Author's Note:

Hello everyone. Here's the next update. I was going to make it longer, but I have finals coming up and I figured I should just get out what I had done.

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Gohan remained sitting on the blanket after everyone was done eating. His eyes never strayed from the small blonde-haired girl who was sitting against a large tree up on a high branch. He watched her as she swung her dangling legs lightly. He sighed quietly as he wondered what she was thinking.

"Gohan?" ChiChi asked concerned.

Gohan turned to his mom quickly, "What? Oh, we should probably start cleaning up." He forced a smile and started to gather the dishes and the trash.

"Gohan you should go to her."

"What are you talking about mom? I need to help you clean up." He was still cleaning up.

"Gohan you know what I'm talking about."

Gohan sighed and stopped what he was doing as he dropped his head. "Mom, you saw. She doesn't want to be around me. She left without saying a word. She didn't even look at me. She pretended I didn't even exist."

ChiChi put her hand on her son's shoulder to comfort him. "Go talk to her Gohan." She saw that he wasn't moving and anger in her voice rose, "I will not have you ruin your chances of getting a wife because you're too stubborn!"

Gohan looked at his mom with a quizzical look. "Mom I'm onl-."

"Now Gohan!"

Gohan knew he was defeated and walked over to Jade. He looked up to the branch that she was sitting on and hesitated to go up.

"What do you want Gohan?" she asked without looking down.

Gohan stopped, forgetting she could sense him. God, I'm stupid. He flew up and sat next her, but she still didn't move or so much as flinch.

"Jade, I'm sorry-."

"What was that?"

Gohan kept his confused green eyes on her, "What was what?"

"That blast? You weren't going to hit me with that were you?"

Gohan searched for something to say, "I-I-."

"I don't get you Gohan. I've never had a friend before and then I meet you. But you confuse me so much. One day you're kissing me and the next you're punching me in the face." She smiled, hoping to get even the slightest chuckle out of him, but Gohan simply stared at the ground with his eyes full of shame.

"I'm so sorry. I lost control of myself. I was trying to hard to be like my dad and Piccolo when they trained me. They were always so hard on me so I tried to be too," he blurted out quickly with his shaky voice.

Jade finally looked over at him as he ranted. She could see the hurt in his eyes as he spoke. "Gohan I understand. I just don't-."

"No you don't! I could have killed you."

To his surprise she started to giggle. When she saw the look on his face she started to laugh even harder and grabbed herself in an attempt to stop her sides from hurting. "Gohan, you weren't going to kill me." She was still laughing.

"But-."

"Gohan, trust me, you wouldn't have killed me. You would have hurt me pretty bad though. And I can tell you that if you had hit me with that, I would not be talking to you right now. I don't care how much you would have said you were sorry." She nudged Gohan, but he was still worried and skeptical.

"Gohan, lighten up. I'm fine."

He only nodded, but he still felt miserable inside.

"Gohan, I know that you and your father are great fighters, but I'm not. I haven't been trained my whole life like you and I'm not ready to start that kind of training right now." She leaned against Gohan and rested her head against his chest. He stiffened in shock, but relaxed as she continued. "I just want to be with you Gohan."

He blushed at what she said, but brought his hands around her to hold her. "I'll be right here Jade. We'll always be together."

Jade wrapped her arms around him in response and they sat in silence. They barely noticed the sounds of laughter from Goku and Krillin who were fighting over a giant fish they were chasing in the lake. ChiChi stood off shore screaming something about wet clothes in the car.

Goku sped down the empty highway on the way home after the picnic. They all watched as the bumper to bumper traffic in the other direction. I guess everyone is in a hurry to get out of here because of Cell. These poor people don't have anywhere to turn. Jade looked over at Goku. I guess he's our only hope.

The radio suddenly turned to an emergency news broadcast. They listened to the newscaster that explained how they planned to attack Cell. Goku pleaded with the radio, but they all knew what was about to happened and listened to the explosions as the army unloaded on Cell. The newscaster celebrated, but they listened anxiously silently praying that everyone would just run. The newscaster cried out in surprise that Cell was still standing and unscathed, but the car remained quiet, knowing what was going to happen next.

"…he seems to be lifting his arm into the air…" the newscaster narrated.

"No Cell, don't do it!" Goku pleaded.

But what came next was no surprise. There was the sound of a loud explosion before the radio broadcast turned to static.

Jade sat in silence with everyone else shooting looks over at Gohan, but he had his attention on someone else. Goku had parked the car and was getting out.

"I have to ask Piccolo something," he said solemnly before disappearing.

Woah, where did he go? He just disappeared, how did he do that? Jade looked around trying to get a glimpse of Goku, but she didn't see him anywhere.

"Piccolo? What does this have to do with Piccolo?" ChiChi asked still staring at the place where Goku had disappeared. She suddenly realized that they didn't have someone to drive them home. "How dare he leave us here? How are we supposed to get home now?! Typical Goku, flying off like that!"

The three sat in the back seat trying to cover their ears to ease the pain from her screeching.

"Krillin!" Krillin shot his attention to ChiChi, but was too scared to say anything. "Do you know how to drive?" Krillin shook his head no which sent ChiChi on another rant. "What are we supposed to do-?"

"How did your dad do that?" Jade asked Gohan, trying to ignore ChiChi's screaming.

"You mean disappear like that? It's called instant transmission. It's some new technique he used where he can teleport places, it's really cool." Jade smiled at the thought of being able to teleport.

Meanwhile ChiChi was getting behind the wheel after she commanded Krillin to get into the passenger seat. Everyone braced as ChiChi took off with a jerk sending making them slam into the back of their seat.

"How do you work this thing?!"

The car swerved as she jerked on the road trying to gain control. "ChiChi you're going to kill us," Krillin whined.

"SHUT UP! I'm trying to get us home."

The two in the back were clamping on to the sides of the car. "Mom, why can't we just fly home, you can ride on nimbus."

"And what, leave the car here?! I don't think so!" The car was still swerving and Krillin was trying his best to breathe.

"We could carry the car ChiChi," Krillin begged.

"Yeah Mom, it would be eas-."

"SHUT UP EVERYONE! JUST SHUT UP WHILE I TRY TO GET US HOME!"

Everyone immediately shut up and did there best to pin themselves to the seat. The ride home was way too long for everyone and when they finally did reach the house they all stumbled out with their bodies shaking. Everyone looked as if they had seen a ghost each having the same thought; Thank God the roads were clear.

ChiChi is so scary. She scares me even when I write this hahaha. I guess that's because she reminds me of my mom.