It's another chapter again. I don't own dbz or the characters.

Just to all that have been reading I did lose all my chapters to "Ease My Pain" from 1-27. My windows 98 went corrupt so I took my cpu to the shop and had it fixed and the hard drive got cleaned off and my computer starts from the beginning when I first bought it so thank god I have my chapters in fanfic but I will put them all back in my computer and this time put them of disk like I was suppose to long time ago so hopefully I don't have to replace any chapters now but anyway thanks to all that have been reviewing.

On with the story!

Ease My Pain chapter 30

Videl and erasa looked at goku thinking of what he was talking about. Then it dawn on erasa cause she remembered something. "You know what, I seen that guy mace." Said erasa.

"What are you talking about?" said videl looking confused.

"Remember, the party we went to at the mansion and we went back in this room." "Oh your talking about when we got drunk and that other stuff, right."

Videl didn't want to confess what else they did but sort of gave erasa the eye. "So I take it that you guys know him?" asked goku. "Well not really, we only met him at a party in his mansion and that's all." said videl.

"Well this seems easy you guys meet him but your not aware of what sort of person he is." said bulma who felt they were getting nowhere. "Since you guys don't know him gohan told me he is a drug lord." Said goku.

"What!" said erasa and videl. Brandon was just quiet.

"No wonder I could get some marijuana." Said erasa. "Marijuana, you went and bought that stuff!" said bulma. "Well yeah I only did it once! That idiot guy that worked there was flirting with me and offered me a lower price if I slept with him." Said erasa. "Oh WOW ERASA your just too honest!" said videl getting mad.

"Videl this is serious why are we going to hold back the truth! You heard what gohans dad said!" "It's not that, we shouldn't say anything erasa it's just....... there are some personal things we did that we could get in trouble for, that's what I'm saying."

"Guys I know I'm not your mother but...... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" yelled bulma. Videl and erasa and Brandon were shaking when bulma said that caused she scared them. "Hey bulma take it easy you know sometimes teenagers like to try stuff." Said goku.

"Goku! Would you not take this so lightly! This guy caused your son to be put in the hospital!"

"Ok bulma I know! I'm not saying that going to parties and smoking drugs was ok it's just that I'm not going to get involved with telling their parents! I just hope you guys are learning a lesson from all this!" said goku seriously.

"Hey Brandon are you ok? You seem quiet." Said videl. Brandon knew certain things about mace and he rather not say cause he feared for his life. "Eh..... nothing videl!"

"Are you sure Brandon? Your usually more talkative" Said erasa.

Goku sensed some fear from Brandon like if he was scared about something.

"I'm ok erasa I'm just tired." Said Brandon very calm.

"Brandon, I think you know something." said goku.

Brandon looked at goku. "Look, I don't know anything right now, ok!" "Come on Brandon he just figured you know something cause the way your acting! Don't get so wired up about it!" said videl. "Why do you guys figured Brandon knows something?" said erasa.

"Cause he's been quiet all this time ever since we been talking about mace! So it's either you know mace or not! One or thee other!" said goku getting a little impatient. "Why is everybody on my CASE I didn't poison gohan!!" said Brandon getting angry.

"Look I didn't accuse you of poisoning my son! I just want to know if anyone knows anything about mace! It seems obvious that you know something cause if you didn't you would of gave the same response as videl and erasa did! So it seems like to me that you know more than they do!" said goku.

"Come on Brandon if you know this guy then spill it!" said erasa. "Yeah don't hold back if your aware of this guy being more than just a drug lord then tell it!" said videl.

Brandon stood up getting nervous. "Please guys I have a headache can we just leave!" "Hey wait just sit down and calm down! Nobody's going to get you in trouble!" said goku. Goku felt sort of desperate for his son he wanted to know information about mace and he knew Brandon was guilty about something.

Erasa pulled Brandon by the hand back down on the couch. "Calm down Brandon it's not the end of your life!" said erasa. "I wish I could say that wasn't true!" said Brandon being serious.

"What?!" said goku.

"Nothing!" said Brandon.

"Guys I think you all need to take this seriously and stop holding back information to cover for this mace person!" said bulma. "Well I'm not holding back anything I really don't know this guy!" said videl. "I don't know him either!" said erasa. Brandon didn't say anything but stared at the floor.

Sighs. "Well brandon I guess your not going to say anything but I want you to know something gohan is very sick right now I stayed with him all night last night in I.C.U. he's slowly getting better because some jerk came in the hospital and gave my son a double dose of some weird drug called MP9- 7!"

Brandon looked up at goku cause that drug sounded familiar.

"Gohan is in a lot of pain Brandon, and he can't really eat anything. My son can barely get JUICE down his throat with out having to feel pain when anything hits his stomach! Do you realize it was hard for me to stay in the room when the doctor comes in to examine him! Cause of the PAIN he was in. The nurses would have to calm him down while the doctor examined him and that's just some of what I told you!"

Videl and erasa were shedding some tears cause they didn't realize he was that bad. Brandon felt bad and didn't realize his friend was in that much pain.

"You guys need to understand something if your truly gohans friend you would help him by giving me any information that you know!"

"Well I got some information for you! Let's kick his BUTT!" said videl standing up.

"Now wait just a minute! We don't want to show up at this guys house and start fighting theirs no telling what he could have waiting!" said bulma. Videl sat back down. "Well it doesn't matter let's take him out!" said videl.

"Listen I'll take care of that myself! So, Brandon are you friends with mace or....

Brandon looked up at goku. "I'm not friends with that JERK!"

"Ok if your not friends with him then do you know him?" said goku.

Taking a deep breath Brandon looked at videl and erasa and bulma and then goku. Brandon swallowed hard. "Well gohan is right! Mace is a drug lord cause I sold drugs for him to make some extra money on the side and then I started taking some of them and mace found out and threaten me and said if I smoke anymore he cut my fingers off."

Bulma and videl and erasa gasped. "Are you still working for mace?" asked goku.

"No he told me to get lost cause I didn't do the job right and plus my parent's got suspicious of my whereabouts and I told mace, and that's why he let me go and told me not to say a word or I will pay with my life!" Brandon was nervous and took a deep breath. Erasa touched his shoulder. She could tell that talking about that frighten him. Goku felt bad that Brandon got involved with a guy that doesn't care about nothing.

"I say, we should make him pay for what he did to gohan before the police get to him." Said videl. "Videl I suggest you leave mace alone! The guy has plenty of back up and a lot of guns so going up against him by yourself is committing suicide!" said Brandon.

"Do you know a lot about this guy?" asked bulma. "Not really but from what I saw he has a lot of power and I don't know what gohan was doing with him cause gohan never said anything." Said Brandon.

"Well gohan only told me that he did stuff for mace he never said what it was cause he was in a lot of pain and he said he would talk about it later." Said goku. "Well I'm pretty sure he probably did the same thing I did." said Brandon feeling bad for gohan. "I'm glad you told the truth Brandon." Said bulma. "I suggest that we all keep this to ourselves and don't say anything." said goku.

"So is it ok to go see gohan?" asked Brandon. "Well it's ok with me but my wife may have a hard time adjusting to it. But if you do want to go I prefer you come with me cause we have suggested that only family can come cause of the danger." Said goku.

"I want to know is gohan going to live or is this going to be something that's going to affect his life?" asked videl concerned. "Actually the doctor said he could have problems off and on but he just has to take his medicine and deal with it cause the drug caused some damage but he will heal up and get well." Said goku. "At least he's going to be ok." said erasa.

Bulma and goku said goodnight to videl, erasa and Brandon as they left out the door. Bulma came back in the living and looked at goku as he was sitting on the couch looking puzzled. "Are you ok goku?" said bulma sitting next to him. Sighs. "I don't know bulma sometimes I feel depressed and at times I don't know what to do." Bulma didn't know what to do cause she was confused herself.

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It was one week later and gohan was finally released from intensive care and back in a regular room. He was starting to feel a whole lot better and finally starting to walk around with a walker with the help of the nurse.

Sometimes he would have painful times then he would be ok. Chichi had a hard time with videl, erasa and Brandon coming to see him cause she didn't trust anyone. "It's really good to see you back in a regular room." Said Brandon. "Yeah it was scary in the intensive care unit. The nurses would come in every thirty minutes and if your heart monitor goes real fast they would come in really fast."

"Well you look better without that oxygen cord around your nose." Said erasa. "Yeah gohan you had us scared and then your mom she was like a radar that could detect your every move." Said videl.

"My mom can really be too over protective and I be glad when I get out of here I'm so tired of being in this place." Said gohan. "Well gohan just get well first before you leave." Said videl. "Gohan could you tell me something and I know this is probably none of my business but when did you start hanging out with mace?" said Brandon.

"It's a long story and I haven't even told my parents yet. You could say he sort of tricked me into going along with his plan. He asked me about selling some drugs and said if I didn't like it I could quit but it was ok for a while and things just started getting crazy afterwards." "What got crazy?" asked videl.

"I really rather not say but could we not really talk about this right now it just makes me sick thinking about it." Said gohan. Gohan didn't want to talk about it cause he felt bad about what he did and also he showed his power to mace and he didn't want videl, erasa or Brandon to know.

"Ok we wont." Said Brandon. "I'm sorry guys it's just I don't want to talk about mace now he's just a sick idiot!" said gohan feeling anger. Chichi walked in and saw gohans friends and faked her smile. "Oh, hello everyone. "Hi Mrs. chichi!" said Videl, erasa, Brandon.

"Well guys we better go cause we been here for almost an hour and I got to study for my test in two days right guys!" said videl giving the eye to Brandon and erasa.

Gohan saw videl do that and he wondered was videl leaving cause of his mom. Chichi was glad they were leaving cause she didn't trust none of them and wondered if any of them poisoned her son and was waiting for another opportunity to do it again.

"Bye gohan!" they all said leaving. Chichi just smiled at them as they all left.

Gohan looked at his mom. "Mom could you not run my friends away."

"I'm not trying to run your friends away gohan I'm just skeptical of them."

"Well ever since you accused them of poisoning me they really don't want to be around you and mom I can see the look on your face when you come in and it's like your saying get out."

Sighs. "Gohan, please forgive me for being skeptical but, do you realize the pain you suffered and the worry you put me and your father through I have every right to be skeptical about who comes in HERE! Have you forgotten you were poisoned!"

"Mom I know that!"

Chichi started fussing and gohan just rolled his eyes cause he really didn't want to argue with his mom and he really couldn't complain especially what he went through and his mom had every right to watch every person. But videl, erasa, and Brandon were the only one's that seen him.

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