Can You be Trusted

Chapter 9

Kellins pov

I fall asleep in her arms, it's a new day now. I'm still on the cotton covered white couch but the blankets are new. I love the blanket that covers me, keeping in the warmth. It's red and black with sparkles. I try sitting up but a sharp and dull pain shoots through my entire body. Guess I'm stay here today. On this couch. Yep. Not moving.

The clock says that's it's 1:33pm. Sigh.... I wonder why no one is here. But of course just as I think that a head pops around the corner, it's vics mum. "Arr good you're awake, I was starting to worry." she chirps. Why would she worry, I feel better than I have in a long time other than the pain right now. "Oh" she steps into the room " I've reduce the amount of pain medication so you might feel a bit sore today sorry." I lift up my eyebrow. Uu huh. All questions answered. That's why I wasn't in pain the last couple of days. They must have put it in my food or something. Arrrrrr okay?

"Also I made vic go to school today since it seemed like you'd be asleep all day, which is pretty close," she looks at the clock. "He'll be back in two hours till then you've got me." she walks out of the room and comes back with papers. A BIG stack of papers.

"Haha, yeah, I got big eyed too when I saw all of it. And ready for the big news, you have to do some too." gulp great, I glad that they did force me to do math and english as a form of torture, If I got a signal question wrong out would come the whip, ruler or whatever else they felt like and I would make sure I knew the answer for the next time. This is the only reason why I knew how to write and spell.

"Okay, so this paper is to determine if you can go to school and or what level you are at. Now I can't help you with this. Nothing bad will happen to you no matter what, Okay, you have an hour" with that she hands me the paper. It looks like it 10 pages thick. You know without the threat of torture if I got something wrong I actually enjoyed the english bit. That was the first bit done, next, I was on the math, these questions are much easier than I've become use to. Okay done with that, still not my favorite doing math but when you get the answer nothing feels better. I turn the page. Tears threat to break free, I can't do this, I know nothing. Geez, I've only heard the word science a few time. Okay, okay, calm down, break up the question, nope nope, this isn't working.

To my sweet relief vics mum places her hand on my shoulder and says "it's fine if you can't do it, just write whatever you know and move on."

I take deep breaths and get back to it. I completely skip science, next is history. I can only write a few sentences before I move on, some of the books I had to read as about war so I think I know a little. Geography out of the question, now way. And with that I'm finished.

Looking at vics mum trying to get her attention to tell her i'm finished. Writing is about as much movement as I can manage. She's pretty focused on whatever she is doing. Ummmm urh

Tap tap. My pen taps against the paper, it makes a noise just loud enough to get her attention.

"sorry, wow finished, okay" she grabs my paper, sweat drips from my face, I hope it's good enough. "Finished in forty minutes" she tells herself as she writes on the cover of the paper. She opens it up and starts reading.

It takes her 15 minutes to finish. Next she grabs a different folder and starts writing in it. "Okay, you are amazing at english and math, I have no idea what conditions lead to that but you're amazing top it, you'd be top of your class in them if you went to school I think. I'm really proud of you." warm feels inside. Urg these are complements, are they are so nice. A smile reaches the ends of both cheeks. I'm so happy she liked it. " now I think you know that you areas that need work. Science, geo and history, you only wrote things in history. Why is that?"