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wonder what would happen…” She leaned forward and the monitor started beeping faster again. She came closed and lightly brushed her lips to mine. The monitor flat lined. “Jason!” She jumped back and the monitor started again.
    I grinned sheepishly at here and shrugged. “Sorry Katie you have an effect on me that is beyond my control.”
    “This could become embarrassing. I hope they take that thing off soon.” She said with a sparkle in her eye.
    The door opened and my Grandfather came back in again. He placed his arm on Katie’s shoulder and grinned at me.
    “This little girl never once gave up hope, Jason.” He hugged her quickly “Quite a little catch you got yourself here Jason.” he winked at me.
    I felt the blood rush to my face and grinned at Katie as she blushed too. “She is very special to me grandfather.” I looked out in the hallway to see if anyone else from my family was there. “Where is mom?” I asked my grandfather.
    The grin was wiped off his face and he said. “We will talk about that later.” The tone in his voice left no room for misinterpretation. I knew we would talk about it later and I had a sinking feeling that I would not like what I heard.
     

Chapter 6 - Friendship
    I was sitting up in my bed working on homework a few weeks later, when Katie came in. She had a grin on her face when she entered and she said. “Guess what.”
    I put down the book I had been reading and shoved the table back away from my hospital bed.
    “What, Katie?”
    My physical therapy was not going as well as I wanted it to go. I still was not able to move my legs at all. I was frustrated with myself and I wished things could go quicker than they were. Because I had so much time on my hands, at least I had been able to catch up on all the schoolwork I had missed. Katie’s mom had been tutoring me and helping me with the more difficult subjects. I had discovered that Katie has managed to shift her whole schedule around so it matched mine. She had been the one who brought all my homework to me and we did it together every night as long as she could stay.
    “You are getting out of here for the weekend.” She grinned at me.
    “I am? How did you manage that?” I asked her.
    “Well I think it sometimes counts that my Dad is head of this department and I’ve been getting on his nerves for the last two weeks.” She looked at me with innocent eyes. “Jordan is off at college so I convinced both my mother and father that you can have his room when you can get out of the hospital. Personally I think my father only wanted peace and quiet from my tantrums so he agreed you could stay there on the weekends.” She winked at me.
    It would be several weeks before the room would be ready that my grandfather was building me. I hated the fact that my grandparents would not take me home from the hospital until there was a handicapped accessible room available. My grandmother had the fixed idea that unless I could go to and from my room on my own, my mental recovery would be severely compromised. I’d been worried about the cost of the hospital until I found out that the village had to pay for everything because it had happened at the local school. From what I heard, the village counsel was going after the families of the boys who did this to me for partial compensation. “Ok I am up for anything. I hate it in here.”
    “Good then its settled. I have a lot of things planned for the weekend but first we are taking you to physical therapy.” She waved out the door to someone and a moment later my grandfather came in pushing a wheelchair.
    I waited until my grandfather picked me up and placed me in the chair before I grumbled. “It doesn’t seem to me that this physical therapy is helping me much.”
    My grandfather grabbed my shoulder and said sternly. “Let us have none of that, Jason. You made a promise to Katie here and our family does not break promises”
    “Ow!” I said and then I grinned at him. “I