Thanks so much for all the reviews. And I apologize for taking so long with this chapter. I had a horrible case of writers block and everything I wrote sounded really dumb. But I got over that and here is the next chapter...Enjoy!
Reminder: In simple forms...I own NOTHING I write in this story.
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Ethan could barely sleep at all that night. How could Kate do something so mean? Why did she do it? Why did it have to happen so close to the Olympic trials? Where the questions that ran around in his mind all night.
He finally fell asleep, only to wake up about three hours later around 6:30.
"I wonder if there is anything good on TV now." He thought as he got out of been and went downstairs to the TV room.
He picked up the remote and began flipping through the channels. He sighed when he found out there was nothing on except cooking shows and infomericals. He then got up and went over the the stack of videos on the side of the TV.
"Ah cool...I guess I can watch "Bad Boys" again." Ethan said to himself as he pulled the video tape out from the bottom of the stack making all the other movies fall on the ground beside him.
"Ahhhhh...." He then began to mumble under his breath as he starts to stack the videos back up. He then picked up a blank tape and looked at it.
"I wonder what this could be." He said as he then took it over to the VCR and put the tape in. He then sat back down on the couch and saw himself and Ellie at the Ice Rink from about eight years ago, when he and Ellie were about nine years old.
"Hey Ellie." Their fathers voice came, he was obvisously the one holding the camera. Ellie, who was on the ice looked up at the camera. "What are you doing?"
"Ice skating!" Ellie's little cheery voice came out.
"She going to win a gold medal!" A young boys voice came and the camera suddenly turned and it showed Ethan skating towards his sister.
Ethan smiled as he watched the rest of the home movie. The rest was mainly Ellie and Ethan skating around the rink. Finally it was over and Ethan turned off the VCR.
"She will win a gold medal." He told himself. "I'll make sure she will."
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Around noon, Ethan went with his parents back over to the hospital to check on Ellie. They went up to the floor that Ellie was on and ran into Dr. Rolins on the way up.
"Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Craft." She said as she saw them. "I was just about to come call you. Please come with me to my office."
They all followed the doctor in her office which was very clean and neat. They all sat down as the doctor pulled a file out of her desk.
"We took this x-ray about four hours ago." Dr. Rolins said as she showed them her file. "Since then she does not seem to be showing any sign of brain damage. Ellen woke up this morning and was able to walk fine, she was able to change her clothes and brush her hair."
"So she will be alright?" Mrs. Craft asked.
"Well, as you can see there is some swelling around her temples which as I predicted, is affecting her memory." Dr. Rolins said as she showed them the place that was swollen in Ellie's skull. "Her nurse reported that she can remember things like her family and where she lives, but when we asked her if she remembered what happened last night she did not know."
Ethan looked up. "So how bad is it?"
"I don't know." She told them. "But I am going to let you take her home today, just to see if she can remember things if she is in her normal routine."
"Will she remember things like how to ride a bike?" Mr. Craft asked.
"Once again, I am not all that sure." Dr. Rolins said. "She will remember in time, but until then, go slow and everything."
"Thank you doctor." Mrs. Craft said.
They then went up to Ellie's hospital room and saw her sitting on the couch with her arms folded in the clothes she had been wearing the night before.
"Ellie, are you ready to go home?" Her mother asked as she gave her daughter a hug.
Ellie nodded. "Yes, and get some real food to eat."
Mrs. Craft laughed. "Alright sweetheart."
The next morning, Ethan drove Ellie to school. Ellie insisted in going to school that day. She hated doing nothing at home all day. Her parents had called the school and told them about Ellie's problem, so the teachers knew if she did not understand something very easily.
Ethan parked the car. "Ready?" He asked his sister.
Ellie sighed. "Yeah."
"Hey Ellie, if you need help with anything today just come get me alright?" Ethan told her.
"Thanks Ethan." Ellie smiled as she got out of the car. They both walked into school and soon met up with Lizzie and Miranda.
"Hey Ellie." Lizzie smiled.
Ellie looked at her a moment trying to remember her name. "Hi...Lizzie." She finally answered. She then turned to Miranda. "Hey Miranda."
"Hey you remembered both their names." Ethan sounded proud of his sister.
"Of course I do." Ellie said. "There only my two best friends in school."
"So, Ellie..." Lizzie began. "Miranda and I are going to help you get around to your classes today. Is that alright with you?"
"Yeah, thats fine." Ellie said. She had a feeling that it was going to be a long day.
"So how is she doing?" Claire asked Ethan later during lunch.
"She is remembering a lot." Ethan told her and everyone else who was listening. They all acted very friendly toward Ellie that day. "But as far as ice skating goes...I have no idea."
"Do you think she will still have a chance at the Olympics?" Mary asked him.
"I don't know. I hope so." Ethan said with a sigh.
"Hey Ethan, sorry we were so mean to your sister." Claire said shyly. "It was really low." There was a chorus of "yeah" and "we're sorry" from the whole table.
"It fine." Ethan said. "But you know, don't say you're sorry if you don't mean it."
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Ellie got into the car at the end of the day. She hated that day. Every talked to her like she was two years old and she had felt so stupid in her classes. She could not remember anything about what they were going over, or understand what half of her notes meant. She was glad the day was at least half way over. She was not all that excited about going to her ice skating lesson later that day.
Ethan stopped the car outside of the Ice Palace. Ellie grabbed her sports bag and got out.
"Hey Ellie." Ethan called as she began to walk towards the doors. She turned. "Want me to stay here with you?"
Ellie nodded. "Yes please."
"Alright." Ethan said as he went to go park the car.
Ellie went inside and slowly changed into the black pants and red shirt she had brought for her lesson. She was so nervous to get back on the ice. Her parents had told her that was how she had gotten hurt and why she couldn't remember a lot of things. But she finally decided to get back out there.
Ellie walked out of the locker room and put her skates on. She then went over and met her coach, Timothy Wilson. Timothy had been an Olympic contender back in 1998 in the Men's Figure skating and placed overall fourth.
"Hey there Ellie." He smiled.
"Hi Timothy." Ellie said slowly, hoping she got the right name.
Timothy nodded. "So how is your head? Your mother called me on Saturday and told me about your accident."
"Its better." Ellie said. "I don't know how much I remember about skating though."
"Well you can at least try and see what you can do." Timothy told her. "But you do know why you are doing this, right?"
"Yeah." Ellie said. "My mother told me I was going to the Olympic trials in like six weeks."
"Well, do you remember your routine?" Timothy asked and then she just shook her head. "Well, why don't we just get out there and see what you can do?"
Ellie nodded in agreement. She then followed her coach out onto the ice and began to skate around.
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"Hey Ethan." Ethan heard as he sat in the bleachers watching Ellie skate. He turned and saw Lizzie climbing up to where he was.
"Hey Lizzie." Ethan smiled as she sat down. "What are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to come and see how Ellie is doing." Lizzie told him. "She was really worried about it eariler. I guess I just wanted to come see how she was doing."
"That was pretty cool of you." Ethan said as he then turned back to the rink and watched as Ellie began to skate around the rink backwards.
"Thanks." Lizzie said smiling a bit. She still had a crush on Ethan, but it was a bad idea to be crushing on your friends brother.
They were silent while they watched Ellie as she just skated around the rink. So far, she remembered all the basics, but then came time to see about the spins and jumps. They watched Ellie begin to gain speed and then push off into the air attempting a double axel, but she did not land it very well. They then watched as Ellie try it again and again and again...and each time she got better at it.
"I guess this is all like second nature to her." Lizzie observed.
"Yeah, but she still has a lot of work to do if she even wants to go to the trials." Ethan sighed. He then watched Ellie go into a triple toe jump but she then fell right out of it.
"Ouch." Lizzie said. "Do you think she will have enough time to work all the problems before November?"
"I sure hope so." Ethan said.
Lizzie had noticed that in school and when Ethan was around his friends, he was pretty dimwitted, but when he was talking to her, he was actually pretty good guy. She then looked at Ellie who was on her knees in the middle of the rink where she had fallen. Lizzie had been watching her and begin to think of a way that she could probably help Ellie get back in the groove of skating.
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Ellie fell to her knees when she fell out of the triple toe she was trying. She just shook her head.
"Not bad!" Timothy encouraged her. "Just remember, you need to go into the jump with your head up and shoulders back or you will fall out of it."
Ellie nodded as she got back to her feet. She wanted to go home. She wished there was a time machine so that she could go back in time so that her head injury would not have happened. She just wanted everything to be back to the way it had been before her accident.
For the rest of the week, Ellie went to school feeling stupid and constantly being talked to like she did not understand English. And then she would go to training. She hated it and wanted to quit ice skating all together.
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~Does Ellie pull through and begin to remember stuff again? Or does she throw everything away and just give up? Or do her friends help her pull out of her problem and help her get to the Olympics? Review and you will find out.
Reminder: In simple forms...I own NOTHING I write in this story.
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Ethan could barely sleep at all that night. How could Kate do something so mean? Why did she do it? Why did it have to happen so close to the Olympic trials? Where the questions that ran around in his mind all night.
He finally fell asleep, only to wake up about three hours later around 6:30.
"I wonder if there is anything good on TV now." He thought as he got out of been and went downstairs to the TV room.
He picked up the remote and began flipping through the channels. He sighed when he found out there was nothing on except cooking shows and infomericals. He then got up and went over the the stack of videos on the side of the TV.
"Ah cool...I guess I can watch "Bad Boys" again." Ethan said to himself as he pulled the video tape out from the bottom of the stack making all the other movies fall on the ground beside him.
"Ahhhhh...." He then began to mumble under his breath as he starts to stack the videos back up. He then picked up a blank tape and looked at it.
"I wonder what this could be." He said as he then took it over to the VCR and put the tape in. He then sat back down on the couch and saw himself and Ellie at the Ice Rink from about eight years ago, when he and Ellie were about nine years old.
"Hey Ellie." Their fathers voice came, he was obvisously the one holding the camera. Ellie, who was on the ice looked up at the camera. "What are you doing?"
"Ice skating!" Ellie's little cheery voice came out.
"She going to win a gold medal!" A young boys voice came and the camera suddenly turned and it showed Ethan skating towards his sister.
Ethan smiled as he watched the rest of the home movie. The rest was mainly Ellie and Ethan skating around the rink. Finally it was over and Ethan turned off the VCR.
"She will win a gold medal." He told himself. "I'll make sure she will."
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Around noon, Ethan went with his parents back over to the hospital to check on Ellie. They went up to the floor that Ellie was on and ran into Dr. Rolins on the way up.
"Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Craft." She said as she saw them. "I was just about to come call you. Please come with me to my office."
They all followed the doctor in her office which was very clean and neat. They all sat down as the doctor pulled a file out of her desk.
"We took this x-ray about four hours ago." Dr. Rolins said as she showed them her file. "Since then she does not seem to be showing any sign of brain damage. Ellen woke up this morning and was able to walk fine, she was able to change her clothes and brush her hair."
"So she will be alright?" Mrs. Craft asked.
"Well, as you can see there is some swelling around her temples which as I predicted, is affecting her memory." Dr. Rolins said as she showed them the place that was swollen in Ellie's skull. "Her nurse reported that she can remember things like her family and where she lives, but when we asked her if she remembered what happened last night she did not know."
Ethan looked up. "So how bad is it?"
"I don't know." She told them. "But I am going to let you take her home today, just to see if she can remember things if she is in her normal routine."
"Will she remember things like how to ride a bike?" Mr. Craft asked.
"Once again, I am not all that sure." Dr. Rolins said. "She will remember in time, but until then, go slow and everything."
"Thank you doctor." Mrs. Craft said.
They then went up to Ellie's hospital room and saw her sitting on the couch with her arms folded in the clothes she had been wearing the night before.
"Ellie, are you ready to go home?" Her mother asked as she gave her daughter a hug.
Ellie nodded. "Yes, and get some real food to eat."
Mrs. Craft laughed. "Alright sweetheart."
The next morning, Ethan drove Ellie to school. Ellie insisted in going to school that day. She hated doing nothing at home all day. Her parents had called the school and told them about Ellie's problem, so the teachers knew if she did not understand something very easily.
Ethan parked the car. "Ready?" He asked his sister.
Ellie sighed. "Yeah."
"Hey Ellie, if you need help with anything today just come get me alright?" Ethan told her.
"Thanks Ethan." Ellie smiled as she got out of the car. They both walked into school and soon met up with Lizzie and Miranda.
"Hey Ellie." Lizzie smiled.
Ellie looked at her a moment trying to remember her name. "Hi...Lizzie." She finally answered. She then turned to Miranda. "Hey Miranda."
"Hey you remembered both their names." Ethan sounded proud of his sister.
"Of course I do." Ellie said. "There only my two best friends in school."
"So, Ellie..." Lizzie began. "Miranda and I are going to help you get around to your classes today. Is that alright with you?"
"Yeah, thats fine." Ellie said. She had a feeling that it was going to be a long day.
"So how is she doing?" Claire asked Ethan later during lunch.
"She is remembering a lot." Ethan told her and everyone else who was listening. They all acted very friendly toward Ellie that day. "But as far as ice skating goes...I have no idea."
"Do you think she will still have a chance at the Olympics?" Mary asked him.
"I don't know. I hope so." Ethan said with a sigh.
"Hey Ethan, sorry we were so mean to your sister." Claire said shyly. "It was really low." There was a chorus of "yeah" and "we're sorry" from the whole table.
"It fine." Ethan said. "But you know, don't say you're sorry if you don't mean it."
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Ellie got into the car at the end of the day. She hated that day. Every talked to her like she was two years old and she had felt so stupid in her classes. She could not remember anything about what they were going over, or understand what half of her notes meant. She was glad the day was at least half way over. She was not all that excited about going to her ice skating lesson later that day.
Ethan stopped the car outside of the Ice Palace. Ellie grabbed her sports bag and got out.
"Hey Ellie." Ethan called as she began to walk towards the doors. She turned. "Want me to stay here with you?"
Ellie nodded. "Yes please."
"Alright." Ethan said as he went to go park the car.
Ellie went inside and slowly changed into the black pants and red shirt she had brought for her lesson. She was so nervous to get back on the ice. Her parents had told her that was how she had gotten hurt and why she couldn't remember a lot of things. But she finally decided to get back out there.
Ellie walked out of the locker room and put her skates on. She then went over and met her coach, Timothy Wilson. Timothy had been an Olympic contender back in 1998 in the Men's Figure skating and placed overall fourth.
"Hey there Ellie." He smiled.
"Hi Timothy." Ellie said slowly, hoping she got the right name.
Timothy nodded. "So how is your head? Your mother called me on Saturday and told me about your accident."
"Its better." Ellie said. "I don't know how much I remember about skating though."
"Well you can at least try and see what you can do." Timothy told her. "But you do know why you are doing this, right?"
"Yeah." Ellie said. "My mother told me I was going to the Olympic trials in like six weeks."
"Well, do you remember your routine?" Timothy asked and then she just shook her head. "Well, why don't we just get out there and see what you can do?"
Ellie nodded in agreement. She then followed her coach out onto the ice and began to skate around.
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"Hey Ethan." Ethan heard as he sat in the bleachers watching Ellie skate. He turned and saw Lizzie climbing up to where he was.
"Hey Lizzie." Ethan smiled as she sat down. "What are you doing here?"
"I just wanted to come and see how Ellie is doing." Lizzie told him. "She was really worried about it eariler. I guess I just wanted to come see how she was doing."
"That was pretty cool of you." Ethan said as he then turned back to the rink and watched as Ellie began to skate around the rink backwards.
"Thanks." Lizzie said smiling a bit. She still had a crush on Ethan, but it was a bad idea to be crushing on your friends brother.
They were silent while they watched Ellie as she just skated around the rink. So far, she remembered all the basics, but then came time to see about the spins and jumps. They watched Ellie begin to gain speed and then push off into the air attempting a double axel, but she did not land it very well. They then watched as Ellie try it again and again and again...and each time she got better at it.
"I guess this is all like second nature to her." Lizzie observed.
"Yeah, but she still has a lot of work to do if she even wants to go to the trials." Ethan sighed. He then watched Ellie go into a triple toe jump but she then fell right out of it.
"Ouch." Lizzie said. "Do you think she will have enough time to work all the problems before November?"
"I sure hope so." Ethan said.
Lizzie had noticed that in school and when Ethan was around his friends, he was pretty dimwitted, but when he was talking to her, he was actually pretty good guy. She then looked at Ellie who was on her knees in the middle of the rink where she had fallen. Lizzie had been watching her and begin to think of a way that she could probably help Ellie get back in the groove of skating.
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Ellie fell to her knees when she fell out of the triple toe she was trying. She just shook her head.
"Not bad!" Timothy encouraged her. "Just remember, you need to go into the jump with your head up and shoulders back or you will fall out of it."
Ellie nodded as she got back to her feet. She wanted to go home. She wished there was a time machine so that she could go back in time so that her head injury would not have happened. She just wanted everything to be back to the way it had been before her accident.
For the rest of the week, Ellie went to school feeling stupid and constantly being talked to like she did not understand English. And then she would go to training. She hated it and wanted to quit ice skating all together.
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~Does Ellie pull through and begin to remember stuff again? Or does she throw everything away and just give up? Or do her friends help her pull out of her problem and help her get to the Olympics? Review and you will find out.