Drowning

New surroundings

Kenzie's p.o.v
The doctors say that after a while they may be able to attach a metal foot to the end of my leg. Things would get back to normal. Except what is normal about a metal foot. You can't have a metal limb in the ocean and the ocean is my life. Not that I am quite fond of it at the moment. I am also limited to crutches for the time being. I know I shouldn't be complaining, so many people are living worse off than me. People without legs at all or people that are dying from incurable diseases. Compared to the rest of the world I am still privileged to have what I have, and I know that I can still pretty much do everything except walk, I could even still swim. I could probably learn to surf with one foot too, it's just everything will be so different. Everyone will be walking on eggshells around me, scared that I am too fragile now to be left alone. People will laugh and be grossed out. People at school will avoid me, they will try to be nice but you can see in their eyes that they are disgusted and creeped out.

I was discharged from the hospital, Trent took me back to Bondi so he could thank everyone, I also wanted to thank them I mean without them I would probably be dead. It was completely silent in the car, i just looked out the window. There was nothing new. A sea of tourists drowned the locals, seagulls were infinite.

When we parked Trent opened my door and tried to help me out, only for my emotions at the time to get the better of me.
"I can do it my self!" He stepped back as I stumbled out of the car. I fell to be caught by him.
"I'm sorry."
"That's okay, I'm just trying to help okay but if I am suffocating you let me know." I nodded and we headed to the life guard tower. They were starting to pack everything up when we got there. We entered the tower and Jesse immediately hugged me. I laughed softly until he gently put me down. He looked at my stub, then up at me with a sympathetic smile.
"Thank you for saying my life."

Jesse's p.o.v
When Kenzie walked in I was so happy to see that she was okay. I ran up to her and hugged her spinning her around. She chuckled and I put her down. Which is when I saw her foot, well actually it's when I didn't see her foot. I smiled at her trying to tell her that it's okay then she thanked me.
"All in a days work." Maxi looked at me and then told Kenz to sit in the tower while we talked.

"Hey, everything alright?"
"Kenz hates this, she thinks we are all gonna treat her differently and I mean she's not wrong. But to an extent we need to try and treat her normally."
I looked back into the tower and Kenzie was smiling, but it wasn't genuine. I could tell she was grateful that nothing worse happened but this sucks.
"Yeah I get that. I reckon in time she will see this as a new opportunity. She could enter Paralympics."
Maxi softly chuckled at my attempt to lighten the mood and headed back into the tower and ruffled Kenzie's hair.

Maxi's p.o.v
We left the tower slowly. As we headed to the car a few looks we're given and Kenz lowered her head in shame. I put my hand on her back reassuringly and the gave me a small smile. Then one of her friends from school came up to her.
"Oh my gosh Kenzie?"
"Hi Katie" Kenz was talking just above a whisper and her head was still hanging low.
"What happened to your leg?"
Kenzie didn't answer, instead she looked up at me almost asking me for the answer.
"She was swimming and her foot got stuck in between some rocks. The tide was coming in and we couldn't get her out without breaking her ankle. But we broke it to an extent where it was no longer reconstructable so they had to amputate." As I explained what happened to Katie, Kenzie put her head back down.
"Woah. That sucks Kenzie. I hope you feel better soon." The two hugged then Katie ran to her mum who gave me a sympathetic smile as I returned a grateful one.
I looked down at Kenz to realise that she had started crying. I knelt down in front of her and lifted her chin so she would face me.
"Hey what's wrong,"
"When I go back to school, I will have to explain over and over again. But the explanation makes me feel so guilty."
"Why?"
"I wasn't supposed to be at the beach today, I snuck out to follow you. Mum thought I was still sleeping..... oh no mum! She's gonna hate me!."
"Kenz it's alright I have already spoken to mum, she doesn't hate you she is just relieved that you aren't more hurt. And don't get upset if mum treats you like a baby okay, it's her job as a mother she would smother you if you only had a scraped knee as well."
Kenzie slightly giggled.
"C'mere."
I hugged her tightly.

A/N
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