Top Notes:
Thank you to those of you who made it this far and read this crazy story that came out of my little head. I've spent many hours thinking about the best way forward, and I understand that it's not always what you want to read, but I hope you're happy with the ending.
I really appreciate the affection of everyone who has followed the story since I started publishing. Thank you for all your comments and words of encouragement, please know that they have made a difference in motivating me to keep writing.
Goku opened his eyes slowly, getting used to the dim light until his mind stabilized. He was in bed with a light sheet over his naked body. He scratched his eyes until reality hit him. He then opened his eyes wide and turned to the other side of the bed at once.
His racing heart leaped in his chest when he saw that there was another body next to him, just as naked as he was, with straight black hair spilling over the pillow. He let out a sigh and felt his muscles relax as he wrapped his arm around the small body of the woman next to him, pulling her close and pressing her against his body. He nuzzled his nose into the hollow of her neck, kissing her shoulder gently and closing his eyes peacefully.
"Mmm... good morning, babe!" she said in a sleepy whisper as she brought one of her hands up to his face and gave it a gentle caress. "Did you sleep well?"
"I did!" He replied. "Perfectly. And you?"
"Same..."
"Great!" he squeezed her a little tighter as if he didn't want to let her go or escape.
It had been three years and he still feared that one day he would wake up without her by his side. That one day, the curse would return, that it would retake effect or something like that, and, by the morning, he would find his bed empty, without her, without Chichi. Perhaps that fear would never go away, especially after a session of intense sex like the one they'd had the night before, perhaps it would torment him for the rest of his life, but it was the price he paid for all his sins, and he would never give up on his happiness with her. He would never give up on making her as happy as he could, to ensure that curse would never happen again.
And she was the only one capable of making him calm down. Only her. Because finding his beautiful wife by his side every morning was what made his heart calm down and his day brighten up.
He had always thought that married life was boring and dull, without the adventures and the conquests he always aimed for, but he couldn't have been more wrong. That was the greatest conquest he could have made in his life, that and...
"Didn't he bother you during the night?" Goku asked as he rubbed his hand over the obvious bulge on Chichi's stomach.
"Nooop… he behaved." she replied playfully, taking her hand in his. "I think he sensed that Mommy was very tired. Aaand happy!"
Goku smiled and kissed her on the cheek. Chichi squirmed and tried to get up, but he held her in his arms and said: "Mmmm, can't we stay a few more minutes?"
Chichi giggled.
"No, babe, we need to get ready. Your mom, Toma and your grandfather are coming for lunch, have you forgotten?"
"But it's still early!" Goku pouted.
"It's not early, it's almost ten in the morning!"
Goku shrugged and hugged her tightly.
"It is early if you consider the time we went to sleep. And I love being cuddled up to you like this!"
Before she could say anything else, another companion joined them on the bed, as if to convince her of his request.
"Nimbus!" Goku exclaimed. "Come and sleep with us, my boy!"
The dog gasped and licked both of their faces, settling down a little further in front of Chichi and resting his head on her belly. Chichi giggled. Her husband and their dog knew how to convince her. She then turned her neck towards Goku, saying:
"Okay, just a few more minutes!"
Goku smiled and pressed his lips to hers, making Chichi melt with happiness. Her man was incredible, and they would soon have a child, there was no way not to be happy. Of course, there were ups and downs, as in any relationship, but she had never regretted giving him a chance, giving them a chance to be together, and for Goku to show that he could build a future with her.
She could never regret the best decision of her life.
Chichi smiled and her heart leaped in her chest when she heard him whispering in her ear:
"I love you so much."
"I love you too, very much!"
Goku closed his eyes, smiling with the certainty that when he opened them, Chichi would still be there, in his arms.
Just as it should be.
End Notes:
Curiosities:
I'll give you a few tidbits about the writing process and my inspirations.
1. I think it's important to mention that the idea for this story was born after I read a book called "Ana's List of Crushes". The book is completely different from my fic (if you look at the synopsis you'll notice), but the story has a magical element and it was from this that I began to develop the plot of mine.
2. I was also slightly inspired by the movie "Good Luck Chuck", in which the protagonist suffers a curse in which every woman he has a relationship with finds the man of her life after they break up, meaning that he would never be the man of any woman's life, he would always be the next one until the right man came along. At first seemed like a good thing to him, until he met the girl of his dreams.
3. I really wanted a story where Goku was at a dead end, with Chichi, a beautiful woman who wanted to sleep with him, but he couldn't do it for fear of losing her. So I thought of a curse and how it would affect him. And so, the curse was born.
4. I had a hard time thinking of a name for the story and I confess that to this day I don't like the name I gave it that much lol In Portuguese, which was the original written work, seems to work better, but not so much in English. But now it's done and that's how it is.
5. The girl Goku was going to sleep with in the first chapter was Briane (the other version of Ribrianne) and Helles was the one who was going to put the curse on him, but then I thought that Briane looked too childish and that would look weird, so I opted to go with the opposite, putting Helles as the woman he had sex with and Ribrianne as the witchy friend. In a very early version, before I started writing the fic, this character would have been Launch.
6. Chichi's first idea of a job would be in a wedding dress store, but after more thought, I thought it would be fun if she worked as a waxer in a beauty clinic and made Goku wax himself to get a chance to go out with her.
7. The bet between Chichi and her friends wasn't in the first draft of the story, it was something I changed later because I thought she needed a motivation to keep going out with Goku even after he ran away from her.
8. As I don't like repeating storylines, I didn't want to put Bulma as Chichi's best friend again and so I even took her out of the story, as well as Vegeta. So, I used two other characters to fill the shoes of Chichi's best friends.
9. It was planned from the start that Goku would be fooled into thinking the curse was over and sleep with Chichi. For better or worse, he needed a lesson here in this story.
10. Whis' pairing was one of the last decisions. I wanted him to end the story with someone, but I didn't know who. I thought of Piccolo at first, but since I've already used this pair in my other story (Everything I Ever Wanted, available only in Portuguese) and I like to vary the couples – except for the official ones – then I had to think of another character, one who was minimally handsome and decent, because I didn't want to put him with an ugly guy like Nappa, for example.
11. Cheelai was certain to be with Broly from the start and I even wrote a dialog between Chichi and her where she was already going out with him. Then I changed my mind and decided to make him a handsome security guard who would get to know her at the end.
12. Chichi also needed her maturation arc and I thought it would be interesting for her to be this person who was so worried about her father that she was afraid to leave the house and leave him alone. The driving trauma also meant that Goku had a stronger connection with her than just physical attraction and common tastes.
I think that's it, folks!
Thanks again for coming and see you in the next story!
