Chapter XII

"Would you just tell me what the hell is going on with you," 18 snapped at me. It was about five-thirty in the morning and we had stayed up all night talking and mostly arguing about what was wrong with me.

"I've told you already there is nothing wrong," I glared at her for the last time.

18 got up off the floor and sighed looking at something on her dresser, "Videl, I'm no fortune teller but I think I know what your future will be."

"What does that have to do with anything? We were talking about why I brought up your daughter I really don't have much to do with it do I?"

"Maybe you think that you are my daughter," she shrugged, "but let me-"

"I don't think that stop making things up I saw her 18. She looks just like you there is no way it could be anyone else."

"Let me guess, she had Blonde hair and blue eyes."

"Yes."

"There are plenty of people like that around that does not make her my daughter. I don't know what happened to my daughter."

"Well Madame must have hid her from you. She raised her herself I guess maybe she wanted a girl to take over for her."

"Shut up Videl. My daughter is gone okay. It was a mistake to have her, it should have never happened I didn't have her with any customer and I'm sure that's what made Madame upset. He died and she is probably dead to."

"But ChiChi had Gohan with someone who didn't pay either, that doesn't seem like it has anything to do with it. She must have seen this as an opportunity to get someone to call her own. She has us but she needed someone to raise like a daughter."

"She couldn't have known that it would be a girl to plan all that out."

"She wouldn't have had to plan it out, it couldn't have been hard to make you think that she was gone."

"Okay Videl that's enough," She turned to face me, "Now I was saying-"

"Maybe you should just go and see for yourself."

"No. Anyway I really think that you are going to be like Bulma. That girl thought that Vegeta was everything and you seem to think that Gohan is something special. Well look what it got her Videl, she got dragged out of here and she can't even see her own child because it shuts his wife up to call him hers so Vegeta lets it go."

"I'm not going to be like that 18."

"Or you will end up like ChiChi. Think that what you want is more important than your job here. What a stupid move she made, she should've left this place."

"I would leave, I will leave."

"When? When you get pregnant? Do you think that Gohan will be here much longer?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"He'll leave I can't imagine that he would stay with his mother here if they break up. Plus if ChiChi finds out that Madame is trying to get her girl with her husband she's going to want to leave and they aren't going to take you."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore."

"But you'll bring up painful things for me to talk about, maybe you should just get out of here."

I looked at her and sighed, "Good idea, you need to sleep. But think about going to see her."

"I already have and I think I'll stay here, there's nothing to see."

Down the hall I could hear Goku pleading to ChiChi through the door in a small voice. My heart sank because of the silence he got in reply. Everything seemed to be going wrong but if I could only have gotten 18 to see Marron maybe something could have changed. I went back to my bedroom thinking of all these things that I could nothing about with false hope and I fell asleep.

Noon came around and I heard pounding on my door. My body threw itself up and I looked around thinking something might be different but I was wrong. I looked at the door and yelled, "Who is it?'

"It's me," Gohan said, "I've been here for awhile."

"Why didn't you just come in," I asked getting out of bed.

"I don't know I don't really feel right just coming in your room," He got quieter when I opened the door and I smiled at him.

" I was just sleeping." He just looked at me for a while and I smiled again, "and I had clothes on so it would have been fine."

"I guess."

"So what did you want then?"

"Uh….something came today. I mean the girls got something today but it was really for my mom but um they haven't given it to her yet so I don't know what it is."

"Let's go see?"

"Yeah," he stepped back and let me through and we walked down the hall to the crowd of girls in the entrance.

I stared ahead and stood on my toes to try and see what the girls were crowded around but I couldn't see anything no matter how hard I tried. ChiChi came pushing through the crowd not caring who she hurt and surprisingly Goku was right on her heels like a good dog.

"What is it," ChiChi said to 18.

"It's from Bulma," Madame interrupted.

ChiChi glared at her, "Well what is it?"

The mob of people cleared away to make a path to ChiChi. One girl stepped out and walked down to her with a baby in her hands. The closer she got the more upset ChiChi became and as she handed her the baby girl ChiChi began to cry. Gohan looked at the floor when I looked at him. I didn't really know what was so upsetting about the baby but everyone seemed to think that they should leave and they left us alone.

"There was a note with it," Madame said walking to ChiChi, "It says: I will give my child to you because you are my best friend, my sister, and I don't think that I can stand to have anything else taken from me. I have nothing left but what I do have I will give to you. This is Bra please take care of her because I cannot."

ChiChi cried and Goku held her. I didn't want to end up like Bulma or ChiChi but there is no way that Gohan would treat me the way Vegeta treats Bulma. But I looked at him staring at the floor and something in mind told me 'maybe people change'. I shook the thought away and I led Gohan back through the hallway to my room.