CHAPTER 4: NEW BEGGININGS
A month had passed since Dante defeated Jeria and Dante had told them the story of their father and why Jeria had come to earth in the first place.
"I can't believe it…we're princes of an evil race of people" said Jack.
It was the first day of second semester of Eleventh grade, school life had just been getting back to normal Damion had told everybody that there was a gas tank explosion and his grandparents didn't make it, and they had been buried in the forest like they had always wanted. The Boys felt so alone in this world now that Robert and Amy were gone everyone at school looked at them with pity, Damion didn't like it, he just wished it was some huge nightmare he had to wake up from. He was deep in thought about his grandparents at school one day and he was walking kind of fast staring at his feet thinking of their deaths and if any more Saiyans would come after them and hurt anyone else he cared for.
THUD!
Damion was knocked to the floor he got up expecting a fight but saw a young girl on the ground with books sprawled out all over the place. He was very embarrassed and bent down to help her pick up her books.
"I'm so sorry it's my fault" said Damion with blush on his face "are you o…k" he looked at her and realized it was the candy shop girl, of all the people. She was tall for a girl, about 5'7 and she had long brown hair, tan skin and bright green eyes.
"I-its ok, i-its no big deal" Said the candy girl
"Uhh I'm, what I mean to say is my name is uhh…" Damion said, blushing a very dark red on his cheeks and sweating. He could even feel his heart beating.
"D-Damion A-Arrow right..?" She said quietly shyly also blushing and avoiding her eyes
"Y-Y-Yes I-It is" he said staring at his feet like they were the most interesting thing in the world. "I'm sorry I don't k-know your name.."
She stared at him and smiled "I-I'm Jenny" she said also turning to look at her feet.
Just then the bell rung
"Ummm, I-I'll see you later ok?" said Jenny as she dashed away
Damion stood there staring off into space, it wasn't until Gabe came did he notice he was late.
"Come on dude, we're going to be really late…"
"Huh? Oh sorry man spaced out, yeh lets go to class" said Damion very happily.
The two sat in the back like they always do and were listening to one of Mr. Jones boring lectures, but Gabe noticed something odd about Damion today…..he was acting happy, usually he was moping around since his grandparents were killed.
"Yo dude, whats the deal with you today? Your acting really strange…I mean it's good that your happy but why?" said Gabe with a look of confusion on his face.
Gabe was a very outspoken person who could be a bit dense sometimes but was intelligent when he wanted to be. Damion didn't even notice how he'd been acting.
"Uhh well I'm just in a good mood" said Damion with a smile on his face and blush on his cheeks.
"Come on dude I'm your best friend, you can tell me right"?
Gabe sure is pushy Damion thought to himself
"Alright, alright, you know the Candy shop girl? Well I ran into her in the hallway and talked to her, it was AWSOME!"
"So what did you talk about?"
"Well…we…uhh, i…hmmm"
"What? Ha-ha you didn't say anything to her did you?
"No I did, I just asked her for her name"
"Well"?
"Yeh, her name is Jenny"
"Whats her last name?"
"Oh, that's easy its…it's…"
"You don't know do you?" said Gabe slapping his forehead
"Uhh well, no I don't" Damion said frowning
"Dude your hopeless, let me show you how it's done" Gabe said winking his left eye. He turned to the girl next him "Hey sweetie, how bout you and me go out tomorrow? Go see a movie, what do you say?" he said very suavely
She was extremely red in the face "S-S-S-Sure…" She stuttered
"Cool I'll pick you up later, hope you don't mind if we make it a double date, my bud her is going to bring somebody" Gabe said shooting Damion a fox like grin
"WHAT?!" Damion said extremely surprised
"What do you mean what? You're going to ask Jenny if she wants to go to the movies later, don't worry I'll help you out with it" Gabe said with that same cheesy grin.
Damion knew his best friend well; he knew that whatever he was planning wasn't going to be good, but there was no use stopping him, he was already deep in thought about how to hook up Damion with Jenny. Damion was a very powerful Saiyan, he can destroy cities if he wanted to, but one thing he wasn't good at was girls. It showed, he was one of the shyest people at school, girls seemed to like him because he had good looks but anytime a girl would talk to him he would make an excuse and dash away.
Damion lost his good mood and began to mope she wouldn't like me, I'm a freak, I'm an alien. He plopped his head on the table and began to think of ways to try and get out of this but he knew it wouldn't be easy seeing as Gabe was already done formulating his plan.
"What are you going to do?" Damion asked cautiously
"If I tell you it won't be a surprise..." he said cheerfully.
Just then the bell rang and Gabe zoomed out the door and into the hallway. Damion began to walk out slowly, he thought 'maybe if I use super speed I can get out of here and save myself some embarrassment'. He turned the corner and checked if the coast was clear he was just about to take off when he heard somebodyscream he quickly turned around and saw Jenny pulling her bag in the hallway, a couple of people were watching as a masked man tried to rob her of her school things.
Damions face went blank 'Gabe, sometimes you are really, really retarded….' He thought to himself.
"Don't try to fight it…it will only make things worse" Gabe said trying to mask his voice with a deep tone
Just then Damion saw a note on his locker "Damion come over and fight me off I'll run and you'll be Jenny's knight in shining armor". THIS WAS HIS PLAN? OH MY GOD HE IS REALLY STUPID SOMETIMES …'
Damion walked over and said in a small but confident voice "Dude let go of her bag right now or I'll kick your ass."
"D-Damion..." said Jenny with blush all over her face
"Oh…uh…h-hi" said Damion he was blushing now too and had completely forgotten what he was doing till Gabe said something.
"Well, well, well, Damion Arrow, we meet at last, MUHAHAHAH" Gabe said manically.
'Gabe, you are so weird sometimes' thought Damion
Damion took a fighting position, Gabe and Damion both knew martial arts and sometimes sparred, of coarse Damion held back immensely. Gabe charge in and threw a punch for Damion's head, Damion ducked and quickly jabbed Gabe in the stomach a little harder than he meant to, Gabe was on the ground writhing in pain, Damion looked taken aback but quickly regained his resolve "And don't let me see you around here anymore!"
Gabe quickly ran out of the school knowing that his part was over but god damn did his stomach hurt.
Damion walked over to Jenny and helped her up. "Are you ok?" he said concerned
"Y-yes I'm fine" she said smiling, she looked down and so did Damion, they were holding hand, Damion quickly let go.
"I-I uhh, im sorry.." He said looking at his feet
"Thank you for saving me from that masked guy" she said smiling. Her green eyes were fixed on him and all he could do was stand there.
Just then Gabe came walking up back in his regular clothes but was still holding his stomach.
"Hey guys whats going on?" He said casually
"Nothing much dude" said Damion trying to sound normal
"Hey, I know you; you work at Sees candies at the mall right?" Gabe said looking at Jenny
"Yes" she said
"Listen, I've got a date today after school but I don't want to go alone I was thinking maybe you could come with us dude" Gabe said to Damion winking a small wink as a grin swept his face.
Damion caught on, "I don't know man wont I be imposing?"
"Nah dude its chill, we could make it a double date"
"I don't have a girlfriend man, who am I going to take?" Damion said kind of sadly
Gabe looked at Jenny, as soon as Damion said he didn't have a girlfriend she smiled and was blushing wildly.
"Hey, Jenny was it?"
"Yes" she said somewhat startled
"Damion needs a date and its no big deal but do you think you could come along?"
"Umm…" She said as she looked at the ground
"Its fine man I'll just go alone, I mean I barely know her and to pull her in like that it's kind of rude" Damion said as he started walking away until he felt a hand tugging the back of his shirt. He looked back to see Jenny holding him.
"I'll go" she said very quietly
"Great!" said Gabe, were going right after school so come meet us by the flagpole
"Sure" she said slowly moving from her feet to Damion's eyes and when they met she blushed immensely and looked like she was about to faint.
Just then jack walked up with his books in his hand.
"Hey big bro" he said smiling
"What do you want Jack?" Damion said and scowled.
"Whats wrong with you?" Jack said a bit startled
"You're annoying, why don't you go hang out with your own friends" Damion said turning his head away.
"Hn"
Jack was clearly annoyed, he then noticed Gabe holding his stomach.
"What happened to you?"
"Oh, I just have a stomach ache" he lied
"D-Damion…who is that?" Jenny said curiously
"Oh, this is Jack, my little brother" Damion said cheerfully
"Oh" She said, she looked at him and noticed how much they looked like each other apart from the eye color. "It's nice to meet you" she said smiling
"Uhh yeh hi" said jack in his usually I don't care voice. "Anyway see you guys later."
"So I guess we better go back to class, umm I'll see you later then?"
"Yes" she said smiling