Goten's Bad Day

4:47pm

Goten and Trunks walked around the mall, school had passed rather uneventfully as usual. They rarely came here, but Goten needed to pick something up for his dad's birthday in a couple weeks.

"Dude, how come you're not at Cassy's, making out or whatever it is you two do after school?" Trunks asked Goten.

"Huh? Oh, she said she was busy today."

"Hm weird, she seems to be busy a lot lately doesn't she?" Trunks said suspiciously.

"Yeah, I guess."

Goten was mulling over what Trunks had said as they continued to walk around. His thought process was interrupted by a loud beeping coming from Trunk's wrist.

"Oh damn, hey Goten sorry to ditch you, but I better get home or my dad is going to have my ass for slacking off. I'm going out with Erin tonight but you should come over tomorrow."

"yeah sure, I'll see you later Trunks" Goten said nodding to Trunks who promptly proceeded to run the direction they came from, toward the exit.

Goten got a drink from one of the numerous stands in the mall and continued to walk around, just thinking and looking for something to get his dad. He yawned, closing his eyes as he did so. While his eyes were closed, he could have sworn he heard Cassy."Hmm weird..." he said. He closed his eyes again and strained his ears, trying to see if he could hear her voice again. "there!" he thought, shes in the food court which was on the other side of the mall. He definitely heard her. "She must be here with her friends, I'll go say hi" he said to himself. Goten walked briskly towards where Cassy was, occasionally sipping from his drink. He headed towards the food court, which was nearly deserted at this time in the afternoon. When he arrived he was greeted by a sight that turned his stomach. He dropped his drink. There was Cassy, his gf kissing another guy. Right there in public. His right eye twitched a little. He walked past them and took a seat on the opposite side of the table they were sitting at, and said "So this is what you've been busy with huh Cassy?". He recognized the other guy, his name was Ryan and he went to school with them.

She looked at him, shocked and immediately pulled away from kissing Ryan. "Oh.. god, Goten!"

"Why do you look so shocked?" he asked leaning in a little closer to them. "You couldn't have been too concerned about being caught. This is hardly a private place."

"Goten.. can we please talk about this later??" she begged.

"mmm no, no we're going to talk about this now."

"She said she didn't want to talk about it Goten." Ryan said.

"You" Goten said pointing at him. "You shut your mouth. I think you should leave so we can talk."

"I'm not going anywhere." Ryan replied sternly.

"I'm going to have to insist. This is between me and her"

"Goten please."

Ryan stood up. "Are you going to make me Goten?"

Goten likewise stood up. "Man, do NOT push me right now." Goten was desperately trying to restrain himself. He closed one of his fists tightly. Ryan took another step towards Goten.

"Ryan don't..."

"Don't what? Do this?" Ryan said coyly before taking a swing at Goten. Goten grabbed Ryan's arm and pulled it behind Ryan's back. Goten stepped to Ryan's left side, then used his other hand to drive Ryan's face into the table. Ryan was totally helpless, he couldn't possibly hit Goten with his other arm, and Goten had his leg braced against Ryan's leg, restraining him from moving. Goten's grip was vice like.

Cassy let out a scream during the scuffle. "Oh god goten don't hurt him!"

"You saw it, he tried to sucker punch me. You got yourself a real class act here"

Ryan was wriggling beneath Goten's hands. "Cassy, I want the truth, what the hell were you thinking? Why would you do this to me I thought we had something?"

"Oh Goten I don't know.. I don't know what I've been thinking lately... I'm so sorry... I swear it only happened a few times.. I was.. it was... was a huge mistake.. I do like you Goten. It's just.. hard being your girlfriend."

"How do you mean?"

"You're just.. always so secretive with your home life.. like you don't trust me with things."

"Heh so you think I'm keeping secrets from you? And you don't like it but then you do this? I can't believe you Cassy. I was really starting to like you."

Ryan finally said something. "Heh Goten, this has been going on for weeks, you must have been the only one who didn't know."

"What!!" Goten said pulling Ryans head a bit of the table. Goten looked at Cassy. He felt sick to his stomach.. "Cassy.. tell me this isn't true, tell me you haven't been fucking around on me for weeks"

Cassy didn't say anything. Goten slammed Ryans head into the table, causing a bit of blood to spill out of Ryan's mouth. "You two are fucking unbelievable, you deserve each other." Goten pushed Ryan across the table and he spilt onto the ground on the other side. Goten began walking away. Cassy ran after him, she pulled his arm. "Goten..". He pulled his arm out of her hand, turning to face her.

"What do you want.. I think you've done quite enough already."

"Goten I really am sorry, he was just.. there"

"Well you can keep him."

"I don't want him."

"Well you obviously don't want me either. Bye Cassy." He said definitively, turning around then storming off. As soon as he was outside the mall, he rocketed into the air, not caring if anyone saw. He wanted to get as far away as he could.

7:59pm

Goten was sitting on a branch near the top of a large tree that overlooked the ocean. The setting sun certainly made the scene beautiful, it was relaxing, but he couldn't get what had happened earlier out of his mind. He needed to talk to someone, but who? Trunks was with Erin, Gohan would be busy with work, then Pan; she was a handful. His dad? No, Goku wouldn't really have anything to contribute to matters like this.

"What about Bra?" he thought. "She was a girl, she was smart and level headed. But was it okay to go to her with this?" He took a deep breath of the crisp ocean side air, then took off from the tree branch. He'd make up his mind on the way back home.