-- 4 The gym halls.--

Chichi woke up to the sound of her, useful, but annoying alarm. She sighed, it was Friday today, and that meant, gymnastics. She was very good in it, that was a fact, her father was an ex martial artist, and she learned a lot of him, but still, gymnastics never had been her favourite subject.

Chichi snapped out of her thoughts about the gym lessons and got out of bed. She walked up to the windows and opened the curtains. The sun was rising and by doing so, it spread a beautiful red glow in the gold looking sky. Chichi sighed at the sight of it, if she only had a boyfriend, this would have been so romantic. She looked down, at the grass, the dawn was still on it and it glittered beautifully.

Suddenly, Chichi snapped into the reality again by hearing the phone ringing. Chichi walked away from the window, and ran towards the phone. "Hello, you're speaking with Chichi Maou." Chichi said when she took up the phone.

"Well hi there Chichi!" A cheery voice sounded from the other side of the line.

"Bulma? How late do you wake up to call this early?" Chichi asked, her voice was still sounding sleepy.

"A quarter before you wake up, but I just got called by someone, we've got the first period free today." Bulma said, the excitement was overwhelming in her voice.

"Well okay… Wait, how come you call me then to tell me this?" Chichi asked, "You're not in the same class as mine."

"Yes, but we are now." Bulma said, almost squealed.

"O… Kay… Don't you think you're overreacting a little bit?" Chichi said, in her voice there was a trace of astonishment.

"Yeah, I know, but I'm your only friend, and you're my only friend, so, I thought, if we are in the same class we could spend more time together." Bulma said, there was a little bit sadness and loneliness in her voice. Chichi heard it and recognised the feeling, it was the same feeling as she had when everyone put her down and left her to die.

:Flashback:

"Somebody, please help me!" Chichi screamed, she was being beaten up by the same gang that always tortured her.

Many persons saw it, but nobody dared to do something, they were al too careful of their reputation.

"And this one, is for the slap you dared to give me yesterday!" The leader yelled, he thrush with his fist into Chichi's stomach. Chichi screamed out of pain and fell on the ground. Tears started to burn in her in her eyes, the pain was to much, the world became hazy. She saw how someone give a slam into the leaders face, and afterwards took his friends on and won easily. Chichi stared at the person, but her vision was to hazy to see him. She felt he picked her up bridal style and took her with him. Chichi fainted in his arms, and when she came too, she was in the teachers room, and the knight in shining armour was already gone. That person saved her life, while the others left her to die.

:End Flashback:

Chichi sniffed sadly when she thought back about that time, she had been so lonely, and now, after 7 years, her heard started to heal, and then, it had been shattered again, by the cheerleader Miranda. "Hey Chi, what's wrong?" Bulma asked, there was concern in her voice now.

Chichi sniffed another time, "Nothing, Bulma, can you come over to my place, I have to tell you something." She said, she had to tell Bulma about her childhood.

A few hours after that, Bulma came in, Chichi told Bulma the story about her childhood, sometimes Chichi had to take a break because she was full of sad- and loneliness and she was crying. Afterwards, Bulma was in a state of shock.

"So, that's why you're so serious about the thing with Miranda, she summoned the memories again." She said, Chichi nodded and stared at the table with teary eyes. She looked up at Bulma, the sparkle that always had been in her eyes was gone, and they were full of concern and compassion.

Bulma felt sorry for Chichi, she didn't deserve that, nobody would ever have, not even Miranda. But why did it have to happen again to Chichi? Why did it ever start? 'well, the why did it ever start isn't a good question, because there has never been a reason for starting bullying, especially this kind of bullying.' Bulma thought determined, she was sure of it, this couldn't go on like this any longer.

"Bulma?" Chichi asked with a little voice. Bulma snapped out of her thoughts, "Yes Chi?" she asked.

Chichi pointed at the clock, "We're going to be late." She said.

Bulma looked at it, it said it was half past 8, they had to be at school at 20 to 9.

"Come on class, 20 push-ups to warm the muscles!" The gymnastics teacher said.

Chichi rolled her eyes, 20? Was that all? Come on she could do 50 without any problems. But Chichi did as the teacher said, and started at her 20 push-ups. When the slowest of the class was finally done, she had already done 30 push-ups and was bored lying on the ground. 'Oh come on, it wasn't that hard.' She thought when she saw everybody was exhausted. She rose an eyebrow and stood up.

"Okay, now your arm muscles have warmed up, you can run the hall around 3 times." The teacher said.

Chichi could almost sleep while running the hall around, this was so freaking easy, It should be forbidden. If there was something she was good at, it had to be sport. How ever she was tortured a lot in her childhood, she had been a fighter for a while, just like her father. But then she had to go to school and she had to stop. However she wanted to train to be nurse, the pressure to fight again was still strong. It made her feel strong, free, it had been her passion, and for some reason, she had the feeling to once see her knight in shining armour if she would fight.

'That are such pathetic thoughts, meeting my knight in shining armour if I keep fighting… Yeah right!' Chichi thought, how could she be so stupid.

"Chichi!" The teacher yelled suddenly.

Chichi snapped out of her thoughts, "Yes sir?" She asked.

"You can stop now, you've already walked 25 rounds." The teacher said.

The class laughed, Chichi got all embarrassed and got red. She sat down quickly next to Bulma, and listen to what the teacher had to say.

Chichi was standing under the shower, washing al the sweat of herself, when the thought about fighting came up in her mind again. 'Why doesn't this thought leave me alone? I've closed this chapter down a long time ago.' Chichi thought, getting a little bit annoyed of the thought, which came back over and over again.

Chichi turned of the shower and walked into the dressing room to get her clothes. While pulling over her T-shirt, she noticed that everybody was watching her. She pulled over her T-shirt, looked around and shoot a glare at everyone, "What!" She asked angrily.

Everybody snapped out of staring and continued getting dressed again.

Chichi shrugged, rolled her eyes and continued getting dressed again. When she was dressed, she walked out of the room and saw her classmates walking away, "Hey! Wait for me!" She yelled.

Her classmates al looked around and one of them said, "Get lost! Loser!"

Chichi felt her heart break. How could anyone be so mean. She looked at the ground and a few tears started to burn in her eyes.

Her classmates turned their back to her, and walked away.

Chichi sighed sadly, well then, she had to wait until Bulma was ready. She looked around, and she saw that one of the gym halls was still open. She looked around, before walking up to it. Pulled the door open a little bit more, and she couldn't believe what she saw…

She almost started to drool when she saw a very handsome looking boy from about her age playing basketball with the rest of his friends. He was so handsome, Chichi didn't notice her mouth was open.

Such beautiful raven black hair that stuck out in every direction, that handsome face with a playful smile on it, that huge muscles… Chichi almost lost breath, She felt how her heart got stolen by him. She felt like she had died and arrived at heaven. Her heart healed and it was beating like a drum.

"Chichi? What are you doing there?" Bulma's voice asked from behind.

"Huh? What?" Chichi asked dreamy, she just couldn't keep her eyes off that guy.

"Hello! Earth to Chichi! Do you caught me, over!" It had no use, Chichi was in heaven with her head and couldn't be pulled on the ground again. Bulma sighed, and followed Chichi's look inside. Bulma's heart jolted too, "Wow, what a hunk…" She said breathlessly.

Chichi snapped out of thoughts, "Hey, stay away from my future husband!" Chichi sneered.

"Your future husband? He's mine I tell you!" Bulma sneered back.

"Oh yeah, well let's make a bet, who gets him wins." Chichi pointed at the guy she lost her heart to.

"Wait… You're in love with that guy? You can have him, I was talking about that hunk." Bulma pointed at a guy with also raven black hair, which stood right up, and an annoyed looking face, but still handsome. "Eww, well I can't see what you're seeing in that guy, you can have him." Chichi said.

Bulma looked again, "Oh my god, they're coming this way, we have to get out of here."

Chichi agreed and she and Bulma quickly ran out of the gym halls.

Chichi hummed a happy song when she came in. Her mother was surprised seeing her daughter so happy, she never saw it before. "Chichi?"

Chichi didn't answer, she sat down on a chair and stared dreamy out of the window. Her mom sat down next to her, "Honey, what's wrong?"

Chichi snapped out of her dreams, "Nothing mom, I just met my knight in shining armour that's al."

"Okay, who is it?" Chichi's mom asked, curiosity was overwhelming in her voice.

Chichi sighed, "Actually, I don't know his name… I was in the gym halls, and one door was still open, I just couldn't help it, I had to look what was there… When I looked inside, I saw 'him' playing basketball with his friends." She said.

Her mother looked interested, her daughter finally found someone to love, "Isn't he like the others?"

Chichi got a dreamy red blush on her cheeks, "No, I could see it when I saw him, he's too cute to be one of them." She said.

Her mother shrugged, "If you say so."

"Hey Chichi, I know who our lovers are." Bulma said from the other side of the line.

Chichi almost dropped the telephone when she heard it, "Oh yeah? Who are they then?"

Bulma sighed, "The one your in love with is Goku San. I have a yearbook here, and he's standing in the republic 'most popular pupils of the year'." Bulma said.

It felt like the balloon that was growing wider in Chichi, suddenly had exploded. Chichi looked at the ground, "Well that's just great, I fell in love with the most popular guy in the school, I'll never have a chance on him." She said with sadness in her voice.

Bulma sighed, she felt sorry for Chichi, if she Wasn't the school's reject, she might have a chance, but Chichi was the school's reject, so, her chances were about 1.

"I'm sorry Chi, but it seems your chance on him is 1." Bulma said, "I'm so sorry."

It felt like Chichi's heart had been tugged out of her body, and sadness and darkness had filled up the empty space. Tears burn in her eyes, she stood up from her bed and sat down on the chair which was standing in front of her desk. "I'll call you back later…" She said with a little voice and pressed on the off button of her telephone.

Chichi tried to fight against her tears, but she lost and tears started to run over her face. She pulled up her knees and let her head rest on them. The tears ran over her legs till they reached the chair. Suddenly, a poem came up in her mind:

EQUALLY NOTICED AS A SHADOW,

THOUGH UNFORTUNATELY HIT BY CUPIDS' ARROW

CHANGING EVERY TIME YOU PAS BY,

YET NEVER SEEN BY YOUR EYE.

MY HEART IS IMAGING

OUR BODIES INTWINING

THE PASSION BURNING

A WILD, UNCONTROLLED YEARNING

SUDDENLY REALITY RETURNS

SO COLD THAT IT ALMOST BURNS

YOU'LL WALK RIGHT THROUGH ME,

FOR THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN SEE…

Chichi stood up and walked over to her bed, she let herself fall on it and got under the blankets. She closed her eyes and it didn't take long before exhaustion from the tears claimed her…

Thank you Nalurah for writing this beautiful poem for me, Arigato. And now I've discovered another way to make, drama, stories more detailed. I discovered that when I'm listening to the number Kiroro from Mirai (female Japanese singer) I'm in the mood to make Drama stories more detailed, so arigato Mirai!