adventures of a psychopathic magnet

How Dave Broke His Other Ankle

If you haven't read the post titled "I Met The Neighbors" yet, please read that one before you read this one.
So while standing on Justin's front lawn, just after explaining why we were acting like ninjas and throwing flowers in his front door and who we were, my phone rang. It was my brother. Some how when I said "hey! Whats up?" to Dave someone or all of the people i was with thought i said something about Michael Bolton. How this happened, other than they were drunk, I don't know. But the result was my brother trying to explain to me that he thought he had broken his ankle while they all yelled things like "The pop star!!??!!" Finally after yelling at them to shut up, and inbetween passing cars, i was able to get that Dave had hurt his ankle, he thought it was broken but wasn't sure, his friend's mom was angry with him and could I please pick him up in the East High parking lot at 7.30am.
Well 7am comes and I wake up in a bit of a fog. Shortly after my phone rings, it's Dave, he has a ride. I roll over and go back to sleep until 10 when I call in sick to work, something I feel horrid about (No one should have to work all day with Fred. Ever. Alex I am so sorry). Back to bed for like an hour.
After some art, grilled cheese, coffee and three attempts at buying tickets to the Bright Eyes/Faint show I returned home for the day. Sensing from the fact that Dave had called me about his ankle in the middle of the night, and not (to my knowledge anyway) our parents and that his friend's mom was angry with him I guessed that Dave had probably been doing something he shouldn't have been. So I waiting until the folks had left for the evening to ask him about it. And this is the story he told me.
"So Griffen and I were shooting each other with BB Guns and he shot me in the leg and I fell in a pot hole. Well my body sorta twisted as I fell but since my foot was in the pot hole it stayed where it was. Then Griffen shot me in the head, so I shot him back and we sorta laid there for a few minutes in pain. Then Grif turned and was like 'dude. that kinda hurt' and i said 'yeah, i think i broke my ankle.' So i got up and you know how when i go up stairs I kinda jump? well I was doing that and i heard and felt a snap. and that was that. But I still walked on it all last night, you know that expression 'walk it off' ? turns out it doesn't work in every case."

posted by lulu @ 3:26 PM