GoChi Week 2020:

Snippets in Time:

Day One: High School

Future

With the multiple rings of the doorbell, ChiChi rushed down the stairs to open the door. Only one person rang the doorbell that way. Her boyfriend, Son Goku. They've been friends since freshman year but dated since their sophomore year when Goku kissed her during School Spirit Week. Goku was a great athlete; lead scorer on the basketball team and quarterback of the football team but he was a poor student. It wasn't that he didn't understand the schoolwork. He could but he was lazy and only did enough to pass the class.

ChiChi knew if Goku wanted to get into college on an athletic scholarship, his grades had to improve so since sophomore year, ChiChi helped Goku with his homework and tests for classes. Goku went from a 2.0 grade point average to a 2.5 at the end of his sophomore year. At the end of his junior year Goku was a 3.0 student and receiving letters from several colleges. Now in his senior year, Goku receive visits from coaches pursuing Goku on a basketball and football scholarships. He had yet to make a decision and it made ChiChi nervous. If Goku picked a school far from her, what would happen to them?

Goku stood on the other side other door, wearing the school's varsity jacket with his bookbag slung over his left shoulder.

"Goku," ChiChi greeted Goku with a hello kiss. "You're early." She sniffed him. "Eww. You stink. Didn't you take a shower?"

"I was talking to Coach, time flew, and I was in a rush to leave," Goku explained as he stepped in the house.

ChiChi closed the door. That excuse didn't make sense. "That doesn't explain why you couldn't take a shower before you left."

Goku grinned as he winked at her. "I was in a rush to see you. Ain't that enough?"

ChiChi couldn't argue against that. "In that case, that's all right." She gave him another kiss on his lips. "You can take a shower in the bathroom upstairs. I can make lunch for us before we study."

"Sounds good." He looked around curious. "Where's your Pops?"

"Still at work but he'll be here in a couple hours."

ChiChi left Goku's side to go to the kitchen but Goku grabbed her and pulled ChiChi to him. "So, we have the house to ourselves for a while." He grinned at her. "Wanna take a shower with me?"

ChiChi giggled as Goku dropped kisses on her neck while his hands moved up to grope her breasts. "No," ChiChi squirmed. "We can't do that." ChiChi pressed her hands on Goku's chest and gently pushed him off her.

"Why not?" Goku whined. "We love each other."

True but that wasn't enough, was it? They talked about this. Goku was very eager for them to have sex but he respected ChiChi's decision to wait. She wanted it, too, but her upbringing forced her to not rush things. They didn't have to wait for marriage but ChiChi wanted a real commitment. Goku hadn't decided where he will go to college. ChiChi wanted Goku to be the only one for her. She didn't want to have sex with Goku, then have him leave her to go to college hundreds of miles away. ChiChi wasn't a fool. She knew it would be hard continuing a relationship hundreds of miles away. If only she knew where Goku stood when he thought of their relationship and their future.

"It wouldn't be right, Goku. We're going away to college next fall and who knows what will happen to us."

Surprisingly, Goku became upset with ChiChi as he stepped back from her. "College, college, college," he muttered with rolling eyes. "Is that all you care about?! What about how I feel for you?! What I'm giving up for you!"

"What?" ChiChi sputtered confused. Goku rarely got angry and never at her. Where was this outburst coming from? "What's the matter with you?"

"Forget it," he muttered before he stormed off and ran up the stairs to the bathroom to shower.

ChiChi stared at Goku's retreating form for several moments before making a split-second decision and following him. Goku wasn't a stranger to her house. Her father and Goku's Grandpa Gohan became friends through her and Goku dating. Her father was a very sociable guy and hosted many parties. Her father always invited Gohan and Goku. Sometimes Gohan drunk too much and stayed the night in the guestroom.

It's where ChiChi followed Goku.

ChiChi pushed opened the bedroom. "No. You're not leaving me like this without explaining yourself."

Goku dropped his bookbag on the floor, shrugged off his shirt and tossed it on the floor. "Get out of here!" he spat at her as he pushed down his pants. "You don't wanna be with me when I'm taking a shower so get out!"

"I'm not leaving with you mad at me!" If Goku was angry with her, he better explain why or ChiChi was gonna be mad back. "You better explain yelling at me!"

Goku flipped his middle finger at ChiChi and stormed in the bathroom.

Red with anger, ChiChi followed him. By the time ChiChi entered the bathroom, she saw a sliver of Goku's backside as he stepped in the shower. "Goku!" ChiChi screamed. "You better explain why you're mad at me or I'm gonna get really mad at you!"

Goku responded with silence. ChiChi knocked on the glass door. Goku responded again with silence. Flustered with anger, ChiChi pushed aside the shower door and stepped in the shower. This time Goku was startled. He didn't expect ChiChi to do this.

ChiChi poke Goku's chest. "I don't know what kind of game you're playing but you have no right to flip your finger at me or yell at me and not explain why!" She poked him again forcing Goku back with each poke. "So, you tell me why you're angry or I'll really get mad at you!"

Goku stood directly under the shower. Water poured down his head making his spiky hair droop. He should be angry at ChiChi. He wanted to be angry at ChiChi but seeing she came in the shower after him, wetting her clothes, her hair, so blinded by her own anger she didn't realize what she had done made him love her even more.

"You're so beautiful right now."

Confusing slowly replaced ChiChi's anger. "What?"

Goku cupped ChiChi's face in his hand and kissed her. Warm water splashed down over them but neither noticed. Goku curved ChiChi's petite body against his hard one; his hand slid down to grip her backside and press her further against him as he rubbed his naked body against her clothed but wet one for some temporary relief.

Their mouths parted at the desperate need for air, but they remained close together.

"Sorry," Goku apologized. "I'm just upset."

"About?" ChiChi softly questioned.

"I'm not mad at you." He wanted her to know. "It's my coach."

"Coach Piccolo?" ChiChi inquired about the school's basketball coach.

"Yeah. I told him where I wanted to go, and he thinks I'm nuts and throwing my future away at a professional sports career."

ChiChi's heart skipped a beat. "How?" She turned her head up to see Goku looking down on her. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to Paouz University with you on a basketball scholarship."

"Paouz University?" She smiled hopeful. She didn't know if the water falling down her face was from the shower or her tears. "You wanna go to school with me?"

Goku nodded. "Yeah. The basketball team isn't in the top twenty, but coaches still recruit kids professionally from all schools. As long as I play great and I will, I will get recruited." He grinned at ChiChi. "The really good news is I only need to play for a year or two before I can quit and be eligible for the NBA." He laughed. "We can get married."

Married. Goku mentioned marriage once but only after ChiChi brought it up and from how he spoke ChiChi always thought it was several years from now and not something he was interested in. Now she saw she was wrong.

"Until we officially marry, we can practice being married," ChiChi told him hopeful. Unsurprisingly, Goku was confused. "I wasn't gonna say it but now I will. Dad's getting me an apartment. It's part of his graduation gift for me. As long as I maintain my grades, he'll pay for it. We can live together while we go to college."

Goku had no problem with that but Goku wondered if ChiChi understood what this meant. Sometimes ChiChi was too innocent for her own good. "Your Pops will be okay with us living together?"

ChiChi laughed. "Dad adores you, Goku, but not as much as me. We've looked at few places a couple weekends ago and I found the perfect place. Dad already worked a deal with my future landlord. It's five miles from college, has two roomy bedrooms, two baths, a nice kitchen with a pantry I can stock with lots of food and a gym in the building. It'll be perfect for us."

Two bedrooms? Did she really think….? Maybe they will start off sleeping in two rooms but Goku knew it will be a matter of time before it's one. "I know you adore me more than your Pops," Goku teased. "Your Pops would never follow me in the shower naked."

Now ChiChi was no longer angry, reality set in at what she did. She gasped horrified. She was in the shower with Goku who was completely naked! Automatically, her eyes looked down. "Oh my gosh!" Blushing, ChiChi pushed the shower door open. "I can't believe I did this!"

Grinning, Goku shook his head at a soaked ChiChi sprinting away from him. So fiery, so innocent and so his. Whatever the future held for them, Goku knew ChiChi will be in it.