Meri Kurisumasu

Chapter 8: Marron

Most people live in communities. Areas filled with tons of people, ready to celebrate with you. But what if you were to live in such a place that you celebrated alone? A place with so few people, you could stay there your whole life, and no one else in the world would know who you were in the end.

Marron wiped the sweat from her brow and put the hammer down. Her mother had slapped Roshi through the roof again, and she was again chosen to repair it. Her father was on the ground below her, picking at a few weeds, while his Master rested with one of his magazines, Turtle at his side.

Marron turned around to stabalize herself as she worked, and began hammering again. Master Roshi looked up long enough to catch a glimpse of Marron's underwear as her skirt got caught on one of the shingles. "Hey there darling. I can see all the way up beautiful!" He yelled.

Caught off guard by the comment, Marron slipped towards the edge of the roof. She swung the hammer and caught onto the shingling with the nail remover side. She let out a scream as her legs swung over the edge and she hung for her life.

"Marron!" Kuririn jumped into the air and grabbed his daughter, then lowered her to the ground. She was shaking in terror, but the moment her feet hit the ground, she ran over to Master Roshi. "How dare you do such a thing!" she screamed, he glanced up at her from behind his sunglasses, then looked back at his magazine. Marron staightened up to regain her composure, then grabbed the magazine and promptly threw it into the water. Roshi jumped up in shock and ran into the water after it, then return very wet and very unhappy. Marron laughed a bit, as she went inside.

"What's so funny?" Juuhachi-gou asked as her daughter entered, and donned an apron. "Nothing really." She answered. "So, what are we going to make for dinner tonight?"

"Nothing special."

"Why not Okasaan? It is a holiday."

"Oh really? What holiday is that?"

"Well, it's Christmas. I know we don't follow religion, or anything. But it's a fun holiday I think, so I thought we could do something special. Trunks' family is-"

"Figures."

"What?" Marron asked in confusion.

"Trunks. That's what. I swear, anything that boy does, you have to be a part of."

"That's not true!" In the past, she had liked Trunks, but not anymore. She had moved on, and they were just friends now. Never again would she tell her mother something like that, because she'd never live it down.

"I'm certain it's not." Juuhachi-gou said with a smile. "But I'm not going to go out of my way for some 'holiday' I know nothing about. If you want to do something, why don't you find someone who's doing something, and join them."

"Oh, fine then." Marron said, removing her apron. She left the house in a huff. "What's wrong Marron-chan?" Kuririn asked as his daughter walked by.

"Okasaan is being impossible. I said I wanted to celebrate Christmas and she won't let me."

"Well, why would you want to celebrate in the first place?"

"I was talking to Goten on the phone and he said-"

"Of course."

"Now what?" Marron said with a sigh.

"You only want to celebrate because Goten is. You have to realize he's with Paris, and even if you follow everything he does, you won't have him."

"But I don't like him!" He was another previous crush. This one she hadn't told anyone, but she reasoned that her actions had made it apparent enough.

"Whatever you say Dear." Kuririn said. "Listen, I'll talk to your mother, okay?"

"It doesn't matter. She won't listen. I'm going out for the night."

With that said, Marron turned and jumped into her aircar, then took off over the water.