Chapter 15: Being attentive

I wanted to run, his murderous look was telling me to do it or I might die now, but, when I tried to take a step, my legs lost the battle and I fall to the ground in an ungraceful way.

'Why must embarrassing things happen to me just when he's around?' I mentally ask myself.

"Get up, or do you just like being on the floor?" Helmut asks with annoyance, and I try to get up, but, my legs don't respond.

"Do you have anything else to say? Because if you're done, you can leave." I say coolly.

"You can't get up, can you?"

"I can get up."

"Surely you haven't walked since you came in here and you were in the same sitting position the whole time. That and you not feeding well must have left you limp" Helmut says and I hate that I can't get up and laugh in his face telling him he is wrong.

"You go about your important business I'll take care of mine." I say finally.

"I'm not leaving until I see you eating."

"Why are you worrying about that?" he asks sneezing.

"Oh, that's another problem, how ca