Sorry for not updating in a while, but here's the chapter leading up to Maia stopping at Connie's. Please tell me your thought xx :)
Chapter thirty-seven
Maia was in her mum's office waiting for her to come back, she went into the cupboard of her desk, and grabbed a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, and shoved them into her pocket. Then she went back to the sofa as she could hear heels getting closer to the door. It was Connie, but she felt she could tell her, just not the whole story.
"Maia what are you doing in here?"
"I went to the disabled toilet, and my knee was hurting so much, I couldn't use my crutches properly, so I just came in here because the door was slightly open." Maia said.
"Oh ok, how the pain in your knee know then?"
"It's still unbearable."
"Ok, do you mind if I had a look at it?"
"No not at all, thanks Connie."
Connie smiled as they carefully took the brace off Maia's knee and took her leg out of her trousers, before then removing the bandage.
Connie stared at it in utter shock.
"Maia, have you banged it today or anything? It wasn't like this the other day."
Maia had to quickly make an excuse; she wasn't ready to tell the whole story yet.
"I was sitting down and I banged it on the table because it lower down than I thought, and then I hit with a football during lunch as I was on my way to the library.
"Oh right, well, well done Maia because that is awful."
"I know and I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter it's not entirely your fault. We'll have to re-x-ray it though before we do anything else though. Bear with me I'll go and find your mum and get a wheelchair." Maia nodded, as Connie walked out again, on a search to find Zoe. She looked everywhere and couldn't find her. Then she heard a sniffle coming from the supply cupboard, so she went to investigate. She found Zoe sat on the floor, with tears falling down her face.
"Hey" Connie said sitting down next to her friend.
"Hi" Zoe sniffled back.
"What's the matter?"
"Nothing, I'm fine. Don't worry about me."
"Zoe. I can see you are upset, and you aren't just a little bit upset because you have mascara all down your face!" Connie laughed.
"No, I'm fine, it's just that it was meant to be my scan today, and we were going to find out the gender of my baby. And now…" Zoe started, but then cried even more. Connie out her arm around her friend and wiped her eyes with a tissue that she had to hand.
"I know it's going to be hard, I know exactly what is going through your head, because it has happened to me before. It's going to be hard, but I'll help you get through it, and so will Max and the girls."
Zoe sniffled "Thank you."
"Now, come on, Maia's hurt her knee again and it's gone purple" Connie said, Zoe looked at her, and then stood up. They walked back to the office, with Connie filling Zoe in on what Maia had told her.
"Oh Maia sweet, what've you done now?!" Zoe said as they walked into the office.
"My knee really hurts."
"Yeah, Connie's explained it to me." Zoe said hugging her daughter tightly.
"Connie are you ok taking her to x-ray or do you want me to?"
"No, I'll do it its fine, oh and by the way Charley's in the staffroom!" Connie said laughing.
"Thank you."
Connie helped Maia into the wheelchair and they got in the lift.
"Right Maia, what really happened?"
Maia sighed, she wondered if Connie actually believed her; obviously not.
"You think I actually believed that you hit it on the desk because it lower than you thought?!" Maia laughed because that was a pathetic excuse!
"Maia what really happened?" Connie asked sitting next to Maia.
"These girls at school; they made me skip registration. They were saying horrible stuff and I tried I walk away, but one of them kicked me hard. And then at break I was sat down and they pulled me up harshly." Maia said trying not to cry.
"Ok, thanks for telling me, I'm guessing you don't want to tell your mum then?"
"No, as much as I love her and everything, I don't want her knowing." Connie nodded, as Maia got called in. A while later, Maia came back out. They waited for the results to come back.
"Right Maia, basically, your cartilage has completely ripped, and the front of your knee, on the bone is slightly broken."
Maia just stared at her.
"And I'm afraid that if you want to go back to doing gymnastics and the other sports that you do, and if you want it to be a normal knee again it's going to need surgery, so they can attach the cartilage back, it requires it being attached together and then attached to the knee. You don't have to agree to it, but if you don't you would just do more and more damage to it."
Maia just stared at her still. "I'll have the surgery on it." Maia said.
"Are you sure?" Connie asked hugging her.
"Yes, I don't want to injure it again because it hurts so much, and I don't want to never be able to do gymnastics again."
"Consult with your mum first though, but I'm sure she'll agree." Connie said helping her back into the wheelchair and into the lift.
They went to the office I find Zoe Max and Charley all in there waiting for them to return.
Connie made a signal for it just to be just Zoe.
"Max will you wait in the car with Charley please while I talk to Connie?" Zoe said getting the hint.
"Sure! Come on Charl, let's wait in the car for them." Max said.
"What's up then?" Zoe asked.
"Basically her whole cartilage has torn and she has tiny break in her knee cap. And she is going to need knee surgery with your consent as Maia has already agreed." Connie explained.
"Oh right, well I'm fine for her to have surgery, if Maia is sure."
"Yeah, I want to be able to still do all of the sports that I do." Maia said.
"Ok, Connie are you able to sort that out for me please?"
"Yes that's absolutely fine. Oh and one more thing, does Maia want to stop at mine tonight? I have something to tell her?" Connie asked.
"Yes, of that is ok with you I don't mind." Zoe said.
"Yes please, I'd like that." Maia said smiling.
"Ok then, I'll leave you to it then, see you tomorrow Maia." Zoe said kissing Maia on the head.
"Bye mum, thank you."
"Right come on Maia, we'll temporarily sort you knee out. Then I think that you'll be able to have the operation at the weekend if I use my magic!" Connie laughed as she wheeled Maia into an empty cubicle.
"Right so as you still have two school days left, we'll pad it up extremely well to avoid any other damage." Connie explained; Maia nodded.
Connie sorted it out for her. A layer of bandages, a support bandage on top, a hard bandage, then a plaster layer, the coloured part of the pot(turquoise blue) an finally a knee brace.
"It's going to be very uncomfortable, but it's better than it getting damaged even more. Bear with me while I go and talk to the people upstairs to see when they can for you in." Connie said going to the phone.
Ten minutes later, Connie was back with an appointment card.
"All sorted, now let's get you home, you look shattered." Connie said.
Connie helped Maia into the car, folded up the wheelchair and put it in the boot before driving to her house.
Hope this is ok, sorry if you don't like the storyline with Maia and her knee, but once the next few chapters are done with the operation, the story will go back to having some fun zax scenes for you all, and a family trip out...