The stars could hardly be seen with the cloud coverage as the rain pattered
against the clean glass window. Bulma sat in her window seat with her head
leaning on the frame as fresh tears fell, covering her old ones.
The only sound that could be heard in her house was the sound of her mother's sobbing. She was wondering where her father was, suspecting that he probably went to another bar to drink, or he's somewhere in the house passed out.
Either way, Bulma felt that it was safe, but when she walked into the living room the sight of her badly beaten and bruised mother scared her, causing her to turn back around and run.
She suddenly ran into something, which pushed her back and onto the ground. It was completely dark, only being able to see when the lightning flashed across the sky. She looked up to see the outline of her father. The lightning flashed again, revealing his angry glaring face shocking the hell out of her.
"Get your ass up now!" the moment his harsh words left his mouth, she got up.
He stepped closer and snatched a fist full of hair. "I'll teach you how to be a real woman." He said and pulled her forcefully closer.
~*~*~*~
Bulma skipped school the next day and locked herself inside of her room. She couldn't emotionally handle facing anyone at school or even her own friends with her body covered in cuts, welts, gashes, and bruises.
She couldn't face them knowing that the man she considered a father had previously raped her last night.
Her phone rang and she knew it was Chi-Chi. She picked it up and murmured, "Hello Chi."
"Hi Bulma! Where were you today? Did I just wake you?" Chi-Chi asked.
"Uh, yea, I'm just not feeling well." Bulma responded as she lay on her bed.
"Do you want me to come over?" Chi-Chi asked in a worried tone.
"No, I'm fine Chi. I just didn't feel well enough this morning, but all of the sleep helped me." Bulma lied.
"On alright skipper, well, do you feel up to a movie tonight?" she asked Bulma.
"Uh, no, sorry Chi. Rain check?" Bulma pleaded.
"Sure, another night then. I've been dying to see Johnny Depp in 'Secret Window.' It looks good." Chi-Chi commented.
"Okay Chi, we'll see it sometime this week." Bulma said.
"Great, sounds cool. Oh, I've gotta go, Goku's here. Bye." Chi-Chi said and Bulma hung up her phone with a sigh.
'I admire Chi. She's got a loving boyfriend, loving parents, and lots of siblings.' Bulma thought to herself. 'Poor Goku, he never even knew his parents, because they died in a car accident when he was two. 18's got it good living with her boyfriend Krillin and his family while her twin brother lives with their parents. And Vegeta, well, I don't really know anything about him. He's hot, but what am I thinking, he's an ass.' Bulma's thoughts went on, but were stopped when there was a loud knocking on her bedroom door.
"Bulma honey he's gone now. He finally went to work." Bulma's mother's voice said.
Bulma hurriedly opened the door and her mother gasped, tears started forming in her eyes.
"Oh Bulma. I'm so sorry he hurt you too. I'm so sorry." She said hugging Bulma.
"He raped me mom. That man raped me." Bulma said in a stern but quiet tone.
"What? Oh god." Bunny said, her body shook with surprise, hate, and betrayal. Bunny's head was spinning, she started feeling dizzy and then she fell.
"Mom!" Bulma yelled in surprise and dropped down to a kneeling position next to her mother's voice. Her mom had fainted. It would be the last time her mother heard Bulma's voice.
~*~*~*~
Bulma went to school the next day, makeup, long sleeves, and pants helped her hide the wounds. None of her friends were in any of her classes before lunch, except Vegeta, so she had to wait until lunch to see them.
"Hey Bulma. Wow, I've never seen you wear that much makeup. You rarely ever wear cover-up." Chi-Chi said.
"Oh, uh, I've got zits." Bulma said.
"Bulma, you never get zits, you have the cleanest skin I've ever seen. I don't see any zits." Chi-Chi said inspecting Bulma's face.
"See, I'm just that good at covering them up." Bulma said and looked over to see Vegeta listening while eating. Bulma looked away feeling uncomfortable, it's like he knew.
"Bulma what's up with the long sleeves? I just bought a new tank top, and here you are wearing winter clothes." 18 said tugging on her sleeves and Bulma pulled her arm back.
"Oh, are you still sick Bulma?" Chi-Chi asked.
Bulma silently thanked Chi-Chi. "Yeah, I am a little sick." Bulma lied.
"Oh, so the movie tonight is out?" Chi-Chi asked.
Bulma started feeling bad and guilty. "Oh, no Chi, I'll go to the movies tonight, besides I need to get out of the house. How about the 9 o'clock showing?"
"Okay, but isn't that a little late? There's a 5 o'clock showing too." Chi- Chi said, but Bulma shook her head, not wanting to be home late at night because her father would be there.
"I have other plans, sorry Chi." Bulma lied and noticed once again that the conversation between Goku and Vegeta was one sided, because Vegeta was listening to her conversation. Bulma just ignored it.
"Alright Bulma, thanks for 'penciling me in' sometime." Chi-Chi said sarcastically. Bulma wasn't quite sure if Chi-Chi was mad or just joking.
~*~*~*~ Later that night ~*~*~*~
"Where do you think you're going?" Tom (her step father) asked.
"Out to a movie with my friend Chi-Chi." Bulma said frightened.
"You're not going anywhere." He said stumbling toward her.
"No, I'm going!" Bulma said sternly.
"You bitch, talking back to me?!" Tom shouted and struck her across the face. Bulma fell to the ground with a thud.
~*~*~*~
Bulma limped, but tried not to, on her was to lunch.
"Bulma where the hell were you last night?" Chi-Chi yelled as Bulma neared the table.
"What are you talking about?" Bulma asked in wonder and surprise.
"The movies!" Chi-Chi yelled. Their group of friends just ate and listened.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry Chi!" Bulma said sorrowfully.
"Yeah, well I waited two fucking hours! I was there till 11 o'clock waiting on your ass while you're enjoying you time with whatever you were doing." Chi-Chi said in an angry tone making Bulma tear.
"I'm sorry Chi-Chi. I really am. I wasn't enjoying my time, but yes I was busy and I would have loved to go but you don't understand. I couldn't, I can't tell you why right now, but I couldn't. I'm just." Bulma sighed and didn't bother to wipe away the tears. "sorry. With all of my heart I'm sorry." Bulma said.
"Yea, well me too, but sorry just isn't going to cut it this time." Chi-Chi said softly and walked out of the lunchroom.
Bulma sat down slowly, next to 18 and wiped away her tears.
"Aren't you going to go after her?" 18 asked.
"I'm afraid that I don't have the strength." Bulma replied quietly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Goku asked.
"Nothing, just don't worry about it." Bulma replied.
"Well I am worried. I'm worried about you. What the hell is wrong with you?" Gokus asked sharply. The others looked at him in disbelief and shock.
"Goku, listen, I can't tell you." Bulma explained shortly.
"Why? Why can't you just tell me? It can't be that bad." Goku said and it triggered Bulma to shed more tears.
"It is. It's worst." Bulma sobbed, got up, and left in search of Chi-Chi. Vegeta got up and followed.
Bulma felt someone behind her and looked surprised to see that it was Vegeta. She halted her limped steps and waited as Vegeta caught up with her. "Why'd you follow me?" Bulma asked.
"When are you going to tell them?" Vegeta asked simply.
"Tell who what?" Bulma asked knowing exactly what he was talking about.
"You've been lying to them, but I want to know who it is that does it to you." Vegeta requested, more like demanded.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Bulma lied, with fresh tears in her eyes that she tried to hold in.
"Who hits you? Who abuses you woman?" Vegeta growled.
Bulma choked on a sobbed, "My father. He raped me too. Okay, are you happy now?! You got me to admit it!" Bulm yelled still crying.
"No, I'm not happy. God, he raped you? Damn, what the hell are you still living there for?" Vegeta asked.
"I have no where else to go! I have no one!" Bulma screamed.
"Come live with me then." Vegeta said quietly.
"Live with you? How am I going to move out? He'll never let me leave. He'll kill me." Bulma said putting her head in her hands.
Vegeta moved closer and held her in his arms. "I'll go with you woman. I won't let him hurt you." Vegeta whispered to her.
Bulma lifted her head. "Why? Why are you doing this for me?" Bulma asked.
Vegeta sighed lightly, "My father abused me too. My mother and sister suffered greatly. They were killed by his hands."
Bulma gasped, "Oh my god! I'm sorry Vegeta. I know exactly how you feel. My mother fainted when I told her that I was raped, and the thing is, she never woke up." Bulma sobbed and leaned her head on his muscular chest.
"I'm sorry to hear that Bulma." Vegeta said in all honesty.
"Thank you Vegeta. Thank you for understanding and being here for me. I feel selfish, you didn't have anyone there for you did you?" Bulma asked softly.
"No, but I'm stronger than you and you have no one else." Vegeta said.
"I think I'm ready to tell them. I think I'll just tell Chi-Chi and she can use her big mouth to tell everyone else." Bulma said with a small smile.
Vegeta smirked, "Yea, go tell your harpy friend." Bulma playfully hit his arm and he released her to tell Chi-Chi.
"I'm going home with you after school to pack your stuff." Vegeta said, Bulma nodded and walked down the hall to the bathroom.
She walked in and checked each stall, finally finding Chi-Chi sitting on the very top of the toilet with her feet on the seat. "Chi-Chi, I need to tell you something." Bulma said.
Chi-Chi lifted her head and nodded. "The reason I've been wearing makeup, long sleeves, and missed our movie was because my father beats me. Daily. It only started just recently. It started with my mom. When I tried to go to the movies he stopped me and beat me." Bulma said.
"WHAT?! NO, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! WHY YOU! JEEZE! HE BEATS YOU?!" Chi- Chi screamed in utter shock.
"He also raped me and my mother's dead Chi-Chi. She's dead!"
"Why didn't you tell me?!" Chi-Chi yelled.
"I was ashamed and embarrassed. I'm not that strong Chi-Chi. If you were in my place, you could fight back, 18 could, but I couldn't. I'm just not strong enough." Bulma sobbed.
"Oh Bulma, you're strong. You're not weak because you couldn't fight back; you're strong because you survived. You held it all within yourself and didn't even once show it. Bulma, that's real strength. If I were hurt as badly as you were the news would be spread everywhere, because I'm not strong enough to keep it within myself. Bulma you're the strongest person I know. I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier about the movie thing, it's just, well, you always look happy and say nothing's wrong and you're always busy and I just assumed things." Chi-Chi said while tears poured down her face like a waterfall.
"Thanks Chi. It's alright you didn't know." Bulma said.
"But I should have noticed. What's going to happen now?" Chi-Chi asked.
"I'm going to go live with Vegeta." Bulma said sighing from tiredness.
"Vegeta?! Why him? Why would you ask to live with that jerk?!"
"Chi-Chi Mau take it back!" Bulma yelled.
"What?!" Chi-Chi yelled.
"He asked me. He's the one that 'noticed' because he father beat him too, and killed his mother and sister." Bulma explained. Chi-Chi covered her mouth.
"I had no idea that these sort of problems still occur these days." Chi-Chi said.
To be continued....
Well, what do you think? Should I continue? I have another chapter I can add onto it, but only if I get a lot of reviews. Laterz!
Sensation0023
The only sound that could be heard in her house was the sound of her mother's sobbing. She was wondering where her father was, suspecting that he probably went to another bar to drink, or he's somewhere in the house passed out.
Either way, Bulma felt that it was safe, but when she walked into the living room the sight of her badly beaten and bruised mother scared her, causing her to turn back around and run.
She suddenly ran into something, which pushed her back and onto the ground. It was completely dark, only being able to see when the lightning flashed across the sky. She looked up to see the outline of her father. The lightning flashed again, revealing his angry glaring face shocking the hell out of her.
"Get your ass up now!" the moment his harsh words left his mouth, she got up.
He stepped closer and snatched a fist full of hair. "I'll teach you how to be a real woman." He said and pulled her forcefully closer.
~*~*~*~
Bulma skipped school the next day and locked herself inside of her room. She couldn't emotionally handle facing anyone at school or even her own friends with her body covered in cuts, welts, gashes, and bruises.
She couldn't face them knowing that the man she considered a father had previously raped her last night.
Her phone rang and she knew it was Chi-Chi. She picked it up and murmured, "Hello Chi."
"Hi Bulma! Where were you today? Did I just wake you?" Chi-Chi asked.
"Uh, yea, I'm just not feeling well." Bulma responded as she lay on her bed.
"Do you want me to come over?" Chi-Chi asked in a worried tone.
"No, I'm fine Chi. I just didn't feel well enough this morning, but all of the sleep helped me." Bulma lied.
"On alright skipper, well, do you feel up to a movie tonight?" she asked Bulma.
"Uh, no, sorry Chi. Rain check?" Bulma pleaded.
"Sure, another night then. I've been dying to see Johnny Depp in 'Secret Window.' It looks good." Chi-Chi commented.
"Okay Chi, we'll see it sometime this week." Bulma said.
"Great, sounds cool. Oh, I've gotta go, Goku's here. Bye." Chi-Chi said and Bulma hung up her phone with a sigh.
'I admire Chi. She's got a loving boyfriend, loving parents, and lots of siblings.' Bulma thought to herself. 'Poor Goku, he never even knew his parents, because they died in a car accident when he was two. 18's got it good living with her boyfriend Krillin and his family while her twin brother lives with their parents. And Vegeta, well, I don't really know anything about him. He's hot, but what am I thinking, he's an ass.' Bulma's thoughts went on, but were stopped when there was a loud knocking on her bedroom door.
"Bulma honey he's gone now. He finally went to work." Bulma's mother's voice said.
Bulma hurriedly opened the door and her mother gasped, tears started forming in her eyes.
"Oh Bulma. I'm so sorry he hurt you too. I'm so sorry." She said hugging Bulma.
"He raped me mom. That man raped me." Bulma said in a stern but quiet tone.
"What? Oh god." Bunny said, her body shook with surprise, hate, and betrayal. Bunny's head was spinning, she started feeling dizzy and then she fell.
"Mom!" Bulma yelled in surprise and dropped down to a kneeling position next to her mother's voice. Her mom had fainted. It would be the last time her mother heard Bulma's voice.
~*~*~*~
Bulma went to school the next day, makeup, long sleeves, and pants helped her hide the wounds. None of her friends were in any of her classes before lunch, except Vegeta, so she had to wait until lunch to see them.
"Hey Bulma. Wow, I've never seen you wear that much makeup. You rarely ever wear cover-up." Chi-Chi said.
"Oh, uh, I've got zits." Bulma said.
"Bulma, you never get zits, you have the cleanest skin I've ever seen. I don't see any zits." Chi-Chi said inspecting Bulma's face.
"See, I'm just that good at covering them up." Bulma said and looked over to see Vegeta listening while eating. Bulma looked away feeling uncomfortable, it's like he knew.
"Bulma what's up with the long sleeves? I just bought a new tank top, and here you are wearing winter clothes." 18 said tugging on her sleeves and Bulma pulled her arm back.
"Oh, are you still sick Bulma?" Chi-Chi asked.
Bulma silently thanked Chi-Chi. "Yeah, I am a little sick." Bulma lied.
"Oh, so the movie tonight is out?" Chi-Chi asked.
Bulma started feeling bad and guilty. "Oh, no Chi, I'll go to the movies tonight, besides I need to get out of the house. How about the 9 o'clock showing?"
"Okay, but isn't that a little late? There's a 5 o'clock showing too." Chi- Chi said, but Bulma shook her head, not wanting to be home late at night because her father would be there.
"I have other plans, sorry Chi." Bulma lied and noticed once again that the conversation between Goku and Vegeta was one sided, because Vegeta was listening to her conversation. Bulma just ignored it.
"Alright Bulma, thanks for 'penciling me in' sometime." Chi-Chi said sarcastically. Bulma wasn't quite sure if Chi-Chi was mad or just joking.
~*~*~*~ Later that night ~*~*~*~
"Where do you think you're going?" Tom (her step father) asked.
"Out to a movie with my friend Chi-Chi." Bulma said frightened.
"You're not going anywhere." He said stumbling toward her.
"No, I'm going!" Bulma said sternly.
"You bitch, talking back to me?!" Tom shouted and struck her across the face. Bulma fell to the ground with a thud.
~*~*~*~
Bulma limped, but tried not to, on her was to lunch.
"Bulma where the hell were you last night?" Chi-Chi yelled as Bulma neared the table.
"What are you talking about?" Bulma asked in wonder and surprise.
"The movies!" Chi-Chi yelled. Their group of friends just ate and listened.
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry Chi!" Bulma said sorrowfully.
"Yeah, well I waited two fucking hours! I was there till 11 o'clock waiting on your ass while you're enjoying you time with whatever you were doing." Chi-Chi said in an angry tone making Bulma tear.
"I'm sorry Chi-Chi. I really am. I wasn't enjoying my time, but yes I was busy and I would have loved to go but you don't understand. I couldn't, I can't tell you why right now, but I couldn't. I'm just." Bulma sighed and didn't bother to wipe away the tears. "sorry. With all of my heart I'm sorry." Bulma said.
"Yea, well me too, but sorry just isn't going to cut it this time." Chi-Chi said softly and walked out of the lunchroom.
Bulma sat down slowly, next to 18 and wiped away her tears.
"Aren't you going to go after her?" 18 asked.
"I'm afraid that I don't have the strength." Bulma replied quietly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Goku asked.
"Nothing, just don't worry about it." Bulma replied.
"Well I am worried. I'm worried about you. What the hell is wrong with you?" Gokus asked sharply. The others looked at him in disbelief and shock.
"Goku, listen, I can't tell you." Bulma explained shortly.
"Why? Why can't you just tell me? It can't be that bad." Goku said and it triggered Bulma to shed more tears.
"It is. It's worst." Bulma sobbed, got up, and left in search of Chi-Chi. Vegeta got up and followed.
Bulma felt someone behind her and looked surprised to see that it was Vegeta. She halted her limped steps and waited as Vegeta caught up with her. "Why'd you follow me?" Bulma asked.
"When are you going to tell them?" Vegeta asked simply.
"Tell who what?" Bulma asked knowing exactly what he was talking about.
"You've been lying to them, but I want to know who it is that does it to you." Vegeta requested, more like demanded.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Bulma lied, with fresh tears in her eyes that she tried to hold in.
"Who hits you? Who abuses you woman?" Vegeta growled.
Bulma choked on a sobbed, "My father. He raped me too. Okay, are you happy now?! You got me to admit it!" Bulm yelled still crying.
"No, I'm not happy. God, he raped you? Damn, what the hell are you still living there for?" Vegeta asked.
"I have no where else to go! I have no one!" Bulma screamed.
"Come live with me then." Vegeta said quietly.
"Live with you? How am I going to move out? He'll never let me leave. He'll kill me." Bulma said putting her head in her hands.
Vegeta moved closer and held her in his arms. "I'll go with you woman. I won't let him hurt you." Vegeta whispered to her.
Bulma lifted her head. "Why? Why are you doing this for me?" Bulma asked.
Vegeta sighed lightly, "My father abused me too. My mother and sister suffered greatly. They were killed by his hands."
Bulma gasped, "Oh my god! I'm sorry Vegeta. I know exactly how you feel. My mother fainted when I told her that I was raped, and the thing is, she never woke up." Bulma sobbed and leaned her head on his muscular chest.
"I'm sorry to hear that Bulma." Vegeta said in all honesty.
"Thank you Vegeta. Thank you for understanding and being here for me. I feel selfish, you didn't have anyone there for you did you?" Bulma asked softly.
"No, but I'm stronger than you and you have no one else." Vegeta said.
"I think I'm ready to tell them. I think I'll just tell Chi-Chi and she can use her big mouth to tell everyone else." Bulma said with a small smile.
Vegeta smirked, "Yea, go tell your harpy friend." Bulma playfully hit his arm and he released her to tell Chi-Chi.
"I'm going home with you after school to pack your stuff." Vegeta said, Bulma nodded and walked down the hall to the bathroom.
She walked in and checked each stall, finally finding Chi-Chi sitting on the very top of the toilet with her feet on the seat. "Chi-Chi, I need to tell you something." Bulma said.
Chi-Chi lifted her head and nodded. "The reason I've been wearing makeup, long sleeves, and missed our movie was because my father beats me. Daily. It only started just recently. It started with my mom. When I tried to go to the movies he stopped me and beat me." Bulma said.
"WHAT?! NO, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! WHY YOU! JEEZE! HE BEATS YOU?!" Chi- Chi screamed in utter shock.
"He also raped me and my mother's dead Chi-Chi. She's dead!"
"Why didn't you tell me?!" Chi-Chi yelled.
"I was ashamed and embarrassed. I'm not that strong Chi-Chi. If you were in my place, you could fight back, 18 could, but I couldn't. I'm just not strong enough." Bulma sobbed.
"Oh Bulma, you're strong. You're not weak because you couldn't fight back; you're strong because you survived. You held it all within yourself and didn't even once show it. Bulma, that's real strength. If I were hurt as badly as you were the news would be spread everywhere, because I'm not strong enough to keep it within myself. Bulma you're the strongest person I know. I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier about the movie thing, it's just, well, you always look happy and say nothing's wrong and you're always busy and I just assumed things." Chi-Chi said while tears poured down her face like a waterfall.
"Thanks Chi. It's alright you didn't know." Bulma said.
"But I should have noticed. What's going to happen now?" Chi-Chi asked.
"I'm going to go live with Vegeta." Bulma said sighing from tiredness.
"Vegeta?! Why him? Why would you ask to live with that jerk?!"
"Chi-Chi Mau take it back!" Bulma yelled.
"What?!" Chi-Chi yelled.
"He asked me. He's the one that 'noticed' because he father beat him too, and killed his mother and sister." Bulma explained. Chi-Chi covered her mouth.
"I had no idea that these sort of problems still occur these days." Chi-Chi said.
To be continued....
Well, what do you think? Should I continue? I have another chapter I can add onto it, but only if I get a lot of reviews. Laterz!
Sensation0023