Chi-Chi was still sobbing quietly when Goten found her, almost as pale as her son's dead body and wearing a look of such fear and astonishment that it tore Goten's young heart to pieces to see her that way. But his young, naive, mind wasn't worried as there was always the Dragonballs, an indespensable tool. Little did he know Gohan had no wishes to come back.
Utilizing the common sense and practicality only youth can bring he rung Bulma, assuming she would be able to make his mother see sense.
"Mom," he said, holding out the phone, "Aunty Bulma wants to talk." With shaking hands Chi-Chi took it from him and held it to her ear, all the while still crouched over her son's corpse.
"Are you okay Chi-Chi? Goten said Gohan was dead." Chi-Chi sniffed.
"Yeah, he is," she replied. "Though, I'm not coping at all." Somehow she could see Bulma's arrogant sneer across the many miles that separated them.
"You dealt with Goku dieing, what's so different?"
"Goku didn't commit suicide via drug overdose." There was a pause. A long, silent, pause, in which the very motions of Bulma's intelligent brain could almost be heard down the phone-line.
"I - I assumed he had just died in an accident or something," she said, her voice wavering. "Not... this." In the background Vegeta's voice was heard asking,'Just wish the little shit back', to which Bulma replied with a harsh 'Vegeta!'.
"We could do that though right Chi-Chi, wish him back?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"He doesn't want to come back."
"But..."
"I said he doesn't want to come back!" Chi-Chi told her, her voice rising sharply. In anger and frustration she smashed the phone against the tiled floors, inches from Gohan's dark, ebony hair.
"And how do you know!?" Bulma demanded of her, "How do you know it wasn't just an accident!"
"Because of the note! Because of the... note..." Chi-Chi broke down sobbing again and the phone fell from her limp grasp. Only now did Goten realize the severity of the situation, having watched his mother the whole time. And he too lay down beside her, his eyes red with tears and his arms flung around her and Gohan's body respectively, as if to provide some scant warmth to both of them, though neither would ever feel warmth again.
"Mum, are you okay?"