The next morning I had forgot my ankle had been hurt and, when getting out of bed, yelled out when putting weight on it. I sat on the floor rubbing it. Then, slowly and carefully, pulling myself to a standing position. I limped forward and it hurt, although yesterday I couldn't even do that so it was improving. I limped down the stairs and into the kitchen, where my parents were talking, or more, arguing about something. As soon as I entered the room they went quiet. They were talking about me obviously.
"Hi baby! What are you doing out of bed? You might hurt you ankle again." said Mum rushing over to help me to a chair.
"I'm fine Mum! It's only a sprain. I can walk now anyway…" I said trying to get her to let go of me. I sat down and looked at my parents. "What! Why are you guys just staring at me as if I was an alien!" They looked at each other and then Mum sighed.
"Your father thinks you're lying about how you hurt your ankle. He doesn't see how you could have fallen out of the window and he is suspicious about that boy who brought you home." I looked at them each in turn then I looked at Dad with a hurt expression on my face.
"You think I'm lying? Why would I lie? What do you think I did that I couldn't tell you?" Before he could even answer I got up from the table and grabbed my backpack. As quickly as I could go with my foot I left the room and went out the front door, slamming it behind me. I limped down the sidewalk heading for school. I knew I was early to leave, but with my hurt ankle slowing me down, it was probably best to leave early. Maybe if I got there early I could ask the couch if I could sit out for a little while, because of my ankle. While I was thinking about that I didn't notice that someone was walking behind me. Someone's hands grabbed my waist and I was worried that it was Nariyuki at first, but then I heard a familiar voice that was most definitely not Nariyuki's.
"Hey Yuki, you're out early…" I turned around as quickly as I could without falling over. Standing behind me with a big grin, was Akinori.
"Oh… hi Akinori… yeah, um… my parents were getting one my nerves so I left early…" I said looking at him. I couldn't help but act a little shy around him now.
"What were they doing that was so bad that made you leave so soon?" he asked, taking me hand in his. I blushed furiously.
"Nothing too bad… I've just been having a bad weekend and they were just the last straw." I saw his confused face and remembered that we had went on a date during the weekend and quickly added, "Sunday, I mean. Saturday was wonderful." I was relived to see him smile. He held my hand and started to walk down the sidewalk towards school. I tried to walk without limping, but that just made me fall. Akinori turned around in surprise and leapt down to the ground beside me.
"Yuki! Are you okay? What's wrong?"
He pulled me to my feet and I quickly said, "Nothing, I'm fine. I just sprained my ankle yesterday… I… um… fell… but I'm fine. I can still walk… sort of…" I start to limp and then feel myself being picked up.
"I'm going to bring you to the nurse. That ankle is in bad shape." Akinori stated, starting to walk forwards, towards school. I was going to protest, but knew it was pointless, so I just leaned my head against his chest and enjoyed the ride, and his warmth.
When we got to school I was surprised at how many people were already there… and that were staring at me and Akinori. I felt my face heating up and I knew I was blushing. When we entered the nurse's office Akinori sat me down on the examining table. When he sat me down our faces were vary close together. We stared into each others eyes for a little while, and then started to slowly move towards each other. Then the door opens and me and Akinori quickly pull away and turned to look at the stunned nurse.
"Sorry kids, am I interrupting anything?" she asked, peering over her moon shaped glasses. I felt me cheeks burn and wouldn't have been surprised if I had saw a red glow coming form them. I looked at the nurse and smiled nervously.
'How embarrassing!' I took a quick glance at Akinori and saw him looking just as embarrassed as I was.
"So what seems to be the problem?" she asked coming over to me.
"Nothing! I'm perfectly fine! Now if you'll excuse me…" I was about to clime of the table but Akinori stopped me.
"It's her ankle. She sprained it but won't admit that it hurts. She can barley walk." He said.
"It doesn't hurt that much! Compared to yesterday, this is nothing! I couldn't even walk on it then!" I looked at the nurse and she looked at me. She looked at my leg and held it out. Then she held my ankle. I tried not to whimper, because then the battle would be lost for sure.
"It is swollen. What did you do to it?"
"Um… I fell out the window… then our neighbor's dog got loose and I had to run from it, which made it worse, and then I had to jump over a wall and then landed on it." They both looked at me in surprise. "It was a little wall… more like a fence if anything…" I added, so it wouldn't sound so crazy.
"Well I think you should go home and not come to school for two days at the least so your ankle has some time to heal. I'll go and call your mother." She walked from the room without saying another thing.
"Um… I'd better get to class…" said Akinori shyly. I nodded and looked down at my ankle.
'Curse you, you traitor!' I wanted to say to my stupid ankle, but I didn't because Akinori was standing right there in front of me. He turned and walked out of the room and I was left in there all by myself. I suddenly heard my cell rigging in my backpack. I grabbed my pack and pulled my cell out. Someone had sent me a message.
It said, "Do you want to go out when your ankle is better?" it was from Akinori.
I smiled to myself and sent back, "I'd love to"
