Chapter 2: From the Ground Up…

Bulma didn't sleep well that night, her little encounter with Vegeta had her pretty restless. After a nights worth of tossing and turning she wasn't at all surprised when the hum of the gravity room's engines pulled her out of her semi- conscious state.

"He never rests" she said to herself as she stretched out and kicked the blankets down to let the cool air on her skin. She rolled over and looked at the clock on the wall. "Hmm 7:30 I guess I can shower and head down to help mom with breakfast"

She rolled out of bed and decided to step outside for a moment to see what the morning was like. She opened her balcony doors and the cool morning air rushed in. "Yes! Perfect day today!"

She smiled to herself and picked out a pair of white shorts and a light blue tank top to wear and headed for the bathroom.

After a nice long shower she got dressed and was very pleased to see that the bruise on her arm was now barely noticeable. She headed downstairs to help her mom with breakfast. When she got there she started frying some potatoes to have with the meal, adding peppers and onions and butter to them. She knew vegetas favorite thing was meat but like any other man he had a fondness for potatoes to accompany it.

She looked over her shoulder and saw the hungry sayajin prince coming through the kitchen door with a towel wrapped around his shoulders… he had barely even broken a sweat yet.

"Well where is my food woman?" vegeta asked with a smirk playing at the corner of his mouth.

Bulma sensing he was trying to get a rise out of her turned and decided to beat him at his own game "well I've got it right here vegeta dear but if you want it then you will have to eat it off me" she said winking at him and slightly pulling down on the front of her shirt.

Vegetas cheeks turned a deep red as he looked from her to see her parent's reactions. Her father seemed unaffected but bunny was always listening. Just as he was about to come up with a counter…

"Now bulma!" Bunny chided in "Don't embarrass the nice young man, he works so hard he doesn't need you bullying him"

"Bullying him?" Said bulma with a very disbelieving look on her face, "mom he is the bully not me"

She sat down across from vegeta as bunny dished out their breakfast and began to eat glaring at the prince who now wore a very satisfied smirk.

That really didn't go unnoticed by Bulma; though they ate in silence she was going over every detail of her new guest trying desperately to pick him apart. Every guy she had ever met was so predictable; she knew she could make them eat out of the palm of her hand if she chose to. Now here was this guy this alien guy that not only made her want to rip her hair out but made her want to do anything for him. She decided by the end of the meal he would be her friend in the end, if not something more. She had to break through to him somehow… but how?

She would build him a gravity room. He was already using the base model they had built for goku but she would make him something better. "I just want him to see that he can have a nice life now that he is away from that stupid purple lizard" she thought.

"What the hell are you staring at woman?" vegeta asked her clearly aggravated.

It took her a second to pop out of her daydreaming to realize she actually had been staring at the sayajin. "Just trying to figure out who you must have got that ugly mug from she said smiling innocently.

"Gah! Woman don't play dumb with me you know I make much better, what's that term you earthlings use, oh yeah eye candy, then that worthless weakling that drools all over you" he answered lightly

"WHAT! Yamcha doesn't drool on me, what are you trying to say vegeta he pays attention to me so what" truthfully she hadn't seen yamcha in a couple of weeks now they had another big fight and he stormed off. "Speaking of yamcha he should be running back begging for forgiveness soon" she thougt smirking to herself. Oh and he would work for it big time.

After breakfast was over bulma decided even though she was planning on enjoying the great outdoors she would much rather spend the day in her lab. The challenge of an upgraded gravity room of the type she had in mind would take a while to come up with.

Vegeta went back out to the GR to train some more. His concentration was not the same as it was when her first started using it though." Why do I have to keep thinking about her why can't she just stay out of my head? Another 50 g's should set my mind strait."

Meanwhile in bulmas room she had multiple plans layed across every surface and was vigorously trying to make plans for this super GR she was planning. "Every time I figure out how to make one component better I think of something else that would be amazing. I guess I could just ask him what he wants but then that would ruin the surprise! Oh well I guess I'll start with a basic plan and any future upgrades will be all of my other ideas."

After a long day of designing Bulma made all the necessary calls to get supplies delivered to the compound so she could get to work on her new masterpiece. After she hung up the phone it immediately started ringing again. "Hello? This is bulma speaking"

"Hey babe how ya been doin?"

"Yamcha, so nice to hear from you it's been so long I hardly recognized your voice" said Bulma unimpressed.

"Yeah about that um sorry I haven't called just been really busy that's all I needed to clear my head you know with the androids coming and all" answered yamcha

"well do you plan on coming to see me any time soon or are you just going to stay gone forever?" asked bulma her temper beginning to flare

"Yeah I mean sure babe anything for you I'll be by tomorrow."

"Okay see you then" Bulma hung up the phone with a loud clang. "I should have told him not to even bother"

Vegeta fell to the durable floor of the GR with an audible thud he had pushed himself almost to the breaking point this time. "tomorrow I will train harder and get that girl out of my head for good" he told himself firmly. "then I will become a super sayajin and punch the life out of the third class clown and be off this rock by the end of the week…. Okay maybe not that soon but I will stop thinking of her"

After his little pep talk with himself he forced his body up so he could get some food and much needed rest.