https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4 Short Story: Coping en-us 2022-05-16 16:19:57 UTC 2022-05-18 16:29:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f98b.png avuong6 https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187904375 After CJ figures out he's in the hospital because of a skateboarding accident the author states, "CJ’s gaze darted nervously between Mom and the nurse. “Where’s my board?”"]]> 2022-05-17 16:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187904375 avuong6 https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187914952 CJ sitting in the hospital bed, he expresses,"The sunlight was still too bright, but if CJ looked away from the window, he had to face his mom. He had to face the way she frowned at him, not just like he was in trouble and not just like she was disappointed in him."]]> 2022-05-17 16:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187914952 avuong6 https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187961107 As Haru, one of CJ's close friends tells him that the pandemic has shut down the entire city, CJ asks, "“The skate park too?” CJ asked. A part of him hoped it’d still be open, that there’d at least be that place he could sneak out to, where he could train, even with a broken arm. If he could make it out here, maybe it wouldn’t feel so much like his dream to one day compete at the X Games had been put on hold."]]> 2022-05-17 16:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187961107 avuong6 https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187978183 CJ wonder the activities of his close friend Taye, so CJ asks, "“What are you doing? I mean… what were you doing outside?” He made sure to keep his distance while she ate, squinting for any droplets he might see spraying from her mouth. 
She swallowed a chunk of chicken CJ knew she hadn’t chewed enough. “Deliveries.” 
“Deliveries?”"]]> 2022-05-17 16:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2187978183 avuong6 https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2189787351 As Taye introduces CJ to the new idea of skating for deliveries he has a new realization, "Seeing Taye skate like this, flowing down hills, swerving around corners, leaping over barriers, just getting from point A to point B, holding a bag of groceries half the time, it wasn’t the type of thing made for cameras. It wasn’t the type of thing you could get a ton of views for on Tik Tok. It was just Skating. And it was beautiful." 
 ]]> 2022-05-18 16:16:03 UTC https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2189787351 avuong6 https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2189804345 CJ is facing the realization of the accident and how it may be affecting his future plans, "Even if CJ wanted to talk to his mom, he didn’t know where to start. How could he tell her that his hopes for spending the summer training were dashed? How could he tell her he was starting to think he wasn’t that good to begin with? That a staircase had scared him like nothing had before?"]]> 2022-05-18 16:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2189804345 avuong6 https://padlet.com/avuong6/8j83hhxrxrwybwl4/wish/2189809771 As CJ is finally coming to terms why he started skating in the first place, he says, "“I was flying,” he said to Mom when he came out of the memory. “And…” “Taye and Haru, they were there to pick me up after. I…wasn’t alone. Even if I went skating by myself, I wasn’t alone, Not really.” The joy of moving that fast— for no one but yourself— was impossible to describe, but the look in Mom’s eyes told CJ that, somehow, she understood. "

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