Post by GABRIEL THOMAS FROST on Jul 20, 2013 16:01:36 GMT -8
| [atrb=style,width: 420px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] GABRIEL T. FROST 28 | BISEXUAL | PSYCHOLOGY TEACHER | TOWNSFOLK | SEBASTIAN STAN You think you know someone so well that their image is implanted into your mind. Implanted so perfectly well that one wouldn't be able to recognize them without their quirks, their personality traits, their personal looks. To look at someone like Gabriel is something of a dishonest truth. His appearance shows nothing of his true self. Sitting behind a desk with a projector doing your every move is something that is not natural. Natural in the sense, teachers move around the room. Move around is the keyword. They walk, they dance, they might even tiptoe across. But Gabriel, moves very rarely around. He doesn't walk, he doesn't dance, he can't tiptoe. It's not even possible. He scares students on the first day of school. It doesn't matter where they see him, they seem more surprised than anything to know a teacher is in a wheelchair, a teacher no less. When he moves out from behind his desk, students are left speechless, the room grows quiet, and Gabriel then knows he has the floor, but only for that first glance. His movement is slow and quiet, his arms move in motion of turning wheels. He moves out from behind the desk sitting down, sitting down in a wheelchair. His legs are planted there unable to move or function. Every student has a different opinion of his appearance, his stance in the classroom. He No one knows the story, he doesn't share it for personal reasons, he doesn't give anyone clues about his inability to walk anymore. He's grown use to not being able to walk anymore. To lose the ability that one has grown accustom to without even thinking about is hard to take in. It's not something anyone thinks about because thy just do it without thinking. Getting up and walking around is a simple task. But when confined to a wheelchair and wanting to move around, one thinks more about it. They have to think about what they are going to do with getting to places. Are they going to wheel themselves to the exact place? Or are they going to call someone to help drive them, or are they just going to take the public transportation system? These are the questions that roam through his mind every time he has to think about where he wants to go. It's not as easy as one thinks when they have to go to the bathroom. It's simple for someone with the ability to walk. They go right in and do their business. But for Gabriel he plans ahead. Plans ahead so he doesn't have an accident and have to depend on someone to help him out. To ask someone for help isn't something that he likes to do. It dampens his pride a little bit. It makes him believe that he has to ask someone for help always when something is wrong. The only time he asks for help is when he truly needs it or when it's at the grocery store and can't get anything on the highest shelf there. Gabriel doesn't want to appear that he is dependent on someone else, he likes the freedom that he does have. He can function like any other normal person. Moving around freely with handicap access available, he can do anything he wants just like someone with the ability to walk on their feet. The story everyone wants to know still lingers around. For the nosy bookworms, it's easy for them to find. Look back at an old newspaper from the past eight years and it's the front page. Look back in the archives on a news station, it's headline news. His car crash was something that made big news. It wasn't his car crash, it was the crash he was in. A ten car pile up. Ten cars slamming into one another for the account of one person not paying attention to the road ahead. The guy wasn't drunk, he was too distracted with what was in his car to pay attention. He caused injuries, to plenty of people in the wreck, but he cost Gabriel his legs. He had slammed into Gabriel's car, and the rest followed. His domino effect, was what it was called. The domino crash. Not an exciting event really. Gabriel was only twenty years old. He had his whole life ahead of him, he expected to be able to walk with his family again, he expected so much. To lose the ability to walk crushed him inside a little bit. He soon grew accustom to the change, but deep inside it still hurts to know he may never have the chance to walk again, if he chooses. The story of his loss is something that sticks with him. It sticks with him in the classroom as well. The ability to pay attention, not to what is in front of your face, but to what is around you. Pay attention to your surroundings, make sure everything is as what it should be. Don't pay attention to something else while ignoring the very thing you need to keep attention. Gabriel stresses to his students, both high school and college students, that not paying attention to what's ahead of you could cost you, a lot in the long run. Gabriel makes a point of this in every single class period, to make it known that everyone should pay attention to the details that are set out before them. He makes a reference to his crash every time. Saying no names, or who exactly was involved, but taking it as the point of the argument. To cause a ten car pile up doesn't need planning, just the skills of an unobservant person to cause everything wrong. He shares the moment of the car slamming into the front of his car as it swerved trying to escape the close coming of a car in front. The swerve wasn't something that anyone could have expected, not even Gabriel. He tells his students the entire story, without names of course. He doesn't tell his students the names of the victims for personal reasons, but at the end of the school year, each student has heard the full story, knowing exactly what had happen. The last day of school is when it's revealed. By now most of their turning wheels inside of their head probably already know who it is that he's talking about. He reveals the first victim of the crash. Himself. BEHIND THE MASK TENNY | 20 | MTN | LIVE HERE | LIONEL, HENRY, JOSEF, NINA, CHANNING, PAUL, BENIAMINO   |
