A Choice To Forget

A Choice to Forget                               By. Priscilla Melinda Visser

“My life; the way I knew it would be turned upside down in the worst way possible. I think that I always wished deep down inside that I could go back and undo it all and start over. But not like this…”

When Delia Collins wakes up with a bad case of amnesia in a place she can hardly pronounce, the horror of what had happened to her hangs like a thick dark cloud over her head in the small town of Bredasdorp.

After being raped and left for dead and finally waking up with no memory becomes the least of her problems when she is dragged into a sick and twisted game of cat and mouse with death and deceit around every corner. Who can she trust when everyone seems to be keeping the truth about her existence from her? She finds comfort in a nurse but who is ripped away from her without warning and is left to fend for herself. His eyes become her only refuge and what has happened to her becomes a terrible haunting nightmare that she will soon have to look in the eye and confront... But being completely lost in her empty mind, how will she ever find her way back to the girl she used to be? Is that someone who she wants to be again? The escort who got herself raped? Why does it all feel unreal as if this person everyone is telling she was is not someone she can see herself being?

Will she ever find out what really happened to her and who is responsible for violating her in the worse of ways possible? Is everyone truly who they say they are and more importantly do they really care about her well-being or is she only going to be another statistic. Is it easier to run? Can she run? Where would she go; back to a life as an escort and a working girl? What if al this turns out to be her fault? What if the men who did this to her comes after her to kill her off like they had hoped would happen when the left her lifeless body beside the road for the cold to finish off?

What does she do now that she has lost her only friend and is alone again? When the only comfort she finds is in his eyes which offers her nothing but safety with no direction. What if her memory never returns and she is lost in the past life a sex worker and escort? How can she live a life like that again?

Run Delia... Her minds tells her to Run, but where will she run too who can she run too? She will have to make a choice? Or will the past make the choice for her?