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When Chimerra awakened after fainting, she was not happy with Goku and she was not afraid to show it.

"YOU COST ME MY JOB!" She screeched as she pounded her fists on his chest.

"I said I was sorry." Goku replied as he watched the tiny young women waste a lot of energy in her futile attempt to do him some damage. It was a little awkward but it didn't hurt him at all. He just let her do what she needed to do to let it all out.

"That was my favorite café! I loved that job! Now how am I supposed to make money for college?"

"Gee, you haven't saved up enough yet?" From what Goku had heard she had been working there for two years. He had never step foot on a college campus before so he had no idea what they were like or how expensive they were but they must serve great food for it to cost that much money.

"No I haven't saved up enough yet! What am I going to do?" Goku could see that she was about to cry. This was his fault; he really wanted to help her out.

"Here." He held out the paycheck that the manager gave him on his way out for his 20 minutes of work. "You can have it."

She looked at the man. He really did seem sorry and it was genuinely sweet to give her the only $4 he ever made. She was starting to calm down. "Okay, okay. You're right. I have saved up quite a bit, and I can find more work, not to mention that big scholarship I've been waiting for…. I suppose this isn't a total disaster."

"See there you go." He encouraged. She was past the point of crying and screaming but he could tell she still needed a little cheering up. "Hey maybe you'd like to come over to my granddaughter Pan's house for lunch. She's a really good cook!"

This man had a granddaughter. That little bit of weirdness reminded her of another little bit of weirdness that just happened. "How did you do that thing with the pig?"

Goku was going to fly them both over to Pan's house but then he remembered that doing so would freak her out some more. His wife always got nervous flying. Chimerra as a first time flyer would definitely faint again. So they began to walk to the bus stop.

"I'll tell you everything."

For the next week Goku was in heaven. Well he was on earth but it felt like heaven. Chimera was more willing to hang out with him. She insisted that they were just friends but to him it all felt like old times. They often hung around Pan's house. Chimerra didn't think there could ever be a sassier old woman than her mother but boy did Pan prove her wrong.

Pan and Chi would cook big meals for Goku and Goku Jr. while they watched them train in the back yard. Goku would always go so easy on GJ, Pan would berate her grandson for not working hard enough to keep up with Goku, Chimerra stood back and watched in amazement at the moves they could pull off, and GJ was always too out of breath to say anything. It may not have been exactly like before but Goku was having just as much fun as he used to. He was with family again.

After diner Goku would tell them all stories of the old days, Of the dragons, of space, of fighting, all of his adventures. Pan knew some of the stories well because she was there for some of them but others were before even she was born. He would go on and on until these dinnertime stories would turn to bedtime stories. Chimerra was still a bit skeptical of it all, mostly because it was all just too incredible to be true but after all the things she had seen him do she was slowly starting to believe.

There was a little problem with that. It was giving Ophelia a bad feeling, and it only increased as her girlfriend kept right on talking, and talking, and talking. It was clear that she adored this new family that she had become friends with. But it was getting to the point where she sounded like a soccer mom blathering on about her kids and honestly it was getting annoying.

"So as me and Pan were setting up the picnic, the boys were just up in the air, oh did I tell you that GJ. Is learning how to fly?"

"About a thousand times." Ophelia replied dully, wondering why her girlfriend was now into spouting fairytales.

"And they were fighting so hard, they needed to take off their shirts because of all the sweat. Well it was a hot summer day after all, and their muscles shined in the light of the sun-"

"Okay I need to stop you there!" The blond interjected the last thing she needed was the image of two sweaty guys running around on a hot summer day and honestly the look on Chimerra's face while she described it was a little unsettling for her.

"What's wrong, honey?" Chi asked. They were supposed to be having fun on a date, yet she could pick up on her partner's uncomfortable feelings.

Ophelia sighed. "Sweetie. I need to ask you something that I've been afraid to ask you for a long time because I've been afraid of the answer… Are you sure you're gay?"

Chimerra was completely thrown back in shock by the question. "Where is this coming from?"

"You've been hanging around that guy for a while now."

"What? Don't tell me you're jealous! Ophelia, sweetie don't be ridiculous! I love you!" She placed her hand on top of her partner's hand affectionately, but it did nothing to sooth her doubt.

"I know you do. You love my mind, my heart, my soul, but what about my body? Even if you fall in love with someone who's your own sex you're not truly gay unless you have some attraction for their body. Now I know you want to wait until you're married before you do anything like that, but you never kiss me really hard, you never seem to look at me with lust when we're alone, in fact besides holding hands we never doing anything like a couple unless I'm the one who initiates it. It makes me feel weird."

Chimerra never knew her partner felt that way. She felt awful for making the woman that she loved so much doubt their relationship. "Honey, I swear to you I think you are the most sexy, beautiful, attractive woman I have ever seen, and I love every part of you." She assured. Then she bent over and gave her the sweetest kiss she could give her.

It made Ophelia smile to hear that, but while most of her doubts were gone, there were still some that lingered. "Good because you do know, whether you are gay or not isn't something you can choose, right?"

"Yes."

"And if you try to fake it you'll never know what real satisfaction is."

"I know! Now give me another kiss!" They kissed again before they proceeded to order something to eat for their date.

As Chimerra turned the corner to her apartment building she was surprised to see Goku standing there in front of it. "Oh hey Goku! What are you doing here?"

I just got here. I was wondering if you could make me something to eat. I'm starving." He put a hand to his growling stomach.

"Tee hee! Why does that not surprise me." She said now used to his inhuman appetite.

"Oh and a minute ago the mail truck pulled by your-"

Chimerra was by the apartment mailboxes in a second. This had to be the day. The wait was killing her! She grabbed all the letters inside and flipped though them, keeping an eye out for one address in particular. Bill, Bill, wait! Yes! Here it was! Her scholarship letter! It had finally come!

"Oh my gosh! This is it!" She jumped up and down excitedly in front of Goku, confusing the man.

She stared at the letter in her hand like it was precious treasure. "This is my future. The contents of this letter will let me know whether of not I can afford college… Oh I don't think I can open it."

She shoved the letter into Goku's hands. "You open it! Read it aloud to me!"

Goku had heard her mention before about this scholarship letter but from the way she had spoken about it and the way she was acting now, he was expecting something more. This looked just like a plain old letter to him. Still if she saw it as a big deal and it made her happy he would be glad to grant her strange request of reading this letter, although he didn't understand why she couldn't read it herself, didn't she know he was not good at reading?

"Okay." He opened the envelope and looked over the paper inside. "Um…"

"Give me that!" She snatched the paper from his hands and brought it close to her face to read it herself.

So now she could read it? Once again Goku did not understand her.

As Chimerra's eyes traveled the page her face went from excited, to confusion, then to hopelessly crestfallen. Her eyes went wide as she gazed up and lost her grip on the paper on her hand, letting drop to the ground. "…I didn't get it…. My final shot at getting money for college and I…"

"Chi?" Goku put a hand on her shoulder. He still didn't quite understand the true gravity of the situation. That her dream university that she wanted and worked so hard to be accepted to was now out of reach all because of her lack of funds. He didn't understand how this put a damper on her career, on her whole future. He didn't understand how a simple letter that she was so excited about only a moment ago was now the cause of so much sadness, but he did understand one thing. From the look on her face she was depressed and hurting and he wanted to do something to fix all this.

At the feel of his warm, strong, and on her shoulder the poor young woman just broke down into tears. She embraced him as hard as she could and buried her head in his broad chest, soaking his shirt with her tears. Goku just wrapped one hand around her and used the other to rub comforting circles on back as a method of calming her down.

If they hadn't been so preoccupied at that moment they might have noticed Ophelia come around the corner. Chimerra had accidently forgotten her cell phone on their date and she wanted to return it to her, but at that moment she saw the one sight that she was dreading for almost two weeks. Her girlfriend was being hugged so tightly, so affectionately by someone else. She didn't know what it was about but it was clear that she was enjoying the feel of this man from how hard she squeezed back.

Ophelia decided not to disturb the moment they were sharing so she just decided to walk the other way before they noticed her. She would give her girlfriend back her cell phone the next time she saw her, along with a piece of her mind.