This fic was written by Titubs Parris. All credit goes to her
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Nothing Else Matters
Take a Walk Outside Your Mind
by Tituba Parris
I'm down a one-way street
With a one-night stand, With a one track mind
Out in no-man´s land
(The punishment sometimes don´t seem to fit the crime)
Yeah there´s a hole in my soul
But one thing I´ve learned
For every love letter written
There´s another burned
(So you tell me how it´s gonna be this time)
Is it over, Is it over
´Cause I'm blowin´ out the flame
-Aerosmith
Finally, the day had come and they would be married soon. Scarlet watched as her father made his way to her.
"I still don't know why you would marry that... thing." Frieza sent a hasty glance at the Sayijin of the audience.
"Oh daddy!" Scarlet tittered, cuffing her father's shoulder. "He's not that bad really."
"Humph." Her father crossed his arms over his chest. "Well he better get here soon." He checked the clock on the wall. "It's almost time to start."
"Maybe he lost track of time or maybe he's being held up." Scarlet suggested.
"How could a boy like that be held up?! His feet move faster than his mouth does, and that my dear is an amazing feat in itself!"
"You'll see daddy... he'll come." Scarlet assured. He loves me... and soon you will see how much! She smiled at the thought. Soon they wold be together forever, and nothing would separate them.
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It was an hour into the ceremony and Goten still hadn't shown up. Maybe he's sick. I should probably find him. Yes that has to be it. Scarlet reasoned to herself as she twisted the flower arrangement in her hands. He just fell asleep or something... The more excuses she thought up the more anxious she became. Maybe... maybe he's just scared. Maybe he needed more time before he did this. I probably rushed him. Then she remembered that he picked out the date of their wedding. Her hands started to tremble as she stood their for yet another hour.
One look at her father and she knew he was angry. His jaw was clenched, she could even hear his teeth grinding in his agitated state. Angry that he had even allowed a Sayijin boy to get to his daughter. Then for the brat to not even show up was a horrible atrocity! She knew that he father was planing to kill Son Goten at this very moment.... for making a fool of his only child.
One more hour. He'll come... He'll come! He said he would... he... At this point tears started to roll down her face. She dropped her bouquet and let her face fall into her hands. She felt her father's arms go around her. Even though she knew he wanted to say something about how the Sayijin were scum, he bit his tongue, not wanting to hurt her.
Almost every one had left. The Son family and her own were almost asleep with boredom. They were the only one's who cared to stay. She walked over to them and told them how sorry she was for their long wait. Her uncle and grandfather looked absolutely, one hundred and one percent pissed. Her grandfather was angry at her for even making this fiasco happen and her uncle was angry at Goten for standing her up.
When I go home! She thought angrily, all her sadness had long since left her. Son Goten will get the biggest earful in history! She was going to kill him! How dare he do this to her?! She ran down the street, in full wedding attire, ready to stomp Goten from here and back until he came up with a reasonable excuse.
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Earlier...
Goten picked up the phone and held it up to his ear with his shoulder, he danced around his room trying to put his shoe on with one foot in the air and the other trying vainly to hold him up. "Hello? Parisu?" She talked and he laughed. "No, no... I'm late. I fell asleep on the couch and I'm a little late." He paused, lacing up his shoes. "Oh... I don't know... TWO HOURS!" He practically shouted. He went up to his mirror and hastily did up his bow tie. He ran his hands through his newly cut hair, hating it's length but wanting to look his best for when he got married. He really didn't feel like hearing Frieza talk about his hair all night.
"Hmmm?" Goten redid his tie, not being able to get it right. "Yeah, it's that girl remember? The one with the tail?" More talking. "No... she's not a freak." Finally he got it right. Where's my jacket? He thought. "Parisu... you are being silly." Goten laughed. "What... what would I do if you were where?" He shook his head.
"If I was here." A voice said from behind him, making him yelp in surprised.
"Oh, Parisu!" Goten threw his hand over his heart, feeling it beat rapidly underneath his palm. "You scared me!"
"Goten..." Parisu smiled. "You know you don't want to get married to her."
Goten gave her an angry look. "Your crazy." He went back to the mirror, finding his jacket. Parisu's hand snatched out and undid his tie, he looked at her as if she had gone mad. "What is wrong with you?" He tried getting his accessory back but she held it away from him.
"Would you just listen to me!" She shouted, holding the tie in her fists. "If you do then I'll let you have this back... I'll even put it on for you!" Goten decided to wait for a moment... then the second he got his object back he would ditch this girl in some rough part of town. "Goten... you don't really love this girl do you?"
"Yes I do... why would I marry her?" Goten snapped.
"To get back at me." Parisu said softly. "I know now what I did was wrong."
"Well it's too late for that now." Goten replied, standing up, not wanted to hear more. Scarlet is going to kill me! He got a migraine just thinking of the tongue lashing he would receive for being three hours late.
"No it's not." Parisu said sweetly. "We still have a chance." When it looked like he was about to talk again she shushed him by putting two fingers to his lips. "Remember when we were together?" She asked, smiling radiantly. "We were happy weren't we?" He reluctantly nodded. "Look... I know this girl has gotten you distracted, she's kind of pretty I'll give her that." Parisu shrugged. "But we have much more than the two of you do. We were ment for each other." She said with an all fire conviction. "I know you might feel something toward her... but you already know what she is like. She'll just control you... just like her father controlled Vegeta."
"But how did you know-?" His mouth was closed for him again.
"That doesn't matter." Tears started to form in her eyes. "What matters is that you have a chance to make every thing right again."
"But Scarlet and I are going to get married." Doubt suddenly entered his head. What if he was just trying to get Parisu back for what she had done to him?
"I was so stupid." The tears spilled over onto her cheeks. "I let you go for some fool who didn't love me." She sobbed a little and kept looking at him. "But you have always loved me... ever since we were small remember? Remember?" She repeated. "I've always loved you."
Goten felt her pain and suffering. It wasn't to long ago when he felt the same way about her. She had just slowly felt it coming... now it had blown up into her face. Tears started making their way down his face when he realized that she must be human too. "And I have loved you too." He admitted.
"Please... I'm begging you." Parisu walked up to him. "Please don't do this to us. You don't have to get married. It's your choice." She tipped her head up and let her lips touch his.
He felt her soft lips against his own, his eyes went wide for a moment, then closed. He couldn't believe it, but he was kissing her back. Then, without warning, he remembered why he had loved her for so long.
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Scarlet was rounding the corner of the Son house now. She would just go inside... calmly listen to his every word... then she would wring his neck.
She saw a flicker of movement in his widow and for so odd reason her subconscious was urging her too look. When she did he heart sank all the way to her feet. She just stood there and watched. Watched as her heart and dreams were taken away from her. Watched as the person she trusted the most... was kissing someone else. She ran excuses for him in her head over and over. Maybe he's just saying good bye. Like a good bye kiss or something... but as much as she wanted it to be true... it couldn't. She looked up as the two kissed passionately, just as he would have done to her.
Scarlet looked down at herself. Her dress... she bunched up the skirt of it in her fists. She clenched the fabric to her tightly, as if she wanted to remember the feel of it, then ripped it off. It was almost as if the garment was burning her, like she had to get it off of her. She held the pretty cloth in her arms for long moments, looking at it and touching it's silkiness. This was supposed to be her wedding night. This was supposed to be her and Goten's day together. The first person she ever gave her heart to... the first one she ever trusted with it had just ripped it out and stepped on it.
She threw the ripped dress away from her, sending a small blast to it to incinerate it.
Things would still be alright. She assured herself, holding herself tightly, trying to give her cold body some sort of comfort. He's just confused right now... it hasn't been so long since he broke up with Parisu right? Well... he's just having some mixed emotions. This did nothing to calm her, did nothing to help the swelling she felt in her chest that almost made it unbearable to breath. He'll say it was an accident... it will all blow over and he'll come back to me.
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"I don't understand..." Scarlet was shaking, her body hurt all over. "I-I thought it was different. Y-you said that I-"
"I know." Goten tried to tell her in the best way possible that what he had down was wrong. "I'm sorry."
"But... why didn't you tell me?" Scarlet kept the tears in, thanking her father for instilling some pride in her to keep her tears at bay. "You said I was different. You said that you could trust me..." She had to stop constantly to keep from crying.
"I know... that's why it's hurting me so much to tell you." Goten fought back tears of his own.
"You said that..." She had to stop. "You said that we would always be together."
"I know."
"I just don't understand you." Scarlet stood up, took her bag containing all her things. "I guess I never will." She turned to see his face, just one last time to remember him forever.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Goten repeated, over and over, until she left.
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"Scarlet!" Trunks ran up to her when she stopped right out the door of the Son house, stopped then went into a state of huffing. He straitened his back and told her what he knew of the current situation. "Chi Chi called my mom last night, she said Goten was doing something with Parisu and that you were upset about it."
"Yes." Was all she could say to him.
"Well, what did he do?" Trunks asked, obviously concerned with what his best friend was doing when he was supposed to get married to the girl in front of him.
"He's... going back out with Parisu." Scarlet lowered her face so he could not see the shame that was written all over her face.
"I'm sorry." Trunks blurted out, putting a hand over his eyes and on his forehead.
She smiled at him as kindly as she could. "That's what he said."
"What's going to happen?" Trunks worried, taking his hand off his face to peer at her. "Where will you go?"
"Back to my family I suppose." Scarlet's lips trembled a bit. "If they will take me back." She laughed a little. "You know... I think it's funny." She looked up at the dark balmy sky with watery eyes. "Even though he is a Sayijin and I'm just some... lizard girl. I thought that we would always understand one another and we would never be separated." She choked on her words. "When I first saw him, I felt something, and as time went on I thought we had something special. I was even... stupid enough to believe that we would be soul mates. That we were made for each other even with the diversity between our families." She paused, waiting for Trunks to condemn her for speaking her mind, but when he said nothing she continued. "I was even more foolish to believe that he would love someone like me." A half sob was emitted from, her lips. "When I knew he was the one for me. When I thought of him I knew that was how love felt.... and... I wish I hadn't." Her voice was so soft that it was hardly discernable. "I wish I never knew how love felt." She broke down and started sobbing.
Trunks took her in his arms, patting her back, speaking words of comfort. "It's okay." He rocked her back and forth. "Every thing will be alright again."
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But it wasn't. When she returned home to her family she received a cool greeting from every one except for her father. Her uncle looked at her angrily every day as did her grandfather. She knew the reason behind their hellish looks too.
Scarlet has smeared the family name. She had tainted it irreparably with he idiotic crush for some monkey. To them, she was worse then the whores that sold themselves out on the streets. The only reason they tolerated her presence was because her father made them. She would never be their equal again. She would never again hear their words of praise at how strong she was or how beautiful she had become. To them she was an ugly monster... something that had no place or ever would again in this world.
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who twists the knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find there´s nothing there girl
Yeah I swear, I'm telling you girl yeah ´cause
There´s a hole in my soul that´s been killing me forever
It´s a place where a garden never grows
There´s a hole in my soul, yeah I should have known better
´Cause your love´s like a thorn without a rose