OH MY GOD! I haven't updated in the LONGEST TIME! Sorry to all my readers! I greatly apologize! Though hopefully, I'll be updating more now, but FIRST IMPORTANT MESSAGE! I'll be editing the first three chapters… because when I read it over… THEY WERE CRAP… except for the third chapter; I thought that one was decent enough to scrape by. :)
Anyways, a lot of important changes; first, I will stop posting my little "Reply to Reviewers" seeing as that's not allowed now.
Second, I'm going to get rid of my poll, seeing as I don't want my story to get deleted; if you Do want to vote; message or review me, and suggest any pairings that you would want.
Third, (Again, this relates to the new policies of Fan fiction), I will be changing my plot completely, seeing as an important part of the story was based on a song I needed, and song lyrics aren't allowed anymore…
Fourth… what the HELL has happened to fan fiction? Why so many rules now? What happened to the freedom of writing:(
Fifth... please check out my YGO story:D... It's rated M... so beware :D It's called S T O L E N
Anyways… lets get this chapter rolling!
"Italics" with quotations are thoughts.
My So Called High School Life
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Chapter 4
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You're having a WHAT!
(-Hotaru's POV-)
"Good bye Hotaru sweetie, I'll see you in a month." He planted a big kiss on my cheek… and that was it. Him, and Kaolinite, probably snuggled up together… drove off… leaving me…
…Right in front of Capsule Corp.
"Oh my gosh… this month is going to be so bad, so horrible…" I thought sadly to myself. "Stay in a house with Trunks: good, staying in a house with an evil crazy psycho freak, Bura: Extremely bad." But my thoughts were interrupted when…
"HOOTARRRUUU!" a high pitch voice squealed as a woman grabbed me in a bone-crushing hug. "Welcome to our home!"
I choked under her excessive hugging, and when she eventually let me go; she bombarded me with questions.
"Do you mind satin sheets? What would you like for dinner today? Or do you want to go out?" The woman's eyes twinkled at me; and one look at her… I knew immediately who she was. The blue eyes, silky aquamarine blue hair… this was Trunks and Bura's mother!
"Hi… Mrs. Briefs." I smiled shyly, secretly wondering where Bura got her bitchiness. Her mother was so sweet! "Nice to meet you."
"Oh darling!" Mrs. Briefs sighed, "Don't call me that! You make me seem so old! Bulma will be fine!"
"Sure… Bulma."
"Hey Dyke-err I mean Hotaru." A supercilious voice called out sarcastically; I looked over Bulma's shoulder to see Bura smirking at me. "How good of you to stop by." Her voice dripped with sarcasm.
For some reason; for a slight millisecond, I smirked back; I knew she couldn't say anything offensive or mean when her mother was here; she was just going to have to suck it up and be nice to me. Luckily, she didn't see my expression… or else it would've be just another week of more hell in hell for me.
"Hey Hotaru." Another voice rang out, I whirled around to find Trunks smiling at me… with those perfect teeth… that perfect smile… and… oh forget it… everything about him is perfect.
I smiled back uncertainly, before, surprisingly; he took me by the arm and said gently, "Let me take you to your room where you can put down your luggage."
I was speechless, before I uttered another sound; he graciously lifted my luggage easily and led me to my room.
"Hmm… perhaps this month isn't going to be so bad after all…"
(-Trunks' POV-)
"So, Hotaru, tell us about yourself!" my mother smiled happily as she added more pot roast to Hotarus already full plate. "Your interests… hobbies… anything!"
Hotaru stared hard at the floor for a few seconds before quietly replying, "Umm… I'm not sure, really. My interests are, very, different… it's just that I…I'm not sure how to say it…"
And she droned on like that until only her lips were moving. I noticed that she didn't like to be in the center of attention, or maybe the fact that my sister keeps throwing her death glares is really pressuring her out.
"Do you… collect anything?" My mother started again, more weakly, I think she was starting to notice that Hotaru didn't really like to be interrogated like this.
"I collect…Lamps."
There was a snort; as Bura choked on her Coke, laughing, coughing, laughing, choking, coughing, laughing hysterically… to insane cackle… to SLAP!
I reached over and slapped her across the face, immediately, her laughing stopped.
"What the hell was that for?"
"You were embarrassing our guest." I replied curtly, giving her the I'll-kill-you-if-you-blow-this-look.
She glared daggers at me, and let out a mirthless laugh, "As IF! This is all just SOME pathetic act isn't it? What did mom offer you this time? Last time it was a new Gravity Room, what's it now?"
I watched Hotaru out of the corner of my eye, and saw her expression turn from, astonishment-to confusion-to anger, mixed with sadness. I could see her eyes getting teary.
"Bura!" My mother exclaimed, finally able to process everything, she was as shocked as Hotaru, "How DARE you say something like that! I did not bribe Trunks, if that's what you're suggesting! He, unlike you, thought I'd be nice to show our guest some MANNERS! He, unlike you, can control himself! He, unlike you, will be going to the prom, while you stay home!"
"WHAT?"
"You heard me missy."
"You can't do that!" She yelled, firing up immediately.
"Oh crap…" I thought to myself, "This is going to be a long one…"
"Err- Me and Hotaru are just going to… hang out in the living room." I replied casually; but the two women did not seem to notice at all, as I grabbed Hotaru's sleeve and ushered her out of the room.
I noticed her tears were already spilling over, staining her black skirt and leggings.
"Hey, hey, hey." I replied gently handing her a tissue, "Don't cry, it's okay."
She looked up at me with hurt and angry eyes, "Leave me alone!" She exclaimed angrily, "I don't want someone PAID to be nice to me!"
"And you believe that little brat?"
She nodded her head slowly, "Yes, I do."
I shook my head, "She's a liar, and I can promise you, my mom IS NOT paying me. You can ask her yourself! Anyways, does my mom seem like the kind of person to do that? Wait, do I seem like the kind?"
She looked at me intently; as if scanning me with one of those truth machines on T.V, and then; to my relief, she smiled. "I guess I overreacted a bit. I'm sorry Trunks, I just thought, I mean, you never talk to me in school and I thought that-"
I shushed her, "You never talked to me either Hotaru."
She thought for a bit; before letting out a reluctant giggle, "Should I have talked to you?"
"Of course!" I pretended to look hurt, "You don't want to talk to me?"
"No it's not that, it's just that I thought, with Pan and Bura and them…" she broke off awkwardly.
"You thought that just because they hated you, I would too?"
She nodded, "I, I guess."
"Well, you're wrong." I replied firmly, "I'm not like neither of them, besides, me and Pan broke up, so I don't give a damn about her anymore."
She looked up, I expected her to gasp, or some sort of reaction, at the news of me and Pan; but all she did was nod, and give me a sympathetic smile.
"Weird girl…" I thought to myself, "But she's not as bad as everyone says…I just hope she's not… Lesbian or something…"
"Can I ask you something Hotaru?"
She nodded again, God, this girl has got to get used to saying "yes", or "sure", something else other than nodding her head.
"Are you… like… you know… lesbian?"
She looked taken aback, and for a second, I thought she was going to cry again, but all she merely did was sigh in frustration and hang her head in shame.
"No! Of course I'm not!"
I let out a sigh of relief.
"I don't know where people get this stuff!" She retorted angrily, "I'm not a lesbian!"
"Oh… sorry, just wanted to clear that up."
There was an awkward silence between us… as I was trying to think of something amusing to say; which was proving to be a very hard task seeing as the fact that my mother and Bura were yelling at each other in the background… and Hotaru… well, do I really need to explain about her?
Luckily, the phone rang just then; and I dashed to pick it up; hoping it was, maybe Pan calling, and then I can just blow this whole entire stupid dare off.
"Dude!" the voice exclaimed.
I sighed in disappointment, it was Goten again, why the hell is this guy always calling me? "What do you want Goten?"
"You lucky bastard!" he yelled over the phone, I covered it partly so Hotaru couldn't hear. "She's living at your house damnit!"
I laughed, "Ha, girls follow me everywhere pal."
"I knew I should have pick someone else!" He retorted angrily, in a joking way.
"Tough luck, bro."
"So, how's it going pal? How is she?"
I watched Hotaru out of the corner of my eye, and casually slipped into the other room so she couldn't hear.
"Man… she's a tough one, she doesn't talk much…doesn't… really do anything. But I did find out one thing about her."
"What?"
"She collects lamps."
I heard an shriek of laughter as Goten muffled the phone slightly; a few minutes later, he seemed to have controlled himself, and finally uttered, "God, that was so hilarious, I almost pissed myself… LAMPS?"
"Yeah Goten, better than your porn collection." I muttered sarcastically.
"Hey dude, you promised not to make fun of me about that anymore!" Goten pretended to sound hurt.
"So anyways, what is your purpose of calling me? Or are you just trying to annoy the hell out of me? Because, as you can see, I'm kind of busy at the moment."
"Yeah, yeah, I can see, anyways, sadly, I did not call to torment you. I just wanted to remind you that I'm having a party today at Pan's place."
"SHIT! I exclaimed, "I totally forgot about that!"
"Dude, how could you! It's going to be the party of the century! I'm having these exotic dancers, gallons of booze… heck, I even paid-"
"I don't think I can go." I interrupted him, mentally slapping myself for forgetting; me and Pan made dates on that for months, but I guess, now that she "dumped" me; I can forget about everything.
"Dude, why? It's MY party! Not Pans! You can come! She's not going to kick you out! Though you could see her making out-"
"I KNOW! But what am I going to do about Hotaru? I can't leave her here alone!"
"Then take her with you!"
"I'd rather NOT go than to-"
"Come on!" Goten persisted, "How are you going to make everyone realize she's not such a loser? Do you REALLY expect that once you two start going out; everyone will love her?"
"Well, yeah." I replied flatly, "What else CAN I do?"
"DUDE! You are the DUMBEST guy!" he said exasperatly, "I can't believe I'm giving you ideas but- you can't make her popular by going out with her! You're just going to get degraded to HER level!"
"Than what am I going to-"
"Get her to come to the party. Give her her first taste of a "real" party; see what happens, it might not be so bad. Plus, it'll get people to realize that she's not just "some dyke"."
"I'm sure she'll get a lot of attention from her little grandma skirts, and plain blouses." I replied sarcastically, and then added seriously "It's NOT going to be a good idea! She'll only get hurt!"
"Since when the hell did you care about that!" He replied back with equal seriousness, "Then… buy her something new! You're rich! Look at all the limitless advantages you have!"
"What are you saying?"
"Use. Your. Credit. Card."
"What?"
"You heard me bro, doll her up, make her… look better than she looks now, I KNOW it's going to take a lot of work… but you can do it. Take her to…I don't know, that weird place Bura always goes to, Saks Fifth Avenue, or Bikini Bay or something."
"I don't know…"
"And as I always say; when you have a credit card, the choices are limitless."
"Sure…" I rolled my eyes, Sheesh, Goten and his lame quotes.
"See you at the party." And with that, he hung up the phone.
"But…" I began weakly. "Shit, I'm stuck aren't I…" I slumped into the nearest armchair and buried my face in my hands… wondering what the HELL to do next.
Suddenly, Hotaru walked into the room, I gave her a fake bright smile; which she returned shyly.
"Who was that?" she asked.
"Err- that was Goten." I gave a nervous chuckle. "Listen, Goten's having this party tonight… and I was wondering if you'd, you know…" I ended off weakly.
To my alarm; she gave me a sad look.
"I mean it's not-"
"No." she cut me off neatly. "I don't mind staying home alone with Bura, really, it won't be that bad. I'll be fine."
I stared at her, "No, no, that's not what I meant!"
She looked up slightly, "Huh?"
"I meant for you to come WITH me."
There was a stunned silence, Hotaru looked taken aback, "I- I really don't think I should go, I mean, it'll be bad- it's that- I-don't-I-"
She broke off looking awkward. I gave her a kind smile, "I know what you're thinking, don't worry, it'll be FINE."
"But, I don't have any CLOTHES for the party, I mean, well, you know what I wear, I don't think it'll be appropriate-"
"Speak no more." I cut her off, "I'll find clothes FOR you."
"You?" she stared at me. "Listen, I'm not going to wear stolen clothes from Buras closet."
"Who said I was suggesting that?"
"But, I thought that maybe…"
"Listen, I have a credit card, I'll… I'll… buy you something."
"We're going shopping?"
"Err- I guess?"
Hotaru gave me a weird look, "When is this party anyways."
"Tonight."
She sat down on an armchair beside me and buried her face in her hands, "Listen, it seems all very… fun. But I don't think I should go. I mean I don't fit in… I'm a…well, you know…"
"Well…"
"And it's not like you know anything about women's fashion these days anyways."
"Shit…" I thought angrily, "I forgot about that…"
"I don't…" I replied back slowly, the gears in my head turning and turning… "…Know anything about fashion…but I know someone that does."
She looked up, "Who? Bura?"
"Nope." I smirked, picking up the phone, "You'll wait and see…"
I dialed the number from memory, seeing as when I was small, I'd always find my mom there when my parents argued… which was quite often.
"Please let her be there, please let her be there…" I silently prayed. "Ahh… yes, someone picked up…"
"Hi, this is Trunks." I began, "May I please speak to……………….
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