Ethan pov
I rolled the wheelchair I sat in, down the corridor as fast as I could. I was already multiple minutes late for glee- club, this chair had made me come late to every lesson today. It would have been so much better if I had never got in that car, than my legs would have been perfectly fine, and I would actually have slept anything tonight, and it would also be loads easier to reach up to my locker.
"You need some help Ethan?" I could hear someone ask behind me, when I tried to reach for the lock.
"Hey Hayley," I said. "Yes please." I put my hands on the wheels again, turned around, and went backwards.
"The code is 23 44," I said, she nodded, and opened the locker, I continued. "There is a blue twist folder… yeah, that one." I nodded when she pulled out my folder, she gave it to me.
"Anything else?" she asked. I shook my head.
"Ok," she closed the locker and locked it. I turned around and I started rolling towards the choir room. Hayley walked beside me.
"Hey guys, sorry I´m late, it´s this stupid…." I began when I rolled through the door to the choir room, or at least I tried to. "Damn…" I said. "Damn…. I´m stuck." The door wasn´t wide enough, and I had tried to roll in, with the chair a bit more to one side, so I truly was stuck. And I kept on twitch the wheels to try to get away.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." Mr. Schue came running, he grabbed the front of the wheels, twitched me to the left, and then pulled me into the room.
"Thanks," I said. "Sorry I´m late,"
"It´s ok," Mr. Schue clapped my shoulder. "So, do you want to tell us what happened,"
"Well, there´s not really much to tell."I twitched the wheels and laid back, so I could rest on the back- wheels. "I got in a car with a drunk driver, very bad decision. Don´t you ever do something like that." I gazed over the rest of the glee- club. "And, well, we crashed, the road was pretty empty, but Michael, the driver, he got a skid, and the car got into the ditch, after flipping a few laps, though I don´t really remember anything. Any questions?"
"How long has it been?"
"Did you have any seat belts on?"
"Ehrm, last Friday so…" I counted on my fingers. "one week and four days, and no, we didn´t have any seat belts on, though. I was the one most hurted so, I guess we were lucky."
"You were," Mr. Schue stood up and walked over to me. "You were really lucky."
"Hrm." I cleared my throat. "Ben told me it was simple plan- week, he said that it was Lex´s idea," I looked over to Lex, who nodded. "He told me, that you said it´s your birthday on Wednesday."
"Oh," she said. "I actually checked the calendar, turned out it´s on Thursday, not Wednesday."
"Ok, whatever…. Well, I´ve been listening to Simple plan a bit before, and there is a song that…. That… I knew it was about car crashes, caused by drunk driving, but I never really understood the true meaning of it until last Friday, could I?" Mr. Schue nodded, I tipped the chair forward and rolled over to the piano, Brad stood up, took his piano chair and walked over to a corner of the room, I laid my hands on the piano- keys, and started playing.
…"Hey Eth, you need a ride home."
"Sure Michael"…
…"No Michael, you´re losing control." I grabbed the steering wheel, and tried to help Michael to regain control over the car.
I groaned and opened my eyes, I was lying upside down. With smashed glass all around me.
"Michael," I tried. "Michael, you´re ok buddy?"…
…Phone ringing at the Morrison´s Ben picks it up.
"Am I talking to some kin to Ethan Morison."
"Yes, this is his brother."
"Are your parents there?"
"Dad, he asks for you," Ben gave the phone to his dad…
…."Your son have been in an accident."
"Ethan? Is he ok?"
"We don´t know yet, but we´d like you to come to the ER as soon as possible.
"BEN, JESSICA, Ethan´s been in an accident." Mr. Morrison threw the phone at the bench in the hallway…
…"I´m ok dad."…
I let the last tone ring out. Then I grabbed the wheels again, and as I stared into the floor, I rolled over to sit down in the outcasts of the group. I could hear someone come and sit next to me. Someone grabbed my hand. I looked up.
"Thanks Marcie, it helps." I said.
"There was something I wanted to show you today," Mr. Schue grabbed a bunch of papers, and walked around to give us those, he came to me at last and handed me the paper.
Lex´s pov
"This is the contracts we signed in the beginning of our time in New Directions." I said.
"Good Lex." Mr. Schue said. "It´s the contract, I let all of you, sign, and I told you that if you ever got drunk, you would call me, and I would come and give you a safe ride home. This promise still stands, but… do any of you remember what you thought when you signed this."
"I remember," Liam raised his hand. "I thought you were crazy." I smiled.
"I remember too," Marcie said, "I thought you seemed like a good guy." We laughed.
"I remember too," Hayley said. "I thought about the same thing as Liam."
"Me too," came from Connor and Jasper.
"I thought like Marcie," Tyler said.
"Me too," Anna, Alice and Amy said.
"I thought you were mad," Teeghan said.
"Me too," Johnny said. And Mariah, Aiden and Ben nodded.
"What did you think Lex?" Tyler turned his head to look at me, and so did the rest of the group.
"I remember what happened when I came that day." I said. "My dad, he, well, he beat the crap out of me. It was the day after, that you Mr. Schue, well, you started seeing that something wasn´t right." Mr. Schue nodded. "When I signed this paper," I held it up. "I didn´t really care about the drunk- part, but I thought. That maybe, someday, I would have the courage, to call you, and tell you what was going on, after I had gotten home for the day. Though, I never had the time, you figured It out before I had the time to call." Mr. Schue nodded.
"So, the thing we can say from this," Ethan said. "Mr. Schue is a bit crazy, but he´s crazy because, he cares about his students, and he´s a good guy." We laughed. "And Mr. Schue, I´m so sorry, I should have called you, but… I was drunk, and when you´re drunk, you make stupid decisions. And Ben, and all of you others, I don´t want to hear that you ever get in a car with a drunk driver."
Ben walked over to Ethan. And stretched his arms to the side.
"Oh come on." Ethan rolled forward a bit. "Of course," and then, they gave each other a hug.
"Oh," Ethan groaned. "Ouch."
"Sorry Ethan." Ben stood up fully again.
"It´s all right bro."
"Hold on a minute," Marcie looked confused, how can you two be brothers… I mean…
"You mean that I´m pale and blonde," Ethan said. "And Ben looks Asian. Well, to make a long story short, when I was born, there were some complications, and it ended up with mum getting her uterus removed. But they wanted to have more children, so the got on a list for adoption, which usually take a couple of years, but then, when I was two years old, mum and dad traveled to Asia, and they found this awesome little boy. In a carton on a side road, left there all alone, and they didn´t want to leave him, so they took him with them. And they got an adoption, and a couple of months later, haha, a very long time for a one- week trip, they came home with my little brother."
"Then I get it." Marcie nodded.
Playlist
Untitled- Simple Plan
