Chapter 14

Wednesday Morning

Videl watched as her husband slept, her eyes full of worry and insecurity. She hasn't been able to sleep properly after she met Lime. Somehow she felt like she was a threat. She did trust Gohan, that wasn't the problem at all. She wasn't worried about that. What she was worried about was how naïve he was at times. If Lime knew Gohan as well as she said then she had a major problem on her hands. How did she know that she wouldn't take advantage of how naïve he was? How did she know she wouldn't try anything with her husband? She shook her head before getting up. She obviously wasn't going to get any sleep at this rate.

She slipped on her silk robe and headed downstairs. She dismissed the dizziness she felt and continued her journey. Maybe she was just worrying too much. She already knew with all her heart, that Gohan wouldn't cheat on her. What they have is too special to be broken by anyone.

Half an hour later, she sighed knowing that Gohan would be up soon. And if she wanted to avoid him worrying, then she should probably head back to bed. The dizziness she felt earlier came flooding back again, but this time stronger. She found it difficult to keep steady with each step she took. She was only on the sixth step and had eight more to go. She groaned, her vision was starting to get blurry by the minute. She let out a breath of relief when she was finally back in her bedroom. Just as she was about to lay back down, she had the sudden urge to throw up.

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Gohan rubbed his eyes as he sat up and looked at the time. It was 5:30 in the morning. He only had a couple of more hours left until he had to go to work. He looked over to the left, expecting to see Videl sleeping, but to his surprise she wasn't there. He rubbed his eyes once more to make sure he wasn't seeing things and once he was certain he wasn't he called out her name. "Videl?"

His sensitive hearing picked up the sound of someone throwing up in the bathroom. He immediately sat up and headed for the bathroom. He pushed the door open and found Videl throwing up non-stop, both hands on either side of the toilet.

"Videl? Are you okay?"

Videl turned her head to respond but ended up throwing up again. Once she was done she turned to face him and shook her head 'no', fighting the urge to respond sarcastically.

Trunks moaned in relief as he exited the shower. He finally got to take that hot shower he was hoping for. It was times like this he was glad Bulla didn't go to work until after him. She worked as a fashion designer and was currently trying to run her own business, which would with out a doubt be successful, their mother was Bulma Briefs. He dropped his towel and pulled out his suit for today and threw it on.

He had to go to work early from now on just because he went to the opera with Tina on Monday. He was really started to regret that decision and as long as he didn't have a secretary, he wouldn't be leaving work until two hours later than the usual time he got off. Then when he got off he had to spar with his dad and take Tina on another date.

Trunks sighed, it was only the third day of this new schedule and he was exhausted both mentally and physically. His mother was going to have to work faster to find him a more suitable secretary. He didn't know how much more he could take of this.

Once he finished getting ready, he quickly ate breakfast and walked towards his car. He buckled up his seat belt and started heading for the job his mother passed down to him ten years ago. When he arrived at his destination, he parked his car in his usual spot and went into the building, dreading all the work he had to catch up on.

Wednesday Afternoon

"My name is Marron and I will be your waitress. Can I get you a drink while you look at the menu?"

The young woman that was being served by Marron, nodded her head and spoke, "Yes that will be nice. I'll just have some tea."

"Sure thing ma'am. Would you like an appetizer?"

"That won't be necessary, I know what I want now. I'll take the fruit salad and for my side I'll have broccoli."

"Okay. Your order will be ready shortly ma'am and I'll be back with your drink.

Marron sighed, she just clocked out and was more than ready to go home. She had a long day at work today and she was aggravated. She was upset with herself for not telling Bulla what she really wanted to tell her. She has been up half the night trying to ease her guilty conscience, but it didn't work. It just made it worse.

She hadn't talk to Goten since Saturday and she was glad. She planned on avoiding him until she decided if she should or shouldn't tell Goten how she feels. She was just really frustrated and needed to vent her frustration somehow. She usually went shopping but she couldn't do that because if she saw Bulla she'd feel even more guilty than before and plus Bulla was at the mall almost everyday. What was she supposed to do? She shook her head and took the keys out her purse and unlocked the door to her car. It was her father's car, but he hardly uses the thing anyway.

She put the key in the ignition and started the engine, taking off to the little island her home was on.

Chi-Chi sat on her bed staring at all of Goku's gi's he left behind. She sniffled, wiping away the tears that started to surface. Before Gohan was born, there wasn't a day she could picture herself without Goku and ever since the cell happened, she couldn't seem to picture a day with Goku by her side without having to leave her. She couldn't believe herself, Goku's been gone for ten years and here she was mourning for him, missing him and still thinking about him.

She became a widow five times while being married to Goku. Married? It doesn't even feel like she was married even more. She hadn't realize until now that after the first time Goku died, she has been a widow longer than she has been married. She sighed, Bulma was a lucky woman. She still had her husband, she was the richest woman in the world, had a successful business and her intelligent exceeds past any other known scientist. She shook her head, she shouldn't compare herself to Bulma. Bulma was her best friend and probably only true friend she had.

She let out a groan. She missed Goku so much that it hurt. It felt like a part of her was missing. She felt like a puzzle that didn't have all the pieces and it's like no matter how long she waited for the pieces to turn up they stayed gone. Missing.

She wiped the tears off her face and began to clean the house again. She cleaned the house a total of fives times and it still didn't distract her from pain and loneliness she felt. Maybe she was too strict with Goku. Maybe she wasn't as good as a wife she thought she was or maybe she was just too serious and tried to push away the real Goku too many times. The Goku that loved to fight and train while she just yelled at him and scolded him too much.

She knew what his friends thought about her, well just Yamcha, she over heard him telling Krillin how bad he felt for Goku and how he bet he stayed dead just to stay away from her. The last thing she heard was Krillin tell Yamcha how mean and harsh that was to say, before she took off not caring if they noticed her or not. She thought about it for days until she finally went to Bulma about it. When Bulma heard about what Yamcha said, she cussed him out like there was no tomorrow. To this day, she still never liked Yamcha and will probably never like him. But she couldn't help but wonder….. Was she really that horrible?

"You don't have anything planned tomorrow do you?"

"No, not that I know of."

"Good. I want to take you to this new restaurant that opened up. It's supposed to be for couples only."

"That sounds like fun."

Goten smiled. He and Valese were chatting through the webcam on their laptops. "I'm glad your looking forward too it then."

Valese smiled before laughing. "Your so nice to me Goten."

"Hey, you're my girlfriend and I like to treat my girlfriend like a queen."

Goten looked away from the cam when he felt his mother's ki in distress and decided to go check it out. "Hey, Valese. I gotta go check on my mom. Alright?

"Okay."

Goten nodded his head and went to go check on his mother. "Mom? Are you okay?" He walked through the house, his senses locked on her ki the whole time. "Mom?" He grew worried when she didn't respond and picked up his pace. "Mom?" He froze in his place when he saw her laid out on the floor. He immediately fled to her side, scooping her up in his arms. He let out a relieved sigh when he felt her pulse and shook her gently.

Chi-Chi groaned before opening her eyes, only to see Goten looking down on her with a concerned look. "What happened?"

"By the looks of things you passed out. I'm taking you to the hospital."

"I'm fine Goten. Just a little tired. Mind carrying me to my room?"

Goten looked at his mother worriedly but complied, "Sure Mom."