Nya's Pov.

I was working on a few modifications to the training robot when Loral came running to me, looking pretty distressed. "Nya you need to help me. I don't want this! I wanna be with who I wanna be with and I don't want other people controlling my life!" she said all in one breath. I put down my tools and took off my gloves as I faced her.

"Loral slow down! I can't understand a word you're saying. Explain, but this time, slower," I said. She took a deep breath and sighed.

"I don't know what to do Nya. I never asked to be a part of this. I've gotten trapped in a love triangle and can't get out. I don't want someone trying to control my life, and trying to make me do things I don't want to do. Kai and Lloyd are fighting over me. Lloyd think s I am his, and Kai wants me to be his. You probably wouldn't understand, I mean you and Jay are…" I cut her off.

"Loral calm down! Yes, I understand perfectly well. You see about a year ago in New Ninjago City, I went on this perfect match thing, (never believe those) and it said Cole was my perfect match, even though I was really sure it would be Jay. Then after I thought about it, I started to realize that I liked both ay and Cole. I didn't know who to choose! They were both fighting over me like wild dogs. Eventually, I got tired of them both. But then Jay showed me that he really loved me, and I started liking him again. And now we're back together," I explained.

"Wow. That's a lot to go through. But how do I choose? I like them both, but I don't know who I love. What do I do?" she asked her green eyes, sparkling with held back tears. I gave her a hug.
"Just give it some time. It'll show," I said. "You've been through a lot lately. Just get some rest."
"Thanks for everything Nya," she said and walked outside, and I heard the door close slowly behind her.
I started to think. Poor Loral. She's been through so much! Taking care of her father, then his death, then her mother and brother getting shot and killed, now this love triangle between her Lloyd and my brother. Sometimes I am ashamed of the way Kai acts. Though it seems like he never even knows when he is hurting someone. He is so hot-headed, yet he can be so kind. I ust wish I could help Loral more…

Loral's Pov.

(Song coming soon. You have been warned)

I sighed. Why is life so hard? You often wonder why troubles are put into your life. Or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe you are put into the troubles. Either way, being a teen is no roller coaster. I stood up. And don't think I am weird, I am not the only one who does this.
"My life is just so hard,
and with death, it has been scarred!
I thought life would be full of bliss,
Seems like I stepped right into this.
I can't make it go away,
It seems it's here to stay!
From the start, I was done!
Can't wait for it to be done!
Oh! It's drivin' me mad!
Oh! When it's gone, I'll be glad.
Sometimes I just wanna run away,
But no! I'm here to stay.
It'll all be gone one day
So I'll face my fears, without delay!
It'll be over soon.
It'll be over soon.
It'll be, o—ver soo—n!"
(I mad that song. I know, it sucks)

I sat down, to overwhelmed to think. I just wish this would end! I took a deep breath. I need to calm down. At some point it WILL be over. I stood up and walked over to the side of the Bounty and looked across the beach to the vast never-ending ocean. I was finally feeling relaxed when my phone started buzzing. I stuck my hand in my pocket as hot tears started filling my eyes from annoyance and anger. Haven't I had a long enough day already? I looked at the number. My boss' number. I must be needed.
I answered it. "Hello?" from the other side I heard, "Hello is this Loral Karson?" "Yes it is I," I answered. "You're needed here. I girl got into a car accident and we need you to make sure nothing happens to her. You need to get here as soon as possible." "Okay, I will be there soon." Then I hung up. I need something fast. Ugh. And there might be traffic.

I walked inside where everyone was busy doing their own thing. I tried to sneak by them but Lloyd saw me and got up. Ugh! "Hey Loral where were you? You ran off and I couldn't find you," he said. I sighed.

"I—I Just needed some air. I need a ride Lloyd. I just got a call from my boss, and I am needed. Car accident," I said. He smiled. "Sure, I'll give you a ride," Lloyd said.
"Thanks," I said. We ran outside and Lloyd made his energy dragon and I hopped up on top. I grabbed onto his back and he flew up high into the air. I tried not to scream. I don't do too good with heights.

"Um, Lloyd this is…high. I don't do that well with heights," I said nervously. "Oh sorry. I hope you're okay with speed," he said. I nodded. "I love speed, just not heights. And we need to get there fast," I answered. He nodded and sped up his dragon and we soon arrived at the hospital. He made the dragon disappear and I ran to the hospital door.

"I'll see you sometime later, I don't know how long I'll be gone. I call you when I'm ready for you to pick me up. Bye!" I said. "Bye Loral. See you later!" Lloyd exclaimed and got back onto his energy dragon and flew away. I went inside and signed in.

"Which room?" I asked. "Room 37," the lady answered. I nodded and went into room 37, and put on my name tag. I had done an online nurse school after I got out of school, which I got out of early because I went up two grades higher in my school. But I am just an assistant nurse, so not fully a nurse. What I do is help with getting things for the surgeon, or calling for someone when things start going wrong. And if the patient start panicking I try to calm them while calling the doctor. I hope that maybe I'll be able to help people more later on.

"So what is it today?" I asked. "Sixteen-year-old girl. Car accident. She's over here," Kacey (nurse I usually will help out) said to me, gesturing over to a bed. I walked over. She was only a little younger than me. She had red hair, and I couldn't see what color her eyes were because they were closed. She looked pretty beat up. She had a small gash and bruise on her forehead, and there was a rip in her shirt, where it was a darker color around it. Blood. Poor girl. I pulled up the shirt to see a large puncture wound. I winced at the sight.

"What happened?" I asked. "She was driving to her work when a drunk driver drove out in front of her and rammed her pretty hard. He died though. She's lucky to still be alive. But we better get to work," she said, and went to go get the surgeon. Suddenly the girl stirred and moaned. I ran to her side.

"What, where am I? What happened?" she asked. Then she gasped. "It hurts!" she exclaimed. I stroked her hair. "It'll be all right. They're gonna operate on you soon, but you won't feel a thing. Everything's gonna be fine. Just don't panic," I said quietly. She let a long slow and shaky sigh.

"O—kay," she said. Then she looked up at me. "Y—you l—look like you are m—my age," she said. I nodded. "Seventeen. Got out of school early," I said while still stroking her hair. She tried to smile, but it just caused the tears she was holding in to fall out.

"C-cool," she answered shortly. Soon the Kacey came in with the surgeon. "Okay we're gonna put you under and then we're gonna operate, 'kay?" she said. The girl nodded. I could tell she was scared. I don't blame her. I would be too. The anesthesiologist got ready, and he stuck a little needle in her arm, and put a mask on her face. I watched carefully as he put her under. As soon as she was asleep, he started cleaning the wound. I'm lucky I'm not too sensitive to blood. It is hard watching this, but it's interesting.

"Loral, watch her heart rate. We wanna be sure she doesn't flat line," Kacey said. I nodded, and watched her blood pressure, breathing, and heart rate. I would keep careful eye on her heart rate, and I couple of times look at her blood pressure and breathing. Suddenly her blood pressure started going down, and I watched it seeing if would go up but it didn't and I almost panicked.

"Her blood pressure is rapidly going down!" I said, then I turned to her heart rate and she was flat lining! No! "No, no, no! She's flat lining! She's flat lining!" I said starting to panic. Get it together Loral! You are in a place full of professional doctors. It'll be fine. Right? They started working quickly trying to get her heart back to pumping and her blood pressure up. Beep, beep, beep, beeeeeep!

"Wha…No! She, she flat lined! Kacey bring her back!" I said tears filling my eyes. This can't be happening! I can't witness another death! No! She took off her procedure mask.

"She's gone. We can't get her back now," she said. "She, she, she's dead?" "Yes Loral. When you're a nurse, you're going to witness a lot of deaths," she said. "I—I know," I said. I already have witnessed a lot. Witnessed two, and known four to die. "You can go home now." I nodded and took off my name tag, and walked out, setting it on the desk. I walked outside.

I took out my phone and dialed Lloyd's number. "Hey Loral! You ready for me to pick you up?" he asked. I sighed into the phone. "Is something wrong Loral? Did something happen?"
"Lloyd I won't need you to pick me up. I'll just walk. I need the exercise anyway," I said quietly.
"Oh, okay. Bye then," he said. I hung up. I sighed heavily, and walked the rest of the way home.

I arrived at the Bounty, sighing heavily as I opened the door. I still had tears in my eyes from seeing it, and I had my head bent. Nya walked up to me. "Loral, what's wrong? You look pretty sad," she said. I instantly broke down and cried into Nya. "I can't take it anymore! It's too much!" I said. Why does this keep happening to me?

Lloyd's Pov.

As soon as Loral walked in I knew something was wrong. Then as soon as Nya asked, she started crying onto her and said, "I can't take it anymore! It's too much!" Nya hugged her tightly. I ran over to her, and hugged her.

"Hey what's wrong? What happened?" I said quietly. She took a deep breath. "I was supposed to be watching the girl's heartrate, blood pressure, and breathing. Her blood pressure was going down, and I paid too much attention to that. When I looked at her heart rate, she was flat lining. I didn't tell them in time. She's dead now and it's all my fault. Now her whole family has to deal with MY mistake," she said crying.

"It's not your fault Loral. It could have happened to anyone," I said. "But it happened to me. Not to anyone else. ME. Things like this just keep happening. It's like I'm just a token of bad luck. Nothing good ever happens where I go," she said.
"That's not true. Just you being here is good luck. Don't push yourself so hard Loral. We all love you. You're a wonderful girl Loral," I said. She smiled. Then she looked down and I heard in a mumbled voice that she probably didn't mean for me to hear, "Sometimes it feels like you're lying..." I sighed. Sometimes it feels like she doesn't love me…

"Why don't you just get some rest. It's late and you've had a long day," I said. She nodded. "Okay. Thanks for being there for me Lloyd," she and kissed me on the cheek as she headed to her room. I sighed. I wanna do something for her but what?

*next day*

I walked up to Loral's door to check on her. "Hey Loral, it's Lloyd. Can I come in?" I asked. I heard a faint uh-huh and I opened the door. "How are you doing?" I asked. She sighed.

"I'm fine," she said. "Is there anything I could do?" I asked. "Well…tomorrow is my eighteenth birthday…" she started. I jumped up. "Tomorrow's your birthday!?" I exclaimed. She nodded. "Yeah. Usually I would invite my friends, but I guess you guys being here is good enough," Loral said.

"Well I'm sure you'll have a good time anyway. Uh look, I have something that uh, needs to be done. See ya later," I said. I stood up and walked out quickly. Zane was cooking lunch, and all the guys were crowding around him begging him to give them some early. Nya's probably working on something…

"Hey guys I need to talk to all of you. And where's Nya? She needs to be here too," I said.

"She's working on constructing a house for us, since we kinda live on a vehicle. Isn't she so great?" he said dreamily. "Whatever Jay. I asked where she was not what she was doing," I said. "Oh yeah right. Heh heh heh. She's outside," he said. I walked out to hear Kai saying…
"Wow he's pretty up-tight about something." I just continued to walk and saw Nya talking on the phone.

"No, I need stone! Real stone not cement! Yes I want it here. You know why don't you just come here and talk this over? What do you mean you can't come here? You come here, or I'll personally come there and destroy your little building company. Oh yeah sure and you can't come here. Alright that's it, I am NOT working with you anymore. I'll find a different building company." She immediately hung up. "Ugh this is so stressful!" she exclaimed. Then she saw me and blushed bright red.
"You saw that whole thing didn't you?" she said walking up to me. I nodded and tried not to laugh. "Yes I did. You having trouble with finding a good reliable company?" I asked. She nodded.

"Yeah. It's a working progress. Did you want to talk me?" Nya asked. "Yeah. C'mon inside, I have to talk to you and the guys," I said. Nya nodded and walked inside with me, and we walked into the kitchen since Zane was still making lunch.

"So what'd you wanna tell us Lloyd?" Cole asked. "It's abuot Loral," I started. "What happened? Is she okay?" Kai asked quickly. "N, nothing, she's fine. Just, tomorrow's her birthday. Of course she knows, but I wanted to give her a surprise party. She thinks I'm the only one who knows," I said.

"How old is she turning?" Nya asked. "Eighteen," I answered. "That's awesome! We need to get everything ready! We need to buy gifts, make a cake, get decorations… This is so exciting! Boy having another girl around here is so much fun!" Nya exclaimed. I smiled.

"We should get ready after lunch. But don't anyone tell her," I said. They nodded. "Agreed," they said together.

Aw poor Loral! So much is happening to her!
This is so exciting! Loral's birthday is the next day! Let's hope everything goes well!

Reviews

Olaflover: Thanks. Yes, no idea. Poor girl. Yes, I thought it was too.

Jayfan67: Yes she does. And she is. Thanks.

Call Her Angie She Likes That: Thank you. :)

The Mayor of Ninjago City: Yeah...probably should get that checked out. :)

Me: Well! That was a good chapter if I do say myself.

Loral: Seriously? You killed someone!

Me: A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.

Lloyd: Please don't make us ruin her b day. That'd be awful!

Me: *laughs evilly* You don't know what you have brought upon yourself.

Lloyd: Oh boy...

Me: Read and review!