Hello everyone, did you miss me? ::Tries to look innocent and not understand why everyone's glaring at her::. I really am so sorry about the long update. I am going to try to do a lot better next time. Don't hate me.

Disclaimer: I am innocent of breaking any copyright laws. These, infortunately, aren't mine. Enjoy.

Oh yeah, I'm not going to proof read this because I wanna get it out already, just so you know.
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I sat on my bed waiting. He had to be out there; he had to! It was 2 a.m. and I still hadn't managed to sleep. How could he be missing? That made no sense. And what was Gohan going to say before he left suddenly, and where was Roberts, and how long would I be blind and... "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH", I screamed into my pillow. I was so confused and my poor brain was in pain. I finally decided that if I didn't go to sleep soon, then I would get a migraine and who knows what else, so I lay down and tried, but, after an hour and a half, that wasn't working. So I decided that maybe a midnight snack would be just the thing, besides, there's nothing like chocolate ice cream for a confused brain. I stood slowly and felt my way to the door, the stairs, the many rooms of the house, then, finally, the kitchen. It felt like it took forever. 'Stupid huge, comfy house,' I thought, 'good thing I've practically lived here for so long.' As I opened the freezer I heard a noise behind me. I attempted to remain calm, which is hard when you've only been blind for a few days. I listened and reached out with my ki. At first I felt nothing and was just about to write it off as me being over paranoid, however, suddenly I felt something very evil in the room. I was scared and yet I managed to slowly close the freezer door before attacking in the direction of the ki I was sensing. I missed, but as I landed I felt something fleshy brush my hand, so I turned around.

"Who are you?" No response. "Answer me!" Still nothing. "Look, I don't know what you're doing in this house, but if you hurt these people I will personally make sure that you regret it as you slowly die. And by slowly I mean over the span of fifty years in a damp, diseased basement where you will receive just enough nourishment to keep you just barely alive. And don't you dare believe that I can't. Now, I ask you again: who are you and what are you doing here?" Still nothing. Now I had to think. I couldn't see it and I wasn't that great at sensing ki's yet, so sensing its moving was out of the question. Finally I decided on something. "Gohan!" I yelled as loudly as I could. As it turned out the room my cousin was staying in was just above the kitchen. (What Bulma was on when she gave him a room that close to the food, I will never know.) In a few seconds I could sense his ki hurrying downstairs. Suddenly I felt the dark ki start to leave. 'Oh no you don't,' I thought as I hurried in it's direction, even though I knew it was hopeless. I made one, final reach in it's general direction before losing my balance and falling on my face.

"Joy!" Gohan had arrived. I didn't look up. "Joy, are you okay?…Joy?…JOY!" I looked up.

"What?" I asked.

Gohan looked relieved and lay down next to me. "Don't scare me like that!"

"Hmm…?" I asked, not altogether there.

"What do you mean 'hmm…?'! You were just lying there, not answering me, I thought you might be dead, and all you can say is 'hmm…'!?"

"Sorry, Gohan, it's just…that was weird."

"What was weird?"

I hesitated. "That was silk. The intruder was wearing BCBG perfume and a silk dress…"

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I woke up the next morning to Gohan gently shaking me. I heard myself mumble something incoherent and rolled over.

"No, no, Joy," he laughed, "you've taken over my bed long enough." I mumbled something about not having any idea what he was talking about. He laughed again. "Umm, let me see, two people do not fit in a twin bed very well. After you fell asleep I had to take some blakets and sleep on the floor. 'Oh yeah,' I though. I had been too afraid to go back to my own bed last night, what with everything that had happened lately, so I begged Gohan to let me sleep in his room.

"You could have said 'no', you know."

"Yeah, and have you not talk to me for the next month."

"No, not a whole month…just three weeks," I mumbled into his comfy pillow.

"Oh, well if it's only three weeks, then please, stay," he said sarcastically.

"Okay," I answered with a smirk as I rolled over.

"What! No, Joy, time to go." I didn't respond. "Joy, don't make me get drastic." I pretended to be asleep. "Okay, but don't say I didn't warn you." With that he left the rooming, leaving me to believe that I had won for now and could go back to sleep. Oh how wrong I was. Just as dozed off again I felt a very cold, wet sensation fall all over my head.

"What was that?!" I sputtered as I sat up.

"Just a little something we Saiyan's call ice water," he said smugly. "Works every time."

"Oh go…do something." Man I suck at comebacks. With that I got up, took his pillow, and left for my room and more sleep.

"Actually I was planning on doing something."

"Oh really, what was that?" I mumbled uninterestedly.

"I was planning on introducing you to Pyrena."

I rubbed my eye. "Great. And who is Pyrena?" I asked, too tired to particularly care.

Gohan hesitated. "Trunks' friend from the future."

At that I was suddenly very awake. "Say again?"

"Pyrena, his friend."

"Never heard of her before."

"Well, they've only been friends for the last year or so," Gohan defended.

"Yeah, I'm sure that's the case." I did not like the sound of this new girl.

"Look, just go get a shower and I'll introduce you two," he said encouragingly. I was too…suspicious?…to even get onto him for implying that I need a shower. Besides, I wanted to hurry up and meet this girl to figure out if my instincts were right.

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"Thirty minutes. Wow, I honestly think that that's the fastest you've ever gotten ready."

At the sound of Gohan's voice I jumped like a foot in the air. "Oh my gosh, do NOT sneak up on a blind woman. Don't you know anything?!" I couldn't see it (obviously) but I could tell that he was rolling his eyes just then. We walked the rest of the way to the living room in silence as I was too busy pondering this new arrival to be distracted. When we finally reached the door Gohan whispered "Be nice" before pushing me into the room. I stood there a minute sensing who was in the room. There was Bulma, Krillin, Gohan, Chi-Chi and another ki that was giving me déjà vu, but I couldn't place it.

"You must be Joy," said a pretty voice from my right. I looked in that direction.

"And you are?" I asked, trying not to let my guard down. She sounded friendly enough.

"Pyrena." Then she added quietly. "Trunks and I were good friends."

"I don't remember him mentioning you," I said, letting a little bit of suspicion slip into my voice. Gohan pinched me.

"I only just started getting to know him in this last year." Then she hesitated. "I hear you two were dating for a while."

"Four years."

"Yeah. I'm really sorry about…what happened."

"Yeah, it sucks." I could sense her nod.

"Yeah, the whole break up was hard for both of them," Bulma added.

"That…and the other thing," Pyrena added. "Okay, so who wants lunch?" she asked really fast before anyone had the chance to comment. The guys in the room agreed enthusiastically. Why did I have the feeling that this new girl was hot.

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"Why can't we mention you to her?!"

"Because, she can't know."

I stopped. The loud, yelling voice, was obviously Bulma. But the one that had whispered the response…it was hard to hear and determine, but it sounded really familiar.

"Can't know what? That you've been lying to her? That you've been a horrible person to her?" I stood silently listening, the book in my hand forgotten. 'Who's being horrible to who?' I wondered.

"Please, just let me do this."

"Do what? Lie! Avoid her! Let her become slowly more and more depressed because of you!"

"Look, I know what I'm doing, how about you mind your own business."

"Because watching that girl suffer makes it my business!"

"No it doesn't. I know what I'm doing, so stay out of it for once!" After that I heard a door slam, so I went to my room to attempt to figure everything out. My poor brain!