Misunderstood

Troy had to press the issue. Something inside him desired the answers. He knew he was bias. He knew he was in the wrong. This is was her life, her mistake. He had reason to be judgmental. That reason had a name and it was Cameron. Troy tried to let it slip by. He tried to not hold her accountable for something. Something that clearly wasn't within her power. Yet he found himself doing just that. He found himself blaming her for putting herself in this state. Her decision are what put her here. He had learned that hard lesson beforehand. He had seen the pattern appear over and over again. Troy had seen it and argued and pleaded and put his heart on the line. Troy was not going to do that again. He could do three hours to be there for Reese. That he could do, he could move a mountain for Reese.

Cameron was just a kid who was served the wrong cards. He often imagined what he would become. whom he would have grown into. How he would have shaped this world. If only the starts would have aligned for Cameron. They say social rejection can't kill you. In Cameron's case it did just that. It killed his will and took a piece of Troy with him.

Cameron was bright and could truly see people without knowing them. He could look and see a part of their sole. He learned how to take advantage of that gift. This made him dangerous because he cared for no one, not even emotionally connections. He only cared about how they could serve him. This was the first person Troy lost.

You never forget your first love or your first loss. Cameron suffered from both and they ate him up inside. Cameron he hid them away in his subconscious. When they tried to surface he drown them in alcohol. He had become an alcoholic at a ripe age of fifteen. He vowed to never let it happen again. To never let anyone close to him. Cameron's heart was a graveyard of scars that never truly healed.

Fifteen with a life ahead of him it was a pity. Cameron was tall and he held a mans body. He had the gift of golden locks and eyes that pierce a girl to her core. Troy worked with Cameron daily. He played basketball and talked trying to get close to him. Supporting him in his new life Goals. Chiseling at him slowly to help him find his new potential. A world he could make for himself. If he only reached out for it. He had seen the boy in action and was always amazed at the attention he could demand from the ladies. Heck he could demand the attention of almost anyone. He made people feel special and they loved him for it. It was all a show and an act. He even tricked Troy.

Troy tried to refocus Camerons agenda for the better. It wasn't as much as changing a person as it was finding them a new path for them. In the end Troy failed him and himself. Troy was trained to build walls to hold it back. He was that person that slipped through. Cameron had changed Troy just as much as Troy changed Cameron. That person who made him vow to not give up to try everything because that is the only comfort he would have in the end. He never wanted to look a person in the face and tell them that could have done anything different. Little things like that will keep you awake at night.

Troy wished he could have reached him. Cameron's first family rejected him for drugs. Leaving him hallow and lost. Without his emotional core of acceptance he was truly alone. His second family abandoned him to the program. They loved Cameron and could see the light in him turning evil. His pain from the past started to surface and everyone paid for their betrayal.

Cameron had learned a way of life. He trusted people who told him what he desired to hear. gave him what he needed to feel in exchange for his sole. He learned to be alone in a group of people. In the end the anklet took even that away from him. His street family couldn't trust him because of it. That was all the hope of humanity Cameron had left.

Troy spent all his resources to help him re-emerge. Cameron never felt accepted he lost all his family. Cameron needed someone to pull him back and there was no one. There was no one who could reach him. Not even Troy. The phone call haunted him still to this day. Troy he never saw him again. Cameron had nothing to hold onto anymore. The walls just crumbled under him taking him down along with broken house that failed to protect him. All that was left of him, was a letter he left for Troy thanking him. In some way maybe he did reach Troy he just couldn't save him.

Troy saw good come from the program. He saw people change their lives and have break throughs. He watched family's be built and renewed. Life had been breathed into the lost. Even if one person was saved from themselves that was hope.

One story was the opposite of Cameron. Troy talked to her daily. He coached her and brought her paint. They talked about how they can't control others. They talked about forgiving themselves not being strong. That talked about forgiving themselves for not being capable. He helped the young girl pull herself out of the muck. She looked and found new hope. The would became her canvas and her painting was spectacular. She made a new life and became a spokesperson for the product. She was a radiant woman and did her job well. She helped launch the line of bracelets. She became a light in the dark world of those willing to reach out and fight for themselves. She truly became her own masterpiece.

Yet he still hated the loss that came along with it. Troy knew that some can't be changed. That the anklets wasn't completely to blame. It made Troy feel empty, some people just fade away without a person caring. In the end he couldn't take it. That is when Troy changed his major. He felt helpless in the mental health world. An organ or a bone or a cut was easy to fix in comparison.

He saw the struggles people had. He tried to prescribe medication to help them. Many combinations to get the dose right. some worked, others didn't and many had side effects. He set out to help people like Reese. this is when he realized how special Reese truly was. Reese wasn't confined to a wheelchair, he road one. The world was his oyster and he rolled through it with style.

The more experience Troy gained; the more Troy realized that simple fact. He realized how much of an inspiration Reese had become to him. Some people can have nothing and be the richest person in the world. They can have no legs and yet win the marathon. Others could own the world and truly have nothing.

When Troy heard Jane explain that it was a misunderstanding. he had a flood of emotion hit him, everywhere except his face. He kept it still and calm. He even pushed a small smile to the surface. Troy was relieved that she didn't know about the program. She had somehow become trapped within it. She adapted and changed to allow it to conform her life.

Yet a small part of his past haunted him. There was a different set of keys for the two kind of devices he wondered if hers simply got the wrong lock. He couldn't use it of corse even if it was true. The case had been sealed and Cameron never existed. The keys never existed. All his finding where sealed away. All except for the memories they couldn't take them away from him. He knew the frequency and could make a new key if he wanted too. There was a high chance Troy could free her.

Troy pushed the thought back to the corners of his mind. Instead he felt himself get lost in her story. She talked with so much life he could feel her happiness. he even caught a few passengers listening in to her story. It made him feel alive when his heart ached.

He was horrified to hear how crazy her brothers where. He remembered being foolish and a part of him still urned for it. After the accident Troy started to change. His mother figured it to be part maturity and part trauma. She was grateful for her friend Russel for finding her boys. He aided in their rescue and even helped bring her boy home. Russel was a dear friend and in a different life they would have been sole mates. There was a short time where they both wondered if there kids would have.

Troy was terrified in so many ways. A raccoon was dangerous he knew for a fact. he had studied it. Seen documentary about it. A wild animal attacks was not something to laugh about. Yet here he was shaking his head in disbelief and amusement. These young boys put themselves in danger without a single second thought. Well maybe one kid did since he was waring a baseball catchers pads and a hockey helmet. The boys could have been bit or receiving lacerations serious infection and rabies. All of these would have found these boys in the emergency room.

Troy remembered being young. It reminded him of Reese when all the troubles where simple. He remembered playing by the edge of the water. Before the accident He remembered being stupid and thinking he was smart. Those where the days you really feel alive. Maybe that was what Cameron was missing. Troy would never know for sure. He was just glad that he had taken the time to spend it with Reese.

He was even grateful that his simple girl had made him smile. She reminded him of someone but couldn't place it. In the end the bracelet was a misunderstanding. He found himself centering his feelings. He hoped he would see her again. He knew that he was in no position to date at this time. Yet he found himself pondering if he should ask for her number.