Page 189 of Stay With Me
“Holy shit.” I gasp, feeling helpless as people start to make their way over to her.
Tripp comes to my side with Willow and puts an arm around me. “Jesus. I hope she’s okay.”
“I’ve never seen that happen before.” I stand shell-shocked. “I thought something was off after that second barrel.”
“I wonder what happened,” he says as we watch a medical team arrive.
It takes a good ten minutes before they get her on a stretcher and move her out of the arena. Tripp puts Willow in the stroller, and we exit with Fisher and Poppy to go find Noah and Landen.
“Is she okay?” I ask when we see them outside near the ambulance.
Noah shakes her head, and I see the concern written across her face. “I dunno. She wasn’t responsive. They think it’s possible she had a seizure.”
“Does she have a medical condition?” I ask.
“Not that I’m aware of or it’d be too risky for her to be ridin’.”
“Poor thing.”
“Landen and I are gonna meet them at the hospital,” she tells Fisher, then looks at me. “I’ll text you when I hear anything.”
I give her a hug and an extra squeeze for luck. “Please do. I’m gonna worry about her.”
Noah gives Fisher and Poppy a kiss, and then she and Landen leave.
Instead of going back to the arena, we decide to let the kids play back at the trailers until they return.
Except they don’t until close to midnight.
The girls are long passed out, but I hear them walk in and immediately sit up.
“Hey,” I whisper. “Where’s Landen?”
“He’s still there. She woke up finally, but you’re not gonna believe this.”
I furrow my brows. “What?”
“Between the seizure and how hard she hit her head, she’s lost part of her memory.”
My hands cover the gasp that slips out of my mouth. “Oh my God!”
Noah chuckles, and I’m thrown off guard by how this could be funny. “She doesn’t remember Landen.”
Just when I think I couldn’t be any more shocked, I’m proven wrong. “Wait, what?”
Noah looks like she’s struggling to keep it together but laughs again. “I know it ain’t funny, but she doesn’t remember not liking him. After she woke up, she recognized me, but when she looked at Landen, she got all flustered like she had a major crush.”
“Shut the fuck up!” I whisper-shout. My mouth falls open in disbelief.
“Dead-ass serious. Landen was so shocked, he didn’t know what to do. Ellie asked if he’d stay, so he did.”
“This is wild, Noah! What if she remembers she hates him in like a week? Landen will be even more crushed after gettin’ his hopes up.”
“I asked the doctor what to do, and he saidnothing. If we tell her too much, it’ll just confuse her, so it’s just best to wait it out and let her memory return naturally.”
I blink hard, trying to wrap my brain around all of this.
“I can’t believe Landen agreed to stay knowin’ she’d normally want nothin’ to do with him.”
