You're Different || Jimmy Darling

Chapter 51 Picking Up the Paper

Melanie's POV
Ever since Jimmy got his wooden hands things actually started to look up. Everyday I would help him with whatever he needed and along the way we learned together how things would work out and how we could figure out a system between the two of us. Since that week and a half since his hands it was a dark time. Life decided to put all the rain and storm into our lives. That week when Jimmy was recovering every time I saw him my heart seemed to shatter into a million pieces. Just seeing the love of my life like that was basically torture. I tried to stay stong and be there for him or else the two of us would be broken. I helped in almost every human way possible. I always changed his wrist wraps and fed him and even wiped his you know what. It has definitely takeing a toll on both of us but that didn't change the fact that we loved each other to death.

Just thinking about how I took for granted his touch and the way he would cup my face or snake his hands around my waist just the touch of his skin against mine was something I was always gonna miss. Just everything about his hands I missed, his hands had to be one of the most beautiful and unique parts of him that I loved. They were the one thing he didn't have to worry about when he was with me because I didn't find it disgusting or abnormal, I saw the beauty in them.

During that week Rita had decided to stay at camp and be here not only for Jimmy but for me so she could monitor the babies more often. I actually loved that idea because I was so afraid all of this stress would lead to something else wrong with the babies too. Everyone tried their best to help Jimmy but he refused to talk or even see anyone except for Rita and I. The rest of the bunch was either dead or off on their own journeys leaving this cursed freak show the fastest they could. We had lost so much and that even broke my heart even more to think of the first day when everyone was so loving and kind to me and that they actually liked me and now they were dead or fleeing.

Elsa was on her way to the road of fame trying to dump this place the fastest she could, Im not surprised she would do this to us because you know "its all about Elsa". The Twins had just gone off the chart and decided to runaway off to the city where they had seen the famous doctor successfully separate those two twin baby boys. Paul also had run off with his lover the lizard girl. She had been new here but with all the things going on with Jimmy I didn't even get to introduce myself to her. Legless Suzi also had run off leaving almost nothing behind. Desi had also run off with the man she deserved and she even sent a post card of a family photo she had taken of her and her new man as she held her pregnant stomach. I had been so happy for her, maybe our babies would someday met and even possibly have play dates together.

But everyone else was dead just completely murdered and dead, all in cold blood...

Throught the week I had always had in my mind, who had bailed me out? It was always lingering in my head till I finally put two and two together, it was only one person who was up to this...Danny. He must have been there the night I shot my father and Maggie. He must have set up the whole thing and even wanted to frame Jimmy for Eve's death.

Elsa was able to pay off the bail for Jimmy but he now had a record, there was almost little to no chance of him ever getting a good job around here anymore and even less of a chance with wooden hands. Nobody is gonna ever accept him like I do. So far Danny hasn't come around and the Freak show had officially run out of business literally. Every time I had gone into the big tent I would shout hello but no one would respond back because there was no longer anyone here anymore. Now it was just Jimmy, Rita, and I. We were all left alone in this huge place all by ourselves.

At this point there was no where else to turn but to my mother. As much as I hated the idea Jimmy needed better conditions to be in and with the babies on the way we needed a nursery and have an actually place for them to grow up in.

It was early in the morning and I had just finished feeding Jimmy his last spoon of oatmeal. Jimmy had finally found the strength the move back into the trailer which I too had been missing a lot lately. I got up to go wash the bowl in the sink purposely leaving his mouth dirty so he could at least start to try and practice daily things now that he had his wooden hands. Obviously certain things even with his hands he couldn't do but now there were some options open more than not have no hands at all.

"Mel, you kinda forgot to wipe my mouth." He said still sitting at the table with his mouth dirty with some oatmeal pieces.

"Baby you gotta start trying to do stuff one your own, there is no harm in trying." I said looking back at him as I continued to wash the bowl.

He frowned and tried inching his wooden hand closer to the paper on the table. He tried to move his wrist like the doctor had told him so that he could open and bend the finger joints so he could actually grasp things.

Once I had finished I rested my hand on top of my belly feeling the small bump that had already started to form. I barely even took notice sometimes because it was something so natural for me to do, almost 2 months in the making at this point, I just couldn't believe we were almost mid way into August.

As I turned around I gasped at what I saw.

"OH MY GOD JIMMY! You did it!" I screamed in excitement as I saw him successfully grab the paper as he was slowly dabbing his mouth clean.

"Yeah I guess I did..." He said smiling as he pulled the paper from his mouth.

I quickly walked toward him sitting in his lap as I hugged him tight wrapping my arms around his neck pulling him close to me.

"I knew you had it in you baby! I love you..." I said pulling away as I quickly pressed my lips to his. He wasn't expecting it but slowly pulled into it and I could feel his wooden hands hold my waist as support.

"Well we all have to start somewhere. I just knew I couldn't give up...I couldn't let you down or the babies down even myself." He said pulling away as he rubbed his hands against my back soothingly as we pressed foreheads together.

"Dont worry Jimmy, this is a new chapter, a new beginning, a new life, you were given those hands for a reason and we will jump over every obstacle in our way, we will learn together along the way." I said looking into his big brown eyes as I then looked down toward my small bump.

I knew things were gonna get better, now it was just time to face my dreadful mother. What fun that was going to be.