LOGAN'S PENTHOUSE: 9:00A.M.
Max and Logan were argueing. Max didn't want to go to that "School", but Logan insisted.
"Fine, I give up! I don't care anymore!" Max yelled
"Max, I'm sorry you feel this way, but you don't know how long you'll be this way, and you need to get help."
"Fine, like I said, I don't care, call that doctor fried of your, and tell her I'll go, under one condition, you come with me."
"Like I wouldn't come with you, but whatever you say."
5 HOURS LATER
Max felt herself being led through a doorway, and than a smaller doorway. She knew Bling was leading her, but if it was someone else, she would have no way of knowing. God, she felt like such a child (she hadn't been able to find the bathroom earlier at Logan's). Soon she was directed to sit down. She obeyed, what else could she do, it wasn't as if she could fight her way out. She sat for a while, feeling vounerable, than a new voice greeted her.
"Hello, you must be Max. I'm Mark Tyson, but you can call me Mark."
"O.K. Mark,"
"Why don't you come with me, and I'll introduce you to one of my friends," Mark replied.
Max than felt a hand on her shoulder leading her to another room.
"Max stay here, and I'll go get my friend."
Max heard him walk away.
"What so I'm just supposed to stand here?" Max thought to herself.
Soon Mark returned, this time with another person.
" Max, I'd like you to meet Emilia Wolfe. She will be helping you while I go talk to your friend Logan, oh and Em, be nice." Mark said
"Of course Mark, you know how I am," Emilia replied.
" Hay Max. So you new to all of this?" Emilia asked.
"Yah, I feel so... so lost."
"I know how you feel, I felt that way before I came here."
"You blind too?"
"Blind as a bat, and have been most of my life. I came here when I was 7 and now I help others the way Mark and the others helped me, you know how to get around, do everyday things, and read."
"How can you read if you can't see?"
"You've never heard of braille?"
"No, is it hard?"
"Well all it is, is raised bumps, but it gets easier with the more you read."
"Do you mind if I ask how you went blind?"
" No not at all. I have R.P. Retinitus Pigmentosa, it's a disease of the retna, and congenital cateracts, both cause blindness, and both are incurable, so I am totally blind. How did you go blind?"
" Car accident. I took a header off my bike and slammed into a tractor-trailer truck."
"Ouch. Well enough talk. Let's get down to business. Since you don't have a cane of your own, you can use mine, you'll need one for yourself ASAP, but for now mine will do. Now take it, and put it in the hand you write with, and put it an arm's length out in front of you."
"Tell me just why I'm doing this?"
"The can e will be your eyes. You use it to feel what's in front of you and to feel if the ground is rough or smooth."
"Oh sorry, I just feel really stupid doing this."
"Well, you don't have to worry about e seeing you do something dumb, because I can't."
"O.K. I guess I didn't think of it that way."
"So Max how old are you?"
"19 and you?"
"I'm 14. Max may I ask you a personal question?"
"It depends."
"What do you look like?"
"Well, I'm about 5'6", with dark curlyish hair, and olive colored skin."
"What color are your eyes?"
"Um, Dark brown."
"Oh, O.K."
"Why do you consider that a personal question?"
"Well I don't know what I look like, so I figure people might feel strange telling me what I can't tell them."
"I'm sorry I can't tell you what you look like."
"Don't feel bad the only thing I can really "see" about you is your curly hair, I don't know colors."
"How old were you when you lost all of your sight?"
"Well, I came out visually impaired, and it just went downhill from there, until I was 3, than I couldn't see at all."
"I'm sorry"
"Don't be."
MARK'S SCHOOL: 3:30
"How about introducing me to your friend?" Emilia asked.
" How will we got out there without help?" Max replied.
"Oh, I think I can manage."
"Sorry I forgot you can get around on your own."
"Just put a hand on my shoulder, and follow."
Emilia led Max out into the other room. Max was amazed at how easily Emilia moved around. Her movements were strong and sure, much different than Max's stumbling.
"Hay Lisa, could you tell me where Max's friend is?" Emilia asked a person Max didn't even know was there.
"Sure sweetie, 4 steps to 2 O' Clock, than stop." The voice of Lisa replied.
Emilia turned slightly and walked some more. 1,2,3, steps, than Max heard Logan.
"Max, you're here!"
"Well Lisa was wrong, it was 2:30 not 2:00." Emilia said.
Logan wheeled himself up to the young girl leading Max. She was obviously blind, because of the long white cane she carried, but she was very independent.
"Hi, I'm Emilia, and you are?"
"Logan. I'm a friend of Max's."
"Nice to meet you. Here comes Mark, he'll probably want to talk to all of us, so I won't leave just yet."
"How can you tell?"
"He's the only one with that funny walk."
"I see you've met Logan, Emilia." Mark said
"Yah, I guess I have."
" Well you talk to him while I discuss something with Max."
"Sure Mark. So Logan, how did you get in a wheelchair?"
"You could tell?"
"I'm very observant."
"I got shot."
"Oh, sorry for upsetting you."
"You didn't upset me."
"Listen Logan, I may not be able to see, but that doesn't make me deaf. Your tone alone told me that you are not comfertable discussing this topic, so why don't we get a new one."
"You are very observant."
"Why thank you."
While Emilia and Logan were talking, Max and Mark were discussing the idea he had.
"Emilia has been teaching here for 6 years, and I have never had a better student. She knows so much, and is great with people. She can really help you deal with what you have. I was thinking about her going to stay with you, until you feel comfertable on your own." Mark said
"Well, I can't really say, because I'm staying at Logan's, so it would be up to him, and Emilia, because she is the one that would have to make the changes."
"Well, how about we talk to them then,"
"Logan, Emilia, can you come here please? Max and I have something to ask you."
"Mark thinks that it would be a good idea if Emilia came to stay with us until I can do things myself." Max said.
" Well that's fine with me, but it's really up to Emilia."
" You mean it, I can come stay at your place, I mean I haven't even left this buliding since the Pulse, of course I'll go!"
"Well than it's settled. I'll have Lisa pack up your things and get them in Logan's car."
As Emilia walked away from the school, she closed the door on one part of her life, and a new one. She didn't know where she was going, but she wasn't afraid, no she wasn't afraid at all, was she?
LOGAN'S PENTHOUSE: 8:30 P.M.
"All right, Logan, and Max too, time for some "Blind 101"." Emilia said as soon as they had entered the apartment.
"Logan, take me down the center of each room, and point out all the obstacles. If you want to move something, move it now, and than don't move it again, or crash" Emilia
Logan took Emilia into each room, and told her where everything was. She felt each thing, and seemed as if she was making a map of the apartment in her head.
"Well that's it," Logan said after they had been into each room.
"Max and I are now going to go to our room, and I am going to get aquatinted with where I will be staying,"
She and Max went into their room. Emilia took out her cane; ad slowly went around the room clockwise. She found a dresser, a nightstand, and two beds.
"Max, do you want the bed in the corner or near the door?" Emilia asked.
"I'll take the one in the corner."
"Now, let's go find Logan. I hope I can remember where the kitchen is."
"We could always call for Logan, and he could take us there."
"Max do you want to become independent, or do you want Logan leading you around for the rest of your life?"
"O.K. we'll do it alone."
"Great, come on."
Emilia found Logan in the kitchen cooing something that smelled wonderful.
"Smells great Logan, so when do we eat?" Emilia asked
" Right now."
"Alright, but please show us the table."
"Right sorry, right over here."
They all sat down to the meal that Logan had made.
" Logan, do you know what a clock face looks like?"
"Sure."
"Well, pretend this plate is a clock face and tell me what's on it."
Logan proceeded to tell Emilia and Max where everything was, and than they all ate. After they were all finished, Emilia stood up.
"I'm going to bed now. Max you can find your way by yourself, and Logan, don't help her."
Max and Logan were argueing. Max didn't want to go to that "School", but Logan insisted.
"Fine, I give up! I don't care anymore!" Max yelled
"Max, I'm sorry you feel this way, but you don't know how long you'll be this way, and you need to get help."
"Fine, like I said, I don't care, call that doctor fried of your, and tell her I'll go, under one condition, you come with me."
"Like I wouldn't come with you, but whatever you say."
5 HOURS LATER
Max felt herself being led through a doorway, and than a smaller doorway. She knew Bling was leading her, but if it was someone else, she would have no way of knowing. God, she felt like such a child (she hadn't been able to find the bathroom earlier at Logan's). Soon she was directed to sit down. She obeyed, what else could she do, it wasn't as if she could fight her way out. She sat for a while, feeling vounerable, than a new voice greeted her.
"Hello, you must be Max. I'm Mark Tyson, but you can call me Mark."
"O.K. Mark,"
"Why don't you come with me, and I'll introduce you to one of my friends," Mark replied.
Max than felt a hand on her shoulder leading her to another room.
"Max stay here, and I'll go get my friend."
Max heard him walk away.
"What so I'm just supposed to stand here?" Max thought to herself.
Soon Mark returned, this time with another person.
" Max, I'd like you to meet Emilia Wolfe. She will be helping you while I go talk to your friend Logan, oh and Em, be nice." Mark said
"Of course Mark, you know how I am," Emilia replied.
" Hay Max. So you new to all of this?" Emilia asked.
"Yah, I feel so... so lost."
"I know how you feel, I felt that way before I came here."
"You blind too?"
"Blind as a bat, and have been most of my life. I came here when I was 7 and now I help others the way Mark and the others helped me, you know how to get around, do everyday things, and read."
"How can you read if you can't see?"
"You've never heard of braille?"
"No, is it hard?"
"Well all it is, is raised bumps, but it gets easier with the more you read."
"Do you mind if I ask how you went blind?"
" No not at all. I have R.P. Retinitus Pigmentosa, it's a disease of the retna, and congenital cateracts, both cause blindness, and both are incurable, so I am totally blind. How did you go blind?"
" Car accident. I took a header off my bike and slammed into a tractor-trailer truck."
"Ouch. Well enough talk. Let's get down to business. Since you don't have a cane of your own, you can use mine, you'll need one for yourself ASAP, but for now mine will do. Now take it, and put it in the hand you write with, and put it an arm's length out in front of you."
"Tell me just why I'm doing this?"
"The can e will be your eyes. You use it to feel what's in front of you and to feel if the ground is rough or smooth."
"Oh sorry, I just feel really stupid doing this."
"Well, you don't have to worry about e seeing you do something dumb, because I can't."
"O.K. I guess I didn't think of it that way."
"So Max how old are you?"
"19 and you?"
"I'm 14. Max may I ask you a personal question?"
"It depends."
"What do you look like?"
"Well, I'm about 5'6", with dark curlyish hair, and olive colored skin."
"What color are your eyes?"
"Um, Dark brown."
"Oh, O.K."
"Why do you consider that a personal question?"
"Well I don't know what I look like, so I figure people might feel strange telling me what I can't tell them."
"I'm sorry I can't tell you what you look like."
"Don't feel bad the only thing I can really "see" about you is your curly hair, I don't know colors."
"How old were you when you lost all of your sight?"
"Well, I came out visually impaired, and it just went downhill from there, until I was 3, than I couldn't see at all."
"I'm sorry"
"Don't be."
MARK'S SCHOOL: 3:30
"How about introducing me to your friend?" Emilia asked.
" How will we got out there without help?" Max replied.
"Oh, I think I can manage."
"Sorry I forgot you can get around on your own."
"Just put a hand on my shoulder, and follow."
Emilia led Max out into the other room. Max was amazed at how easily Emilia moved around. Her movements were strong and sure, much different than Max's stumbling.
"Hay Lisa, could you tell me where Max's friend is?" Emilia asked a person Max didn't even know was there.
"Sure sweetie, 4 steps to 2 O' Clock, than stop." The voice of Lisa replied.
Emilia turned slightly and walked some more. 1,2,3, steps, than Max heard Logan.
"Max, you're here!"
"Well Lisa was wrong, it was 2:30 not 2:00." Emilia said.
Logan wheeled himself up to the young girl leading Max. She was obviously blind, because of the long white cane she carried, but she was very independent.
"Hi, I'm Emilia, and you are?"
"Logan. I'm a friend of Max's."
"Nice to meet you. Here comes Mark, he'll probably want to talk to all of us, so I won't leave just yet."
"How can you tell?"
"He's the only one with that funny walk."
"I see you've met Logan, Emilia." Mark said
"Yah, I guess I have."
" Well you talk to him while I discuss something with Max."
"Sure Mark. So Logan, how did you get in a wheelchair?"
"You could tell?"
"I'm very observant."
"I got shot."
"Oh, sorry for upsetting you."
"You didn't upset me."
"Listen Logan, I may not be able to see, but that doesn't make me deaf. Your tone alone told me that you are not comfertable discussing this topic, so why don't we get a new one."
"You are very observant."
"Why thank you."
While Emilia and Logan were talking, Max and Mark were discussing the idea he had.
"Emilia has been teaching here for 6 years, and I have never had a better student. She knows so much, and is great with people. She can really help you deal with what you have. I was thinking about her going to stay with you, until you feel comfertable on your own." Mark said
"Well, I can't really say, because I'm staying at Logan's, so it would be up to him, and Emilia, because she is the one that would have to make the changes."
"Well, how about we talk to them then,"
"Logan, Emilia, can you come here please? Max and I have something to ask you."
"Mark thinks that it would be a good idea if Emilia came to stay with us until I can do things myself." Max said.
" Well that's fine with me, but it's really up to Emilia."
" You mean it, I can come stay at your place, I mean I haven't even left this buliding since the Pulse, of course I'll go!"
"Well than it's settled. I'll have Lisa pack up your things and get them in Logan's car."
As Emilia walked away from the school, she closed the door on one part of her life, and a new one. She didn't know where she was going, but she wasn't afraid, no she wasn't afraid at all, was she?
LOGAN'S PENTHOUSE: 8:30 P.M.
"All right, Logan, and Max too, time for some "Blind 101"." Emilia said as soon as they had entered the apartment.
"Logan, take me down the center of each room, and point out all the obstacles. If you want to move something, move it now, and than don't move it again, or crash" Emilia
Logan took Emilia into each room, and told her where everything was. She felt each thing, and seemed as if she was making a map of the apartment in her head.
"Well that's it," Logan said after they had been into each room.
"Max and I are now going to go to our room, and I am going to get aquatinted with where I will be staying,"
She and Max went into their room. Emilia took out her cane; ad slowly went around the room clockwise. She found a dresser, a nightstand, and two beds.
"Max, do you want the bed in the corner or near the door?" Emilia asked.
"I'll take the one in the corner."
"Now, let's go find Logan. I hope I can remember where the kitchen is."
"We could always call for Logan, and he could take us there."
"Max do you want to become independent, or do you want Logan leading you around for the rest of your life?"
"O.K. we'll do it alone."
"Great, come on."
Emilia found Logan in the kitchen cooing something that smelled wonderful.
"Smells great Logan, so when do we eat?" Emilia asked
" Right now."
"Alright, but please show us the table."
"Right sorry, right over here."
They all sat down to the meal that Logan had made.
" Logan, do you know what a clock face looks like?"
"Sure."
"Well, pretend this plate is a clock face and tell me what's on it."
Logan proceeded to tell Emilia and Max where everything was, and than they all ate. After they were all finished, Emilia stood up.
"I'm going to bed now. Max you can find your way by yourself, and Logan, don't help her."