Chapter 20
Tee's POV
I felt sorry for P'Kim. I knew he was trying to keep up a brave front but I could tell that it bothered him that his mobility had become limited.
Copter seemed to feel responsible for the accident and kept hovering over P'Kim, trying to do things for him as much as he could.
I pulled him aside and said, "Stop thinking that what happened to P'Kim was your fault. What happened to him was an accident. Not all accidents are someone's fault."
His eyes started to moisten up.
"Let me be the one to take care of P'Kim," I said to him, "go have some fun activities with Bas."
I pushed him in the direction of Bas.
"Who wants to come with me to pick some vegetables from the backyard?" asked P'Tae. I could feel his eyes on me.
I did not respond and refused to look in his direction. I kept myself busy with helping P'Kim hop to the bathroom. P'Kim had said that he needed to go to the bathroom right before P'Tae popped his question.
Godt slipped his phone into his pocket and stood up from where he was sitting.
"Let's go," he said to P'Tae.
I stole a glance at P'Tae. Did I just imagine the look of disappointment on his face?
I opened the bathroom door for P'Kim and after he hopped inside, he said, "I can manage from here."
Of course he had to manage from there. I wasn't going to unzip his pants for him. I wasn't curious to know how big his thingy was, hahahah.
"Just call out when you're finished!" I said through the closed bathroom door.
I went to the living area where Copter and Bas were on the floor playing Anagrab. It was a word game where all the scrabble pieces were placed face down and they took turns turning over the scrabble pieces and when someone could form a word out of the turned up pieces, he could grab all the letters to his side. But if the other player was able to unscramble the letters to form a different word, he could grab the letters from the one who had formed a word earlier.
When I joined them Bas was arguing with Copter that Copter had grabbed the pieces before he could see what all the letters had been turned up.
Copter did not want to give in. He said he had formed the word 'stun' before Bas could grab the letters. Unfortunately, Bas was able to think of the word 'nuts' out of the same letters and was able to grab the letters back from Copter.
"You're both nuts," I said to them, "here let's all start over. I wanna play the game."
I had completely forgotten about P'Kim whom I had left in the bathroom. I was enjoying grabbing the pieces from Bas and Copter because I was able to form other words from the letters that they had placed on their sides.
Suddenly we all heard a loud thud.
Shit! I quickly got up from the floor and ran in the direction of the bathroom.
P'Kim was lying just outside the bathroom door.
"I'm okay, I'm okay!" he said when he saw the horrified and guilty look on my face.
I tried to help him up but Copter beat me to it.
"Do you hurt anywhere?" I asked.
"Only my butt and my pride," P'Kim replied with a laugh. He had not noticed that Copter was close to tears.
Copter and I stood on either side of P'Kim and helped him to a chair.
"What have you guys been up to?" he asked after we made sure that he was comfortable.
"We were playing Anagrab," I answered.
I explained to him how the game worked. After he understood, he said he also wanted to play. We helped him hop to the living room and helped him to sit on the floor.
Bas and Copter and I were all squealing as P'Kim kept grabbing our letter pieces because he was always able to form other words with the words that we had thought of before him.
We were all so engrossed in the game that we did not notice Godt and P'Tae come in carrying the vegetables from the backyard.
I looked up to see P'Tae wiping the sweat from his forehead. I started to feel guilty.
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