Hey y'all:)
Just another story I had in my mind, and when i started writing it I couldn't stop. I don't know where this is going, but I'm really a little bit surprised I could write these kind of things. It's sorta inspired by the relationship i have with my own friends and by a twisted relationship i have with my stepbrother. I really hope you like it becuse i put a lot of work into it, re-read it about 20 times and because the story already means much to me.
Nevertheless, if you don;t like it, please critisize, can always use a good piece of advice. Dont say its stupid and then dont explain yourself, because that wont help me...trying to make a perfect story here...yes i reall want to make it perfect because this one is for my friends and stepbrother, if they ever get to read it.
So enjoy and please review!
"Hahahaha, you have got to be kidding, hahaha!"
"Gohan, stop! It's embarrassing enough without you laughing about it."
"Alright, alright, I'll stop."
"Good!"
"But man, who does that?! Whahaha, poor you."
"Gohan!"
The place was filled with laughter of one particular person, who was annoying another particular person with it. A cheerful Gohan and a close-to-angry Videl were sitting at their regular table in the corner of their favorite cafeteria. While Gohan kept on laughing, a few people in the cafeteria were watching the odd duo, who were apparently unaware of the attention they were drawing. This is how Erasa, a close friend of the two, found them.
Gohan saw her first and waved to her while Erasa made her way to the duo.
"Hey Erasa!" He exclaimed enthusiastically while still chuckling, before he burst into the next series of loud laughter.
"Hey!" Videl also greeted her friend, but her eyes never left the man in front of her, to whom she was sending furious glances, while her arms and legs were crossed and while taking another nip of her cappuccino.
"Hey! Wow, I haven't seen you in ages, you guys! How are you two?" The blond-haired Erasa asked in an annoyingly high voice, while she took a seat next to Gohan. Again, Gohan started to laugh hysterically.
"We're fine." Videl answered for the both of them. "Only Gohan will get a hand on his cheek by the end of the morning." Her thread, however, didn't work at all.
"Who cares! It's worth the pain, whaha! Hey, Erasa, wanna hear something funny?"
The blond-haired girl's eyes lit up as they always did when she was about to hear something funny.
"Oh, spill it!"
"No, don't listen, it's nothing really!" Videl screamed frenetically, but she should have known Erasa wouldn't listen to her pleas. She was so damn curious, she wanted to know every gossip about everyone.
"Well, you know Videl has been dating a guy for a few weeks, don't you?"
Videl closed her eyes in defeat, while she had a huge frown on her almost pink face.
"Yeah, of course! Mike right?" Erasa shrieked.
"Yeah, whatever…"
Videl's immediately opened her eyes and send a death glare to her best friend, thinking how extremely disinterested he was in her love life, seeing how he brushed of the fact her ex-date had a name like that.
"…anyway," Gohan continued, "she stayed with him last night." He winked to Erasa and she immediately understood, while Videl reddened even more.
"And when the were…you know…done, he…" Again he burst out in laughter while Erasa was screaming to continue.
"No don't!" Videl screamed as hard as Erasa.
"He…he…whahaha…he high-fived her!"
Erasa almost fell of her chair because of her hysterical outburst of laughter, while Videl rested her head on her hand and watched them with fire in her eyes. By now, not only Videl was annoyed, but everyone in the cafeteria shot glances at them.
"Oh my god, Videl! That can only happen to you! I don't mean to laugh, but…" Erasa couldn't even finish the sentence for she had another outburst.
"But you're still doing it." Videl muttered angrily. She ran a hand through her long black hair while she took another nip from her cup with the other hand.
"Oh, Videl, you know we love you!" Gohan said after he calmed down a bit and he could talk normally. "You know you would have done the same thing had it happened to us."
"Whoww, stop there. I would never do that." Videl replied with widened eyes. "Unlike you, I am nice. I don't laugh at people like you do."
"Yeah, right! But okay, it's not nice, I'll give you that. We'll stop, won't we Erasa?"
"Sure, and we promise never to tell anyone." Erasa replied while she thought of who to call first to tell this huge gossip.
"Anyway," Gohan continued, "I take it that guy won't be expecting a call from you any time soon?"
"Duh! In fact, I'm gonna erase his number from my sell-phone this instant."
"Wow, Videl!" Erase shrieked. "If I didn't know better, I'd say you are superficial."
"Yeah, yeah, but c'mon! That guy is nuts!" Videl replied, while she got her sell-phone out of her purse.
"Oh, can I have his number?" Erasa asked innocently.
Videl and Gohan looked at her like she'd gone mad.
"Don't tell me you want to call him!" Gohan asked with widened eyes. "You would be just as crazy as him!"
"No silly!" Erasa chuckled. "If I have his number, I know who he is if he ever gets to meet me, gives me his number and asks me out on a date. That way, I can escape an embarrassing experience."
"Talking about superficial!" Videl muttered while she gave her sell-phone to Erasa so she could write down the phone number.
Gohan took a nip of his coffee before he said something.
"You know, Videl, she was laughing at you just now. I wouldn't have given her his number, if I were you. Perhaps she will meet him and brush him of when he gives her his number and you'll miss the chance of laughing at HER. How funny it would have been if the same thing happened to her as to you!"
"Yeah, so you could make fun of HER! No, Gohan, like it just said, I'm nice! Damn, it's hard!"
"Oh, should I kiss your ass too, babe?"
"You wish, moron!"
"You bet!"
"Drop dead!"
Gohan chuckled as he watched Videl with twinkling eyes. He loved her so much, she was his best friend. They'd been like that since he first met her almost five years ago. With fondness he recalled how they'd meet. It was in high school, senior year. He was new in school and couldn't find his class. He was walking down the hall when all of a sudden he heard someone shriek. He looked down and saw a small girl who had apparently bumped into him, but fell back in process.
"Sorry," he had said with a smile and offering his hand. "I didn't see you down there!"
She got to her feet and had looked at him furiously.
"Are you calling me short?" She had yelled at him.
"Ehm, yeah."
"Where you really calling me short?"
"I was calling you short!"
"I'm not short!"
"You are!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"You shouldn't be talking like this! Don't you know who I am?"
"Should I?"
"What? Have you been living under a rock?"
"No, I live in a normal house in the 439 area!"
"What?"
"You asked me whether I live under a rock. I said "no I live in a normal house in the 439 area!"
"Do I look like I care?"
"Do I look like I want to know who you are?"
"Are you insane?"
"Are you?"
"Don't repeat my question!"
"Don't order me!"
"I wouldn't if you weren't so annoying!"
"This is childish!"
"I know!"
"Who are you?"
"Thought you didn't want to know!"
"Now I do!"
"Well, tough luck for you!"
"You frighten me!"
"Good!"
"You're scary!"
"You're new!"
"Why do you care?"
"I don't!"
"Then why do you mention it?"
"Because I've never seen your goofy face before!"
"Well then get used to it, cuz it ain't goin' nowhere!"
"I like you!"
"Taking the words from my mouth, eh?"
"I'm Videl, goofball!"
"I'm Gohan, shorty!"
Yes, their meeting had been most unusual, but they got off immediately. It just clicked, and it clicked better with her than with any other person he had ever met. Over the last five years, their friendship had grown deeper than he ever thought possible. Even to the point they could say the same things at the same moment, could look at each other and understand each other perfectly, could finish each other's sentences, could know whether one of them was hurt or angry, could know what the other thought. He could laugh at her and made fun of her without being afraid she wouldn't forgive him. She could be a real bitch to him, but he knew she didn't mean the horrible things she said. They could quarrel for hours and make up in five minutes. They could talk for days, and share comfortable silences. They could spend hours watching bad soap-operas on television, spend hours discussing about any subject, spent hours shopping. He let her rage when she was furious, she smiled at his worst jokes. He got her a dog, an animal he knew she loved, after her long-term boyfriend Mark broke up with her two years before, she got him a cat, an animal she knew he hated, when he was away for work at her birthday a few months before. She couldn't get along with his mother, he couldn't get along with her father, but they would visit each other's families every Christmas. Just because they did that for each other. They just…needed each other, they needed each other's friendship.
"Videl, I just want to say one thing." Gohan began seriously. He got her hand and hold it in his, while Videl looked at him questioningly.
"I know it's not funny, that whole high-five thing with that nutcase." Videl cocked an eyebrow. "Alright, it is funny, but I also know it's embarrassing for you. But as embarrassing it might seem now, some day we will look back at this, you'll laugh nervously and change the subject."
A silence followed, in which all three of them said nothing and let the words sink into their head.
"That's it?" Videl eventually asked.
"That's it." Gohan replied.
"Hey, gee, thanks. That will help me a lot." Videl said sarcastically.
"You're welcome." He replied cheerfully.
"By the bye." Erasa began. "Does anyone of you two know when Sharpy will be here."
"He should be here any minute." Videl replied.
"Speaking of the devil…" Gohan said, pointing his finger to the direction of the door. In came a tall guy with long blond hair and an air as if he were the most gorgeous man ever walking the surface of the earth. The guy walked over to their table and winked at a waitress, who blushed furiously.
"Sorry I'm late guys. Had to brush all the ladies off me." He said cockily.
"Don't tell me you were attacked by cats again?" Videl said with a malicious smile on her face, which made Gohan and Erasa burst into laughing again.
"I tell you, they're EVIL! All of them!" Sharpener yelled with a slightly fanatic look on his face.
"Well, then don't bathe in aftershave every time, you know the smell makes them aggressive ! And now you're late!"
"But he's fashionably late." Erasa said happily.
"He's always fashionably late." Gohan bugged in.
"We passed the point where it's no longer fashionably, but just rude." Videl said with a cocked eyebrow and crossed arms. "But since we know you have such trouble dosing your aftershave, we forgive you."
"Thanks guys, I appreciate that." Sharpener said while he ran a hand through his blond locks. "Let me make it up to you, I'll pay the check."
Gohan bend forward and looked at him with a startled expression on his face.
"You have money?" He asked with widened eyes.
Both girls burst into laughter this time while Sharpener was laughing along with them sarcastically.
"Really Gohan, you crack me up. Start with small audiences, dude!"
"Is this small enough?"
"I was thinking more about you and…I don't know, a mirror?"
"It's true love between you and your mirror. It would break my heart to take away your favorite accessory…"
Sharpener growled while he threw his hair over his shoulder.
"Well, your reflection would break the mirror."
"Alright guys, that's enough, let's keep it friendly here." Videl interfered. "We all know that you are both ugly so there is no competition. Now let's order, and order much, cuz it's all on Sharpener's costs."
"Great idea!" Gohan exclaimed enthusiastically.
"That's not fair!" Sharpener yelled. "We all know Gohan's stomach is a bottomless pit!"
"Oh, don't be such a whiner, Sharpener." Erasa shrieked in her normal, cheerful way. "If you think you have it rough, then look at Angela. She has to cook the damn food for him!"
"Speaking of which…" Sharpener said, already forgotten the enormous check he would have to pay later that morning, "…how is she, Gohan?"
"She's fine. Only, yeah, she complains a lot about me eating this much." Gohan said while a blush came to his face.
"Well, I can imagine." Videl replied while she looked at the menu. "I mean, how long have you two been living together? Five months, right?"
Gohan nodded slowly.
"Well, just picture this…how would you feel if you have been cooking for a small army for five whole months? It's overwhelming, I don't think I could handle it!"
"Oh, thanks, Videl. Now I'm feeling guilty about my eating habit." Gohan said while he took away the menu from Videl.
"I'm not trying to make you feel bad, I'm just saying I can relate to her complaining, regardless of how much you eat, which I know you can't help."
"I know you're right. But what can I do about it?"
"Well, appreciate it! If you're like "yeah, she's complaining about it" then do the cooking yourself!"
"You're kinda hard on me Videl."
"I know. But your mother was too overprotective when you lived with her. Gotta toughen you up somehow!"
"She has a point there, Gohan." Sharpener continued. "You were a wimp while your mom took care of you. You couldn't even make tea."
"He still can't. He'd burn the water." Videl replied.
"Guys, what is it today? Make-fun-of-Gohan-day?" Gohan asked sarcastically.
"I thought that was next week." Erasa said while she placed her finger on her chin.
Sharpener and Videl laughed while a waitress came to their table. They ordered and to Sharpeners dismay, Gohan ordered ten times the amount a normal human would satisfy. The waitress, knowing the four friends a little since they came there so often, smiled at them and then walked away again.
"No seriously, guys. I am toughening up. I know mom was a little bit overprotected towards me, but look, I ironed my own shirt this morning!" Gohan exclaimed cheerfully.
"Wow, Gohan that's great!" Videl said. "Quick, call the newspaper, maybe it can still make tomorrow's front-page!"
"You are the newspaper, Videl." Sharpener said to her.
"O yeah! Damn, that joke doesn't work anymore, since it work at the Orange City Daily."
"Finally we got rid of that joke." Gohan sighed satisfied.
"Yeah, I know, it started to annoy me too!" Erasa agreed.
"Hahaha". Videl sarcastically said. "No seriously, Gohan, ironing a shirt is not good enough if you really want to do something!"
"Videl, I really don't feel like talking about it. Sorry to say it, but you're being nosy again. It's between Angela and me. And besides, it work almost sixty hours in a week. Are you saying I should do chores too?"
"Then work less hours! You don't need the money!"
"No Videl, stop! I really don't want to discuss that with you, okay! Now can we just change the subject please?"
A four of them went silent and waited for their food, until Sharpener broke the silence.
"I farted."
"…"
"…"
"Ugh, and I'm sitting next to you!"
"Disgusting! Are you rotten on the inside or something?"
"Must you create your own atmosphere?"
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"Ugh, my nostrils still hurt." Gohan complained as Videl and he walked home after they left the cafeteria and said goodbye to their friends.
"I know. I really think people should get a fine for farting in public!" Videl replied angrily.
"Tell me about it."
They shared a comfortable silence while Gohan folded his hand around hers and he smiled at her the most loving smile.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Videl asked suspiciously, though she could not restrain herself from smiling back.
Gohan looked at her big blue eyes, eyes as innocent as a child, and his smile even widened for a far was possible. Her eyes always made him feel happy, carefree. He had found out more than occasionally that he could never be mad at his best friend only because she could look at him in a certain way. A softness lay in those blue eyes, no matter how much fire they spitted. That same softness had more than often soothed him when he was sad or feeling alone. It was really true what they said. One simple expression could say a thousand words, and hers did. She didn't need words, she only had took look at him with those eyes.
"Nothing. Just now I think about it, it kinda heartwarming how you defended my girlfriend earlier."
Videl's suspicious smile changed into an equal as Gohan's loving smile.
"I like Angela. She's good to you, I couldn't wish for any another person to be with my buddy!" She squeezed his hand a little in a loving gesture.
"I'm sorry you don't have anyone right now." Gohan said to her.
"Don't worry about me. I'll find someone, trust me. I mean look at me…I'm drop dead gorgeous!"
Gohan smiled at her.
"Yeah, I'd say you're a real catch, babe!"
"Hey, no flirting with me mister!" Videl said in a fake-strict voice. "Or I'll have to call your girlfriend!"
"Oh, no! She'll be waiting for me with the frying pan of Doom!" Gohan replied in a fake-panicked tone.
Videl laughed as they continued to walk. They decided to make a detour through the park.
"I love the park in autumn." Videl sighed. "Everything is so colorful, you're almost forgetting that this really is the dull, dirty city park."
"I know, you hardly see the empty soda cans and wet papers spread on the grass."
Silently, they enjoyed the colorful surroundings and they walked across a lake, where dozens of ducks swam.
"Gohan?"
"Hmm?"
"I know I shouldn't have been nosy like you said I was."
Gohan looked questioningly, while Videl looked back with a grave expression on her face.
"What are you talking about?" He asked.
"I was nosy in the cafeteria. I know I shouldn't have been. What you do around your apartment really doesn't concern me. It's your business."
Gohan's eyes softened and he looked at her affectionately.
"Hey, don't mention it. I know how you're like, and you wouldn't be you if you weren't nosy."
Videl smiled at him. He was so sweet. He always was to her, even when she didn't deserve it.
"And besides," He continued, "you were right. Maybe I should work less and do more around the apartment.
"So what's holding you back?"
"I don't know. Maybe it want certainty. When I work, I know I am the best at it. I run my department with ease. Has a file got lost? So what, I send a few emails and the problem is solved. Do two employees have trouble working together? I'll just mediate. Did I forget to prepare for a business meeting? No worries, I'll figure something out. But I can't even do a proper laundry. Or vacuum the living room, let alone cooking."
"I see." Videl murmured.
"So I'd rather do something I'm good at, than something I completely suck in, even though Angela has got a part-time job and managing the house too."
"Well, vacuuming and ironing for example are things even you can learn. Really, ask Angela to show you how it's done. It will take away pressure from her shoulders too."
"Yeah, I will. I know I shouldn't be this selfish. I'm gonna do my best, I promise."
"Well that's good to hear, Gohan. I'm proud of you!" Videl smiled one of her innocent smiles again and Gohan could see she meant every word of it.
After talking a few minutes about work and Videl's love-life, they reached the apartment building Videl lived in.
Reluctantly, Gohan let go of Videl's warm, small hand and Videl started looking for her keys in her purse.
"Well, I have to go, gotta work on this article about this new book, costs me a lots of time." Videl said after she found her keys.
Gohan nodded and smiled at her.
"Well, call me soon, I don't want us to be strangers because of work." Gohan said cheerfully.
"But that will never happen, Gohan. No matter how much I try to avoid you, fate always brings us back together." She sweetly said. "Now give me a hug!"
Gohan happily hugged her, holding her firmly to his own body. When he loosened the hug he found her smiling at him innocently.
"Kiss."
Gohan chuckled and bend forward, to press his own lips softly and shortly against hers, before he let her go. To her it might had become a habit and she probably didn't think it was more than a friendly kiss. To him it was so much more. It was the closest thing to a real kiss, he knew, the closest he would ever get to her. Still he felt a warm, tingling feeling in his stomach, when his lips briefly met hers. Still he was amazed at how those lips felt. Still he wanted, maybe more than ever, to let go of his restraints, and deepen the small innocent kiss and change it to the passionate kiss he longed for since he first brushed those sweet lips. But he knew he couldn't do it. It would ruin everything. Change everything. And he wasn't willing to give everything up.
Videl turned around and walked towards the building. When the door was opened for her, she looked at Gohan one more time, and winked at him, before she entered the building.
Gohan turned around slowly, and thought about the good conversations, them holding hands, their hug, their little kiss and the wink she just send him. Oh, boy…didn't she know how hard she made things for him.
Little did he know that after Videl entered the building, she leaned on the first wall in her path and breathing more heavily than she wanted, she brought her hand to her chest, while tears she struggled to fight back filled her blue eyes.
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