May 30th
I haven't seen the redhead around in a while. Though Sora has been pushing me to go spend time with his friends, I'm still a little weary about the phone call I overheard.
As for Mrs. Williams, she was there when I went to see her the next day, she was thankful for the dinner and for locking up afterwards, and apologized for not being there to help. I told her it was no problem. She did tell me though that one of her tests were abnormal so they kept her there until late for further testing, but she said everything was alright and that the stress of being old was probably the cause of it. Not that I believed her or anything, I was sure something was wrong in the greater scheme of things. She was getting quite old. I pretended to buy it and we sat and chatted the afternoon away with some of her friends. I was glad she was okay for at least the time being.
May 31st
I guess I spoke too soon since the stalking redhead came into the shop again. Mrs. Williams was with me this time and they spent a lot of time talking about his granny's health, which apparently wasn't in the greatest condition. I was dusting a couple of shelves on the other side of the store. I could only avoid being introduced for a little while longer, so I tried to stay busy just in case she saw that I was working hard. She called me and I turned around to face her when the step ladder I was on wobbled and the fell over. I fell backwards right onto my spine and the top of the ladder fell onto my knee. I couldn't move. Everything from the waist down was tingling. They were both standing over me when I opened my eyes and instantly started asking me if I was okay. I told them I was fine and tried to get up after the red head pulled the ladder off of me. I was barely able to sit up. They called an ambulance and Father. The ambulance got there in five minutes, while my dad said he would meet us at the hospital.
The pain overwhelmed me and I lost track of everything that was happening. The next thing I knew, I was in a hospital bed, surrounded by people. When I tried to sit up, I noticed the large brace that held me in a vertical position. My dad told me that I had an incomplete spinal cord injury, but it would be able to walk again with time and a couple months of physiotherapy, but I was stuck in a wheelchair for now. I was able to feel the large bruise forming on my knee so I took it as a good sign. I was stuck in a brace for at least a month so the nerves can recover. I was sent home, and I'd be stuck in the house until I can regain enough mobility since most of the town, including my father's house, wasn't wheelchair accessible. This was just my kind of luck. I guess the only thing I can do now is hope that I can walk by the time I turn 18.
June 10thi
I don't think I've ever been this bored before. It didn't help that I was in constant pain, and the doctor said that it might not ever completely go away. As long as I can walk again, I can live with the pain. I can't stand being stuck in the house like this, and I can't even go up to my own room. I have no privacy, I need help showering and going to the bathroom. Leon and Cloud always manage to wake me up in the morning while they are messing around in the kitchen. You don't want to know what they do in there when they think Sora and I are asleep. I won't ever eat off that table or make food on that counter again.
Mrs. Williams came by for a visit the other day, with some cookies because she felt partially responsible for the accident. It wasn't her fault, I should have been more careful because I knew that the ladder was a little unstable. I was glad for the company, it was better than being stuck alone with my dad who decided to stay home with me because I was completely useless on my own. Only a few more weeks and I'll be out of the brace and wheel chair, hopefully. We chatted for a little while before she went back to the shop.
Sora also brought a large group of his friends over this afternoon, saying I was probably getting bored. The last thing I wanted was to have a bunch of kids seeing me in this pitiful state. I was already depressed. Having Sora's kid friends come over to pity me wasn't going to help in any way shape of form. One of the kids that Roxas brought with him was that red head. I saw the group walking up the front porch and I tried to make a run for it, escaping out the back and ran into my new found enemy, stairs. At least took them a little while longer to find me out here, cause I guess they thought I was more likely to try to hide upstairs than on the back porch even though I couldn't get there on my own. I sat back there with nothing to do for about twenty minutes before the redhead found me. He introduced himself as Axel and I gave him my name. We made idle chatter, I didn't want to go inside to be surrounded by people, but he seemed like he had no interest in hanging out inside with the rest of his friends. Things got awkward after a little while, and he decided to go inside to hang with the others while I opted to stay out here to enjoy the cool summer breeze.
When they all left, I wasted no time in reclaiming my couch and the Xbox to shoot zombies and play Minecraft all night.
June 14th
Axel came back today. Sora was out with a couple of friends and Cloud and Leon were both at work. I told him that Sora was gone, but he insisted that he was here to hang out with me since he figured that I got lonely being trapped in basically in one room. He was right, but I was also perfectly content sitting here alone in my misery. You can only play so many video games before going numb or getting bored.
Since he was so insistent, I let him inside to and asked him if he'd join me for a few rounds in Halo before finding something else to play. To my surprise, he never even played, so I had to teach him all the controls. He sucked, so we stuck to playing one on one matches. He got frustrated and rage quit, so I got him to put in a movie and we watched Jason X. It was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but we had fun sitting there and tearing it apart. I came to the conclusion that it wasn't a bad thing that Axel came today.
June 28th
Axel had started coming around more, and the doctor finally told me that I'm allowed to start the physio to get me walking again. So far though, she's only had me doing exercises to strengthen my back and legs to get them strong enough to hold my weight again. I'm making slow progress, but they're still trying to adjust the program so that it won't be pushing me too fast or too slowly. The part that sucks is that they assign me homework. Just the simpler exercises, so I don't have to leave the living room which has become my second room as often.
These exercises take a lot out of me, and if I want to have proper feeling and use of my legs again, I have to do them. Don't ask me exactly how it works. I'll never be a doctor.
Axel offered to take me out somewhere tomorrow. I don't know if he means it as a date, he's been hinting that he's not straight, so I'm pretending to be oblivious and don't care about much other than getting out of this house right now, because I'm going stir crazy. We're supposed to go tomorrow after my physio session since we rented a van that's wheelchair accessible. (They haven't done anything about the stairs yet so I'm still pretty much stuck here.) I talked to my father and told him that I wanted to go out after physio and asked him if he could drive me. He said yes just because he was glad that I'm getting out of the house with the closest thing I've had to a friend since I got here.
