A/N: Ok, here's chapter 6.
Ch. 6 - Rowhe Town
Finally, after half a day of driving, Trunks and Marron go to a town. "About time." Trunks said. He didn't kow how much strength he had left since half of it was spent staring at Marron and keeping an eye on the road at the same time. That was his fault though, he took the long way to get here. Why was he always staring at her like some precious thing he couldn't touch? Was he falling for her? No. He's had lot's of girls. If he wanted to, he would have had her by now. So why was he staring? Marron didn't give him much time to think about it any longer.
"I'll say, do you know what town we're in Trunks?" Marron looked all around. It wasn't a village, but not big enough to call it a city. No skyscrapers anywhere, all one story buildings. Marron felt like a kid trying her first ice cream cone, excited, sweet, tasty, wanting to have more…..
"If I'm correct, this should be Rowhe town."
"Rowhe town….it has a nice ring to it, let's explore!" Marron clinched her hands together to stop herself from squealing. The only place she's ever been to has only been to Satan City. But here she was all by herself in Rowhe town! It was totally different. There weren't as many people that's for sure. There were mothers with their children outside on a beautiful afternoon, men in casual clothes, not in suits, off to work, and teenagers hanging out together. The town was beautiful to Marron. It seemed the whole town didn't have a care in the world. It was a world itself. She looked at Trunks who didn't have the same thrill as her. "Have you been here Trunks?"
"No, but seeing a new place doesn't excite me." Trunks was still staring directly at the road.
"You're no fun." Marron shrugged off Trunks and continued to look at every little detail while Trunks drove down the street.
"I think we should go to a hotel first." Trunks said not looking away from the road. He couldn't look at Marron. Not hot-looking, excited, adventurous Marron. She wants to explore! Oh, the things he could show her. He could almost picture her expression at all the mysterious but yet, beautiful places he could take her to, just maybe……
"Yeah, you're right, but then we have to walk around and see what Rowhe town has. No excuses."
"All right, all right." Trunks saw the hotel and parked in the parking lot there. They finally got out of that car after a full day and got to nice…..very comfortable……..beds. Trunks plopped down and took a deep breath. Taking Marron as hostage was harder than he thought. There has got to be something he can do to get her out of his head. "I know!" He blurted out loud.
"You know what Trunks?" Marron stood at the door arms folded tapping her foot standing right by the door ready to go out for a walk like a dog who needs to go to the bathroom. She was becoming very impatient.
"I-I know that I need a shower! A very, very cold one at that!"
"Why on Earth would you need to take a very cold one?" Marron looked at him a little weirdly, not sure if he was telling the truth or not.
"Well, you know to get rid of those…..driving jitters, yeah, from driving for so long. Hehe." Trunks wasn't sure if Marron would buy that but it was all he could think of for wanting a cold shower. It was what he would do to get his mind off of something.
"Are you serious?" Marron gave him a questioning look.
"Y-Yes, why wouldn't I be?" Trunks began to feel a little sweaty in fear that Marron figured out the truth about the real reason for needing a cold shower. The way she was standing, he needed it real soon.
Marron shook her head, "See, this is why you should have let me drive. Go take your shower but I'm not going to wait for you. I'll see you later bye." Marron rolled her eyes and left leaving Trunks alone in the room.
"Thanks Marron." He went to the bathroom and took his cold shower. That took his mind off her. For now…..
Meanwhile Marron was window shopping all around Rowhe. She felt like a little ant who found the big chocolate cake. There was just so much of it. She then went to the park near the playground. The grass was green with branchy trees. Picnics were all over and children laughing with delight. It was over whelming (I'm not sure if I spelled that right, forgive me) for Marron, it was more than she could imagine being here all by herself and not having her parents watch every move she made. Marron truly felt like she was in heaven. Now she fully began to take advantage of her freedom from everybody. She climbed on trees and talked to strangers about their lives. Marron was fascinated by what everyone had to say. 'To have stories like theirs….'
Back at the hotel Trunks go out of the shower and wore only a towel (Have fun picturing that ^_^). He looked at himself in the mirror like he was searching for something (^_^). "Don't risk it Trunks, you care to much about her to do anything with her, fun or no fun". He quickly got dressed and sat sown on his bed. In front of him stood the t.v. The last time he watched t.v. was the day before he started working at CC. Like he could resist relaxing and watch t.v. He wanted to get away and do what he wanted right? Well, might as well do it. He grabbed the remote and clicked it on. When the screen went from black to a picture, the first thing he saw was his mom with a news rporter.
"Bulma, could you tell us where you're son is? Rumor has it he left and quit." The reporter asked holding a microphone in front of Bulma's face. News certainly flies fast after one day.
Bulma gave out a light chuckle and said, "No, no, he's merely on vacation. He wants to be well rested before he handles CC again."
"Ah,, I see, thank you--" The t.v. went blank again. Trunks put the remote down and laid back on his bed. So that's the excuse his mom used to cover him….Trunks smirked, 'I bet she's really mad. Now I know why I don't watch t.v. regularly'. He then began to wonder if Marron was in the story as well, many people saw what he did, he sat back up and turned on the t.v. The next scene looked unbelievable , it showed Krillen and 18 holding a picture, very different one than what she looks like now, of Maron in front of the camera. They didn't look worried, but a little aggressive - like.
"This is our daughter Marron. She was last seen with Trunks. She's not on vacation with him. Most likely she's with him though or he knows at least where she is. If you've seen her or know where she is please call 240 - 7953." Krillen said looking straight at the camera.
"Um…sir? That wasn't what we asked you." The lady reporter said looking a little nervous towards Krillen.
"Remember, 240 - 7953." Krillen showed no expression and began sounding like a robot with only one thing on his mind.
"Excuse me sir? We wanted to know why you think Trunks Briefs would want this vacation right when the company needs him the most." The reporter tried again and put the microphone in front of Krillen in hopes of a descent answer.
"We're willing to give a reward if you've seen or heard of her." The reporter sweat dropped.
"Uh….that's all for now and stay tune to channel 6 news! Jerry cut ----" The screen went back to the studio of the news station. "Er…thanks Stacy for---"
Trunks didn't want to see anymore and turned the off the T.V again. "That answers my question." Marron wasn't kidding about never going outside. A reward! Now it was time to go through the decision making in all of this. Should he go out and look for Marron and tell her what happened on T.V? Or should he go out and just look for Marron to see how she was doing? Or should he just stay at the hotel? "Okay, if I stay here, it'll get to boring for me, that leaves me to go out and look for Marron. Should I tell her? Or shouldn't I? Well, there's nothing wrong with me telling her, and it gives me an excuse for looking for her! Yeah! I'll do it!" Trunks marched right out the hotel door and walked outside. The onlyl problem with humans…they have no ki whatsoever. It means he has to do this the hard non-saiyajin way - looking through every store and in hopes of finding her. Oh yeah, he was really enjoying himself on his "vacation" as his mom put it.
No really, he was having fun with Marron though. It's just he's afraid he'll begin to be a little friendly with her. "Damn, I really do love her." Trunks was standing outside the hotel deciding which way he should go. H decided to go right. He went through all the stores in the whole town. He looked left, right, up, down, left again, she was nowhere! It was then he saw the park and noticed a blond talking to two middle - aged people. "Marron!" Trunks called, he crossed the street walking towards her.
"That incredible ---" Marron heard Trunks and looked at his direction, 'it was about time he went outside' she thought. She stopped talking to the people she was with and waved at Trunks. "Hey! I'm so gald you finally came out after 3 hours!"
"It was spent looking for you actually."
"Really? Why would you be needing to look for me?"
"Er….I saw something on T.V" Trunks felt like he was a little kid talking to his mom about something he shouldn't have seen at his age.
"Oh, that's nice, uh….you want to tell me what you saw?"
"Yeah, it's real important. Our parents were in the news." Trunks face grew real serious.
Marron lost all color in her face and her smile withered away into ash. "What did they do?" She knew this wouldn't last forever, her parents would stop that.
"They showed a picture of you and gave out your number if anyone has seen you."
"A picture? I can't remember the last time I took a picture."
"Well, it looked pretty old. You were wearing a pink jumper with short pigtails and you were at least two inches shorter."
"Okay, that's nothing to worry about. Anything else Trunks?" Marron original face color returned and it was back to the mom and kid conversation again.
"U-um, what're doing?" Trunks grew a little pink. Why was he so nervous? He's loved lots of women. So why is she different. 'Cause she's the only one who doesn't love me in return, that's why.' Trunks answered his own question.
"These two people, Mr. and Mrs. Macteer were telling me their recent vacation in America." Marron said having no clue how Trunks feels.
"Hi, nice to meet you," Mrs. Macteer said putting her hand out indicating Trunks to greet her with a shake.
"Hi, how do you do." Trunks very shyly took her hand and shook it. He didn't really feel like being here. Every time he's met new people, it was always about business or a girl wanting his wallet and good looks.
"I'm fine, have you ever been to America?" she asked very warmly towards Trunks like a woman who just wanted to talk about herself and nothing else.
"Actually I have, it was a business trip but I did get a chance to sight see." Trunks replied.
Marron immediately spun her head staring at Trunks. "You never told me you went to America." Marron looked at Trunks like she had a million questions bursting to be asked.
"You never asked?" Trunks lifted his shoulders showing he was confused about never telling Marron.
"Well Trunks, it looks you don't need to hear about America, besides, my wife and I need to get going. I'm sorry for cutting our conversation short Marron but we hope to see you again. Good luck traveling!" Mr. Macteer said and he and his wife left the park leaving Marron and Trunks alone.
"I never knew you had to travel for your job." Marron was becoming very wide eyed.
"Y-yeah, CC has clients all over the world." Trunks was beginning to back away from Marron.
"So….you've been everywhere. How's it like?"
"What do you mean?"
"Tell me about all the places you went to. I love to hear stories about places and adventures people have there." Marron began sounding like a little girl herself and she was asking her daddy about his life story.
"Um…maybe we should go back to the hotel to do this, I've been to a lot of places." Trunks looked at Marron straight in her soft blue eyes. He now realized she's never really been to anywhere, it makes perfect sense.
"Okay, I don't mind, just start telling me now while we get there and don't stop. I want to know every detail." Marron beamed a smile at Trunks, this was exactly what she wanted.
"All right." Trunks chuckled and loosened up for once since he got to the park. "I guess I should start with my first trip out of the country."
"where'd you go?"
"It was to California and….." The two began to walk side by side out of the park as the orange sun began to rest over the horizon. Trunks talked the whole time not minding Marron at all with her questions about what he's seen and stuff. It was actually nice how she didn't want to hear if he met any girls or not like most women do when he talks about being out of the country. Instead, she wanted to know what he saw, how big it was, and little things like that. It began to have Trunks realize how wonderful the things he saw really were.
Marron was having the time of her life hearing all the places Trunks talked about. He went everywhere she's always dreamed of. 'I'll have an adventure like that.' But she also began to really enjoy Trunks' company as well. He was so nice, caring, letting her do what ever she wanted, and just understanding how she felt. When he did, he did the things that she really needed. Like this, he interrupted her conversation with those people and now he's the one telling her everything she wanted to know. 'Sometimes I wish this could last forever….especially with Trunks.'
A/N: So how was that chapter? I think it's kinda long but it was nice. Please tell me what you people think about this story, especially those flashbacks. The next chapter has a flashback and it's a chapter that I'm going to try to get real emotional with. It involves Goten and Marron um…getting really close as I should put it, so review so I can get a better idea. Reviews are always fun to read. The next chapter won't be out until next Friday but I'll put it out if I'm done writing it. Please, PLEASE review!
Ch. 6 - Rowhe Town
Finally, after half a day of driving, Trunks and Marron go to a town. "About time." Trunks said. He didn't kow how much strength he had left since half of it was spent staring at Marron and keeping an eye on the road at the same time. That was his fault though, he took the long way to get here. Why was he always staring at her like some precious thing he couldn't touch? Was he falling for her? No. He's had lot's of girls. If he wanted to, he would have had her by now. So why was he staring? Marron didn't give him much time to think about it any longer.
"I'll say, do you know what town we're in Trunks?" Marron looked all around. It wasn't a village, but not big enough to call it a city. No skyscrapers anywhere, all one story buildings. Marron felt like a kid trying her first ice cream cone, excited, sweet, tasty, wanting to have more…..
"If I'm correct, this should be Rowhe town."
"Rowhe town….it has a nice ring to it, let's explore!" Marron clinched her hands together to stop herself from squealing. The only place she's ever been to has only been to Satan City. But here she was all by herself in Rowhe town! It was totally different. There weren't as many people that's for sure. There were mothers with their children outside on a beautiful afternoon, men in casual clothes, not in suits, off to work, and teenagers hanging out together. The town was beautiful to Marron. It seemed the whole town didn't have a care in the world. It was a world itself. She looked at Trunks who didn't have the same thrill as her. "Have you been here Trunks?"
"No, but seeing a new place doesn't excite me." Trunks was still staring directly at the road.
"You're no fun." Marron shrugged off Trunks and continued to look at every little detail while Trunks drove down the street.
"I think we should go to a hotel first." Trunks said not looking away from the road. He couldn't look at Marron. Not hot-looking, excited, adventurous Marron. She wants to explore! Oh, the things he could show her. He could almost picture her expression at all the mysterious but yet, beautiful places he could take her to, just maybe……
"Yeah, you're right, but then we have to walk around and see what Rowhe town has. No excuses."
"All right, all right." Trunks saw the hotel and parked in the parking lot there. They finally got out of that car after a full day and got to nice…..very comfortable……..beds. Trunks plopped down and took a deep breath. Taking Marron as hostage was harder than he thought. There has got to be something he can do to get her out of his head. "I know!" He blurted out loud.
"You know what Trunks?" Marron stood at the door arms folded tapping her foot standing right by the door ready to go out for a walk like a dog who needs to go to the bathroom. She was becoming very impatient.
"I-I know that I need a shower! A very, very cold one at that!"
"Why on Earth would you need to take a very cold one?" Marron looked at him a little weirdly, not sure if he was telling the truth or not.
"Well, you know to get rid of those…..driving jitters, yeah, from driving for so long. Hehe." Trunks wasn't sure if Marron would buy that but it was all he could think of for wanting a cold shower. It was what he would do to get his mind off of something.
"Are you serious?" Marron gave him a questioning look.
"Y-Yes, why wouldn't I be?" Trunks began to feel a little sweaty in fear that Marron figured out the truth about the real reason for needing a cold shower. The way she was standing, he needed it real soon.
Marron shook her head, "See, this is why you should have let me drive. Go take your shower but I'm not going to wait for you. I'll see you later bye." Marron rolled her eyes and left leaving Trunks alone in the room.
"Thanks Marron." He went to the bathroom and took his cold shower. That took his mind off her. For now…..
Meanwhile Marron was window shopping all around Rowhe. She felt like a little ant who found the big chocolate cake. There was just so much of it. She then went to the park near the playground. The grass was green with branchy trees. Picnics were all over and children laughing with delight. It was over whelming (I'm not sure if I spelled that right, forgive me) for Marron, it was more than she could imagine being here all by herself and not having her parents watch every move she made. Marron truly felt like she was in heaven. Now she fully began to take advantage of her freedom from everybody. She climbed on trees and talked to strangers about their lives. Marron was fascinated by what everyone had to say. 'To have stories like theirs….'
Back at the hotel Trunks go out of the shower and wore only a towel (Have fun picturing that ^_^). He looked at himself in the mirror like he was searching for something (^_^). "Don't risk it Trunks, you care to much about her to do anything with her, fun or no fun". He quickly got dressed and sat sown on his bed. In front of him stood the t.v. The last time he watched t.v. was the day before he started working at CC. Like he could resist relaxing and watch t.v. He wanted to get away and do what he wanted right? Well, might as well do it. He grabbed the remote and clicked it on. When the screen went from black to a picture, the first thing he saw was his mom with a news rporter.
"Bulma, could you tell us where you're son is? Rumor has it he left and quit." The reporter asked holding a microphone in front of Bulma's face. News certainly flies fast after one day.
Bulma gave out a light chuckle and said, "No, no, he's merely on vacation. He wants to be well rested before he handles CC again."
"Ah,, I see, thank you--" The t.v. went blank again. Trunks put the remote down and laid back on his bed. So that's the excuse his mom used to cover him….Trunks smirked, 'I bet she's really mad. Now I know why I don't watch t.v. regularly'. He then began to wonder if Marron was in the story as well, many people saw what he did, he sat back up and turned on the t.v. The next scene looked unbelievable , it showed Krillen and 18 holding a picture, very different one than what she looks like now, of Maron in front of the camera. They didn't look worried, but a little aggressive - like.
"This is our daughter Marron. She was last seen with Trunks. She's not on vacation with him. Most likely she's with him though or he knows at least where she is. If you've seen her or know where she is please call 240 - 7953." Krillen said looking straight at the camera.
"Um…sir? That wasn't what we asked you." The lady reporter said looking a little nervous towards Krillen.
"Remember, 240 - 7953." Krillen showed no expression and began sounding like a robot with only one thing on his mind.
"Excuse me sir? We wanted to know why you think Trunks Briefs would want this vacation right when the company needs him the most." The reporter tried again and put the microphone in front of Krillen in hopes of a descent answer.
"We're willing to give a reward if you've seen or heard of her." The reporter sweat dropped.
"Uh….that's all for now and stay tune to channel 6 news! Jerry cut ----" The screen went back to the studio of the news station. "Er…thanks Stacy for---"
Trunks didn't want to see anymore and turned the off the T.V again. "That answers my question." Marron wasn't kidding about never going outside. A reward! Now it was time to go through the decision making in all of this. Should he go out and look for Marron and tell her what happened on T.V? Or should he go out and just look for Marron to see how she was doing? Or should he just stay at the hotel? "Okay, if I stay here, it'll get to boring for me, that leaves me to go out and look for Marron. Should I tell her? Or shouldn't I? Well, there's nothing wrong with me telling her, and it gives me an excuse for looking for her! Yeah! I'll do it!" Trunks marched right out the hotel door and walked outside. The onlyl problem with humans…they have no ki whatsoever. It means he has to do this the hard non-saiyajin way - looking through every store and in hopes of finding her. Oh yeah, he was really enjoying himself on his "vacation" as his mom put it.
No really, he was having fun with Marron though. It's just he's afraid he'll begin to be a little friendly with her. "Damn, I really do love her." Trunks was standing outside the hotel deciding which way he should go. H decided to go right. He went through all the stores in the whole town. He looked left, right, up, down, left again, she was nowhere! It was then he saw the park and noticed a blond talking to two middle - aged people. "Marron!" Trunks called, he crossed the street walking towards her.
"That incredible ---" Marron heard Trunks and looked at his direction, 'it was about time he went outside' she thought. She stopped talking to the people she was with and waved at Trunks. "Hey! I'm so gald you finally came out after 3 hours!"
"It was spent looking for you actually."
"Really? Why would you be needing to look for me?"
"Er….I saw something on T.V" Trunks felt like he was a little kid talking to his mom about something he shouldn't have seen at his age.
"Oh, that's nice, uh….you want to tell me what you saw?"
"Yeah, it's real important. Our parents were in the news." Trunks face grew real serious.
Marron lost all color in her face and her smile withered away into ash. "What did they do?" She knew this wouldn't last forever, her parents would stop that.
"They showed a picture of you and gave out your number if anyone has seen you."
"A picture? I can't remember the last time I took a picture."
"Well, it looked pretty old. You were wearing a pink jumper with short pigtails and you were at least two inches shorter."
"Okay, that's nothing to worry about. Anything else Trunks?" Marron original face color returned and it was back to the mom and kid conversation again.
"U-um, what're doing?" Trunks grew a little pink. Why was he so nervous? He's loved lots of women. So why is she different. 'Cause she's the only one who doesn't love me in return, that's why.' Trunks answered his own question.
"These two people, Mr. and Mrs. Macteer were telling me their recent vacation in America." Marron said having no clue how Trunks feels.
"Hi, nice to meet you," Mrs. Macteer said putting her hand out indicating Trunks to greet her with a shake.
"Hi, how do you do." Trunks very shyly took her hand and shook it. He didn't really feel like being here. Every time he's met new people, it was always about business or a girl wanting his wallet and good looks.
"I'm fine, have you ever been to America?" she asked very warmly towards Trunks like a woman who just wanted to talk about herself and nothing else.
"Actually I have, it was a business trip but I did get a chance to sight see." Trunks replied.
Marron immediately spun her head staring at Trunks. "You never told me you went to America." Marron looked at Trunks like she had a million questions bursting to be asked.
"You never asked?" Trunks lifted his shoulders showing he was confused about never telling Marron.
"Well Trunks, it looks you don't need to hear about America, besides, my wife and I need to get going. I'm sorry for cutting our conversation short Marron but we hope to see you again. Good luck traveling!" Mr. Macteer said and he and his wife left the park leaving Marron and Trunks alone.
"I never knew you had to travel for your job." Marron was becoming very wide eyed.
"Y-yeah, CC has clients all over the world." Trunks was beginning to back away from Marron.
"So….you've been everywhere. How's it like?"
"What do you mean?"
"Tell me about all the places you went to. I love to hear stories about places and adventures people have there." Marron began sounding like a little girl herself and she was asking her daddy about his life story.
"Um…maybe we should go back to the hotel to do this, I've been to a lot of places." Trunks looked at Marron straight in her soft blue eyes. He now realized she's never really been to anywhere, it makes perfect sense.
"Okay, I don't mind, just start telling me now while we get there and don't stop. I want to know every detail." Marron beamed a smile at Trunks, this was exactly what she wanted.
"All right." Trunks chuckled and loosened up for once since he got to the park. "I guess I should start with my first trip out of the country."
"where'd you go?"
"It was to California and….." The two began to walk side by side out of the park as the orange sun began to rest over the horizon. Trunks talked the whole time not minding Marron at all with her questions about what he's seen and stuff. It was actually nice how she didn't want to hear if he met any girls or not like most women do when he talks about being out of the country. Instead, she wanted to know what he saw, how big it was, and little things like that. It began to have Trunks realize how wonderful the things he saw really were.
Marron was having the time of her life hearing all the places Trunks talked about. He went everywhere she's always dreamed of. 'I'll have an adventure like that.' But she also began to really enjoy Trunks' company as well. He was so nice, caring, letting her do what ever she wanted, and just understanding how she felt. When he did, he did the things that she really needed. Like this, he interrupted her conversation with those people and now he's the one telling her everything she wanted to know. 'Sometimes I wish this could last forever….especially with Trunks.'
A/N: So how was that chapter? I think it's kinda long but it was nice. Please tell me what you people think about this story, especially those flashbacks. The next chapter has a flashback and it's a chapter that I'm going to try to get real emotional with. It involves Goten and Marron um…getting really close as I should put it, so review so I can get a better idea. Reviews are always fun to read. The next chapter won't be out until next Friday but I'll put it out if I'm done writing it. Please, PLEASE review!