Chapter 3
Chichi's POV
It's the middle of the night and all I can see is his outline. We are thirteen years old and I am trying to be as quiet as possible. His head turns in my direction and my body freezes. I'm tensed up by the thought of him finding me. Where am I anyway? I remember opening a door but where did I end up? Who thought of playing hide and seek in the dark anyway?
I've only turned away for a second but he is already gone. My eyes search frantically. Where did he go? I can feel my body try to shrink itself but I know it's not working. Where is he? This is so unfair.
The worst thing you can do to your nerves is to have someone chase you, but that wasn't enough for us we had to do it in the dark. I didn't even have the sense to listen to find out who was it. So now I'm in the corner of theā¦.somewhere afraid of every sound and person that crosses my path. Goku is the only person I've seen longer than a minute and he hasn't left yet.
Fear is taking over and I slide over to my left slowly guiding myself with my hand. Then I feel flesh under mine which startles me at first but then grabs my curiosity. Who is it? Could it be Goku? Before I reached a conclusion the hand grabs me making me jump and gasp.
"Chichi," Goku tries to confirm.
I look at his shadow, "Yes?"
"Who's it, I forgot."
"I don't really know. I guess I thought it was you. You scared me you know that?"
"Oh sorry. I was looking around for so long for people but I couldn't find Krillin or you. I found 18 but she yelled at me when I tried to tag her so I assume I'm not it."
"What did she say," I asked.
"That she wasn't playing."
"Well that probably just means that she isn't playing don't you think?"
"Okay that makes sense."
Goku looks around the corner for a moment or two. It doesn't seem as if anyone is coming to find us. Maybe that's a good thing I don't know I wish we weren't playing. But it's partly my fault for agreeing.
"So," Goku says turning back to me," How are you?"
"Very nervous," I say looking him in the eyes.
"You're nervous? Hm. Well that's probably bad."
"Yeah I guess."
It was about this time that he was really getting on my nerves. Someone should have just found me then because I would have been happy. Although I did like him he could be so dumb sometimes.
"Wait a minute, she is too playing you lair," I blurted out.
"Who's playing?"
"18. You said she wasn't playing but she's the one who wanted to play. How could you believe her like that?"
" I don't know I just left because she yelled at me. Are you mad at me now?"
"I guess not. Just be quiet okay I don't want to get caught or anything."
"Chichi you're talking louder than me."
"Just be quiet," I yelled.
We sat in silence for a while and he started playing with his fingers. It made me really mad even though I could barely see it. When I turned to yell at him to stop he looked right back at me. I stopped mid-sentence and stared back at him. My eyes were pretty well adjusted now so I could see his face almost perfectly. Just when I had lost all my thoughts I reached over and kissed him. I don't know what got into me but that doesn't mean I stopped and the third time I kissed him the light came on.
"Ow," Goku cried.
18 laughed from the front of the couch," hey we are playing hide and seek not seven minutes in heaven. Come on you guys you're lucky that my aunt didn't catch you."
We got up and all decided to call it quits. The boys went back to their rooms and 18 and I made our way too. 18 talked to me in a whisper on the way up to our rooms. We passed by Bulma and her father's room and we couldn't take our eyes off of it. Bulma never wants to be with us anymore but for some reason I just couldn't forget about her. The look on her face that day was so sad it hit me hard too.
"Forget it Chichi she's never coming back out. She'll never be the same. I'm okay with it, we have each other don't we," 18 said.
"I know it's just that I miss her a lot. We were really close."
"I know."
It's twelve o' clock and we get an hour to be outside on the porch. This is because we were not allowed to wander the woods anymore since 18 and Krillin were out there together. Porch time was a solution 18's aunt and mother came to because her mother thought keeping us inside all the time was too harsh of a punishment. So everyday around noon we are aloud to sit on the porch like dogs in the sun for an hour with 18's aunt watching in the window.
I lie across the swinging bench attached to the house, Bulma is sitting next to the gate of the porch and 18 is sitting next to the bench. The boys decided to stay in the house today because they had work to do with the older guys. 18 was a little stressed out because her mother was sick and no one knew what was wrong with her. 18's aunt refused to take her mother to the hospital because town was a day away and that was too far for a sick woman to travel.
"Stupid Bitch. Why can't she just take her," 18 mumbled.
"Usually the girls don't go to town you know," I said.
"Oh and that matters. She's dying Chichi and all you can say is, ' the girls don't usually go'. Well maybe they should make the damn trip for a dying woman. Is that not a sensible thing to do?"
I nodded, " I know. I know."
"You know but you're not helping."
"What am I suppose to do?"
"I don't know, but you know what I'm really getting sick of this rag doll in the corner," 18 got up and moved over to Bulma and talked in a soft voice to her, "Is someone waiting for Daddy to come get her."
"Cut it out 18," I said.
"Maybe you should tell someone that he's fucking you. Start talking you Bitch. Tell someone," 18 yelled.
"Stop it!"
The door opened and 18's aunt peeped out of the door," what's going on?"
18 backed away from Bulma and kept her eyes on the ground. I shook my head but she didn't' seem to buy it. I waited for 18 to regain her composure and say something to make her go away but it wasn't happening.
"Get in the house now, all of you," her aunt said.
We got up and went back into the house. The argument that had just go on seemed almost unreal. What did happen exactly?
That night I came back to Goku's little room to talk to him. He was happy to see me as always and he let me in right away. I told him about what had happened that day and he listened like he always did.
"Is he really doing stuff to her," he asked.
"I don't know. I think so but if he was why would she only want to be around him. That doesn't make much sense to me."
"I know what you mean. Maybe he's making her stay with him?"
"Maybe but you'd think she would want to tell someone. Oh I'm so confused."
"Let's not talk about it anymore."
I nodded, "Okay when do you have to go to town next?"
"Pretty soon I think. Your dad really doesn't like me I think he knows that I've been seeing you."
"Why do you say that?"
"He really wants me away from the house or at least that's what he said. He told me that I was no good and they should just sell me at the market."
"They can't do that."
"That's good I don't want to be sold anyway."
"That's good."
"Well I'm tired. Goodnight Chichi."
"Goodnight Goku," I leaned over to him and kissed him again. It was shorter than the first time but I still wasn't able to break away easy. I went up to my room still feeling empty.
