Chapter 6
A few days later, Melanie invited Stephanie over her house. Stephanie was so excited.
As the car stopped, Melanie came out to greet her friend. She looked really pretty in a denim skirt and a purple t-shirt with a butterfly on it. Stephanie grinned as she climbed out of the car.
"Hey Melanie!" she said, hugging her friend. She waved goodbye to Danny, and then the car pulled away. Melanie led Stephanie inside her small home.
The door led them into the kitchen. A short woman with long blond hair looked up from the sink, where she was washing vegetables. "You must be Stephanie. I'm Gina, Melanie's mom." Stephanie shook Gina's hand. "Pleased to meet you." She said.
They went into Melanie's room, which was decorated with leopard print things, and chatted for awhile. Then they went downstairs to the computer.
Melanie slid into the computer chair and took an extra chair out for Stephanie. Melanie logged on to the Internet and AOL Instant Messenger, and started typing in the address bar. Steph strained to see what she was typing. she read. Melanie hit the Enter key and a brightly decorated webpage popped up on the screen. The headline read ABILITIES MELANIE: HELPING DISABLED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. Below was an introduction.
"Hi! My name is Melanie and I am 13 years old. I have cerebral palsy Spastic Diplegia. I know what it's like to have a disability, so I want to help you. I will put disabilities up on this website for you to look at and to learn about them. Don't see the one you need? Drop me an email and I will gladly answer PERSONALLY. Thank you and please take a look at my guestbook." Even farther down the page were all kinds of disabilities, some rare, some common. Most of them Stephanie had never heard of.
Melanie then showed her the other pages of the website. The disabilities went on to a second page, there were at least five other different pages for things like disability news, disability articles, and another page dedicated to cerebral palsy. Stephanie turned in awe to Melanie, who was smiling. "Cool, isn't it?" she said. Stephanie nodded.
"Its awesome!" she answered. Melanie blushed. "Yeah, I've been working on it for over a year now. I've helped a lot of people with this site, just by giving them advice." Stephanie looked impressed. "Wow." Was all she could say. Then an idea dawned on her.
"Melanie…..you could change the world with this website! You could educate people about disabilities! You really could change the world!" Melanie's eyes lit up. "We could put on a presentation for the elementary school! That way kids will be educated about disabilities!" They high-fived. "Oh yeah!"
A/N: Sorry about not updating for so long! I had a bad case of writers block. Anyway, as those of you who have visited my website may have noticed, I am basing Melanie's website on my own. If you haven't visited my site yet, the URL is Please sign the guestbook on the site and tell me what you think of it. Oh and btw I am thinking of changing the name of the story-and the summary. The new title will be Us Against the World. What do you guys think of the name? Anyway I'm kind of rambling on (just like Danny Tanner! Lol) so I'd better stop here. Thanks to all my loyal reviewers!