Ok so...maybe it took a little longer this time...--;;
I feel so bad you guys, I nearly forgot all about this. Well now that my summer is half-way over and all the big trips and things are out of the way- I'm going to update:)
I had to go back and change a lot. It was all kinda pieced together before and I actually went back in and did some nice sewing. There are very few little details that only smart kids would figure out but for the most part, it all makes sense now! woo!
I had to do a lot of cut-outs and get rid of stupid and unneccessary detail. I also had to add some very neccessary details and now I actually have an outline for the next 5 chapters!
So look out, world! I'm getting ORGANIZED!
This chapter starts off pretty badly, but it all gets better, I promise! Just bear through this first half of this chapter and I think you'll be very pleased with me. :)
Without further annoying delay, here it is!
Free Falling
Chapter 13
Around 10:30 or so, the events for the night were winding down and everyone was saying their goodbyes.
"It was so great meeting you!" Videl said as she hugged Amiraie.
"Likewise!" she replied with a little laugh.
"I'll be waiting at the car." Trunks said, pushing past people to the door and heading outside.
"I don't know how you deal with him." Videl said. Bulma sighed.
"He's so much like his father now, it's scary. I guess you just take it one day at a time, huh?"
Amiraie smiled.
"Yeah," she gave Bulma one last hug. "Thanks so much for all this! I don't think I've ever had such a great Thanksgiving."
"Well, we're glad you came." Bulma replied, smiling warmly.
"Good luck with Trunks!" Videl said, laughing.
Amiraie just laughed and nodded.
She turned out the door and walked out to her car, narrowly avoiding a drunk Master Roshi and his curious hands. (LOL!)
Trunks was leaning against the passenger door with his arms crossed. Amiraie stood in front of him and grinned.
"See? It wasn't THAT bad now, was it?"
He shrugged and uncrossed his arms. She crossed her arms in a mocking way and raised a brow. He cracked a smile and shook his head.
"Let's go."
Amiraie unlocked his door and went around the car and got in after unlocking her door as well.
The car ride was full of Amiraie's chatter and Trunks' sarcasm.
"My house or yours?" she said as the car sat at a red light.
"Hm..you know, we might as well live together. It'd save us a lot of pain financially.."he said casually. The light turned green just as he said that and Amiraie had started driving...but she quickly went to a dead stop in the intersection.
"Uh you want..us to..live together? In one place?...Seriously?" she whispered, getting over herself and pushing the gas pedal slowly.
"Whatever. I mean, it's up to you."
There was a silence...very eerie silence...for five whole minutes. (gasp!)
"I suppose so."
"You sure?"
She smiled.
"Yeah- it'll be fun! My place is pretty lonely anyways."
"I was getting tired of my dump anyways." Trunks said, making her laugh.
"Dump? That's an understatement."
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And so, with the random decision for them to live together, Trunks and Amiraie had been busy clearing things out of Trunks old apartment and making room in Amiraie's for all his stuff.
The room that would be Trunks' room was filled with boxes. They put them in the living room until they could get a storage room rented. They spent a whole day cleaning the room for him almost in complete slience.
Around 10:00pm they ordered some pizza and gave up for the night.
They sat on the floor of the living room surrounded by boxes with they ate pizza.
"So, what's in all these boxes?" Trunks asked.
"Stuff." she replied, opening a can of soda.
"That's what you said earlier when we were moving the motherlovers."
Amiraie smiled.
"It's just a ton of my junk and my biological parents' junk."
He stared at her for a moment.
"Biological?"
She nodded in response.
"They died in a robbery at a convience store when I was like 2."
"A robbery?..um, sorry."
"Oh, it's fine. You didn't know. I was visiting my grandma in the hospital and they went to get some twinkies for me." she said, almost laughing at the thought. "They just got in the way I guess."
She sighed, taking a sip of her soda.
"And now I have a paranoia of twinkies."
Trunks stifled a laugh.
"So, why'd you get adopted? Did you not have any other family?" Trunks asked hesistantly.
She shook her head.
"My grandma was dying, my mom's family didn't want anything to do with me, God knows why, and my dad's family was all dead. Basically, everyone who could take me didn't want me."
"That sucks."
"Yeah...even now, no one wants me."
"That's not true."
Amiraie looked at him for a moment. He grinned and opened his arms.
She leaned into his welcoming embrace as he leaned back onto the couch.
"You're my only refuge these days...in this hell of a life."he whisepred.
She looked up at him and slowly nodded. As they inched closer, she whispered something barely audible.
"yea...same here."
And in what seemed to be the slowest moment of both their lives, their lips softly met.
It was just like in every movie except for the fact that it was real.
It didn't last very long. They gently pulled away and rested their foreheads against one another.
Amiraie opened her eyes and saw his grey-blue eyes staring back.
She found herself blushing. Trunks grinned.
"So..you think this is good?" he asked.
She blinked.
"You mean..us?"
He nodded.
"Yeah. Here, living together."
"Oh..oh, yeah. Sure."
Trunks nodded and yawned, stretching his arms in the air as Amiraie lifted herself from him, yawning as well.
"Well, I guess I'm sleeping on the couch tonight."
She nodded.
"We'll bring your bed tomorrow."
"Yeah..I don't think I could sleep more than one night beneath the gaze of these beady-eyed teddy bears.."
"They are not beady-eyed, they're cute!" Amiraie said, trying to be upset.
He tried to be afraid.
"They're going to come for me in the night! It's going to be a battle to the finish! It's gonna be me or them! It's me or them, me or them!"
"Shut up, you sound like an old codger."
"Yep, back in Nam-"
"Go to bed!" she said, throwing a pillow in his face and getting up off the floor.
He laughed and laid down on the couch. Amiraie decided to clean up tomorrow since they had been cleaning and crap all day. She went into her room and changed into her pajamas, then went and brushed her teeth.
When she was heading back across the hall to her room, she noticed Trunks had left the light on. Maybe he was still awake?
She walked up behind the couch and found him fast asleep, looking so innocent yet..so troubled. She pulled the blanket up around him and turned off the lights. She could tell...that even though she had done some pretty bad things and had a really crappy life, it was absolutely nothing compared to the torutre inside Trunks' heart and mind.
He already began changing her for the better, she knew that...But was she helping him?
All her life Amiraie prayed for a knight in shining armor, like most girls. And having Trunks in her life now seemed almost unreal.
He saved her..but he only seemed to be sinking further into his own darkness. He's the one in need of a knight.
As she lay in her own bed, gazing into the darkness of her room, she whispered.
"I'll save you, Trunks. You saved me..now I'm going to be the knight in shining armor for you."
He was so lost in himself..as if he were holding onto the blackest part of him, determined to fade away. She would not let him fall any longer. Whoever or whatever was keeping him from happiness was about to meet their match.
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So how was it? Not too long, I know.
But remember how I said I outlined the next 5 chapters?
Well...it's going to get really good soon..just hang in there. It's going to get deep. I might even have to change the rating...
Review! I love you!
(hehe that rhymed..)
--Lindz