Astrophysicist: A Short Story

Mum shouted up the stairs, "Come down here now!" Her shout interrupted the nostalgia I was feeling from lying on my bed appreciating the array of star wars posters and memories plastered on my walls. There were only a few weeks until I started university and reach one step closer to reaching my dream of being an astrophysicist. I answered "Coming!" and began to make my way downstairs, as I was walking down the stairs something in the atmosphere felt different, as if something had changed and I couldn 't quite put my finger on it. Regardless, I kept walking to the kitchen where I was greeted by both of my parents, this instantly confused me considering my Dad is a workaholic and it 's extremely rare to see him. My parents instructed me to sit …show more content…
At this point in time I was genuinely happy, I felt content and accomplished, everything I had ever dreamed of was coming true. The sudden stroke of serendipity made me smile. I inserted the keys into the ignition, adjusted the gears, too excited to put my seatbelt on. After a few minutes of test driving I felt confident enough to open the windows and turn the radio on, a rush of adrenaline filled my bones causing me to increase the speed of which I was driving at. The main problem with my road is you can 't see far ahead, as I sped down the road, passing houses I see everyday a dog ran into the road causing me to swerve violently and hit a tree. I had been flung out from the driver 's seat to the edge of the road; the last thing I remember was feeling my back hit the ground like a ton of …show more content…
It all comes back, the car, the tree and the dog. I tried to speak but was still incapable of doing so, Dr Adams continues, he informs me of the extent of my injuries when I first arrived which was extremely harrowing. Towards the end of his diagnosis he assured me that the doctors had done everything they could, but my spinal cord was greatly damaged when I arrived. My heart rate increases, I begin to sweat, I am praying he doesn 't say what I think he is going to say. Dr Adams takes a long deep breath and resumes talking, "Charlie, I am very sorry to say, you are paralysed from the neck down." I want to scream, sob and shriek. My whole life is over. All my hopes and aspirations. Dead. Just like how I feel