Line of Time

Learning to adapt to the change

In the days that fallowed Tina getting her sight back in a stronger version that it had been for the most part of her life. The three siblings were spending more and more time together. Lukas and Arne teaching Tina the names of colors and getting her started on visual letters instead of braille, the form that she had known her whole life when it came to reading. Tina's eyes still weren't the greatest but she could see color and figures when a in front of her, she couldn't quite see what was far away. The doctor said that she might need corrective lenses to fix that but if that didn't work she would need them for the rest of her life. It didn't really matter to Tina, she liked being able to see the things she had been only able to touch and hear about. Colors fascinated her, nature hypnotized her and seeing the people she loved brought a smile to her face. Her family and doctor were pleased to see this, there had been cases where children and adults that had regained or had been giving the gift of full sight, had found it traumatizing and to much. But Tina had had sight when she was younger and she had been alright with being blind after a while or learning the new way of living, it was the death of her parents that she had a harder time coming to cope with. It was something that was still a big issue with her but she had her family and friends around her to help and make her feel better. Her mom to calm her down, her dad to cheer her with a joke or if she really was in a bad mood, he would tickler her. Yes, even if Tina was a teenager, her dad still saw her as his little girl and she could never stay upset if her dad tickled her. Even her brothers would start having a better day when they heard their sister laugh. Her world had been for the most part of her life in darkness but she had the brightest outlook on life out of them all and now her world was just as bright as her outlook as her thoughts about it.

At school Gunnar and Mathias still brought her to classes, not wanting her to get lost in the halls or get distracted by anything that wasn't what she was studying. At lunch she tried sitting with the rest of her group but she was stopped by a few boys. All complimenting her and asking her out, hoping that she would say yes to them but Tina had never been on a date before and didn't really know how to react to a situation like this. Mathias got up and walked over, getting between her and the herd of boys. Lukas going out of the school building and joining him.

"Sorry guys, my little sister isn't allowed to date yet." Lukas said as he took hold of her arm and walking her over to where Gunnar and Arne sat waiting for them and Mathias to come and join them. The group of boys mumbled and dispersed. Lukas knew they would only try again tomorrow and he didn't understand why they wanted to ask Tina out now. She hadn't changed in the last few months to make herself more attractive or popular. All that had happened was that she had glasses and could see now. That really wasn't much and Lukas knew that these boys probably had bad intentions when it came to his little sister. He wasn't going to let her get taken advantage of so he would scare them off as many times as it took so that they would leave her alone. There were few people that Lukas trusted with his sister, trusting someone when the two of them were alone, well that was an even shorter list.

When the weekend came Gunnar asked Tina if she wanted to go to a nature park. This was something they did offend, her parents had no issue with it and Lukas and Arne didn't mind either. They knew how much Tina liked being in the open air and now that she could see what was around her, it would make things a lot more interesting for her. But now as they walked side by side down the paths that they had taken so many times before. It felt different, there was no talking, usually Gunnar would have been describing every little detail that was around them, his words working magic in Tina's mind. But now he didn't need to do that and they both took notice. Tina had been here so many times, walking in this canopy of leaves and wild beauty. But now that she was seeing it with her own eyes it almost seemed to let her down. Gunnar had used such wonderful words to describe what surrounded them on all sides. He had made everything so much sweeter than it really was. The open spaces where fairies could have played in the wild flowers and the flowing soft grass, was really just a patch of weeds and dead and dried grass. The old tree that resembled a friendly face made of knots and twisted branches and swirled truck, was actually a dead oak that sat rotting and grey in a sad little dark area in the forest. All the places that Gunnar had told her about that had sounded like the most beautiful parts of the forest were in reality the saddest and ugliest ones. Things that looked depressed and dying, things that took someone's happiness as they watched it and replaced it with depression and despair. Tina turned to face Gunnar as she stood in front of what he had told her was a quiet little stream with little fish swimming alongside them, the waters clear and smooth except for the current that moved a swift pace as if it were late to be somewhere else. This place was in fact a mudded area with flooded ponds of dirty brown and green waters. Toads and other creatures of the sort lived here and crawled and slithered in the slue of muck.