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"Ana?! Anastasia?! Are you okay? Can you hear me?! Here, I am holding your hand. Press it so that I can understand that you can hear!" Selena said while holding Anastasia's hand tightly in her grip. She looked at her silly friend worriedly who was slowly coming back to senses.

Anastasia groaned out loudly hearing someone screaming just near her ears so loudly. It took her sometime to regain consciousness completely and that is when she recognised the voice. It belonged to her best friend, Selena. 

"Anastasia!" Selena raised her voice some more which irritated Anastasia as her head already felt really heavy as if someone was hammering her head really hard. 

"What?!" She snapped back at her friend as she suddenly opened her eyes which were frowning now. She opened her eyes really first and so the room's brightness blinded her for a few seconds. She closed her eyes tightly. 

"Oh, god! Stupid girl! You were unconscious for almost six hours. So open your eyes slowly." Selena scolded her for her stupidity. 

She immediately opened her eyes as soon as she saw Selena but this time she was careful to make her eyes feel adjusted with the light of the white room which definitely wasn't hers. 

"What did you say? For how many hours I was unconscious? Why was I unconscious? And where I am? What time is it?" Anastasia asked all these questions in one breath as she gawked at her friends in shock. 

"You were unconscious for six hours. You lost your consciousness due to lack of breath as you were having a panic attack. We are currently in a hospital which is a really costly hospital, may I add. And it's six in the evening now." Selena breathed out as soon as she was done answering all her questions in one breath. 

"What? Panic attack? Costly hospital? What am I doing here? Who brought me here?" Anastasia asked in total confusion while looking around the room where she was. It was indeed a richly hospital. 

Selena looked at her worriedly. She sat down beside her and took her hands in hers.

"You don't remember anything?" She asked which sounded more like a statement. She sighed with a worried look on her face. 

"No, I don't remember anything that might make me have a panic attack and lose my consciousness." Anastasia said while looking at Selena in confusion.

It has happened before. Anastasia's brain works weirdly. It makes her forget the moments which she doesn't want to remember. Like if she is eating five fruits together and doesn't like one fruit, after one nap or something, she forgets eating that fruit but remembers about eating the other four. That's how it works for her. Her brain makes her remember the situation which she imagined. 

The doctors said that she doesn't forget the happenings completely. Something or a lot of bad things might have happened with her in the past before her accident and she might have started to live in her imaginations most of the time to forget her grieves and after the accident, her brain accepted the command permanently. Now she most of the time lives in her imaginations mixed up with reality. Doctor said she will be alright once she regains her memory. But it seems difficult seeing the way her brain is protecting her. 

Selena knows it all because she had been with Anastasia in all these from the start. But Anastasia doesn't know about her medical conditions apart from her memory loss because the doctor prohibited Selena from saying anything to her because it might lead Anastasia to have a different identity disorder. 

Selena has known her for three years now. The situation when they both met wasn't a good situation at all rather a worse situation ever. She has lost her twin sister just the day when met Anastasia, in the same accident where Anastasia was stuck too. She couldn't save her sister but she got Anastasia then as if as a replacement for her sister and she wasn't going to miss the opportunity. She saved Anastasia, took her in and did everything for her, starting from giving her a surname too. She protects her as if she is her own sister but they live like best friends to keep their lives out of any complications. But she will never forget that night when everything happened.

"Selena?" Anastasia gave her a small shake while looking at her worriedly which brought her out of her thoughts.

"Huh?" Selena looked at her in confusion. 

"Are you okay? Are you worried about the hospital bills? If you are, don't worry, we will manage something out." Anastasia assured her while giving her a beautiful full blown smile which immediately brightened up the room as well as her mood in a second. 

"I am fine. We will surely manage something out." Selena said with a small smile. Till now she wasn't thinking about the hospital bills but now she is but she wasn't worried as she knew that they both will definitely manage something out. "Ana, tell me something. But don't pressurise yourself. Okay?" She asked carefully.

"Okay, but what?" Anastasia asked. 

"What is the last thing you remember? Or more like what happened from the time you left the apartment for the interview?" She asked slowly while examining her expression as if to see if she was stressing herself or not. 

Anastasia was confused at first after hearing the question. It doesn't sound anything suspicious to her. Because she clearly remembers that nothing serious happened for Selena to know. But still she decided to share her day with Selena because something serious didn't happen but something interesting actually happened.

"So, listen. Something really interesting happened today. Oh! You don't even have to worry about the hospital bills because what happened today will cover it up." She said in excitement which confused Selena. 

"What happened today?" She asked again. 

"Today I was supposed to interview for the biggest fashion company in New York for the job of a fashion designer and you already know that. But the company was having a fashion show today for the collection of their biggest fashion designer. The MM queen, Melissa Millar!" She exclaimed in total excitement as if she still couldn't believe what she was saying. "But that's not it, the company took the interviewers to the venue of the fashion show for us to prepare us before the interview. And you won't believe what happened there!" She said while smiling cheekily and wiggling her eyebrows at Selena playfully. 

"Please enlighten me with the juicy news you got there." Selena said jokingly while rolling her eyes at Anastasia. She has always been playful and likes to joke around.

"The showstopper of the show was absent! Can you believe this?! She might be a total stupid to miss this but whatever. I was walking around after reaching the venue and that's when I heard the MM queen shouting at her secretary about this. The poor secretary, I was feeling bad for her so I went in after Melissa Millar left and comforted her by saying that I will help her anyway I can." Anastasia said with a beautiful smile while Selena's eyes widened realising where it's going. 

"Ana! Don't tell me you did what I know you are capable of doing and did actually?!" Selena snapped at her in disbelief while Anastasia's smile got bigger every second. 

"Bingo! I did the exact same thing!" She exclaimed while laughing out loud. "But it wasn't intentional." She added. 

Selena looked at her in confusion. 

"What do you mean that it wasn't intentional? You freaking walked the ramp as a showstopper for Melissa freaking Millar!" Selena shrieked out. 

"Hear me out at first, will you?!" Anastasia scolded her and she let out a sigh but nevertheless nodded at her to go on. "Okay, when I offered help, I wasn't thinking of her asking me to be the showstopper. I declined immediately but then she started to blackmail me. I wasn't giving in yet but then she offered me something. Which is a lot of money and considering our current situation, I agreed to be the showstopper." She completed her story with a grin of accomplishment shining her face. 

"Oh god, Ana! What did you do? Look where it brought you?!" Selena exclaimed in disappointment which made Anastasia pout. 

"I know. I might have gotten overwhelmed and in a panic attack for that only which explains what I am doing here. Also I think I lost my opportunity to work with the company after my panic attack." She suddenly became sad as gloominess covered her facial expressions.

Selena sighed. Anastasia behaves like a baby sometimes and the instinct of protecting her increases to some other level then. 

"Aww! Ana girl! Don't be sad. You did your best as they should have known before sending you up on the ramp that you are not a professional model. So it's not your fault. And cheer up, you will find a more capable job than this." Selena said in an assuring tone while smiling at her which immediately brightened up her mood. 

Anastasia hugged Selena tightly with her usual bright smile back to her face. 

"You are the best!" She said and Selena smiled at her while caressing her hair lightly. 

"Okay, enough. Now you rest while I talk with the doctor and complete the formalities of your discharge." Selena said and stood up. 

"But what about the bills?" Anastasia asked in a worried tone. 

"Don't worry, I have got some cash with me. I will manage with them." Selena replied and with one last smile she left the room. 

She closed the door behind her and leaned on it. She closed her eyes as all the tiredness and stress about Anastasia was wearing off now. She brought her phone out of her jeans pocket and looked at the screen. 

'WHAT DID THE MM QUEEN'S SHOWSTOPPER DID TO ANGER THE DARIUS HENDERSON? DESTROYED FASHION SHOW!'

She read the titles again and again. She wasn't daring to read the complete news because the first three-four lines were enough for Selena to know what it was all about. They were saying disgusting things about Anastasia. They are completely making things up for their TRP. 

They are saying maybe she is one of Darius's one night stand who was pregnant with his child and aborted it. Someone is saying maybe she stole from him, someone's saying that she is his secret wife and the list of assumptions keep going on. She can't let Anastasia see this. It will cause her another panic attack which is definitely not good for her health. That's why she brought her phone with her. 

"Don't worry, I am going to handle all that. They are going to be removed from the internet by twenty four hours. Also I just handled the hospital bills too." Someone said out of nowhere which made her jump from her place. She looked at her left to find a really handsome young man standing there. 

He looks one year older than her but with his twinkling blue eyes, he looks younger than her. He got brown hair and was very tall and got a warm smile.

"Sorry, if I startled you." The man said which brought her out of her thoughts and she looked at him in confusion. 

"I am okay. But, who are you?" She asked with a small frown. He smiled hearing her question.

"I am Noah, Noah Weber. You must have heard my name." Noah said with a flirtatious smirk while forwarding his hand for a handshake. Selena looked down at his forwarded hand for once before looking up with a blank face.

"Sorry, I didn't. But thank you for handling the hospital bills." Selena said and turned around to leave to find the doctor. 

Noah kept looking at her back with a smirk and then turned to look at the glass window to look at Anastasia who was sleeping now. His expression changed.