Line of Time

Regaining a sense and a Life

As years went on they all had earned a reputation in their school. The Nordics was what they were referred to when spoken between classmates when less than the five were present. The Viking five was what the older grades feared, because when they banded together they resembled four angry mean Vikings all rallied around a blind girl. Usually most people would run and hide when the four boys joined together when Finn was in tears. Everyone in the school knew the results, even the teachers would step back. They knew Tina was a strong girl but it took a lot to make her cry and when she did and the boys came to her rescue, most of the teachers thought that the kids that had caused her tears, probably deserved to get a beating from them. Though the teachers would step in when they saw that things were going to far.

Once they had gotten to high school, the merry band of friends had stuck together. In a new place now, Lukas walked his little sister through the crowed halls as he already knew them well. He didn't have as bad of reputation as Mathias but he was a special case... After the first day, Lukas realized that Mathias or Gunnar were in Tina's classes, so he trusted them both with a very special job that they couldn't mess up or forget about. To make sure that Tina got to her classes until she felt comfortable with finding her own way, he told them even when she was ready to do that, to still keep an eye on her. Lukas had grown to become a more protective big brother because something good was happing to Tina. Her sight had started coming back, it wasn't a lot but she could find certain things in the darkness that filled her world.

At lunch when the five of them ate together outside, under a big oak tree. They found Tina being the first one sitting there, it was usual to have her be the first one to arrive since she was usually slow due the lack of sight and confusion that the hallways gave her, when she used echolocation.

"Hi Lukas." She said not looking away from what she was trying to find in the grass.

"How did you know it was me?" He asked as he sat down in the grass across from her with his lunch.

"I know what your walk sounds like." She said with a smile.

"So you know what everyone's walk sound's like?" He asked, suspicious of her claim. She nodded. And perked her eyes to new footsteps coming closer.

"Mathias far left and Gunnar far right." She said as they all heard and were a little shocked to what they heard, she was right.

"You have a superpower of something?" Mathias said as he sat down next to her and swung an arm over her shoulders.

"No and your sitting on my leaf collection." She said as he moved and reviled a pile of yellow and red leaves.

"Why are you collecting leaves?" Lukas asked as he bit his sandwich. 

"Because their pretty... " She looked at the pile and focused her eyes with great effort, her hand hovering over a few of the bigger leaves, then picking one up.

"Red, right? . . . "She said as she held it up, hoping that she had seen the correct color flash.

"...Yeah..." Lukas said in shock and amazement that she had gotten the right color and was able to see it.

"Thought so... it's still a hard one to make out though..." She admitted.

"Well what colors are easy to see for right now?" Mathias asked. She blinked her eyes a few times, she usually kept them closed because she couldn't see anything but now she had to work hard to try and focus on the limited flashes of colors she was starting to see.

"That one.... and that one." She said as she pointed to the sky and a left in her pile.

"Yellow . . . . . Blue." Lukas said as he pointed her hand to the leaf and then the sky. Her smile bright with the refresher in memory of what colors looked like.