Chapter 4

Chichi's POV

Early Sunday morning 18's aunt was holding her own private church ceremony. The only people at this ceremony is 18, Bulma, and myself. The boys and the other adults are still sleeping peacefully which is how 18's aunt got a hold of Bulma.

So she standing in front of us by the wood stove in the living room preaching about god knows what. All I can say is it took so long that I almost fell asleep about three times. In order to keep myself awake I looked at the other two to see what they were doing. 18 was rolling her eyes every time her aunt said God. This was her reaction to everything she didn't like or understand.

My eyes turned to Bulma after rolling at 18. She was sitting there hanging her head as if 18's aunt was yelling at her. I thought I saw tears fall from her eyes but I cannot be sure. It was at that point I realized what 18's aunt was preaching about. Innocence and sexuality pretty much. It was your basic "don't do this speech" that she does daily anyway so I don't know why she had to read from the bible to do it today.

I around the room to see if I could occupy myself with anything interesting but the house was mostly blank. It was as clean as a new house but darker than an old haunted one. Obviously no one had cared to decorate the house and this gave in a symbolic touch. What I mean is no one cared to take care of anything else and even though it was a new family in the house they had old problems so it was hard to tell if they were truly new or not.

I'm not so sure if that thought really made any sense but at the time I was trying to keep myself occupied like I said. It didn't really matter what I thought about as long as it wasn't God, 18's aunt, or Bulma. She was so sad and depressing that I couldn't bear to think about her. It's not that I didn't care I just didn't want her pain on me.

Later that day we were back on the porch talking about our little church ceremony. 18 told the guys it was stupid that they didn't have to go but Krillin just laughed and said they were just lucky that 18's aunt didn't care about him.

"Lucky, sure," 18 mumbled.

"It wasn't that bad if you blocked it out. You just have to ignore wasting an hour or two," I said.

18 scoffed, "Sorry that's too much of my life taken up by a worthless person like her. God you don't know how much I hate her."

"She is your aunt."

"She's a bitch. Haven't you noticed that she hates all of us? Or have you forgotten where we are. It's not her fault she's here, it's some how ours and she's not going to let that go."

"She has issues then."

"Fuck her issues that's no excuse. There is no excuse for her. None at all. Come on Chichi open your damn eyes and see what she is doing. She's not good, she's not nice. Stop sugar coating everything."

"I am not."

"You are too optimistic."

"How am I optimistic?"

18 rolled her eyes at me, "Figure it out for your self."

"So I guess that means you don't know, right," I said crossing my arms.

18 looked around trying to ignore me. She saw Bulma sitting in the corner and attacked her," And you! I don't even know where to start with you. What are we going to do with poor Bulma? The poor little mute who fucks her father and likes it. What are we going to do?"

"That's enough," I yelled, "Your aunt will hear you now stop."

"Let her hear me. Let her kill me or whatever she wants because it's going to happen anyway. We're all going to die here. What are we going to do with ourselves."

18 sat down in a chair and pulled her knees to her chest. She was making herself upset and everyone else was feeling the same. I didn't know what to say to make her feel better so I figured I better just leave her alone.

"You're right 18," I looked up to see Goku talking, "This is wrong. It's wrong what they are doing to us, keeping us here like we committed a crime. We were kids when we got here and not much has changed since then we are just older."

"Your words are doing nothing," 18 whispered, "Your words get us nowhere. We are still here."

"That's true but maybe we can change that."

"What do you mean, leave," I asked.

"Oh good plan. How are we to do that? We have this dead weight to worry about," 18 pointed to Bulma in the corner.

"She is not deadweight. She's still alive and she can still hear you," I yelled.

"Face it Chichi she is never coming back. Might as well be dead but I guess that would make daddy strange person."

"Stop that!"

"Just stop 18 and listen to me," Goku yelled.

18 sat her self back down on the chair, which she had gotten off of out of excitement in the argument. I went over to Bulma and put my arms around her comforting her from whatever may have hurt her.

Goku continued, "In the next few months some time the guys are going to town again. Sometimes they don't let me go with but I've been with once so I know my way around. When they leave we need to leave the next day. They will be in town by that time and will not run into us. This way the girls can't follow us as easy because the guys have the horses.

"Now with that said, there are two ways to get to town but they will take a couple days on foot. One is a little longer than the other. Okay, the first path is the obvious road that leads pretty much straight into town. It would be best for me to take that way because I can run faster than you guys and I can get away quick if they catch up to me. I will also take Bulma and Chichi with me but I will be carrying them.

"The second path is not as simple but can be used to benefit us. It is through the woods East of the house. I've followed this path before but none of them have been through this way so I suggest you look at it a little or I will map it out for you the best I can. Anyway this path is good for 18 and Krillin because you can run fast but if you for some reason get delayed then you can hide in the woods. So use the land the best you can. Is that clear?"

Krillin nodded, "I guess we just have to be certain about the time."

"Well it won't be before two months are up. Just try to be ready for anything okay?"

"Are you really going to bother with Bulma," 18 groaned.

"Of course, in fact she's probably top priority in getting out at this time."

Although 18 didn't seem to like it, it was settled that we would run. Everyone said they would save money little by little so no one would know we were taking it. We were to meet in town at the Inn next to the train station and once everyone was there we were to depart on that train. It was exciting, it was frightening, but it was something we had to do.

I followed Goku back to his room after everyone had gone to bed. He talked to me a little about the plan and I asked him if he was sure it would work. Goku said it all depended on us.

"I hope it does. I really don't want to see Bulma like this. Maybe she'll come back once we get her out of this place," I whispered.

Goku nodded. We stood there in silence and he just looked at me. I tried to avoid his eyes but I could hardly look away for a minute without glancing back up. After a minute I laughed, "What?"

"I really want to get you out of here Chichi. You shouldn't be here."

"Well I am here."

"I know."

I stood on my toes and he kneeled down to me and kissed me. Honestly I don't remember getting back to my own room. All I know is I was thankful I woke up there before anyone woke up. Well…the next month I got sick, I guess this messes with our plans.

A/n Sorry this took so long