Chapter Three

Sprays of water flew into the air, the smell of salt and the nice cool breeze as the hover car went over the ocean.

"Thanks for helping with the shopping." Launch thanked her companion.

"No problem" Yamcha laughed. It was nice to get away from the island and someone needed to make sure Launch didn't sneeze and rob the local bank. The reactions from the locals when they realised who the young lady accompanying him was priceless, that alone was worth the trip into town.

"I'm surprised that you where able to carry my bag of feminine hygiene toiletries items around without blushing or making inappropriate jokes." The dark haired girl commented remembering Yamcha and Krillen avoiding holding those bags like they contained the plague when both were younger. Goku on the other hand had no idea what the items where and couldn't understand why the two boys and the old master made a big deal about her toiletries.

"When you've dated Bulma as long as I did you get used to it. The amount of times Bulma would forget when her time of the month was and make me go to the store and by her pads or tampons was very high." Yamcha told. "You should've seen the first time Bulma ever though she was pregnant."

"In case you're forgetting I did" Launch replied.

"Oh yeah" Yamcha laughed. She had been there.

DBZ

Bulma, Yamcha and Launch where all in their final year of high school. The rich girl's father had managed to get the ex-bandit and schizophrenic bank robber into the same school she went to and the pair was also living under his roof instead of with Master Roshi.

"This should make school more interesting now that my boyfriend and best friend are here." Bulma told them gleefully.

"I'd prefer to be training for the next Martial Arts tournament like Goku and Krillen are doing rather than attend school." Yamcha sighed.

"And I'd prefer to be going on another Dragon Ball hunt or working in the lab but unfortunately I have to finish high school and get my high school diploma if I want people to recognise me for my work and qualifications. Using my family name is only going to get me so far in the science field and if you two are going to be respectable citizens with honest jobs you need a high school diploma." The demanding girl told them both.

Yamcha and Launch both got a lot of attention from the other students since they where Bulma's friends and it didn't take long before the other students learnt of Launches sneezing problem. The first couple of days the boys would throw different items at Launch to make her sneeze but it didn't last long when the blond haired girl almost killed the whole class.

That first week of Yamcha and Launch attending school Bulma had been sick the whole time, but still insisted on turning up to class even though she had a vomiting bug.

Yamcha tried to convince his girlfriend "Bulma, just stay home and relax, get better. Launch and I will be fine at school without you."

"Guys, I'm not sick" Bulma was pale and clammy and the small group had to stop while she spewed into a bin. "I'm pregnant."

Yamcha was so pale and he stood still in shock as he processed the words from his girlfriend's mouth.

"Congratulations Bulma, let me know if there's anything I can do for you." Launch replied happily, she wasn't at all concerned about the fact that they were all still in high school and unmarried.

"Launch, this isn't something to be happy about!" Bulma screamed at her naive friend.

Yamcha pulled his girlfriend into a bear hug. "It's going to be alright, I'm here for you. I love you Bulma and I'll love our child as well and will do anything to help."

"Same here, but are you sure your pregnant? Have you gone to the doctors or done a home test?" Launch inquired.

"My periods late, and I haven't gone to the doctors and been too embarrassed to buy a home test." Bulma responded.

"So you're not sure" Launch smiled. "So first things first is you need to buy a test."

"Yamcha, buy the test for me please" Bulma pleased to her boyfriend.

"I can't do that" Yamcha squeaked out in utter fear.

"You just said you'd do anything for me you lying coward." Bulma shouted at him.

"And I will, I'll do it even if I don't want to." Yamcha told his girlfriend in utter defeat.

DBZ

Yamcha was so nervous as he stood in the drug store, it took him a long time to find the tests and when he finally did he had no clue which type he should buy, so in the end bought one of each type. If he had one of each type Bulma couldn't yell at him that he had the wrong ones. The clerk gave him a strange look as he paid for the pregnancy tests, he was after all still wearing his school uniform.

He quickly walked to where the two girls where waiting, Bulma refused to go in and refused to let Launch go with Yamcha just in case people thought they were an expecting couple.

The three teenagers arrived home and locked themselves in Bulma's bathroom, test after test was done all coming back with the same result and that result being negative. Bulma was convinced they were lying until three days later when her period finally arrived having just been late and not pregnant at all.

DBZ

Bulma was sitting in the air-conditioning, feeling the heat more then she would normally. Vegeta had left the planet to train for the androids after an argument and told her that woman and some men depending on the planet had been giving birth for millennia by themselves so why should she be any different and have his support. She was interrupted from her brooding state by a phone call.

"Hey Bulma" she heard the happy response on the other end of the phone. "I just wanted to let you know that my offer still stands." Her ex-boyfriend told her.

"What offer is that?" the scientist enquired wondering if it was to do with his proposal.

"I'll be there for you, anything you need help in and I'll help you with it." He told her. "Even though where no longer partners, you'll always be special to me and I'll always help you." He was rambling and repeating himself over and over.

"Can you come to my ultrasound? You and Launch, it would mean a lot to me to have two of my three best friends with me and not go alone."

"Of course we'll both come" Yamcha replied happily, not even asking Launch if she wanted to come, he already knew the answer to that without asking. The years they'd been separated hadn't changed their friendship at all.