She laughed, running on the beach, wearing a blue bikini, holding behind her her assorted veil pareo, her long blond hair flowing behind her. He was running after her, wearing his swimsuit, laughing too. He caught her, his arms around her waist and they both fell on the sand, laughing, while he tickled her. The others were all eating barbecue, at the other end of the beach, while Pan was swimming with Goten, Bra and her boyfriend. Trunks and her had been passing a lot of time together in the last months, and it was appearing to anyone that something was in the air...But they were friends, or so they told everyone and themselves believes...Trunks suddenly leaned forward and caught her lips in a passionate kiss, holding her against his body. She suddenly broke from the kiss and pushed him away, getting up and looking at him oddly as he stood up.
"Marron, I'm sorry...", he said, reaching for her hand. But she backed away. He sighed, then passed one hand through his hair. He then looked at her in the eyes, and started,
"Marron, I'm sorry, it was an impulsion..."
She suddenly pulled him to her and kissed him, putting her hands behind his neck to keep him close to her. He tighed his arms around her waist, pulling her hips closer to him. When the kiss ended, she smiled at him, while he still had his eyes closed. Suddenly, he lifted her up, swirling her in the air, as they both laughed.
Marron closed her eyes, hearing footsteps behind her.
"Sean, I..."
"Don't worry, it's not him...", Trunks said, sitting next to her on the sand. Under the moon, his now short cut with gel hair shone brightly and she smiled, remembering all the time she'd passed her fingers through it in bed, or simply while watching tv, or anything. All those little memories that made him so whole and alive in her mind...But now he was really alive.
"Your husband told me I'd find you here.", he said, his voice low. But she could hear pain in his voice. It hurt him to see her with anyone else.
"Tell me I'm the center of your universe", he said, walking backwardsin front of Marron, looking at her as she walked on the beach where they had first kissed, for their anniversary.
She laughed, crossing her arms over her chest and smirking at him.
"I can't possibly tell you that...It'll just boost your already gigantic male ego."
"Ok, just promess me you'll love me forever then..."
She smiled as he stopped and she kissed him tenderly.
"Even if I tell you so, you'll never believe me anyway....", she said, putting her arms around his waist. He smiled, pushed her arms away softly, and got down on one knee, opening a black velvet box in front of her.
"If you say yes, I'll believe you.", he said, looking at her in the eyes, an unjustified fear of rejection readable in his eyes. She gasped, reaching out for the diamond ring. She took it out, then smiled. He smiled back, standing back up and putting the ring around her finger as she whispered,
"Yes...I love you so much"
"It's strange that you should still hide here, after all those years."
"Yeah, well, you can take the girl out of the memory, but you can't ever take the memory out of her.", she said, half joking.
He didn't answer anything, just looking at the waves in front of him. For a moment, there was only silence, before she said,
"So, are you ready to tell me where you were all those years?"
"I...no..."
She looked at him, smiling sadly.
"I understand...If you didn't come back for me, it should have been something, huh...Unless..."
She sighed and slowly stood up. He sighed too, looking down at the sand between his legs. She was walking away slowly, the wind playing in her long white pareo.
"You know, I tried many times to come back for you...But I couldn't...And when I finally could, I found you here, married, pregnant and happy. And it broke my heart in so many ways that I cannot even explain.", he said, with a tip of anger in his voice.
She stopped, turned around, and found him standing in front of her.
"I'm sorry if I broke your heart Trunks. I lost everything, everyone... I was all alone, with my mother dying. I needed someone, I found someone...", she said, close to yelling.
"I can see that", he said, his face numb, hands in his pockets.
"I...", she started, not knowing what to say.
"I just don't know how you can love him...I still love you, Marron"
The words hit her like tons of bricks and she closed her eyes, bitting her lips.
"Please, don't do that.", she murmured, her voice getting lost in the wind.
The winter here's cold, and bitter
It's chilled us to the bone
I haven't seen the sun for weeks
Too long too far from home
I feel just like i'm sinking
And i claw for solid ground
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought i can feel so low
But oh darkness i feel like letting go
But all of the strength all of the courage
Couldn't lift me from this place
I know i can love you much better than this
I fall from grace
Fall from grace
It's better this way, i said
Having seen this place before
Where everything we say and do
Hurts us all the more
Its just that we stayed, too long
In the same old sickly skin
I'm pulled down by the undertow
I never thought i can feel so low
But oh darkness i feel like letting go
But all of the strength
All of the courage
Couldn't lift me from this place
Together we crumble and stumble and fall
I fall from grace
Fall from grace
I know i can love you much better than this
So it's better this way
~Sarah McLachlan
~Fall from Grace (First and demo version of Full of Grace, from the album Surfacing)
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