I Remember You: A Thriller by Brian Freeman

Author:Brian Freeman [Freeman, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2022-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

After I hung up the phone, I was drained. Exhausted. I couldn’t even get up. I stretched out under the stars, where the sand was still warm, but I tried not to sleep. If I slept, I knew Skye would show me more of her past, and I didn’t want to see any more. I wanted it all to go away, to leave my mind altogether.

But soon my eyes blinked shut, blocking out the stars.

The next dream came.

I was in Andrew’s lab. It was Christmastime.

I lay in a leather chair, with no sound around me but the hum of white noise. I wore a mesh cap that fit snugly over my skull, lined with a dense web of wires and electrodes. The red wires traveled down my body and joined at a cable that was connected to a computer.

Andrew typed rapidly, then came over to me and made adjustments on the electrodes. I could see electrical pathways streaming across his computer screen at a pace that was impossible to follow.

“Are those my brain waves on the screen?”

“That’s right.”

“So how will this work?” I asked.

“Well, for you, it’s very easy. I’ll start the recording process, and I’ll leave the room so as not to distract you. The key is to focus on individual memories in as much detail as possible. Try to start at the beginning of an event, and work your way through it chronologically.”

I stared at the screen again with anxious wonder. There was my life, distilled into a seemingly infinite number of pulses and waves. All the places I’d been, the people I’d loved.

The things I’d done.

Somewhere in there was a few minutes on the cliff that I’d forgotten.

“What if I don’t remember something?” I asked. “What if there are gaps in my memory? Will it . . . fill them in?”

I hesitated, waiting to see what he said.

Andrew gave me a curious look. “The truth is, I don’t know. Eventually, the idea is to pull the memories, not push them. As we perfect the technique, hopefully we’ll be able to isolate thoughts and experiences that you’ve long since forgotten. But for now, the computer isn’t really in charge. You are, Hallie. Your brain will feed data to us. Some of it may be conscious, and some of it may be unconscious.”

Wait, what did he call me?

“Does it matter what I think about?”

“No, but the more vivid the memories are, the better.”

“I had dinner with Tyler last week. I told him about wanting a divorce. God knows that was vivid.”

Andrew stared at me. “It’s better not to tell me what you’re remembering. It could bias the results when we try to interpret what we’ve stored. Besides, what happens between you and Tyler doesn’t involve me. He’s my friend. So are you.”

“I don’t love him. I never did. I feel horrible about that, but it’s the truth.”

“Hallie, please. Enough.”

Hallie?

“Should they be recent memories? Or from the past?”

“It doesn’t matter. It’s more important that the memories are powerful.”

I debated whether to tell him the truth.

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