1 The Start Of The Dis-Ages

''This is where it all begins... war of 1988 the Warsbury, one of the deadliest bombs. Launched November 24, 1988, in the war with South America, and it affected how citizens live today. 9,000 were affected and 2,000 died. This started birth defects in the elderly and children,'' I Glance around the classroom spotting my friend looking at the screen in terror. This was not the first time they showed us this video, they show us each time someone with disabilities came into our school, I'm not worried by the video since we need to know the truth. Suddenly, the video ends, I glance around spotting many students on there phones or asleep. This video is more like a movie than a video because it feels like an hour long. While time clicks by and I listen to my inner thoughts, the bell finally rings. So I quickly gather my items and get out of my small and boring homeroom. I walk in the hallway and I see about five nurses walking north to the nurse's office holding someone on a stretcher. I did not notice them since I couldn't really see there faces. I think that was either a new student or Someone that got hurt during P.E. Anyway, the Video we watched a month ago was played since a fifteen-year-old kid had to get his legs amputated due to being a dis-age. He has born with normal legs as a baby but for some reason, as he grew older his legs grew shorter like baby legs all over again.

I walk down the hallway to lunch and my friend stops me. ''Hi, Maddix!'' She says. ''Hi,'' I answer back. She walks with me to lunch. ''Are you doing a Stem Expo project this year?'' She asks, ''Well,'' I say, ''Please, I need a partner and your my only close friend,'' I quickly say, ''I can't Jez. '' She stops and asks, ''Why?'' I stop walking and stare at Her. ''There's something I need to show you.'' She looks at me,'' What?'' She then says. I quickly pull her to the girl's bathroom and I take off my green jacket slowly, and so then I take off some of the bandages on my arm just to show the part from my elbow to my shoulder. She looks at it in terror, half of my arm is covered in splotchy red marks and it looks as if a wolf tore down all my skin that kept my arm steady. The half that was connected to my elbow up to my shoulder was effected, as well as my wrist up to my elbow but I couldn't take the bandages off since it is really raw. She backs up,'' your one of them, the Dis-ages,'' I then look at my arm and she stares at me, and before I know it, she comes up to me and hugs me. Instantly while trying to get out of this awkward state She lets go of me and I quickly put my arm cast back on and also my jacket.

Later, As I finish Getting my lunch and picking my seat I try to settle while hearing tons of kids chattering away. Jez does not talk, she just stares at the one arm that is set on the table. I try not to move it so I have to use my Un-Dominate hand which makes me drop my fork. She Quietly says, ''Are you alright?'' Then she finally looks up at my face and I say, "Yea Just shakey.'' She then tries to talks quieter, ''So what are you going to be doing for the next month... Or so.'' I glance around making sure no one is eavesdropping on the conversation. ''Well, I'm going to UVA for some surgery next week so I'm going to miss school, but I'm not sure what kind yet... I'm also getting a new strong-arm case that won't just have to be strapped, like the one I have now.'' I spot her looking around the lunchroom and about five kids are staring at us and whispering in each other's ears. "Dang it, they Probably heard me in the bathroom, "I say Shoving a spoon full of peas in my mouth. ''I'm pretty sure this is going to cause lots of gossip.''