LOVE ME BLIND

Ava Lee

"She can't go to school like that!"

"Like what?, Sam?,"

"Are you aware of her situation?"

"Yes Sam I am, so why does that have to stop her from going to school?, can't she use her ears?, she is going to school Sam".

I'm not sure whether my parents are aware that I can hear them, or maybe they think being blind makes a person partially deaf as well.
It hasn't even been a day since I came back from the hospital and they were fighting over my situation.

11:00pm in the night, my sister is sleeping and I think my parents think I'm sleeping as well.
Their room is across from mine and I could still hear them, maybe my hearing got better whilst other things  got worse.

Personally I wouldn't mind going back to school again.
I am just worried about how I would be getting my way around without the ability to see.

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The night mares began that night when I began to dose off.

The first thing I saw was the beaming of a bright light coming straight towards me.
It  was coming at full speed and before I could make an attempt to move I was hit by the source of the flashlight.
The force of the hit caused me to bang my head on the hard concrete ground.
I let out a piercing scream from the  shock and pain that I had experienced in that short moment.

"Ava"

"Ava"

"Ava, please wake up you are dreaming".

I sat up in my bed with haste as I opened my eyes, I couldn't see of course.

My chest was moving up and down and I could feel the sweat that had formed on me, I could feel my mum's tense grip on both sides of my arm.

"Honey are you okay?"

I shook my head indicating to her that I was fine.

"Oh Ava, did you hear that?, you screamed, I think your voice is coming back"

So the screaming part was real, and I think on the night that I was hit it happened exactly as it did in the dream but I still don't have my sight back.

"Ava, say something please", my mum whispered as she stroked my face with her hand.

"M...m....mmomm", my voice came out as if I was being suffocated, my throat was painful from trying to push the words out but for me it was progress.

My mom dragged me forward into her chest as she stroked my hair, her body was shaking up and down and I could tell that she was crying.
"Yes, darling Ava everything is going to be fine".

"Don't worry, about a thing cause every little thing is gonna be alright".

I was now crying along with my mum as she sang the Bob Marley song, rocking us back and forth, it made me smile as well at how comforting and soothing her voice was.

The shock that I had received in the dream had fluctuated down and I was not longer in pain.