The year is 1994, I was only ten years old and wanted to go to the little penny store around the block from my house. my brother being older was told to help me get there safe. I was handed my allowance and was told to do as my brother tells me and not to back talk.
We left the house out the side door and got to the corner from the house and my brothers friend showed up. His buddy said he wanted to tell him some things and wanted him to ditch me. My brother choose to go with him across the street and told me to follow the sidewalk. I had made it to the halfway mark from the house going to the penny store and was yelled at to cross the street by my brothe. As i looked both ways i started to cross. scanning as i was taut in school being visualy impaired. As soon as I got to the middle of the street it was too late the jeep was coming and there was no time to react. it was at that moment i was thrown by the jeep from the road into a vacant lot. Not known to me that anything was wrong i got up crying. i got from that lot back to the place where my dad worked and fell to the ground. People came out and EMS was called to come to the site. I found that my leg was broken and it was bad. i had to wear a cast from my foot clear up to my hip for six months and school from that point was very hard.