summary: it's 7am, the sun is coming up, you've got one shoe on and your best friend is puking on the sidewalk. this must've been what they meant when they said your 20s would be amazing.

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texting key: lazuli/android 18
bulma
krillin

(701):i sent him a topless photo and he complimented my eyes. i'm not sure if i'm offended or pleasantly surprised.

in truth, lazuli had no idea how to navigate a relationship. one night stands? friends with benefits? she knew how to deal with those like the back of her hand, but relationships? she was as inexperienced as they come. and it wasn't that she didn't like her relationship, because she liked krillin, a lot. it was just that he was her first real relationship and she didn't know what was really okay or not okay.

and it didn't help that the two (three) examples she had for relationships were as dysfunctional as they came. there was bulma and vegeta who spent more time swearing and fighting that lazuli was almost one-hundred percent sure that they were just hate fucking than actually dating. and then there were chi-chi and goku, who presented like the perfect couple, a nursing student and an aspiring mma fighter, but were just as dysfunctional as any other couple.

there was also yamcha and tien, but she wasn't close to them like that and she really didn't want to know how things worked between them.

(9:17pm) just be yourself. it's not that hard

bulma's text message made lazuli roll her eyes so hard they nearly fell out of her head. be yourself? what the hell was bulma? some cheesy motivational speaker?

(9:19pm) I didn't know those "hang in there" cat posters had a cousin

be yourself.

it was almost laughable, because if lazuli was being lazuli, she would be leading krillin on, sleep with him a few times before ghosting him. or if she was in the mood, telling him that she was bored. but no, lazuli actually liked him and part of her didn't want to mess this up.

(9:22pm) seriously, krillin is head over heels.
(9:22pm) you could step on him and he'd say thank you and ask for you to do it again.

the new message made lazuli raise an eyebrow, because she hadn't been expecting something like that. she knew though that bulma wasn't lying. her friend had explained that she had grown up with krillin and goku and knew the boys better than anyone else. it was often why chi-chi would go to bulma whenever she was having problems in her relationship. so, maybe bulma actually knew what she was talking about.

except for the stepping on him thing, she wasn't entirely sure what bulma knew about krillin's sexual desires. and part of lazuli hoped that that was actually true, but that was something to deal with and address later on.

just be yourself.

(9:25pm) fine.

running her fingers through her hair, lazuli knew just how to be herself. making sure that her bedroom door was closed and locked (she really didn't need her brother or cousin barging in and asking for god knows what from her during a moment like this), lazuli got to work preparing to be herself. first, the blinds had to be closed, and then the lighting had to be just right. to compliment her rather than make it look bad.

half way through her set up, lazuli had to stop and think about how she wanted to do this. just one picture? or two? fully exposed or more? oh god what if he didn't actually like what she was going to do.

(9:45pm) hold on wait
(9:45pm) bra or no bra

god, was she really asking bulma how to send a topless picture? lazuli as hitting a new low. all over krillin, none the less.

(9:55pm) both.
(9:55pm) show off a nice set and then show off the goods.

this was what bulma was doing with those two phds, and lazuli was thankful for that.

so, the set up continued and lazuli began rummaging through her drawers, looking for one of her best matching bra and underwear sets. part of her couldn't believe that she was putting this much effort in to sending a topless picture. something she wouldn't even consider doing without having received a dick picture or something first. but god, this was evidence as to how much she actually liked him. she was sending him the picture first.

finally, she found it. the deep red demi bra with the matching underwear. it was absolutely one of her favorites, and she knew that it would drive him crazy. and lazuli was busting it out just for him. changing in to the matching set, lazuli began thinking about posing for him.

maybe she should lay on her bed and angle her camera over her?

or maybe she should have it as a mirror picture?

and should she put her face in the picture or not? was krillin the type to share nudes sent to him or anything like that? he didn't seem like it but oh god what if he was?

no. no he wasn't. lazuli was overthinking this entire situation for no real reason. if anything, she would probably be the first girl to ever send krillin nudes (and if she wasn't, she didn't want to know otherwise). taking a deep breath, lazuli just decided to go ahead and fuck it. he would love it, she knew he would.

settling on her bed, her back against her headboard, and her face angled out of the picture, she got a picture, catching the swell of her cleavage, the deep red bra and the matching underwear. after running her picture through meitupic (just some small touch ups, nothing serious) lazuli saved it before preparing to take her next picture.

taking off the bra, she dropped it to the floor, and resumed the position. this time, there was no bra to hide anything, and that included the silver bars that ran through both of her nipples. it hurt like a bitch to actually get them done, but she liked the aesthetic and look of it all. and she was sure that krillin wasn't going to complain either.

satisfied with the second picture that she took, lazuli didn't even bother to hesitate as she sent them off to krillin. and once she did she immediately threw her phone to the other side of the bed because she didn't need to be on it, or near it while waiting for his response. that would make her far too paranoid.

it took about half an hour for him to reply, and lazuli was losing her cool demeanor over it, because oh god what if she had actually made him uncomfortable and ruined their newly formed relationship.

but he responded and lazuli still waited another thirty minutes, not wanting to seem too eager and make him think that she was actually waiting for him to respond or something like that. no, he could never know that lazuli was actually nervous about waiting for his response to her topless pictures.

(11:05pm) wow
(11:08pm) you have really
(11:08pm) really
(11:08pm) pretty eyes

lazuli read the message over a few times, just to make sure that she was actually reading it right. she had sent him topless pictures. he had seen her nipple pictures. and he had complimented her eyes. she stared at it for a moment more before not even giving him a response. instead texting bulma.

(11:48pm) i sent him a topless pic and he complimented my eyes
(11:48pm) idk if i'm offended or pleased

(12:00am) yeah. that sounds about right
(12:01am) for both of you.

(12:05am) oh fuck off

she didn't even put her phone down before she suddenly got a new text message, this time not from bulma, but from krillin.

(12:05am) but you know
(12:05am) it did make it kind of hard to focus for the rest of my shift
(12:06am) the pictures, i mean

the thought of krillin being uncomfortable with the pictures she sent him, attempting to patrol campus like he was supposed to be doing made lazuli smirk. oh she was definitely pleased now.