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I left a message with Trunks' secretary one morning for him to have lunch with me. I didn't want to, but my annoying responsible side kept telling me that I had to.
It was almost September that afternoon, as I made my way to that little restaurant down the street from CC. It was really scary; Trunks was really scary again. But this time it was Goten who was going to murder him.
We hugged, like we had always done, but it was an awkward hug, stiff and formal. Not the Trunks I knew.
"So what's up?" he asked as we sat down.
"You're related to Bulma. You probably know what's been going on," I started nervously.
He reached into his suit jacket. "That you're pregnant? Nope. Mom didn't tell me. I found out here." He threw a newspaper on the table.
Capsule Corp.'s President's Ex Pregnant
Marron Chestnut, the ex fiancé of Trunks Briefs, the President of the well-known company Capsule Corporation, announced yesterday that she was with child. Chestnut and Briefs spilt up last year.
The supposed father of the baby is Chestnut's current fiancé, Son Goten, whom is also the best friend of Briefs. Son and Chestnut were engaged at Bulma Briefs' CC ball last June held in their honor.
"I'm really hoping the baby is Goten's," an excited Chestnut said. "I mean, there is the chance that it's Trunks', but I highly doubt it."
An equally excited Briefs says, "I'm very excited for the both of them. They both deserve this very much."
The baby is due in May of next year.
"You gave them a quote?"
"You announced you were pregnant?"
"Nope."
He laughed. "The press has a wonderful way of exaggerating things, don't they? I never knew we were engaged, or that you would openly say you hope the baby is 'Ten's."
"I wouldn't. Not to the public. But I do hope it's 'Ten's. I don't know what I would do if it wasn't."
"Did you tell him about… us?" he asked, picking up the menu and scanning it quickly.
I twirled my hair in my finger nervously. "No. I almost did, but I couldn't. It's too hard to tell him. I wouldn't survive if he left."
"Are you going to tell him?"
"Eventually. Maybe after we get married. It has to be at the right time, you know? I can't just blurt it out like it's nothing. Cause it's definitely something." I fixed my shirt and cleared my throat. "I'm going to tell him the entire truth, and I'm going to take complete responsibility for everything. He shouldn't be mad at you, it wasn't your fault."
He shook his head. "I could have stopped you. Don't you dare blame yourself for this whole thing. "It was as much my fault as it was yours. He's going to blame me no matter what your story says."
I knew that, but I was trying to be nice to him, even I was kinda pissed off at him still for kissing me. "What about Kim? What happened to her?"
"Um, Kim?" he asked nervously. "How'd you find out about her?"
"'Ten and Bra told me. How come you didn't?"
An uneasy look spread across his face. "I wasn't ready to. With her, I was trying to get over you, so I thought if we talked about it, it wouldn't work."
I laughed despite his apprehension. "They said she looks like me."
"She does. You don't know how many times I've called her Ron. Another reason I didn't tell you about her."
Talking with Trunks made me realize just how much of my best friend he actually was. Never, ever, ever have sex with your friends. No matter how hot they are.
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Picture this: I'm about to be married, I'm pregnant, and everything is perfect. Right? Wrong. Outside, yeah, everything was absolutely amazing. But inside, things couldn't have been worse.
Anxiety was eating away at my insides like acid; ripping and tearing apart at those organs I kind of need. I couldn't say anything without worrying that Goten was going to find out. Find out and leave me.
Trunks told me that when I was in the accident and unconscious, 'Ten told him he'd have nothing left to live for if I didn't make it. If 'Ten found out what I did before I was totally ready to tell him, and he left me, I would have nothing to live for.
I know it was selfish, but the only reason I didn't tell 'Ten was so that he would marry me. I needed him to marry me, for him to see exactly what kind of person I was and could be, and then when I found a way to tell him, I would. And then he could decide what he thought.
I couldn't talk about the baby, or even any of the Briefs family for that matter, without getting this nauseous feeling in my stomach. It wasn't that I didn't want the baby; I did, a lot. I had been dreaming about starting a family with 'Ten for a long time then, but under the circumstances given, I just wasn't exactly thrilled.
I thought once or twice, about asking Dende or Piccolo if they knew who the father was. But both of them are close with Gohan, and even though my confidence in them was strong, I just didn't know. I didn't know if I could trust them one hundred percent.
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"'Ten," I said one day, "I need you to make me a promise. I need you to promise me that no matter what happens, you'll never leave me. Promise me you'll always stay with me no matter how much of an ass I am."
"I promise."
I was such a fake. It made me throw up. But that could always have been the morning sickness. No, it was me.
