Ch 2 – Music of My Heart

I watch you fly away from me. My heart feels like it could rip apart as you leave me alone on the school roof. Will you ever come back to me? Will you ever forgive my lying soul?

I hope you do. But I doubt you will.

I stare like a stupefied mummy up into the rain, my hand still touching the place where you kissed me moments before. I want to follow you, but I know I can't... you need time alone, now. You don't need me.

And the thought sears painfully.

I turn slowly and walk back into the school. I make my way to the girl's locker room, where I strip and step into a steamy shower. Like you, I have a lot to think about.

You'll never know what you've done for me

What your faith in me

Has done for my soul...

You'll never know the gift you've given me I'll carry it with me...

I love you. I know I do. When you first came to Orange Star, the lone geek in a crowd of muscle heads, everyone else noticed you because your amazingly good looks clashed horribly with your incredibly bad fashion sense. But I noticed you because your eyes held so much in them. The first time I looked at them, I saw the cheerfulness and the kindness dominating all, but barely visible, just behind them, was the dark shadows of a painful life. Seeing your eyes made me realize that I wasn't the only one who thought about more then turning in tomorrow's report. It was then I became determined to find out where your shadows came from.

As time went on, I got to know you better. I found out about you being the Great Saiyaman and blackmailed you into teaching me to fly. You asked me with that adorable blush on your face if I would cut my hair. You told me about your life as the son of a World Champion. I still remember the way I stared at you as you told me about that year of training with Piccolo... about your journey to Nameck... about your battle against Cell. I remember the tears filling your eyes as you described the horror of losing your father to your own pride.

As the tears fell, I knew suddenly that I had received a precious gift. You'd never told your story like this to anyone, not even your mentor Piccolo or your good friends Krillin and Dende. You trusted me beyond even people who'd given their lives saving yours.

Maybe you even loved me.

You opened my eyes

You opened the doors

To something I've never known before...

And I knew then I loved you too.

But I didn't have the courage to tell you. Now... now I've chased you away. Because I told you and you think I love you because you saved me.

"No..." I whisper. "I loved you long before that. I've always loved you. Always!"

I don't know how long I stand there, letting the water hit my face. I just leave sometime later and go home. I ignore my dad yelling about where was I and how many meetings he missed waiting for me and just go into my room. I collapse on my bed

I find myself dropping off to sleep. Will I dream of you? I don't know. Will we ever be together?

Something tells me, as my eyes close and my soul drifts to the oblivion of dreamland, that someday... someday we will.

And your love

Is the music of my heart...

Videl Satan, 3 Days Prior to the 28th Tenkaichi Budakai

A/N: Okay, there we go. A sequel to Hero. It's not long – definitely short, actually, it's barely more then a page. I don't know how good it is, though, because I'm not good at rating my own stuff. Tell me, my faithful reviewing friends! This is for you!!