Never Land - Chapter Two
Rosy and Amelia's friendship grows stronger everyday as Rosy's reading improves everyday. In this chapter Rosy and Amelia will share their views about one another and also Rosy's Doctor may have found a way to improve Rosy's intelligence!
Chapter 2: Amelia's View
Ever since Rosy knocked down those glass containers in Chemistry, I've wanted to look after her. Everyone else saw a clumsy, stupid girl... I saw Rosy. Sweet, innocent and wanting to fit in badly. As soon as she fell, I ran to help her. "Don't help her up Amelia, she's just a dork." Said the cute boy who talked me whole morning. There goes that date you asked me out on, I thought to myself and left the class as the bell had rung.
Sure I was new at this school but being new was nothing new to me. My father made my family and I travel all across the world whenever he got a new job. This time last year I was in Japan...Yes arigato. I was so lost! But finally I found it Room 22, the special needs French class. Now I hadn't done any extra curricular like another language before because we travel too much, so I'm forced to take French as a special ED class, but I don't mind going slow.
I found a seat and saw everyone staring at me. I felt like an outsider to them. I heard most of them whispering, "What's one of the 'normals' doing here?" It was like I represented every person from our year that made fun of them and hurt their feelings. I hated it. I looked down at my book and turned the pages to attract attention away from myself when Rosy walked in. She looked at me and I smiled at her and she looked as if she was going to smile back but she seemed afraid too and she sat down instead. Eventually she must have realized who I was and she turned around and gave me a huge smile. That was the beginning of our friendship. I tried so hard to help Rosy fit in because that was what she wanted. I took her to a party and an idiot of a guy tried to have his way with her knowing about her condition.
Rosy thought I was keeping her from having her first kiss which I wasn't, it's just no one understood her like I did. Because Rosy started being my friend everyone treated her better and her confidence shone through. She told me how happy she was all the time and I was glad she was happy. She told me her reading improved a lot. I'm enjoying being Rosy's friend a lot. She's not like other people, pretentious and greedy and plastic. All she wants is to fit in and she has the innocence and honesty of a child. I liked that. Out of all the schools I've attended, I have never come across someone as special as Rosy and I feel special to have her as my friend.
Three months later...
Rosy's view
"Rosy. Your reading teacher has told me that your reading has improved tremendously! We are so proud of you, said Dr. Brown with a huge smile on her face. Just a few months ago, you were unable to read. Your self-confidence has been boosted by a new friend I take it?" She flipped through her thick files while I replied, "Yes Ma'am. I made a new friend Amelia! She is so good to me. We have lots of fun. She takes me out all the time and sometimes has dinner at our house. She bought me a doll set for my birthday and taught me how to put make-up on!" "I am very pleased you've found such a good friend Rosy and you'd better hold on to her."
After the session with Dr. Brown, my mom spoke to her for a long time while I got a snack at the canteen. Eventually I saw mom looking happy and signing papers. She walked towards me excitedly. "Rosy! You've always wished, there was a way for you to fit in with the other kids at your school right? Well Dr. Brown said because you're improving so much they can test their new medication on you. It can make you better Rosy... How about it?" I sat down and chewed my butterscotch candy. I've always wanted to be like the normal kids and I was improving and it felt good. I didn't mind being me anymore because I had Amelia...maybe I should do this for her. Then we can do normal things together." Ok mom, I'll do it."
Over the next few weeks, I sat in Dr. Brown's lab doing tests and test we're run on me. I hated being poked at and hated the wires that they attached to me everyday. I didn't get to see Amelia much anymore because I had to skip school to be at the lab for testing. I felt like those lab rats in the maze except I felt like I was never getting the cheese at the end. Eventually Dr. Brown said I was ready. She told me to stay calm and she gave me something that she said would make me sleepy. She injected something into my arm and I fell asleep. When I eventually woke up my head hurt badly. I felt different somehow but I wasn't sure why and how. I saw that Dr. Brown was in the room with mom. Dr. Brown cleared her throat and began to speak, "Do you feel any pain Rosy?" I shook my head no. "Ok. I want you to walk around for a bit and once you feel better, I need to you to come for some more tests."
I stood outside for a while until they called me in. Dr. Brown gave me a book to read. It wasn't 'Peter Pan'. It was some book called, 'The Great Gatsby'. I was told to read. I read pages and pages without as much as a hiccup. My mother started to tear up, I then did a page of Maths that the 'normals' would usually do and some science. My mother was so happy she was hugging me and wouldn't stop." How is this possible Doctor?" I enquired.
"A few hours ago I could barely read but now I could be a young Albert Einstein!
"We have been playing around with cloning Rosy and we found that if we cloned the cells of an intelligent human brain and injected it into a person with a learning difficulty it could possibly enhance intelligence. We thought it would slightly increase yours, but this is much more than we would've hoped for! This is a miracle." Dr. Brown ended off saying that with a little skip.
Things started happening so fast after that. I had to do a few tests and was later transferred into the 'normals' class. Everyone treated me better. Amelia was so happy for me; I can't understand how she could have been my friend when I could barely read or write. She seemed to be happier to be around me now. We shared more things. Homework, boy talk, and I even helped her with mathematics! Finally I was accepted as one of the ''normals'' and I wasn't going back.
Amelia's view
After Doctor Brown did whatever it is she did to make Amelia smart changed her a bit. She was still the same Rosy just now she was like everyone else and she was trying to make everyone like her now even more than before. I don't think she saw what I did when she was just herself. Being different made her special and I loved that about her.
Her being able to understand things made us closer. She even helps me with Maths now! I don't understand what the doctor did to improve her intelligence but I hope it lasts because Rosy seems much happier. The people in my class who used to treat her like dirt are playing the roles of 'friends' now. Even though Rosy wasn't as intelligent as they were ever didn't make her unattractive in appearance and they knew that and that made them rebel against her even more. Now she had the looks and the brains they were glad she lacked before. I know that Rosy is smart now and people seem to accept her more but I just hope that she'll be happier now or at least that she will accept herself like I accepted her no matter her brain size.
Ever since Rosy knocked down those glass containers in Chemistry, I've wanted to look after her. Everyone else saw a clumsy, stupid girl... I saw Rosy. Sweet, innocent and wanting to fit in badly. As soon as she fell, I ran to help her. "Don't help her up Amelia, she's just a dork." Said the cute boy who talked me whole morning. There goes that date you asked me out on, I thought to myself and left the class as the bell had rung.
Sure I was new at this school but being new was nothing new to me. My father made my family and I travel all across the world whenever he got a new job. This time last year I was in Japan...Yes arigato. I was so lost! But finally I found it Room 22, the special needs French class. Now I hadn't done any extra curricular like another language before because we travel too much, so I'm forced to take French as a special ED class, but I don't mind going slow.
I found a seat and saw everyone staring at me. I felt like an outsider to them. I heard most of them whispering, "What's one of the 'normals' doing here?" It was like I represented every person from our year that made fun of them and hurt their feelings. I hated it. I looked down at my book and turned the pages to attract attention away from myself when Rosy walked in. She looked at me and I smiled at her and she looked as if she was going to smile back but she seemed afraid too and she sat down instead. Eventually she must have realized who I was and she turned around and gave me a huge smile. That was the beginning of our friendship. I tried so hard to help Rosy fit in because that was what she wanted. I took her to a party and an idiot of a guy tried to have his way with her knowing about her condition.
Rosy thought I was keeping her from having her first kiss which I wasn't, it's just no one understood her like I did. Because Rosy started being my friend everyone treated her better and her confidence shone through. She told me how happy she was all the time and I was glad she was happy. She told me her reading improved a lot. I'm enjoying being Rosy's friend a lot. She's not like other people, pretentious and greedy and plastic. All she wants is to fit in and she has the innocence and honesty of a child. I liked that. Out of all the schools I've attended, I have never come across someone as special as Rosy and I feel special to have her as my friend.
Three months later...
Rosy's view
"Rosy. Your reading teacher has told me that your reading has improved tremendously! We are so proud of you, said Dr. Brown with a huge smile on her face. Just a few months ago, you were unable to read. Your self-confidence has been boosted by a new friend I take it?" She flipped through her thick files while I replied, "Yes Ma'am. I made a new friend Amelia! She is so good to me. We have lots of fun. She takes me out all the time and sometimes has dinner at our house. She bought me a doll set for my birthday and taught me how to put make-up on!" "I am very pleased you've found such a good friend Rosy and you'd better hold on to her."
After the session with Dr. Brown, my mom spoke to her for a long time while I got a snack at the canteen. Eventually I saw mom looking happy and signing papers. She walked towards me excitedly. "Rosy! You've always wished, there was a way for you to fit in with the other kids at your school right? Well Dr. Brown said because you're improving so much they can test their new medication on you. It can make you better Rosy... How about it?" I sat down and chewed my butterscotch candy. I've always wanted to be like the normal kids and I was improving and it felt good. I didn't mind being me anymore because I had Amelia...maybe I should do this for her. Then we can do normal things together." Ok mom, I'll do it."
Over the next few weeks, I sat in Dr. Brown's lab doing tests and test we're run on me. I hated being poked at and hated the wires that they attached to me everyday. I didn't get to see Amelia much anymore because I had to skip school to be at the lab for testing. I felt like those lab rats in the maze except I felt like I was never getting the cheese at the end. Eventually Dr. Brown said I was ready. She told me to stay calm and she gave me something that she said would make me sleepy. She injected something into my arm and I fell asleep. When I eventually woke up my head hurt badly. I felt different somehow but I wasn't sure why and how. I saw that Dr. Brown was in the room with mom. Dr. Brown cleared her throat and began to speak, "Do you feel any pain Rosy?" I shook my head no. "Ok. I want you to walk around for a bit and once you feel better, I need to you to come for some more tests."
I stood outside for a while until they called me in. Dr. Brown gave me a book to read. It wasn't 'Peter Pan'. It was some book called, 'The Great Gatsby'. I was told to read. I read pages and pages without as much as a hiccup. My mother started to tear up, I then did a page of Maths that the 'normals' would usually do and some science. My mother was so happy she was hugging me and wouldn't stop." How is this possible Doctor?" I enquired.
"A few hours ago I could barely read but now I could be a young Albert Einstein!
"We have been playing around with cloning Rosy and we found that if we cloned the cells of an intelligent human brain and injected it into a person with a learning difficulty it could possibly enhance intelligence. We thought it would slightly increase yours, but this is much more than we would've hoped for! This is a miracle." Dr. Brown ended off saying that with a little skip.
Things started happening so fast after that. I had to do a few tests and was later transferred into the 'normals' class. Everyone treated me better. Amelia was so happy for me; I can't understand how she could have been my friend when I could barely read or write. She seemed to be happier to be around me now. We shared more things. Homework, boy talk, and I even helped her with mathematics! Finally I was accepted as one of the ''normals'' and I wasn't going back.
Amelia's view
After Doctor Brown did whatever it is she did to make Amelia smart changed her a bit. She was still the same Rosy just now she was like everyone else and she was trying to make everyone like her now even more than before. I don't think she saw what I did when she was just herself. Being different made her special and I loved that about her.
Her being able to understand things made us closer. She even helps me with Maths now! I don't understand what the doctor did to improve her intelligence but I hope it lasts because Rosy seems much happier. The people in my class who used to treat her like dirt are playing the roles of 'friends' now. Even though Rosy wasn't as intelligent as they were ever didn't make her unattractive in appearance and they knew that and that made them rebel against her even more. Now she had the looks and the brains they were glad she lacked before. I know that Rosy is smart now and people seem to accept her more but I just hope that she'll be happier now or at least that she will accept herself like I accepted her no matter her brain size.
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