Reading of dispair
Chapter seven: Two of Pentacles
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When four o'clock in the after noon came by Gohan was awake and in excutiating pain. His chest and stomach felt like someone was repeatedly stabbing him with a butcher knife and twisting it as it was being pulled out. The nures came back in to give him another dose of his pain medicine to reliven his pain. He lie there whimpering and screaming in pain clutching his stomach and the bed sheets until he calmed down. Chichi and Jasmine were heart broken to see Gohan in such agony as well as the others were feeling such sympathy for the boy. Well not so much Vegeta. He had some sympathy, but not as much as the others. Chichi slowly grabbed on to Jasmine as she held her for comfort. She looked up with tears in her eyes.
"Do you think I'm a bad mother?" She sniffled.
Jasmine was confused at this. She couldn't understand why Chichi would think such a thing. Her face softened with a hint of confusion.
"No honey. Why would you even think such a thing?" Jasmine asked gently.
"Well, I knew he wasn't well at all this whole time and yet I never made the inisitive to get him checked out. I just dismissed it as depression. I just neglected him." She cried grabbing Jasmine's tank top tighter.
"No, Chichi it wasn't your fault. Some times cancer desques itself to be something else. You would've needed a blood test to even see what the real problem was." Jasmine explained.
"Are you sure? I should've asked more questions." Chichi worried.
"Chi, this is the first step to having a child with cancer. People often think it's their fault their child has cancer but it isn't. The sooner you realize it isn't your fault the better you're going to feel. So, no more of that it's my fault shit okay?" Jasmine said in a comforting tone.
"Thank you, for being a true friend." She replied with a small sad smile.
"It's what I do. Fightin' isn't the only thing I'm good for." Jasmine smiled giving her the best of friendship in the world.
Vegeta had got a little discusted with the display of love.
"Will you two stop with the sentimental shit already!" Vegeta snapped.
Jasmine's head snapped in his direction where he was standing and her eyes narrowed in a ferocious snarl.
"This is her son we're talking about! What if that was Trunks in that bed with cancer, huh? Would you be saying that bullshit to us if I was over here comforting Bulma? What in the hell is wrong with you? Get a goddamn heart transplant and learn how to have some compassion!" Jasmine lectured.
"You're just like Kakarot. Too damn soft to be a warrior. The brat is saiyan, he'll live." Vegeta retorted.
"You know, that's your answer for everything isn't it? Yoy know why? Because you're insecure as hell, that's why! You think that everytime you're in public or around anything that has heart in it everyone can see all your secrets and insecurities. That's why you're an asshole. See, I like to have "real" men as friends. Not little boys that throw temper tantrums if they can't control a situation. You know what's gonna happen to you? You're gonna grow into a bitter old man if you don't figure out what your problem is. Then your son is going to grow up to resent you and your wife may end up leaving you because of it. Do you want that huh? To die cold and lonely with nobody there to want you? I see the way you talk to Bulma and about your son and with the rate you're going, that cold and lonely part might just happen. Ain't nobody wanna be around all that attitude. I know you ain't got no sense but the least you can do in this situation is act like you got some. Show some damn respect!" Jasmine ranted angerly. She couldn't believe He was being so heartless.
"Tch, Whatever, I'm going outside." Vegeta responded not wanting to hear anymore.
"Good, go on outta here with all that attitude then, get to steppin'!" Jasmine retorted back.
He walked out of the room with a growl as Bulma remained inside. Jasmine sighed as Piccolo shook his head in disaproval. Bulma just stood there embarrassed by his actions.
"I'm sorry you guys, he shouldn't have said that." Bulma apologized.
"What're you apologizing for Bulma? It's not your fault. He's always been that way." Krillin questioned.
"Yeah, he's right. Vegeta's a grown ass man. You don't have to apologize for his attitude problem. I don't know how you deal with his shit every day." Jasmine replied agreeing with Krillin.
"I know but I don't understand why he's like that." Bulma stated.
"Look Bulma, I know he had a hard life and was fucked up in the head just like I was, but that doesn't mean he has to take it out on all of us. It's all in how you cope with it later in life. I know I don't do that shit to you guys." Jasmine noted.
Just then Gohan woke up with a painful groan. Everyone in the room turned their attention to Gohan as his eyes slowly opened. He felt numb. The medicine put him out cold.
"Oh, man. That shot always puts me out." He moaned.
Piccolo looked at the clock and saw it was getting late. At six o'clock everyone had bid far well to Gohan and headed home. Vegeta was still outside waiting for Bulma. No sooner did they leave she went off on him and they got into a nasty argument. Chichi went back to Jasmine's house, Krillin went back to Kame house, and Piccolo stayed close to the hospital just in case Gohan needed anything. Sleeping had been painful for Gohan. His nights were endless, full of nothing but tossing and turning in pain. But the sad part was Chichi and Jasmine had two situations they were dealing with. Gohan having cancer and now a new addition to the family. All they did that night was sit alone on the couch together while they watched television and talked about good past memories.
Two months later
Everything had begain to look up for the Son family. Chichi was two months along in her pregnantcy, Gohan was coping a little better with his cancer, and he and Sky were growing remarkably close. Chichi was histarical about it, Krillin teased him as usual, and Jasmine was giving him pointers about impressing girls. Gohan had already met Sky's parents. It took a while to earn her father's trust but he earned it fairly. They went out on dates when every they could. He graduated school earily and got a novel published. The extra money helped out a lot with the finances and everything seemed to be falling into place.
Today Gohan and Sky were on one of their dates. They were sitting at the edge of the lake. She was an artist and loved to draw she just so happen to bring her sketch pad with her to show Gohan her work. But today she was working on a special drawing.
"What's this?" Gohan asked as he scooted closer to her. He knew her work always held some kind of meaning behind it.
She turned to him and smiled holding her latest creation up to him. Gohan was amazed, she truely was an artist. On the pad of paper was him in super saiyan two form but he notice something about it. There was a heart drawn on the center of his chest and not one of those valentine ones but how it actually looked in medical terms. But in the center of the heart there was a big hole in the middle that was bleeding profusely. That wasn't all, there was like a blue forcefield of energy surounding the heart with a bird trying to get in. Gohan was confused by the meaning.
"What's it's message?" Gohan asked.
She smiled and explained while pointing to the various parts of the drawing,"This is you at your best. This is your heart, the hole is all the pain you're hiding from me, and the blood stands for your sorrow. The forcefield is the wall you put up to protect yourself and the bird, is me. The heart is where I wanna be but the field is blocking the damage I see that I wanna help you fix. I wanna help you plug that hole up and stop the bleeding in order to see you happier."
Gohan was shocked, he never knew she could see his pain so well. But then again she did have a talent for portraying things on paper.
"I never would've guessed that even though I did tell you everything about myself." He said as he hugged her.
They sat like that for a while. Him on her chest listening to her heart beat. Some how a heart beat of a loved one always made him feel so calm. Then he noticed something. He remembered what Jasmine had told him about true love. She often talked about her feelings about Charlie to him. And at that moment he realized...he found it. Her heart beat was that same rhytm as his and how he would say something and before he would finish his sentence she would say the every next thing he was going to say. She held him and stroked his hair as his tail twined itself with hers. They laid there like that for a while untill it was time to go home.
Gohan and Sky were on the door step to the Son house when they noticed the light in the hall way was on. This was odd to Gohan.
"That's weird. Mom never has that light on during the day." Gohan thought suspisously.
However this was wasn't a coinsidence. For when they opened the door they both gasped at the grizzly sight before them.
Whoa cliff hanger!
What did they walk into?
Find out soon!
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The Two of pentacles means two situations at once.