The Next Step:Jiley's story

Steps

James and I are just in the hospital room talking, about everything because I need to tell him just how much he means to me when my phone rings, I look down and see it's my Mom, I signal to James to be quiet for a few minutes and then pick up "Hi, Mom how're the kids?" I ask, sounding cheery "They're fine, but they're certainly missing you and urmmm," my Mom begins to stutter not knowing if James is even still alive, I just quietly laugh and then explain "James is doing fine, his rates of survival are increasing so quickly, he should be fine," I tell her before hearing a sigh  of relief, "So I can tell the kids that James will be home, because I've not known what to say when they ask and I didn't want to get their hopes up and when I said he might not come home Josh started kicking me and screaming and-" I cut her off because I feel bad hearing about how much hard work I've given them "Yeah, you can tell them he's coming home but it might not be for a while yet, nobody's sure how much blood he actually lost and how damaged his body is." I say before hearing Poppy crying in the back, it would be her, she's the most clingy and probably won't be enjoying the time away from me or James "I should go and get her, she's been crying all morning, talk to you later." and then the line dies, so I turn back to James and remember Piper's texts, she deserves to know that he's doing far better. "James, can you put your thumbs up so I can get a picture to send to Piper?" I ask him, knowing he'll do anything for me "Yeah, sure. But why?" he asks, I just laugh and then tell him "do you have any idea how worried Piper has been?" I ask him because I know that he probably hasn't thought about how broken this accident has made his family, he shakes his head so I decide to explain "She was sending me texts all last night, she was really worried. So I just want to tell her that you're doing better." he nods and then poses for the camera so I quickly take the photo and the send it to Piper captioning it with "You'll be glad to hear that James is doing better, he's functioning like an almost normal human." we are always joking about how useless he is and it's good to have something to laugh about. Almost instantly I get a reply and it says "Glad to hear it, tell him that I love him but not when he irritates me." I giggle to myself and then look up to see James' confused face so I show him the message and he lightly laughs with me.

After a day of just talking about anything and everything a doctor comes in and checks on his wounds, to see how long it might be before he can leave. "Can you try and stand up?" James gets asked, I know that this terrifies him but I don't say a word, he needs to walk sometime, why not now? "Ermmmm, if you think I can do it." James says sounding very uncertainly, the doctor just nods and then holds an arm for him to lean on, James slowly swings his legs over the side of the bed and grabs hold of the doctors arm, he then looks at me and I just nod then he begins to put weight on his feet and straighten up, his face drains of colour and he wobbles but manages to stay on his feet, he then  begins to put one foot in front of the other and walks all the way to the chair in the corner of the room, I'm so prod of him, a huge grin spreads across my face and then he collapses into the chair and tries to regain some blood in his face. It's going to be a long road to recovery but at least he made it onto the road.