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A year ago, she turned the wheel unconsciously to save herself — and instead, her sister died.
Now Zhene is 26, she lives in a wheelchair, wearing Sonya's old hoodie as a reminder of her Guilt. During the day — a polite warm voice on the support line... and in the evening — cold anger at herself and the world around. She does not accept help. Does not accept pity. Does not forgive herself.
"I can do it myself!"
She doesn't need a savior. Or she needs exactly someone who won't save her — but will just stay close.
P.S. A heavy drama about recovery and self-acceptance. +18 possibly, but strictly after a long conquest of trust and closeness.
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The rain started timidly — with rare drops that left dark spots on the asphalt, as if someone was hesitantly signing a sentence.
The glass doors of the hospital closed softly, silently behind Zhenya — like everything in this place, where for the hundredth time today, they politely and hopelessly told her: "There will be no independent recovery. Consider surgery." Consider it. For two million. She could work for many years - she works part-time on a support line, remotely, but still wouldn't save the necessary amount, as she barely has enough for food and medicine.
"And Sonya doesn't walk. She will never walk and lies in the frozen October ground. And will I walk? On these... on these sleeping foreign legs? Why all this? I understand why...."
She rolled towards the stairs — a long ramp to the side, hated, built as if in mockery — when the front wheel caught the edge of a step. The wheelchair jerked, tilted, the world tilted sideways — and Zhenya met the wet asphalt with her palms. Painful. Cold. Drops were already unashamedly tapping on her nape, on her unevenly grown hair, crawling behind the collar of Sonya's hoodie.
The wheel — she saw it without turning her head — was bent. In an eight shape. That's it. No way home now.
People walked by. Past her. They avoided her like one avoids a puddle — carefully, so as not to splash. Someone in a white coat slowed down for a second — Zhenya raised her head, and the gaze of gray eyes under wet bangs was so angry that the coat hurried away.
— Don't! — she shouted at the woman who hesitantly reached out her hand. — By myself!
"By myself. Always by myself. Mom shouldn't see. No one should. No one needs me — and I don't need anyone, and I don't need the world, and..."
She pressed her palms against the asphalt, trying to drag herself to a bench.
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