Chapter 5

Keeping Secrets

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Bulla went to wash her face, Pan and Marron called their parents and told them not to expect them home that night, when asked why they simply told them that they couldn't say and they would see them tomorrow. Both knew that their parents would be pissed but they didn't care, their friend's safety and well-being was more important right now. Bulla walked in, her face still looked depressed and sad. "Hey I know what will brighten your mood, kicking our butts in Mortal Combat" Pan grabbed Bulla's hand and dragged her over to the bed and threw her a controller. Marron wasn't crazy about fighting games so she just watched. Slowly Bulla's mood brightened and she was no longer sad, her face had a wide smile and her eyes no longer showed pain, they showed happiness and joy, Marron knew it wasn't such an easy fix like that but she knew that if Bulla could smile and laugh then they could save her. If they could make her smile and happy then she wasn't completely depressed. She wanted help, they could see that by not pushing them away, knowing her, she probably didn't want to ask for help for fear of everyone leaving her or yelling at her. "Marron, Marron you still there?" Pan was waving her hands in front of her face, her little thought wondering ended as she snapped back to reality. "You were thinking of a guy weren't you?" "No, why?" "Don't lie to me your eyes had a glassy love look on them, so them us who is it?" "No one really" "Sure, sure whatever you say."

That morning Bulla woke up to the sound of her alarm. She rolled over and shut it off then rolled back over. On her floor was Pan and Marron sleeping soundly. She just about had her eyes shut when all of a sudden she snapped awake, they slept over last night! She jumped out of her bed and woke them up. "Get up come on, hurry please!" "Five more minutes" "No, now, before my mom comes up here" Marron was up first together the two worked in waking up Pan. Finally they managed to get her up. "Okay, so why can't your mom know that we're here?" "Because you know her she hates when anyone sleeps over without her knowing, and it's a school night" "What are we going to do then?" Bulla locked her bedroom door buying them at least two minutes. "Just hide" "Hide? Hide where? Let's just go home it will be easier" "No, time" Bulla turned as she heard her doorknob going back and forth. "Quick in my closet, hurry" She pushed them in and closed the door, then jumped in her bed. Her mom came back and unlocked it. Bulla kept her eyes shut and pretended to be asleep, as Bulma walked in and told her to get up for school, rolling over she hid her face in her pillows. Bulma walked out, leaving the door open and went downstairs. She rushed out of bed and went to the closet, Pan had her eyes closed and was resting under an empty clothes rack. Marron was sitting playing with a piece of string from an old art project. "Okay now you guys can leave" Bulla said helping Marron to her feet, then kicked the heel of Pan's foot. Bulla walked over to her window and pushed it open then pulled up the screen. The two climbed out of it and stayed on the roof. "I'll see you in a little bit" Then closed the window behind them. Now she started getting ready for school, even though the morning started out rough it was going to be a great day she could feel it.

As Bulla walked into homeroom a dread started overcoming her, would Pan and Marron really keep their promise and not say anything? And if they did say something, what would happen next? They were already there and talking to Goten, when she sat down next to them Pan started laughing "Oh my God you're here on time for once it's going to snow" "Hey I told you I could get here on time, when I feel like it" "Plus, how could you not, after all that happened this morning" Pan blurted out, both Marron and Bulla slapped her arms "Ow, come on why did you guys hit me?" "What happened this morning, everything okay?" "Yeah, things kind of got crazy because these two here accidentally slept over and they had to hide before my mom came upstairs" "Oh wow that is nuts because Pan never wakes up" "Hey, that's nice" Pan folded her arms and turned away from them. "I hate you guys" "We know, love you too" The day went well Bulla's secret stayed just that, and she did nothing in any of her classes because it was the last day of school for a week. She was happy that she didn't have to worry about that, she had enough to think about and school didn't need one more thing. She walked home by herself that day and it felt weird that no one was with her; rarely did her friends stay at school after 10th period.

When she arrived home she found at why she was alone, Pan and Marron had packed some clothes and gotten the okay from Bulma to have Bulla sleep over Pan's for the week. She never even had a chance to walk in the door before Pan was dragging her down the street. "Where are we going you guys?" "We are having a girls only weekend only it's not just for the weekend, for one week it will be just the three of us, no parents, no guys" "Does my mom know?" "Yep, well sort of you see we told her you were staying at my place and your not" "We're not?" "Nope we are taking you to a place where only the three of know about" Bulla started to worry, where her friends taking her to some sort of clinic where her little "problem" could be taken care of? A bus pulled up and the three got on, Marron handed the driver the tickets while Pan still had Bulla's bag and pushed her to the back of the bus. "Better get comfy it's about a half hour ride" Pan pulled out her cell phone and called her mom. "Hi mom, I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be jumping from Bulla's house to Marron's all week, we have to work on something for math so just call my cell okay?…okay then talk to you later" Everything was finally done, the week was set all that was left was to show up.

Finally the bus stopped at their destination they didn't have to walk far to get to their temporary house. "We are staying at the boardwalk?!" "Yep, my parents have a summer home here so come on let's start our vacation!" Bulla walked with her friends happier then before, now she knew that they would never tell her secret. Plus, she knew why she was here; the best thing for her was to get away from her family, the source of her pain.

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I'm sorry that this took forever to update and I feel so bad, this chapter sucks. I don't why it is so bad, I'm trying my hardest to recall my memories but without feeling everything every thing all over again it's really hard. I will try my best to make the chapters better, I feel that by writing this others will not feel alone and who knows that might help someone. Sorry I'm rambling again, so please Read and Review.