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I walked into the kitchen to find something to drink, but instead I found Trunks. I grabbed a bottle of Pepsi, and sat down at the table. Where he eventually joined me. "Mar, can we please talk?" He asked. "Fine." I said and took a swig of my Pepsi, and looked him dead in the eyes. I saw him gulp and waited for him to continue what he was about to say. "You know, I didn't mean it like how it sound. I was bragging about it last night, so I can see how it could've bugged you, and The Black Cat may have been amazing, but you're just as amazing and.. and.." He paused, "You drive me crazy." He whispered, I couldn't believe that he actually said it. The fuck up finally said it! he let down his pride for me. I stood up and walked over to him, and kissed his cheek. "It's not entirely you're fault, most of it is, but I was blowing it all out of proportion." I said and he stood up an embraced me. I sighed in relief, he finally hit the mark, that's all I wanted, for him to say sorry. I dragged him into the living room, where everyone was lying on the ground and the TV was on. "Did you guys do anything while I was away?" I asked Pan. "No, nothing, at all!" She said, looking a little frustrated. "Boredom!" Bra yelled out "Aren't the walls about dry by now?" Trunks asked. "Should be, let's go set up the new stuff we got!" he said and got up. We all followed him, and took out the fans. I felt a surge of energy as we entered the room. We threw our new furniture to the middle of the room. We set up some lights first, draping the ceiling with those cheap Christmas lights and then setting a few candles on the windowsill. Basically we had to clue on what the hell we were doing, and just threw things around the room, trying to make it look as if we tried. After we were done it looked pretty damn good! We just stood at the doorway looking in on our accomplishment. We each looked at each other and smiled at the same time, running to the beds, and flopping down on it. Laughing with joy, and pleasure out of this. Oh yea, this was the spot, nothing was better than spending time with the people you cared about.
I sat up and announced to everybody. "Oh yea, I'm not mad at Trunks anymore." I said and flopped back down onto the bed. There was a round of applause from everyone and then we all just got quiet. "Anyone feel like going to sleep now? We have nothing else to do, and let's just enjoy this day." Pan suggested, we all agreed to change into our pajamas and then meet back in the room. as I was in the bathroom, I started to think, and that's not always a good thing. I was thinking, why did I put myself through so much? With Trunks, it wasn't like we were going to get married, it's not like any of us were going to get married at this age. But I left the bathroom, and my thoughts to go back to the room. We settled ourselves in comfortably and I took Trunks' arms and put it around my waist. He pulled me closer to him and I nuzzled my head into him.
I stayed awake after trying to fall asleep countless times. I squirmed out of Trunks' arms after awhile and decided to go out flying for a few minutes. I got ready fairly quickly, and I was going to just fly around in circles but decided to go to the park. I saw Paris and was surprised that she was out by herself so late at night. I saw a guy behind a bush watching her. Being in the sky I had the advantage of seeing him, where as she didn't. He popped out in front of her, and I dashed down, landing on the creep. Paris was wide-eyed and perplexed. "Hi" I said "Hi, wow.. I never thought that I would meet you." She said and smiled. I smiled back. "You shouldn't be here this late at night." I told her, "I know, I had to think. You too?" she asked me, I smiled and nodded my head. "Do you mind if I joined you?" I asked, she shook her head and we walked over to the swings. "So if you don't mind me asking, what do you have to think about?" Paris asked me "Just about stuff, random stuff. It's like I have a ton of things going through my head, but not one of them wants to surface so that I can think on it. Know what I mean?" I asked, not really expecting a response. "What about you?" "Oh you know, just stuff too." She didn't elaborate so we just sat on the swings in silence, "Why do you do what you do?" she asked me out of the blue. I had to think about that for awhile. And I carefully chose my words. "Well, you see I wanted to prove a point to a few people, and this whole 'image' that's presented was actually by accident. I didn't mean to become The Black Cat, but I'm glad that I did. Because I'm happy. Knowing that I'm able to help out somehow." After I was done I realized that this was probably the first time that I realized that most of this was for other people too. So it turns out I hadn't left behind my old self. But at least I was happy. Wasn't I? We decided to leave after awhile and I went back and scrubbed the spray on tan off of me.
Crawling into bed and lying down my back cracked a little, that felt good. Maybe it was time to get a massage. Speaking of that I couldn't help but wonder if Puar was getting all the pampering that she deserved. And what about Uncle Yamcha, I bet he was having fun, I was happy for him and couldn't wait to hear all the details. Well, maybe not 'all 'the details, but the ones that would satisfy my hunger for gossip or something or other. I decided that I really needed some sleep so right before I laid my head down I kissed Trunks on the lips softly, just brushing it with my own. If this had been the old Marron, I probably wouldn't have been so bold and daring, but I wasn't just Marron anymore, I was also The Black Cat. And with that new persona came a new sense of life in me.
In my unconscious state of sleep I could feel Trunks put his arm around me again and hold me closer, like he was afraid that he was going to loose me, maybe he was dreaming. He reached for my hand and held it, rubbing him thumb over my hand. There was no way he was sleeping. I opened my eyes and turned over to face him. "Did I wake you?" he whispered to me. I shook my head and looked at him. "You ok?" I asked "I don't know." "What's the matter?" I asked with concern and sat up in bed with him, then resting my head on his shoulder. He took a deep breath and then sighed. "I don't know, I just have this feeling in me, and I don't know what it is. Like someone's betraying me, or like something bad is going to happen." I kissed his cheek to try to re-assure him but noticed my mistake when he abruptly looked at me, like he was thinking. "What is it?" I asked trying to cut into his thoughts. "It's nothing, I thought-never mind, anyway do you know what I mean?" He asked. I dodged that bullet. "Yea, don't worry about it, I'm pretty sure there's nothing to hide, we have no secrets from one another. And we know each other too well." I thought about my words, and realized that eventually my friends would find out that I was The Black Cat and realize that I've been keeping a secret from them. And they would probably shun me out.
And that's probably how it would go, considering how all comics and superhero's in comic books and stuff live. They don't have a lot of friends, and the ones that are exceptionally close to them know, or end up detecting it or suspecting something. But there was no way that they would ever figure out that a 'weak little girl' like me could become so strong. But as Vegeta put it, it was probably something I inherited from my mother that made me progress so quickly. "You ok Mar?" Trunks asked me "Yea, I'm fine. Let's go to sleep, we need it." her gave me a slight nod and got under the covers, I slipped in and cuddled up close to him. But I guess that wasn't close enough, because he pulled me even closer. I gasped a little for air, and I guess that gave him the idea. "Sorry" he said quickly, and I stretched up and kissed his jaw line. "Try to relax." I told him and went to sleep.
I had a weird dream; it was just me sanding alone. And then it was like I was being split in two, and all of a sudden there wasn't just one person there anymore. It was me, and The Black Cat. But that's when the dream ended. And the next time I woke up it was morning, and everyone was getting up, just like me. Except for Trunks, he wasn't in the room. We all padded out of the bedroom and headed for the kitchen, on our way there we smelled french toast in the air. When we got to the kitchen I saw Uncle Yamcha and Trunks there. They were setting the table, and Puar was even here! "Morning!" I said and hugged Puar and Uncle Yamcha. "Why are you guys back?" "We missed you guys." He simply stated. "Aww Puar! I missed you too." I said and handed her a plate of french toast. Uncle Yamcha cleared his throat to get my attention. "Oh yea, I missed you too. By the way I need to talk with you later on." He nodded and I smiled.
Finally things were back to the way it's suppose to be, for now.