Okay the long and short. I have a busy life, and lots of stuff to do. But I miss writing so I'm making a commitment to upload something every other week at least. Please hole me to it. I miss writing, and well I wanna do it again. I'm gonna make some changes on my profile now.

So for all who want it. Here's the next chapter of High School dreams.

Disclaimer: DBZ not mine. But it's on my wish list.

Chapter 4

"Later." Chi-chi called to Bulma as she headed down the hall to her next class. She walked slowly looking for Juu. The two girls had been excited to learn that they had music history together, and thought it would be cool to walk there together. Or Chi-chi did anyway; Juu had been in a not so great mood since the incident with her cousin. She wasn't completely unresponsive, but enough that it was notable in her actions.

Chi-chi didn't really want to get involved though. She had her own life after all. Krillin's, Juu's, and everyone else's lives were hardly a concern to her. Turning the corner Chi-chi stopped short almost colliding head first with an open locker. She stumbled a bit and was shoved by some kids heading the opposite way. She hit the ground and her books scattered on the floor. She groaned as quietly as she could and began picking them up.

She saw a hand reach down to assist her and turned sharply toward the owner yelling, "Who in the world leaves their locker wide open like that? What kind of idiot are you?"

Her face fell when a young spiky haired boy leaned down by her and gently laughed handing her books to her, "I don't really know Chi-chi." he said his smile practically glowing. "What kinds are there?"

"G-goku."She choked out in shock. She stared silently; she hadn't seen or heard from him since the incident almost two month ago. "I didn't mean...I didn't know. I was angry. I didn't mean that."

"'S'kay."Goku laughed. He pulled her to her feet and pointed left. "Going my way?" Chi-chi looked around nervously and turned away not sure of what to say. Truthfully she was going that way, but...it was just too awkward so she lied.

"No, I'm meeting someone here." She replied quietly, even though she saw Juu waiting at the end of that very hall for her.

"Oh." Goku's face fell slightly. "Well later than."

"Bye." she waved. She started away feeling awful for leaving behind her friend. But she wasn't like Tein or Piccolo. She couldn't be friends with them both. Krillin was her cousin. They were family. She had to side with her family. It was the right thing.

"Hey, Chi-chi." she turned back when she heard Goku called her. "You wanna hang out after school or something?" he looked hopeful and excited. Chi-chi blushed. She had always had a small crush on Goku.

"No, I…I can't." she sighed shaking her head. His smile fell. She started to leave again when Goku called again.

"Hey Chich," he half whispered putting a hand on her shoulder, "you know that you and I are still friends right? I mean I understand that things are weird with me and Krillin right now, but you and I are friends too if you wanna be. It's up to you."

Chi-chi tuned back and stared at him. It was almost like he had read her mind. She leaned towards him and smiled. Goku smiled back. He put his hand on her back and pulled her into a hug. Then Chi-chi decided that it was okay. Krillin wouldn't mind really. All the others remained friends with him, so why couldn't she? Smiling she returned his embrace.

Just then the bell rang.

"Oh no we're late." Goku said pulling back from her. He turned left and raced down the hall with Chi-chi right behind. The two of them tore to their classes at top speed, papers flying out of their bags. Chi-chi's class came up first. Sweaty and out of breath she went to the door as her companion continued down the hall. She had one foot in before remembering what she had been about to say to him before they were interrupted.

"Goku." she yelled. He turned his head to her, still running. "Let's hang out after school okay? I'll meet you at the gate."

"Sounds great." he cheered turning down the next hall and disappearing toward the gym. Turning back to her class, she felt a strong sense of relief and sighed happily.

"If you're done arranging your date miss, I'd like to start my class." Snapping out of her trance she found herself facing her entire class and teacher. Her face flushed red and she quickly found her seat next to Juu. She received a number of looks throughout the rest of class, but was far too giddy to care at all.

The bright lights of the dull white office blinded Krillin as he sat against the far wall. He swung his feet in almost perfect rhythm with the ticking of the secretary's typing as he leaned as close as he could to the Principle's office door. From inside came the muffled yelling of his math teacher, Ms. Raii, the gentle warnings of the principle, Ms. Cooper for her to settle down, and the calm apologies of his father.

Signing, he strained his neck reaching a bit farther and was able to make out at least some of the conversation. "…always late…never turns in work…constant disruption…demand he be taken care of..!" That was most obviously Ms. Raii. Krillin cringed he'd seen her angry before and it was not a pretty sight.

Next, much softer he heard his father answer, "I'm sure…work this out…other options… expulsion." At this Krillin panicked. Expulsion? He was risking expulsion? This was worse then he had feared. He had worked so hard to get into this school. Now he was going to get thrown out. He leaned closer praying for dear life that this wasn't the case.

He heard the Principle speak, but she was neither as loud as Ms. Raii, nor as close to the door as his father so her words were only muffled bits of voice. He pushed the sides of his chair and bent as far as he could. He caught the word 'tutor' and smiled upon realizing he was not being thrown out. His other grades must have been good enough to keep him in school. Sure he had to deal with a brainy geek for a few weeks, but he was staying in school. Unfortunately Krillin's happiness was cut short. For in his moment of glee he had lost grip on his chair and toppled over very loudly knocking down the row of chairs.

His head buried in the carpet, he felt his face heat up. Of course he had fallen, if he hadn't life would be fair. Sitting up he gently rubbed his rug burned cheek as he heard the secretary ask quietly, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." He laughed embarrassed as he stood. He brushed himself off and turned to give her a smile to reassure her. Then he froze dead in his tracks. The women at the desk had taken her attention away from Krillin to help another woman who had entered with her children. Ordinarily this wouldn't have been such a big deal.

But of course with his luck it just so happened that one of the two teens standing at the other side of the room was Juu. His breathing was rigid as he made his way back over to his seat and fixed his chair. Taking his seat, Krillin focused his eyes on the floor and tried to ignore the fact that the girl he had been thinking about everyday for the past three weeks was standing only eight feet from him.

Since their little 'fight' Juu had done her best to ignore him. She only ever spoke to him when she absolutely had to. Such as if their math teacher made them work together. She didn't spare him any hellos, not in the hallways, not when they sat together in class, not even when she came to visit Chi-chi.

Though Krillin had tried countless times to apologize, Juu insisted she was not mad at him, but she didn't want to be friends either. Now to most people this would be satisfying, and they would be content to move on.

Normally even Krillin, being the timid boy he was would have also accepted this, but for some reason he couldn't. There was something about this girl that wouldn't leave him alone. It nagged at him whenever she was around. He was determined to figure her out; no matter what.

What bothered him most about the incident was that is made no sense. She had flipped out on him, but for what reason? Why had she done it? In the heat of the moment all he had been concerned about was that he had offend her. For the next week all he wanted was to make it right again. After a week fighting for her to at least glance his way he realized she was acting very silly about the whole thing, and he was determined to find out why.

"Krillin." hearing his father's voice made him turn his attention away from the girl. When Krillin faced his father he could almost sense the disappointment behind his dark glasses, and it made him want to crawl under a rock. He stood up and joined his father assuming they were heading out. To his surprise they joined the Principle at her side while she spoke with Juu's mother while Juu and her brother remained at the desk.

"Well," he heard Juu's mother say proudly. "She does take after me in the brains department. I'm not surprised she's already on the Honor Society. I was always quick with that sort of thing too." Krillin quickly glanced over at Juu, who he was surprised to see was surveying them all eyes wide with curiosity. Krillin smiled in her direction and gave a half-hearted wave. Juu glared in response before walking over to join them.

"Ah here's our bright star now." The principle said once Juu had joined them. "Well dear I'm happy you're hear. Your math grades are astounding considering you started so late."

"Thanks." Juu said shortly. "Now will you please tell me why I'm here?" Her mother glared at her and Krillin saw they had the same eyes.

"Yes," the principle continued taken aback a little. "you see dear, Krillin here needs some tutoring in math and since you are both in his math class, and part of the honor society we figured you'd be the best for the job. What do you say?"

"Of course she'll do it."Juu's mother answered as soon as the words left the principle's mouth. Juu had no time to respond. She just looked at Krillin almost embarrassed. She and he looked at each other caught completely off-gaurd. Part of Krillin wanted to object on the grounds that she had been so awful to him the last couple weeks. That she refused to talk to him. Although a bigger part wanted to shake the teachers hand, and dance around the room singing show tunes. He suspected it had little to do with his grades though.

"Alright then." the Principle smiled before turning to Krillin. "Krillin this is Juuhachi she will be your tutor."Krillin nodded as she turned to Juu. "AndJuuhachi this is Krillin." Steppingg forward as if they had never met before Juu took Krillin hand and shook it slightly before pulling back. Then without a word she turned and rejoined her brother at the desk. He kept his eyes on her as her mother bid the principle a goodbye and herded her children out of the office. His father also said a quick goodbye, and they headed out the door to their car.

He couldn't believe it. Juu was going to be spending time with him. Him. He would finally have an opportunity to make things right. Maybe they could be friends after all. Though he couldn't explain it something about Juu attracted him to her and not just physically. He was so excited he could sing. Though he decided he should save that for his nightly shower. Yep things were starting to look up for him. Juu was gonna be spending hours every week at his house he could wait.

"Well I can't help but say congrats boy." His father said as they reached the car. "You'll be getting to spend a lot of time with that sweet ass blonde bomb shell. Man did you see those legs. What I wouldn't give to be you the next few weeks."

'Or maybe,' Krillin thought climbing into his dad's car, 'we'll meet at her place instead.'

"I can't believe you would just say yes for me like that." Juu complained as soon as they all arrived home. She sat down on the couch and rubbed her forehead. She was avoiding this boy for a reason after all.

"Nonsense." Juu's mother said taking off her coat, "Tutoring will look good on your college applications. You want to get into a good school don't you? Unless you wanna be a lazy do-nothing like your father. Or worse a worthless, selfish, ungrateful brat like your brother. There may be no help for him, but there is for you."

At that her brother flipped. He had been heading up the stairs but was now back a the bottom already throwing insults right back in their mother's face. Deciding not to involve herself Juu quickly raced up the stairs to her room, leaving them to their childish argument. She closed the door and locked it before falling onto her bed. She tried to block out her family's fighting and heard a low drum beat in her ear. At first she thought it was the stress of the fighting, but soon she realized the beat was real and was close by. Curiously she rose from her bed and wandered toward her balcony. She hadn't used it since the night she fought with Krillin, but she had seen him waiting for her to come out almost every night since.

She pulled the curtains back, and saw Krillin, not on the balcony, but in his room. His curtains were wide open, and his lights were all on. He was sitting at a drum set and playing along to whatever music was playing in his room. She repressed an urge to smile. He looked like he was having a blast. His head was banging and his hands were flying. He look cool, and confident, and happy. Her smile managed to break through as she closed the curtain again.

Deep down Juu knew what she was doing to him was wrong, but she just couldn't risk getting to know this kid. Sure they had talked a little and she thought she'd maybe found a friend in him, but he had lied to her before he even knew her. He had assumed things about based on only one conversation. Lies, accusations, assumptions she was sick of them all. She wish she could just banish them out of her life. But no matter what they followed her like a storm cloud over her head. Although her conscious had been wearing on her quite a bit since her outburst. He was probably so used to people belittling him that he was just trying to protect himself too. Just like her.

Juu fell into her bed again after pulling off her top. She slid under her covers, and stared at the ceiling. She felt bad for blaming the guy for being protective, but she just couldn't let another liar into her life.

"And now," she thought bitterly, "I have to help him with his homework." She sighed and turned on her side. She heard her mother smacking her brother downstairs, which was soon followed by the slamming of the front door as her brother ran off. Once a long time ago he would have invited her out with him, but that was before it was just the three of them. Before Jay hated her because their parents treated her differently. Now they were not nearly as close anymore. She smiled a little thinking of a better time in her life. A time when she was happy. She watched the numbers on her clock change slowly before falling into a gentle sleep. Her last thought suggesting that maybe she should give that brace faced guy next door another chance after all.

Author Note: Alright does every one get why she was mad now? Good. See I had a plan.

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Kap.