The next day it was a Saturday, my mother took the opal and I to a carnival where we were just enjoying ourselves and getting on rides and playing games. It took my mind off the loss we had yesterday, just enjoying time with my mother and little sister. We had some excellent food and even rode a ride called The Pirates where a ship goes up and around at some point we were upside down, and I freaked out thinking I was going to slip out and turn into a meat paste, but of course, that's just me overthinking things.
We stayed there till late at night, where they had a performance and a small concert. At 11 pm we started to make our way home since it was late and we were tired even if the show hadn't ended we were beaten from being there all day. When we were almost home and stopped at a red light, the light turned green, and we started to move again, but then a car came crashing into our car. I made some quick moves before I passed out from the pain I was experiencing.People around started calling the ambulance and police, and in no time, they dug us out of the car because it was wrecked, so they had to cut open the doors. A week later I slowly opened my eyes to see a bright light in front me, and on the side of my view, I saw the same info I got when I went back in time, and it told me my abilities, but this time, it said recovery time two years.I was shocked beyond words and tried to remember the last thing I was doing than I remembered we were in an accident, and I prayed that my baby sister was ok. I looked around and saw my legs were wrapped up and looked like they were hanging from some chains on the ceiling. I see my brother Rasta asleep on my bed, and I quickly call out to him as soon as he saw I was awake he started crying and hugging me telling me that everything was going to be ok.I quickly asked him how Opal was, and he reassured me that she was fine thanks to me saving her last minute but at the cost of my legs, and I told him it's ok her life is more important than my legs. He then tells me I've been in the hospital for a week now, and that opal got released the second day. I thanked God and then asked about my mother, and he started crying again and told me she didn't make.My whole world fell apart, and it felt like my soul left my body. I was so shocked I couldn't even cry, I just looked at Rasta while he was crying with disbelief and told him to stop playing mother is invincible, forever Young no way could happen. Then he tells me what happened to her about how when the car hit as she took most of the damage for us to survive.I passed out after that and woke up the next morning, and this time, my father, flo, John, Shawn, Rasta, Opal, and even my stepmom were there. I started crying when I saw everyone and said:" I guess it wasn't a nightmare mother is gone." They all came hugging me to cheer me up. After a week of sitting in the hospital and having multiple people come to visit me, I was ready to leave.Everyone came to visit me except for Akua, which surprised me. The hospital gave me a wheelchair when it was time for me to get released. Rasta came to get me with Flo so they could help me get into the house when we got there. Rasta and Flo moved back to the house to help take care of Opal and I because I didn't want to disturb my father's life since he had started a new family.On the way home, Rasta told me how we got life insurance money from mother's death, and we are going to take the guy that ran into us to court and that the guy was drunk and from a rich family so they would compensate us for our loses which made me very mad because no amount of money could make my mother come back alive. I just calmed down and asked them what's next, and I am still able to go to school.He said he and Flo would be our legal guardians and that I will still be attending school and with the money, he and Flo will also be taking a few classes and help take care of Opal and I and that brought tears to my eyes as I said thank you for sacrificing your time to do that for us, but then he said:" it's ok we are family after all." When I got home, they had to help me by lifting me and having me sit on the couch so they could unfold my chair and have me sit in that.I was thankful to be alive and to be able to use my hands still but was mad at that driver for taking my mother away, as I was in thought Akua comes into the house and gives me a big hug and says how sorry she was she couldn't come up to the hospital. I tell her it's ok and ask her if she's ok but notice the changes in her face like she had some bad news. She started talking about how stressful it's been for her and how she missed me and that she couldn't take it anymore and then boom like a bomb she breaks up with me saying that she doesn't want to marry a disabled man in the future and runs right out crying.I felt so stupid at this point because all my family and friends were around when this happened. I quickly laugh and say, hey, at least I know who's loyal and who's not, so when I do make it to the NBA one day, I don't need any gold diggers to be around me. They all looked at me funny and said, are you still thinking about playing basketball? Have you seen your legs?I then tell them it should be healed by two years, but they look at me like I'm crazy all except Rasta who always believed in me and said:" don't worry I got your back until you get back on your feet."As the days went by, we were making arrangements for my mother's funeral, which was to take place after the following week. Rasta quit his job to take care of us, and Flo had to get back to campus to finish the semester.Rasta helped us with everything, even with my baths, which I was grateful for. I told him that in the future, I'd take good care of him for being loyal to his family; he laughed it off and said, "sure, Mr. NBA." Opal was still bummed out and locked herself in her room most of the time. I felt bad for her because she was still young at the age of six years old. I wasn't so sad because in my past life I had already seen her pass away, but it still hit me because I was ready to work hard and retire her from working so hard, but I didn't even get the chance to do that, so I felt like I had failed her twice.After a bath and while we were having dinner, I told Rasta that I would need him to make some investments for me, which surprised him, making him say what does a little man as you knows about investments. I lied and said a little, but we need to step it up and secure a better future for ourselves now that we are truly on our own, making him agree with me.We put together at least $2,000.00 and went to make invest in Amazon because I know they are a big company, and I was thinking about doing Bitcoin, but they weren't out yet, so amazon was the next thing on my mind. During the days while waiting, I was working out my arms so I wouldn't get tired when shooting the ball all the time by lifting myself off the wheelchair and putting myself back down like push-ups.I would wheel myself up to the basketball court and take shots for a few hours before wheeling back home to get a bath and sleep. We had to install boards so I could drive my wheelchair up the stairs. That way, Rasta doesn't get tired from carrying my heavy body up and down the stairs. I got all the school work delivered to me, so I had no problems at the school end.We also received news about what happened that day and that it was a drunk man whose wife had just divorced him, so we went drinking and got too drunk and got behind the wheel. He came to court that week and offered to pay for our losses, and I think it must be nice to be rich and be able to pay for a lost life. He offered us a settlement of 1 million dollars and my brother took so now we had some extra money, but I got mad at Rasta and told him that we didn't get much from it which confused him because I thought when I get into the NBA I will be making that amount in less than a month, but I just dropped it.