Author's Note: Welcome welcome. I was a bit confused as what to do for this chapter, but I know what next chapter is. Sorry if it may sound a bit forced, but I'm trying to move things along so that I can make all you guys happy and actually have a closure on this. Part of me doesn't want to finish because I have so much fun writing it. I know I'd be massacred if I didn't finish it though.

He's to one more chapter closer to the end!

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A week later I was sitting on the couch flipping through the channels. Sweet, nothing on. Could I be any more bored? Ooh, Vege-O-Matic! Yeah, cause I wanna chop my veggies like a pro. I flipped off the infomercial.

Goku's head popped in. "Hey, you bored?" I stared at him blankly. "I'll take that as a yes then." He threw me my coat. "Let's go out for dinner."

I ran upstairs and quickly changed into a nicer pair of khakis and a dark blue shirt I got on the discount rack at Value Village. When I got downstairs, Goku looked nice too with a black polo and khakis too. I kissed him on the cheek. "Shall we?"

We drove along in his beater pick-up truck to the songs on the radio. After we entered the downtown district, he parallel parked in front of my favorite Italian restaraunt. We had to wait bout 5 minutes to get a table since Friday nights were a popular night. We were seated and we ordered a large pizza, knowing with the both of us we could easily finish it.

A man playing an acordian was playing a song in the corner and singing in Italian. There was a small wooden floor in front of him.

"Italian is such a beautiful lanaguage." I sigh romantically. "I wish I had enough determination in me to become fluent in a language."

"You took spanish classes for nearly four years." He said offering me a breadstick.

"Yeah, so? There's a big difference between being fluent and knowing how to comment on the weather." I said, taking a bite.

"Depends on who you talk to, that could be a whole conversation." He said winking.

I smiled and felt my heart skip a beat.

The man playing the accordian struck up a slow song. Goku stood up and held out a hand. "Care to dance?"

I smiled up at him and swallowed the lump in my throat. This felt like the first time I'd ever been out with him. I enlaced my hand in his as we walked to the dance floor. I wasn't sure if anyone had ever danced here before, or if we were even aupposed to.

I put my left hand to his shoulder and the right into his left hand. His didn't dare wander anywhere past my waist. I rested my head on his chest and smiled.

I looked at an old couple who was sitting about two tables away from us. The two of them were in their 70's or 80's. Her hair was white and she was pale with gray eyes. He stood up, obviously sore from arthritus or a bad knee and held out his hand to her. Her gray eyes began to sparkle. The two of them hobbled to the small dance floor and began to dance with us.

The old couple and Goku and I danced to the beautiful Italian song. Goku and I were obviously more lively in our steps, were as the old couple took their time, as if they were savouring the moments that they had lived and the more that they'd have together.

When the song ended Goku gently spinned me around. The old man winked at Goku and I could have sworn I saw tears in the old woman's eyes.

The other dinner guests smiled and applauded as we went to go sit down. Our pizza had arrived recently so it wasn't cold. As we ate, we looked deep into each other's eyes.

"Wasn't that just the sweetest thing?" I said, eyeing the old couple. "How long have they probably been together and they're still in love after all this time. Gives you hope in the world."

"That could be us one day."

"It could."

We finished our dinner and paid the tab then got into Goku's lovely pick-up truck. I noticed he wasn't taking the way towards our house, but I stayed quiet. I enjoyed surprises, and if this was one, I didn't want to spoil it.

When we were about half an hour outside of town and on a dirt road Goku shut off his car and took out his keys. He and I both go went and he took my hand. Slowly he tokme down the dirt road until it all turned into grass. We both kept going straight. I heard running water and saw the moonlight reflecting on the water.

"Wow Goku! This is beautiful!" I said gasping and looking around at the beautiful place.

The ground was covered with soft, green grass with trees and a dock to the left. The river was swift moving and fireflies danced above the waters surface.

"Well," he said taking my hand in both of his. "I never got the chance to do this before, and now we're not in a hurry." He dropped to one knee. "Chi-Chi, you are the most important person in my life and I can't imagine how terrible it would be to live with out you. I love you more than life itself I'd die for you. What I'm trying to say is…" he tighted the grip on my hand. "Will you marry me?"

Tears filled my eyes. I nodded and managed to choke out a 'yes'. He reached into his back pocket and pulled out a ring. The diamond was considerably larger than the one that was on my promise ring and a perfect square shape instead of a circle. I put my right hand to my mouth and he slipped off my promise ring and put on the new one.

"Oh my god." I said admiring it on my left ring finger. I was shaking terribly. I looked into his eyes and he stood up once again. I put my hands on the side of his face and pulled him in for a kiss.

We slept together in his bed that night. Not slept together like the type that might involve concieving a child, but we held each other all night long.

I fell asleep listening to his slow, steady breathing and thinking about it all. How it was official and when I could tell the girls.

I slept very well that night walking up only once to a bit of a conversation in my head.

"That could be us one day."

"It could."

Author's Note: It's almost a disgrace of chapter seeing how short it was, but it's a pretty big landmark. Not only that but the Goku/Chi-Chi love wasn't really circulating like it was in the beginning. I hope that kicked it back up a notch.

I hope you enjoyed. Tune in next time, cause there's bound to be a party up in here!

Annie Bacchi