A/N: This one's for Burned Vamp who wants longer chapters. Here's a long one!
Making A Decision
Chapter 8: Trunks
I couldn't eat. I know, I'm half sayian, and always supposed to be hungry. But when you're sitting across from the most beautiful girl in the world, it's hard to concentrate on a slice of pizza. So I sat there, looking like an idiot, watching her delicately eat pizza.
"Are you okay, Trunks?" she asked. "You're barley eating, and I know you never turn down pizza."
I snapped out of the blue-eyed trance I was in. "Yeah, I'm okay. I was just… thinking."
The golden haired angel smiled. "About what, may I ask?"
"About what you said earlier. And I think it's perfectly all right to fall in love with a friend. I mean, who knows you better? Who can you count on more? It might even be better than dating someone who you're completely nervous around, when you don't know what to say, or how to act. But with a friend, they already know how you are, and you don't have to sit there the whole date trying to come up with something interesting to say," I answered.
Marron nodded slowly. "But what happens when you do fall in love with that friend, and everything changes? Even if you're with a friend, the love takes over and you end up worrying about the same things you do as if with a regular date. Nothing will ever be the same, and if things don't work out, that friendship is ruined," she argued. She had such a good point. Everything she just talked about, I was feeling then.
I looked down at the almost-untouched slice of pizza on my plate. "That's a risk you have to be willing to take," I said softly. "And if you don't take that risk, you might regret it all your life." I looked up into her eyes. "With every person you ever date."
"I guess you're right. But how do you know if this friend feels the same way?" she asked gently.
I laughed. "The old fashioned way. You get one of your friends to ask them."
"Wow, that brings me back to first grade," she laughed. "Thanks, Trunks."
I smiled. "Really, it was nothing. I think you helped me, too."
She smiled back, then took a sip of her soda. "So what time do you want to go apartment-hunting? That is, if you still want to go."
"Of course I still want to go. How about I check with Bra and Goten, then get back to you?"
"That sounds good to me."
~Okay, so it wasn't much longer, but I tried. So review for the next chapter: Apartment Hunting.~