Chapter 8

A week later, Lorelai and her brother moved into Trunks's house by The Hoshi. Lorelai was hoping by moving in with Trunks's family that Hiroshi would get some parent figures back into his life after the ones that he lost. Both Trunks and his parents were happy to have the both of them living at there house. Lorelai and Hiroshi were both introduced to Trunks's younger sister Takara. She and Hiroshi hit things off instantly. They were both happy to have someone to play with. It was sad leaving there house and Ms. Soto behind, but they didn't move too far away, and said that they would come visit when they had the chance. Since the accident, school was closed to give the parents of the kids who had died time to mourn. It was going to reopen next Monday on the 8th of June. Lorelai was still in her leg cast for another 4 weeks before it would be taken off. Trunks was helping her all over the place. She loved all the attention she was getting, but trying to move around in a leg cast was really hard. She would just have to put up with it for another 4 weeks…… she hoped.

Finally it was time to go back to school. Bulma was going to take Hiroshi to school, so Lorelai had nothing to worry about. The most difficult part of being in a leg cast is getting up and down the stairs. The worst part of it all was that Lorelai's bedroom was upstairs. When she was first told were her bedroom was, she didn't know how she was going to get up there, but since she had a boyfriend now Trunks would carry her up and down the stairs whenever she needed something. Anyway, Trunks and Lorelai ate some breakfast before they left for school. Lorelai gave Hiroshi a hug and told him that she'd come to pick him up with Trunks after school. While Trunks was driving towards the school, Lorelai somehow didn't feel right. She didn't want to go back to school, and get reminded that all those kids were gone. But she had Trunks with her, so that made her feel a lot better. When they both got there, and started to walk into school, Lorelai just suddenly stopped. Everyone was staring at her and Trunks. Suddenly everything from the accident came rushing back into Lorelai's mind, and she just froze.

"Lorelai what's wrong?" asked Trunks.

"Everyone is staring at us" said Lorelai. "All those painful memories from the accident came rushing back. It's so scary that were the only ones that survived that accident. It just doesn't feel right being back here."

"It's going to be ok Lorelai" said Trunks. "I'm here with you all the way."

"Thanks Trunks" said Lorelai smiling. "That makes me feel a lot better." Trunks and Lorelai continue to walk to there homeroom. Since Lorelai couldn't carry anything, Trunks carried her books. When they got to there homeroom, there wasn't a lot of people in there. Most of there homeroom was on the bus.

"Trunks I don't think I can go through the whole day like this" said Lorelai.

"I know that day was horrible for the both of us" said Trunks. "But we have to just let everything go, and try to block it out and forget about it."

"How can I try to let everything go" said Lorelai. "When every time I look at my leg it all comes back?"

"I know it's going to be hard" said Trunks. "But I will never let anything happen to you. You are my girlfriend and I love you."

The whole day was hard for the both of them, some kids asked them about the accident, but neither of them wanted to talk about it. For others it was a day of sadness. Kids in tears over the lose of there friends, it was horrible. Nobody did anything today, not even the teachers. Even they were sad over some of there students. Once school was out, Trunks and Lorelai were both happy to go home. But before they did that, they went to go pick up Hiroshi and Takara, who went to the same school. When they got to the school, Hiroshi and Takara were already waiting for them. Trunks parked the car, and went to go get them. He wanted Lorelai to rest in the car. She used a lot of energy using her crutches. When Trunks got closer to the school, they both saw him and started running over to greet him.

"Brother" said Takara giving him a hug.

"Hi Trunks" said Hiroshi giving him a hug also.

"Hey sis" said Trunks. "Hey kiddo. Did you guys have a good day at school?

"Yeah" said Hiroshi. "We colored, and did some easy work. Where's LORE?"

"She's resting in the car" said Trunks. "She used up a lot of energy using her crutches today."

"Ok" said Hiroshi happily. Trunks picked the both of them up, and walked back to the car. When he got there, Lorelai was starting to doze off. She didn't realize till now just how tired she was. When they got back to the house, Lorelai was sound asleep. Trunks didn't want to wake her, so he let Hiroshi and Takara out and told them to go in the house, that there was fresh, just made cookies in the kitchen. They both ran inside while Trunks carefully picked Lorelai up, and brought her into the house. Then he quietly carried her upstairs and placed her carefully on there bed. He made sure to elevate her leg, so that it would be easier to sleep. Then he kissed her forehead, and left to go downstairs so she could get some sleep.

It was later on in the evening, when Lorelai finally woke up. She yawned and pushed herself into a sitting position. Then she reached over and got her crutches that were always by her bed. Lorelai carefully got up and hopped over to the stairs. She didn't want to bother Trunks, so with each step she hopped down them with the help of her crutches. When she finally got downstairs, she was exhausted. : I think for now on I'll just let Trunks do all the work: she said to herself. She made her way into the kitchen to get something to eat. She was really hungry, and her stomach was telling her that she needed some food in her. When Lorelai reached the kitchen, everyone was just sitting around talking.

"Hey everybody" said Lorelai getting a chair to sit down.

"Lorelai why didn't you tell me that you were up" said Trunks helping her sit down.

"I didn't want to bother you" said Lorelai smiling.

"Are you hungry?" asked Bulma.

"Yeah very" said Lorelai laughing. "I haven't eaten anything since lunch."

"I saved you a plate, let me just heat it up" said Bulma.

"Thanks Bulma" said Lorelai.

"So how's your leg Lorelai?" asked Vegeta.

"It's better" said Lorelai. "But the cast is just too heavy."

"That's why you should have yelled for me" said Trunks. "You should have told me that you needed help getting down the stairs."

"I wanted to see if I could do it myself" said Lorelai.

"You don't need to help her all the time Trunks" said Bulma placing Lorelai's food in front of her.

"I know" said Trunks. "I just want to be a good boyfriend who is there for her always."

"But your already a good boyfriend" said Lorelai giving him a kiss. "You've always helped me from the start, but I just wanted to see if I could get down the stairs at least once. I don't like feeling weak. I can't stand all this healing and sitting around, I feel like training so bad."

"Well when you get your cast off" said Trunks. "We can train as long as you want. How does that sound?"

"It sounds really good" said Lorelai smiling. "Thanks for dinner Bulma. It was really good."

"Anytime Lorelai" said Bulma smiling.

"Did you have a good sleep LORE?" asked Hiroshi walking into the kitchen.

"Yeah thanks Hiroshi" said Lorelai. "What are you still doing up? It's late and you have school in the morning. Go find Takara and you two head up to bed ok?"

"Ok LORE" said Hiroshi yawning. He gave her a hug and everyone else a hug, and went to go find Takara.

"We should head up to bed also Lorelai" said Trunks getting up.

"Yeah I know" said Lorelai. "But I'm not looking forward to going back to school. It was just so hard today all those people looking at us like that. Made me sick all over just remembering all those painful memories that I've tried to block out. I don't think that I will ever get rid of those memories, there always going to haunt me forever" Lorelai was crying hysterically. She just couldn't stand that day seeing all those people dead. Part of her was glad, but part of her wasn't. That day was the saddest day she had ever been through in her life, but not as sad as getting a phone call during the night and someone telling you that both of your parents died in a car accident and that they were sorry.

"Lorelai its ok" said Trunks hugging her. "I know that you've had a lot of hard times in the past, but I'm here now and I would never let anything happen to you. You are my life and my world and if anything happened to you, it would break my heart. Come on let's go get some sleep, you'll feel better in the morning I promise."

"Thanks Trunks" said Lorelai as she was getting picked up. "I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have you. I don't even want to think about how my life would have been if I never met you and the accident never happened. I probably would still be in my old house taking care of Hiroshi and hating my life because no one liked me."

"And I would of went back to all those girls hanging on me and trying to get me to go out with them" said Trunks walking up the stairs. "I don't ever want that to happen to me again, and it won't because I have you, and I will never let you go. You mean too much to me and I love you."

"I love you too Trunks" said Lorelai. Trunks carefully helped her into her pajamas and placed her back on the bed with her leg elevated. Then he got undressed and climbed into the bed right next to her.

"I hate sleeping like this" said Lorelai. "It's really not comfortable, but with you right next to me I fall asleep."

"That's good to know" said Trunks kissing her forehead. "Sleep tight sweetheart."

"Goodnight Trunks" said Lorelai as she fell asleep.