A Physics Prodigy From Ukraine
25.
I had an electrotherapy briefing in three days.
Then I would be moved to an institution a million states across.
The best, they were, apparently.
I didn’t want to go.
I couldn’t even remember what it was called.
I hardly agreed either.
‘Well, he’s depressed, Mrs Ross, so we’re going to tear up his roots and chuck him across the country, to live with new ‘doctors’ and new ‘friends’. You can visit!’
Mum thought it was a good idea.
She’d given up faith in me.
I could tell.
She didn’t even try to get me out of bed.
So.
I wasn’t being defiant anymore.
I just realised there was no point.
Then I would be moved to an institution a million states across.
The best, they were, apparently.
I didn’t want to go.
I couldn’t even remember what it was called.
I hardly agreed either.
‘Well, he’s depressed, Mrs Ross, so we’re going to tear up his roots and chuck him across the country, to live with new ‘doctors’ and new ‘friends’. You can visit!’
Mum thought it was a good idea.
She’d given up faith in me.
I could tell.
She didn’t even try to get me out of bed.
So.
I wasn’t being defiant anymore.
I just realised there was no point.