Author Notes: I posted this first chapter on tumblr when people were finishing finals in December. It has since then grown. Mostly fluffy cute stuff with a little drama and some eventual action. Have at it. And enjoy.

Pairing: Goku x Chi-Chi

Words: 898

AU Setting: High School

~!~ Just Another High School Romance ~!~

~!~ Part 1: I Thought Of You ~!~

Goku stared at the test paper in front of him. Blank. Everything was still blank. Time was running out and the most he'd managed was picking up his pencil and staring at the mess of numbers and stuff. It wasn't so much that he had test anxiety, just that he had no idea how to answer the first question and he couldn't seem to look beyond it.

His friends would probably laugh at him again when he announced how he hadn't managed to answer a single thing on the exam. Bulma and Yamcha did all right on their tests usually, but they never helped him out. Vegeta excelled in some subjects and didn't seem to care about the others. Krillin tried to be supportive and helpful but all of his time went to his own private studying.

Goku sighed, clicking his pencil against the desk as he stared harder at the test question. For some reason, he just couldn't think straight. The numbers blurred together the longer he stared until he couldn't even decipher the problem itself.

Grandpa Gohan was going to be so disappointed. Again. He'd probably ask why Goku hadn't gotten one of the nice young ladies to help tutor him. Except he had. Chi-Chi had been real nice and helpful and had even stayed over at his house a few times for dinner and stargazing and studying, of course.

Goku closed his eyes and hummed at the nice memories. Of Chi-Chi brushing against his arm while she pointed out a particular problem he was having. The smell of her sweet, flowery scented hair as she leaned over him. Of her angry tirades the moment she caught him day dreaming…

With a start, he blinked out of the memory and shook his head. Cleared his head of the thoughts of Chi-Chi. Tried to anyway. It was so easy to picture her and the math book between them on the table as they worked through a…

Wait.

Clearing his head for real this time, Goku glanced back to his test and grinned. The problem he'd worked with Chi-Chi in that memory was the same thing. He could almost hear her voice guiding him through the proper steps as he answered the first question. And the next. And the next. And the next…

By the time the bell rang, Goku had finished his test just in time and proudly handed it over to his professor. With a wide grin on his face, he left the room and found the reason for his success waiting against the wall near the classroom door, holding a textbook in one arm.

"Goku," she said when he walked over. "How'd it go?"

"Great!" He grinned. "I thought of you and everything else came with it!"

She blinked up at him, her cheeks tinged with pink. "You thought of me?"

"Yeah," he said with nod, grabbing her free hand in both of his. "Thanks, Chi-Chi. You were really helpful."

Her eyes caught his, wide and clearly stunned. She looked at him like that a lot. He wasn't sure why. After all, Bulma never stared back at him in silence while her face got all pink in the cheeks. He didn't understand why Chi-Chi gave him the weird look, but he knew he kind of liked it. Just like how he loved seeing her smile, too.

Smile and whisper, "oh," as if she had run out of words to use.

He grinned. "Hey, wanna eat lunch with me, Chi-Chi?"

She stared up at him, eyes still big and bright as she repeated his words back to him. "Eat lunch with you?"

"Yeah," he nodded, and then without waiting for her answer, he tugged her down the hall with him. "Come on. We have to hurry before all the good stuff gets taken."

"R-right," she stuttered as she followed him along, not even tripping at the pace he set.

Chi-Chi was one of the few girls – or the only girl he knew really – who could keep up with his faster pace. And she did it without complaint, too, letting herself get pulled along. When they finally reached the cafeteria, he got in line and turned to see her smiling at him. He smiled back.

Until she nudged him with her elbow. "Goku, are you going to keep holding my hand like that?"

"Huh?" He blinked, realized he was still holding her hand, and quickly dropped his touch since she seemed bothered by it. "Sorry. I guess it just felt so natural."

"Really?" She asked and when he looked to her, he found that her eyes were doing that thing again. "Well, you can keep holding it, if you want to."

"Uhm. Okay."

And for some reason, when he grabbed her hand this time there was a new feeling in his chest and a warmth on his face. And when she giggled and leaned against him, those new sensations got worse. He gulped and considered dropping her hand again, but decided against it. New or not, he liked it.

Looking down at her with her bright eyes and nice smelling hair and oh the way her uniform fit her body so nicely – something he'd never noticed before on any girl ever – he decided he wanted to hold her hand more often. And maybe more than that, too. Because he definitely liked her. He liked her a lot.