CHAPTER 2:

-The Beginning-

School was just like any other day, only thing different were the lessons, and the topic of conversation. I'm laying flat on my belly in my long gown pajamas at this moment, hugging my pillow, and my mind is wandering. I can't believe it's been so long. I'll be 18 tomorrow. 18! What a day to celebrate. I can't stop smiling to myself. Only 3 more years. There's a knock on my door, and then my daddy steps in. he walks in and sits at the end of my bed like he usually does, then asks, "How was school?"

"Good daddy, it was actually quite interesting with all the talk of my birthday and all." I smile and look at his facial expression to see if he remembered or not.

He smirked, he remembered. My birthday was a day my father never forgot, not only was it special to me, but it seemed to be special to him as well.

"Here honey," he said and handed me something that he had hidden behind his back. It was my mail. All letters from relatives, most likely birthday cards, accept one. A post card from my brother. I placed all the rest of my cards aside and roughly flipped the card over to read its contents. It read:

Dear Chi-Chi,

How are you? It's been a while since I wrote, I know,

I haven't found the time until now. By the time you get

This it would either be to early, or too late, but either way

Happy birthday. I miss you terribly, and hate to admit that

I can't quite remember how you look, even though you probably

Look different now. I, myself look different as well. I hope your

Still smiling, and that you haven't forgot your ONLY brother.

I'm in Florida now, having a vacation as dad puts it. It's a nice

Break from all the training. I don't think I'm cut out for this.

I don't believe I'm the one, but he insists that I am. I guess

I'm going be celebrating our birthday here. Another year away

From home, from you. Another year of my life wasted. Well I

Better be off. I'll be here for 2 weeks, so write to me at the

Hilton hotel on 146 st. and bird road. Room 152. Miami, Fl.

Love your brother, who misses you dearly,

Hijime

I was crying after reading that letter. My dad had to give me a hug. He held me tight and kissed my hair, then told me not to worry, that my brother would come back one day. It wasn't right how we were separated. I wish it were against the law to separate twins. We were suppose to be fraternal twins, but I was born 25 hours after him. Either way, we were still considered twins. Like 18 and 17, when we were little, we were inseparable. But then mommy died and my father took my brother. My father never really did like me. He ignored my existence and would find even the simplest excuses to beat me. Like my grandfather, he wanted me dead. That was the reason my mommy left and married my daddy. Those few years when the four of us lived together in this house was the happiest days of my life. But then my mother fell ill and died, and my father got custody of us. He didn't want me so he dumped me at his dad's house, and ran off with my brother. I'll never forget that day, I held on to my brother and he held on to me, we begged our father not to separate us, that we'd do anything. They then knocked me unconscious, and when I awoke, my brother and father were long gone.

I hated my father ever since. I hated my grandfather as well, but I hated my father more.

I had stopped crying now, and my daddy was leaving my room. He was worried about me again. When I was back to myself, I got out a piece of paper and pen and began writing to my brother, mentioning the words happy belated birthday in it. It was 12:54 before I had finished my letter to him. This was the first time I would have ever been able to write to him, so I made sure to mention everything that had happened within the past 9 years that he had been gone. I even sent a recent photo of myself. I put it in an envelope and sealed it, then placed it on my chester draw.

The whole house was asleep by now, but I wasn't tired. I turned off my bedroom lights and went out on my balcony to watch the stars. There was a half moon out and the sky was full of stars. Oh how I wish you were here Hijime, I miss you so much too. Then out of nowhere I began to see shooting stars. 6 of them falling one by one. I made a wish as quickly as I could. They disappeared far off into the distance, probably landing near Tokyo. I had wished that by some miracle I could see my brother again, just one more time. I looked to the sky again, and saw another shooting star coming right towards me. The light from it was too bright to look at, I had to turn away. It landed just behind my house in the forest.

I was shocked to see that a shooting star came so close to my house. When it landed the earth moved, almost like a mini earthquake. I could go check out the star, something was urging me to go. My dad would never know, he's fast asleep anyhow. So I went. I ran barefoot outside, in my nightgown, to go look at the magnificent star. But when I got there, it wasn't a star that had fallen. Oh no, to my horror, it was a spaceship.

HEY HEY HEY! now where getting somewhere. who could possibly be in that spaceship. could it be:

A. Kakarrot

B. Vegeta

C. Piccalo

Find out the answer in the next chapter.

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