A/N: I know, this is long overdue.

I didn't make eye contact with him before I excused myself from the room. He had chosen Marron, and I had chosen to leave it at that. Bulla was probably out to kill me now, but I'd explain later. Trunks had never seen me with a girl before, I'm sure that was a shocker all in its own.

I needed to forget him. That was the only thought in my head as I flew off toward my parent's residence on the outskirts of the city, the more country-side if you'd rather call it that. It was cozy, I liked it. But I didn't like it enough to make it a permanent place to live.

I clambered the stairs to my room and threw things of mine into a bag: Clothes, pictures, papers, anything that would fit. Once I finished with that, I scrawled a note that read, "Don't worry about me, I got a call to go out of town about a job I'd been looking at. It's an architect job, you guys will love it. I'll call once I get settled down. –Goten" I left it shut in the door, half hanging out that way someone would see it.

With that over and done, I was gone. I had left the house and was heading off toward the bank in the city to withdraw my savings bond and start over somewhere else. Of course I tried my best to suppress my Ki so that no one could tail me.

My feet stumbled slightly as I headed toward the opening of the building. I rummaged through my bag I had packed and grabbed out one of the miscellaneous items I had stowed away. It was a silver plated wrist chain; Bulma had made it once-upon-a-time when Trunks had started working with Capsule Corp. she made it so that he could work freely without the fear of smashing something in frustration. The little chain suppressed the Ki signature and slightly neutralized our Sayian abilities.

I had withdrawn more than enough to get me by for a few months, but I wanted to be sure. I hailed a cab and told him to just keep driving North, I'd let him know when I was ready to stop. He obliged, warily.

I planned on going to the city Trunks and I had loved as children, it was a beautiful town. It was a sea-side town too, which made it a fantastic place to be. It didn't take long to arrive there; I paid my fare and started walking around town. It was going to be hard finding a place to live considering I didn't know where to find an apartment. I bought a local newspaper from a street vendor and flipped toward the section that had houses for rent or sale. There were several places that caught my eye, but one in particular. It was beside the shore, and sounded perfect, the only downfall being that it was two bedrooms instead of one.

I grabbed another cab to the house and checked it out. It wasn't an ugly place, two story white home. Nothing really special, but it wasn't blandish. Luckily, the woman who was renting it was outside of the home. I approached her, trying my best to appear charismatic, which wasn't hard for me.

Her dark blue eyes scanned me over before she tilted her head some, "You here to look at the house?" She was slightly older, I noticed. Somewhere between Vegeta's age and Bulma's age, but her eyes, they were a deep sea blue that didn't look like they'd aged any at all.

I nodded, "Yes ma'am."

She ushered me inside, "I'm Ms. Fulten," she introduced herself, not bothering to offer a handshake, before she started to show me around. "There are five rooms on the first floor," she began, entering a room that would have served nicely as a living room, "This is where we had the living room set up," she started toward the next room, "This was the dining area, of course you could convert it to another bedroom easily," she only paused briefly for me to look around and then exited the room and walked through the living room, past the stairs and down another hall, "This is the downstairs bedroom," she pushed a door open, a bedroom set was still set up, "We didn't have enough room for the set in our new home so this can stay here if you'd like, there's also a joining full bathroom as well as a walk-in closet." She was off again, moving down the hallway, "This room is another bathroom," she pointed at a door, "and the rest of these are closets," she gestured to the next two doors.

I blinked, "This is just the first level, right?" I never imagined this house being so full of rooms, it was pure bliss. I grinned a little to myself, already I knew that I wanted to buy it, "Is this going to be rent to own?"

We had started up the stairs when she turned and looked down at me, "Yes, unless you'd like to straight out buy it now?"

I shook my head, I didn't have that much Zeni on me at the time, "Rent to own is perfect," I managed a boy-ish smile and she nodded.

The first door we came to was another bathroom, followed by two closets in the hallway. "There are only the bathroom and the Master Bedroom up here," she looked back at me before opening the door to the bedroom, which was empty, "there's also a bathroom in there, and a walk-in closet." She shut the door and peered upward, "There is an attic area, I suppose if you wanted to you could clean it out and make an upstairs loft-room," she smiled a little, "But I'm not going up there, I'm not too fond of heights you see."

I chuckled, "Well it's a beautiful home, how much for the first month of rent?"

"Upfront, 450 Zeni a month, utilities not included—"

"I'll take it."

Ms. Fulten smiled, "Great, when are you able to move in?"

"Actually, I would be able to now. You see, I'm new in town and I just got a job offer for an architect job," I tried to explain.

She nodded, her brown curls bouncing slightly, "Well we'll go to the kitchen and start filling out for your lease then," she smiled and escorted me to the kitchen.

There happened to be quite a lot of paperwork involved, I frowned. At this rate, Trunks and everyone would definitely know where I had disappeared to. But it didn't matter, it wasn't like I couldn't throw them out of my home if I didn't want them there.

After the paperwork was done, Ms. Fulten left the keys on the kitchen table and said her goodbyes. She told me she'd be by now and then to see how I was doing. She also left her home number for me to call if I needed anything, which was very nice of her. I put it on the refrigerator with a banana magnet that had already been there.

I walked into the downstairs bedroom and threw my bag on the bed before pocketing my wallet and the keys to the house. Now I needed a job and food. Food before job of course, I was starving.

POV CHANGE

Chi-Chi had called my mother and told us Goten left. I knew he would. They had gotten worried when they couldn't feel his Ki. I just shrugged it off. I didn't care anymore.

"Trunks?"

I looked up; Marron had walked in the room. I managed a smile, "Hey,"

Marron looked worried, she couldn't possibly care about Goten being gone. She never liked him. In fact, she didn't want me to even associate with him. I think I should have listened to her. I wouldn't be in this situation. She crossed the room, she was acting pretty strange. "So Goten is gone?"

I nodded, "Yeah, I guess. Chi said he had a job lined up in another town and that he would call when he got settled in," my green eyes paired with her blue ones and she pressed her pale pink lips to my cheek.

"I'm sorry honey, I know he was your best friend," she smiled, "but he's not gone or dead or anything—"

"They can't feel his Ki. I can't feel his Ki."

She gasped, "Trunks, you don't mean..."

I shook my head, "I don't know. I hope not."

Marron gently laced her fingers with mine, "Trunks honey, maybe he just… Maybe he's hiding it? You guys can do that, right?" She was trying to make me feel better, I smiled at her. I think that's why loved her in the first place. My heart ached slightly, I loved her but I was in love with Goten.

She gently traced her fingers along my jawline; I met her lips halfway in a chaste kiss. She pulled away before I did; she sat there, smiling at me.

All I could do is shake my head, "I don't want to get married tomorrow."