi?” I bump my arms into hers and look straight into her hazel eyes which were, for some weird reason, burning holes into Adam’s head.
“What the hell happened to you? Have you got no manners now? You almost kill her and you’re only worried about why we’re here?”
Adam raises his right hand and rubs his temple slightly before breathing out slowly as he says, “Yeah, you’re right.”
His guilty eyes avert from Lexi’s to mine as he apologizes. “Sorry about that.”
“It’s okay.” I assure him with a soft smile.
I don’t get why Lexi’s making a big deal out of nothing, but I don’t say anything, awaiting her explanation for what we’re doing at Adam’s.
“Lexi.” Adam directs his curious gaze, which finally noticed my wedding dress, from the dress to her as he asks, sounding serious, “What are you doing here?”
Lexi rubs her face with her hand in exasperation before eyeing Adam back with a serious face. “Remember that deal we made that one time?”
That one time?
How long exactly have they known each other?
Adam’s eyebrows furrows in confusion, and he tilts his head back slightly in hesitance as he appears to be deep in thought. A few seconds pass before his eyes widen suddenly in disbelief as if a bulb has lightened up in his head. “W-what?”
“Yes.” Lexi’s lips start etching wider from a zero into a full beaming smile.
I’m so confused with all these encrypted messages flying around, so I decided to ask Lexi what the hell they’re saying.
“Lexi?” I raise my eyebrows.
“Goodbye.” She surprises me by waving her hands enthusiastically and starts descending the stairs in front of Adam’s house quickly.
“Wait!” Adam suddenly yells, with a voice filled in panic, just before I was about to. “I-I can’t do it alone.”
He looks at me, and I don’t miss how his face contours in what seems to be pain and burden-full.
Lexi turns around to face him whilst crossing her arms. “You.” She points a finger at him accusingly as she says, “Told me that if this ever happens, you’ll be the one to unlock that door; don’t get me in this now.”
“What door?” I give them a curious eye.
“I know.” Adam passes a hand through his hair in distraught as he replies to Lexi, totally ignoring my question, “I know what I said, but I didn’t think I’d actually get to do it. I just need you to be here when I do it- with me. You know as well as I do that she needs you too.”
Okay, so they’re talking about me like how parents talk about toddlers without wanting them to understand what they’re actually saying, and it’s bothering me like hell.
Lexi’s face studies me shortly before she slowly ascends the stairs back to where we’re standing. “Okay.”
       After we slowly make our way through Adam’s house, which wasn’t a house really but more like a mansion, we all sat down at the royal dining table. Lexi made me coffee claiming that I’ll need it, while I silently nod to anything that’s being said or directed at me as I patiently wait to understand what they’re doing- what I’m about to hear- because it doesn’t seem anywhere near good, and it isn’t helping that my pulse is slowly rising with each second passing by.
Adam, who is sitting right in front of me across the wooden table, finally speaks but what he says isn’t something anyone would ever be prepared to hear, to have time to process or to be easily missed.
He inhales and exhales slowly, gives Lexi a nervous look before slowly averting his gaze to the floor. “About five years ago, you had an accident.” His eyes slowly rise up to mine worriedly as he gulps before he continues, “You lost your memories.”
That was the last thing I heard before my life turned upside down.
Chapter 10
      Echoes of my laughter vibrated in my eardrums. Once Adam blurted out how I lost my memories, I couldn’t help stop the burst of giggles knocking on my lips from inside, which were begging to be released, from coming out. While Lexi and Adam kept sending each other worried glances, I was locked up in a laughing hysteria that my chest was vibrating so hard, and tears were starting to make an appearance in my eyes.
     What nonsense is he saying? Does he think it’s funny that I’m currently at loss in my life that he felt the need to come up with some joke to make my life sound like some