Authers Notes: Hey everyone, me again. I would like to thank Kesshi-chan for the wonderful review that I received. Anyways, this story is starting to take shape for me; the thoughts that have been racing through my head are finally coming together and allowing me to write once more! I hope everyone enjoys the new chapter, and please R&R.

Just Another Day in the Life

Written by: Taylor Zell

Chapter 2: Let the past lie to rest.

The rest of the day seemed to linger by as Trunks and Goten hung over their homework, silence consuming the room. Goten began to bite on the end of his pencil as he became stuck on one of the problems that his mother had given them for homework, even though Trunks was there to help him, he refused to ask. For in his mind Trunks had betrayed him in telling Chi-Chi that he would help. Goten looked up from his work and glanced at the clock on the wall, seven thirty, only half an hour to wait until Trunks was on his way home.

Goten stood up from the chair, stretching and then walking out of the room. "Dad," He shouted through the house looking through rooms, "Mom, Pan anyone there?" He looked through the rest of the house and then walked outside looking around the yard. Once he was satisfied that no one was around he walked to the back and lit up a cigarette, taking the first puff he let out a sigh of relief, the smoke flowing freely from his mouth. "Man," he though to himself, "why would Trunks do this to me, why would he tell my mother something like that." He slowly placed the cigarette back up to his mouth.

Several minutes went by and at last he was finished smoking. He placed his finger into the ground, making a small hole, then put the cigarette butt into the hole. Once he had stood up he shoved some dirt into the hole, covering up the smoldering butt. Goten walked inside to find Trunks putting his stuff into his bag, getting ready to leave. "Well, I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow." Said Trunks, looking to get out of there as soon as he could, he threw his back pack over his shoulder, and walked towards the door as quickly as he could without running.

Once Trunks had made his way through the door and down the road a bit, Goten sat on the couch, and flipped though the channels on the television. "Nothing good comes through this damn thing. When are we going to get a new T.V., this is the same one we've had for years." He hit the power button and went into his room where he laid down, falling asleep after only a couple minutes.

The alarm clock went off on his dresser half an hour before it usually did and Goten woke to find Chi-Chi standing over him. "Get up; time to get ready for school!" She said in a shrill voice, age had not done her wonders, nor had all the stress she had to endure over the years. Goten made his way out of bed slowly, placing his feet on the floor, he stood up. "Go get your shower; I have all your things sitting for you by the door. Hurry or you'll be late again!" As she finished yelling at him, he went to the bathroom where he quickly did his morning routine.

"I'll be walking you to school today; I have to be there bright and early anyways." Goten just stared at his mother, a look of utter shock resting upon his face. "You look surprised, did you think I wouldn't be accompanying you to school from now on, I need to make sure you get there. Besides, I have a class to teach, Miss Bareay is going to be out for quite some time. She walked over to the door and stood waiting for Goten, once he finally realized there was no way to get out of this he went to the door, gather up his things and followed his mother out the door.

They had finally reached the school, and Goten was able to get away from his mother. Meeting Trunks by his locker, he started to just curse his mother. Goten had seemed to forget about the whole thing that happened yesterday, "That damn woman!" He said fiercely, "She just wants to ruin my whole God Damned life, I mean what is her deal, does she live to ruin me!" He slammed his fist into someone else's locker, placing a large dent in the middle of it.

"Don't worry man, it will only be for a couple of weeks, she'll be gone by then. By the way, Nina asked me to give you this." He handed Goten a small well folded sheet of paper with his name written on it. "Don't worry, I didn't read it."

Goten slowly opened it up and began reading, once he finished he had another strange look on his face. "And what is with Nina, we went out like three months ago, we're over. Now she wants to go to the damn movies. I'll never understand her; first she breaks up with me, now this."

"Well, what are you going to do?" Said Trunks with an eager look on his face, he leaned towards Goten, trying to make their conversation a bit more private.

"I'm going to tell the stupid bitch no, I'm not going to go out with that snob again. She just threw me out on my ass last time. I'm not going to do that again." Goten crumpled up the letter and threw amongst the other pieces of partially crumpled papers in the floor of his locker.

Trunks looked as if he were about to say something, but the bell for first period rang and they went their separate ways. Goten made his way to his class, and once he reached it the teacher met him at the door. "So, finally decided to grace us with your presence have you? Well, take your seat, if you remember where it is." He motioned into the classroom, his hand held flat. Goten followed the gesture and made his way to his old seat. This is the class he had been missing for the past two weeks, the one that was important, yet he chose to skip it.

As the bell rang to signal the beginning of class the teacher made his way to the front, "I would like to welcome Goten back into class; he has finally decided that we are important enough for his all mighty self." Goten sank a bit in his chair, trying to hide himself a little from everyone. "Well, today class we will be learning about evolution, and how most scientist believe that this is how everything came to be." The class seemed to drag on for hours, Goten dreading his next class, and not wishing to stay in this one any longer, he felt he had no choice but to attend his mothers' class, it might not be that bad.

At last the bell rang and Goten quickly made his way to the door and out before the teacher had a chance to stop him. As he made his way down the hall, he began to move slower, standing outside of his next class, hiding around the corner from his mother waiting for Trunks. "At last man, took you long enough. You ready to go in?" Trunks nodded and they both made their way in at the same time. Taking their seats they unloaded their books on the table and pulled out their homework from the night before. Goten looked at his mother who was staring at him from behind the desk. "This is making me a bit uneasy," He told Trunks as he bent over to take something else out of his bag.

"Well, good day again class, I just received word from the principle that Miss Bareay is going to be out for a long time, so I will be filling in for the remainder of this semester." Trunks and Goten looked at each other, and then back at Chi-Chi. "You will all have to know that I will not be easy on any of you. I will make this class just that, class, a place to learn. There will be no playing while I am here." After her introduction and explanation of what a class is, which took up a good part of the period, the bell finally rang and everyone walked by Goten and gave him an evil glare.

"Oh, you two, come here." She motioned over to Goten and Trunks who looked at each other and sighed. "I know you think I'm going to take it easy on you two, but I will treat you like the rest of the class, you are my Son at home and my student here, so just leave it that way."

"Oh yes mom, I thought you were going to treat me different, just because I'm your son," Said Goten in a sarcastic tone of voice.

"Yeah, I understand you won't be treating me any different either, just because I'm a friend of the family." Trunks actually sounded sincere when he spoke, and Chi-Chi looked at him and smiled. The rest of the day was a breeze compared to the encounter with there first two classes. As Goten walked through the hall towards the exit he encountered Nina, she looked to be waiting for him on his way out. "Um Nina man," said Trunks in a kind of warning tome.

"Shit! Damn, I was hoping to have time to think of what to say!." Goten kept walking and Nina came over and greeted him.

"Hey Goten, so what do you think, want to go to the movies this weekend?" She seemed excited as she followed Goten out the doors of the school.

"No," said Goten bluntly, "I don't want to. Also I want you to leave me alone, I just want the past over with, and you treated me like a piece of shit when we went out, then you threw me aside for Mr. Macho" Goten finished the end of his sentence with a hint of sarcasm, and he kept walking. Nina stopped following Goten and ran off crying, seeing this made Goten feel a little bad, but this was not quite as bad as what she had done to him at least that is what he thought.

"Damn man," Trunks finally spoke after Nina was gone, "That was a bit crude wasn't it, I mean you could have broken it to her easy. Maybe you could have lied or something, said you didn't have time right now."

"No, then she would have just kept coming back, now I know she is gone for good. I have too much to worry about right now; I don't need to worry about her too." Goten walked a little faster, trying to get as far from the school as he could so he could smoke for the first time today.

End Chapter.