Under The Stars

No School!

It hard to even walk around for the next few days. I could make my way around the house easy without tripping, but outside was different.

Mum and Dad encouraged me to go for a walk everyday with Liam so I could get used to everything. I'm telling you, people in movies who were blind always made everything look so easy.

But really, life sucks when you can't see.

The school gave me and Liam a few weeks off school to get used to everything.

I don't understand why Liam didn't have to go to school, but I'm not complaining. Liam was actually very helpful the past few days.

He helped me prepare our meals together, and helps me with my homework. We were learning braile together every afternoon.

Sometimes I feel really lucky to have him. I bet the school misses him.

He is probably the most popular kid at my school. I don't know why.

In fact I'm surprised one of the football jocks isn't the coolest kid in highschool.

Liam doesn't play a sport but he is really fit.

He looks a lot like me, and it's so annoying that I can't see his face.

Mum and Dad have been begging me to see someone to teach me braile. Maybe even go to a school for blind kids. I hated that idea. Go to a whole different school just to make me feel less like a freak? No thanks.

Even though things have been pretty fun with Liam, I missed Hayden. I think the school gave him only a few days off school.

I hadn't seen him since his birthday. I always wondered why he wouldn't see me. I didn't do anything wrong.

"Let's watch TV." Liam said, leading me into the lounge. "Oh wait.."

I sighed.

"Nevermind. Let's do something else." Liam said realising what he said. It's not that I couldn't watch TV.

I could. In fact I wanted too. But I knew it would be hard. Even if it was one of my favorite shows where I knew every line, I couldn't watch like that.

"It's okay," I said, feeling for the stair railing. "You can watch. I'm going to rest."

I heard Liam sigh. I knew my way to my room from the lounge so I made it within 10 seconds.

I put my hand on my bedside table, looking for my phone. Since my old one had been wrecked in the accident, Dad went and got me a new one yesterday.

I didn't see the point. I couldn't see the screen to do anything anyways.

Dad had told me about a new settings on my phone. He said it was made especially for people who were blind or who had trouble with their eyes.

All you had to do was turn the mode on an instead of pressing buttons you use your voice to tell it what to do.

I thought it was pretty weird at first, but only started to like it this morning.

And then just this morning Dad came home with a weird little cane. Or maybe it was only weird because I was feeling it wrong. Dad told me it was mine. He said it could guide me around when no one was with me.

I didn have anything against the small cane except for the fact that is was going to make me look like an old lady. But obviously I didn't say that to Dad

The first thing I did with my phone was put in Hayden's number. I didn't know if he still had the same number as before but I thought I might as well try.

I told him that I was alright, and that I wished he would just come to see me.

I wanted to go by his house the other day, but Mum thought it would be better if I stayed home before going out into the world like I wanted.

"Going out into the world." Those were her exact words. How stupid.

I had to see Hayden. It would kill if I didn't hear his voice.

I knew I was disobeying Mum when I left this morning, but wanted to be with Hayden so bad. I wanted to ask him why he suddenly didn't like me anymore.