Why It's a Good Thing: Chapter 1: Alone

Chapter 3: What a Shock

the last chapter was super long! just saying. anyways, vote comment fan please!

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A micro-sized pink car pulls up to the school and I see Adam’s mom sitting in it.  She motions us to run to the car as fast as we can, but Adam can’t see the car so we have to run-walk.  “Okay.” I say. “On the count of three, we go as fast as we can... one... two... three!”  The doors fly open and we run-walk out to the car.  I am laughing, it is like a sixth sense to me, whenever I am running in rain it makes me laugh.

I see a loud flash and the pain is excruciating.  My bones feel as if they are crunching and I feel like I am set on fire.  I fall to the ground and I think, “I’m dead... I’m dead... I’m... dead.”

The next thing I know, I am waking up in a hospital.  The first thing I do is scream, my whole body is numb and all torn up.  Not cut open, but my skin... it’s all burnt up.  A nurse runs in.  “Hello.” She introduces herself.  “I am nurse Gwen, or nurse Katernem.  You got pretty beat up, didn’t you?” She asks.  She waits for response.

My whole body is numb so all I can manage to say is: “Yfs.”

“Oh, sorry, if forget you were numbed.  Well, you have been out for a whole week.  We have numbed you because if you weren’t, it would be bad.  Not as bad as when you were struck though.”  She is young, probably in her early twenties.

“Wow.” Her eyes get wide as she stares down into her clipboard.  “You have never been in a hospital except being born, and you have never had any huge injuries... Funny because the first time you have been in a hospital it’s because of being shocked by lightning.

I laugh, but I don’t really understand what she says.  I want to say something but I’m numbed, so I can’t.

“You got a third degree burn on your wrist.” I glance down at my wrist, there is a ginormous brownish-my-skin-color mark going all around it.  My other skin looked pretty well compared to my wrist.  “Your skin is pretty nicely healed besides that.  Some brain damage, a bit of amnesia, your heart got quite a shock out of it but settled down more quickly than we all thought.  Everything on the outside of you is intact and working well.  However your eyes were damaged and unless they go back to usual, you may need glasses.  We all think that you will need glasses but sometimes surprising things happen.” She stops to take a breath.  “You also have some nerve damage.  Do you want to see an example?” She asks.

I am afraid of what she might do to show me.  I hesitate, then nod.  

“Okay.” She begins.  She holds up one hand.  “Wiggle your fingers like this.” She moves her fingers one at a time... pinky, ring, middle, and index. 

I try.  All of them move except my ring finger.  I try to pull it down with my other hand and it only goes about a fourth of the way.  It won’t budge.  I give her a look of bewilderment.  She smiles and says “Nerves.”

I drift into a sleep, it’s too much for me to handle.  

“Miss Fara, you have some visitors.” I wake up to nurse Katernem’s voice.

I sit up and my bones are aching.  “Ah...” I groan.  “Okay.” The numbing medicine must have worn off.  

“How are you feeling?” The nurse asks.

“Absolutely dreadful.” I reply.  And I do, I feel sick all the way to the end of my toenails.  

“Like, throwing up or what?”

“Like, I got struck by lightning a week ago, I’m not gonna feel like throwing up.  Sore bones.” I explain.

“Oh okay, well... do you want me to bring them in or have them come back later?” She may talk a lot, but she is a very nice nurse.

“Who?” I ask.

“The guests.” She repeats to me.

“Oh!” I remember. “Yes, bring them in.”

They enter but only one of the four is familiar and that is my mother.  The three others are two women and a teenage boy.  “Hi Julissa, I heard you woke up for the first time a couple of hours ago.” My mom says this in the kindest voice possible.

“Yeah.” I say, all of the numbing stuff wore off.  “I’m getting scanned for lots of stuff today.”

“Wonderful.” My mom says.  “I’ll let you talk to your other visitors now, but I’ll stay right here.”

A few seconds later on of the women walks up to me, I sit up. “Hi Julissa, I had everyone in the class sign this card... It’s for you to get well soon.” She seemed a bit nervous around me, but I would be too if I were to go visit a random stranger in the hospital.  I wouldn’t know anything about the person.  She takes a couple of steps back while I read the name filled card.

“Thank you.” I say in return to the card. 

She nods.

Next comes up the boy and the other woman.  The boy’s eyes are open but he uses a stick to guide him...  “Why do you do that?”

“Do what?” He asks, like this is some kind of joke.

“That.” I say, making emphasis that I am looking at his cane, I reach out and tap it.

“It is so that I know if I am going to step on something or fall.” 

“Why?” I ask.  “Can’t you just look down?”

He sighs with exasperation.  “I’m blind.”

Blind is when you can’t see. I think to myself and then my brain snaps alive.  I flash back to when he fell out of the tree.  Back to everything that happened that day.  Opossums.  “Adam.” I say and everyone in the room is happy.  I give him a big hug and smile. My bones are extremely sore.  “Miss Benna.” I say to her.  She waves back.

I know everything again, Adam’s blindness, my teacher... everything.

Over the next few days they give me tons of tests and we consider things like my full recovery or being re-taught things.  They call my brain the Miracle Mind.  They decide that I will be going back to school in a couple of weeks.

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