Goten was sitting at the lunch table the time he got his genius idea, the moment when he knew his life would get a little exciting again.
It all started with this group of tough guys. You probably also have one of those at your school too, the guys who are cocky and think they're always right. To quickly explain it, they act like they still live in the 20's. They're sexist, racist, homophobic and about everything remotely problematic you can imagine.
Most people called them the wreckers, no questions asked where the nickname came from. The problem with them is that the teachers seem to love them. They're awfully good at hiding their bullying. Nobody, but the victims themselves and their friends who saw it, believe it.
Besides their occupation of being the biggest bullies in this school, they also loved fitness. The fact that they were totally ripped sure as hell didn't make it any easier to tell them off.
Well you might be thinking "So what? A group of asses, what's the big deal?" or you might've already seen where this story is going. If you did, good work detective. If you didn't well, they're not gonna let them bully everyone and get away with it.
The thing is Goten was thet he's always been sort of a shy kid. He also didn't want to get into trouble because his mom would never forgive him.
But this year is different, he's a senior now. He doesn't care about shit anymore. For Trunks well, he actually stood up for people from time to time but not enough for them to turn against him. He stood up mostly for his friends, but there's been a few exceptions where he's defended some other kids. When it's less obvious he's defending them and it could be mistaken for being annoyed.
Actually Goten didn't originally come up with the idea, it was heavily inspired on a comment of Trunks.
They had been friends for as look as they could remember. When your parents are friends you quickly become friends as kids and apparently there had been some rumours going around about them. Goten and Trunks are very close and aren't afraid to show it. Hugs and even holding hands weren't an odd thing to them. It was something they started doing as kids and it just, never stopped.
Their friendship has been questioned for a long time actually. To their surprise because high school kids are pretty well at hiding gossip from the people it's about. Because just recently another senior girl asked Trunks where his boyfriend was, and when he told her they weren't a couple she explained how she'd thought they had been dating since freshman year.
When Trunks told him this hilarious story, he started thinking. Goten thought it was ridiculous to think they'd ever be dating Trunks is basically his brother but he might be able to take this to his advantage.
The wreckers obviously hadn't caught onto the rumour because it seemed that they tolerated the two of them. Well, Goten more than Trunks because of his 'suspicious' skin colour. Their friend group wasn't that big to be honest
Normally they had 3 other people in their friend group, 2 girls and another guy. The guy, and one of the girls were sometimes their target. Kenta the guy, because he wasn't exactly skinny and Yumi because she was just nerd and she looked like one too sadly. Mika, Goten and Trunks were spared from their harassments but they were sick and tired of it.
And that's where Goten got his idea.
He was pretty anxious to propose the plan but he was sure it would be a lot of fun. It's not that he liked lying, he simply loved misleading people.
Today wasn't as their usual routine because Mika and Yumi were sitting with their other classmates during the break because they had to discuss a class project and Kenta was sick today. Everything seemed perfect to propose the plan.
To be totally convincing they had to keep it a secret from everyone but themselves, Goten knows his friends and they are absolutely terrible at lying.
He was waiting for Trunks outside of this classroom, when he saw the distinct purple hair of his best friend Goten took his hand and dragged him outside by his wrist.
"Woh Goten I'm not in trouble or something. Or am I?" he asked mildly joking, although you could see he was slightly scared.
"No of course not but I had to get some privacy. I'm about to propose you a deal okay?"
The mood shifted from mildly curious to concerned. "Please don't tell me you wanna rob a bank or something." Trunks always tried to lighten up the mood with a joke when things got serious.
"Just let me explain, okay? So we both hate those guys " Goten said while motioning with his eyes to the bullies. Trunks nodded in response wanting him to continue.
"So I thought maybe to learn them a lesson- Wait let me just start from the beginning." Goten hesitantly continued. "My plan is to make sure they start actively bullying us and afterwards we can give them a taste of their own medicine."
Trunks was totally on board with this. He hated seeing Kenta and Yumi down because of the horrible things they said or sometimes even did.
"Of course the trick is to never make the first move because if we get in trouble we can use that against them." Goten added.
"Yeah but one question how are we going to do that?" This was the question Goten's been dreading.
"Well that's the thing I needed to really talk you about…" but, they were interrupted.
The bell had rang, they would have to continue their cunning plans later. "Just walk home with me after school I'll explain it on the way."
Neither of them were very happy about this. Goten wanted to get the awkwardness over with it and Trunks was already kind of sure what he was going to propose.
Only, he was hoping for it.
Trunks was sure of his feelings for Goten, he's been feeling it for a few years actually. He knows Goten isn't interested in him. But he was content with being his best friend for now. But of course if he got to do a little extra… he wasn't exactly going to complain.
No, he should stop getting his hopes up. He's not even sure if Goten even wants to propose they start dating.
Still, Trunks couldn't stop fantasising about Goten asking him out. He'd hoped to get a reaction out of him when telling Goten about the freshman but while he seemed interested he didn't look quite up for the idea of them being a couple.
He was wondering though, why did he have to bring up the wreckers for this? Goten's never really been forward with anything but to make it seem like a 'proposal' as he'd said seemed strange.
...What if Goten was going to ask him to homecoming? It's kind of a proposal and of course two guys going as a date would anger the bullies. Yeah that must be it! He couldn't wait to see Goten in a nice suit and with a single red rose put into the little pocket of his blazer. Slow dancing suddenly sounded like a nice idea even though Trunks hated dancing for as long as he can remember. His mom will probably get them matching ties or bows. Oh god how will he even explain his dad that he'll go to homecoming with Goku's son ?
He suddenly got reminded that he wasn't actually on a date with Goten but in the classroom thanks to the teacher. She was waiting for an answer Trunks didn't have.
"Uhm could you repeat the question please…"
Needless to say the last few hours were a few of the longest hours Trunk has known in his short live. When the bell rang loudly to indicate school was finally over his heart starts beating like crazy. He was going to face Goten, finally .
Goten was not as excited about asking this to Trunks, he thought Trunks could have the wrong idea and who knows. Maybe it could ruin their friendship? Nah Trunks wouldn't be like that he's a very accepting and chill guy. Also Goten wasn't in love with Trunks so there was no problem.
'If this just get out of the way,' he thought "Then the adventure can finally begin. He could only imagine the faces of his friends when he tells them he and Trunks are dating. Half the school will probably think they got a little more mushy in public but what he was really hoping to get was a huge reaction of the bullies.
The teacher was being his usual self again and of course had to keep talking even after the bell has rang. When he finally told the pupils they could pack their stuff Goten swiftly left his class. He just got out of the school gates when he saw Trunks leaning against a wall with his earphones in.
He started smiling the moment he saw Goten stepping towards him. Trunks stuffed his earphones into his pocket so he could give Goten a hug. "You had Maths the last hour right? He always keeps on talking and talking! 'The bell doesn't dismiss you young man, I do! as he always says."
One of Trunks' many talents was impersonations of others, he could really imitate their maths teacher's voice like nobody else. "Ah I can almost hear the years of smoking in your voice."
They continued to walk home but noticeably slower than usual "But what did you want to tell me last break?"
Trunks was glad Goten wasn't holding his hand like they sometimes do when walking home together. His hands were so sweaty because of all the stress.
"I… this is gonna be so awkward to ask but it's gonna be fun I promise. Well, urg I'm just going to say it. Would you want to..." Trunks was already ready to say yes. He would love to go to homecoming with him or whatever he was thinking. He wanted to do it, he was up for everything involving Goten. "pretend to date me to piss off the wreckers?"
Well.
This was not what Trunks had been expecting…
Goten noticed the dissatisfied look on Trunks' face "B-but if you don't want to you don't need to of course I mean it was just the easiest plan as half of the school already thinks we're a couple anyways!"
Trunks was trying weighing the pros and cons of the situation because at the moment all he could think of was 'He only likes you as a friend don't do it!' but on the other hand 'He'll never like you in that way, this is your only chance of getting close to him!'
"Hmmm depends… are we going to homecoming together? Because I don't have a date and I probably won't if everyone thinks we've been dating for years…" His feelings took over his mind, being honest he was already lost the moment he saw Goten blushing.
The mood seemed to lighten up a bit after this. "It's a deal my friend!" Trunks scoffed, "Don't you mean boyfriend?" They both got a laugh out of this.
"But we can't tell anyone, only us two can know. It's the only way it'll succeed. Also the wreckers are with like 7 ripped guys, maybe we need to train a little more often." Goten explained while starting to walk again at their normal pace.
"Yeah I was thinking the same about the training," he was also thinking he'd get to see Goten more often, with less clothes. "but when are we going to start it all? And more important for how long are we going to keep it up?" Trunks hoped forever, but he was sure that wasn't gonna be his answer.
"Well I was thinking we start Monday so we have the weekend to prepare and well tomorrow and Friday we'll just act a little closer but not more than we'd normally do." Goten paused for a while after this. "For how long? I was thinking we have a dramatic breakup after homecoming, sounds good?"
Trunks scoffed at that, "So we aren't going to tell anyone it was a plan afterwards?"
Goten got a little flustered, "No no I meant we reveal our 'secret' at the homecoming and you know them, they bully in secret. We'll get to reveal all the evidence too."
"Aah yeah like that, you know homecoming is still a few months away right?" Trunks loved the idea of having Goten as his boyfriend for that long but he wasn't sure if he was going to be able to handle it.
Trunks was almost regretting that he agreed to this plan.
Almost.
"Yeah I mean we're close but obviously we'd never fall in love with each other! So it's not like we need to worry about that."
Okay no he regretted it.
