Roni's therapy session didn't go very well. Everyone knew she wasn't putting any effort in. The therapist was the one doing any the work. Everyone knew it, but no one said anything.

The car ride back from the physical therapist, was a quiet one. The conversations were all a little one-sided.

"There's a State Dinner coming up." Jed said looking at Roni. Roni didn't even flinch when she heard her father's voice. "I'd like it if you were to come. You can bring Brad with you."

Roni still had yet to move or respond. Jed placed his hand down on Roni's leg in a supportive manner, but she couldn't feel it. She couldn't feel anything below her waist.

Jed realized what he had done, and he felt foolish for having done it. Almost immediately he moved his hand as he draped his arm around her shoulders. "I'd really like it if you could come, Roni."

"And I'd like it if you would leave me alone, father." Roni replied very coldly as she removed his arm from around her.

Jed's heart was breaking. He didn't know what to do. Was he loosing his little girl? Did he ever have his little girl? He never did meet her until she was a grown up.

Needing support, he turned to find Abbey's eyes. Her eyes were filled with tears. She didn't know what to do either. She was just as frustrated with Roni's lack of interest over her own health, her own life.

What can you do to help someone that doesn't want to help themself?

Nothing. That's what. You can't do anything at all. You can be there for the person, but more than that, there isn't anything you can do to help.

As the limo pulled up to the residence, Jed and Abbey climbed out the same side of the vehicle, as did the driver. The driver then went into the trunk and took Roni's wheelchair out. Abbey pushed it over by the door Roni was sitting right in side of, and Jed picked her up and carried her out.

The moment Roni was in that chair, she took off. She struggled a little with the door, but once she got it, she was gone from sight. Jed and Abbey sighed as they looked at each other and then silently went in themselves.

Their youngest daughter was in so much pain. So much anguish. And she wouldn't let them near her. It hurt them so much. They had gotten so close to Roni in the short time that she has been with them. But now, everything they have worked so hard to establish with her, it was all disappearing.

It all vanished along with Roni's ability to walk again.

Would it ever return?

Would Roni ever be able to let her family back in? Would she let anyone back in? Her family wasn't the only ones she was pushing away.

… Brad

Roni hasn't spoken to Brad since that first day that she came out of her coma. She hasn't really talked to anyone since that day she came out of the coma. It was like something changed. She woke up, but would she ever be the same?

Could she ever be the same?

When Roni left her parents standing outside, she just wanted to get away. She didn't know where she was going, just away. She was sorry that she was being so mean to them.

Really, she was.

But she had shut herself down. She didn't know how to deal with any of the changes in her life, and she didn't want to learn how to deal with them. Sure, that might be unhealthy, but as long as Roni was able to run … she ran. Not literally of course, but figuratively speaking.

Just how far could Roni go? Physically? Emotionally?

Somehow Roni ended up in the living room in the residence. She didn't know why she was there, that's just where she was when she stopped pushing. After sitting there in the dark for a few minutes, Roni transported her body into the reclinable chair. After successfully doing this, she turned the TV on and began to surf the channels.

She stopped on some cartoon show. Something about this cartoon caught her attention. What was it?

TBC…