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Ease My Pain Chapter 46
Bray was lying in his bed and thinking about what Gohan said to him. He never thought this day would have to come, but it did. "Mace said he wouldn't say anything but he did!" Said Bray speaking out.
Bray's mom came in the room. "Hey son!" She walked over to his bed and sat on the edge of it. "You didn't eat dinner, are you running a fever?" She felt his head.
"I'm not very hungry mom." He groaned.
"Son, what's troubling you?"
"Mom, why are we selling drugs to make ends meet can't you and dad work regular jobs!"
"Bray, we were working regular jobs but selling drugs just paid us more." She smiled.
"Mom do you realize Mace is nothing but a liar and traitor!"
"Son, WHAT are you talking ABOUT!?" Fussed his mom.
"Never mind!" Said Bray.
"Listen Bray, Mace has been nothing but nice to us. I know that selling his drugs is not a good thing but hey, it's keeping the bills paid and food on the table." Said his mom making excuses.
"Mom, how can you say he's been nice to us after what he's done!?" Yelled Bray.
She looked confused. "What are you talking about, Bray!"
Sighs. "I didn't want to tell you this but it's going to come out soon."
"Come out soon, what are you talking about?"
"Mace blackmailed me."
"He blackmailed you, how?"
"He was taking revenge against one of my friends at school and he gave me this drug called MP9-7."
"That drug is one of most dangerous drugs on the market!" She said seriously.
"Yes, and he forced me to give it to my friend!"
"Ok Bray we have never been asked to kill anyone."
"Mom don't you realize that it's part of a drug life!"
"Yeah Bray but what happen to your friend, is he still alive?"
"Yeah he is, but he has a health issue." He sighs.
"Bray how come you didn't say no we were involved with Mace not you." "Mom saying no to Mace is like asking for trouble."
"I'm surprised he didn't have anyone else to do it."
"Probably cause he found out I went to the same school."
"Bray, what did Mace threaten you with?"
"Mom I don't want to say, it's too awful."
"Bray tell me what's going on!?"
"Mom, Mace said if I didn't poison my friend he was going to kill you and dad."
"WHAT! This has got to be a joke after all the things we done for him!" "Mom don't even ask Mace about it, cause he will probably try and kill you!"
Bray's mom was devastated by what she heard. She didn't know what to do. Her life, threaten? She thought that working for Mace was a good thing and then she didn't care cause they were making a lot of money.
"Mom what are we going to do? I could go to jail for poisoning him cause he knows that I'm the one, cause Zedrick opened his mouth!"
"I can't believe what I'm hearing it's like a nightmare!" Said his mom.
"Well my nightmare came true and Mace's going to get by easy with this one!"
"Son where do you put the evidence?"
"I threw the small container away in the trash long time ago."
"Well your safe, at least you don't have the drug anymore so you can't get accused of it."
"Mom, reality check here, Mace could get me in trouble for this and lie and say it was all of my idea!"
"Yeah but theirs no evidence."
"Theirs always a way for me to get blamed cause for one I confessed to Gohan when he asked me! Mom, Gohan is my friend he's a nice guy I don't know how or why he would get involved with Mace!"
"Listen son your worried and scared. I'll talk with your father and we can find a way out of this."
"I don't know if that's possible."
"Well we have to find a way to get out of this and stop selling drugs if Mace planned on killing us."
"I think it's too late for that you know once you start doing stuff for Mace you know he isn't going to let you go that easy."
Bray's mom was worried now she knew for one thing she had to tell her husband and another thing they might have to leave town to get away from Mace. "Son, I think we both need to go talk with your father so we can find a way to get out of this mess." They both got up and left out the room to talk with Bray's father.
Sitting at the dinner table was the noise of hungry saiyans eating. Gohan wasn't eating like his father or his brother but slowly. He wasn't feeling very well and swallowing rice and meat with potatoes didn't feel very good falling into his gut. "Hey son you better hurry up and eat if you want to train." Said Goku smiling.
Gohan looked up at his dad and cracked a weak smile.
"Maybe you guys should skip out on training since my our son has been through a lot today." Said Chichi giving Goku a look cause she didn't want to talk in front of Goten.
"Come on honey Gohan could use the training."
"Goku?" Smiled Chichi as she clenched her teeth.
"I think maybe it is a good idea dad I burnt myself out with training earlier."
"I thought you wanted to go out." Said Goku.
"No dad. Here Goten, you can finish eating my dinner I'm not going to finish eating. Can I be excused right now cause I really had a hard day and I think I want to turn in early." Said Gohan getting up to leave.
"Son your dad told me what happened today, you want to talk about it?" "Yeah I like to know too." Said Goten.
"No mom, I really don't want to right now." Said Gohan in a tired voice.
Gohan got up and went to his room, closing the door. He change into his black shirt and black Pajamas pants and got into bed clenching his stomach and groaning. I can believe I'm feeling like this again! Mace is going to pay for what he did to me, he thought.
"Ok Goten I think you need to put the plate in the sink and go in your room and play for a while. You can play with the play station that Bulma bought you."
"Thanks mom!" Smiled Goten as he ran to his room.
"I'm surprised Chichi you let him do that." Said Goku.
"I did that so we can talk. I'm worried Goku about Gohan he didn't look to good or sounded like it."
"I know, but he's had a rough day."
"I know but I'm worried. How can we sit here and let Mace get away with this and now he finds out that his friend was involved! My poor son he's torn up on the inside!"
Goku wrapped his arms around Chichi. "Listen Chichi Gohan does need our support but maybe we just need to leave him alone for a while until he's ready to talk, earlier, he was very hurt and frustrated."
"Yeah I know but our son has been through hell and were responsible for some of it!" Complained Chichi.
"Don't remind me cause I do have a lot to do with some of his pain." Said Goku. "Well I want to check on him and see if he's ok." Said Chichi. "Ok Chichi but let's spend sometime together before we do." Said Goku locking his arms around Chichi more. She started giggling and blushing.
Gohan sat up in bed holding his stomach and wishing that medicine would hurry up and work. The phone ringed and Gohan picked it up. Chichi and Goku would of answered it but they were too busy making out on the couch. "Hello."
"Hey Gohan it's me Videl, please don't hang up cause I want to talk to you." Sighs. "Hi Videl."
"I know today was not a good day but please don't shut us out!"
"Videl, I'm not shutting you…. out…. ok." Said Gohan feeling pain.
"Are you ok, Gohan?" Asked Videl calmly.
"I'm not…. feeling to…. well."
"Listen Gohan I'm sorry we upset you today. I wish there was something I could do to make you feel better."
"No, their isn't but I'll talk later cause I'm in pain and I don't think you need to hear me like this, ok."
"Ok Gohan I'll talk later, bye." Videl slid the phone away from her ear slowly and clicked it off. She hated that she couldn't do anything but listen. "This really sucks! Mace can't get away with this!" Said Videl angry.
It was thirty minutes later and Chichi put the last dish away in her cabinet and walked over to Gohans room. She listened at the door and it was very quiet. She knocked on the door and walked in and closed the door behind her. She came and sat on the bed and touched Gohans shoulder.
"Gohan, are you ok?"
He opened his eyes. "Hi mom."
"Are you feeling ok, cause you didn't sound like it earlier."
Gohan laid on his back. "I'm ok mom, I'm just tired."
Chichi looked at him and grabbed his stomach.
"Oww, mom!" Gohan bent over in pain.
"Could you start telling me the truth and stop lying!?" Yelled Chichi.
Gohan sat up in bed rubbing his stomach. "Mom could you warn me next time before you do that!"
"If you're not going to tell me the truth!" Fussed Chichi.
"Mom I took my medicine earlier I'm not that bad off."
"You could have fooled me the way I touched you Gohan and I know you very well cause you would have been laughing by now."
"Mom I was fine until you woke up my pain!"
"Don't you dare get smart with me young man!"
"Mom I'm not trying to be smart it just hurts when you did that."
Chichi couldn't blame him for being cranky after what she did. She knew she should be patient with Gohan and not fuss with him. "I'm sorry son I wasn't trying to hurt you I just don't want you lying to me."
"Mom, you and dad are worried enough and I just wanted to take care this myself with out your help this time."
"Listen son we know your sixteen but you still need our help until your old enough to go on your own."
Gohan slid down in bed and Chichi touched his head. "It doesn't feel like your running a fever but I don't want you getting upset anymore like that or your going to land yourself in the hospital!" "Yes mom." Said Gohan. Chichi got up and left the room a little worried but not much cause she knew her son seem to be not really sick that much.
The next day at school Videl and Erasa were in class early.
"Wow Videl he sounded like that! You know he's really torn up." Said Erasa feeling bad.
"Yeah I was afraid this would happen." Said Videl.
"You think Gohan will talk to us?" Asked Erasa.
"I don't know, but let's not try and force him."
"Ok." Said Erasa.
Gohan walked in class and went to the other side of the room and sat. Brandon walked in and sat one desk away from him. Brandon didn't know if he should say anything but he decided not to say anything.
Later in the day as forth period was about to start Brandon approached Gohan at his locker. "Gohan, we've been quiet all day and I wanted to say that I'm sorry about yesterday. I can't make up for what happen but I can say that I'm sorry for not telling you." Said Brandon.
Gohan closed his locker and turned around. "Look Brandon I'm very upset about what happen yesterday and it really hurts when a friend hides the truth about what he did."
"Remember Gohan you know it was hard for Bray considering that he was threaten."
"Listen Brandon all this is so hard to swallow, I can't even think straight."
"I may not understand how you feel but don't just blame all of this on Bray." "I'm not holding Bray responsible for all of this. It's Mace that's really responsible and I'm angry with both of them. I'm angry with Bray for not opening his mouth and saying something to me."
"Your right, Bray is responsible for what he did but I hope this is not going to go on forever."
"Brandon, understand something, I don't trust Bray right now cause of what he did. Please Brandon talking about what Mace made him do makes me angry and sick! Even thinking about what Bray did makes me feel worse! Look I'm not feeling well ok, I need to get to class before I'm late, see you later, ok!"
Brandon knew Gohan was right about some of the things he said.
Gohan didn't want to think about what Bray did. He felt like he was living a nightmare that he couldn't wake up from. He arrived in class with Erasa and Videl their and seeing Bray almost gave him a headache. Gohan went and sat in the corner desk and pulled out his book quickly and started reading it to ignore everyone.
Brandon sat next to Videl and Erasa. "Hey girls!"
"Hey Brandon!" Said Videl and Erasa.
"Where you able to talk to Gohan?" Asked Videl.
"Well yeah and no."
"Did he say anything about accepting our apologies?" Asked Videl.
"I didn't even ask him that and he's really upset about what Bray did to him he said he can't trust him and he really didn't want to talk about it."
"Wow, you got really far." Said Erasa.
"Guy's I think we need to give Gohan some room. He's upset right now and forcing him to be our friend or talk right now, is going to make him blow up at us." Said Brandon.
"I agree with Brandon." Said Erasa.
"Yeah I guess your right." Said Videl.
When the day was over Gohan, closed his locker and headed straight for the front of the school. Before Gohan approached the door he felt dizzy and almost passed out. Gohan staggered a little and dropped his backpack.
Bray, Videl and Erasa happen to see him. Gohan bent down and picked up his backpack and staggered a little and Brandon caught him.
"Hey Gohan are you ok?"
Videl and Erasa looked at him with worry. Rubbing the side of his head cause he felt weird. "I think so I'm just not feeling like myself that's all." said Gohan standing up.
"Are you sure your ok?" Asked Videl. Gohan snapped his mind together like everything was ok and grabbed his backpack.
"I'm ok I'm just having a rough day. Don't worry about me. Thanks Bray."
Gohan smiled and turned quickly and left out the door and went home quickly.
"He sure didn't want our help." Said Erasa.
"He didn't want us to worry about him." Said Videl.
"Well I think he's stressed cause he seemed like he was going to pass out." Said Brandon looking worried.
That's the end to this chapter I'll try and get the next one out soon. Review!