"Trinity...you asleep?" Lucas quietly asked as he walked into her hospital room, she was allowed to leave now. Trinity's eyes snapped open and she was relieved to see Lucas there.

"Hey Luke, not asleep, resting my eyes," she said, laughing a bit. She slowly got off the bed with help from Lucas of course because of her sprained ribs and she was still wrapped in bandages around the area. It was slightly painful to walk but she managed, with her weak hand, which was wrapped up in a tenser and bandages incase the stitches open and it starts to bleed again. Her cheek was back down to the normal size, and looked fine except for the obvious bruise happening.

"Is my dad still here?" she asked, walking out with the arm support from Lucas on her back.

"No, he filled out your forms and asked Nathan to drive you home, he seemed kind of, woozy," Lucas said, laughing a bit at the woozy part because they both knew he mean drunk.

"I gotcha, woozy it is," she said smiling a bit. Lucas smiled too, glad to see her smiling. He walked out with her seeing Nathan standing near the door with Haley and Peyton. All of them smiled a bit when she came out, probably sympathetic smiles though.

"Hey kid," Nathan said, smiling. She smiled a little bit more but kinda shrugged it all off.

"How you doing?" asked Haley, being the older brother's girlfriend.

"Obviously I've been better but I guess I'll be fine," she said slowly, a bit better now that she was in between her two brothers.

"Alright Trin, I'm driving you home, we have school tomorrow, or at least we do," he said, starting to usher them out, saying we again meaning the older four.

"Need a ride Pey?" Lucas asked, recieving an obvious answer.

"You drove me here, so yes," she said, laughing a bit, saying her goodbyes to everyone and heading out to Lucas' car.

"See yah little sister,"Lucas said, giving her a little hug and heading out behind Peyton. Trinity smiled a little bit at the bigbrother/littlesister thing but it faded fast enough as she and her brother headed outside with Haley. Trinity fell asleep in the back of her brother's car, which wasn't a problem for anyone. They pulled up to the beach house and saw all the lights off except the front hallway and the outside light.

"She looks so rested," Haley said, glancing back at Trinity.

"I know, I still can't believe what happened," Nathan said in a hushed tone, also looking back at his sister.

"In such a small town being jumped like that is so uncommon, so in small towns they say it happens to people by others that they know," Haley said, sounding worried.

"Really? Whoa, now whoever did this is going to die, I mean why would someone do that to someone they know?"

"Try rejection, or loathe, or jealousy, or-"

"What are you two talking about?" a voice suddenly spoke from the backseat. Nathan and Haley both turned around quickly, and Haley just shrugged.

"Nothing," she said quickly, sinking into her seat. Trinity just kind of raised her eyebrows and started to open the door.

"Need some help?" Nathan asked, jumping back into big brother mode.

"Um, yah," Trinity said slowly, in pain everytime she tried to walk. She knew by tomorrow the pain killers would work better but now she was hurting a lot. Nathan quickly hurried to his sister's door and helped her into the house but she decided to crash on the couch.

"I'm not really in the mood for going all the way upstairs," she said, falling back onto the couch. Nathan smiled at his sister and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek, saying he would see her tomorrow. She laid back on the couch pillows and snuggled into a blanket, safe in her own home.

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The next morning Trinity woke up feeling better but she knew she looked even worse now. She headed to the bathroom on the main floor of the house, a barely used bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror. She didn't look too bad except for ther bruise on her right cheek, which made everything that happened last night come back. She was tiredand she felt like crap and didn't want to go to school but she didn't want to stay at home either, she needed to talk to Darren. Now her pain killers had kicked in so she was feeling fine so she darted upstairs to her room.

She slipped into a pair of jeans a tee shirt along with a zip up hoodie to hide her wrist. Once she changed her headed over to her mirror and grabbed some of her cover up, brushing it over her bruise. It helped a lot, but you could still see it a bit but she was satisfied. She headed back downstairs, very shocked and surprised to see her dad sitting there.

"Hey dad," she said, getting him to look up from the paper, a smile on his face. She looked back and threw a couple of Poptarts into the toaster.

"Hey hun, how are you feeling?" he asked her, making her more surprised. Hun, she thought, did he just call me hun?

"Way better, what are you doing home?" she asked him, flat out, getting her breakfast from the toaster.

"I wanted to drive you to school, and to see how your were doing," he paused watching her eat the poptarts, "How can you eat those? They are all sugar,"

"Exactly," she replied smiling, "I'm better and thanks for staying last night,"

"Trinity, I'm sorry, I will admit I had been drinking and I wanted to get to bed, I did make sure you were okay before I left, believe me I did," he said, so she just nodded along, wanting to believe him.

"Alright, I'm ready to go, shall we?" she said, walking out the door to her dad's SUV. He followed her out and got into his drivers side, turning on the car.

"You know-" he started but she but him off with a sigh.

"-most of my chances for basketball this year are gone, I know, I'm sorry I got jumped," she snapped at him.

"As I was saying, you know your mother called, Trinity I don't care about basketball very much anymore, I do care for you and how you play but I understand what happened and why you can't play, you're injured," he said slowly, kind of surprised by her outburst.

"Right..." she said slowly,"Well, here's my stop," she said as they appraoched the school. She got out of the car slowly, looking out for Darren and or Janessa. She quickly spotted Darren, who was sitting near the steps of the school all by himself. She walked over at her quickest pace, which wasn't too quick this morning because of her tiredness. Darren heard someone walking ahead of him and he looked up, very relieved to see Trinity standing there.

"Hey," he said quickly, running up to her. She smiled a bit at the sight of him, and pulled him into a hug.

"Hi," she said, breaking away.

"What happened last night? Your brother called me and-"

"Um..let's go somewhere a bit quieter," she said, moving back to the steps.

"What happened? Your wrist, oh my god, what happened?" he asked again, slightly worried.

"I was walking home last night and I got jumped," she said quietly and quickly. She fought back her tears, everything from last night coming back again.

"Oh my god, are you alright? I can't believe this, do you know who it was?"

"I'm fine except for my bruised ribs, cut wrist and bruised cheek, I uh..have no idea who it was," she said, quietly again.

"Aww, don't worry, it'll be okay," he said, hugging her again. She smiled, safely in his arms, she felt better. But still, she knew everytime she would see Trey in the hallway everything would come back. She knew she should have told someone about him but there was something about Trey that made her more than scared.

"Ahem," spoke someone from behind them which broke them from their hug. It was Lucas with Brooke on his arm.

"Hey Luke," Trinity said, sighing.

"Am I interupting something?" he asked, eyeing Darren.

"Not really," Trinity replied, holding Darren's hand with her right hand, her good hand.

"Okay then, how are you feeling?" Lucas asked, jumping into big brother mode.

"Better I guess," she said stiffly. Lucas raised his eyebrows at her, then shrugged and walked off after saying goodbye.

She sighed again as the bell rang,"I bet you 10 bucks, Nathan is going to ask me the same thing before lunch," They both got up and started their way to homeroom.

"Don't worry about it Trin, they just care for you," Darren said, both of them taking their seats in the back row.

"Yah, I know,"
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