Stella sat in her wheel chair. She faced the window, but didn't look out, her dark unwashed mahogany brown hair hung like a curtain around her face.  Mother came in, closing the door silently. It was easy to see they were related, the same dark brown hair and the strange greenish grey eyes.  She walked towards her daughter who flinched and shrunk away from her mothers touch as if she was painful to touch. Her mother sighed, Stella sensed her mother put on a fake mask. A fake voice. She was right.

"Hello Dear. Hey why don't we go out. What about shopping? We always went shopping." She said, trying to sound happy, nothing was happy now. Stella didn't say anything for a while, until she sighed knowing her mother wouldn't leave till she said something.

"I went shopping when I could walk. They don't make enough space for this" She hissed, not at her mother, even though she winced slightly at her daughters harsh words. Mostly at the wheel chair, which she would name 'this'. Stella still hadn't admitted to herself that she was in a wheel chair. Not yet. How had she gone from everything to nothing? Pretty Stella. Head cheerleader, perfect boyfriend, the apple of mummy and daddys eye and the schools face.  She shouldn't have taken that ride, but how could she resist? His invitingly warm eyes, had called her. Her mother had said how could she moan when poor Tristan was buried 6 feet under. But he was the lucky one. He didn't have to sit in the chair, a prisoner to his own body. He didn't go out anywhere and see where he used to be. A ghost, he was there you blink and he's gone.  He still haunted Stella. If not in real life, in her dreams. Stella had gone down hill rapidly. Everyone who had the rare chance to see her commented on that. They were nice to Stella's face, but she'd heard them talking to mother. She had changed, gotten ill. Lost all will to live her life. She hated her body. She hated her life.

Her mother left Stella to continue staring at nothing, she whispered something to herself, but Stella heard.

Such a waste of a beautiful life

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