A/N: Enjoy the chapter! Thanks to Lady Tsukya, Angie, and Mirai Trunks #1
Fan girl for being the ONLY 3 that reviewed my last chapter. That long
thing that took me forever to write and only 3 reviewers. It was my last
flashback too. Sorry folks, guess I put that chapter out too long. Maybe
this chapter will persuade you over…….
Ch. 12 -
Well, after two hours of driving, Bra, Trunks, and Marron got to the next town. Bra woke up and became all bouncy again.
"Yay! I wonder what we'll do here!" Bra squealed.
"Hopefully relax." Trunks said looking exhausted.
"Tired Trunks?" Marron asked.
"After driving for a while, you get really bored."
"You know, you COULD let me drive the next time."
"Or even me! I can drive as well now!" Bra jumped in.
"No way, my car, I drive." Trunks said flatly.
"Perhaps we'll do some touring, and get you a disguise Bra." Marron said, changing the subject.
"One step ahead of you! I brought a disguise with me!" Bra cheerily said.
"What kind of disguise could you possibly think of?" Trunks said insultingly.
"I'm not as dumb as you think Trunks, I have a long brown wig with green contacts to go with them." Bra said triumphantly.
Marron immediately giggled. "Sounds a lot like your disguise Trunks."
"Hey now! I have magenta contacts as well, remember? I'll just have to wear those all the time now." Trunks was wearing his wig with the magenta contacts in them.
"Whatever you say, let's get to a hotel and just settle in. I want to take a tour and get pictures." Marron said getting out her camera and hanging it around her neck. She then took two quick snapshots of Trunks and then Bra.
"Hey! Didn't I say no more pictures of me?" Trunks whined.
"I said I wouldn't take anymore pictures of you in your regular self. There's a difference." Marron said holding her face high.
"Does it matter? Marron you'll have to take a picture of me in my disguise. While we take a tour, we'll take pictures of each other!"
"That sounds like fun!"
"Then it's a date!" Bra squealed again.
"Ugh….just get me out of this car." Trunks moaned. Though he would like to have a date with Marron, only it being just the two of them. "Hmmm…maybe I can think of a way to do that." Trunks said slyly.
"What was that Trunks?" Marron said looking his way.
"Wha? Oh nothing, here's the hotel. Let's unpack and then decide what we're going to do."
The three got unpack in a hotel room that had a single bed in one room, then a door connecting to another room with two beds. Obviously Trunks slept in the single while Marron and Bra shared the double beds.
Trunks quickly unpacked and began to think of a way to have his date with Marron. All he had to do was take Bra's place and go on the tour with Marron. 'Then we could go out and do some other things.' Trunks smiled wickedly to himself.
The only thing he had to do was think of a way to get rid of Bra for half a day. 'hmmm…. Obviously she would want to do something better than taking a tour and getting pictures taken.' Then it hit him. "Shopping! Her weakness!" Trunks punched into his hand. He then dug into his wallet and found the one thing that made Bra drool enough saliva to fill a 12ft. deep pool. His platinum card, but wait, one platinum wouldn't do it, so he took out his brand new platinum card that he hasn't used yet. "That'll win her over. But how to do it without her figuring out that I want to go on the tour with Marron…." That was going to be tricky. He then thought of the perfect idea.
Marron and Bra just finishing unpacking and began to decide what time they should to the tour. "How about one at 3:00?"
"That sounds like a good time. There's also a different tour starting at 3:30 and it lasts 45 minutes longer than the 3:00 one."
"Which one should we take?"
"I'm not sure…." Before anymore thoughts could get in, Trunks knocked on the connected door.
"Can I come in?"
"What in the hell do you want now?" Bra snapped.
"Don't be so mean, yeah, you can come in Trunks." Marron said a little, no, a lot more nicely than Bra.
Bra folded her arms and turned away avoiding to look at Trunks. "Are you guys hungry?" He said.
"Actually, I am kinda hungry." Marron said touching her stomach.
"Good, I was thinking that before you guys take your tour that we go out and grab a bite to eat. My treat."
"Can you pay for it? I thought you left all your stuff at CC." Bra said sounding very rude.
"As a matter of fact I have my old and NEW platinum card with me in my wallet. I haven't even had a chance yet to use my new one." Trunks said tauntingly to Bra. He knew that would get her attention.
Bra's arms began to tremble. "Y-you mean, you have a credit card that hasn't been used not once?" Bra said dreamily.
"It's right here." Trunks pulled out his new platinum card out waving it right in front of Bra's face.
Marron looked at both of them a little weird. "Well good, this means we can eat and not worry about the cost and it makes our decision for the tour. We'll take the 3:30 one, that'll give us plenty of time." Marron said grabbing her camera.
Bra paid no attention to Marron. Her eyes were glued to the credit card. Her pupils moving every inch at where Trunks was waving it. "Trunks? How full is your old one?" Bra said mischievously.
"Um…about less than 1/4 full. It has plenty of space too." Trunks said looking up as if he was thinking.
"Marron? Do you like to shop?"
"I prefer to take the tour Bra." Marron said impatiently. She was getting hungry.
"Trunks, can I use your new platinum to go shopping?" Bra said, still staring at the credit card with full contempt.
"What about me Bra?" Marron said disappointedly.
"Uh..Um.." Trunks waved the credit card away so that Bra was looking at him. "That's it! Trunks can go with you!"
"Only if I let you use my card." Trunks said putting it back out and giving Bra another dazed look.
"Please Trunks! I promise I'll be good! I'll have my disguise on and I'll be good for the rest of this entire trip."
"Well---What do you think Marron?"
"As long as it lets me get a bite to eat and go on the tour." Marron said tapping her foot.
"Ummm…"
"PLEASE!" Bra begged.
"Just do it Trunks! Let's just go!" Marron said on the verge of yelling.
"All right here." Trunks dropped the new card into Bra's hands and began to leave with Marron. "Be back before 10:00 okay? It's 2:30 now. That should give you plenty of time." Trunks escorted Marron out of their room and shut the door. The last image he saw of Bra before he closed the door was her wiping her mouth with her arm. 'She really did drool! Damn, you're good Trunks.'
"I knew going with Trunks was the best idea I ever thought of." Bra said very happily. After two minutes of standing there, Bra grabbed her purse and left.
Meanwhile, Trunks was driving around the town with the most happiest grin on his face. "Now why in the world are you so happy Trunks?" Marron said, half smiling, half confused.
'Because I'm finally on a date with you.' "Because Bra's not here for once." Trunks lied.
Marron rolled her eyes back to looking at the stores for a restaurant. "We're never going to find one." Marron said sadly.
"Yes we will, look right over there, we'll eat here." Trunks pulled right in front of an All-You-Can-Eat buffet full of rice and meat.
"I guess an all you can eat buffet is good for you Trunks, considering you have a saiyjin stomach." Marron said giggly. She and Trunks got out of the car and before they went in, Marron took a picture of Trunks standing in front of the buffet. "Our first restaurant!"
They walked in and sat down at one of the tables near the bar that contained all the meats. "I guess we should eat quick since we only have 40 minutes to eat." Trunks didn't let Marron respond, he was already gone getting food for himself.
Marron sighed, "Yeah, we should." She got up at a normal pace and got her food quickly. Trunks was still getting food as Marron was already sitting down eating. Well, after two minutes he finally came back to the table and began to devour his food.
"Marron, you should try some of the teriyaki, it's really good." Trunks said taking a big swallow of food.
"Yeah, I had a little, it's very delicious." Marron ate very slowly and came to a point where she was just picking at her food. "Hey Trunks?"
"eah mwarron?" Trunks said with food in his mouth.
"Thank you." She smiled brightly at Trunks.
"For what?"
"For everything." Marron said.
Trunks turned a little pink. "You don't have to thank me Marron."
"Yeah I do. I'm really grateful for what you've done for me."
"Well, thanks for coming with me." Trunks locked eyes with Marron and both of them smiled.
"Um…how much time do we have?" Marron said.
"We have about 20 minutes." Trunks said looking at his watch.
"I guess that means we should leave soon."
"Yeah, don't want to be late for our date!" Trunks said and began to eat faster.
Marron began to feel a little fuzzy and the word 'date.' 'Is this really a date? Mmm…I've never been on a date before….Goten never took me. I guess this is my first one.' Marron thought. 'I bet Trunks has gone on lots of dates. Oh, I bet I'll be horrible company to him.' Marron began to frown, but when she looked at Trunks, who was so happy sitting there eating and smiling, her thought quickly washed away.
About 10 minutes later both of them were done and were ready to go. Marron couldn't believe how much food Trunks ate in such a short amount of time. But she lost interest in it and began to get excited about the tour. 'My first date is on a tour, how unique.' Marron smiled to herself. They got back in the car and got to the boat that was going to lead them around the town in the river. Both of them got on and were now standing on the edge of the boat looking around the city. Marron took many pictures and even Trunks took a picture of Marron on the boat as well.
"That'll be a beautiful picture." Trunks said.
Marron threw the compliment off. 'Goten did that with me, yuck.' "Trunks, don't say those kinds of things. You're only saying that to be nice." Marron said bluntly.
"No! I'm serious! It's a very beautiful picture!" Trunks argued.
"Yeah whatever, I'll take the camera back."
"You and compliments! Hasn't anyone told you that you're beautiful!" Trunks raised the camera out of Marron's reach.
"Will you stop that! And give me back my camera! I don't care what you think of me!" Marron began to jump for the camera, but Trunks raised it too high for her.
"That wasn't what I was asking, I asked if anyone has told you that you were beautiful." Trunks still didn't give Marron the camera.
"YES OKAY!" Marron stepped on Trunks' foot, which inevitably caught him off guard and he lowered his arm to check on his foot, which gave Marron the chance to grab her camera.
"Ow..that actually hurt. Krillen's strength is in you. So who was it?" Trunks began to grin.
"What do you mean?"
"Who was it that told you you were beautiful?"
"My mom." Marron said immediately.
"You're no fun. Have any guys told you that you were beautiful? Aside from your father of course." Trunks leaned in his ear to signal Marron that he wanted an answer.
Marron put a mischief smile on herself as well, "Well, wouldn't you like to know?"
"Of course, it's important to know a hostage's background."
"As a matter of fact, yes, a guy aside from my father told me I was beautiful." Marron folded her arms and avoided Trunks' curious gaze at her.
"Well?" Trunks raised an eyebrow and folded his arms as well.
"Well what? I answered your question." Marron said very stubbornly.
"Well who was it?"
"Why do you want to know?! What difference is it going to make?" Marron was getting very frustrated at Trunks. 'This wasn't how I was imagining my first date.'
"It's still nice to know. Do I know him?" Trunks began to put on a teasing grin.
Marron gave out a hearty laugh. "Yeah, you do. Quite well actually."
Trunks began to get very curious. "Tell me."
"You know Trunks, curiosity killed the cat."
"I'm not a cat, I'm a monkey."
Marron laughed very hard at that one. "So you're curious George?"
"Don't even try to change the subject Marron."
"I'm not going to tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't feel like it."
"You don't feel like it? Well, when will you tell me?"
"I don't know, whenever I feel like it I guess." Marron shrugged her shoulders.
"I'll let this one go for now, but you owe me that question."
"Whatever you say." Marron said sarcastically.
Marron saw a bus boy near by and got a brilliant idea. "You know what will make a great picture Trunks? Us together on the boat."
"No, it wouldn't make a great picture." Trunks stopped grinning.
"What?" Marron felt a little disappointed.
"It would make a beautiful picture." Trunks began to grin again.
"Didn't I say to stop that!"
"What can I say, I can never tell a lie."
Marron rolled her eyes and asked the bus boy to take a picture of them together. He happily agreed and took a picture of the happy couple. Trunks was right behind Marron smiling through his wig and contacts and Marron just gave a light grin brightening up her eyes.
"How lovely." The bus boy said, "You are a lucky man to have a girl that pretty as your girlfriend."
"We're not together mister." Marron stopped all possible smiling and looked stern at the bus boy.
"Yes we are." Trunks wrapped his arms around Marron's waist. "Yes, I know she's pretty, and she's a wonderful companion."
Marron struggled to get out of Trunks' embrace but he held a tight grip on her. Marron faked a smile and said, "Hehe dear, don't make him feel alone, come on, we should go."
"There's no where to go, we're on a boat remember?"
"Yes I remember!" Marron yelled in Trunks' ear.
"Umm….I'll be going. Enjoy the tour." The bus boy quickly ran off.
"Oh now look what you did Trunks, you drove the bus boy away." Marron threw her arms up in frustration.
"I didn't do that. You were the one who yelled in my ear." Trunks still held on to Marron.
"Will you let go of me now? Why did you say we were a couple in the first place?" Marron struggled even harder to break free.
"I was just having a little fun, besides, it looked like he liked you."
"So? You're making no sense. So what if he liked me?"
"Well, for this trip, there has to be some rules."
Marron narrowed her eyes at Trunks, "What kind of rules?"
"No getting involved with anyone." Trunks narrowed his eyes at Marron.
"Why?"
"Because things will get complicated and it'll just get difficult. What if you want to stay but want to keep going as well? What if you find someone else?"
"Good point." Marron had another thought. "Does this mean I can't get involved with you either?"
Trunks finally let go of Marron and stood there speechless for a minute. 'Why in all the world did she have to ask that question?' "N-now why would I do that?"
"You DID say I was beautiful." Marron flashed her eyes.
"I said the picture was beautiful." Trunks replied.
"So we shouldn't get involved with each other either?" Marron said calmly, though she felt a pinch of hurt.
Trunks took a deep breath. "Yeah, we shouldn't get involved with each other. Things would get a little weird." Trunks felt truly disappointed but knew that Marron was a friend and didn't want to hurt her. Besides, this was just a vacation, nothing else.
"No kidding." Marron thought about Goten again and knew that it would be weird dating his best friend.
Both of them stopped talking and continued to look around the city from the boat that swam on the river. Marron took a few more pictures and felt a little better knowing where she and Trunks stood. 'Now I don't have to worry anymore about liking him, I'm not allowed to.'
Trunks felt somewhat better. 'I guess I can't love her anymore. Well, I can, but only as a friend. I guess this is what friends are supposed to do. I wonder what Goten would do if he was in my situation.' Trunks let out a sigh and gazed some more.
The tour finally came to an end and Trunks and Marron got off. After the long silence both of them seem to be a little more comfortable now that the hard question and pressure were off. However, both of them still felt bad about letting it go.
"Maybe we should look for Bra and see how she's doing?" Marron looked at Trunks while they were walking down the street.
"Naw, she'll be fine. This hasn't been her first shopping trip from somewhere else."
"Oh okay, what time do you think she'll be back?"
"I don't know. It depends how she feels. Could be a short trip, could be an extremely long one. Who knows."
"Well, I hope she's okay."
"Yeah she is. I wouldn't worry about her."
Meanwhile…….
Bra was shopping around the whole city feeling quite happy. She wore her disguise as well. "Let's see, I still have more than half of space left on this card, so that means I can still shop!" Bra was carrying hundreds of bags already but thanks to her half-saiyjin blood, the weight didn't effect her.
"I'll have to eventually thank Trunks. And Marron for letting me do this." Bra kept walking and thought about the two. As if by magic, an idea sprung from her head. "That's it! I'll set those two together! They'll be thanking me forever!"
She began to skip down the street and back to the hotel to drop off stuff. Then she went out again thinking how to get those two together. "It can't be too hard right? Trunks goes with any girl and Marron…..well, Marron should easily fall in his charms." As Bra began to think more, she also realized the horror of it all. "He'll break her heart so easily and this whole trip will be over! Now I'll have to keep them only as friends! Now I really should have gone on the tour with Marron!" Bra felt really guilty and sulked back to the hotel….right when Trunks and Marron came back.
A/N: And that's it! Wow, this chapter was long to and I got it out in less than a week! I feel so proud of myself :P. You know, I could have the next chapter out by next Friday to! Okay, see ya later! Oh, and PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!
Ch. 12 -
Well, after two hours of driving, Bra, Trunks, and Marron got to the next town. Bra woke up and became all bouncy again.
"Yay! I wonder what we'll do here!" Bra squealed.
"Hopefully relax." Trunks said looking exhausted.
"Tired Trunks?" Marron asked.
"After driving for a while, you get really bored."
"You know, you COULD let me drive the next time."
"Or even me! I can drive as well now!" Bra jumped in.
"No way, my car, I drive." Trunks said flatly.
"Perhaps we'll do some touring, and get you a disguise Bra." Marron said, changing the subject.
"One step ahead of you! I brought a disguise with me!" Bra cheerily said.
"What kind of disguise could you possibly think of?" Trunks said insultingly.
"I'm not as dumb as you think Trunks, I have a long brown wig with green contacts to go with them." Bra said triumphantly.
Marron immediately giggled. "Sounds a lot like your disguise Trunks."
"Hey now! I have magenta contacts as well, remember? I'll just have to wear those all the time now." Trunks was wearing his wig with the magenta contacts in them.
"Whatever you say, let's get to a hotel and just settle in. I want to take a tour and get pictures." Marron said getting out her camera and hanging it around her neck. She then took two quick snapshots of Trunks and then Bra.
"Hey! Didn't I say no more pictures of me?" Trunks whined.
"I said I wouldn't take anymore pictures of you in your regular self. There's a difference." Marron said holding her face high.
"Does it matter? Marron you'll have to take a picture of me in my disguise. While we take a tour, we'll take pictures of each other!"
"That sounds like fun!"
"Then it's a date!" Bra squealed again.
"Ugh….just get me out of this car." Trunks moaned. Though he would like to have a date with Marron, only it being just the two of them. "Hmmm…maybe I can think of a way to do that." Trunks said slyly.
"What was that Trunks?" Marron said looking his way.
"Wha? Oh nothing, here's the hotel. Let's unpack and then decide what we're going to do."
The three got unpack in a hotel room that had a single bed in one room, then a door connecting to another room with two beds. Obviously Trunks slept in the single while Marron and Bra shared the double beds.
Trunks quickly unpacked and began to think of a way to have his date with Marron. All he had to do was take Bra's place and go on the tour with Marron. 'Then we could go out and do some other things.' Trunks smiled wickedly to himself.
The only thing he had to do was think of a way to get rid of Bra for half a day. 'hmmm…. Obviously she would want to do something better than taking a tour and getting pictures taken.' Then it hit him. "Shopping! Her weakness!" Trunks punched into his hand. He then dug into his wallet and found the one thing that made Bra drool enough saliva to fill a 12ft. deep pool. His platinum card, but wait, one platinum wouldn't do it, so he took out his brand new platinum card that he hasn't used yet. "That'll win her over. But how to do it without her figuring out that I want to go on the tour with Marron…." That was going to be tricky. He then thought of the perfect idea.
Marron and Bra just finishing unpacking and began to decide what time they should to the tour. "How about one at 3:00?"
"That sounds like a good time. There's also a different tour starting at 3:30 and it lasts 45 minutes longer than the 3:00 one."
"Which one should we take?"
"I'm not sure…." Before anymore thoughts could get in, Trunks knocked on the connected door.
"Can I come in?"
"What in the hell do you want now?" Bra snapped.
"Don't be so mean, yeah, you can come in Trunks." Marron said a little, no, a lot more nicely than Bra.
Bra folded her arms and turned away avoiding to look at Trunks. "Are you guys hungry?" He said.
"Actually, I am kinda hungry." Marron said touching her stomach.
"Good, I was thinking that before you guys take your tour that we go out and grab a bite to eat. My treat."
"Can you pay for it? I thought you left all your stuff at CC." Bra said sounding very rude.
"As a matter of fact I have my old and NEW platinum card with me in my wallet. I haven't even had a chance yet to use my new one." Trunks said tauntingly to Bra. He knew that would get her attention.
Bra's arms began to tremble. "Y-you mean, you have a credit card that hasn't been used not once?" Bra said dreamily.
"It's right here." Trunks pulled out his new platinum card out waving it right in front of Bra's face.
Marron looked at both of them a little weird. "Well good, this means we can eat and not worry about the cost and it makes our decision for the tour. We'll take the 3:30 one, that'll give us plenty of time." Marron said grabbing her camera.
Bra paid no attention to Marron. Her eyes were glued to the credit card. Her pupils moving every inch at where Trunks was waving it. "Trunks? How full is your old one?" Bra said mischievously.
"Um…about less than 1/4 full. It has plenty of space too." Trunks said looking up as if he was thinking.
"Marron? Do you like to shop?"
"I prefer to take the tour Bra." Marron said impatiently. She was getting hungry.
"Trunks, can I use your new platinum to go shopping?" Bra said, still staring at the credit card with full contempt.
"What about me Bra?" Marron said disappointedly.
"Uh..Um.." Trunks waved the credit card away so that Bra was looking at him. "That's it! Trunks can go with you!"
"Only if I let you use my card." Trunks said putting it back out and giving Bra another dazed look.
"Please Trunks! I promise I'll be good! I'll have my disguise on and I'll be good for the rest of this entire trip."
"Well---What do you think Marron?"
"As long as it lets me get a bite to eat and go on the tour." Marron said tapping her foot.
"Ummm…"
"PLEASE!" Bra begged.
"Just do it Trunks! Let's just go!" Marron said on the verge of yelling.
"All right here." Trunks dropped the new card into Bra's hands and began to leave with Marron. "Be back before 10:00 okay? It's 2:30 now. That should give you plenty of time." Trunks escorted Marron out of their room and shut the door. The last image he saw of Bra before he closed the door was her wiping her mouth with her arm. 'She really did drool! Damn, you're good Trunks.'
"I knew going with Trunks was the best idea I ever thought of." Bra said very happily. After two minutes of standing there, Bra grabbed her purse and left.
Meanwhile, Trunks was driving around the town with the most happiest grin on his face. "Now why in the world are you so happy Trunks?" Marron said, half smiling, half confused.
'Because I'm finally on a date with you.' "Because Bra's not here for once." Trunks lied.
Marron rolled her eyes back to looking at the stores for a restaurant. "We're never going to find one." Marron said sadly.
"Yes we will, look right over there, we'll eat here." Trunks pulled right in front of an All-You-Can-Eat buffet full of rice and meat.
"I guess an all you can eat buffet is good for you Trunks, considering you have a saiyjin stomach." Marron said giggly. She and Trunks got out of the car and before they went in, Marron took a picture of Trunks standing in front of the buffet. "Our first restaurant!"
They walked in and sat down at one of the tables near the bar that contained all the meats. "I guess we should eat quick since we only have 40 minutes to eat." Trunks didn't let Marron respond, he was already gone getting food for himself.
Marron sighed, "Yeah, we should." She got up at a normal pace and got her food quickly. Trunks was still getting food as Marron was already sitting down eating. Well, after two minutes he finally came back to the table and began to devour his food.
"Marron, you should try some of the teriyaki, it's really good." Trunks said taking a big swallow of food.
"Yeah, I had a little, it's very delicious." Marron ate very slowly and came to a point where she was just picking at her food. "Hey Trunks?"
"eah mwarron?" Trunks said with food in his mouth.
"Thank you." She smiled brightly at Trunks.
"For what?"
"For everything." Marron said.
Trunks turned a little pink. "You don't have to thank me Marron."
"Yeah I do. I'm really grateful for what you've done for me."
"Well, thanks for coming with me." Trunks locked eyes with Marron and both of them smiled.
"Um…how much time do we have?" Marron said.
"We have about 20 minutes." Trunks said looking at his watch.
"I guess that means we should leave soon."
"Yeah, don't want to be late for our date!" Trunks said and began to eat faster.
Marron began to feel a little fuzzy and the word 'date.' 'Is this really a date? Mmm…I've never been on a date before….Goten never took me. I guess this is my first one.' Marron thought. 'I bet Trunks has gone on lots of dates. Oh, I bet I'll be horrible company to him.' Marron began to frown, but when she looked at Trunks, who was so happy sitting there eating and smiling, her thought quickly washed away.
About 10 minutes later both of them were done and were ready to go. Marron couldn't believe how much food Trunks ate in such a short amount of time. But she lost interest in it and began to get excited about the tour. 'My first date is on a tour, how unique.' Marron smiled to herself. They got back in the car and got to the boat that was going to lead them around the town in the river. Both of them got on and were now standing on the edge of the boat looking around the city. Marron took many pictures and even Trunks took a picture of Marron on the boat as well.
"That'll be a beautiful picture." Trunks said.
Marron threw the compliment off. 'Goten did that with me, yuck.' "Trunks, don't say those kinds of things. You're only saying that to be nice." Marron said bluntly.
"No! I'm serious! It's a very beautiful picture!" Trunks argued.
"Yeah whatever, I'll take the camera back."
"You and compliments! Hasn't anyone told you that you're beautiful!" Trunks raised the camera out of Marron's reach.
"Will you stop that! And give me back my camera! I don't care what you think of me!" Marron began to jump for the camera, but Trunks raised it too high for her.
"That wasn't what I was asking, I asked if anyone has told you that you were beautiful." Trunks still didn't give Marron the camera.
"YES OKAY!" Marron stepped on Trunks' foot, which inevitably caught him off guard and he lowered his arm to check on his foot, which gave Marron the chance to grab her camera.
"Ow..that actually hurt. Krillen's strength is in you. So who was it?" Trunks began to grin.
"What do you mean?"
"Who was it that told you you were beautiful?"
"My mom." Marron said immediately.
"You're no fun. Have any guys told you that you were beautiful? Aside from your father of course." Trunks leaned in his ear to signal Marron that he wanted an answer.
Marron put a mischief smile on herself as well, "Well, wouldn't you like to know?"
"Of course, it's important to know a hostage's background."
"As a matter of fact, yes, a guy aside from my father told me I was beautiful." Marron folded her arms and avoided Trunks' curious gaze at her.
"Well?" Trunks raised an eyebrow and folded his arms as well.
"Well what? I answered your question." Marron said very stubbornly.
"Well who was it?"
"Why do you want to know?! What difference is it going to make?" Marron was getting very frustrated at Trunks. 'This wasn't how I was imagining my first date.'
"It's still nice to know. Do I know him?" Trunks began to put on a teasing grin.
Marron gave out a hearty laugh. "Yeah, you do. Quite well actually."
Trunks began to get very curious. "Tell me."
"You know Trunks, curiosity killed the cat."
"I'm not a cat, I'm a monkey."
Marron laughed very hard at that one. "So you're curious George?"
"Don't even try to change the subject Marron."
"I'm not going to tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because I don't feel like it."
"You don't feel like it? Well, when will you tell me?"
"I don't know, whenever I feel like it I guess." Marron shrugged her shoulders.
"I'll let this one go for now, but you owe me that question."
"Whatever you say." Marron said sarcastically.
Marron saw a bus boy near by and got a brilliant idea. "You know what will make a great picture Trunks? Us together on the boat."
"No, it wouldn't make a great picture." Trunks stopped grinning.
"What?" Marron felt a little disappointed.
"It would make a beautiful picture." Trunks began to grin again.
"Didn't I say to stop that!"
"What can I say, I can never tell a lie."
Marron rolled her eyes and asked the bus boy to take a picture of them together. He happily agreed and took a picture of the happy couple. Trunks was right behind Marron smiling through his wig and contacts and Marron just gave a light grin brightening up her eyes.
"How lovely." The bus boy said, "You are a lucky man to have a girl that pretty as your girlfriend."
"We're not together mister." Marron stopped all possible smiling and looked stern at the bus boy.
"Yes we are." Trunks wrapped his arms around Marron's waist. "Yes, I know she's pretty, and she's a wonderful companion."
Marron struggled to get out of Trunks' embrace but he held a tight grip on her. Marron faked a smile and said, "Hehe dear, don't make him feel alone, come on, we should go."
"There's no where to go, we're on a boat remember?"
"Yes I remember!" Marron yelled in Trunks' ear.
"Umm….I'll be going. Enjoy the tour." The bus boy quickly ran off.
"Oh now look what you did Trunks, you drove the bus boy away." Marron threw her arms up in frustration.
"I didn't do that. You were the one who yelled in my ear." Trunks still held on to Marron.
"Will you let go of me now? Why did you say we were a couple in the first place?" Marron struggled even harder to break free.
"I was just having a little fun, besides, it looked like he liked you."
"So? You're making no sense. So what if he liked me?"
"Well, for this trip, there has to be some rules."
Marron narrowed her eyes at Trunks, "What kind of rules?"
"No getting involved with anyone." Trunks narrowed his eyes at Marron.
"Why?"
"Because things will get complicated and it'll just get difficult. What if you want to stay but want to keep going as well? What if you find someone else?"
"Good point." Marron had another thought. "Does this mean I can't get involved with you either?"
Trunks finally let go of Marron and stood there speechless for a minute. 'Why in all the world did she have to ask that question?' "N-now why would I do that?"
"You DID say I was beautiful." Marron flashed her eyes.
"I said the picture was beautiful." Trunks replied.
"So we shouldn't get involved with each other either?" Marron said calmly, though she felt a pinch of hurt.
Trunks took a deep breath. "Yeah, we shouldn't get involved with each other. Things would get a little weird." Trunks felt truly disappointed but knew that Marron was a friend and didn't want to hurt her. Besides, this was just a vacation, nothing else.
"No kidding." Marron thought about Goten again and knew that it would be weird dating his best friend.
Both of them stopped talking and continued to look around the city from the boat that swam on the river. Marron took a few more pictures and felt a little better knowing where she and Trunks stood. 'Now I don't have to worry anymore about liking him, I'm not allowed to.'
Trunks felt somewhat better. 'I guess I can't love her anymore. Well, I can, but only as a friend. I guess this is what friends are supposed to do. I wonder what Goten would do if he was in my situation.' Trunks let out a sigh and gazed some more.
The tour finally came to an end and Trunks and Marron got off. After the long silence both of them seem to be a little more comfortable now that the hard question and pressure were off. However, both of them still felt bad about letting it go.
"Maybe we should look for Bra and see how she's doing?" Marron looked at Trunks while they were walking down the street.
"Naw, she'll be fine. This hasn't been her first shopping trip from somewhere else."
"Oh okay, what time do you think she'll be back?"
"I don't know. It depends how she feels. Could be a short trip, could be an extremely long one. Who knows."
"Well, I hope she's okay."
"Yeah she is. I wouldn't worry about her."
Meanwhile…….
Bra was shopping around the whole city feeling quite happy. She wore her disguise as well. "Let's see, I still have more than half of space left on this card, so that means I can still shop!" Bra was carrying hundreds of bags already but thanks to her half-saiyjin blood, the weight didn't effect her.
"I'll have to eventually thank Trunks. And Marron for letting me do this." Bra kept walking and thought about the two. As if by magic, an idea sprung from her head. "That's it! I'll set those two together! They'll be thanking me forever!"
She began to skip down the street and back to the hotel to drop off stuff. Then she went out again thinking how to get those two together. "It can't be too hard right? Trunks goes with any girl and Marron…..well, Marron should easily fall in his charms." As Bra began to think more, she also realized the horror of it all. "He'll break her heart so easily and this whole trip will be over! Now I'll have to keep them only as friends! Now I really should have gone on the tour with Marron!" Bra felt really guilty and sulked back to the hotel….right when Trunks and Marron came back.
A/N: And that's it! Wow, this chapter was long to and I got it out in less than a week! I feel so proud of myself :P. You know, I could have the next chapter out by next Friday to! Okay, see ya later! Oh, and PLEASE REVIEW!!!!!