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A/N—Thanks for all the reviews. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! ^_^ EEEEE! I'm a little hyped up don't mind me. * Bounces on walls * Ok, I'm done. Well, here is the next chapter. Please review when you're done reading! Thanks a bunch!
PS-This is kind of a scary chapter…at least to me it was. So, if you don't like "Suicide stuff" Then you can skip it or something. ^_^ Well, enjoy.
"Talking"
Thinking ~* Chapter 25 *~Gohan awoke seeing that Videl has already gotten up before him. He yawned and stretched his arms while looking at the clock.
"Only eight, today is, OH SHIT!" Gohan yelled. Videl walked out from the kitchen looking at him weird.
"What are you yelling "Oh Shit" about?" She asked. Gohan ran past her and took a piece of toast from the table.
"GOHAN THAT'S FOR BREAKFAST!" Videl yelled.
"NO TIME! IT'S MONDAY! WE HAVE SCHOOL! WE'RE LATE!" Gohan yelled. Videl started laughing her head off. She practically was lying on the floor laughing so hard. Gohan got annoyed and glared at her.
"What's so funny?" He asked. Videl wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Gohan! It's Sunday! We don't have school today!" Videl said to him, giggling a bit. Gohan stared at her and dropped the toast.
"WHAT? I THOUGHT YESTERDAY WAS SUNDAY!" Gohan yelled. Videl winced.
"SHHHHHHH! Will you be QUIET? You're family is still sleeping, and no, yesterday was Saturday, Gohan." Videl replied. Gohan clamped his hand over his mouth.
"Sorry." He replied sitting down. He sighed and looked at Videl and asked, "Why are you up so early making breakfast?" Videl put some eggs on a plate and sat it on the table.
"Because I am doing a good deed for your mother. She is very tired, and so I made breakfast for everyone." Gohan nodded and helped her set the table. Videl smiled and went to the cupboard to get some cups and poured orange juice. After about a half hour, everything was ready and Videl was going to get everyone up. She took a deep breath.
"TIME TO GET UP! IT'S BREAKFAST!" Videl yelled. Moments later, Goten and Goku were rushing down the stairs and sitting at a chair.
"YAY!" They both yelled, but they dared not to touch the food until ChiChi came down, which wasn't long after they did.
"Oh, Videl, this was nice of you. Thank you very much!" ChiChi replied sitting at a chair. Videl smiled.
"You're welcome, ChiChi. I mean, you're kind enough to let me stay here, the least I could do is help around the house." ChiChi smiled warmly at Videl and sat at the table.
"Well, I'm glad I have SOMEONE in this house who will work." ChiChi said staring at the Saiyans. They all sweat dropped and turned away. Videl giggled and sat down to eat her food.
About an hour later, the family finished their food. Goku sat back and rubbed in stomach.
"That was REALLY good Videl!" Goku replied getting up. Goten nodded and finished his last bite.
"He's right Videl, you're a really good cooker!" Goten agreed as he put his plate in the sink. Videl giggled.
"Aw thanks! I'm so touched!" Gohan laughed.
"Well, it's the truth." Gohan replied now putting his plate in the sink. Videl smiled warmly and got up.
"Oh, Videl. I'll do the dishes. I mean you cooked!" ChiChi replied turning on the hot water. Videl shrugged.
"Ok, I guess so." Gohan nodded.
"We actually should be getting more of our homework done. Did you even finish your math yet?" Gohan asked laughing. Videl shook her head.
"Oops. Well, what else do we have besides math…we did science. We didn't really have that much homework, but I'm sure we will be totally crammed when we go back to school. Gohan sighed.
"Don't remind me." Videl giggled. Gohan then went upstairs and brought down the math that Videl didn't finish.
"Ugh, Gohan. Why on earth did you bring down the devil?" Gohan chuckled and shrugged. Videl opened her book and started on finishing her homework. After about a half hour, Videl was finished.
"Phew. I didn't think I'd ever get that done." Videl said. Gohan smiled warmly.
"Hey. Want to come with me to visit my mother's grave? I usually visit it as many times as I can." Videl asked. Gohan looked at her.
"Sure." He replied. Videl smiled and got up.
"I'll get my shoes on, Gohan." Videl replied running off to his room. Gohan took his shoes that he left in front of the door and put them on. Videl came back down with her shoes on and her hair up more because it was getting warm outside. Gohan smiled and yelled to his mother they were leaving, and walked out the door.
"Ok, you tell me where to go and I'll take you." Gohan replied putting his arms around her.
"Ok." Videl replied. "It's in Satan City, it's south. You know what I'm talking about?" Videl asked. Gohan nodded and answered with a simple "Yes." Videl smiled.
"Ok. Let's go!" Videl said and Gohan took off.
About ten minutes later, they arrived at the cemetery, and Gohan let Videl lead the way to the grave. She stopped on a medium sized cemetery with lots of flowers on it.
"I put these flowers here. Daddy doesn't seem to come visit anymore. He's either too busy with stuff…" Videl trailed off with her face filled with sadness. Gohan gave her a sympathetic look.
"Yeah, I usually bring flowers when the others start to die. I like to remind myself that she is alive somewhere she is happy." Gohan nodded. Videl had tears in her eyes.
"I never really told you about my mother…I kept all the pain inside. Well, she died when I was very young, and she was having lots of problems with my father. My dad…he didn't act like he loved her, and he sometimes said that he hated her…and that she should drop dead…
* Flash Back *
"When are you going to learn to GROW UP? You go with all those women to who knows where and they're practically young enough to be a daughter!" Veronica yelled. (I don't know what her mother's name was, if you know tell me ^_^) She was sick of playing games.
"VERONICA! I am a MAN. I can do what I PLEASE!" Hercule yelled. Videl was sitting on the floor of her room and listening through the crack of her door.
"You don't even CARE about Videl! She is just another part of your useless trash to you!" Veronica said while stomping her foot. Hercule turned red in the face.
"I DO TOO LOVE OUR DAUGHTER! IF I DIDN'T, I'D DO WHAT EVERYOTHER GUY DOES. PUT HER IN A DAMN ORPHANAGE!" He roared.
"Well you have a funny way of showing it!" She shot back.
"You know what? YOU SHOULD JUST DROP DEAD NOW. NO ONE WOULD CARE!" He spat.
Videl started shaking in her room. She didn't like it when her mommy and daddy fought. She wanted to make them stop. So she did what she could. She ran out of the room down to where they were fighting. She found them.
"STOP!" She yelled. "Stop it!!!!!" They looked at her daughter. She was very upset.
"Please stop fighting, mommy and daddy. I don't like it." She whispered. Her mother glared at her father and nodded.
"Sorry honey. Go back to your room." Her mom replied picking her up and putting her back in her room.
"Things just haven't been going right. I'll try not to fight with daddy." She replied and kissed Videl on the forehead, told her goodnight, turned off the light, and left. Videl still had a funny feeling. Like something was going to happen. But she tried to shrug it off. But then later that night, she had a really bad feeling. Something she couldn't ignore. She ran to her parent's room, and didn't see her mother.
"Mommy?" She yelled through the halls. She looked in every room and didn't see her. But there was one place she didn't look. The basement. It was pretty dark and spooky. Videl was always too short to get the light. But she tried the best she could and turned on the light.
"Phew. I finally got it!" She said to herself as she headed downstairs.
"Mommy?" Videl said while walking. "Are you in here?" Then she saw a door where she didn't look. She walked closer and closer to the door and opened it. Her eyes got huge and she screamed as loud as she could, for what she saw, was her mother hanging from one of the pipes.
"MOMMY! HELP!" She yelled as she ran back to her daddy's room.
"DADDY! MOMMY NEEDS HELP!" She didn't understand that it was too late for her mother…
* End Flash Back *
"So…that was what happened. Everyone said it was suicide…but for some reason, I don't think that was what happened." Videl said with her eyes filled with tears, not wanting to shed them. Gohan immediately held her close to him. She still had her tears but she was sick of crying, and didn't dare to let them go.
"Videl. You know you can cry. It's not shameful." Gohan said, stroking her hair. Videl shook her head, and wiped the tears away.
"I-I'm fine." She said. Gohan looked at her pain filled eyes.
"Are you sure?" Gohan asked, making sure. Videl nodded and gave him a warm smiled.
"How about we go back now?" Videl asked. Gohan gave her a reassuring smile and nodded. So he took Videl and they flew back to his house.
They arrived at Gohan's house about ten minutes later. Videl smiled and thanked him. Videl went up to the room she was staying at and sat on her bed, taking out what seemed to be a picture of her mother.
"Oh mother, I want to know what really happened." She said to herself in barely a whisper. Then she heard Gohan walk in. She looked at him.
"Are you ok Videl?" Gohan asked sitting on the end of the bed. Videl smiled warmly at him and smiled.
"Yes, just looking at a picture of my mother and me." Videl said handing Gohan the picture. Gohan examined it.
"That was before everything fell apart. I was four in that picture, and everything began to fall apart when I was five." Videl replied. Gohan kept looking at the picture.
"You look a lot like your mother." Gohan replied smiling and giving Videl back the picture. Videl smiled.
"Thank you Gohan. I'm glad I don't look like my father." Videl giggled and Gohan let out a chuckle. Gohan smelled the air and looked at Videl.
"By my senses, I think dinner is ready." Gohan said standing up and smiling. Videl giggled.
"Oh, and what are we having?" Videl asked also standing up. Gohan sniffed again and licked his lips.
"Steak!" He yelled. Videl laughed and pushed him out the door and she followed.
"Gohan! You're a goober!" Gohan looked at her strange.
"Goober?" Videl laughed even harder and Gohan shrugged and said, "Ok?" Videl and Gohan went together downstairs and ate their dinner. Videl helped ChiChi with some of the dishes before she went into the living room. Everyone was in their rooms when she was on the couch.
I can't…no, I don't want one of those feelings, every time I do, something bad happens. Videl thought to herself as she sat on the couch. Gohan walked by and saw the worried expression Videl on her face. Gohan sat by her.
"Videl?" Gohan asked. Videl looked at him, her expression still the same.
"Yes, Gohan?" She asked. Gohan looked into her eyes. He could tell she was worried about something.
"What's the matter? You look worried about something." Gohan said to her. Videl looked away.
"It's just that, I have a feeling something bad is going to happen, and usually, when I do. Remember? I told you at the mall, and when we were visiting my mother's grave." Videl said leaning her head on Gohan's shoulder. Gohan then put his arm around her.
"I'm sure everything will be ok, Videl." Gohan reassured her. Videl smiled and nodded, but couldn't get rid of that feeling.
"It's getting pretty late, Videl. Maybe we should go to bed." Gohan said as he stood up. Videl nodded and got up and went to her room as Gohan went into his. Videl changed into her nightclothes and went under the covers.
"I really hope my feeling doesn't tell me that something bad is going to happen. It seems to me that every time I have this feeling, something bad is going to happen." Videl said to herself as she drifted off to sleep. But she had a dream that night…
~Dream~
Videl was walking in the cemetery, the same one that she was in earlier. She came across her mother's grave. All the flowers were withered, and it was raining. Videl put some new flowers down and took away the withered ones.
"Mother. I'll always visit your grave. I love you mother." She said taking a step back from the grave. But before she could turn around to leave, the grave started to bleed, along with the flowers.
"What is going on?" She said to herself, and then the ground started to shake. She screamed and tried to get away, but she was as stiff as a rock. Then she saw something coming out from her mother's grave. It was her mother, only the rope that she was hung on was still attached to her and she was still dead, and a hand was grabbing on to it. Then she saw Gohan, only he was dead, on the ground, in a puddle of blood, and so was his mother, father, and brother. Then Sharpener came out from the grave. He was the one holding the rope attached to her mother. Videl screamed as Sharpener was starting to laugh. Half of his face was basically demolished and he was very bloody.
"This is how you're going to end up, Videl. Just like your damned mother. When you least expect it, I'm going to come, and get you and the one's you love." He replied coming closer to her with her mother dragging on the ground behind him, dead. Sharpener continued to laugh, with claws coming out of his hand. Videl shivered with great fear. She kept trying to move but couldn't move and inch. She looked at Gohan behind her, dead. She started to sob as she knew this was the end of her, and the one's she loved. Then Sharpener took his hand and before she could scream, he cut her…
~End Dream~
Videl woke up with sweat all over her and her screaming bloody murder. She couldn't stop screaming and she was shaking uncontrollably. Gohan woke up hearing her screams and ran into the room. ChiChi walked out of her room and saw Gohan running to her room. When Gohan arrived, Videl was still screaming, shaking, and had tears running down her face. Gohan ran to her side and held her.
"Videl! What's wrong?" Gohan asked her. But Videl continued to shake and cry. She was still half out of it. Gohan shook her, trying to fully awake her.
"Videl! Please! Wake up!" He yelled to her, and she finally started to calm down and looked at his eyes, with total fear in her eyes.
"G-Gohan?" She asked. Gohan hugged her and said, "Yes, Videl. It's me." He said to her. But then she took herself away from him and ran out of the room to the bathroom. She had to vomit and Gohan looked at his mother with scared in his eyes. ChiChi went into the bathroom and helped Videl out. When ChiChi thought that she was done, she started talking to her.
"Honey, are you ok?" ChiChi asked her. Videl just kneeled there, shaking. Gohan was in the doorway, and his mother looked at him with sadness. Videl started to stand up and she took a deep breath and started to walk out of the door as if nothing happened. Gohan followed her as she went into her room and sat on the bed. He watched her from the doorway. She just sat at the edge of the bed, her eyes emotionless. But then after a couple of minutes she started to sob into her hands. Gohan walked in and sat by her on the bed and let her lean on him as she cried. Gohan rocked her, telling her everything was ok and that she was safe. Videl continued to sob, and told him what was wrong. She told him the dream and he continued to tell her was everything was ok. Goten came out of his room.
"Mommy, what happened? I was scared to come out of my room. What was going on?" Goten asked. ChiChi gave her son a sympathetic look and hugged him.
"Videl just had a VERY scary dream, honey. Don't worry she is ok. How about you go back to bed now?" ChiChi said to her son as she picked him up and put him to bed.
While ChiChi was making sure Goten was going to bed, Gohan continued to hold Videl. He noticed that her sobs were gone and looked at her. She was sleeping on him. He smiled at her and put her to bed. But decided just to make sure, that he slept next to her and put his arm around her. He kept her close, knowing that she will be safe.
"Goodnight." He said stroking her cheek and falling asleep himself.
A/N—AHHH! I scared myself. -_- Well, this was kind of, frightening. Well, what did her dream mean, and why is Videl getting these weird feelings? Well, R and R and I'll write the next chapter. ^_^
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