It's a week already, and I am already becoming my best self again, I no longer need the crutches, I now wear the orthopedic boot only, now seeing them more like a new swagger than a protection from my injury, I wear them and on my right leg wears whichever footwear I want.
We planned on going around the City today, Davis wanted to show me around the City, wanted me to go to places around the City that I haven't been to. We already made plans that he would show up by 09:00 a.m. so I was now on the lookout for him, waiting for him to show up because it's almost 5 minutes past the set time.
The knock on the door told me that it was Davis, he's already here, he should've texted me that he was here already, could have asked him to wait downstairs let me come down on him myself, instead of him coming up here. I do wanted to know the City more, I wanted to see places, places I can take Gianna to for a fun time together.
Getting inside his car, I requested that we drive to the clinic first, I want to have a word with Gianna before we begin with our tour. I never saw her since the past two days, though we spoke on the phone, but I prefer the face to face conversation more, don't always see the phone calls and chats as anything, they're just tools keeping us away from our loved ones, with the idea that we're always reaching out.
Stepping out from the truck, I made my way into the clinic, there were a lot of patients like always, but despite that, I believe that Gianna is somehow free with her schedule because she doesn't keep her patients waiting, always reaching out to them at their appointed time and working things out, unlike the others who keep on rescheduling day in day out.
“ Hey....”
“ Hey....” I replied to her greeting, standing beside her while she was squatting down, tending to a patient's knee, a boy actually, he looks like he's 11 or maybe 12 I would say, he's all alone in here, no one trying to encourage him with you can get through this kind of motivation, his teeth were gritted together, trying to numb the pain. He's trying, he's really trying to withstand the pain, I have seen tons of players who got injured on the knee and cried like a baby when they're been treated, but the little boy is trying, and I just hope it wasn't serious.
Holding his hand, he looks up at me out of shock, like he wasn't expecting no contact from anyone, even though the pain was still to much to bear, his attention were on me, trying to distract him as much as I can from the pain of the treatment.
“ You got this buddy, it's going to be alright....”
I tried throwing words of encouragement to the air, even though I can't remember trying it before, but it seems to work, the boy nodding in agreement, with his face still squeezed together, he does believe that he'll really get through this. “ You play football?.....” I asked him, he nodded his head, Gianna looked up at me, a smile on her face like she does understand what I was trying to do for the boy.
“ Wow..... That's really awesome buddy, you've gotta get past this quickly so that you can return back into the pitch and show them whose boss..... Common, I believe in you.....”
It all seems to be working, he smiled, holding onto my hand so tight as he tries to withstand the jolt of pain washing through him, Gianna trying to be quiet gentle on him. I know that Davis is out there waiting for me, but I can't leave now right?, This boy here needs me, someone needs me, a lil bro who's trying to get through a setback, I just hope it doesn't get serious, the injury, because that particular knee injury has ended so many career even before they began.
I heard the entrance door open, turning around, it was Davis, has probably come to check on me, to know why I was wasting a lot of time in here, guess he can see for himself that I am just trying to be here for a lil bro, just like I can be for him too. He walked up to us, his attention now on the situation rather than on me whom he has probably come in here to shake out.
“ What happened to him?.....”
Davis asked, I knew that the question was actually directed at me, Gianna doing her work fully focused, not even getting distracted by my presence, you know.... She loves me too much, at least that's what I think or actually, I know, lol.
“ The kid is a baller bro, got injured on the worst part of the body for the game, but he looks strong enough, so I believe he can possibly shake it off.....”
“ Wow.... Sorry buddy, just relax, you'll get through this, you hear?....”
Davis tried encouraging him as well, the boy nodding in acceptance of his encouragement, before looking down on the work on his knee again. After the boy was been taken care of, I followed Gianna in into the medical room where few other patients were lying on the bed.
“ Are you guys going somewhere?, You and your friend out there?.....”
“ Davis?..... Yeah, he's just about showing me around the City, got to know more about the environment I'm living in right?....”
She laughed, her laughter a picture that can never leave my mind, a stocked in data that will always remain in there. Knowing that I'll have to be leaving now, I gently brought her in closer to me, eyes staring into hers before bending my head by the side as I planted a kiss on her lips.