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BEEP BEEP BEEP
OJ blinks
BEEP BEEP BEEP
OJ sees a calendar on the wall, 29 red circles on every date.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
OJ wakes up, strapped up to a IV monitor. he tries to touch his head, but he feels a bandage covering where he’d expect to feel glass. He’s about speak, but before he can, Paper jumps saying, “Oh my god! OJ you’re finally awake!”
OJ starts thinking,
‘That’s my name, or so I believe.’
Paper starts to smile.
“Before you worry about the Hotel, I’ve been covering your duties! Just like you said I would do in emergencies!”
OJ starts to think back, he doesn’t remember a single hotel in his memory, in fact: he doesn’t remember anything at all.
“Wow! You’re such a jokester. I could never imagine working at a hotel.” OJ says, which turned out to be the wrong thing to say in the situation.
“Oh, are you okay OJ?“
OJ notes Paper’s worried expression.
“Oh, It’s fine—”
OJ pauses.
Why can’t he remember the boy in front of him’s name?
“What was your name again?”
Paper looks around worriedly, before interjecting, “I’m getting the doctor,” and leaving.
After a few minutes of waiting, OJ finally sees the boy and a doctor come in.
“Mister OJ… Paper told me he thinks you have amnesia…”
“Could you tell me what you remember, before waking up from our coma?”
“I, don’t remember anything, doctor.”
A beat…
“After, EXTENSIVE, EXHAUSTING, GRUELI—”
“We get it, he has amnesia”
“Yes, he does.”
A beat.
“When do I get to go home, doctor…”
“Someone will tell you after we can do some rehabilitation exercises to make sure you’re in shape to go.”
OJ thinks about that for a second. He want’s to go home with his apparent friend so he can learn about himself. Before he forgets, he decides to ask the man he woke up with something.
“I forgot your name, but it shouldn’t matter... Hmmm what to call you.”
“Ooh! I love nicknames!”
OJ thinks for a second before deciding:
“How about Mayo?”
Paper chuckles
“That’s perfect— J.”
The nickname makes OJ heart a little bit faster, though he doesn’t remember why.
“Ha ha— Nice nickname!”
“Thanks J”
He decides to just ignore the feeling.
RUMBLE
“Are you OJay?”
“Yes, Mayo, I’m just hungry.”
“That makes sense, you should eat something, it’s lunchtime.”
Then Paper leaves the room, which leaves OJ alone by himself.
He then pushes the button to call the for food.
It takes about 6–7 minutes for the food to come.
OJ says thank you to the waiters, and as they leave he sees his food, if you could call it food. It’s a yellowish smoothie with the text under it saying “Mango Smoothie”.
So OJ digs in, and drinks all of his smoothie.
And after that he hears his name on the intercom for the doctors to call him over.
A new Doctor, with the nameplate: “Doctor Fizz” helps assist him with his physical trials.
First: OJ gets tested on his physical reflexes.
Secondly: He has to walk on crutches for a bit, which his quite hard, considering he assumes he hasn’t walked for a month.
Finally, OJ gets to leave today with Mayo
OJ and Mayo walk to his car, which has a nice white paint job with blue stripes.
Once OJ manages to fumble into the car, he and Mayo share a genuine laugh, for a while since he can remember.
OJ manages to say one sentence in the midst of his chuckles: “Nice, car Mayo.”
Paper say a couple of words, “Thank You!”