Hate to Love You by Isabelle Richards

Author:Isabelle Richards [Richards, Isabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Hate To Love You
Published: 2015-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

I’m worthless at practice. Forgetting plays, screwing up calls. If Aiden were still my coach, he’d make me run the stadium until midnight. That man thinks running the stadium is the cure for everything. I keep checking my phone for updates, but nothing’s come in yet. I dial her number a thousand times, but I never have the balls to hit send. Hearing from me will just make it worse. All I can do is sit and wait for the tidbits I can glean from my family. But they all think I don’t care, so I’m not even on the calling tree.

Arianna

October 4, 2013

Torn MCL, ACL, and LCL. The trifecta. I’ve apparently been playing with a partial tear in both the ACL and LCL, putting all the pressure on the MCL. I can’t say I’m surprised. I twisted it getting out of my car after the accident, and it hasn’t felt right since. When I landed wrong after that last shot of my match, I heard a nasty pop as I decimated what was left of my knee. I’m looking at surgery and months of rehab. This is potentially career ending. Those words keep echoing in my mind like a scene from a bad movie.

It isn’t a death sentence, even though it feels like one. I’m going to fight like hell to come back. There’s a chance, and I’ll work my ass off to make that chance a reality. Hard work, perseverance, dedication. I can do this.

The doctors in China have been great, but there’s no way in hell I’m having my surgery here. I need to be able to have a conversation with my doctor without a translator. I can’t risk something getting lost in translation. Tomorrow, I’m taking a private plane to Florida to see Dr. Andrews, knee doc of the jocks. He’s seen my MRIs and hopefully can do the surgery early next week. If my knee has a chance, it’s in his hands. Daddy, Pat, and Charlie are here, and I’m so thankful they can help me through this.

But something’s missing. Charlie’s trying too hard to be positive, and Daddy and Pat are both too wrapped up in worry for me to really lean on them. I have to temper my reactions or they’ll fall apart. As always, I have to be the strong one.

It pains me to say it, but I need Chase. He’s the only one who gets me, understands my competitive nature. He wouldn’t try to soothe me. He’d motivate me to fight back, and that would soothe me. He would comprehend how I feel as though my whole identity is at stake. If I’m not Arianna Aldrich the tennis star, who will I be? I’ll be damaged goods. Then who will want me?

October 8, 2013

I was so doped up, I don’t remember any of the trip from China to Florida. That’s probably for the best. Surgery is tomorrow, and everyone is here: Daddy, Pat, Katie, Charlie, Spencer, my coach, and my agent. I’m putting on a great front.

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