Preface:


First of all, I would like to thank you all for understanding! It helped me alot! I've digested the loss to some extent now, but not at all! I hope you like this part of Rika as much as you liked the last one! I also wrote a previous story about Vegeta and the cat Tiara, her name is Vegeta meets Tiara. At the moment I see writing as therapy because I had to distract myself a bit, so don't be surprised if it's a little different than usual!


(°°°°° = looking back; '....' = thoughts; "...." = speaking)






Half a year had passed since Rika came back to Goten. Bulma had offered Rika to live with her and work in the CC. Trunks and Bra treated her like a sister and Rika got on really well with them. But now she was sitting far away from the CC on a mountain and looking at the night sky. The stars glittered, it was a beautiful night.And yet she wept silent tears. She looked at the fine silver ring with the blue stone that she had received from Goths. He had meant a lot to her, but now he was just a symbol of the past. She had quarreled with Goten. Why did she not remember exactly, probably because of something small. All she knew was that they had yelled at each other and then angrily climbed through the window in his and flew away.


°°°°° "What does that have to do with the fact that I forgot your birthday?" Goten had asked her. "A lot! I hate it when people forget my birthday! I'm disappearing! And woe betide you are flying after me!" she had nagged back. "I have no intention of chasing after a bitch like you!" he had meant. "I hate you! I never want to see you again! Don't you ever come back to me!" she had bittered and then disappeared out of the window."And you never have to show up at me again! Get out of here!" he had called after her. °°°°°


Actually, she hadn't meant it, but it had just slipped out of her mind. Now she was terribly sorry. But she was too proud to fly back to Goten and apologize. Besides, he wasn't exactly nice to her, either. Sure, she really shouldn't have thrown the last sentence at him, but it was too late anyway. She looked at the stars. They glittered. In her hand she held the chain with the tear that she had given Goten back then and he had given it back to her. She would have loved to talk to someone, but Marron was probably gone with Trunks and so Trunks was out of the question. And Bra was still too small. Bulma had already done so much for her. So she sat here on the mountain and cried and was alone. 'Why was I so stupid and nagged him like that? I do not believe it! I'm really stupid! ' she thought to herself and would have liked to slap herself.She got up and went to the edge of the little platform. It was a long way down, but why shouldn't she give it a try, what did she have big to lose? Now after she had just thrown away the dearest thing in the world. But then she sat down again and let her feet hang down. After a while she lay on her back and looked up at the starry sky again. It was quiet around them. The silence felt good after she and Goten had such a terrible argument.




'Oh man, I'm sooo idiot! I just let her go like that! ' Goten thought, staring out the window at the starry sky. He was sorry too, but too proud to apologize. Little did he know that Rika was looking at the same star as he was. Goten turned from the window and looked around the room. Here were a few more items from Rika, her shoes, her sweater and her jacket. There was a picture frame by his bed.He picked it up. The glass was broken. The broken pieces were lying around on the floor. He looked at the picture. It showed him and Rika under the willow, next to the heart and their names. She laughed in the picture. He remembered the joke Trunks had made before taking the picture. °°°°° two are walking in the middle, one of them says to the other, come and let me get in the middle for a while. °°°°° actually the joke wasn't in the least bit funny, but they laughed together. He put the picture frame that Rika had swept off the table during their argument back in its old place, then he began to tidy up his room. He put Rika's things next to the door, he would take them to Trunks tomorrow. After tidying up his room, he looked for Rika's ki, but couldn't find it, she must have suppressed it. He lay down in his bed and stared at the ceiling. After a while he fell asleep.




Rika's tears were still streaming down her cheeks.She kept pulling the picture into her mind as she swept the picture of them off the table. They didn't want to let go of his horrified face and the sadness in his eyes. As much as she tried, the picture couldn't get out of her head. She cried and cried. Slowly her eyes closed and she fell into a restless sleep full of nightmares.




"Trunks! Rika is no longer with Goten! Do you think there was a fight?" asked Marron, who was sitting with Trunks on the roof of the CC. "Why should you have argued?" Trunks asked in amazement. "Well, because Goten forgot her birthday, and so did the half-year-old! And by chance the days coincided exactly!" said Marron and looked at Trunks with big eyes. "Oh dear! I don't even know, then yesterday was our half-year ?!" noted Trunks. "No, that's tomorrow, and if you forget it, I'll make a snail!" she grinned and gave him a tender kiss. "That's okay!Tomorrow I'll ask Goten if he had an argument with Rika! "Said Trunks and took her tenderly in his arms." And I'll ask Rika! But now let's continue enjoying the night! "Yawned Marron and snuggled into his arms.




In the morning Rika woke up tense. She hadn't slept particularly well and was accordingly in a bad mood. She got up and looked at the sunrise to the east. It had to be a little after five. She decided to fly to the CC. Because she was cold, she had forgotten her shoes and her sweater at Goten's, but it could remain stolen from her for the time being. 'Well, at least for today!' she thought to herself. She floated away from the platform and flew to the CC. Once there, she quietly opened the window to her room. She jumped off the ledge and landed gently on the carpeted floor. She took off her shirt and pants. And lay down in her soft bed. It was pleasantly warm and soft, not like the platform she had slept on for half the night.But the heavenly peace that surrounded them did not last long. There was a knock on the door of the room. Rika rolled her eyes in annoyance. "May I come in?" Bulma asked from the other side of the door. "Hm!" Rika just said. Bulma opened the door and entered. She went to the window and closed it. "Where have you been tonight?" Bulma asked her and sat on the edge of the bed. "I was not here!" Rika said and yawned extensively, as a sign that she wasn't interested in a long argument. "And why weren't you here?" Bulma asked further, ignoring the warning. "I slept on a platform in the desert! Satisfied?" Rika asked angrily and pulled the covers over her head. "It's okay, I'm going! But breakfast will be served at eight! Come on then, please!" Bulma said when she was already standing under the door frame. Rika stuck her head out from under the covers and nodded, then she disappeared again under the covers. 'Man, Bulma is at least as stubborn as I am sometimes!' she thought and had to grin.The first time since her argument with Goten. Rika closed her eyes and began to dream about the last six months. She had just been quiet for ten minutes when the door to the room opened and Marron came in boots. "Trunks said I could get dry clothes from you, he just threw me into the pool! The idiot, now I'm soaking wet! And he has something to laugh about!" said Marron and went purposefully towards Rika's closet. "Take what you need!" said Rika and turned on the other side. Marron shrugged and ignored her bad mood. She grabbed hot pants and a top and disappeared again. 'But now I'm fed up, if things go on like this, Bra or Trunks will come in!' Rika thought to herself. And no sooner had she finished the thought than Bra was already standing in the door, in her nightgown. She closed the door behind her and walked on her short legs to Rika on the bed. "You, Rika, may I hop into bed with you a little longer?" she asked with big, faithful dog eyes and pouted.This looked really hilarious. Rika smiled and nodded to Bra. She slipped into bed with Rika. She handed the teddy bear in her hand to Rika. "You know, dad got up very early this morning and blew up the grave room! Mom raged and I woke up from it!" she went on to tell. "So, so, Vegeta blew something up again! Can't he even leave something completely?" asked Rika Bra. “No, I think Papa needs that, otherwise he won't feel well!” “Yes, I've had that feeling since I've been there!” “But he's always very kind to me, I can do everything with him ! He even plays horse with me! " said Bra, grinning broadly. "You know what little princess! I'll get dressed, and then we'll go and tease a little veggie! Let's see what he'll do then!" Rika grinned and threw the covers off the bed. She went to the closet, took out fresh underwear and clothes. Vanished briefly in the bathroom to take a shower. When she came out again, Bra had sat down on the edge of the bed and looked at the picture of Goten and Rika that was on the dessert.(It was the same as with Goten!) Rika wore black three-quarter trousers with a tiger head on the right thigh and a white top with a blue morpho printed on the front. (It's a kind of blue swallowtail / butterfly!) "You, Rika, are you still with Son-Goths?" asked Bra, looking at her again with the dog's eyes. "No, I don't think so! But I don't want to talk about it now! Come on, let's go tease Veggie!" said Rika and held out his hand to Bra. Bra jumped up, grabbed her teddy bear and ran to Rika. Rika picked up Bra and they set off to look for Vegeta.


After a short time they found him in the