Zero Alignment

The Injury

 So, you just might be wondering, 'Gee, Charlotte. What did you do to injure yourself?'

 Two words: Roller skates. I had just been minding my own business, standing at the vending machine to try and get some water, when somebody comes speeding past me and hooks their skate with mine, knocking us both down. The other person escaped with a mild rug burn, while I got stuck with a spiral fracture on my tibia (just Google it-way too blech to describe). So, no walking for three months. Fun stuff.

 Sometimes I just go back and replay the scene over and over again, imagining how things could have ended differently. How if I had just been a couple inches closer to the vending machine, I wouldn't have had a broken leg. How if I had just sat down and not gone roller skating, I wouldn't have had a broken leg. How if I didn't have a broken leg, I might not have ended with a broken heart.

 But, since I was holed up all the time and couldn't hang with my friends as much, I became kinda emo and started listening to stuff like I Write Sins Not Tragedies by Panic! At The Disco and Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance. Yeah...... That was an exciting time to be my mom. 

 I realized that I actually was pansexual during this time period, too. That was probably one of the worst things. My dad is a total homophob, hence the reason why I'm sure as hell not coming out to him. My mom says that she supports gay people, but I don't think she necessarily wants her children to be anything that's not straight. So, imagine having not one, but two homophobic parents at the age of fourteen when you discover you are actually in love with a person of the same sex.

 Good luck to me.

 And it's not like I could tell them while injured. I mean, telling them will be hard enough. But telling them with a broken leg? That's just not smart. What if they completely hate you because of that? It's not like you can just get up and walk away from them. (And that's mainly because it's not like you can get up and walk.

 So I decide to text Nora. (Who else would I text?)

Mint🍃: The best of the day before I get a follow back on my way home from work to be the first half of the day before I get a job and the rest of the day after a long day at the same thing to say I have a great way of the day I have a great way to the gym today.

(Yeah, we call each other herbs so our parents can't tell who we're texting. It's smart. I'm Mint, Nora is Basil, Hannah is Parsley, and Lauren is Rosemary.)

Basil💚: ??????

Basil💚: new phone who dis

Mint🍃: Just keep pressing the suggested words in the middle with a few variations.

Basil💚: I don't think that I have a great way of saying the government of national unity and I don't think I might have been the same thing to say I love it and it was the best of the day I will never get tired and hungry but I'm still not sure what I was a good time with the new version is better to be the first half of my favorite part of the year and a lot more.

Mint🍃: I'm pansexual get a follow back on my way home from school tomorrow and I'm still not sure what I was a great way to the gym today and it was the best thing to say I have a great day for the next few months and the rest of the best of the day.

Basil💚: We have to go back and I don't think that I have a great update is the only thing that would make it a lot of fun to use it for a few years back on my way home now and I don't think he was the best of the game is on my face and the rest of the world is full and the rest of the time of year.

Basil💚: Wait- ur pan?!?!

Basil💚: y u no tell me?

Mint🍃: I just did

Basil💚: Awww, my baby is all grown up!

Mint🍃: Stahp

Basil💚: She's going to grow up and go to college and get married and have lots of babies!

Mint🍃: No stahp my mom will read that and flip

Basil💚: And she won't flip over the whole pan thing?

Mint🍃: Nvm I'm deleting this entire conversation.

Basil💚: So I can say whatever I want?

Mint🍃: Nuuuuuu don't do this to me!

Basil💚: I wanna marry you and make babies with you!

Mint🍃: Okay first, you physically can't make children with me, we're both chicks. Second, you got Rosemary

Basil💚: Parsley can have her I wanna make babies wit chu 😘😘😘😘😘

Mint🍃: Srsly?!😊😘🤗😘😘😘

Basil💚: Jk,jk, chill fam

Mint🍃: I'm just teasing

Basil💚: I gtg ttyl

Mint🍃: KK luv ya

Basil💚: luv ya too, bye

Wow, I loved her.

It's a shame I had to delete the only evidence that she loved me back.