"Alright, that's all for today."
"Phew!" Sapphire and Gonine sat down. Piccolo smirked.
"You guys told me you could fight properly."
"I CAN fight properly!" Sapphire insisted. "Gonine's just weak!"
"Me?! Hey, I was going easy on you." Gonine argued.
"And yet, you're out of breath and I'm not." Sapphire smirked.
"Hey - - …… Well I'm smarter than you!" Gonine pouted. Sapphire laughed.
"Quit squabbling, you sound like a couple of kids." Piccolo frowned.
"Well we are ^_^" Gonine answered.
"Nu-uh!" Sapphire shook her head. "If you're seventeen, you're a young adult."
"That's just another word for someone who's mature enough to have any rights but doesn't." Piccolo replied.
"Hmph!" Sapphire looked away, annoyed.
"Hey Piccolo, you got her into brat-mode again." Gonine grinned.
"Brat-mode?!" Sapphire glared at him. "What do you mean?!"
"Instead of being angry quietly or aggressively, you sort of enter this brat thing." Gonine explained. "You act like a spoilt brat!"
"Do not!" Sapphire whined.
"See, your doing it again!"
"Grrr….." Sapphire looked at Piccolo. "Dad, TELL him that I am NOT a brat."
"Don't be too hard on her, Gonine." Piccolo said. Sapphire gave Gonine a triumphant smirk.
"She gets it off her mother." Piccolo continued.
"Huh?!"
Gonine burst out laughing.
"Hmph!" Sapphire folded her arms and looked away from them. "Grow up, morons!"
"What's with you?" Piccolo asked.
"Nothing." Sapphire replied, and looked at him. "Why?"
"No reason, I guess." Piccolo shrugged.
Gonine yawned.
"I'd better get going. I've got an after school detention at half four and if I miss another one my dad's gonna kill me – right after my grandma prepares the coffin."
"Uhhh…. Gonine…" Sapphire began.
"Yeah?" Gonine asked.
"It's half past six." Piccolo said.
"Wha?!" Gonine's eyes widened. "Are you serious?!"
"Check your watch if you don't believe us." Sapphire replied. Gonine did just that.
"Waa! I gotta go! Sapph, I'll see you tomorrow okay?!"
"Okay ^_^'"
"Bye, Piccolo-san!" Gonine didn't wait for a response before he was racing off out of sight.
"That kid hasn't changed since he was old enough to forget things." Piccolo said as he lay back with his hands behind his head.
"Yeah, but maybe if his dad lay off him a little he'd get things done." Sapphire said.
"What do you mean?" Piccolo frowned. "Gohan's a good father."
"I know, but he always seems to be on Gonine's back. He needs to chill out more, he has far too many rules."
"Well if it keeps your kids straight, it's better to have rules." Piccolo replied.
"Geez, if YOU believe that then no wonder Gohan does, too! I bet it was one of the first things you taught him." Sapphire grinned.
"It was not!" Piccolo complained. "I didn't teach him any of that stuff, he learned it on his own."
"Well, anyway. I have homework to be getting on with." Sapphire said snottily.
"Why do you bother with that stuff? You're not gonna need any of it." Piccolo commented as she took a few books out of her backpack.
"Yeah, well I bet YOU don't know how the human heart manages to pump deoxygenated blood to the lungs, which the goes to the rest of the body!" Sapphire argued.
"Well first of all, no, I don't. And second of all, I don't care, either."
"Yeah, well I have to! I have a test tomorrow, so let me study." Sapphire lay on her stomach and started to read from her textbook.
Piccolo rolled his eyes, and flew off to leave her in peace.