Chapter2
When I was paralysed, he hugged me and said, “I love you no matter what.”
I be your legs from now
When I was scared, he said, “Till be you
He bathed and massaged me every day and sent me for acupuncture and massage.
This went on for three years.
One day, he said the name Rosalie Hans.
We had less and less to talk about, and he came back later and later every day.
He became detached and cold. He even forgot the day of my treatment.
We had a qurrel one day. Rosalie came to calm us down. “Alright, Joel, I’m scared when you’re like this.”
She stroked Joel’s chest, then squatted in front of my wheelchair.
“Jeanne, don’t think about sad things. Let me help you try on your shoes.”
She grabbed my legs without waiting for my consent.
Then she lifted the hem of the dress.
A withered, bony leg appeared.
Joel had not accompanied me for rehab for more than two
to years because recovery was hopeless.
my legs.
He closed his eyes when he saw my
Joel turned away, disgusted.
“You can see pressure sores all over your legs. Hurry up and put down your clothes”
“Shame on your” She laughed, seeing me staring at her.
“Don’t talk about Jeanne like that. She was a very good dancer”
With envy in her mouth, she forcefully twisted my leg outward at a strange angle.
“Try on the shoes, Joel and I chose them together.”
The high heel sits empty on my foot, mocking my ungainly leg bones.
The taunts come and went.
I clenched my fists and bit my lip.
I snatched the high heels and slammed them into her face.
“Get out” “Don’t touch mel”
She let out a scream and turned to rush into Joel’s arms, crying with tears streaming down her face.
Joel grabbed her and kicked
my
wheelchair:
I was pushed back towards the table with drinks.
The glass broke on my head.
I also fell out of the wheelchair.
Treflexively reached out to Joel, hoping he could give me a hand.
But he looked disgusted. “Rose gave you a shoe fitting, don’t be ungratefull”
I was angry and wanted to hit something.
“Joel, you guys are too much! Bullying me for being disabled?“>
“You’re unbelievable. Who bullied you? Our gift is respect!”
“You’re wicked.”
I was shocked and speechless. That’s what he thought of me.
He wouldn’t let me go to the banquet today.
To stop me going to the living room.
Joel even changed my cold medicine to sleeping pills.
He thought I didn’t know.
But for three years, over a thousand sleepless nights, I relied on this tiny pill to fall asleep.
After taking too much medicine, one develops patience.
I can’t sleep deeply with just one pill now.
My eyes grew moist.
When we first fell in love, he was able to wait for hours outside the theatre to introduce me to his best friend.
I knew that hearts change, but it still hurt when it came to this day.
