Chapter 7
The month went by quickly and it was already the middle of August. Soon it would be September and Laura and Trunks would go back to school for their final year of High School. Laura didn't want the summer to go so quickly. She had some wonderful times with Trunks this summer, and she didn't want it to end. Plus it would be her first time in a new school, and she didn't know how the kids in school would react. But she was sure that Trunks and his friends would make her feel welcome.
Laura woke up to a peaceful Monday morning. She got out of the bed quietly so that she didn't wake up Trunks. Laura opened the curtains and pushed opened the doors to the balcony. "What a beautiful day" she said quietly. It was a nice warm day, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. When Laura turned around, Trunks was watching her with a smile on his face.
"Did I wake you?" asked Laura.
"No, I woke up to the sunshine beating on me," said Trunks yawning.
"It's such a nice day," said Laura smiling.
"Yeah" said Trunks.
"Let's not waste today sitting in the house," said Laura.
"How about I call Goten and we can go over his house for the day?" said Trunks.
"Sure that sounds like a good idea," said Laura. "But first let's go eat something, I'm starving."
"Ok" said Trunks laughing. "Sometimes I swear you don't have a normal stomach."
"Maybe I don't" said Laura. "Come on let's go." Trunks got out of bed and followed Laura out of the bedroom. When they got downstairs, Bulma was already in the kitchen making breakfast. They walked in and sat down at the kitchen table. Bulma didn't notice that they where there because she had her back to them.
"Shhhh" said Trunks putting his finger to his lips. "Watch this." Trunks went quietly up to his mother "Hi Mom" he said loud and fast. Bulma spun around so fast you would have thought that she fall on her butt. When the room finally stopped spinning and she realized who did that, Trunks started laughing his head off. "I got you good mom," said Trunks laughing.
"TRUNKS YOU NEARLY GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK" Bulma said yelling at him. "For that you're not getting any breakfast."
Trunks face went all white. :I can't miss breakfast: he said to himself: I wouldn't make it till lunch: Laura started laughing to herself. Now that was funny:
"If I said that I was sorry can I still have breakfast?" asked Trunks giving Bulma his sad puppy dog face.
"Maybe" said Bulma giving in to his face.
"Please I'm really sorry," said Trunks.
"Ok, ok I forgive you" said Bulma. "How can I stay mad at that face?"
"I know that I can't," said Laura.
"Oh Laura" said Bulma. "I didn't even see you there."
"I've been here the whole time," said Laura. "If I were you I wouldn't have forgiven him that easy."
"But who can't give in to that face" said Bulma looking at Trunks.
"Probably nobody" said Laura sighing.
"Are you guys hungry?" asked Bulma calming down and going back to making breakfast.
"I'm hungry, but I think that Laura is hungrier then I am" said Trunks sitting back down.
"That's a surprise," said Bulma. "You're the hungriest person I know besides your father."
"I know it's weird," said Laura. "Usually I'm not like this, but for some reason I'm really hungry."
"Well then I'll hurry up with the cooking," said Bulma. "So what are you two going to do today?"
"I was going to call Goten and see if we can go over his house for the day" said Trunks.
"That sounds like a good idea," said Bulma. "You haven't seen him since the dinner party."
A couple of minutes later Bulma was done fixing breakfast. She yelled upstairs to Vegeta to come down. Everyone started digging in to their food. Laura tried to eat slowly, but for some reason she couldn't and started eating faster. :Why am I so hungry today: she said to herself:It's not like I didn't eat dinner yesterday because I did: Vegeta look up and watched Laura for a minute. :She taking in Trunks traits: he said to himself. : Since she can feel his emotions she knows that he's hungry, and then becomes hungry as well: After breakfast, Vegeta went back to the gravity room while Trunks called Goten. He dialed the number and waited for someone to pick up, after a couple of rings Goten picked up the phone.
"Hello Son residence" said Goten.
"Hi Goten" said Trunks.
"Hi Trunks what's up?" said Goten.
"Can me and Laura come over today?" asked Trunks.
"Sure I want you to meet someone anyway," said Goten.
"Cool" said Trunks. "We'll be over in a couple of minutes."
"Alright" said Goten. "I'll see you soon."
"Ok bye" said Trunks. Trunks hung up the phone and went back into the kitchen. "Alright he's said that it's ok if we come over. He wanted us to meet someone anyway."
"I wonder who it is?" asked Laura.
"It's probably his new girlfriend," said Trunks.
Trunks and Laura went upstairs to go get ready. Laura put on some comfortable shorts, and a halter-top. It was so warm out she wanted to be comfortable. Before she left her room, she put her hair up and she put on her star necklace. Before she went downstairs, she went into Trunks room to see if he was ready. He was just putting on his shirt when she came in.
"You ready?" she asked.
"Almost I just have to put on my boots," said Trunks.
"Ok I'll wait," said Laura.
Trunks put his boots on, and went into the bathroom to fix his hair. Once he was done with that, they left his room. When they came downstairs Bulma was waiting for them.
"Tell Chi-chi that I said hi ok" she said.
"Ok Bulma" said Laura.
"Have fun you too" said Bulma.
"We will bye mom," said Trunks.
Laura got into Trunks car, and they took off towards Goten's house. The Son family lived in the 439-mountain area; to be precise they lived by Mt. Poaz. Their house was surrounded by nature, with trees, and plants, and flowers all over the place. If you ever saw it, it would remind you of the countryside. Trunks and Laura were almost there when they started to see Goten's figure.
"Look there he is" said Trunks landing. "That must be the person he wanted us to meet next to him." Once Trunks landed Laura got out as quickly as she could.
"OMG Kristi" said Laura running over to her.
"Laura" Kristi yelled as Laura gave her a huge hug. "I missed you so much. I called your house one-day and your mom told me you were out here. I was really sad that you left, but when my mom told me that we were moving out here, I was a lot happier."
"I've missed you too" said Laura letting go of Kristi. "I thought I was never going to see any of my friends again."
"Hold on," said Goten. "You two know each other?"
"Know each other," said Laura. "Kristi's one of my best friends back home. Is Goten your boyfriend Kristi?"
"Yeah" said Kristi blushing. "I met him when I was looking around town; he was doing an errand for his mom. When I ran into him, we instantly hit things off. Hey Laura who's that?" Laura looked over to where Kristi was pointing.
"Sorry about that" said Laura. "That's Trunks my boyfriend. Trunks this is Kristi my best friend."
"Hi Kristi it's nice to meet you," said Trunks.
"It's nice to meet you too" said Kristi. "I see you finally got yourself a boyfriend."
"Hey Trunks is the best thing that stepped into my life," said Laura. "Plus if Nick would have just told me, I wouldn't be arguing about this. Even if I did have a boyfriend before I got here, I wouldn't trade anything for Trunks."
"Looks like I didn't have to introduce you two," said Goten.
"Yeah I guess your right," said Laura. "Hey Kristi I'm kind of shocked that you have a boyfriend. Since you were a tomboy all your life I didn't think that you would ever have one. I guess my mom was right, she told me that you would change when you got older."
"Yeah well I guess I just had to meet the right boy," said Kristi smiling at Goten.
"It's just so weird, you were never interested in boys," said Laura. "Well you may have a boyfriend, but you still dress like a tomboy."
"That's something I'm never going to change," said Kristi.
"You can't be serious," said Laura. "You've got to change that, how are you going to go to the prom this year if you won't wear a dress. You know your going to have to wear makeup also."
"Maybe I won't go to the prom then," said Kristi. "And I don't have to wear makeup if I don't want to."
"Use your head for once Kristi," said Laura. "You have a boyfriend now; you have to go to the prom."
Trunks coughed to get their attention. "Hey guys" he said. "Are you just going to argue the whole time?"
"Sorry Trunks" said Laura returning to him. "I got carried away."
"It's ok Laura," he said as he kissed her forehead. "So what do you want to do?"
"Hey I know," said Kristi. "How about we go see a movie. I've been dying to see Guess Who. I heard that it's supposed to be a great movie."
"Sure" said Goten. "What do you say Trunks."
"Ok" said Trunks. "Go tell your mom that were going."
"Ok" said Goten. Goten was just about to head towards the house when his mom came out.
"Hey what's all the commotion out here?" asked Chi-chi from the door.
"Oh mom" said Goten. "It turns out that Kristi and Laura know each other. Kristi is Laura's best friend from back home."
"Wow" said Chi-chi.
"My points exactly" said Laura. "Oh and Chi-chi, Bulma wanted me to tell you that she says Hi."
"Thank you Laura" said Chi-chi. "So what are you guys going to do today?"
"That's what I was just about to tell you," said Goten. "Were going to go see a movie."
"Ok Goten" said Chi-chi. "Have fun you guys."
"We will thanks Chi-chi," said Laura.
"Well let's go everyone," said Trunks.
Laura got in front with Trunks while Goten and Kristi went into the back. Trunks started up the car and took off towards town where the Movie Theater was.
"Hey Kristi" said Laura from her seat. "How did you sister take all this?"
"Uhh don't even remind me of that," said Kristi. "She hated it; she didn't want to go at all."
"Why didn't she just stay with your grandma?" asked Laura.
"My mom wouldn't let her," said Kristi. "That was the first thing that came out of her mouth was I'm staying here. Honestly I wasn't too happy about it either, moving away from all my friends and family. That's the reason why I called you in the first place was to tell you that. But once your mom told me where you were, I changed my mind about missing everybody, because I would still have a friend from home."
"So Kristi" said Goten. "How long have you known Laura?"
"Since Pre School" said Kristi. "Well after Pre School we both went to different Elementary Schools, but I still kept in touch with her. Then we met up in Middle School and we both went to the same High School. So basically it's my whole life."
After Laura and Kristi got caught up with each other, they were there. There was a huge line of people waiting just to get their tickets.
"Aw man" said Laura. "Look at the line, by the time we try to get our tickets, they'll be sold out."
"Oh you don't have to worry about that," said Trunks.
"How come Trunks?" asked Laura.
"You'll see," he said. When they all got out of the car; Trunks took Laura's hand, while Goten and Kristi followed. When they got closer to the line, everyone stopped and turned to look at Trunks. Some were whispering things like: OMG that's Trunks Briefs, and other things like: Who's that girl with him? The girls were a different story, they were saying things like look at him he's so cute and why can't I be that girl. When they got to the door, the line split so that they could go through.
"Good day to you Mr. Briefs" said the worker in the window. "How may I help you?"
"Yes I'd like four tickets to see Guess Who," said Trunks.
"Certainly coming right up" he said. He gave the tickets to Trunks and they all went in. When they got inside, it was like the same thing outside everybody stopped and looked at him, like if he was some kind of royalty. They went over to the snack section, got their food and went into the theater. They were lucky this time; no one was in theater yet.
"Let's sit up front," said Laura.
"Alright" said Trunks. Trunks and Laura let Goten and Kristi go in first. Trunks sat in the first seat followed by Laura, then Kristi, and then Goten. They were still a little bit early, so they started eating their snacks. Laura and Kristi each got a soda, a bag of popcorn, and some candy. Trunks and Goten on the other hand were a different story. They got three bags of popcorn each large size, two soda's, and four different kinds of candy. Seriously Laura and Kristi didn't know where they were going to put all that. They used the extra seats that were in their row to put there other food down on.
"Hey Laura" whispered Kristi. "Do they always eat that much?"
"Yeah" said Laura. "That's something you're going to have to get used to. I already knew about how they ate, but this is your first time knowing everything about them. Just wait till Goten asked you over for dinner it would be three times worse, with him, and his dad. You'll probably be thinking how in the world can they eat that much and never gain a pound. But don't worry you'll get used to it."
"I hope so," said Kristi sighing. After they were done talking the movie started. All though the movie everybody was laughing there heads off, by the time the movie ended Laura's cheeks were hurting. When the movie ended, they got up and went outside, by that time it was 5:00 p.m. They didn't want to go back home yet so they went back to Trunks car and thought about it.
"I told you that that movie was going to be great," said Kristi still laughing.
"That was the best movie I ever saw," said Laura. "What did you guys think of it?" she said turning her head over to Trunks and Goten.
"I thought it was really good," said Trunks.
"Me too" said Goten. "So what do you want to do now? I don't want to go home yet, it's too early."
"Let's go to the park," said Laura.
"Sure that's a good idea," said Trunks. "How about you guys?"
"Yeah ok" they said at the same time. Once everybody was seated, Trunks took off towards the West City Park. When they got there, the sun was starting to set and the moon shined on the darkness making it sparkle. Trunks parked and they all ran towards the swings. Laura and Trunks got the first two, and Kristi and Goten got the other two. Before they started swinging Trunks said, "Let's see who can swing the highest."
"Another race" said Laura. "You're on." Everybody started swinging as fast as they could. Trunks was just a little bit higher then Laura was, Goten was right behind Laura with Kristi trying to keep up. The race went on for awhile; everyone was starting to get tired, but kept on going. Kristi and Goten already stopped which left the race between Trunks and Laura. They were going so high you wouldn't be able to see them if the moon wasn't out.
"You tired yet?" asked Trunks starting to breathe faster.
"Not on your life" said Laura panting. Suddenly Trunks lost his balance on the swing and went flying off. Laura quickly stopped swinging and ran over to where Trunks landed. Goten and Kristi was already they're trying to help Trunks up.
"Trunks are you ok?" asked Laura panicking.
"Yeah I'm ok," said Trunks. He tried getting up, but fell back down. "I just need the park to stop spinning. Laura why are there two of you?"
"Alright were going home," said Laura picking Trunks up. "Goten take Kristi home in Trunks car."
"Ok Laura, but how are you going to get home?" asked Goten.
"I'll fly home," said Laura.
"Stop kidding around Laura," said Kristi. "Seriously how are you going to get home?"
"I already told you," said Laura "I'm going to fly home. She started levitating off the ground and into the air. See I told you, Trunks taught me how to fly yesterday."
"Amazing" said Goten. "I've never seen a girl fly before."
"Well now you have" said Laura. "Now take Kristi home. I'll talk to you tomorrow Kristi."
"Yeah ok" said Kristi staring up at Laura. With that said Laura took off towards Capsule Corp.
"Goten how can she do that?" asked Kristi.
"You can learn also," said Goten.
"Really" said Kristi.
"Yeah if you want I'll teach you tomorrow," said Goten.
"Ok" said Kristi. Goten turned on the car and headed towards Kristi's house.
Meanwhile Laura was half way to Capsule Corp. :hope he's ok: she said to herself. :I'm sure he's ok I mean he's a Saiyan he's been hurt a lot worse then this. But he shouldn't be like this I mean he should be awake. That shouldn't have hurt him. Just because he was flying through the air at a fast speed he shouldn't be hurt:
Laura finally got to Capsule Corp. She landed a little bit rough, but didn't hurt herself. :I'm going to have to work on that: she said to herself. Laura opened the door and started yelling for Bulma. Bulma was in her room reading when she heard Laura yelling for her. She put her book down and ran downstairs. When she saw Laura by the door with Trunks around her shoulder, she quickly ran over to her.
"Laura what's wrong" said Bulma panicking.
"It's Trunks I don't know what's wrong with him" said Laura breathing fast.
"What happened?" said Bulma getting scared. "Is he ok?"
"We were in the park and he suggested that we should have a swinging race. Towards the end he lost his balance on the swing and went flying though the air and landed hard on the ground. He woke up, and said that he was fine, but then he collapsed and he hasn't woken up yet."
"Ok follow me," said Bulma walking fast. Laura followed Bulma into the hospital wing of the house. In the room were four healing machines. :I've seen these before: said Laura to herself. :This is the machine where they put Goku in for him to heal when they were on Namek:
"Here hurry Laura put him in one of them" said Bulma. Laura opened the door and hooked him up to it. Bulma went over to the machine and pushed the button to start it. There was a little line by the button that said bad, fair, and good. The line was a little bit by the bad.
"Bulma" said Laura with tears coming down her face. "Is he going to be ok?"
"Yes Laura" said Bulma giving her a hug. "You got him here in good time."
"I just don't want to lose him," said Laura crying.
"You won't, don't worry," said Bulma trying to calm her down. "By the way how did you get here?"
"I flew home," said Laura. "Trunks taught me how to fly yesterday."
"You're an amazing girl" said Bulma. "Come with me I'll take you to your room"
"No I want to stay here with Trunks" she said. "I want to be here when he wakes up."
"Ok Laura" said Bulma. "I'll go get you your cover incase you fall asleep."
Bulma went upstairs and got Laura her cover. She brought it down for her, and went back upstairs to her room. Once she sat down she started crying, she was holding it in so that Laura wouldn't see her cry. In the gravity room Vegeta stopped suddenly, he could feel that Bulma was very upset about something. He shut off the machine and headed to there room. When he got to their room, he saw Bulma on the bed crying, so he rushed over to her.
"Bulma what's wrong, is there something wrong with the baby" said Vegeta.
"No the baby's fine" said Bulma. "It's Trunks he hurt himself really bad, and Laura got him here just in time. They were at the park and they were having a contest to see who could swing the highest, and he lost his balance and went flying into the air, and landed hard on the ground. Laura told me that he woke up and said that he was fine, but then he collapsed. She told Goten to take Trunks car so that he could take his girlfriend home. When they got home Laura said that he hasn't woken up. So we put him in the healing machine. Laura's with him now; she didn't want to leave him."
"Bulma if she told Goten to take Trunks car, how did she get home" said Vegeta.
"She flew home," said Bulma. "Trunks taught her how to fly yesterday."
"What an amazing girl" said Vegeta? "Are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm ok now," said Bulma. "But when I left the hospital wing Laura was really upset."
"I'll go see how she's doing," said Vegeta. "If she's going to be part of the family, she needs to be comforted."
"That's what I love about you," said Bulma. "You have a loving heart."
"Now you sure you're ok" said Vegeta getting up.
"Yes I'm ok now go," said Bulma.
"Ok" said Vegeta. He got up and headed downstairs towards the hospital wing. While he was heading towards Laura, he was thinking. :I know why he hurt himself really bad, when he goes through his bonding stages he gets weak. It takes a lot of energy out of him. After this is all over he'll get his strength back. I'm just glad that Laura got him home:
Vegeta finally got to the hospital wing. He opened the door and walked in. He went past a couple of rooms and found the healing machine room. There by one of the machines was Laura watching Trunks. Her eyes were all red and puffy, and there were tears running down her face. Vegeta quietly walked over to her.
"Laura" said Vegeta softly. She turned around to look at him. "Are you alright?"
"Oh Vegeta" she said running over to him. "I was so scared; I thought I was going to lose him."
"Shhh" said Vegeta running his hand up and down her back to comfort her. "It's ok; he's going to be ok. Look the lines already by the yellow he's going to get better in no time."
"I know," said Laura. "It's just that when it happened I didn't know what to do, but then I thought it was best to get him home as soon as possible."
"You did the right thing," said Vegeta. "Are you going to be alright now?"
"Yes I'll be fine," said Laura smiling. "Thanks."
"Your welcome," said Vegeta. "Come get us when he wakes up."
"Ok" said Laura. After that Vegeta went back to Bulma's room.
:We should have never had that contest: she said to herself. :This would have never happened if we didn't start that. I should have said no, but just like me I can't pass up a chance for a challenge: An hour later Laura fell asleep, but she didn't sleep for long, she would wake up and check to see how Trunks was doing. What she didn't know was that Vegeta would check up on her every hour to see how she was doing. Around 11:00 p.m. Laura woke up and looked at the machine, it was beeping and the water was draining from the machine. :He's finally done she: said to herself the machine opened and Trunks walked out. He opened his eyes then shut them quickly to draw out the light. After a couple of minutes had past, he opened his eyes again and looked at Laura.
"Hi" he said. Laura got up and ran into his arms.
"I was so scared that I was going to lose you," said Laura crying. "Are you ok?"
"I think so, what happened?" said Trunks.
"You lost your balance on the swing and went flying in the air, and hit the ground hard. You got up and said that you were fine, but then collapsed, I told Goten to take Kristi home in your car, and I took you and flew home. Your mom put you in the healing machine. You were hurt pretty badly," said Laura crying hysterically.
"Shh calm down, I'm ok now," said Trunks picking her up. He put her in his arms and started rocking her back and forth. "Here" he said as he handed her her cover. "Get some sleep" he said. "I won't leave." Laura closed her eyes and calmed down as she went to sleep in his arms. He sat down on the sofa that was in the room and watched her go to sleep. A little while later Vegeta came into the room to see how Trunks was doing.
"Trunks" said Vegeta quietly. Trunks turned his head towards the door. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine now," said Trunks. "Laura finally went to sleep."
"She's been in here the whole time waiting for you to wake up. Your mom tried to get her to get some sleep, but she didn't want to leave you side" said Vegeta. "She was really upset."
"I calmed her down long enough for her to fall asleep" said Trunks. "I told her I wouldn't leave."
"She's an amazing girl," said Vegeta. "Your mother told me that you taught her how to fly yesterday and she flew you home. Usually when a human learns to fly, they don't have the energy to do that, plus it takes them awhile to get the hang of flying."
"Well she not an ordinary human" said Trunks. "She's special in a way, I don't know how, but she is."
"Yeah" said Vegeta. "Are you going to stay here?"
"Yeah I don't want to wake her," said Trunks.
"Alright" said Vegeta. "Goodnight then."
"Goodnight dad" said Trunks. "Don't worry Laura I will never leave you," he said as he fell asleep.