Lily's Emails 3 (Patreon)

from: Kate Conway <katcon3>
to: Lily <lilyblue2020>
date: Sunday July 5, 2020, 11:17am
subject: Re: Thankyou

Hi Lily! Sorry for emailing you again, I know you said not to but I have some cool news and really wanted to tell you about it!

Ok so first off, I passed all my classes and graduated grade eleven. That's not the big news but it seemed important. Second thing, my recovery is going good too! Physio's helped a lot (even though it's really boring!!!). But it's working, I'm walking with barely any limp at all now! I'm still not up to doing any sports stuff, and I have to accept I might not be an athlete in this life. 

There's a bit of bad news though. A couple of original Kate's friends have kind of moved on? Like I guess we're still friends, but we're probably not as close anymore. Mom & dad have noticed it too. Like basically I've heard a few people comment that since the accident I seem like a different person?

It's kinda sad, because I'm trying my best to fit in? But I don't know how the original Kate would have reacted to everything and I don't remember all the stuff she was into. 

Like turns out she was big into music? I should have guessed, we have a piano in the living-room and I have a synthesizer keyboard and synth drum set in my room? They're fun to play with but I don't know how to read music or play instruments. I'm going to learn though, I made it a goal for the summer break.

So yeah I'm trying my best but I can't do it 100% and people notice, and I guess a couple friends have moved on because I'm not the same person they knew before.

The doctors said this stuff isn't unusual after the kind of head injury and trauma I had. So it's not like anyone suspects I'm literally a different person, it's just another sort of hurdle on the way to recovery. At least that's how the brain-injury doctor describes it. And she made it clear that I might not ever be 100% like I was before the accident. So yeah, folks are starting to notice I'm not the same Kate as before but doctors say that's normal. Still sad though.

The good news is mom & dad accept me for who I am now, like every day they tell me how they love & support me no matter what. Just about everyone's calling me Kate now too, including my parents. That's helped a lot. I never could get the Kathleen thing right. Or Katherine lol. See?!?!

Anyways!!! The actual reason I wanted to write to you again was something really cool happened!

So I got invited to my cousin's Canada Day party, that was cool. (Weird not being old enough to drink again, but it's ok I don't miss it) So anyways, I met someone at the party and we're totally into each other!

She goes to a different high school so she never knew the old Kate, which helps a lot since I can just be myself and not worry about getting stuff wrong. She's the same age as me, same grade, just different school. And we had our first date last night, and it was awesome!

The really cool part though is, check this out - my new girlfriend's name is Hannah Franklin. And Hannah's older sister is Annie Franklin. And Annie is dating Tracey Dubois. And Tracey's older sister is Amber Dubois!

So my girlfriend's big sister is girlfriends with Amber's little sister! Isn't that cool?!

~ Kate