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Chapter 8

Kennedy leaned over and picked up the medicine ball and moved to stand in the middle of the large room, where her fourteen year old burn victim waited to start her daily exercises.

"Ok Brittney, we're going to work on your hand reflexes today, okay?"

Brittney smiled reluctantly as she pulled her scared hands from behind her back, and Kennedy's heart went out to her small patient. Brittney, being one of the few none sports related patients, had been in a horrible house fire and barely escaped with her life. However, the terrible burns she received on her upper body had damaged most of the nerves in her arms and hands. Her poor face was a map of raw scars and unless you looked into her eyes you'd never know what she was feeling.

Kennedy fought hard to not let her frown show, knowing the mental torment of becoming a teenager when looks are so important, and wishing that she could help the girl more. "Don't worry, honey, I know you can do this. Just let me know when we are pushing too hard."

Brittney nodded, and cast her eyes downward, a sign that she was struggling with herself and what Kennedy wanted her to do.

Kennedy stepped forward, she was dying to take the teen into her arms and reassure her, but she knew she had to stay tough if she wanted to be able to continue to push her forward in her therapy.

"Kennedy." Jennifer called, walking into the therapy room, her voice sounding unsure and timid.

Kennedy turned her attention from Brittney and faced the nurse, "Yes?"

"Can I talk to you in private for a moment?" She asked, pointing her thumb to the door.

Kennedy sighed before giving her attention back to her patient with an apologetic smile, "I'm sorry. Will you be okay in here alone for a minute?"

"Yeah… Sure." Brittney answered softly, taking the medicine ball away from Kennedy and moving to find a spot she liked on the floor to play with the ball.

Kennedy turned back to Jennifer with a look that read, 'this better be good', and followed her into the hall.

Jennifer sighed, "I know you hate to be bothered when you're with a patient, but I know you'd also kill me if you didn't hear about this immediately."

"What's wrong?" She asked thinking of at least twenty worse case scenarios.

"It's Randy. He hasn't eaten anything since lunch yesterday. I've tried to get him to talk to me or scream at me, something, but he's clammed up. I don't know what else to do."

All the other bad things came to a halt in Kennedy's mind and she glanced over her shoulder at the door where Brittney was waiting for her, wondering what she should do to handle both situations. Brittney didn't want anyone else to work with her, she had been struggling with her own views of herself since the accident, and she felt uncomfortable with other people looking at her. Randy's situation worried her, especially with him not eating and refusing to respond. He had shut down, and she can't be in two places at once.

"Ok, Jennifer, will you go in and keep trying with Randy for a bit? I'm going to see if Brittney will stay a little longer today and I'll be right there."

Jennifer nodded quickly and made her way back toward Randy's room, while Kennedy walked back into the large exercise room. "I'm really sorry about the interference, but I'm having a problem with one of my other patients and I'm going to have to go see about him. Do you think you might be able to stay a little longer today?"

Brittney looked up from the medicine ball with a small nod, "Which patient are you having trouble with?" She asked, her small voice barely carrying across the oversized room.

"The wrestler, Randy Orton. Do you watch wrestling?"

Brittney's eyes danced as she jumped up from the floor, "Randy Orton is here?"

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