I Hate Everything about You
Chapter 2
Disclaimer: I do not own any original DBZ characters. I only lay claim to those of my own devise.
A/N: Hey look, I made it to chapter 2. There was only about a week in between them. Heh. Oh well. The point is that I am working on this at a good pace. Now, all I need is some really good inspiration. So far Savage Garden's first CD is doing a fairly good job at it.
The group entered a nice restaurant. It was of French design. The walls were covered with portraits of men and women of nobility back in the 18th century. The walls visible were painted an olive green with a rich brown wooden trim. The tables were made of solid oak and covered with delicately made tablecloths. They each took their seats. Gohan was at the head of the table, to his right was Ryn, Elise, and Koneko. To his left sat Goten, Lynk, Kokuseki, and Trunks sat at the opposite end of the table.
Conversation buzzed across the table. Everyone wanted to know about the latest scandals that the two youngest were causing. Goten and Lynk spilled whatever it was their elder siblings wanted to know. When no one was paying any attention Trunks said to Kokuseki, "So…You're in a band with Lynk? What do you play?"
"Ah. Yeah. I play guitar and I'm a vocalist." He said. "You were in a band with Lynk for a long time. Did she always sing so well?"
Trunks thought for a moment before he nodded. "Yes. But she was in another band before this one. In fact, it was with those other girls. My two older sisters, Ryn and Elise. Kone was with them, too."
Kokuseki nodded. "I see. Everyone here seems to get along quite well. Lynk told me about Ryn and how nice she was, same with Koneko and Gohan. She said that Elise and her didn't get along, and that Goten and Elise dated and he's a ecchi." He tilted his head a little and said, "She never told me anything about you though."
Trunks nearly laughed at that, but was able to keep quite. "Oh really?"
"Yeah. I mean. I've seen pictures of you and her. It was no secret that you two dated, but why is she ignoring you. I mean, I did see that look she gave you earlier."
"Bad break up as it were." Trunks said. "Let's never speak of that."
Kokuseki nodded before Lynk said something to him to draw his attention to his petite girlfriend.
Koneko had noticed the interaction between the ex and the newbie. Had even smiled. She knew that something wasn't being said, but felt that something big was going to happen. Kokuseki was cute, but she had a feeling he just wasn't what Lynk really wanted, even though he was her type.
Dinner had been finished quite quickly and the bill was so big because of how much a saiyan could eat that everyone tipped in on the bill and the tip.
After arriving back home everyone continued to catch up with each other. Lynk had been talking with her brother's while sitting on the couch with Kokuseki holding her hand in his. "So, Lynk, you're still gonna work on your new album while working on this too?" Koneko asked.
"Yeah. We had a deadline on our second album and I wasn't exactly expecting Ryn to call me and say 'Hey, Gohan wants to get the band back together for one final album.' "
"I don't think any one was." Koneko said, getting nods of agreement from everyone else.
"Kone, are you going to bring Aya over tomorrow? I'd love to see my little half brother." Lynk said.
"I thought you didn't like kids?" Goten asked.
"I don't." Lynk answered. "But it's not mine and I don't have to take care of it so there's no problem." The girls laughed.
"You don't want to have kids?" Kokuseki asked Lynk quietly.
"I never have." Lynk answered him.
"You're still stuck on your idea that you'll never get married and never have kids?" Trunks asked.
"Exactly." Lynk stated giving him a very indignant look. "And I've done wonderfully so far."
"You're only 21." Trunks stated.
Lynk tilted her head to the right in her signature style and said, "I don't see you rushing off to make a family."
"Well, like I said, we're still young."
Lynk raised a brow before turning her attention elsewhere. This was certainly going to be a job for her to not lose her temper with Trunks if he kept up like that. Luckily he hadn't started anything with Kokuseki. If he had he would have met her fist or her sword. Whichever one she had in hand at the time.
Lynk made the excuses for her and Kokuseki to step outside onto the balcony and escape the constant gawking of her friends and family. She leaned against the railing and Kokuseki wrapped his arms around her and laid her head on her back. "You're family seems nice." He said.
"The guys haven't been digging on you, have they?" she asked.
"No. Even Trunks seemed very polite."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Good." She said turning to face him and wrapping her arms around his neck. " 'cause if he was gonna be a jerk I was gonna have to let him have a piece of my fist."
Kokuseki chuckled. "I think he's a little big for you to take on."
Lynk almost said that just cause they looked big didn't mean they were hard to defeat, but she held her tongue. He didn't know about her Saiyan blood, in fact, he didn't even know saiyans existed. So instead she said, "Oh, believe me. I could take him."
Kokuseki just chuckled and pulled her closer to him and gave her a kiss. He was such a good kisser. Lynk loved the way he kissed her. It was very different from how Trunks had used to kiss her. Kokuseki varied the pressure of his kisses, Trunks had too, but Kokuseki nibbled on her lip and that was just too kinky for Lynk to resist.
She didn't know how long they had been kissing, but someone was clearing their throat from the doorway. Kokuseki turned around and Lynk looked around him to find Trunks standing there. "Your brother wants a word with you." He said to Lynk.
Lynk looked to Kokuseki, "I'll see you in the morning."
Kokuseki smiled and kissed Lynk right in front of Trunks. He released his girlfriend and said, "You'd better."
Lynk chuckled and walked on past Trunks without so much as a glance his way. Trunks' jealously was rising and he knew it. God, why did he have to get jealous and so protective over her? He wasn't with her any more, he'd even been the one to do the breaking up. So why was seeing her with another guy making him so damn angry?
Lynk had found her two brothers sitting in the living room. "He said one of you needed me?" she looked at her brothers for the answer to the question.
"Yeah." Goten said standing up and leading his sister into the hallway.
"What?" she asked once they were out of hearing range of their friends.
"Lynk, I don't want you and Kokuseki to be getting too mushy while you're here."
"What are you talking about?" Lynk asked, slightly confused over her brother's comment.
"Trunks, Lynk, he's gonna be totally jealous. He's already proved as much when Kokuseki was introducing himself to us earlier. You know how protective he is when it comes to you. He's always been that way since he met you. Why that is, who knows. But he is. I doubt that just because your relationship with him ended that that protectiveness will too."
"Are you doing this for my safety or for Kokuseki's?" she asked.
"Both." Goten chuckled.
Lynk laughed, too. "I'll do what I can." She promised and returned to the living room.
Koneko and Ryn immediately whisked her away, though, for a private girl's conversation.
"What is it?" Lynk asked once they got behind closed doors.
"We have an idea." Ryn said.
"What?" Lynk asked, people were beginning to confuse her.
"We need to get Elise back for picking on Kokuseki. He's such a sweetheart." Koneko said.
"Okay." Lynk said, she loved getting revenge, especially on Elise-san.
"Here's the plan…"
The girl's plotted the night away for hours. At around 2:30 Elise came in and everyone laid down to go to sleep. Lynk lie awake for most of the night though. At around 4 a.m. she left the room. She walked into the kitchen to get a drink from the refrigerator. She didn't bother turning on the lights, she knew the room very well.
She crossed the kitchen, felt the counter under her hand that led her straight to the refrigerator. Opening it, she pulled out a small bottle of Cran-Grape juice, Ryn had bought it especially for her, since Lynk had always loved Cran-Grape juice.
Lynk closed the door to the refrigerator and was moving back through the kitchen when she walked into something hard that knocked her back onto the floor. She landed on her butt with a "Ugh."
"Shhh! You'll wake everyone up." Someone whispered in the dark.
"Huh?" Lynk looked up to a tall shadowy like person. The person reached over and flicked the light switch above the stove, the small lights made it much easier to see. Lynk found Trunks standing before her.
"Get up." He said, he had reached out his hand to help her up, but she had already pulled herself up on her own. "What are you doing up at this hour?" he asked in an almost accusing tone.
"I couldn't sleep, so I came out here to get a juice then go back to my room. Not that it's any of your business." Lynk said, haughtily.
Trunks would have rolled his eyes, but decided to say instead, "Oh, thought maybe you were going to make a midnight tryst with Kokuseki."
Lynk did roll her eyes and said, "No. Why the hell would you think that?"
Trunks just smirked and said, "You've done it before."
Lynk rolled her eyes and growled, "Shut the fuck up before I kill you."
Trunks chuckled at her annoyance and said, "What? Don't like being reminded of how you really are?"
"How I really am?" she repeated. "Pfff! You know Trunks, you're a complete and utter asshole to me, and yet you buddy up to Kokuseki at dinner. What the hell is it you're trying to get from him? Huh? You think that just because I have a new boyfriend you need to become buddies with him?"
Trunks raised his eyebrows. "Or could it be possible that the guy might be a little bit cool?"
"I know he's cool, I wouldn't be dating him otherwise." She said in a tone that stated the obvious. "Now, would you please excuse me, I have a video to shoot in the morning."
"Oh, do you now?" he asked in a mild tone.
"Yeah." She replied in a monotone. "I am still working with my new band, even if I did agree to do this thing, I still have an album deadline."
"Whatever." Trunks just shrugged.
There was a moment of silence before Lynk said, "Ya wanna move?"
Trunks shook his head 'no'. So Lynk just leaned back around the counter so she could slide past him without her breasts touching him. Not that it helped any. Her breasts still managed to brush slightly against his arm. Lynk blushed and moved a little faster to get back to her room. Trunks stiffened at the touch.
Gotta stop thinkin' like that, Trunks told himself as he drank down the bottle of Auburn Mist in his hand. Probably should stop drinking like this, too, he told himself.