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Chapter 5: The Storm

            It had been a week since the incident at the café. Trunks was still in a depression, even
though he told me that he was okay. He couldn’t lie to me, I could see it in his eyes when we
were together in public, even when wre are alone with each other. It brought me to tears to see
Trunks this way. I walked over to him, his eyes were tired and irritated.

            I shook him and said, “Trunks, you have to snap out of this!” He just looked up at me
with a blank and questioning expression. It scared me. “Trunks?” I asked him.

            “Goten, let me go, please!” he said as he struggled to pull free of me. I held him tight and
pulled him to my chest. Trunks struggled harder to get free, but I wouldn’t let him. He pushed
me, hard! I flew out of his arms and into a nearby tree. I looked up at him and he was looking
down at me with hurt and anger in his eyes. He realized what he had done and snapped out of his
phase immediately and tried to approach me. “Goten, I’m sorry.” he said while picking me up.
“I’m so so sorry, please forgive me?”

            I looked at him with a confused look, I was scared. “What’s your problem?” I yelled.
“Huh?” He just turned his face away as if nothing happened. I started to shake uncontrollably
with rage. “Ever since that day that you fought that guy in the café you’ve been acting weird,
why?” Still no answer. I went over to him and grabbed him by the arms. “Remember what I
said?” I asked “Nothing they do or say can affect us if we don’t let it!”

            “It’s not that simple Goten!” he yelled. “How can we ignore what the world thinks of us?
Huh?” he demanded. I didn’t have an answer. “Goten, I’ve never functioned outside of society, it
hurts.” I put my head down, trying to block out what he was saying. “We can’t even go out to eat
together now, simply because we love each other. We have a forbidden passion. We’re cursed for
it, and we will forever be cursed for it.”

            His words were harsh and cold, but also very true. “Trunks?” I asked. “How can you say
something like that?” I looked at his face and got nothing. “You’re talking like you don’t want to
be with me anymore!” I shouted.

            “Well maybe I don’t!” he shouted while giving me an angry glare. “Maybe I’m tired of
people staring at me in public, maybe I’m tired of being discriminated against, or maybe I’m just
tired of you!” Trunks’ words hit me so hard it was as if I had been hit with a sledgehammer.

            “Trunks, you don’t mean that.” I said in a soothing voice.

            “The hell I don’t!” he protested. “I don’t know why I’m in this sorry relationship with
you, it’s been nothing but trouble since me and you got together.” He stepped toward me, glaring
me down with a scowl. “I’m sick of you! I’m tired of your face, I only got into this relationship to
stop you from blubbering!”

            My eyes were swelling with tears. “You’re lying!” I said in a choked voice. “Stop saying
these things, before you say something you’ll regret.” Warm and sticky tears were now running
down my face.

            His eyes bulged when he heard this. He picked me up. “You just don’t get it do you?” he
asked. My face was a blank slate. “Well then let me spell it out for you, I DON’T LOVE YOU!”

            This hit me like a brick wall, it hurted so bad that I felt as if I died. “Trunks!” I cried out
in a last attempt to reach him. I tried to grab his arm.

            “Don’t touch me!” he said with hatred in his voice. “I hate you!” was his final last words
to me, then he took off into sky sky. His final words broke me, it was as if my spirit had been
crushed. I felt no reason for going on, I wanted to just lie down and die.

            But there was a voice in my head telling me to get up, I obeyed it. When my eyes opened
it was dark outside, I went inside and closed the door. Slowly I plotted how I would get Trunks
back. I thought deep into the night and halfway through it, I began to cry. “Oh Trunks!” I shouted
out. “What has happened to you?” For a second I wanted to give up again, but I fought my urge
to give up and went back into thought. Eventually I became tired and I decided to go to bed. I
made myself a vow as I fell to sleep. “No matter how long it takes, I will get you back Trunks, I
promise.”

Chapter 6: Weathering the Storm

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