FLASHBACK:

"No! Please don't take her! Please. She's all I have left!" I hear my mother scream. A man was squeezing my arm. He was taking me away. I begin crying loudly. "Mommy! Mommy!" I scream. She was fighting three men holding her back. "Please I'll do anything. Please!!!" She screams. I watch my mother fight for me. I scream louder and louder as they take me in a black car with dark windows. I scream all the way to wherever they were taking me. I scream as they carry me into a big white building with a sloppy painting of a sun and flowers. I scream and scream but they do nothing. They place me in a room with several other children my age. I hiccup and tears silently roll down my cheeks. "This isn't fair." I whimper. "What is?" a high-pitched voice asks. I turn around to see a girl about my age. She had brown hair and blue eyes. she had straight across bangs and her two front teeth were both missing. "What's not fair?" She asks. "They took me away from my mommy." I tell her. I play with the buttons on my shirt. A single tear escapes my cheek once more. "Hey, atleast you have a mommy. I have nobody." She says, wiping my tear with her finger."Really?" I ask, astounded that she had no mother. "What about a father?" I ask. She shakes her head. "All I got is me, myself, and uh me." She says. She smiles widely. "I don't want just myself. I want my mommy." I whimper. She takes my hand. "Come on, lets play." She says. I take her hand. We lay on the floor, and begin to draw on sheets of papers. "What is your name?" I ask. She giggles. "My name is a Alyssa." I nod. "I'm Abrielle." I inform her. "I can write my name!" She says. I watch her as she writes her name. "Can you?" She asks. I shake my head sadly. "Well that's okay. It'll come to ya." She says, as she swoops her 'y' in her name. She then looks up at me and her smile fades. "Wait...I don't know you. Leave me alone!!" She pouts. She begins to scream for help and I stand to my fert hopeless. "Why are you crying?" I ask, confused at the sudden mood change. Tears fall down her cheeks and she calls for help. A woman comes over to her and picks her up. "What's wrong, sweetie?" She asks. She points down at me. "She hurt me." She exclaims. The woman looks down at my confused glance. "Me? I didn't- " Before I could finish, the woman yanks me by my arm. "What did you do, you sinister little brat?!" She yells in my face. Her breath smelled like mint and cigarettes. I open my mouth to speak but nothing comes out. She yanks my arm roughly and guides me to the door. I look back at Alyssa. She waves and smiles evily. She mouths "bye bye" and the door slams and Alyssa disappears from my vision.
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I walk back towards my mother, Nikki's mom, and Charles with the three police walking behind me. I looked emotionless but in the inside it was a different story.

   I was being accused of trying to hurt Nikki. If I even do have a mental illness, that doesn't mean I would hurt Nikki. I remember clearly that she slipped and fell. My hands were no where near her. I was 2 feet away!

   I sit in the seat next to Charles. He looks at me and analyzes my face. I could tell my mother had been crying. Her eyes were red and puffy. Nikki's mother was staring at the wall.

  "We found the camera in the water, and we are going to try to retrieve pictures and videos." Harold says. They nod in usion. I remain silent.

    They tell us goodbye and that they would reach us if anything new happens. "Mother, I didn't hurt Nikki." I say, looking into her sad eyes.

  She looks at me silently for a moment. "I know Abrielle. It's not your fault." She says. The way she said it infuriates me.

  "I didn't do anything. I didn't have a episode. i didn't have anything to do with it. She was videotaping me beside the waterfall and she backed up and slipped on a rock and fell. I was two feet away, maybe three! I couldn't have possibly reached her. I got to her as soon as I could!" I scream.

  My mother was about to speak but a nurse interupts her. "Excuse me...I would like to talk to Nikki's mother." She says. She smiles but it doesn't reach to her eyes. Nikki's mother stands up and they move further down the hall. I watch their facial expressions.

   Nikki's mother returns back. "The nurse said that Nikki has undergone surgery and she will wake up soon. They also said the wound was definitely from hitting a rock." She explains. "But she's going to be okay." she adds.

  I breathe a sigh of relief. "I am so glad she's going to be okay." I breathe. Everyone stares at me. "We are too." Charles says.

  We waited thirty minutes in silence and then the nurse motions Nikki's mother to come. She leaves for about ten minutes. Once she comes back, she smiles. "Shes awake and she's talking. She seems fine." She says.

   "Can I go see her?" I ask. My mother and  Charles give eachother looks. "Yes, I'll go as well." Charles says. I walk behind Charles silently and he opens the door.

  I see Nikki sitting up in the bed with a large bandage wrapped around her head. She smiles at me warmly. "Hey!" She exclaims.

   i smile. "Hey Nikki." I say, walking near the bed. "How are you feeling?" I ask, as she grabs my hand. I hear Charles shuffle his feet. He thinks i'm going to hurt her?

  "I'm fine. The medicine is making me numb. I feel freeeee." She says. I laugh a little. A tear escapes my cheek. I could never hurt her. She's my best friend. Why don't people see that?

    "I'm so glad you're okay." I say. She nods. "Yeah, me too. I don't remember what happened but still." She says. My stomach drops.

  "You don't..don't remember what?" I ask. I could feel my head spin.

  "I don't really remember anything. I remember spending the night but after that...my mind is blank." She says.

   She looks up at the ceiling. Her eyebrows furrowed. She's struggling to think.

  "We went hiking and you slipped on a rock and hit your head. Remember?" I ask. My throat now beginning to become extremely dry.

   "Uhhhh..Yeah my mind is blank. Is that what happened? Wow I am such a clutz." She says, with a giggle.

   "We was videoing your senior collage." I say, dryly.

   She nods. "Yeah, doesn't ring a bell. Maybe it'll come to me. I need to heal." She says, pointing to her head.

   I nod. We remain silent for a moment. "Hey, Abrielle. You okay? You look pale." She says. Everything felt blurry. "I'll call the nurse." She says, after I don't respond.

  I fall to the floor. My legs felt like jelly. I stare at the white ceiling.

oh my gosh. oh my gosh.

   Nikki clicks the nurse call button several times and I hear Charles calling my name. My eyes enclose in darkness and I was out.