Voodoo Skeleton
Chapter 1
Katie Fulton and Verena Dortfire were two completely different girls in every sense of the word, Katie was a cheerleader and liked to wear whites and bright colours with cute little skirts and tank tops whereas Verena normally wore black tops and pants or a black skirt with ripped stockings and long black knee high lace up boots. Verena preferred the arts and film to Katie and home economics. Due to their differing tastes in almost every walk of life they had almost no classes together but you could go on all day about their differences with the only thing in common being that they were both doing their final year(year 12) of high school at the same place Marrina high school. It wasn't always like this though, they used to be the best of friends in primary school and the early part of high school but when puberty struck Katie felt like Verena got too touchy feely at times and she was also getting too "weird" for her tastes as she decided she preferred to talk to girls about lip gloss and shiny shoes as opposed to horror movies and the occult which Verena was now heavily into. The loss of their union still burned deep for Verena and over the 3 years since their friendship ended she had started to lose herself in the world of witchcraft and everything supernatural in nature, she went to groups which discussed these things and created spells as well as spending all night at times on the Internet talking to people with similar interests to her. Everyday Verena was hungry for more knowledge of all things occult related and it was starting to become an obsession.
Verena had stacks of friends online and from the "witch groups" she attended but at school she really only had one friend, a girl named Carrie bickstaff, she was an extremely shy girl and was easily corrupted although very loyal to Verena which she appreciated, Carrie wasn't overly attractive with braces lining her teeth and freckles spread throughout her face with frizzy curly hair but she was a sweet girl. Verena was definitely the better looking of the two and even being such an outsider some of the guys quite fancied her as she was quite attractive in that goth way with her long black hair and a nice womanly body with great breasts that she sometimes had bursting out in a black corset along with a cute little behind, she also stood at a nice height of 5"7 with enchanting chocolate brown eyes that were just mesmerising in shape and appearance.
One day at Marrina high as Verena and Carrie stood in the hallway one of the school studs named Derek came up to Carrie and asked her if she would like to go the movies with him on Saturday night, this was highly unusual as Derek could almost have any girl in that year he was so charming and good looking, why would he want Carrie was Verena's immediate reaction. "Oh my god yes I'll go the movies with you Derek" said Carrie naturally thinking she had finally been noticed and by the school's hottest guy not realising for a second that something suspicious was going on.
"Ok great meet me outside the redding cinemas 7pm Saturday night" Derek said before giving Carrie a peck on the cheek before walking off.
"Oh my god Verena did you just see that! Derek hunfort just asked me out!" squealed Carrie.
"Are you sure this isn't some joke? said Verena
"Joke? Oh what I'm not pretty enough to go out with Derek? I'm not hot enough? barked Carrie upset from Verena's comment. Verena knew there was no talking her out of it so she just decided to turn up herself and keep an eye out for her best and only friend from school.
The day of the date came around and the clock struck 7 pm, Carrie waited outside the cinemas as unbeknown to her Verena secretly watched on behind a building nearby to make sure nothing happened to Carrie and if it did she would be there to either stop it or lend support. Shortly after 7 Derek appeared and he was alone, that was a good sign Verena said to herself, Derek greeted Carrie, took her hand and went inside. Verena was surprised, maybe she had got it wrong, maybe Derek's offer of a date was genuine, Carrie might not be the prettiest girl but she had a heart of gold and any man would be lucky to have her. She waited a few more minutes just in case then went home happy that there was finally some good occurring for once. A few hours later Verena got ready for bed, as she laid there though she was curious to see how the rest of Carrie's date went so she decided to call her and get all the "goss". After trying a couple of times Carrie finally answered and it sounded like she had been crying. "You were right" she said.
"Right about what" asked Verena thinking the date had gone well.
"Right about Derek, right about everything I'm just a metal mouthed frizzy haired loser" sobbed Carrie.
"What happened? I thought everything went good?" replied Verena
"Far from it, he took my hand on arrival and was acting all lovey dovey with me then once we got into the cinemas and sat down to watch the movie they put up pictures of me taken in the girls locker room getting changed up on the cinema screen completely embarrassing me, all the pictures had captions too like freckle head and metal mouth and they called my underwear granny panties, I just burst into tears and ran straight out, i just wanted to die when they were all laughing at me and pointing" said an emotional Carrie.
"How on earth did they get the pictures up on the screen? asked a perplexed Verena.
"Katie Fulton's older brother was the projectionist so she set it up using Derek as the bait to get me there" replied Carrie. Upon hearing this it made Verena very angry, they had utterly humiliated her best friend and they weren't going to get away with it that's for sure, her main focus would be on Katie Fulton though, her ex best friend. The next day at school everyone was still laughing at Carrie over the incident at the cinema with some heartless people even filming her leaving the cinema in tears and posting the footage online for everyone to see and it strengthened Verena's resolve even further to gain revenge for Carrie and settle an old score with Katie.
Over the next few weeks Derek and Katie started dating and couldn't keep their hands off each other in numerous displays of sickening public affection around the school grounds while Verena had a meeting after school with what could be called the "Steve jobs" of witchcraft, a woman named Saffron Tempest. It had been reported in many circles that some of her spells really worked and if she liked you could teach you more than a thing or two about black magic and the power that can go with it. After countless hours chatting about spells and potions in her bedroom Verena asked Saffron if she could set her up with a spell to cast on Katie Fulton, Saffron told Verena she could help her out but with great power came great responsibility and she had to be prepared for it. "Oh I'm ready alright" remarked Verena.
"Ok then i will give some of my wisdom" said Saffron as she wrote down one of her spells for Verena to say out loud. She handed it to Verena who repeated the words out aloud when suddenly a female skeleton appeared in the corner of the room.
"How the hell is a skeleton going to help my cause?" Verena said wondering what the hell this all meant.
"You have heard of a voodoo doll right? asked Saffron
"Yeah of course" replied Verena.
"Well this is a voodoo skeleton. It's a much more advanced version of a voodoo doll and every single bone in the human body is on this skeleton including vertebrae so if you snap a bone on this skeleton the bone of the person you intend it for will break on their body so in this case Katie Fulton" explained Saffron.
"Whoa" remarked Verena stunned at the possibilities, she could have some real fun with this.....
Chapter 2
After Saffron left Verena looked at the "voodoo skeleton". She kind of thought about giving Katie a serious injury straight off the bat but then decided no, she was going to take it slow and enjoy it, poor Katie wouldn't know what hit her she said laughing to herself. She moved over to the skeleton and snapped the the first bone on the skeleton, the pinky toe on her left foot, it was only a toe but still nuisance value and she just wanted to see if it worked too, sure Saffron was renowned for having spells that worked but as the saying goes the proof of the pudding is in the eating so she would wait and see tomorrow if it had all worked out to plan.
Verena couldn't wait to get to school the next day and arrived early so that she didn't miss Katie, after numerous people passed Katie finally appeared, she looked gorgeous with her long blonde hair glowing in the morning sun wearing a pink tank top and white shorts showing off her shapely legs with black thongs or flip flops to some on her feet, Verena studied her walking in and noticed she had a slight limp, she followed Katie in and eavesdropped on a conversation she was having with Derek and some friends. "This toe is really starting to annoy me, i was just lying in bed last night then all of a sudden it just started throbbing for no reason, i must have knocked it on something and didn't realise" Verena heard Katie saying to Derek.
"Yeah i don't know sweetie, it looks pretty swollen" replied Derek while concentrating more on nuzzling the side of Katie's neck with his lips.
"I don't know it's just one of those things i suppose" said Katie marking it down to just one of those unexplained occurrences in life. Upon hearing this Verena knew it had worked and she could now plan her downfall of one Katie Jane Fulton confident it would be a successful exercise.
More time passed at school and after a derogatory remark from Katie towards her at school Verena decided it was time to snap another bone, there was no expiry date on any of this so she was going to take it nice and slow and move up the skeleton as she went, this time she moved up to the lower leg and snapped the tibia bone on the right leg. Verena couldn't contain her excitement as she once again went to school early to get a good position.
Once again Katie was one of the last to come in, she was on cute pink coloured crutches with her right leg encased in plaster of Paris up to her knee and Derek was by her side helping her out by carrying Katie's books for her. Verena couldn't help but smile looking at Katie as she had extreme difficulty getting up the stairs to her first class, Katie even stumbled and almost lost her crutch on the last step which created a good giggle for Verena. "What the hell are you laughing at you freak" Katie barked at Verena while she recovered her crutch. Verena just looked at her and said nothing, she didn't have to, she had all the power. Once again Verena followed her and overheard Katie's conversation where once again she was telling people she had no idea how it happened and that she seemed to just break her leg out of nowhere while she was sitting on the couch which everyone thought was a bit strange as they put their signatures on her plaster cast, her toes wiggling furiously in the cast Later that day in physical education Katie cut a sad figure as she looked at everyone running around while she looked after her broken right leg, little did she know worse was to come.
Over the course of the next week Verena loved seeing Katie so restricted in her movements with the broken leg ruling her out of the cheer leading finals 3 weeks away, this day Katie had black pants on and only had the heel of the cast showing with the rest of her plastered foot covered by a delightful red sock. As she looked at Katie she noticed she wasn't smiling or having as much fun as she normally seemed to have and there appeared a strong sense of worry now in her beautiful blue eyes. By the time the week ended though Verena started to tire of Katie's broken leg and once again headed over to her skeleton. This time she decided to break the largest bone in the human body,the femur.She grabbed the enormous leg bone and SNAP!!! She realised then that she had done this on the Saturday though and would now have to wait until Monday to see her handy work with the 48 hours in between feeling like an eternity for Verena.
As sure as night follows day Monday soon arrived and so did Katie in a little blue singlet top and a pink skirt, only difference was now she was restricted to a wheelchair and she had an llc on her left leg, in fact it was completely covered in plaster from her hip down to her delightfully painted purple toes blasting out the bottom of the cast, she still had her slc as well and struggled quite badly in the wheelchair with her arms getting tired easily. Once again all her friends wanted to know how on earth she broke her other leg to which she replied that she doesn't know and it's really freaking her out as she doesn't have many limbs left to break and she had no idea how it was happening, she was now starting to get a bit frantic about the situation and people were starting to think she was going a bit loopy as well as seemingly accident prone. After seeing Katie in her wheelchair Carrie remarked to Verena that maybe "karma" was at work and Katie was being punished for being such a bitch all these years.
"It's not karma but i have to say I'm enjoying seeing her like this" replied Verena.
"Yeah it's horrible isn't it" said Carrie sarcastically as she looked at Verena. They both had a giggle as they looked at Katie in her wheelchair crashing into a bin after losing control of her wheelchair down an embankment. The school football team had a big game on the weekend and although Verena had no interest in football she made a brief appearance to see how Katie was doing, she turned up to see Katie sitting just in front of the stand in her wheelchair,her blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail and even though she couldn't perform she was in her cheerleading outfit with a blue and black striped crop top exposing her stomach with a blue skirt and blue socks covering up the feet of her casts to keep her toes warm. Verena actually thought Katie looked quite cute in her casts and was enjoying this all immensely....
Friday 27 July 2012
Wednesday 25 July 2012
Voodoo Skeleton - Chapters 3 and 4
Chapter 3
Verena continued to go to all of her occult conferences or group sessions and let slip to one of the girls there that saffron had fixed her up with a spell that was working wonders for her, strangely enough in a group of supernatural followers the girl didn't believe her which was a good thing really for Verena as the less people that know what your doing in this world the better. Back at school Verena once again started to bore of Katie's current broken bone status so she thought why not add to it, there were 206 bones in the average human body and she had only broken three, she moved over to the skeleton once again, this time she got a little carried away though and wherever Katie was she was in for a whole new world of pain.
As per usual Verena waited anxiously the next day to see her handy work, she had got a little excited and done more than she planned but it was going to be quite interesting, once again Katie appeared for school, her left leg extended out in front of her completely immersed in plaster with her knee high plastered right leg accompanying it, this time though she was wearing a dual shoulder spica cast with her body covered in plaster from the top of her sternum down to her belly button with both her arms outstretched in plaster making her whole upper body immobile apart from being able to gently move her fingers although performing that motion caused pain to shoot up her broken arms. Katie was unable to wheel her own chair now and was being helped out by her mother which was highly embarrassing for someone of Katie's nature and her standing in the school. Everyone just looked at her in amazement with her whole body now almost in plaster. Katie told everyone once again she doesn't know how it keeps happening it just does, the doctor has no idea and the only thing he could come up with was that it could be a case of brittle bone syndrome although apparently her bone density is good so he's as baffled as her. In her heightened emotional state and with her lack of mobility Derek was starting to get a bit annoyed as they now hadn't had sex for a couple of weeks. Verena looked on and smiled, she looked at Katie in all of her casts and started to get a bit turned on, she had always fancied Katie but seeing her in such a state of restricted movement was starting to awaken a side to her she hadn't discovered before...
Two more weeks passed at Marina high school and thankfully for Katie no more broken bones although most of her body was in plaster anyway so it probably didn't matter. Only worse news was to come though as she went in to get her first cast off, her right leg cast. The doctor took an x-ray and it showed the bone hadn't healed at all and was still exactly the same as it was when it was broken, it wasn't considered a serious or bad break so it wasn't operated on and it should have healed naturally. There was nothing natural about all of this though, supernatural yes but definitely not natural. The doctor remarked that he could try and put some rods and pins to hold the leg together but if that didn't work he wouldn't know what to do.
Back at school Katie told everyone her leg hadn't healed the way she hoped but she was sure given time and some surgery it would be "all good". Verena caught wind of this and decided to ring saffron up with an important question. "Hi saffron it's Verena, with a voodoo skeleton once you break a bone on it does that mean it's broken forever too on the person who is the target?"
"Yes it is Verena, the only way the person's bone can either grow back or be fixed in some way is if they either reverse the spell or find the bones that have been broken and glue them back together on the skeleton. Otherwise they are broken until the day they die" replied saffron.
"Thanks saffron" said Verena. "Anytime" replied saffron. Armed with this knowledge Verena now knew Katie was in big trouble, more than she thought and that made her so happy she almost wanted to dance in the streets.
The next week Katie went into the doctors again to check on the status of her other leg but it was exactly the same, there had been no bone growth whatsoever and that spelt trouble. In a attempt to fuse her broken legs Katie went under the knife for surgery, her legs were now filled with pins and screws and rods and she hoped it would work. She still had the plaster on her upper body so she couldn't test out her legs to see if it worked as she would have no balance, she would just have to wait till the plaster came off her arms and Katie hoped against hope they would be ok at least.
More time passed and Katie was becoming more and more agitated unable to use her arms and legs to any great extent, the day to get her upper body cast off came and she couldn't wait as it was now summer and she felt like she was cooking inside it. The plaster was cut off and yet the again the x rays showed no bone growth in her arms, she had surgery to try and fuse the bones together like her legs and it was a wait and see approach. Another 4 weeks passed with Katie going from bad to worse, she had no idea why all of this was happening and all her friends now thought she was going crazy not understanding what was happening with her and when it would end, if it would at all.
Verena had put a hold on breaking any more bones for the time being upon hearing about Katie's breaks not healing which saffron told her, she just wanted to see how that all played out before commencing the breaking of more bones. Another day arrived at school and Verena sat in the hallway to delight in Katie's mispleasure again although this day Katie didn't come to school, Verena was a bit annoyed, she was really enjoying herself watching Katie but now she wasn't here the day really dragged on, she was very curious to see why Katie wasn't here so after school she decided to head over to her house to see what was happening not expecting at all what she was about to see.
Verena arrived at Katie's place and decided to go around to her room to see what was going on, luckily the curtains were drawn so she could see right through, she moved closer up to the window and got a big shock as Katie was in bed and both her arms had been amputated above her elbows, she couldn't believe it, her arms both had white stockings on the ends which she assumed were there so they didn't get infected, just as Verena grappled with that news Katie's mother came in and removed the blanket off Katie's legs although she had none! well not her left leg anyway which had been the subject of a hip disarticulation with no stump left to speak of, her right leg feared a little better with it being amputated above the knee still but with a bit of a stump still there, Verena just stood at the window in disbelief at what she saw, Katie was now a dae,lhd and rak! She didn't do this although indirectly it was a result of her actions, she felt a little guilty and thought maybe she had gone too far but the guilt didn't last long as she took great pleasure in seeing Katie wiggling around in her bed trying to get comfortable with all of her little stumps flailing around too short to be of any real use to her. After making this discovery Verena decided to head off still stunned by what had transpired with Katie, as she made her way home Verena thought to herself she wouldn't be seeing Katie at school for a while.
More time passed and as the days rolled on there were whispers around everywhere as to the whereabouts of Katie, no one had seen her for a while and she wasn't talking to any of her friends. Everyone was talking on the lawns before class when suddenly Katie appeared after a month's absence, everyone looked in shock and horror at the sight of her, she was operating a power wheelchair with her chin and mouth with her lack of arms and legs clearly evident as she was only wearing a yellow singlet top and tiny black shorts, she still had stockings over her three stumps with the fourth being a special type of underwear designed specifically for people who have had hip disarticulations not visible with her shorts covering it. Nearly everyone in the school needed to pick their jaws back up off the ground upon seeing all of this with no-one having any idea on what to say. Katie's friends all stared at her and were just aghast at the way she looked and walked off in fright, Katie then moved her wheelchair up to her boyfriend Derek and said "You'll stand by me derek won't you? Please i need you" she cried. Derek looked at her stunned and mumbled "Umm ahh i gotta go Katie catch you around" and quickly tore off, Katie had not only lost all of her limbs but now she had lost all of her friends too. The first day back at school was a nightmare for Katie with everyone either staring at her and too scared to talk to her. Seeing her shunned by all of her friends made one girl interested in talking to her again though, a girl who was attracted to her even more so now, the girl who caused all of this,Verena Dortfire...
Chapter 4
Verena watched Katie finish off her first week of school in her new condition before she decided she was going to talk to her again, she wanted Katie to feel the isolation of having no friends before she lended her a hand in that department, Katie had to be desperate to be friends so she would be more open to Verena and whatever plans she might have. The school week ended and on the Saturday after school Verena decided to head over to Katie's place to say hello, Katie's mum opened the door and said "Oh my god Verena i haven't seen you in years, how are you?"
"I'm good thanks Mrs Fulton, i have to say i miss those apple pies you used to make Katie and i growing up" replied Verena reminiscing over old times.
"Well i still make them so you can take a piece home with you if you like" offered Mrs Fulton
"Sounds great Mrs f, is Katie up for a visitor?" asked Verena anxious to see her now
"I'm not sure, she has been through so much poor girl. You can knock on her bedroom door i guess and see if she is up for it" said Mrs Fulton. Verena knocked on Katie's bedroom door. "Go away mum" said Katie.
"It's not your mum Katie it's Verena"
"Verena??" Katie said very surprised. "What are you doing here? Come to gawk at my hideous body" added Katie.
"No not at all, just thought you might need a friend" replied Verena.
"Ok then come in" said Katie. Verena walked in and there Katie was on the top of her bed, she looked so unbelievably sexy wearing just her special black underwear and a bra, her long blonde hair running free down her back and around her shoulders.
"Oh sorry did i walk on you getting changed or something?" said Verena a bit surprised at how little Katie was wearing, sure it was a hot day but only a bra and underwear? She wasn't complaining though.
"No all good, i know I'm a freak now so no point hiding it" said Katie almost seeming to accept all of this was beyond her control now. "It's so weird though, i still feel like my arms and legs are still there and get pain from them but they aren't, apparently it's called phantom pain, just another joyous part of all this" Katie said ending in a sarcastic manner.
Verena was enthralled by all of this and her pupils were fully dilated watching Katie's stumps wiggling everywhere, something that was picked up by Katie. "Does me being like this make you wet?" she asked. Verena looked at her worrying this was a trick question and if she did say yes Katie would call her a freak and kick her out, it really did turn her on though and she thought she might as well be honest. "Yes it does Katie" Verena replied.
"God your a fuckin' weirdo. Always have been,always will be" replied Katie in apparent disgust
"You can't help what you like Katie" defended Verena. "I didn't even know i liked all of 'this' until i saw you, whatever 'this' is i guess.
"Your a disability fetishist, i looked it up after all these freaks started bugging me on the Internet wanting to see pics of my stumps" replied Katie. "You want to know something though?" asked Katie.
"Yeah" said Verena
"Ever since we stopped being friends and i started to run with the popular crowd i just felt so much pressure to be perfect everyday, always having to wear hot outfits and only ever talking to the cute guys that all the other girls in my group could only ever dream of dating, they looked up to me as their leader and it was just utterly exhausting, i thought it was what i wanted and i even thought they were my real friends but as soon as times got tough they deserted me and although what has happened to me is just mortifying it has almost made me more peaceful in another way because now no-one has any expectations of me anymore and I'm free of all the fake bimbos and i can just concentrate on being me again" said Katie surprising Verena who before now had thought the object of her affection had the emotional depth of a puddle. For a brief second she almost felt like telling Katie she was the one who had caused all of this but decided to just keep it to herself for a bit longer. They had a good chat then Verena left with her friendship with Katie now re-ignited to a degree.
The next week at school Verena and Katie continued their friendship to the amazement of the rest of the year 12 students with them all knowing that just a few months ago the two were sworn enemies. One more person who was utterly confused by all of this was Carrie, she knew Verena better than anyone and the fact she had done a complete 180 on Katie didn't sit well with her. "Why on earth are you talking to Katie" asked Carrie confronting Verena.
"Why not?" replied Verena.
"Why not? Umm let me think, oh that's right you hate her!!" said Carrie
"Hate wastes too much energy Carrie, you need to forgive and forget"
"Forgive Katie Fulton?? You must have finally gone around the twist Verena, this is just wrong"
"Maybe i have Carrie but this is the way it's going to be so if you don't like it well tough" said Verena starting to get annoyed. Carrie couldn't believe what she was hearing, what is going on in this world when Katie Fulton and Verena are suddenly best friends again seemingly overnight she said to herself, just trying to work it out gave her a headache so she didn't bother and went to her next class. "They can have each other" she said as she walked to her next class. Soon enough the end of the school year was upon the students of marrina high school with only the farewell dance planned for the Saturday after classes finished up, Katie and Verena's friendship had developed even further and they decided to take each other as their dates to the dance which raised eyebrows, Verena had a couple of offers but none for Katie with most guys having no idea how to approach her now even if they did like her, it didn't matter anyway to Katie as Verena would more than do.
The night of the dance came around and Katie wore a nice red dress once again showcasing all of her missing limbs while under urging from Katie, Verena broke with tradition and wore a dress too, she looked captivating with her body hugging a shimmering black satin dress showcasing her magnificent breasts and her legs which were utterly stunning, Katie looked at Verena and had never seen her look so good plus on Verena's feet were a pair of her stilettos she had given her seeing as though she had no use for them anymore. As the dance moved along Katie was a bit sad she couldn't dance but she wiggled her stumps to the beat of the music which really got Verena horny. "Hey do you want to get out of here and go back to my place" asked Verena. "Yeah sure babe" replied Katie.
The girls arrived back at Verena's place with Katie's wheelchair not being able to fit through the door so Verena picked her up and carried her to her room. "God your so light" remarked Verena with Katie in her arms.
"Well i kind of lost a bit of weight when my arms and legs got chopped off" joked Katie. Verena just looked at her and become so overwhelmed with passion after that comment that she just wanted Katie now, she placed Katie on the bed then asked if the end of her arm stumps had feeling. "Of course they do silly" replied Katie. Verena then removed the stockings off her arms and licked the bottom of her left stump which was still scarred and quite sensitive, "That tickles" replied Katie as Verena's tongue ran up and down the stump before moving onto her right stump, with the sensation of it all starting to get to Katie with her stumps starting to twitch a little which sent Verena into a world of delight, she lifted up her dress and with what was left of Katie's right stump stroked her underwear where her pussy was absolutely sopping and getting even wetter by the minute looking at the way Katie patted her privates with what now looked like a small paw and definitely not an arm. Katie then tried to take Verena's underwear off but couldn't get a good enough grip as she had no fingers or thumbs so Verena pulled her panties down and Katie attacked her vagina like a bull at a red sheet sending Verena into unimaginable Ecstasy, Katie's tongue was like a miracle worker knowing all the right places to kiss and lick, Verena looked down at Katie's head going up and down like a beaver on her beaver and yelled out "Oh god this is it". Normally it would take Verena quite a while to come to climax but this time it took minutes, after she caught her breath she repeated the dose on Katie who found her lost of limbs and almost state of hopelessness was a complete and utter turn on and before long she came too before they both fell asleep with gigantic smiles on heir faces....
The next morning Katie wake up and noticed a skeleton in the corner of Verena's bedroom and thought that seemed weird, she hadn't noticed it last night but as she looked at it she realised a lot of the bones broken on the skeleton were the ones that broke on her body, in fact on closer inspection the skeleton was an exact replica of her body! She sat on the end of the bed in shock at this development not realising how any of this was even possible, she was sure to find out soon though as a sleepy Verena suddenly awoke....
Verena continued to go to all of her occult conferences or group sessions and let slip to one of the girls there that saffron had fixed her up with a spell that was working wonders for her, strangely enough in a group of supernatural followers the girl didn't believe her which was a good thing really for Verena as the less people that know what your doing in this world the better. Back at school Verena once again started to bore of Katie's current broken bone status so she thought why not add to it, there were 206 bones in the average human body and she had only broken three, she moved over to the skeleton once again, this time she got a little carried away though and wherever Katie was she was in for a whole new world of pain.
As per usual Verena waited anxiously the next day to see her handy work, she had got a little excited and done more than she planned but it was going to be quite interesting, once again Katie appeared for school, her left leg extended out in front of her completely immersed in plaster with her knee high plastered right leg accompanying it, this time though she was wearing a dual shoulder spica cast with her body covered in plaster from the top of her sternum down to her belly button with both her arms outstretched in plaster making her whole upper body immobile apart from being able to gently move her fingers although performing that motion caused pain to shoot up her broken arms. Katie was unable to wheel her own chair now and was being helped out by her mother which was highly embarrassing for someone of Katie's nature and her standing in the school. Everyone just looked at her in amazement with her whole body now almost in plaster. Katie told everyone once again she doesn't know how it keeps happening it just does, the doctor has no idea and the only thing he could come up with was that it could be a case of brittle bone syndrome although apparently her bone density is good so he's as baffled as her. In her heightened emotional state and with her lack of mobility Derek was starting to get a bit annoyed as they now hadn't had sex for a couple of weeks. Verena looked on and smiled, she looked at Katie in all of her casts and started to get a bit turned on, she had always fancied Katie but seeing her in such a state of restricted movement was starting to awaken a side to her she hadn't discovered before...
Two more weeks passed at Marina high school and thankfully for Katie no more broken bones although most of her body was in plaster anyway so it probably didn't matter. Only worse news was to come though as she went in to get her first cast off, her right leg cast. The doctor took an x-ray and it showed the bone hadn't healed at all and was still exactly the same as it was when it was broken, it wasn't considered a serious or bad break so it wasn't operated on and it should have healed naturally. There was nothing natural about all of this though, supernatural yes but definitely not natural. The doctor remarked that he could try and put some rods and pins to hold the leg together but if that didn't work he wouldn't know what to do.
Back at school Katie told everyone her leg hadn't healed the way she hoped but she was sure given time and some surgery it would be "all good". Verena caught wind of this and decided to ring saffron up with an important question. "Hi saffron it's Verena, with a voodoo skeleton once you break a bone on it does that mean it's broken forever too on the person who is the target?"
"Yes it is Verena, the only way the person's bone can either grow back or be fixed in some way is if they either reverse the spell or find the bones that have been broken and glue them back together on the skeleton. Otherwise they are broken until the day they die" replied saffron.
"Thanks saffron" said Verena. "Anytime" replied saffron. Armed with this knowledge Verena now knew Katie was in big trouble, more than she thought and that made her so happy she almost wanted to dance in the streets.
The next week Katie went into the doctors again to check on the status of her other leg but it was exactly the same, there had been no bone growth whatsoever and that spelt trouble. In a attempt to fuse her broken legs Katie went under the knife for surgery, her legs were now filled with pins and screws and rods and she hoped it would work. She still had the plaster on her upper body so she couldn't test out her legs to see if it worked as she would have no balance, she would just have to wait till the plaster came off her arms and Katie hoped against hope they would be ok at least.
More time passed and Katie was becoming more and more agitated unable to use her arms and legs to any great extent, the day to get her upper body cast off came and she couldn't wait as it was now summer and she felt like she was cooking inside it. The plaster was cut off and yet the again the x rays showed no bone growth in her arms, she had surgery to try and fuse the bones together like her legs and it was a wait and see approach. Another 4 weeks passed with Katie going from bad to worse, she had no idea why all of this was happening and all her friends now thought she was going crazy not understanding what was happening with her and when it would end, if it would at all.
Verena had put a hold on breaking any more bones for the time being upon hearing about Katie's breaks not healing which saffron told her, she just wanted to see how that all played out before commencing the breaking of more bones. Another day arrived at school and Verena sat in the hallway to delight in Katie's mispleasure again although this day Katie didn't come to school, Verena was a bit annoyed, she was really enjoying herself watching Katie but now she wasn't here the day really dragged on, she was very curious to see why Katie wasn't here so after school she decided to head over to her house to see what was happening not expecting at all what she was about to see.
Verena arrived at Katie's place and decided to go around to her room to see what was going on, luckily the curtains were drawn so she could see right through, she moved closer up to the window and got a big shock as Katie was in bed and both her arms had been amputated above her elbows, she couldn't believe it, her arms both had white stockings on the ends which she assumed were there so they didn't get infected, just as Verena grappled with that news Katie's mother came in and removed the blanket off Katie's legs although she had none! well not her left leg anyway which had been the subject of a hip disarticulation with no stump left to speak of, her right leg feared a little better with it being amputated above the knee still but with a bit of a stump still there, Verena just stood at the window in disbelief at what she saw, Katie was now a dae,lhd and rak! She didn't do this although indirectly it was a result of her actions, she felt a little guilty and thought maybe she had gone too far but the guilt didn't last long as she took great pleasure in seeing Katie wiggling around in her bed trying to get comfortable with all of her little stumps flailing around too short to be of any real use to her. After making this discovery Verena decided to head off still stunned by what had transpired with Katie, as she made her way home Verena thought to herself she wouldn't be seeing Katie at school for a while.
More time passed and as the days rolled on there were whispers around everywhere as to the whereabouts of Katie, no one had seen her for a while and she wasn't talking to any of her friends. Everyone was talking on the lawns before class when suddenly Katie appeared after a month's absence, everyone looked in shock and horror at the sight of her, she was operating a power wheelchair with her chin and mouth with her lack of arms and legs clearly evident as she was only wearing a yellow singlet top and tiny black shorts, she still had stockings over her three stumps with the fourth being a special type of underwear designed specifically for people who have had hip disarticulations not visible with her shorts covering it. Nearly everyone in the school needed to pick their jaws back up off the ground upon seeing all of this with no-one having any idea on what to say. Katie's friends all stared at her and were just aghast at the way she looked and walked off in fright, Katie then moved her wheelchair up to her boyfriend Derek and said "You'll stand by me derek won't you? Please i need you" she cried. Derek looked at her stunned and mumbled "Umm ahh i gotta go Katie catch you around" and quickly tore off, Katie had not only lost all of her limbs but now she had lost all of her friends too. The first day back at school was a nightmare for Katie with everyone either staring at her and too scared to talk to her. Seeing her shunned by all of her friends made one girl interested in talking to her again though, a girl who was attracted to her even more so now, the girl who caused all of this,Verena Dortfire...
Chapter 4
Verena watched Katie finish off her first week of school in her new condition before she decided she was going to talk to her again, she wanted Katie to feel the isolation of having no friends before she lended her a hand in that department, Katie had to be desperate to be friends so she would be more open to Verena and whatever plans she might have. The school week ended and on the Saturday after school Verena decided to head over to Katie's place to say hello, Katie's mum opened the door and said "Oh my god Verena i haven't seen you in years, how are you?"
"I'm good thanks Mrs Fulton, i have to say i miss those apple pies you used to make Katie and i growing up" replied Verena reminiscing over old times.
"Well i still make them so you can take a piece home with you if you like" offered Mrs Fulton
"Sounds great Mrs f, is Katie up for a visitor?" asked Verena anxious to see her now
"I'm not sure, she has been through so much poor girl. You can knock on her bedroom door i guess and see if she is up for it" said Mrs Fulton. Verena knocked on Katie's bedroom door. "Go away mum" said Katie.
"It's not your mum Katie it's Verena"
"Verena??" Katie said very surprised. "What are you doing here? Come to gawk at my hideous body" added Katie.
"No not at all, just thought you might need a friend" replied Verena.
"Ok then come in" said Katie. Verena walked in and there Katie was on the top of her bed, she looked so unbelievably sexy wearing just her special black underwear and a bra, her long blonde hair running free down her back and around her shoulders.
"Oh sorry did i walk on you getting changed or something?" said Verena a bit surprised at how little Katie was wearing, sure it was a hot day but only a bra and underwear? She wasn't complaining though.
"No all good, i know I'm a freak now so no point hiding it" said Katie almost seeming to accept all of this was beyond her control now. "It's so weird though, i still feel like my arms and legs are still there and get pain from them but they aren't, apparently it's called phantom pain, just another joyous part of all this" Katie said ending in a sarcastic manner.
Verena was enthralled by all of this and her pupils were fully dilated watching Katie's stumps wiggling everywhere, something that was picked up by Katie. "Does me being like this make you wet?" she asked. Verena looked at her worrying this was a trick question and if she did say yes Katie would call her a freak and kick her out, it really did turn her on though and she thought she might as well be honest. "Yes it does Katie" Verena replied.
"God your a fuckin' weirdo. Always have been,always will be" replied Katie in apparent disgust
"You can't help what you like Katie" defended Verena. "I didn't even know i liked all of 'this' until i saw you, whatever 'this' is i guess.
"Your a disability fetishist, i looked it up after all these freaks started bugging me on the Internet wanting to see pics of my stumps" replied Katie. "You want to know something though?" asked Katie.
"Yeah" said Verena
"Ever since we stopped being friends and i started to run with the popular crowd i just felt so much pressure to be perfect everyday, always having to wear hot outfits and only ever talking to the cute guys that all the other girls in my group could only ever dream of dating, they looked up to me as their leader and it was just utterly exhausting, i thought it was what i wanted and i even thought they were my real friends but as soon as times got tough they deserted me and although what has happened to me is just mortifying it has almost made me more peaceful in another way because now no-one has any expectations of me anymore and I'm free of all the fake bimbos and i can just concentrate on being me again" said Katie surprising Verena who before now had thought the object of her affection had the emotional depth of a puddle. For a brief second she almost felt like telling Katie she was the one who had caused all of this but decided to just keep it to herself for a bit longer. They had a good chat then Verena left with her friendship with Katie now re-ignited to a degree.
The next week at school Verena and Katie continued their friendship to the amazement of the rest of the year 12 students with them all knowing that just a few months ago the two were sworn enemies. One more person who was utterly confused by all of this was Carrie, she knew Verena better than anyone and the fact she had done a complete 180 on Katie didn't sit well with her. "Why on earth are you talking to Katie" asked Carrie confronting Verena.
"Why not?" replied Verena.
"Why not? Umm let me think, oh that's right you hate her!!" said Carrie
"Hate wastes too much energy Carrie, you need to forgive and forget"
"Forgive Katie Fulton?? You must have finally gone around the twist Verena, this is just wrong"
"Maybe i have Carrie but this is the way it's going to be so if you don't like it well tough" said Verena starting to get annoyed. Carrie couldn't believe what she was hearing, what is going on in this world when Katie Fulton and Verena are suddenly best friends again seemingly overnight she said to herself, just trying to work it out gave her a headache so she didn't bother and went to her next class. "They can have each other" she said as she walked to her next class. Soon enough the end of the school year was upon the students of marrina high school with only the farewell dance planned for the Saturday after classes finished up, Katie and Verena's friendship had developed even further and they decided to take each other as their dates to the dance which raised eyebrows, Verena had a couple of offers but none for Katie with most guys having no idea how to approach her now even if they did like her, it didn't matter anyway to Katie as Verena would more than do.
The night of the dance came around and Katie wore a nice red dress once again showcasing all of her missing limbs while under urging from Katie, Verena broke with tradition and wore a dress too, she looked captivating with her body hugging a shimmering black satin dress showcasing her magnificent breasts and her legs which were utterly stunning, Katie looked at Verena and had never seen her look so good plus on Verena's feet were a pair of her stilettos she had given her seeing as though she had no use for them anymore. As the dance moved along Katie was a bit sad she couldn't dance but she wiggled her stumps to the beat of the music which really got Verena horny. "Hey do you want to get out of here and go back to my place" asked Verena. "Yeah sure babe" replied Katie.
The girls arrived back at Verena's place with Katie's wheelchair not being able to fit through the door so Verena picked her up and carried her to her room. "God your so light" remarked Verena with Katie in her arms.
"Well i kind of lost a bit of weight when my arms and legs got chopped off" joked Katie. Verena just looked at her and become so overwhelmed with passion after that comment that she just wanted Katie now, she placed Katie on the bed then asked if the end of her arm stumps had feeling. "Of course they do silly" replied Katie. Verena then removed the stockings off her arms and licked the bottom of her left stump which was still scarred and quite sensitive, "That tickles" replied Katie as Verena's tongue ran up and down the stump before moving onto her right stump, with the sensation of it all starting to get to Katie with her stumps starting to twitch a little which sent Verena into a world of delight, she lifted up her dress and with what was left of Katie's right stump stroked her underwear where her pussy was absolutely sopping and getting even wetter by the minute looking at the way Katie patted her privates with what now looked like a small paw and definitely not an arm. Katie then tried to take Verena's underwear off but couldn't get a good enough grip as she had no fingers or thumbs so Verena pulled her panties down and Katie attacked her vagina like a bull at a red sheet sending Verena into unimaginable Ecstasy, Katie's tongue was like a miracle worker knowing all the right places to kiss and lick, Verena looked down at Katie's head going up and down like a beaver on her beaver and yelled out "Oh god this is it". Normally it would take Verena quite a while to come to climax but this time it took minutes, after she caught her breath she repeated the dose on Katie who found her lost of limbs and almost state of hopelessness was a complete and utter turn on and before long she came too before they both fell asleep with gigantic smiles on heir faces....
The next morning Katie wake up and noticed a skeleton in the corner of Verena's bedroom and thought that seemed weird, she hadn't noticed it last night but as she looked at it she realised a lot of the bones broken on the skeleton were the ones that broke on her body, in fact on closer inspection the skeleton was an exact replica of her body! She sat on the end of the bed in shock at this development not realising how any of this was even possible, she was sure to find out soon though as a sleepy Verena suddenly awoke....
Friday 20 July 2012
Voodoo Skeleton - Chapters 5
Chapter 5
Verena started to waken but she was still a bit tired, she felt something nudging her in the side and realised it was Katie. "What is the explanation for this?" Katie asked pointing at the skeleton with one of her stumps. Verena looked over at the skeleton and immediately said "Oh shit" realising that she was so turned on by Katie she completely forgot about the skeleton when she brought her home last night. "I'm waiting for an explanation" Katie barked.
"Umm you see Katie you know how you used to be a bitch and all well i decided i wanted to teach you a lesson" said Verena.
"Lesson??" replied Katie still having no idea how any of this made sense.
"Well as you know I'm into witchcraft and i got a leading witch saffron tempest to create a spell for me and that's where the skeleton comes in, every time i snap a bone on it you would snap a bone" explained Verena
"You bitch! So all this agony i have gone through is all because of you?" yelled Katie upset that after a night of passion with Verena it was her that had plunged her into a world of hurt for the last few months.
"I'm so sorry Katie, i love you though, i always have that's why i always wanted to find an excuse to touch you growing up" replied Verena
"I knew you liked me, to be honest i liked you too but my parents are heavily against gays and lesbians so that's why i was so mean to you all this time, i was trying to push you so far away that you'd hate me and i wouldn't have to deal with my feelings towards you" said Katie which stunned Verena. "Looks like it worked because you hated me so much you did this to me" added Katie lifting her stumps up to show what Verena had done.
"Oh god, i can't believe this, is there any way i can make it up to you? pleaded Verena. Katie looked at her and said "Well there is one way" and explained what she wanted...
4 weeks later... Verena sat on the bed in a tiny pink nightie with her breasts almost falling out, her toes were painted pink to match and as she looked up at Katie with her enchanting brown eyes she said "I'm ready". Katie, with prosthetic arms newly attached picked up a skeleton that was now in the shape of Verena and snapped a bone in her ankle, pain surged through Verena's whole lower leg as her ankle snapped, it hurt so bad but it felt so good, Verena's ankle was almost turned sideways but the waves of pain rushing through was like the sweetest drug to her as Katie once again went downtown unable to tell the moans of ecstasy from the moans of agony they sounded so alike. This was the new deal that had been struck between the two, they had visited saffron again and Katie said it was only fair that Verena go through the same torture she did to which Verena agreed. The only difference was that Verena realised that not only did she have a high pain threshold but the sound of her own bones snapping was even more music to her ears than when she was doing it to Katie. As they made further love Katie grabbed Verena's ankle and twisted it some more with her pussy now soaking wet upon hearing the loud screams of Verena in complete discomfort and utter bliss at the same time. They both came multiple times and collapsed on the bed to grab their breath and possibly go again..
The next day Katie glued Verena's ankle back together on the skeleton, not really to be nice but more so that she could break it again and again along with the rest of Verena's body, she wasn't complaining though with every broken bone putting her into a whole new galaxy of pleasure. Verena and Katie knew plaster casts were a waste of time knowing the only way to fix a bone was to glue it back together but sometimes they would role play and Katie would cast Verena and she would act like she had just been to the doctors and Katie would sign her cast like most people normally do. Verena and Katie were now becoming almost exclusive to each other with their parents now hardly ever seeing them as they spent all their time in Verena's bedroom having sex and breaking bones all day barely coming up for breath their love had now grown so deep.
Over the course of the next few months Katie lost count of how many times she had broken Verena's legs and arms and nearly every other bone in her body, they had all been glued back together but there was some residual pain left over as gluing the bone back didn't put it back as good as new it just gave them back use of the limb of body part instead of it turning into gangrene like Katie's limbs would have if they weren't cut off.
Many more months passed and the more that time went on the more Verena fell deeper in love but it was a different story with Katie who was almost starting to resent Verena for her quad amputee status, sure the sex was fun and she had got Verena back to a degree with all of her bones that she had broken but she was becoming bored with it all and felt cheated in a way because Verena enjoyed it and knew it was coming whereas she didn't and now all the trauma of that whole experience started bubbling back to the surface. Katie looked over at Verena lying on the bed and decided there was only one way she could put Verena on some kind of an equal standing with her so she got out a hammer and moved over to the skeleton and went whack to Verena's vertebrae..
Straight away Verena felt a sharp pain in her neck then nothing "I can't move" she cried. "What did you do Katie?" said Verena."Just making you feel like you did to me all those months ago, pretty scary when you get an injury you don't expect isn't it?" Katie said menacingly as she looked on at a now immobile Verena. Verena layed there frightened out of her wits, yeah she loved pain and injury but not this, she couldn't feel anything! Katie rang an ambulance and Verena was put on a temporary ventilator and taken to hospital.
The next few months in the hospital for Verena were hell, and not hellishly good either, she was strapped down uncomfortably on a rotating bed just going round and around with doctors careful not to put any pressure on her vertebrae as just like all of Katie's bones it couldn't be fixed and any sudden movement could be fatal, Verena couldn't move a muscle and Katie visited her everyday to tell her this was going to the way it was for the rest of her life as Verena pleaded for Katie to glue her c1 vertebrae back so she would have mobility and some kind of feeling again which she so desperately craved. After a while Katie stopped visiting Verena, she wanted her to know the full extent of her actions until she would give her a reprieve, if she gave one at all.
Katie continued on with her life getting an internship with a clothing company although with her prosthesis she didn't have the dexterity in her fingers to knit any clothes so she mainly helped with the designs with the help of a computer, one day though while at work though she was shocked by a young woman who walked into the building, it was Verena! How on earth can this be possible she said to herself not knowing Verena had got so sick to death of being unable to move and feeling like a pig on a spit that she had got a nurse to contact Carrie and on arrival told her the whole story, at first Carrie thought she was crazy but found the skeleton of Verena that Katie had carelessly left in her room and glued back together her vertebrae allowing Verena to move again. "Hello lover, bet you didn't expect me walking in" said Verena.
"Definitely not" replied a shocked Katie. "How" she added.
"I told Carrie everything and she glued the skeleton back together, i know your not the sharpest tool in the shed but that was pretty dumb leaving it in my room" gloated Verena.
"I was going to glue it back myself i just wanted to teach you a lesson that's all" replied Katie.
"I'm not sure i believe you, particularly considering you taunted me every day at that hospital for months, not really the actions of someone who is going to let you go"
"Well i was, my conscience is clear" said a worried Katie.
"Hmmm.. i don't believe you" said Verena. "Oh by the way I've got a surprise for you" she said as she walked outside and came back in with a skeleton. Katie knew this wasn't good as she looked at it and saw it was her skeleton. Verena moved her hands up to the top of the vertebrae and twisted with Katie's neck immediately flopping to the side. Her workmates all rushed over not knowing what happened as Verena left the building with her work now done. Katie was taken to hospital and would live the rest of her life a quadriplegic quadruple amputee while back at Verena's place she was working out who her next voodoo skeleton would be of.........
The End
Verena started to waken but she was still a bit tired, she felt something nudging her in the side and realised it was Katie. "What is the explanation for this?" Katie asked pointing at the skeleton with one of her stumps. Verena looked over at the skeleton and immediately said "Oh shit" realising that she was so turned on by Katie she completely forgot about the skeleton when she brought her home last night. "I'm waiting for an explanation" Katie barked.
"Umm you see Katie you know how you used to be a bitch and all well i decided i wanted to teach you a lesson" said Verena.
"Lesson??" replied Katie still having no idea how any of this made sense.
"Well as you know I'm into witchcraft and i got a leading witch saffron tempest to create a spell for me and that's where the skeleton comes in, every time i snap a bone on it you would snap a bone" explained Verena
"You bitch! So all this agony i have gone through is all because of you?" yelled Katie upset that after a night of passion with Verena it was her that had plunged her into a world of hurt for the last few months.
"I'm so sorry Katie, i love you though, i always have that's why i always wanted to find an excuse to touch you growing up" replied Verena
"I knew you liked me, to be honest i liked you too but my parents are heavily against gays and lesbians so that's why i was so mean to you all this time, i was trying to push you so far away that you'd hate me and i wouldn't have to deal with my feelings towards you" said Katie which stunned Verena. "Looks like it worked because you hated me so much you did this to me" added Katie lifting her stumps up to show what Verena had done.
"Oh god, i can't believe this, is there any way i can make it up to you? pleaded Verena. Katie looked at her and said "Well there is one way" and explained what she wanted...
4 weeks later... Verena sat on the bed in a tiny pink nightie with her breasts almost falling out, her toes were painted pink to match and as she looked up at Katie with her enchanting brown eyes she said "I'm ready". Katie, with prosthetic arms newly attached picked up a skeleton that was now in the shape of Verena and snapped a bone in her ankle, pain surged through Verena's whole lower leg as her ankle snapped, it hurt so bad but it felt so good, Verena's ankle was almost turned sideways but the waves of pain rushing through was like the sweetest drug to her as Katie once again went downtown unable to tell the moans of ecstasy from the moans of agony they sounded so alike. This was the new deal that had been struck between the two, they had visited saffron again and Katie said it was only fair that Verena go through the same torture she did to which Verena agreed. The only difference was that Verena realised that not only did she have a high pain threshold but the sound of her own bones snapping was even more music to her ears than when she was doing it to Katie. As they made further love Katie grabbed Verena's ankle and twisted it some more with her pussy now soaking wet upon hearing the loud screams of Verena in complete discomfort and utter bliss at the same time. They both came multiple times and collapsed on the bed to grab their breath and possibly go again..
The next day Katie glued Verena's ankle back together on the skeleton, not really to be nice but more so that she could break it again and again along with the rest of Verena's body, she wasn't complaining though with every broken bone putting her into a whole new galaxy of pleasure. Verena and Katie knew plaster casts were a waste of time knowing the only way to fix a bone was to glue it back together but sometimes they would role play and Katie would cast Verena and she would act like she had just been to the doctors and Katie would sign her cast like most people normally do. Verena and Katie were now becoming almost exclusive to each other with their parents now hardly ever seeing them as they spent all their time in Verena's bedroom having sex and breaking bones all day barely coming up for breath their love had now grown so deep.
Over the course of the next few months Katie lost count of how many times she had broken Verena's legs and arms and nearly every other bone in her body, they had all been glued back together but there was some residual pain left over as gluing the bone back didn't put it back as good as new it just gave them back use of the limb of body part instead of it turning into gangrene like Katie's limbs would have if they weren't cut off.
Many more months passed and the more that time went on the more Verena fell deeper in love but it was a different story with Katie who was almost starting to resent Verena for her quad amputee status, sure the sex was fun and she had got Verena back to a degree with all of her bones that she had broken but she was becoming bored with it all and felt cheated in a way because Verena enjoyed it and knew it was coming whereas she didn't and now all the trauma of that whole experience started bubbling back to the surface. Katie looked over at Verena lying on the bed and decided there was only one way she could put Verena on some kind of an equal standing with her so she got out a hammer and moved over to the skeleton and went whack to Verena's vertebrae..
Straight away Verena felt a sharp pain in her neck then nothing "I can't move" she cried. "What did you do Katie?" said Verena."Just making you feel like you did to me all those months ago, pretty scary when you get an injury you don't expect isn't it?" Katie said menacingly as she looked on at a now immobile Verena. Verena layed there frightened out of her wits, yeah she loved pain and injury but not this, she couldn't feel anything! Katie rang an ambulance and Verena was put on a temporary ventilator and taken to hospital.
The next few months in the hospital for Verena were hell, and not hellishly good either, she was strapped down uncomfortably on a rotating bed just going round and around with doctors careful not to put any pressure on her vertebrae as just like all of Katie's bones it couldn't be fixed and any sudden movement could be fatal, Verena couldn't move a muscle and Katie visited her everyday to tell her this was going to the way it was for the rest of her life as Verena pleaded for Katie to glue her c1 vertebrae back so she would have mobility and some kind of feeling again which she so desperately craved. After a while Katie stopped visiting Verena, she wanted her to know the full extent of her actions until she would give her a reprieve, if she gave one at all.
Katie continued on with her life getting an internship with a clothing company although with her prosthesis she didn't have the dexterity in her fingers to knit any clothes so she mainly helped with the designs with the help of a computer, one day though while at work though she was shocked by a young woman who walked into the building, it was Verena! How on earth can this be possible she said to herself not knowing Verena had got so sick to death of being unable to move and feeling like a pig on a spit that she had got a nurse to contact Carrie and on arrival told her the whole story, at first Carrie thought she was crazy but found the skeleton of Verena that Katie had carelessly left in her room and glued back together her vertebrae allowing Verena to move again. "Hello lover, bet you didn't expect me walking in" said Verena.
"Definitely not" replied a shocked Katie. "How" she added.
"I told Carrie everything and she glued the skeleton back together, i know your not the sharpest tool in the shed but that was pretty dumb leaving it in my room" gloated Verena.
"I was going to glue it back myself i just wanted to teach you a lesson that's all" replied Katie.
"I'm not sure i believe you, particularly considering you taunted me every day at that hospital for months, not really the actions of someone who is going to let you go"
"Well i was, my conscience is clear" said a worried Katie.
"Hmmm.. i don't believe you" said Verena. "Oh by the way I've got a surprise for you" she said as she walked outside and came back in with a skeleton. Katie knew this wasn't good as she looked at it and saw it was her skeleton. Verena moved her hands up to the top of the vertebrae and twisted with Katie's neck immediately flopping to the side. Her workmates all rushed over not knowing what happened as Verena left the building with her work now done. Katie was taken to hospital and would live the rest of her life a quadriplegic quadruple amputee while back at Verena's place she was working out who her next voodoo skeleton would be of.........
The End
Thursday 19 July 2012
The Lying Game - Chapters 3 and 4
Chapter 3
After making a positive identification of Jesinta the previous day I went into work again, I was curious as to why she was in a centre in Juwata which was 12 hours away from Westchester where I shot her, I had so many questions but I was too terrified to ask plus if I'm not going to own up then I should just leave her be. Once again I was on garden duty and while pruning bushes I kept an eye out for Jesinta planning a getaway if she arrived, she didn't turn up this day though which was a relief, I knew I couldn't avoid her all the time but for now that was going to be the plan.
For the next couple of days I was able to avoid her as well until one day while pulling out weeds I heard her voice behind me. "Hello handyman, winning the battle?" she asked
"Winning what battle? I'm not in a battle" I fumbled
"The war on weeds silly" she replied. "Guess it's true what they say about the strong good looking ones"
"And what's that?"
"All brawn no brains"
I just laughed and couldn't believe that she appeared to be flirting with me.
"So what happened the other day? We were having a good chat then you just upped and left" she enquired.
"Sorry I just realised I left a tap running or something"
"Or something? You don't sound very convinced" she replied although she tried to say it too quick and was interrupted by her vent. I was so incredibly nervous around her it was just extraordinary, i couldn't believe I was capable of leaving a woman like this.
"Well yeah I don't know" I said not really having any idea what to say.
"Are you put off by my condition? I know people always freak out when they see me for the first time but I guess that's natural, not too many c1 quadriplegic women around"
"Well yes I mean no, oh god I have got no idea" I fumbled again
"I'd really like it if we can be friends..Umm have I ever got your name?"
"Steven". I didn't want to give my real name but I was going to have to go on the books probably so I had to.
"Well nice to meet you Steven. It's so good to be able to talk to a man again, I haven't done it since my accident, unless you count doctors of course which I don't"
"No worries" I replied. As I said this the nurse told Jesinta it was time to go back inside. "It was great to chat again Steven, hope we can do it again soon" said Jesinta as she was taken away. I just smiled then took a deep breath, I knew now that I probably couldn't avoid her so I would just have to make small talk and keep the conversations short as the guilt would get me for sure if I got too friendly.
Another 48 hours went by and Clarence told me that he wanted my bank details so he could officially put me on the books, I told them that I still didn't have a bank account which didn't leave him very pleased. He told me that I needed one by next week otherwise he would have to let me go. Being let go or just leaving the centre would have been the smart way to play but I knew that Ursula and my old boss would wonder why I just quit or lost my job, plus even if I could get another job I would run into the same problem more than likely. As I walked out of Clarence's office you wouldn't credit it but once again I ran into Jesinta, her long dyed brown hair was down and she had on black pants with a big red duffle parka jacket on and a navy blue scarf wrapped around her neck obscuring her vent a bit.
"Oh hello again" she smiled.
"Hi Jesinta"
"What were doing in Clarence's office? You in trouble for cutting back the rose bush too much?" she joked.
"No just about pay and that"
"You want a pay rise already? I guess just those arms alone are worth a few more dollars" she said starting to flirt again with me.
"Haha no just payment options and that. Your rugged up, where are you off to?" I asked to be polite.
"Nurse Helena and I are just off to the football. Do you want to come?"
"No I have to do a bit of work around here"
"That's a shame" she replied a little disappointed as Clarence then came out of the office. "Clarence can you let Steven off for the rest of the day so he can come to the football with Helena and I?" said Jesinta worrying me.
"Steven has work to do" replied Clarence and I breathed a big sigh of relief.
"Come on Clarence. Make a girl's day would you" insisted Jesinta. Clarence knew that although on the surface Jesinta appeared to be ok with her paralysis deep down she still was actually quite upset over it all. "Oh ok Jesinta you deserve a bit of fun so he can go along if it's ok with him" said Clarence leaving me in a sticky situation.
"So you'll come now Steven?" asked Jesinta. I really didn't want to but with Clarence and Helena looking at me as well as her I knew what my answer had to be.
"Ok sounds fun" I said as we moved out to the awaiting van. I watched as Jesinta fiddled with the straw trying to get the chair in the right spot to go up in the van, once she did Helena pressed a button and it seemed to do the rest lifting her up and placing her in the middle of the van where her brake was applied. As I watched all this I thought it was going to be a long day...
We arrived at the oval where the football or soccer to some was to be played. I thought they were going to a bigger match in a stadium type atmosphere but instead this was just a local match, there would have only been 60 or 70 cars in the car park but even with the small crowd many of them noticed Jesinta being unloaded from the van and in her big wheelchair, she looked nervous with the people watching her. "Not sure I will ever get used to it, people staring and that" she remarked to me. I told her they were probably just admiring her awesome jacket to which she just laughed then almost choked before finally recapturing her breath, albeit a forced one. After that drama we moved over to the field and took up our positions for where we would watch the game. As they ran out Jesinta told me that no.26 Fabio Helinini had visited the centre to help out last week and that's why she was out braving the cold to watch the soccer. I had no idea if she had a crush on him or not but I hoped she did as it would get me off the hook. As the game was played Jesinta cheered Fabio on, her voice wasn't very loud naturally due to the vent but that didn't stop her, she continued to cheer him on until the final whistle was blown. "I want to go down and say hello" she said as she zoomed her wheelchair over to where they all walked off. "Fabio" she screamed. He looked over then walked off completely ignoring her. Now I knew I was in no way qualified to judge other people's behaviour but it was a pretty poor act to just ignore her, I looked at Jesinta and tears had started to well up in her eyes. "Maybe he just has somewhere he needs to be so he couldn't stop to talk" I said trying to excuse his snub and make her feel better.
"Too busy to even say hello?" she sobbed. Helena pulled out a tissue and I wiped her eyes. "Sometimes I just get so god damn sick of being like this" she said continuing to weep. Little did she know the man who made her this way was now standing in front of her, I was the one who made the utterly egregious act of shooting her now here I was trying to comfort her.
After calming down Jesinta made her way back to the van and on the trip back to the centre never uttered a word so upset over Fabio, her condition, everything. Upon arrival back at the centre she gave me a teary thanks for coming before heading to her room. I realised I couldn't take any more of this I had to hand myself in, I just had to talk to Ursula first.
I went home not looking forward to telling Ursula, she wouldn't be pleased that's for sure. I walked in and there she was on the couch just resting and holding her belly with a smile on her face, she looked truly serene and at peace with herself which was going to make this all the more harder. "Hey babe, how you doing?"
"Oh my god Steven I'm so glad your home, come over here and put your hand on my belly" she said excitedly. I moved over and put my hand on her belly, for a few seconds nothing then I felt a kick. "Can you believe it Steven our baby is kicking!!"
The baby kicking just filled me with such a warm feeling, as I held my hand on Ursula's belly it became more real that there was a baby in there, a baby I helped to create, a life that would rely on me to protect and love it. I realised that once again I would have to put my unborn baby and girlfriend first, it was so gut wrenching to spend time with Jesinta and see her struggles but I would just have to find some way to block it all out because this child will need me.
The next couple of days I was on a high after feeling the sensation of my baby, as I did my rounds though a worried Helena came up to me. "Jesinta hasn't wanted to get out of her bed since the soccer game and she is also refusing to eat. I think she is still upset over Fabio ignoring her, I know that probably wouldn't do much to us emotionally but when your a quadriplegic it can sometimes feel like the world is already crumbling down and this just adds even more weight to the avalanche. Can I ask you a favour? She seems to like you so can you maybe go in and have a word with her? I know it's not your job but I've tried everything."
"Ok no worries" I replied determined to try and not let her get to me. I opened the door to Jesinta's room and saw her lying arched upright in bed, her vent prominent. "Hey Jesinta how you doing?" I asked. She had no movement in her head so she just looked down keen to avoid eye contact, I could tell she had been crying though as her eyes were red raw. "Nice day today, you should come out for a look at the flowers, they look great in this light" I said hoping to get a response. Her eyes finally looked up at me. "Do you ever feel like there's no point to life?"
"Whoa that's a big question. Sure there is" I replied
"What though?"
"Plenty of things, like sport, having a family,meeting someone special and falling in love"
"I can't do any of those things. I can't play sport and it's a major battle to even get to watch it, I can't have a family and who on earth would ever want a woman who can't even move or breath on her own. Thanks for that you really cheered me up" she added on the end sarcastically. I knew I had said the wrong thing but I had no idea on what to say.
"No matter what happens don't give up hope" I tried to say in a encouraging manner.
"Hope? That's something i don't have much of. You know what really shits me off about all this though? I dedicated 12 years of my life to helping kids with severe autism and cerebral palsy and so many other things, I used to work overtime for no extra pay just so those kids had a better chance at life. I was and still am a good person and this is how I get repaid, with the highest level of paralysis you can get. It's just not fair" she said with such a sorrow in her eyes that was truly heartbreaking. "God if I had of known my friend Angelique was previously married to a gangster I probably never would have been mates with her" she added. I just stood there silent knowing that it was probably true, if she wasn't friends with Angelique it never would have happened but then I still would have shot someone so my situation wouldn't have changed a great deal.
"They ever have any leads on who did it?"
"No. They reckon it was one of the gangster's thugs but they haven't been able to pin it on anyone, it's been 18 months now so I highly doubt they will ever catch him. Not that the police care anyway, they are more interested in writing traffic tickets and other pissy little things they can ping people on rather than doing any real work as I think that takes up too much energy for them"
"Yeah your probably right" I replied. I noticed I now had her talking which was a good thing. "So how about that trip around the grounds to check out the garden?"
"I suppose I might be able to manage that" she said begrudgingly but knowing it would do her good as she was sick of looking at the same four walls. I called over to Helena and she fixed the lift up so that Jesinta could be lowered into her wheelchair. As she reached her wheelchair Jesinta remarked "Out of one prison and into another" which I guessed referred to the amount of time spent in the bed and chair, two things she couldn't move out of. She got settled in the chair and the three of us went out into the garden. As Jesinta zoomed off a little bit ahead Helena thanked me for my work in getting her out of bed and into the sunshine outside, I replied that it was nothing but she insisted it was more than that, I realised that I was quickly starting to get a reputation as a "good bloke" which was one I certainly didn't deserve....
Chapter 4
Over the course of the next week I continued to work at the centre and go about my business but rather than my meetings with Jesinta being by chance she was now asking Helena to take her out to see me. I knew this was a bad idea but I was continually torn between trying to help her out and trying to ignore her, she had now clearly latched onto me as a support mechanism which I knew she wouldn't be if she knew the truth, the more time I spent with her though the more I was now conning myself into thinking that telling her now would do more harm than good. One day while out in the garden Clarence came out and told me he wanted to see me, I knew it would be about my bank account and we went back to his office.
"So do you have a bank account Steven?" he asked.
"Umm no. I know that your big on all this but I just don't believe in banks" I replied which was a lie but hoped he would buy it.
"Well Steven I'm not happy about all of this but from all reports you have been doing a good job. Particularly helping out Jesinta which Helena my daughter has told me about."
"Helena is your daughter?" I said surprised.
"Yes and without her I would have probably fired you. I get the feeling your not telling me everything but I will accept your request to be paid cash in hand"
"Oh god thanks Clarence" I said gleefully as I shook his hand and left the office.
"Just don't do anything that will make me change my mind" he warned me as I left. I guessed that meant to continue to be nice to Jesinta which I would have anyway, I knew then that I definitely wasn't going to be able to escape her now.
Later that day Jesinta found me again, every time I looked at her I couldn't imagine what she was going through, to have no use of your arms and legs all day everyday would be so awfully tough, to make matters worse she couldn't even breathe properly or move her head just her eyes and mouth and that's it. I didn't like to focus on the negatives on her situation but I was curious so while Helena was over getting a coffee I asked Jesinta something."I know this is the last thing you like to talk about but how does it feel? Like I mean, to be a quadriplegic"
"It's hell. Complete and utter hell, every morning I wake up there's just this very quick second where I think this was all a bad dream, that I can move and everything is fine, then I go to move and realise it wasn't a dream it's a living nightmare, I can't even get up when I want either I have to wait for someone to come in and even then they are normally just taking away my collection bag to change it or check my catheter to see if it's working or possibly replace it. I have no privacy and while the nurses do a great job I have no say over where they put their hands, sometimes they even have to put their hand up my nether regions to clear my bowels.
"Heard enough?" she said judging by the look of my face.
"I'm so sorry you have to go through these things"
"Yeah well what I told you isn't even the tip of the iceberg"
"I'm sure it is" I agreed not believing what her quality of life must be like.
"I question at least once every day if I want to continue on like this, but I don't want to die so I somehow go on although I'm not sure why to be honest. I guess the pills help!"
"What sort of medication you on?
"An easier question would be what am i not on. I take up to 15-20 pills a day for various problems. The anti depressants numb the terrible thoughts to a degree but doesn't stop them all together" she said with a solemn look coming over her face. "Anyway your supposed to be the one who cheers me up so stop depressing me!!" she added trying to lift the mood.
I wanted to do something to make her life a bit more exciting so I canvassed the idea of going to the Foo fighters concert which was in town and that I had managed to score tickets. Jesinta loved the sound of the idea but the concert would be at night and generally any sort of activities had to be done in the daytime. We brought it up with Helena. "I'll tell you what, it is against the rules but I will try to talk my dad into breaking the rules just this once. Jesinta obviously can't go without a nurse so I will have to come as well, I'll go talk to him once Jesinta is back in bed and see if he will go for it"
"Thanks Helena" we both said. After they headed off I realised I had a lot of work to do so I started to weed and prune like a man possessed so as to get home on time to Ursula.
Soon enough Helena got word that going to the concert would be ok, but just this one time as Clarence didn't want this thing becoming a regular occurrence. The day of the concert rolled around and Jesinta was loaded up onto the van, we arrived at the concert and straight away ran into interference. "You can't park that wheelchair here it's a fire hazard" said the security guard as Jesinta got into position. "Are you serious?" I replied.
"Very serious mate. You cant park that wheelchair there"
"Don't you think you can break with protocol just this once?" asked Helena.
"No I can't" replied the guard in a forceful manner getting in Helena's face a bit. I knew what these kinds of guys were like, they were either too fat or not disciplined enough to make the police force so they became what they considered the next best thing and that was a security guard. I could see Jesinta was getting upset so I took matters into my own hands."How about you just let us stay here" I said to the guard slipping him a 50 dollar note. He smiled and took the 50, then the bastard still told us to move. I stared at him with his smarmy look and said "Right that's it. I tried to be nice but now it's on" I headbutted him then landed a swift right hook to his jaw. "Listen you fuck we are sitting here got it?" I yelled in his face, he just nodded clutching his jaw and sooked off, I couldn't believe how quickly he scampered away like a little boy but then again I knew he was all bark and no bite, I had been around killers and god knows what when it came to Benny's crew so I knew a soft cock when I saw one.
While all of this was happening Helena and Jesinta looked on, they now looked at me a bit scared but they realised the guy was an insensitive prick so they were glad I roughed him up. "Let's enjoy the concert" I enthused as the Foo fighters took the stage. Throughout the concert Helena bopped along and I had to say I enjoyed myself, Jesinta told us she was dancing along in her head which made me a bit sad but she almost mentioned she had her best night in ages too which made me a least a little happy. We all arrived back at the centre on a high after a great night, Jesinta thanked me for getting her out and Helena once again got it in her head that I was some kind of perfect guy which I most certainly wasn't, I headed home thinking that for at least a couple of hours I had made Jesinta forget about her tragedy and enjoy herself. It still in no way,shape or form made up for what I did though that's for sure but I helped.
At work the next day I was a little weary but I didn't mind as it had been a good night, Jesinta had apparently knocked up for the run though and obviously picked up something from someone at the concert because she wasn't feeling well, Helena told me this is a common occurrence with quads though when they are mixed in with 12,000 other people, while she said this she asked me if I would like to catch some lunch with her. "Umm yeah I guess we could manage that I thought" I replied. I assumed she knew I was taken due to Clarence being her father but I wasn't sure, I know it sounds so conceited to think she would be interested in me but I'm guessing that's where i used up all my luck in life because for some reason I was a girl magnet.
We headed off to lunch and I tucked into a sandwich while Helena had a fruit salad, we started chatting about random things before she asked me if I was seeing anyone. "I have a girlfriend, her name is Ursula, we are expecting our first baby actually" I proudly told her.
"Ursula Anderson?"
"Yeah that's her"
"Are you sure the baby is yours?" she asked which surprised me quite a lot.
"What do you mean is it mine? Of course it is! Why would you even say that?"
"It's just I knew Ursula in high school and she used to get around a bit if you know what I mean, I heard she still did although she might have changed and I could be completely wrong"
"Well I have no reason to doubt her at this point in time"
"Ok then all good. Sorry if I offended you"
After the way she talked about Ursula the conversation dried up a bit, Helena didn't seem like a vindictive person but I couldn't really believe anything she said as Ursula had been nothing but good to me. That night as I entered the apartment I could see Ursula talking very quietly on the phone which I found a little strange. After she got off I asked her who it was. "Oh just a friend" she replied with appeared to be a guilty look. "I ran into one of your old school friends today, Helena Bernstein"
"Helena an old friend? You have got to be joking" she replied with disdain.
"So you two didn't get along?"
"To say that would be an understatement. Anyway I'm not interested in talking about her what do you want for dinner?"
"You get off your feet and I'll fix it" I replied. Ursula was 5 months and showing just a little at this point. We sat down and had dinner before we headed off to bed, I couldn't help but notice Ursula was being a little weird but I just assumed it was all in my head and went to sleep..
After making a positive identification of Jesinta the previous day I went into work again, I was curious as to why she was in a centre in Juwata which was 12 hours away from Westchester where I shot her, I had so many questions but I was too terrified to ask plus if I'm not going to own up then I should just leave her be. Once again I was on garden duty and while pruning bushes I kept an eye out for Jesinta planning a getaway if she arrived, she didn't turn up this day though which was a relief, I knew I couldn't avoid her all the time but for now that was going to be the plan.
For the next couple of days I was able to avoid her as well until one day while pulling out weeds I heard her voice behind me. "Hello handyman, winning the battle?" she asked
"Winning what battle? I'm not in a battle" I fumbled
"The war on weeds silly" she replied. "Guess it's true what they say about the strong good looking ones"
"And what's that?"
"All brawn no brains"
I just laughed and couldn't believe that she appeared to be flirting with me.
"So what happened the other day? We were having a good chat then you just upped and left" she enquired.
"Sorry I just realised I left a tap running or something"
"Or something? You don't sound very convinced" she replied although she tried to say it too quick and was interrupted by her vent. I was so incredibly nervous around her it was just extraordinary, i couldn't believe I was capable of leaving a woman like this.
"Well yeah I don't know" I said not really having any idea what to say.
"Are you put off by my condition? I know people always freak out when they see me for the first time but I guess that's natural, not too many c1 quadriplegic women around"
"Well yes I mean no, oh god I have got no idea" I fumbled again
"I'd really like it if we can be friends..Umm have I ever got your name?"
"Steven". I didn't want to give my real name but I was going to have to go on the books probably so I had to.
"Well nice to meet you Steven. It's so good to be able to talk to a man again, I haven't done it since my accident, unless you count doctors of course which I don't"
"No worries" I replied. As I said this the nurse told Jesinta it was time to go back inside. "It was great to chat again Steven, hope we can do it again soon" said Jesinta as she was taken away. I just smiled then took a deep breath, I knew now that I probably couldn't avoid her so I would just have to make small talk and keep the conversations short as the guilt would get me for sure if I got too friendly.
Another 48 hours went by and Clarence told me that he wanted my bank details so he could officially put me on the books, I told them that I still didn't have a bank account which didn't leave him very pleased. He told me that I needed one by next week otherwise he would have to let me go. Being let go or just leaving the centre would have been the smart way to play but I knew that Ursula and my old boss would wonder why I just quit or lost my job, plus even if I could get another job I would run into the same problem more than likely. As I walked out of Clarence's office you wouldn't credit it but once again I ran into Jesinta, her long dyed brown hair was down and she had on black pants with a big red duffle parka jacket on and a navy blue scarf wrapped around her neck obscuring her vent a bit.
"Oh hello again" she smiled.
"Hi Jesinta"
"What were doing in Clarence's office? You in trouble for cutting back the rose bush too much?" she joked.
"No just about pay and that"
"You want a pay rise already? I guess just those arms alone are worth a few more dollars" she said starting to flirt again with me.
"Haha no just payment options and that. Your rugged up, where are you off to?" I asked to be polite.
"Nurse Helena and I are just off to the football. Do you want to come?"
"No I have to do a bit of work around here"
"That's a shame" she replied a little disappointed as Clarence then came out of the office. "Clarence can you let Steven off for the rest of the day so he can come to the football with Helena and I?" said Jesinta worrying me.
"Steven has work to do" replied Clarence and I breathed a big sigh of relief.
"Come on Clarence. Make a girl's day would you" insisted Jesinta. Clarence knew that although on the surface Jesinta appeared to be ok with her paralysis deep down she still was actually quite upset over it all. "Oh ok Jesinta you deserve a bit of fun so he can go along if it's ok with him" said Clarence leaving me in a sticky situation.
"So you'll come now Steven?" asked Jesinta. I really didn't want to but with Clarence and Helena looking at me as well as her I knew what my answer had to be.
"Ok sounds fun" I said as we moved out to the awaiting van. I watched as Jesinta fiddled with the straw trying to get the chair in the right spot to go up in the van, once she did Helena pressed a button and it seemed to do the rest lifting her up and placing her in the middle of the van where her brake was applied. As I watched all this I thought it was going to be a long day...
We arrived at the oval where the football or soccer to some was to be played. I thought they were going to a bigger match in a stadium type atmosphere but instead this was just a local match, there would have only been 60 or 70 cars in the car park but even with the small crowd many of them noticed Jesinta being unloaded from the van and in her big wheelchair, she looked nervous with the people watching her. "Not sure I will ever get used to it, people staring and that" she remarked to me. I told her they were probably just admiring her awesome jacket to which she just laughed then almost choked before finally recapturing her breath, albeit a forced one. After that drama we moved over to the field and took up our positions for where we would watch the game. As they ran out Jesinta told me that no.26 Fabio Helinini had visited the centre to help out last week and that's why she was out braving the cold to watch the soccer. I had no idea if she had a crush on him or not but I hoped she did as it would get me off the hook. As the game was played Jesinta cheered Fabio on, her voice wasn't very loud naturally due to the vent but that didn't stop her, she continued to cheer him on until the final whistle was blown. "I want to go down and say hello" she said as she zoomed her wheelchair over to where they all walked off. "Fabio" she screamed. He looked over then walked off completely ignoring her. Now I knew I was in no way qualified to judge other people's behaviour but it was a pretty poor act to just ignore her, I looked at Jesinta and tears had started to well up in her eyes. "Maybe he just has somewhere he needs to be so he couldn't stop to talk" I said trying to excuse his snub and make her feel better.
"Too busy to even say hello?" she sobbed. Helena pulled out a tissue and I wiped her eyes. "Sometimes I just get so god damn sick of being like this" she said continuing to weep. Little did she know the man who made her this way was now standing in front of her, I was the one who made the utterly egregious act of shooting her now here I was trying to comfort her.
After calming down Jesinta made her way back to the van and on the trip back to the centre never uttered a word so upset over Fabio, her condition, everything. Upon arrival back at the centre she gave me a teary thanks for coming before heading to her room. I realised I couldn't take any more of this I had to hand myself in, I just had to talk to Ursula first.
I went home not looking forward to telling Ursula, she wouldn't be pleased that's for sure. I walked in and there she was on the couch just resting and holding her belly with a smile on her face, she looked truly serene and at peace with herself which was going to make this all the more harder. "Hey babe, how you doing?"
"Oh my god Steven I'm so glad your home, come over here and put your hand on my belly" she said excitedly. I moved over and put my hand on her belly, for a few seconds nothing then I felt a kick. "Can you believe it Steven our baby is kicking!!"
The baby kicking just filled me with such a warm feeling, as I held my hand on Ursula's belly it became more real that there was a baby in there, a baby I helped to create, a life that would rely on me to protect and love it. I realised that once again I would have to put my unborn baby and girlfriend first, it was so gut wrenching to spend time with Jesinta and see her struggles but I would just have to find some way to block it all out because this child will need me.
The next couple of days I was on a high after feeling the sensation of my baby, as I did my rounds though a worried Helena came up to me. "Jesinta hasn't wanted to get out of her bed since the soccer game and she is also refusing to eat. I think she is still upset over Fabio ignoring her, I know that probably wouldn't do much to us emotionally but when your a quadriplegic it can sometimes feel like the world is already crumbling down and this just adds even more weight to the avalanche. Can I ask you a favour? She seems to like you so can you maybe go in and have a word with her? I know it's not your job but I've tried everything."
"Ok no worries" I replied determined to try and not let her get to me. I opened the door to Jesinta's room and saw her lying arched upright in bed, her vent prominent. "Hey Jesinta how you doing?" I asked. She had no movement in her head so she just looked down keen to avoid eye contact, I could tell she had been crying though as her eyes were red raw. "Nice day today, you should come out for a look at the flowers, they look great in this light" I said hoping to get a response. Her eyes finally looked up at me. "Do you ever feel like there's no point to life?"
"Whoa that's a big question. Sure there is" I replied
"What though?"
"Plenty of things, like sport, having a family,meeting someone special and falling in love"
"I can't do any of those things. I can't play sport and it's a major battle to even get to watch it, I can't have a family and who on earth would ever want a woman who can't even move or breath on her own. Thanks for that you really cheered me up" she added on the end sarcastically. I knew I had said the wrong thing but I had no idea on what to say.
"No matter what happens don't give up hope" I tried to say in a encouraging manner.
"Hope? That's something i don't have much of. You know what really shits me off about all this though? I dedicated 12 years of my life to helping kids with severe autism and cerebral palsy and so many other things, I used to work overtime for no extra pay just so those kids had a better chance at life. I was and still am a good person and this is how I get repaid, with the highest level of paralysis you can get. It's just not fair" she said with such a sorrow in her eyes that was truly heartbreaking. "God if I had of known my friend Angelique was previously married to a gangster I probably never would have been mates with her" she added. I just stood there silent knowing that it was probably true, if she wasn't friends with Angelique it never would have happened but then I still would have shot someone so my situation wouldn't have changed a great deal.
"They ever have any leads on who did it?"
"No. They reckon it was one of the gangster's thugs but they haven't been able to pin it on anyone, it's been 18 months now so I highly doubt they will ever catch him. Not that the police care anyway, they are more interested in writing traffic tickets and other pissy little things they can ping people on rather than doing any real work as I think that takes up too much energy for them"
"Yeah your probably right" I replied. I noticed I now had her talking which was a good thing. "So how about that trip around the grounds to check out the garden?"
"I suppose I might be able to manage that" she said begrudgingly but knowing it would do her good as she was sick of looking at the same four walls. I called over to Helena and she fixed the lift up so that Jesinta could be lowered into her wheelchair. As she reached her wheelchair Jesinta remarked "Out of one prison and into another" which I guessed referred to the amount of time spent in the bed and chair, two things she couldn't move out of. She got settled in the chair and the three of us went out into the garden. As Jesinta zoomed off a little bit ahead Helena thanked me for my work in getting her out of bed and into the sunshine outside, I replied that it was nothing but she insisted it was more than that, I realised that I was quickly starting to get a reputation as a "good bloke" which was one I certainly didn't deserve....
Chapter 4
Over the course of the next week I continued to work at the centre and go about my business but rather than my meetings with Jesinta being by chance she was now asking Helena to take her out to see me. I knew this was a bad idea but I was continually torn between trying to help her out and trying to ignore her, she had now clearly latched onto me as a support mechanism which I knew she wouldn't be if she knew the truth, the more time I spent with her though the more I was now conning myself into thinking that telling her now would do more harm than good. One day while out in the garden Clarence came out and told me he wanted to see me, I knew it would be about my bank account and we went back to his office.
"So do you have a bank account Steven?" he asked.
"Umm no. I know that your big on all this but I just don't believe in banks" I replied which was a lie but hoped he would buy it.
"Well Steven I'm not happy about all of this but from all reports you have been doing a good job. Particularly helping out Jesinta which Helena my daughter has told me about."
"Helena is your daughter?" I said surprised.
"Yes and without her I would have probably fired you. I get the feeling your not telling me everything but I will accept your request to be paid cash in hand"
"Oh god thanks Clarence" I said gleefully as I shook his hand and left the office.
"Just don't do anything that will make me change my mind" he warned me as I left. I guessed that meant to continue to be nice to Jesinta which I would have anyway, I knew then that I definitely wasn't going to be able to escape her now.
Later that day Jesinta found me again, every time I looked at her I couldn't imagine what she was going through, to have no use of your arms and legs all day everyday would be so awfully tough, to make matters worse she couldn't even breathe properly or move her head just her eyes and mouth and that's it. I didn't like to focus on the negatives on her situation but I was curious so while Helena was over getting a coffee I asked Jesinta something."I know this is the last thing you like to talk about but how does it feel? Like I mean, to be a quadriplegic"
"It's hell. Complete and utter hell, every morning I wake up there's just this very quick second where I think this was all a bad dream, that I can move and everything is fine, then I go to move and realise it wasn't a dream it's a living nightmare, I can't even get up when I want either I have to wait for someone to come in and even then they are normally just taking away my collection bag to change it or check my catheter to see if it's working or possibly replace it. I have no privacy and while the nurses do a great job I have no say over where they put their hands, sometimes they even have to put their hand up my nether regions to clear my bowels.
"Heard enough?" she said judging by the look of my face.
"I'm so sorry you have to go through these things"
"Yeah well what I told you isn't even the tip of the iceberg"
"I'm sure it is" I agreed not believing what her quality of life must be like.
"I question at least once every day if I want to continue on like this, but I don't want to die so I somehow go on although I'm not sure why to be honest. I guess the pills help!"
"What sort of medication you on?
"An easier question would be what am i not on. I take up to 15-20 pills a day for various problems. The anti depressants numb the terrible thoughts to a degree but doesn't stop them all together" she said with a solemn look coming over her face. "Anyway your supposed to be the one who cheers me up so stop depressing me!!" she added trying to lift the mood.
I wanted to do something to make her life a bit more exciting so I canvassed the idea of going to the Foo fighters concert which was in town and that I had managed to score tickets. Jesinta loved the sound of the idea but the concert would be at night and generally any sort of activities had to be done in the daytime. We brought it up with Helena. "I'll tell you what, it is against the rules but I will try to talk my dad into breaking the rules just this once. Jesinta obviously can't go without a nurse so I will have to come as well, I'll go talk to him once Jesinta is back in bed and see if he will go for it"
"Thanks Helena" we both said. After they headed off I realised I had a lot of work to do so I started to weed and prune like a man possessed so as to get home on time to Ursula.
Soon enough Helena got word that going to the concert would be ok, but just this one time as Clarence didn't want this thing becoming a regular occurrence. The day of the concert rolled around and Jesinta was loaded up onto the van, we arrived at the concert and straight away ran into interference. "You can't park that wheelchair here it's a fire hazard" said the security guard as Jesinta got into position. "Are you serious?" I replied.
"Very serious mate. You cant park that wheelchair there"
"Don't you think you can break with protocol just this once?" asked Helena.
"No I can't" replied the guard in a forceful manner getting in Helena's face a bit. I knew what these kinds of guys were like, they were either too fat or not disciplined enough to make the police force so they became what they considered the next best thing and that was a security guard. I could see Jesinta was getting upset so I took matters into my own hands."How about you just let us stay here" I said to the guard slipping him a 50 dollar note. He smiled and took the 50, then the bastard still told us to move. I stared at him with his smarmy look and said "Right that's it. I tried to be nice but now it's on" I headbutted him then landed a swift right hook to his jaw. "Listen you fuck we are sitting here got it?" I yelled in his face, he just nodded clutching his jaw and sooked off, I couldn't believe how quickly he scampered away like a little boy but then again I knew he was all bark and no bite, I had been around killers and god knows what when it came to Benny's crew so I knew a soft cock when I saw one.
While all of this was happening Helena and Jesinta looked on, they now looked at me a bit scared but they realised the guy was an insensitive prick so they were glad I roughed him up. "Let's enjoy the concert" I enthused as the Foo fighters took the stage. Throughout the concert Helena bopped along and I had to say I enjoyed myself, Jesinta told us she was dancing along in her head which made me a bit sad but she almost mentioned she had her best night in ages too which made me a least a little happy. We all arrived back at the centre on a high after a great night, Jesinta thanked me for getting her out and Helena once again got it in her head that I was some kind of perfect guy which I most certainly wasn't, I headed home thinking that for at least a couple of hours I had made Jesinta forget about her tragedy and enjoy herself. It still in no way,shape or form made up for what I did though that's for sure but I helped.
At work the next day I was a little weary but I didn't mind as it had been a good night, Jesinta had apparently knocked up for the run though and obviously picked up something from someone at the concert because she wasn't feeling well, Helena told me this is a common occurrence with quads though when they are mixed in with 12,000 other people, while she said this she asked me if I would like to catch some lunch with her. "Umm yeah I guess we could manage that I thought" I replied. I assumed she knew I was taken due to Clarence being her father but I wasn't sure, I know it sounds so conceited to think she would be interested in me but I'm guessing that's where i used up all my luck in life because for some reason I was a girl magnet.
We headed off to lunch and I tucked into a sandwich while Helena had a fruit salad, we started chatting about random things before she asked me if I was seeing anyone. "I have a girlfriend, her name is Ursula, we are expecting our first baby actually" I proudly told her.
"Ursula Anderson?"
"Yeah that's her"
"Are you sure the baby is yours?" she asked which surprised me quite a lot.
"What do you mean is it mine? Of course it is! Why would you even say that?"
"It's just I knew Ursula in high school and she used to get around a bit if you know what I mean, I heard she still did although she might have changed and I could be completely wrong"
"Well I have no reason to doubt her at this point in time"
"Ok then all good. Sorry if I offended you"
After the way she talked about Ursula the conversation dried up a bit, Helena didn't seem like a vindictive person but I couldn't really believe anything she said as Ursula had been nothing but good to me. That night as I entered the apartment I could see Ursula talking very quietly on the phone which I found a little strange. After she got off I asked her who it was. "Oh just a friend" she replied with appeared to be a guilty look. "I ran into one of your old school friends today, Helena Bernstein"
"Helena an old friend? You have got to be joking" she replied with disdain.
"So you two didn't get along?"
"To say that would be an understatement. Anyway I'm not interested in talking about her what do you want for dinner?"
"You get off your feet and I'll fix it" I replied. Ursula was 5 months and showing just a little at this point. We sat down and had dinner before we headed off to bed, I couldn't help but notice Ursula was being a little weird but I just assumed it was all in my head and went to sleep..
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