How Things Work Out?
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Things had begun to get a bit better. The sadness of the passing of Panna Satan had swept through the city of Satan city like a plague somehow every person had been affected by the death. A public ceremony had been held the week before but only Hercule attended, Videl sat at home with her to keep her company.
Videl sighed as she brushed her hair behind her ear as she looked at the presents laid across the table in front of her. Everyone in Satan city had sent presents and well wishes to cheer the family up over their loss.
Knock Knock
She quietly groaned to herself when she heard the knock on her door. She didn't really feel like having visitors at the moment, however she got up and opened the door. Imagine her relief when she saw it was Gohan. She sighed in relief as he walked in. She sat on her bed and he pulled a bouquet of flowers from behind his back.
She smiled at him thankfully as she smelt the flowers she got up and placed them in a jug of water, which already contained flowers. He sat on her bed.
"You ok?" he asked gently as he reached out for her hand and pulled her to him, only to be greeted with a look, which purely said 'what do you think?'. He flinched. "Ok stupid question"
She ran her hand across his and smiled nervously at him as he leant in and kissed her wet lips deeply. Despite the fact she was sad she felt she couldn't resist a kiss from him no matter what was going wrong in her life. He ran his hand across hers and pulled her closer, lying back on her bed. It was times like this she was truly glad to be with him, to have him to hold her closely.
"I love you" Videl whispered without thinking, he froze and stiffened slightly upon hearing that comment. He paused before speaking again.
"What'd you say?" he asked not sure he had heard right, she looked up at him as his grip tightened around her waist.
"I love you" she stuttered nervously, she had never felt the way she did about anyone before. He smiled at her sweetly as he kissed her temple.
"I love you too" He answered, she rested her head on his shoulder as he rubbed her back soothingly up and down. "When's the funeral?"
"Thursday at ten" Videl answered sadly
"Hmm" he whispered to himself "When does your dad get out?"
"Tomorrow night" she answered, "Jo and Tiffany are sleeping over tonight, they say i need cheering up, what are you doing?"
"Well I was going to spend it with you but since your busy I'll fine something else to do" he whispered as he kissed her quickly, he was almost teasing her when he pulled his lips away from hers.
"I'm sorry" she answered apologetically
"Hey Have fun" he answered, "You need it, I'll hang with Serena"
Videl growled slightly. He was always spending his time with her, she wasn't so much expecting Gohan to be with her twenty four hours a day seven days a week but he was either with or talking about her, enough is enough sometimes.
Meanwhile Serena was in her room typing away on her laptop. She was sending an email to Mirai Trunks, as she hadn't seen him much since he started his university course I Business Law. She wanted to talk to him but he didn't have the time.
Dear Mirai,
Hey how's thing's going there? Things are all right here. Ok well maybe that's a lie. I just don't get things any more. Videl seems to really dislike me, and I don't know what for. As far as I know I have done nothing to bring this on.
Gohan's noticing it slightly as well, and he doesn't get it either. Maybe it's the whole stress of the funeral or something I'm not sure. How do I fix things up so its all civilized between us, I don't want to be the cause for Gohan's unhappiness again.
He'd hate me forever, and I'd hate the feeling of knowing I cost him the love of someone dear to him. He does love her you can see it in their eyes and when they're together its just enchanting.
But also aside from that I've found out that neither Gohan or Videl have memories of their life before I left.
Anyways how's University going? Hope it's all-good; I won't keep you too long your most probably busy, so I'll talk to you later.
Love Serena xoxo
She read through the email and pressed send she really needed his advice, hopefully he would reply soon enough she couldn't handle dwelling on this for too long.
That night Videl sat on the sofa with a blanket around her as she pressed the button on the television to turn it on using the remote. She smiled slightly as she watched Jo throw herself onto the sofa and under her blankets.
"So let me know why you're stealing half of my couch?"
Jo smirked and pointed to Tiffany. "Have you tried sleeping with that thing before?"
"Hey!" Tiffany answered picking up her pillow from the horizontal sofa beside the couch they were on and threw it at Jo. Jo dodge it.
"She's worse then Marker!" Jo teased hiding under the blanket completely so she couldn't be seen. Tiffany quickly sat in the middle of Videl and Jo.
"Now why are you stealing my couch?" Videl asked jokingly as there was a knock on the door. She climbed out of the blanket and walked to the front door and opened it only to come face to face with Marker and Leo.
"What are you guys doing here?" Videl asked as they walked into the room and sat on the sofa's dropping a few cans of beer onto the table in the middle of the room.
"We heard you needed cheering up" Marker answered causing Videl to looked at Tiffany who just shrugged her shoulders.
"Don't look at me" Tiffany answered looking at Jo who also shrugged her shoulders in surprise.
"My lips were sealed" Jo answered
Videl groaned as she shut the door and walked inside and sat on the sofa beside Jo as Tiffany turned on the DVD that was in the DVD player. Due to Tiffany's insistence they had hired out a chick flick, but Videl was kinda glad hopefully the guys would go.
"What are we watching?" Marker answered leaning back into the chair he was sitting on.
"The hot chick" Jo said less then enthusiastically. Marker just smiled.
"Excellent" Marker answered. The girls looked at him in shock he was admitting to liking a chick flick, which was a big thing because he didn't look like the type.
"Hey Vi'?" Tiffany asked, "Why didn't Gohan come over?"
"He's busy with Serena" Videl whispered, "They spend an awfully large amount of time together don't they?"
"I'm sure there's nothing of it" Tiffany answered sipping her juice as Videl looked at her with this certain look in her face. "What are you looking at?"
"You know something don't you?" Videl asked
"NO?!"
"Yes you do, you get this sparkle in your eyes when you know something"
Meanwhile Gohan sat on his bed in his room. He wore green Saiyaman pj's. Why? His mother had bought them because she said it was about time a member of the Son family was on Pajama's after all the work they had done. He straightened his glasses on his face as Serena walked into the room.
She had a blue pair of Gohan's Saiyaman pajamas on. Off course she had to use a belt around her waist to hold them up but they were super comfortable. She sat beside him on the bed as he took his laptop off his lap. He smiled at.
"What are you up to?" Serena asked curiously
"Just surfing the net" he answered quietly, she rested her head on her brother's shoulder. It something she used to do when they were younger, it was a sign of she was interested and comfortable, it created a relaxing atmosphere.
"You ready for Thursday?" she asked
"Yeah" Gohan answered looking at her. "It's just hard to believe she's gone"
"I know" Serena answered "You know when we were younger, we must've been like 8 or 9, we would sit around the gym trying to see who could punch the punching bag the hardest, as usual you always won but one time Hercule snuck behind it and you knocked him into a wall, he flew off, but Panna came to our rescue and said he deserved it,"
"I wish I could remember" he answered sadly
"I wish you could too" Serena answered through a yawn "I'm going to go to bed" she got to her feet and gave her a quick hug. "Love you"
"Love you too" Gohan answered "Sweet Dreams" he watched as she left the room and closed the door.
One week later
Sitting in a classroom seemed like the best place to be spending this particular day. Why? Well aside from the rain that was pouring outside, it was her first day back at school. Everyone had been treating her extremely nice which was weird.
She looked to her side where Gohan sat, one arm nestled around her waist, keeping her within his sight and the other was busy writing down the notes from the blackboard. She smiled at him. He had been there throughout everything, and even if he didn't remember her from where they were kids she was still glad he was here now.
"How you doing?" Gohan asked looking over at her smiling at her as she nodded. He knew it was a big step for her to be out in public. She hadn't been out since her mother's funeral.
"I'm ok" she whispered looking over at her friends. Eraser was busy tossing notes over Sharpeners head to Jo, who was sitting beside Tiffany rolling her eyes. Why? Tiffany had gone on an explosive date with Leo the night before and she felt she had to keep retelling the story.
"It was so beautiful!" Tiffany answered over excitedly
"WE KNOW!" Jo answered turning away completely. "Look I know your excited but enough is enough"
"I could say the same Joanne" a voice boomed from the front of the class as she turned around to find the teacher in front of the classroom with her hands on her hips.
"Uh!" Jo answered nervously as she quickly turned around and her whole body stiffened in shock as she went back to doing her work. "Sorry Miss, was um...getting some notes"
"I imagine so" the teacher answered "What were we discussing if your so onto class today?"
Jo hit herself in her forehead and cursing slightly as she tapped her pen on her chin in thought. She was trying to think back to what they were discussing last week. 'Hmm' she thought to herself as she looked down at the paper in front of her. She stood up and smiled "Uh same place usual time?" she asked
"Yes Joanne" The teacher said "3:00 C4 and actually show up this time Miss Higgins, you may sit down now"
Eraser and Tiffany began to giggle at the girl who was now slapping herself in the head for letting herself get busted.
"What are you two giggling at?" Jo asked in a sarcastic way as the two stopped and Eraser smiled nicely at the group.
"We're having a sleep over at Joanne's" Eraser announced to the other members of their group. Jo looked at the blonde girl surprisingly.
"And when was I getting told about this?" Jo asked, being told she had detention had really put her in a bad mood, but she knew she'd feel better when she skipped it so it was no biggie they'd just have to deal with it for the day.
"Uh now" Eraser answered
"Guys relax we can all crash at my place" Gohan said thoughtfully hoping to stop a fight from forming between the group.
"Sorry I'm Late!" Serena announced as she walked in and threw herself into the chair beside Gohan. "Your rubbing bad habits on me"
"Hey!" Gohan whispered, "How can you sleep in when I live in the same house as you"
Serena smiled slightly at him as Jo turned around and looked up from her book to her friends as she dropped her pencil. "Have you guys sent in your college applications"
They all nodded their agreement.
"Not long till we find out eh?" Tiffany asked
"Nope" Jo answered, "Then there's no more school"
"Should be fun," Lime answered smiling slightly.
There were places we would go at midnight
There were secrets that nobody else would know
That afternoon in the Son household Gohan sat on his bed with Videl, music playing gently in the background. Videl began to sing softly to the music that was playing. She faced Gohan and smirked.
"Oh baby can't you see, that everything you do, makes me wanna go ooh ooh ooh ooh everything you say, makes me wanna go ooh ooh ooh ooh " she sang to him as he smiled and pulled her into a tight embrace.
"I'm so lucky I have you" he whispered, "You brighten my days up so much, hey let me take you somewhere nice?"
He pulled her to her feet and out of the house. She sighed and let him pull her away. She had no idea where she was going at all.
There's a reason but I don't know why
I don't know why
I don't know why
I thought they all belonged to me
Gohan held Videl's hand tightly as he lead her out of the forest and towards a beautiful lake with water that was clear as crystal. The water that was flowing over from the waterfall hit the rest of the water with large splashes. The water felt so cool yet warm, as it hit your skin you could feel all your troubles melting away.
"Gohan" Videl answered smiling up at him. "Where are you leading me?"
"Its a secret" Gohan answered as he rose off the ground, her with him, he wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her close as to not drop her. "Careful"
"I am" Videl answered as they landed a few seconds later in the middle of the oasis. Water rushing around every side of the small island in the middle of the crystal clear lake. Butterflies were gently flying around in pairs; the colors of their wings were dazzling. "It's beautiful"
"Yeah" Gohan answered letting go of her waist and sitting down on the soft grass that was laced along the ground, bordered by rows of lovely flowers that were all colors of the rainbow.
"How'd you find this place?" Videl asked sitting beside him as he picked a pale blue flower and handed it to her, before kissing her on the lips gently.
"I found it shortly after Dad was killed" Gohan answered looking down at the grass. She wrapped her arms around his neck and drew herself into his lap and hugged him tightly.
"I know how you must've felt" Videl answered, "I felt so lost when mum died"
"I know" Gohan whispered "I feel I can tell you more then most people, I don't think anybody knows how much Dad's death really affected me I never showed it"
Videl nodded at him. "I never spoke to anyone really, it was very rare, but that all changed when I met you"
I'm not dreaming so I don't know why
I don't know why
I don't know why
She's everywhere I wanna be
Flashback
Chibi Videl was sitting down with her mother in hospital at age 6. Her mother had become very sick in the past few days and the doctors didn't think she'd make it.
Videl sat their not doing anything. She stared at her mother who just breathed in heavily. Tubes etc were sticking out of her body.
The door opened and in walked a woman with a child. He had spiky black hair. And the woman had long black hair in a ponytail.
"Go on" the woman, whispered pointing to Videl.
"But mom" the boy complained, "She has girl germs"
"No buts go on mister" the woman ordered as she walked over to Panna. "How are you going?" she whispered to the woman lying in bed.
"I've been better" Panna answered smiling slightly
"You'll be fine you'll see" The woman answered
"No I wont" Panna answered sadly "the doctors say there isn't much time left for me"
"No"
"I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about how Hercule will handle Videl, she's a lot like him and I don't think he knows much about raising a kid cause I've always been there"
Videl picked up a small box of the table and walked away from the boy. She walked over to her mother.
"Mommy?" she asked innocently "What's in this box"
Panna smiled and the woman picked up the girl and put her on the bed beside her mother.
"That's what your grand mother gave me on my 17th birthday" Panna answered, "It was the best birthday gift I ever received"
"That's sweet" Videl whispered as she picked up a card off the desk. "I gave this to you for mothers day didn't I?"
"Yes, and I look at it the entire time sweetie" Panna answered as the child wrapped her arms around the woman's neck.
"I don't want you to die mommy" Videl sobbed, "I'm too young to have no mommy"
Panna choked for a few seconds, before she could answer. "You'll always have a mother…. I'm not going anywhere"
"Then why are you here on Mothers Day for?"
"Because I'm sick, they want to make sure I get better"
"Oh"
End Flashback
Seems like everything's the same around me
When I look again and everything has changed
Flashback
"I know who you are," Gohan said making her sit down on the chair in front of him. She smirked at him weirdly.
"Oh yeah?" she whispered, "Who do you think I am?"
"Your Serena…. daughter of Chi Chi and Goku"
She froze in her spot. "You're not supposed to have any memory at all,"
He looked down at his feet. "I don't," he answered sadly. "Mom does though, she told me last week after Videl's birthday party,"
Serena sat down, and began to speak using a gentler tone. "How is she? How is mom doing?"
"She's alright," Gohan whispered, "Please stop by to see her, and it'd do her wonders,"
"I can't," Serena whispered "It'll cause too much pain for everyone," she groaned "Why did I let dad coax me into coming back?"
End Flashback
I'm the one who made you laugh
Who made you feel?
Who made you sad?
Flashback
Videl sat beside Lime in the music room. Tiffany was tuning her guitar, as was Jo. Both occasionally strumming a string to check if the right note was being achieved. Videl sighed to herself.
'There's something not right about Serena' she thought to herself as she felt a hand land on her shoulder. She turned to see Gohan, but Videl just turned away from him.
"Videl" Gohan asked, "What have I done?"
"Nothing" Lime answered quickly "She's just had a really bad morning₮ She's got math's first"
Videl turn around upon receiving a kick from Lime. "Sorry" she whispered.
He sat down beside her as Serena walked to the room and over to Tiffany. Videl watched the teen. She couldn't take her eyes off her. Her mind was uneasy about something. She just couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"I'll be back" Gohan answered as he got to his feet and walked over to Serena, leaving Videl and Lime staring after him.
Serena smiled at her brother slightly before knowing what was about to be asked. The night before they had touched many subjects but Serena kept avoiding the question involving her past. She kept saying she didn't feel like telling anyone anything.
"Hey Gohan" she whispered looking at him. He smiled sweetly at her, thinking she didn't know what he was about to ask. But unknown to him was that as twin's they shared a bond, which allowed them to talk telepathically. Fortunately for Serena only she knew how to control it.
"Listen I want you to fill me in on everything from that past" He asked "Everything that happened while you were gone, after I practice singing with Videl that is"
Serena winked at him, and then began speaking with sarcasm. "Oh singing" she teased "Is that what you call it"
"We're singing that's all" Gohan answered as he blushed a deep crimson. "Besides Tiffany will be there" and on that note Tiffany walked up to them. She placed her arm on Gohan's shoulder and smirked.
"Don't worry Serena I'll give you a full report," Tiffany teased, much to the demi saiyan's dislike.
He groaned in despair. Women, they were all out to get him weren't they.
End Flashback
I'm not sorry
But what we did
And who we were
I'm not sorry
I'm not her
Videl laid her head on her boyfriend's masculine shoulder. His arms slowly working their way around to scoop her up close to him. He smiled down at her. The moment his deep black eyes hit her cerulean colored eyes she melted. Just like an ice cream in the summer heat.
She looked away from him slightly as she blushed. She remembered how it had taken her forever to tell him exactly how she felt. She was beginning to think he would tell her he wasn't interested. She'd never felt like this before. She felt like time could stop and it wouldn't matter what happened as long as they were together.
"Gohan" she whispered to him smiling up at him lovingly.
"Yes" he answered looking down at her as she pulled away slightly, looking down at the ground below her. "Videl is everything alright?"
"Why are we breaking up?" Videl asked getting to her feet and walking over to the lake that was in front of them. She gently knelt down and ran her hand in the cool gentle flowing water. It felt great to pass along her hand, despite the circumstances she did feel at ease. She turned to face Gohan again.
He paused and looked up at the sky. He knew if he looked into her eyes he would crumble up into a million shattered pieces. He opened his mouth slightly as if he was about to say something but he stopped and paused again.
"Gohan tell me" Videl urged him to continue but he just sat there quietly. HE slowly lifted up off the ground and floated up. "Don't you dare fly off, I want to know why?"
"I don't want to break up with you, I just need to tell you something" he answered looking down at her.
"Well tell me," Videl urged
"It's Serena" He answered "she's my..." and with that Videl flew off at breakneck speed. When she thought she was further enough away she dropped to her knees and cried to herself. The feeling of being alone returned to her. She hadn't felt this way since her mother died.
'Why?' she asked herself as she wiped her tears away with her sleeve. She slowly got to her feet and walked past the lake she looked up to the sky as the clouds slowly gathered together and began turning a dark gray, as a slow patter of rain began to hit the ground.
Who's that girl?
Where's she from?
No she can't be the one
She picked herself up off the ground and looked off into the sky as she felt Gohan's ki slowly decrease the further away he went.
She floated off into the air and went higher; before a few minutes were up she was flying off at a slow pace across the mountain area. She kept flying till she landed on her doorstep. She looked over to her side and saw Gohan sitting on the front door step. Serena beside him hugging him tightly as he cried a few tears. He didn't even look over to her.
That you want
That has stolen my world
Videl took one look and cried. A big part of her heart had been taken away from her. But worst of all he'd been pushed straight into the arms of a certain young woman whom he seemed to get along with quiet well.
When she was in the house she sat on the sofa and cried to herself. She didn't care who heard. But throughout all the rejection she felt one thought crossed her mind. She lifted up her head and saw a pile of envelopes on the table, she slowly unwrapped one.
She stared at it for a few minutes before she walked over to the window where she saw Gohan standing up and leaning on the tree in the front yard beside Serena. He pushed Serena away slowly as he walked over the doorstep of the Satan Household.
Knock knock
Videl sighed to her self as she leaned over and opened the door. He smiled weakly at her. Looking into her eyes, Videl saw that he had indeed been crying a few tears. She let him inside and walked towards her bedroom. If her father were to come home she didn't want him to hear anything to cause him to dislike Gohan even more.
Videl sat on her bed. She hadn't meant to fly off at Gohan, after all it wasn't his fault she wasn't really a communicative person of late, she hated hurting him but she couldn't help it.
She had never been the best at showing her emotions to others; the only one she ever shared her emotions with was her mother and Erasa. But one of them was now gone and she didn't want Erasa's pity
She didn't want anybodies pity. She looked at him as he looked at her, he looked upset for making her so, yet she knew it wasn't his fault, she traced her hand along his face and looked at him apologetically.
She opened her mouth to say something but Gohan silenced her with his fingers and a gentle shushing. "You don't have to say anything but I have something to tell you"
Her facial expression changed from apologetic to confused and curious
The moment he said that, she began to feel nervous although confused and curious. He was breaking up with her wasn't he? Oh god she knew this'd happen, she'd let him into her heart, she'd let him be the first one to have any of her love, and here she was about to be dumped, but to her surprise Gohan answered her unasked question.
'"Videl, I'm not going to dump you just need to know something about me and Serena...'" he started
That was it. She'd had enough. Everything she heard was 'Serena this' or 'Serena that' enough was enough. She got up, and grabbed her bag, and without even turning to look at him, she opened the door of her bedroom and looked at him.
"Leave" she answered he got to his feet, he looked at her one last time as he made his way up the hall. She walked over to the front door and opened it up. Gohan walked out and turned to face her as the door slammed shut leaving a stunned Gohan watching, trying to realize what had just happened.
It's not real, it's not right
It's my day, it's my night
Knock Knock
Videl opened the door to come face to face with a smiling and happy Serena staring at her.
"Hey Videl…"
Punch
Videl brought her hand down from the Demi-saiyans face "You can have him Serena, your all he ever talks about anyway"
Serena looked down. She knew her brother was happy she was home but she didn't know he had been bringing her up around Videl. She let Videl vent her anger on her. It would make them both feel better but Serena wouldn't let Videl go without knowing the truth.
Videl ran out the door blinded with tears. She ran from him, ran from the new girl in his life and ran from the place she had lived with her mother and father. Gohan and Serena followed the girl both yelling for her to stop but she was using her own hidden powers to get away the last thing she heard was Gohan's voice as he called from Videl's doorstep to her "Serena stop! She doesn't want to talk..."
Videl slammed the door of her bedroom and walked over to the window. She hitched it up and cocked her leg over the windowsill and allowed herself to climb out of the room and drop to the ground. She fell to the ground brought herself in the air, and with a gust of wind she vanished as she flew off into the sky. Tears slowly streaming down her now rosy cheeks, she breathed in as she thought about Serena.
By the way
Who's that girl living my life?
Lady Lunic: Well that's it, I've officially ended it with an open ending in case I feel the urge to do a sequel, I'd like to know all your opinions on it. I feel this chapter was a bit rushed but that's just me. Thanks for sticking around though. Love ya all heaps. hugglez
The song of which Videl sings to Gohan is called 'Everything You Do' and is by M2M, the other song featured is called Who's that Girl and is by hilary duff, its a really good for song for her to do.
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