SLADE
Saffy was so tired and slept almost all of the time which was another thing that changed before the accident she would wake me up in the middle of the night and just as I was drifting back off to sleep she would kiss me or tickle me and go "No sleeping" in this cute girly voice that drove me wild.
She spent eight weeks flat on her back completely still and another eight weeks in this awful body cast. It was the worst time of my entire life watching the person I loved most going through this living hell, knowing it was my fault and not being able to do a damn thing about it. I hated not being able to hold her in my arms or even sit on the bed next to her. We had always been very touchy feely not like slobbering all over one another but comfortable with each other.
I had thought that things would get better once Saffy went to rehab but things got even worse. Saffy was real independent it was one of the things I found so neat about her; that she knew all this stuff and would do what ever she felt like no matter how crazy and then all of a sudden she couldn't and was restricted in everyway imaginable.
SAFFY
The accident changed a lot of things and not just between Slade and I.
Elton has become my saviour. Before, he was Slade's preppy older brother and we spent most of our time trying to annoy, he was the butt of most of our jokes. Since the accident he's been like a godsend he and Slade recorded my favourite tunes onto minidisk so I could listen to them more easily, got me books on tape from the library and video's to watch when I'm on my own. The best thing he's done is give up his beloved laptop, it was the latest model and he used it all the time but he's given it to me and even set it up so it's voice activated. I cried when he gave it to me; it was one of the most thoughtful things anyone's ever done for me.
His and Slade's mom visits me at the weekends; she's a pretty cool lady for a mom! It's good to have someone to do girly stuff with because my friends from school don't really visit much and when the do it's pretty awkward. She's been really nice offering to style my hair; doing my nails and helping me choose what clothes to wear. The other day she even waxed my legs, it was great, I couldn't feel a damn thing!
Slade's been great too. He visits me every day even when he has cricket or rugby practice after school. He sits with me for hours trying to make me laugh, the other day he brought me dinner, fish and chips and cookies and cream flavoured ice-cream which happens to be my absolute favourite things to eat in the whole wide world. He even fed me making a big joke out of the whole thing doing aeroplane noises and putting ice cream on my nose. It's the first meal I've enjoyed in ages and it's the first time we've both laughed in a long time, it felt so good…