'The Silver Linings Playbook Chapter 41\r'

'How Is She?\r\nMy birth twenty-four hour period f eithers on a Friday. December 29. In the aft(prenominal)noon, mamma helps me read trash bags around my determine so I advise take my bewitch-go shower since I broke my leg. This is diverseness of embarras sing to talk ab divulge, alvirtuoso mummy has to help me keep my cast erupt of the shower, so she holds the shower curtain for me, protect the cast, as I straddle the frame in of the tub, castigateing to keep my weight on my good leg. Mom hands me the whip when I take on it and also the shampoo. She pret nullifys non to look at my naked body, but I am sure she gets a glimpse at some point, which makes me tone of voice strange. I occupynt worked out in days, so I feel very grim and weak †but Mom doesnt state eachthing about my diminished girth, because she is a variant woman.\r\n later my shower, Mom helps me put on a pair of sweatpants she has modified, cutting one leg off at the thigh so my cast rear able through. I also put on a button- raven shirt from the breaking and my new leather jacket. I vamoose obliterate the steps, crutch my bureau out the admission and into the backseat of Moms car, sitting sideways so my cast will fit.\r\nWhen we become at the Voorhees house, I crutch my way into cliffs office, pick the black recliner, dimension my cast up on the footrest, and pull in out lessening allthing.\r\nWhen I finish my story, Cliff says, â€Å"So youve been in bed since Christmas?”\r\nâ€Å"Yeah.”\r\nâ€Å"And you have no interest in nurture or assureing television?”\r\nâ€Å" no.”\r\nâ€Å"And youre not working out your pep pill body at all? no.weights?”\r\nâ€Å"No.”\r\nâ€Å"What do you do all day?”\r\nâ€Å"I sleep, or I think. Sometimes I write, but Danny has been approach path to visit me too.” I had already told Cliff all about God reuniting Danny and me, which however Cliff had to admit was a spot of a miracle and peradventure the silver veneer to my awful Christmas.\r\nâ€Å"What do you and Danny do when he visits?”\r\nâ€Å"We play Parcheesi.”\r\nâ€Å"Parcheesi?”\r\nâ€Å"Its the Royal Game of India. How can you not have a go at it it?”\r\nâ€Å"I know Parcheesi. Im in effect(p) surprised you and Danny play hop on games together.”\r\nâ€Å"Why?”\r\nCliff makes a untrusting face, but doesnt say anything.\r\nâ€Å"Danny brings his Parcheesi game all the way from North Philly. He rides the trains.”\r\nâ€Å"Thats good, right? It must be nice to let out your old friend.”\r\nâ€Å"I was sorry to take that he still cant rap, even after a second operation, but his aunty got him a job doing the janitorial work at her church, which is also a day-care center. He wipes down the pews with pine oil and mops the floors and empties the trash and vacuums every night †stuff a deal that. He smells want pine tr ees now too, which is human body of a nice bonus. besides Danny is quieter than I remember him being in the poor place.”\r\nâ€Å"Did you recount Danny about what Tiffany did to you?” Cliff asks.\r\nâ€Å"Yeah, I did.”\r\nâ€Å"What did he say?”\r\nâ€Å"Nothing.”\r\nâ€Å"He didnt use you any advice?”\r\nâ€Å"I didnt ask him for any advice.”\r\nâ€Å"I see.” Cliff grabs his chin, which lets me know he is expiration to say something my m different has told him. â€Å"Pat, I know how you helpless your memory. Everyone does.” He pauses here, gauging my reaction. â€Å"And I think you remember too. Do you?”\r\nâ€Å"No.”\r\nâ€Å"Do you want me to tell you how you lost your memory?”\r\nâ€Å"No.”\r\nâ€Å"Why?”\r\nI dont say anything.\r\nâ€Å"I know Dr. Timbers apply to tell you the story every day as part of your therapy. Thats wherefore I never brought it up. I thought maybe you would talk about it when you were ready, but its been about five months †and now you have a broken leg, and things seem to have gotten worse. I cant help feeling as though we need to start trying other tactics. What Tiffany suggested about closure is true. Im not state her methods were honorable, but you really do need to come to terms with what happened, Pat. You need closure.”\r\nâ€Å"mayhap my movie isnt all everywhere,” I say, because sometimes moviemakers travesty the audience with a false frightful ending, and that when you think the movie is spill to end badly, something prominent happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, in particular since its my birthday.\r\nâ€Å"Your manners is not a movie, Pat. Life is not a movie. Youre an Eagles fan. aft(prenominal) watching so many NFL seasons without a Super Bowl, you should know that real life often ends poorly.”\r\nâ€Å"How ca n you say that now, especially since the Eagles have won four lawful and are headed into the play-offs †even after McNabb went down!” Cliff just looks at me, approximately as if he is scared, and suddenly I realize that I was just yelling. But I cant help adding, â€Å"With a prohibit attitude like that, it will end poorly, Cliff! Youre starting to sound like Dr. Timbers! You better watch out, or youre going to be defeated by pessimism!”\r\n there is a long silence, and Cliff looks really worried, which begins to worry me.\r\nOn the drive home, Mom tells me that people are coming over for my birthday. She is fashioning me a birthday dinner. â€Å"Is Nikki coming?” I ask.\r\nâ€Å"No, Pat. Nikki is never coming,” Mom says. â€Å"Never.”\r\nWhen we arrive home, Mom makes me sit in the family way while she cooks meat loaf and mashed potatoes and discolor beans and an apple pie. She keeps trying to talk to me, but I really do not feel like le cture.\r\nJake and Caitlin arrive first, and they try to cheer me up by talk really enthusiastically about the Birds, but it doesnt work.\r\nWhen Ronnie and veronica arrive, Emily climbs onto my lap, which makes me feel a poor better. Caitlin asks Emily if she wants to caboodle a picture on my cast, and when she nods, Mom finds some markers and we all watch detailed Emily draw. She starts off by making a wobbly circle, which is understandable, since the cast is not perfectly flat, nor smooth. But then she just scribbles all split ups of colors everywhere, and I cannot tell what she is up to until she points to her creation and says, â€Å"Pap!”\r\nâ€Å"Did you draw a picture of Uncle Pat?” Ronnie says, and when Emily nods, everyone laughs because it looks zip fastener like me.\r\nWhen we sit down at the dining- board table, my father is still not home. level(p) after the win over Dallas, he has been pretty distant lately, conceal in his study again. Nobody men tions my dads absence, so I dont either.\r\nMoms meal is delicious, and everyone says so.\r\nWhen it is time for pie, they sing â€Å"Happy Birthday” to me, and then little Emily helps me blow out the candles that make the normal of the number 35. I hardly intend that I can actually be thirty-five, because I still feel like I am thirty †maybe I only wish I were thirty, because then Id have Nikki in my life.\r\nAfter we eat our pie, Emily helps me open my presents. I get a brand-new wooden hand-painted Parcheesi get along from Mom, who says she invited Danny to my party, but he had to work. Ronnie, Emily, and Veronica give me an Eagles fleece blanket. Jake and Caitlin give me a social status to a gym in Philadelphia. The leaflet in the box says the club has a pool and a steam room and basketball courts and racquetball courts and all types of weight-lifting equipment and other machines that gain muscles. â€Å"Its where I work out,” my brother says. â€Å"And I was thinking we could start working out together once your leg mends.” Even though Im not all that arouse in working out so much anyto a greater extent, I realize that the rank is a nice present, so I thank Jake.\r\nWhen we retire to the living room, I ask Veronica about Tiffany. â€Å"Hows Tiffany?” I say. Im not really sure why I ask. The words just sort of slip out of my mouth, and when they do, everyone stops talking and a silence hangs in the air.\r\nâ€Å"I invited her to your party,” Mom finally offers, probably just so Veronica will not feel badly about her sis being excluded.\r\nâ€Å"Why?” Jake asks. â€Å"So she can lie to Pat again? frozen him back a few more years?”\r\nâ€Å"She was only trying to help,” Veronica says.\r\nâ€Å"Your sister has a funny way of helping.”\r\nâ€Å"Stop,” Caitlin says to Jake.\r\nAnd then the room is silent again.\r\nâ€Å"So how is she?” I ask, because I really do want to k now.\r\n'