Forbidden Love
Chapter 1: Mystery of the Lake
AN: This story was inspired by my own trip to Idaho a few summers ago. There really is a lake like the one in this story and the whole region where this takes place is a real place as well. The lake is Lake Pend Orielle and it's settled around the small town of Hope, Idaho, which is where this takes place. And yes even the house where the main character lives is a real place too, it's based off the layout of my grandparent's house. Hope you enjoy this *giggles at own pun*.
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ or any of its related characters.
The sun gleams off the deep blue of the water. Islands of brown and green divide the pale blue of the sky from the deep blue of the water. Not a cloud disturbs the expansive blue of the sky. The islands, as well as the mainland, are home to many people. The islands and mainland are miles from the nearest urban area, and because of this mostly only retirees and nature lovers live in this remote region of Idaho. The landscape is one of those that anyone would have to be crazy to not fall in love with, but for one teenager, the landscape just doesn't provide enough excitement. Not that the teen doesn't enjoy the landscape and the beautiful lake the teen lives off of. This corner of the world just isn't for a teenager.
The teen sits off on the side of the road close to the lake. The sun reflects off the teen's aquamarine hair. The teen's shoulder length hair sways softly in the breeze. The teen wears long black jean shorts and a long black t-shirt with the word "Otaku" typed in yellow and placed in the center of the shirt in both English and Japanese. Although she wants to jump into the water so much, she decides against it, preferring to not allow her favorite outfit to get wet.
Abandoning her novel, she jumps up and brushes the dirt from her backside, but she makes sure that she puts the bookmark back inside the pages first. She stands there watching the water. She sees a strange glare from high above the lake's surface that appears and just as suddenly disappears. She searches for the source of the strange light, but her search proves fruitless. She can find nothing but the crystal clear water. She picks her book up and begins walking to her house half a mile away.
She walks along the shoreline, glancing at the water instead of the road like she should. She hopes that by turning her gaze at the water every once in a while she might end up stealing a glance with the mysterious light again. She knows that it would be an almost impossible coincidence to see it again, but she tries anyway. When she goes to walk across the busy highway to get to her road, her boyfriend's red Taurus stops in front of her.
"Need a lift, babe?" he asks seductively, flashing her his pearly whites as he does. She flashes him her perfect smile as she jumps in the passenger side door. The two smooch before he drives off down their road. The girl knows that it would be a foolish move to tell her boyfriend about the mysterious glare.
'He'd think that I'm crazy,' she thinks. The two say nothing all the way back to her house. Her boyfriend offers to walk her to the door, but she simply waves him off and wanders up her walk still preoccupied with her thoughts of the strange glare.
'What's eating her?' her boyfriend thinks as he watches her slip into her house. He shrugs it off and continues down the narrow road to his house.
Once inside the confines of her house, she hurries straight upstairs to her room. Once inside, she slams the door, tosses her books aside, and slides down the door until she lands safely on the floor. She sighs as she thinks about the mysterious glint that she saw.
'If only I could see it again, even for a moment, I'd be happy,' she thinks as she leans against the door. She closes her eyes as she thinks about the glimmer of light and what it might be.
"Bulma!" a high-pitched voice calls from the kitchen. The girl's eyes open.
"Coming!" the blue-haired girl yells as she picks herself off the floor. She pulls the door open and tears down the stairs and into the kitchen. She walks in to find a golden haired woman making herself busy with the kitchen stove.
"Yea, Mom?" the girl asks when she walks into the small room.
"Could you help me with lunch, dear?" the girl's mother asks.
"Yeah, sure Mom," the girl says as she rushes to help her mother. After having readied everything, the Briefs family sits down to eat their lunch.
"Hello, Family! Say hello, Kitty," Mr. Briefs says. The black cat sitting on his shoulder meows, and Mr. Briefs gives him a treat.
"Hello, dear," Mrs. Briefs sings as she carries the dishes to the table. Bulma sits down beside her father and stares out the window into the lake's great beyond.
"Something wrong, Bulma dear?" her father asks.
"No, Dad. It's nothing," she says as she is knocked out of her stupor. She finishes her lunch without another word. As she helps her mother clean up, she attempts to look behind her into the lake for the glare again.
'God I wish I knew what that was,' she thinks to herself as she turns back to her work.
"I'm gonna go outside for a bit, Mom," she says once she's finished.
"Alright, dear, just don't go too far away," her mother tells her.
"I won't," she promises. She tears out the backdoor and slides down the banister on her deck. She doesn't care if she could get a splinter from the aged wood or not. All she cares about is the glint she saw.
'If I told them what I saw, they'd say it was nothing but the sun's reflection and that I shouldn't worry about it. But I think it was something more than that, something special,' she thinks as she grabs her binoculars and stares out at the large expanse of lake.
AN: What could this bizarre glint be? Could it possibly be just her imagination? Find out next time on Forbidden Love.