Thread: Mismatched Partners (suicidal butterfly and Josu_T)

Cat walked home and it wasn't very pleasant. Her wrist was throbbing in pain and it seemed like nothing could get rid of it. She had put a tenser-bandage on her wrist wrapping it tight so it wouldn't move much. When she got in the door she immediately called Bella. Her friend since she was little, she also did gymnastics. Only she still did it. Its hurting again. was all Cat said as her friend picked up the phone. Bella had concern in her voice and asked if she tried to do gymnastics again. Then gave her trouble for trying. Cat knew she couldn't do it anymore, but ever since she was little she would breathe and live gymnastics. It was her life till, she had shattered her wrist. ------------------- It was four years ago when it happened. She was at the top of her game, no one could touch her. So from that her ego grew. She became self-centered, and started to not care for anything around her but her competition and beating them. Everyone on her team put up with her only because of her talent as a gymnast. She would lead them to a win nearly every time. Cat was trying out for the Olympic team, and it was very promising. She was nervous and almost scared at the same time. This was her dream and it was slowly becoming true. She was trying a new move she had just thought of, very complicated and very tough. Cat started on the vault and everything seemed to be going fine, till her ego had blinded her and her safety. She attempted the move but as she jumped on the spring board and was starting to flip over, her hands had gotten the wrong positioning. It all happened so fast, Cat didn't know what was going on. Her wrist had collapsed from the wrong position, letting her full body weight fall onto it. That had initially broken it. Then from the force and impact she flew from the vault uncontrollably flipping. Her head landing first knocking her out, then her hand underneath her twisted, broken, and as she would find out later shattered. Everyone had rushed to her, no one thinking that she would ever have something like this happen to her. While she was rushed to the hospital everything was a blur. She remembered yelling from the pain in her whole arm, giving ing to tears. Bella next to her holding her other hand, saying something about some one was fired. Then blackness. Cat woke up a day later in the hospital bed. She was told what happened. An employee didn't wash the vault and it had sweat and chalk mixed on it. Causing her to not find her positioning and as soon as her hands hit, it was like glue. Stoping her hands from pivoting. Cat cried and cried about what happened, everything she knew and loved was instantly taken away. She was told never to do gymnastics again, her wrist would never be the same. Unable to support her body and constant use needed for the sport. ------------------- Cat ended the call, she closed her eyes and held back the tears. She then Quickly went to the kitchen and pulled out an ice pack, unwrapping the bandage and putting the pack on then wrapping it up again. Next she went to her medicine cabinet and popped two extra strong pain killers. Cat then sunk herself into an overstuffed sofa, favoring her wrist. Being careful not to cause more pain. Why? That was the question In her head, why did this happen? Why was she being punished and forced to give that life up. She did t know why, she was just beating her self up over it. She soon drifted off into a sound sleep, that question probing her mind and soon causing a nightmare.