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Chapter 8: You Can't Take It Back
It was so weird...as if my legs just quit working. I then remembered what happened before I passed out. Are my injuries from that incident really this great? I can't just sit here! I still have things to do! "Just push through the pain." I said to myself. "You've been through worse." I painstakingly attempted to move my legs. With every small movement I felt nothing but soreness. I gritted my teeth in agony. I finally got my legs swung over to the side of the bed. I braced myself to get up and stand. My feet made contact with the floor and I felt an explosion of throbbing. "Push through it." I said again to myself. I tried standing up; but my legs gave in before I could even get halfway off the bed. I fell to the ground, bonking my head exceptionally hard. Midna swiftly drifted to me.
"What happened?" She asked with concern.
"I fell while trying to stand up." I told her.
"You can't stand up…" She said. "Both of your legs are broken…it'll be a miracle if you can even walk again."
Rose walked into the room with a wheelchair. "If you want to know the truth…you will likely be wheelchair-bound from now on."
My mouth dropped in shock. "There's no way…that I'm wheelchair-bound…"
"It's true." Midna said. "You have at least 30 fractures in your legs." My eyes widened in astonishment.
A man named Tyler came in and grabbed the wheelchair. He pushed it over to me. "I'm going to lift you into this thing, okay?"
"I can do it myself!" I yelled. I tried to get up and into the chair, but I collapsed again. "Fine." I said regretfully. Tyler lifted me into the wheelchair with difficulty.
Once I got comfortable, I began to move myself around. Marie walked into the room.
"Rose…" She said.
"Yes, Marie?"
"If Midna wants to, can she and I make a pie together?" She asked.
"Sure." Rose replied.
Marie looked at Midna. "That sounds fun! Alright!" Midna said.
"Yay!" Marie said happily. Midna and Marie left of the room.
Tyler looked at the clock in the room. "CRAP! I have to go!" He said with panic. "Sorry about leaving so quickly, Rose…I have a date with Tiffany in 10 minutes."
"It's okay…I don't need any more help. Thank you." She responded.
He rushed out of the room. Rose began to walk out of the room almost immediately after. "Coward!" I said rudely. "You don't want to try and face me; so you're leaving!"
"Sticks and stones…" She said, and then tried again to walk out of the room. She stopped. "Only those with immaturity and a lack of understanding make fun of others." She left the room. I followed her in my wheelchair out of the room.
"If I am the enemy, then why are you helping me?" I asked her.
She turned around. "…Because…I'm not going to judge you based on what someone of your own kind has done…but mainly because you helped my cousin Marie…"
"That's it?" I said, quizzing her. "So you're just going to put yourself and those you care about at risk with helping me out? Just because I helped that little girl? How do you know that I'm not going to turn around and kill you all once I'm in better health?"
"I would think that you have a better heart than that…maybe I was wrong…" She tried to walk away again.
"And what's with these accusations that I know you?" I yelled. "We've barely met! It's a bunch of bullcrap!" She walked down the hall towards the stairs. "Hey, I'm not done talking to you! Get back here, you spoiled piece of shit!" I tried going after her when a guard came up and put a sword in front of me. Rose kept on walking and descended down the stairs.
"You will not talk to her highness like that!" He said sternly. "That is unacceptable! Plus there is a 5-year-old child here! You keep your sailor talk out of this place! You hear me?"
"Yes sir." I said while staring in Rose's direction. How I detest people like her!
"I don't know why she's helping you!" He said with a fierce look on his face. He sauntered away, not wanting to have anything else to do with me. I went back to my room and had one of the guards lift me into bed.
The rest of that day was fairly uneventful. Rose helped Midna and Marie with the pie and I sat in my room. That evening Midna came up with a slice of pie.
"Want some pie? It's good." She said.
"No." I said.
"Did you eat breakfast?" She asked.
"No."
"Lunch?"
"No."
"Dinner?"
"No."
"Come, on! You've got to eat!" She said.
I rolled my eyes. "I don't want to be poisoned, but you go right ahead. See if I care!"
Rose came into the room with a tray of green beans, chicken, and a baked potato. She laughed. "Like we'd poison you! You sure are stubborn!" She looked at Midna. "So he hasn't eaten, huh? I figured that as much, so I brought this." She put the food in front of me, sort of dropping the tray in front of me. I didn't touch it, and after nary a word whispered of her kind deed, she left the room. My stomach growled.
"HAHA! Now you have to eat!" Midna laughed at me.
"No I don't!" My stomach growled again.
"That's what we had for dinner…it was good; just eat it!" She said with irritation.
"Fine." I tried a bite. It was actually quite tasteful. "Who made this?"
"Rose." Midna answered. I spat it out.
"GROSS!" I said. "The most disgusting food I've ever had!"
"Liar! You're only saying that because you don't like Rose! I could tell because of the look on your face!" She argued.
"I'm not lying!" I yelled. Marie came up to the two of us.
"How are you, mister?" Marie smiled.
"Go away, you brat!" I said cruelly. Marie started to cry. Midna slapped me. I looked at her with extreme anger. "Why'd you do that?"
"You're being mean to that poor little girl!" Midna said with a scolding tone. She patted Marie on the back. "…Pay no attention to him…he has emotional issues…from a lack of decent relationships…" I stared angrily at her. Midna and Marie left the room.
Tyler came back home from his date with Tiffany. He came up to my room to see if I wanted into my wheelchair to "take a walk" before going to bed.
"Sure." I said. Tyler lifted me into my wheelchair and wheeled me out of the room. I looked down the hall as he pushed me. "Isn't this a dead end for me?"
"No." He said, pointing to the other end of the hall that I haven't traveled down. We went that way and came to a ramp that led downstairs. We went down the ramp. He let go of my wheelchair. "I'm sure you can manage on your own, now. Let me know when you're ready to go to bed." He walked off. I wheeled outside, only to find Rose, Marie, and Midna around a pond. It was a magnificent sight that evening, fireflies everywhere. Marie held up a frog and tried to kiss it, but Rose intervened. Sheesh! She likes to ruin all the fun!
"No, Marie…you don't know where it's been." She said.
"Alright." Marie sighed.
"Oh, look!" Midna said sarcastically. "It's Link!"
"Just stop it, Midna." I said unhappily.
"You're the one being a jerk to everyone! Get a grip!" Rose said.
A guard came up to Rose. "A man is here…he claims to know Link. Should I let him in?"
"Let him in." Rose said. A man from Hyrule came into the castle and looked around with awe. He looked anxious to see me, but when he saw me with the casts on my legs he looked concerned.