Daddy's Girl
Chapter 13
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Bulla was watching TV when she heard her room door knocked softly, "Come in!" she shouted without even turning her gaze from her favorite show.
The door was opened and light steps came inside, "Hmm..!" the intruder faked a cough to get her attention and the familiar voice soon made her turn her head from her TV.
"Daddy?!" She spontaneously stood up from her sofa. Vegeta stopped few feet away from her with an unsure expression on his face. It was something she almost never saw for whole her lifetime and his presence there was something he had always avoided since 'that accident'.
"Hi...How you've been?" He asked softly. He crossed his arms over his chest as usual but soon put them down again as he thought that it might seem intimidating for her.
"I'm fine daddy, thank you for asking..." she answered. Actually she didn't know how to react at her father's sudden coming. She had to admit that she missed him a lot, needless to say that they were not as close as they used to be and it had made her sad. But, seeing the tenderness he showed in his coming, her instinct told her that everything would turn better this time.
"Umm...can we talk?" He asked again, his sight was pointed to the sofa there.
"Sure, sure daddy. Let's sit here." She sat on her sofa again and turned off the TV.
After they both sat and a few minutes of awkward silence since they both seemed interested to the tile floor more, Vegeta finally spoke again, "I'm here to say, I'm sorry, my princess..."
A tear almost dripped on her cheek, but she sent it away. How she missed her daddy call her that...
"No, daddy...you don't have to say sorry. It's me, I'm the one who disappointed you...I should have been honest to you since the beginning...I..." She fought hard to control her mixed emotions. He never let his Dad see her drip even one tear, not so now. Vegeta got closer to his daughter and then put her head on his shoulder.
"Just cry if you want to, if it made you feel better. I know you think that I never tolerate such a thing. But what if we make an exception just for this day?" She still could feel his tenderness through his baritone voice, like always every time he used to talk to her, and her controlled emotion broke, letting out cries and sobs from her angelic lips.
Her father didn't say anything to stop them, his fingers gently stroke her blue locks to comfort her. He knew that she cried not for a reason that she was weak, it was just that her human sentiment needed to be spoiled sometime. And finally, after a brief moment she stopped.
"Do you feel better now?" he asked.
"Yes, Daddy, thank you." She felt a bit of shame for crying before her father. But they had considered it a special moment. It was a father and daughter moment.
"You know, daddy, I'm really glad you're coming."
"I know. And I'm supposed to do it a long time ago. I'm sorry, princess."
"Please don't say that. I know I've done a very shocking thing, especially for you. I'm the one who has to say I'm sorry. I mean it, I'm really sorry, Daddy."
"Let's just forget it, ok?!"
She nodded, if her father said so, he meant it.
"You know my princess, I know too late to say that I'll always stand beside you. I'll always support you for all decision you make, include everything about your baby. I'm happy you keep it and I've heard from your mother that it's a boy. I just hope he doesn't have that freaking purple hair like your brother."
Bulla laughed, "No, daddy. Don't you know that we used the new designed colorful USG tool to check him up? Well, it seems that he has black hair like you, and the spiky one too. Maybe you should join us when we check him up again another day."
"Well, we'll see about that, latter. Okay, its time for me to leave. I have something to do in the GR."
"Sure, daddy."
"See you again, princess." With that he stood, after once again caressed her hair, and left. Bulla smiled. A very heavy burden had been lifted from her chest. And now, there's only one more thing she needed...
While she was watching the scenery outside her bedroom window, her memory was rambling, to many-many years in past. In the last twenty till thirty years, the Capsule Corps yard sure had changed a lot. She still remembered when her mother asked her workers to set so many many toys there for her. It had much more toys than any kindergartens in the world. When she grew teens, the setting changed again. Her mother spoiled her children a lot that they lived with very complete facilities.
Something that never changed was that the ground had kept so many memories, not only about her life, but also about her family's and friends'. Almost all the Z-fighters gathering were held there. It was the first time she remembered well that she knew him. Of course, she knew then that he had known her for a long time before. He was her brother's best friend and thirteen years older than her and he was one of some special family's friend who witnessed her being brought from the hospital after she was born.
He always came to play with Trunks, and when Trunks was busy with his extracurricular or with his private study he would play with her. He was kind, friendly and had the most innocent face she could remember. None ever had, but him. Even when Trunks ignored him because of his business, he seemed not to care and never to loss that adorable smile from his face. Yeah, even in her very young age she had known that his smile was adorable.
"Where are you really now?" She whispered, hoped that the wind outside would bring that question all over the world and came back with an answer for her.
If they really wanted to find him, it wouldn't be a too difficult question to answer. They only had to concentrate on his ki to find him. But her and his family had long time ago decided to forget his presence. He himself still had not come back to them till now, didn't it show everybody clearly his true intension that he didn't want to? Nor that he ever wanted to be found?
She had to be patient, like she had been for the rest of her life, like she had been since she was a very little girl.
She smiled at the image of one of their gathering when she was a child. They were going to the zoo one day; she, little Panny, Goten and Trunks. She and little Panny were just four and five years old. They had a really good time until an airhead blond came for Trunks. The boy soon became busy with her and started to forget his little sister. Unfortunately, after hours of touring around the zoo, the two little girls soon became tired and both of them started to have bleary eyes and longed for their nap time.
Little Pan then climbed to her uncle's embrace and fell to her slumber on his shoulder. Bulla tried hard to keep her eyes opened and searched her brother with those big blue eyes. She wanted Trunks to carry her of course, her sleepiness was almost unbearable. She almost broke her tears as Trunks was nowhere to be seen.
"What's wrong B-chan? Are you sleepy? C'mon, I'll carry you home."
"But you..."
"Ssshh...,its okay. Just sleep here. I'll carry you home..." He picked her up with his empty arm and now he was carrying both of sleeping Pan and her. His soft comforting words played as lullaby for her that she would never forget. As her big blue eyes were defeated to shut closed, she still caught a glimpse of his onyx eyes those were just as comforting and so adorable. She would always remember those eyes then. He had been her savior that day.
She badly wanted to tell him that she would care about him just like the way he had been so nice to her.
"What are you doing here, Bulla? Isn't it supposed to be your nap time?" Goten turned his gaze from the TV in Capsule Corps living room as he saw the four years old little girl with blue hair suddenly stood beside him and tried to climb the sofa there. Yeah, she was supposed to have her nap time, but the air conditioner in her room was suddenly broken and she was awoken from her nap because of the hot sticky summer air.
"Can't sleep. It's hot in my room. What are you doing here Goten-san? Are you waiting for Trunks?"
"Yeah...I think he will be home in an hour. We're having an appointment to discuss a science project, actually, my science project. He said he had his astronomy course and would be back in an hour."
"Nope." She said innocently.
He raised an eyebrow, "Nope?!"
"He asked me not to tell it to mom, but I think it's okay to tell it to you. You're his best friend, right?"
"Yup! And what's that?"
"He's having a date with Kelly, you know, the blond." She then whispered on his ear, as if telling him a very big secret, "I don't like her. It was her fault that Trunks left me in the zoo that time..."
Date? On Thursday? Wow, the mister super handsome Trunks must have a very tight 'schedule' on Saturday that he had to remove some to another day.
Little Bulla caught a glimpse of disappointment in his eyes, that soon he covered with his cheerful smile. She felt guilty for what her brother had done.
"Goten-san, why don't we go to mommy's lab? I think she can help you with your project."
"Well, that's not necessary, Bulla. I think I can handle it by myself." His voice still sounded calm.
"I know Trunks is doing no good. I promise we'll do something about it latter." Goten couldn't help but laugh at the four years old serious expression. She seemed to imitate her father a lot.
"Oh, really? What are you planning to do, B-chan?"
"You'll see, I'll never let him make you sad again." She hugged him and kissed his cheek. He caressed her hair to repaid her action and whispered, "I'm not sad B-chan, I'm not sad. But thank you for caring me so much." He smiled his adorable smile and even at her very young age she 'd known that she really adored his smile.
And after that she would always look for excuse to cling to him, to feel his embrace, to lay her head over his broad shoulder.
Was it a love? She didn't know. Maybe it wasn't even a love. Maybe, it was just obsession.
All what she knew was that she had been living with uncountable memories about him for whole her life time.
Her hand caressed her belly to start a communication with her unborn child, "We will find a way to get him back. We will..."
There was still one month left...
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