Walking

Blue, red, blue, red

Blue, red, blue, red. A man walked up to me. "Try to lay still" two men more came up to me. "It will be okay, just lay still" they took my shoes off. "It will be okay just a moment more"

The blue and red blinks were gone. I laid in an all-white room. My cheer close was gone and I was wearing a blue t-shirt. My mom was sitting beside me. "Dr. Jones, Dr. Jones! Sweetie, are you okay" My mom took my hand. My legs were numb, "almost I think". "Mrs. Chester, yes I see your daughter is awake. Are you okay - Madison" "yes". "Madison? We have looked at your legs. Your right leg is broken, which means that you won't be able to play sports in at least a year" "What, you can't mean that!" "I'm sorry, but I, unfortunately, can't let you cheer" "this is ridiculous, it happened all the time, I'll be better in a month or two!" "Maddie! Can you please leave for a second Dr. Jones?" "Yes, just call for me, and I'll be right back". He left and I and my mom were alone. "Maddie, I have talked to him! He can't do anything to speed the process up" "weres dad? And Archer!" "Dad promised to drive Archer here after the game, he's just waiting to get off work" "Fine" 

A fucking broken leg! If just Stacy had learned how to catch. 

"Baby! Are you okay!" Archer and my dad came in. And Archer had a little teddy bear with him, he gave it to me. It was so sweet of him. "Yea I'm fine", "good, that's the most important, right?" "I guess so" I moved in and let Archer get a seat on the bed. My mom and dad walked down to the cafeteria, and when they came back they had a coffee for each of us. A while after I fell asleep with my head on Archer's arm.

The next day we got to go home and the same afternoon the cheer team came by. We mostly just signed my plaster. For dinner, Archer and his mom came by with some dinner and they ate with us. After dinner, Archer and I went up to see a movie, but he had to leave, so I watched the rest with my little sister.

"Here! See right there you can paint, or play guitar!" My mom was trying to find me an activity that I could do after school. "Yea - just sign me up for that" "you don't even listen to what I say! I could put you on the computer science team and you wouldn't know before you stood in a room full of computers!" She was right, but I didn't care. I wanted to do cheerleading, and it was my passion! "And you don't listen when I tell you what I want!" "You know I do, but you also know what Dr. Jones said!" "That I had to move on and find a new sport" "just think about it, at least" "fine! But will you drive me to The Fales?" "Yea, then I can talk with Tracy in the meantime"

"But you don't want to at least try painting?" Archer looked at me, from across the room "do you think it's a good idea?" "Yea - I mean you're good at it, and you don't have to move around" "Hmmm, I'll sign up then I can always cancel" he jumped up on the bed. "Kiss me babe" I hugged him and kissed him. 

"Hi, everyone, my name is Stella, and I'm going to help you if you have any questions please ask them" A woman in a big purple dress stood in front of me. She had brown hair and was maybe 30 years old. "Today I would like you to match up with another student in the class please" Nobody knew each other so we just found a random person. I was with a girl named Isla. She was actually really sweet to me, and we had a lot of fun. Today we should make a collage that we thought described us. I put lots of pictures in, of me and Archer. "Wow, yours is really pretty! Whos that?" "Emm - that's my boyfriend, Archer" "Do you have a boyfriend?" I asked Isla. "No - I don't" We just glued in silence. 

"Hey, Isla? Do you want to come home to my house?" I asked her after class. "Yea! I would love that, I just have to call my dad then" When we walked home, we just talked about, why we started in art class. She told me, that she just loves to paint, so that was why. And I of curse didn't tell her that I didn't even want to be there. 

The next week I went back to art class. I really had fun with Isla, and last time I got her snap. "Isla!" "Maddie!" I sat down beside her. "I thought you wanted to see where I live? Maybe after art class" It really sounded fun. But Archer and I had a date after. "I'm sorry I cant today. Maybe tomorrow?" "Hmmm!" She nodded. "Okay, guys listen up!" Stella walked out of the supply room. "Today I want you guys to team up with another student than last time!" I found a boy in the back. He was tall and had Black puffy hair. His name was Jason. I and Jason had to make a little tile collage, each. He's got really pretty, it looked like the ocean, light blue in the top and darker blue in the bottom. Mine was just a mess. I Just used some tile and didn't think much of it. But I and Jason didn't work that well together, I just didn't feel any teamwork. Isla and I worked well together.

Archers white car pulled up beside me "hi love!" "Hi" it was so sweet of him to pick me up to know I couldn't drive, with my leg. "I have a gift" he raised his brows, "oh, a gift?" I handed him the tile collage. "Wow, you made it?" "Yea! We all had to make these collages" On the way home we just talked about the football team, I really missed them. 

It was so unfair.