Aiden POV
Mr. Schue had told me what happened, and I knew Colin was home when I came home after basket- ball- practice, I ignored my parents' and my big brother Eric's greetings as I stormed off to Colin's room and knocked the door, one time, two times, at last, at the third, Colin rip the door open.
"What?" He asked rudely, I just glared at him and stepped inside his room, and close the door after me.
"You slushied Jonah Carmichael." It wasn't even a question- I knew he did it. Colin just turned around and started riffling in some old magazines laying on his desk. I grabbed his shoulder and turned him around.
"Yeah so what?" He asked me rudely.
"So what, so what is that you could have killed him."
"Yeah right." Colin just snorted. I grabbed his shirt and pulled him, and between my teeth I fizzled to him.
"If you or one of your friends ever slushie Jonah Carmichael again. I will personally make sure you are all expelled from McKinley, you could have killed that guy today."
"Slushies don't kill."
"If your heart is already crashing, and an attack can be triggered by cold, it can. So I don't want you anywhere near that guy ever again. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
"What's going on?" Our dad came into the room, he forced me to let go of Colin. Colin was just glaring at me- but hopefully he had understood that I wasn't joking, as I stomped out of the room.
Leah POV
At Friday it was yet again time for rehab, coach Beiste and Mr. Schue were still coming along, instead of my parents. I was able to hold on to the rails and lift myself up from the chair, that's what I did today, I was determined that today would be the day that I walked this whole line without stumbling or falling once.
Holding steady onto the rails, I took one short step, then another, then another.
"Leah…" Mr. Schue began, I guessed that he as smiling, but I didn't dare to turn my head as I was pretty sure I was gonna fall if I did.
I made it all the way on the line. Lionel clapped for me. And I- well I was just smiling from ear to ear.
I managed to go back and forth a few times before we were done for today, afterwards coach Beiste helped me to get down in the chair again.
"So what you're doing this weekend?" Mr. Schue asked when he was driving me home.
"Ehrm… I'm actually going to sleep over at Lex's tonight… and then… well I don't know, video- chat with my boyfriend and playing with Ariel I guess. What about you?"
"No much actually. And we're here." Mr. Schue pulled over at the driveway in front of my house and got out of the car to lift out my chair from the back. "Well, have a good weekend and have fun at Lex's."
"I will, have a good weekend Mr. Schue." I wheeled down the driveway when Ariel came running from the house.
"Hey Ari." I greeted and lifted her up. "Hello Ariel, hi baby, hi." I cuddled while she started licking my face.
"Which time were you going to the Hudmel's?"
"Ehrm," I looked at my wrist- watch. "In forty five minutes so… I'm just gonna go pack a bag then." I wheeled into the house, Ariel still on my lap, she was coming with me to the Hudmel's today. I got my backpack, and packed what I needed in it, and then I laid down on my bed, scratching Ariel until it was time to go.
I looked around my room- when this house was built it had probably been meant to be for a three- person- family, it had two bedrooms, one mum's and dad's, the other Jonah's. My bedroom had been some kind of walk- in- closet until I was little. It was small, with a desk, a wardrobe, a bed and a bedside table I could barely wheel through it. I didn't mind though- when I was younger I had sometimes been really mad about my small bedroom, now I didn't mind anymore. Though it looked so much bigger now when I had taken away so much stuff so Ariel wouldn't chew on it.
I knew mum and dad had at first been planning on giving me away. They'd never tried to keep it a secret- and I couldn't blame them- as for the moment when I was born- they had a toddler they could be losing any time. But either way- of course I was happy that I had gotten to stay here. I loved my family more than anything else, and would never want to switch.
"Leigh?" Ugh, dad knew that I hated that nickname. "I think it's time for you to leave." I looked to my watch again, yep- it was twenty minutes until I was meant to be at the Hudmel's house- if I was able to walk it would take about eight to ten minutes to get there, but during the circumstances it would take a bit longer.
I hang the leash onto Ariel's collar, hung my backpack on the back of the chair and wheeled out from my room.
"Call tonight before you go to bed." I heard as I was taking my coat down from the hook in the hallway.
"Yes mum."
"No parties."
"No dad."
"See you tomorrow."
"Of course Jonah. Bye."
"Bye." I heard three different voices as I wheeled out of the house, and then down the road. I hit the first hard part when I realized the Hudmel's had porch steps, I couldn't get up on it with the chair, I couldn't step out of it, then I'd probably fall and hit my head in the door or something. A man- Mr. Hudmel I guessed came into the kitchen which I could see through the windows, I tried waving and shouting, but he didn't see nor hear as he walked out of my sight. I sighed, then wheeled over to the actual window and knocked it. After just a couple seconds Lex was shown in the door to the kitchen, then she disappeared again and came out.
"Hey." I wheeled over to in front of the porch steps again. (A/N, porch steps is the word right?) "There is no way I'm getting up there myself, and I doubt that you can help me cause you're like half my length." I smirked so she'd know I was joking.
"DAD." She turned her head towards the door again, and shouted for Mr. Hudmel. The man that had been in the kitchen earlier appeared with a women with brown hair.
"Hey Mr. Hudmel, Mrs. Hudmel, now, there is no way I'll get up the steps on my own, so… am I just gonna stay out here tonight or…" I was actually really nervous about meting these two, that was why I was joking. Dad had told me that with a bit of humor almost anyone would like you. So at least I was trying my best. They laughed, and chuckling Mr. Hudmel stepped down, and scooped me up, as Mrs. Hudmel and Lex lifted up the chair.
"Thanks Mister." I said as Mr. Hudmel put me down in the chair again.
"Please call me Burt kiddo." He shook my hand.
"Leah."
"I'm Carole." Mrs. Hudmel said.
"Leah."
"We were just ordering pizza." Carole said. "Any particular favorites?"
"Nah, nothing special. I can go with anything. May I let her go?" I asked about Ariel.
"Yes of course." Carole answered me, I leaned down and loosened the leash from her collar, Ariel immediately ran over to the other three, where she circulated around them as they all had kneeled down to pat her.
After some while, I lifted myself onto the sofa, Ariel came running and I patted her- I combed my fingers through the layers of thick, white fur. That's when that poem came to me again, I stopped my scratching, I stopped scratching, Ariel looked to me with her brown eyes and begged me to keep on scratching, I wanted to, but I had to stop and write down the poem while I remembered it, as I pulled out a notebook and a pen from my backpack and opened to an empty page.
My fingers running through
Layers and layers of thick, soft fur
A wet tongue licking my face
Getting my cheeks all soaked
Four feet tapping over the floor
The claws making tapping noises
over the wooden floor
A whipping tale
Two brown eyes
Telling me
to keep on scratching
You are mine
All mine
I love you
My Ariel
So, this chapter actually was gonna follow through the whole sleepover, but I don't really have an idea for it, so it will come into the next instead
The poem is called "Ariel" and it was the first poem I wrote for this story.
I've uploaded yet another one- shot called "daddy" please read it : )
