Yeah I know part 5 was kinda short but I was limited on computer time. Also
I had a writers block as well, but this chapter is going to be much longer
as you can see and so with out futher ado, here's part 6: Shattering the
Cold.
Part 6
Once again Trunks opened his door for the young woman. This time however Trunks, himself, could think of no reason for her to be there. An hour hadn't even passed and already the woman was back. Trunks once again looked down the hallway to see if any of the other guests were being bothered.
Terra's eyes were glued to her feet. Her cheeks turned dark red as she fumbled with her hands. Trunks noticed this, but he made no move, showed no emotion or spoke a word. Instead, he stayed silent waiting for the woman to begin her speech so that he could return to his solitude once she was finished.
After about a minute of standing, Trunks, amazingly began to feel angered. She had called him to the door and then decided to just stand there looking foolish all the while, wasting his time. He closed his eyes and then spoke.
"What do you want?" His voice showed no emotion even though he had temperarily been angered. Terra, on the other hand, began to cry. Trunks looked at the woman and shook his head slowly. Showing such a display was for the weak. Trunks looked at the young woman and decided that maybe he should wait so that she could speak and then be on her way.
Slowly, Terra began to calm down and then she looked at Trunks and nearly began crying again. She quickly looked down and started.
"I'm so sorry Mr. Briefs, I... I thought I had the courage....I'm so sorry." Terra turned around but Trunks spoke.
"Why did you knock upon my door.... if you have nothing to say why do it? If I were anyone else, I'd be angry, but such an emotion isn't really needed. So come back here and tell me what you were going to say." Terra turned and wiped the remaining tears from her face and spoke slowly.
"I've...I...I've been thinking.... that....maybe....um... maybe....when my lunch break came.... you'd come with me?" Terra stuttered out. She had tried something similar each time with her other crushes only to be rejected. Terra, thinking that this time would be different, asked anyway.
Trunks stood in his doorway and looked at the young woman. She knew nothing of him but would invite him to lunch. This was the strange aspect about her that made him nervous... but he couldn't be nervous. Being nervous was an emotion, if he rejected her, it would show that he was afraid of her. Though the woman wouldn't think this, Trunks knew that would be why he would decline. In truth he had nothing to do. Logically, it made sense to go with her on her lunch break so that he could obtain lunch as well.
The hallway was dead silent for several minutes, Terra realizing that once again she was going to be rejected gave Trunks an empty smile and turned to leave.
Though he refused to show emotion, he could read the emotions of others well and he knew that the young woman's smile was false, but even though he could sense her despair, she smiled. Trunks decided that this creature was quite unique. Her strange behavior and the way she made him uneasy... he had to find the answers.
"You ask questions and leave before an answer is given? Why?" Trunks asked as Terra stopped in her tracks.
"I'm pretty sure I already know the answer. Don't worry about me... its not like it hasn't happened before...." The last part was in a whisper but Trunks could still hear it. He stepped out of his room and into the hallway.
"What hasn't happened before?" He asked as Terra turned around to face his gaze.
"Being rejected, that's all. Please don't feel sorry for me..."
"Why should I?" Trunks interjected Terra gasped. That comment hurt her horribly, tears once again filled her brown eyes but Trunks continued.
"You act as though you're the only one who has even been rejected, luckily for you, that is all that has happened." Trunks stated.
Terra's tears stopped as she realized that maybe he was refering to himself. Trunks closed his eyes and then re-opened his door.
"You always expect the worse don't you?" Trunks asked as Terra shrugged.
"I ....try not to." She answered while she looked away from his face. After a short pause Trunks spoke again.
"Next time wait for an answer..... just come by when you're ready to go. Until then don't bother me." Trunks answered as he stepped back into the room closing the door behind him.
Terra stood wide-eyed. This man had accepted her offer. Slowly her heart began to feel with extreme happiness and excitement. After standing in the hall savoring the moment she went back to work, waiting for her break to come.
Two hours had went by and Terra's lunch break began. She ran straight to Trunks' room and knocked rapidly. She stopped and waited for a few moments and finally the door opened. Trunks stepped out and Terra grabbed him by his arm and pulled him along.
Trunks allowed this woman to pull him along until they were outside.
"Where are we going?" Terra looked at him with a smile and answered.
"There's a beautiful picnic area, away from this loud place, where we can sit and talk. I already had a few of my friends get our food up there so all we have to do is go." Terra smiled. Trunks looked at her and thought. He then started to speak but Terra stopped him.
"I made sure it was enough for at least ten people, don't worry." She smiled once again as the two continued on.
Finally, arriving at their destination, Trunks looked around and noticed a tree with an asortment of foods around it upon a sky blue blanket. Terra ran and sat down on the ground next to the blanket and smiled to Trunks who sat by her side.
"You know this is the first time, anyone has really been alone with me on their own free will..." she began but stopped. Trunks shook his head and began.
"That isn't logical, you are attractive, so what you just said isn't true, there had to be someone before me." Trunks stated and Terra laughed.
"Mr Briefs....can I call you Trunks?" Terra asked and Trunks nodded. She smiled once again and continued.
"Trunks, think about it. There always has to be a first. If not you then who else?" Terra asked as she moved closer to him. Trunks thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
"Shall we change the subject?" Trunks asked as he began to eat. Terra smiled and nodded.
"Sure but only if we do it like this. I ask a question and you answer and then you ask a question and I'll answer, got it?" She asked and Trunks reluctantly agreed.
"Terra, first of all, in the hall a while ago, what did you mean when you said that 'it hasn't happened before'?" Terra looked a Trunks and turned her head to the ground.
"As you can tell, I'm very annoying.... and so that tends to really turn guys away from me.... but you...you were the first... I mean... " Terra stuttered as she began to nervously play with one end of the blanket.
"I know that you have feelings of love towards me...but... it is strange... you hardly know me but you are attracted to me, why?" Trunks looked at Terra who blushed even more and smiled as she tried to speak.
"You're handsome and you're not like all the others, I just hoped that maybe this time it could..." Terra laughed uneasily as her cheeks turned redder, if it were possible and her smiled widened. Trunks laid back against the tree and nodded in compliance with the answer. 'Hope' was what drived her, but why does she rely on 'hope' when it seems as if there is none. Trunks turned back to the young woman and watched her mouth form a fiendish grin.
"So, Trunks, why are you so...so...patient...I know, I'm horribly annoying and what I did in the hallway was very, very rude. I mean after thinking about it, if I were in your position, I would have been furious, but you....you didn't even raise your voice at all." Terra smiled warmly and again Trunks felt the strange uneasiness. He looked at her and thought.
"I had no reason to turn your offer down... you're feeding me and at the same time, I am able to try and understand you." Trunks said in his same lifeless tone, but Terra giggled at his voice. She enjoyed hearing him speak, even though to anyone else his speech was quite depressing. Somehow, Terra had fallen in love with not only him but his voice as well.
Trunks then closed his eyes and thought. He then spoke up.
"I know we are different and this question may be difficult for you to answer, but I must ask this question anways.... have you've ever been hurt to the extent that life itself does not matter no more only revenge?" Trunks asked as he comtemplated his choices but at the same time, saw the logic in the answers that he had found and wondered what a person like Terra, who acted so strangely, would believe.
Terra's smile faded and suddenly, her once vibrant eyes dried away into a pit of sorrow. She struggled to smile for him but failed. Her memories were too painful, but at the same time, she didn't want to be rejected again. Not this time, not by the only one who put up with her so she opened her mouth and spoke, slowly.
"About several years ago, before I began working at the hotel, I was attacked..." Terra stopped as her rosy, full cheeks turned pale. Trunks took notice of this and his attention span grew. Terra saw that Trunks had sat up to digest the story fully and so she continued.
"He...he... wouldn't stop...I tried to scream, but no one came to help... he just kept going...." After those words Trunks heard nothing else. Slowly, he began to realize his own past. He remembered how he had screamed for helped only to realize no one would come...
Slowly, something inside began to crack as Trunks began to grow angrier. Terra stopped as she began to cry softly on his shoulder. Trunks, finally noticing Terra's grief stricken form, put a hand on her shoulder either for comfort or because it was a natural reflex.
"Terra tell me... did this man get away?" Trunks asked and Terra shook her head and spoke.
"He was captured by the police..." Terra stopped and Trunks noticed this.
"And?" He asked trying to regain his emotionless state. Terra sat up and wiped her eyes.
"You may think I'm crazy and you'll probably never talk to me again after I tell you this...but...something deep down is telling me that I need to say this to you.... I...didn't press charges against him..." Terra stated as Trunks' emotional barrior broke down even futher as anger and confusion plagued his mind.
"Why? He hurts you but you let him go.... he should be punished!" Trunks growled thinking back to the androids in his time. Terra shook her head and sighed.
"I know its insane, but everyone deserves a second chance... if he were punished, he would have never had a chance at life, who am I to take away another person's chance at life?" Terra asked and Trunks stopped her.
"No...that kind of thinking is for the foolish and the weak... you allow yourself to be weak and look at what happens to you. Living the way you are now only invites more unpleasant occurances. Why subject yourself to such a thing? It is foolish to make excuses for others, you should have made him regret his actions. That is the only way... and those who didn't help you... you should hate them most of all...." Terra was amazed by Trunks' thoughts but stayed quiet until his last statement where she began.
"No... if that were true then life wouldn't exist. If everyone got revenge on one another there would be constant fighting. And why must I be weak for thinking that everyone can change?" Terra asked as Trunks' emotions began to take control again after eight long years.
"He has to be punished for what he's done. It makes no sense to excuse such a thing! You didn't want it! And no one helped...... I needed help but no one came!" Trunks fell to his knees as his body began shake. One would think that tears would flow from his eyes but they wouldn't come. Trunks just stared at the ground as his body quivered softly. Terra, without hesitaion, ran to him and embraced him.
"I'm here, its okay." Terra comforted as Trunks stayed on his knees not moving. Terra rubbed his back softly as Trunks slowly regained his mind. He sat on his knees and closed his eyes.
"You're wrong..... you have to be...." Trunks stood to his feet. Terra looked at the now empty blanket and sighed.
"Don't worry, my friends will...." Terra looked back to Trunks, but found him gone. She sighed sadly and then stood up as tears filled her eyes.
"...clean this up... good going Terra." She said to herself as she hurried back to her job.
I think this is probably one of the longest chaps, but I doubt it will be the last. This story is coming close to an end but there will be a sequel, just to let you know.... but tell me what you think, from reading up to know, should a sequel be made..... READ and REVIEW.
Part 6
Once again Trunks opened his door for the young woman. This time however Trunks, himself, could think of no reason for her to be there. An hour hadn't even passed and already the woman was back. Trunks once again looked down the hallway to see if any of the other guests were being bothered.
Terra's eyes were glued to her feet. Her cheeks turned dark red as she fumbled with her hands. Trunks noticed this, but he made no move, showed no emotion or spoke a word. Instead, he stayed silent waiting for the woman to begin her speech so that he could return to his solitude once she was finished.
After about a minute of standing, Trunks, amazingly began to feel angered. She had called him to the door and then decided to just stand there looking foolish all the while, wasting his time. He closed his eyes and then spoke.
"What do you want?" His voice showed no emotion even though he had temperarily been angered. Terra, on the other hand, began to cry. Trunks looked at the woman and shook his head slowly. Showing such a display was for the weak. Trunks looked at the young woman and decided that maybe he should wait so that she could speak and then be on her way.
Slowly, Terra began to calm down and then she looked at Trunks and nearly began crying again. She quickly looked down and started.
"I'm so sorry Mr. Briefs, I... I thought I had the courage....I'm so sorry." Terra turned around but Trunks spoke.
"Why did you knock upon my door.... if you have nothing to say why do it? If I were anyone else, I'd be angry, but such an emotion isn't really needed. So come back here and tell me what you were going to say." Terra turned and wiped the remaining tears from her face and spoke slowly.
"I've...I...I've been thinking.... that....maybe....um... maybe....when my lunch break came.... you'd come with me?" Terra stuttered out. She had tried something similar each time with her other crushes only to be rejected. Terra, thinking that this time would be different, asked anyway.
Trunks stood in his doorway and looked at the young woman. She knew nothing of him but would invite him to lunch. This was the strange aspect about her that made him nervous... but he couldn't be nervous. Being nervous was an emotion, if he rejected her, it would show that he was afraid of her. Though the woman wouldn't think this, Trunks knew that would be why he would decline. In truth he had nothing to do. Logically, it made sense to go with her on her lunch break so that he could obtain lunch as well.
The hallway was dead silent for several minutes, Terra realizing that once again she was going to be rejected gave Trunks an empty smile and turned to leave.
Though he refused to show emotion, he could read the emotions of others well and he knew that the young woman's smile was false, but even though he could sense her despair, she smiled. Trunks decided that this creature was quite unique. Her strange behavior and the way she made him uneasy... he had to find the answers.
"You ask questions and leave before an answer is given? Why?" Trunks asked as Terra stopped in her tracks.
"I'm pretty sure I already know the answer. Don't worry about me... its not like it hasn't happened before...." The last part was in a whisper but Trunks could still hear it. He stepped out of his room and into the hallway.
"What hasn't happened before?" He asked as Terra turned around to face his gaze.
"Being rejected, that's all. Please don't feel sorry for me..."
"Why should I?" Trunks interjected Terra gasped. That comment hurt her horribly, tears once again filled her brown eyes but Trunks continued.
"You act as though you're the only one who has even been rejected, luckily for you, that is all that has happened." Trunks stated.
Terra's tears stopped as she realized that maybe he was refering to himself. Trunks closed his eyes and then re-opened his door.
"You always expect the worse don't you?" Trunks asked as Terra shrugged.
"I ....try not to." She answered while she looked away from his face. After a short pause Trunks spoke again.
"Next time wait for an answer..... just come by when you're ready to go. Until then don't bother me." Trunks answered as he stepped back into the room closing the door behind him.
Terra stood wide-eyed. This man had accepted her offer. Slowly her heart began to feel with extreme happiness and excitement. After standing in the hall savoring the moment she went back to work, waiting for her break to come.
Two hours had went by and Terra's lunch break began. She ran straight to Trunks' room and knocked rapidly. She stopped and waited for a few moments and finally the door opened. Trunks stepped out and Terra grabbed him by his arm and pulled him along.
Trunks allowed this woman to pull him along until they were outside.
"Where are we going?" Terra looked at him with a smile and answered.
"There's a beautiful picnic area, away from this loud place, where we can sit and talk. I already had a few of my friends get our food up there so all we have to do is go." Terra smiled. Trunks looked at her and thought. He then started to speak but Terra stopped him.
"I made sure it was enough for at least ten people, don't worry." She smiled once again as the two continued on.
Finally, arriving at their destination, Trunks looked around and noticed a tree with an asortment of foods around it upon a sky blue blanket. Terra ran and sat down on the ground next to the blanket and smiled to Trunks who sat by her side.
"You know this is the first time, anyone has really been alone with me on their own free will..." she began but stopped. Trunks shook his head and began.
"That isn't logical, you are attractive, so what you just said isn't true, there had to be someone before me." Trunks stated and Terra laughed.
"Mr Briefs....can I call you Trunks?" Terra asked and Trunks nodded. She smiled once again and continued.
"Trunks, think about it. There always has to be a first. If not you then who else?" Terra asked as she moved closer to him. Trunks thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
"Shall we change the subject?" Trunks asked as he began to eat. Terra smiled and nodded.
"Sure but only if we do it like this. I ask a question and you answer and then you ask a question and I'll answer, got it?" She asked and Trunks reluctantly agreed.
"Terra, first of all, in the hall a while ago, what did you mean when you said that 'it hasn't happened before'?" Terra looked a Trunks and turned her head to the ground.
"As you can tell, I'm very annoying.... and so that tends to really turn guys away from me.... but you...you were the first... I mean... " Terra stuttered as she began to nervously play with one end of the blanket.
"I know that you have feelings of love towards me...but... it is strange... you hardly know me but you are attracted to me, why?" Trunks looked at Terra who blushed even more and smiled as she tried to speak.
"You're handsome and you're not like all the others, I just hoped that maybe this time it could..." Terra laughed uneasily as her cheeks turned redder, if it were possible and her smiled widened. Trunks laid back against the tree and nodded in compliance with the answer. 'Hope' was what drived her, but why does she rely on 'hope' when it seems as if there is none. Trunks turned back to the young woman and watched her mouth form a fiendish grin.
"So, Trunks, why are you so...so...patient...I know, I'm horribly annoying and what I did in the hallway was very, very rude. I mean after thinking about it, if I were in your position, I would have been furious, but you....you didn't even raise your voice at all." Terra smiled warmly and again Trunks felt the strange uneasiness. He looked at her and thought.
"I had no reason to turn your offer down... you're feeding me and at the same time, I am able to try and understand you." Trunks said in his same lifeless tone, but Terra giggled at his voice. She enjoyed hearing him speak, even though to anyone else his speech was quite depressing. Somehow, Terra had fallen in love with not only him but his voice as well.
Trunks then closed his eyes and thought. He then spoke up.
"I know we are different and this question may be difficult for you to answer, but I must ask this question anways.... have you've ever been hurt to the extent that life itself does not matter no more only revenge?" Trunks asked as he comtemplated his choices but at the same time, saw the logic in the answers that he had found and wondered what a person like Terra, who acted so strangely, would believe.
Terra's smile faded and suddenly, her once vibrant eyes dried away into a pit of sorrow. She struggled to smile for him but failed. Her memories were too painful, but at the same time, she didn't want to be rejected again. Not this time, not by the only one who put up with her so she opened her mouth and spoke, slowly.
"About several years ago, before I began working at the hotel, I was attacked..." Terra stopped as her rosy, full cheeks turned pale. Trunks took notice of this and his attention span grew. Terra saw that Trunks had sat up to digest the story fully and so she continued.
"He...he... wouldn't stop...I tried to scream, but no one came to help... he just kept going...." After those words Trunks heard nothing else. Slowly, he began to realize his own past. He remembered how he had screamed for helped only to realize no one would come...
Slowly, something inside began to crack as Trunks began to grow angrier. Terra stopped as she began to cry softly on his shoulder. Trunks, finally noticing Terra's grief stricken form, put a hand on her shoulder either for comfort or because it was a natural reflex.
"Terra tell me... did this man get away?" Trunks asked and Terra shook her head and spoke.
"He was captured by the police..." Terra stopped and Trunks noticed this.
"And?" He asked trying to regain his emotionless state. Terra sat up and wiped her eyes.
"You may think I'm crazy and you'll probably never talk to me again after I tell you this...but...something deep down is telling me that I need to say this to you.... I...didn't press charges against him..." Terra stated as Trunks' emotional barrior broke down even futher as anger and confusion plagued his mind.
"Why? He hurts you but you let him go.... he should be punished!" Trunks growled thinking back to the androids in his time. Terra shook her head and sighed.
"I know its insane, but everyone deserves a second chance... if he were punished, he would have never had a chance at life, who am I to take away another person's chance at life?" Terra asked and Trunks stopped her.
"No...that kind of thinking is for the foolish and the weak... you allow yourself to be weak and look at what happens to you. Living the way you are now only invites more unpleasant occurances. Why subject yourself to such a thing? It is foolish to make excuses for others, you should have made him regret his actions. That is the only way... and those who didn't help you... you should hate them most of all...." Terra was amazed by Trunks' thoughts but stayed quiet until his last statement where she began.
"No... if that were true then life wouldn't exist. If everyone got revenge on one another there would be constant fighting. And why must I be weak for thinking that everyone can change?" Terra asked as Trunks' emotions began to take control again after eight long years.
"He has to be punished for what he's done. It makes no sense to excuse such a thing! You didn't want it! And no one helped...... I needed help but no one came!" Trunks fell to his knees as his body began shake. One would think that tears would flow from his eyes but they wouldn't come. Trunks just stared at the ground as his body quivered softly. Terra, without hesitaion, ran to him and embraced him.
"I'm here, its okay." Terra comforted as Trunks stayed on his knees not moving. Terra rubbed his back softly as Trunks slowly regained his mind. He sat on his knees and closed his eyes.
"You're wrong..... you have to be...." Trunks stood to his feet. Terra looked at the now empty blanket and sighed.
"Don't worry, my friends will...." Terra looked back to Trunks, but found him gone. She sighed sadly and then stood up as tears filled her eyes.
"...clean this up... good going Terra." She said to herself as she hurried back to her job.
I think this is probably one of the longest chaps, but I doubt it will be the last. This story is coming close to an end but there will be a sequel, just to let you know.... but tell me what you think, from reading up to know, should a sequel be made..... READ and REVIEW.