Chapter Summary- Vegeta is emotionally repressed and a coward, Krillin doesn't understand hints and doesn't know when someone's into him, Bulma is sick of both of them.

Let me wake up heavy head lying in my bed with you naked/Go put that song on that you love on repeat, until we can't take it/I wanna drink pink lemonade, watching movie trailers till it's late

It was a day after the cupcake incident and Krillin still wanted to die because he felt so embarrassed about what happened in his room. It even extended to leaving the room for the rest of the day, not even when Bulma called him for dinner because seeing Vegeta might send him into a panic attack. Krillin couldn't sleep a wink that night because every single time he closed his eyes, all he saw was Vegeta smiling up at him. This was so unfair, and he couldn't do not a thing about it.

So, he stayed up, on his phone, trying to not think about the saiyan. Once the sun was peeking through the blinds, he decided to get something to drink from the kitchen. Krillin didn't want water, he wanted some coffee because he needed some kind of energy to start this day. He waddled his way to the kitchen, enjoying in the quiet of the house. Krillin left his phone in his room because staring at bright screen for several hours was a bad idea on his part but what else was new?

Krillin yawned as he opened the door to the kitchen, ready for some type of release.

That was until he saw Vegeta standing there in the middle of the kitchen, in all his muscled glory drinking water.

He stopped right in his tracks and stared at the alien because fuck you, this was not fair! Kami really had it out for him. He didn't want to deal with this, he was actively avoiding this because he was a dumbass, so yeah, not deal for this crap.

Maybe the coffee can wait. Krillin turned on his heels to walk away and hideout in his room like a champ. I'll just come back later and—

"Krillin?" Shit. Kami must be laughing high up in the sky as he watched Krillin turn three shades darker than he was as the ex-monk slowly turned to face the saiyan once again. Yep this as attractive as ever, especially with that same soft look in his eyes from yesterday. It made his heart flutter with delight.

The human smiled, trying to be normal, "H-hey Vegeta, how have you've been?" With a greeting as weak and brittle, like his spine. Oh well.

He watched as Vegeta walked up to him and seeing that body right up in his face was doing these to him. Krillin should have just ran like any normal person would but no, that wouldn't do.

Vegeta stared down at him, "Fine, why weren't you at dinner last night?" When he didn't see Krillin all day, he was a bit worried. He really didn't want to think that what happened with the cupcakes had scared off the human but Vegeta didn't want to say anything. Now seeing Krillin again did make him much happier, his butterflies were flying all around and he loved every minute of it.

Because seeing you would probably make me explode. Krillin smiled as he rubbed his hands together, "I wasn't hungry yesterday, I just came down here for some coffee."

"Oh." Was all that Vegeta said before silence filled the kitchen. Which in the end was making Krillin feel bad because the saiyan didn't it wasn't his fault; he knew he would have to make it up to him in the end.

He looked up at Vegeta, "You want some coffee? I could make you some."

Vegeta smiled at him, "Sure. I would love that."

Well maybe this morning, won't be bad so after all.

After figuring out how the coffee machine works, thanks Vegeta, both of them now sat at the table with their hot coffee. They mostly were sitting in silence, but it was comfortable instead of awkward, with Krillin taking small sips of his drink. It honestly surprised Krillin how long he'd gone without coffee, especially with how good this black coffee was. What also surprised Krillin was that Vegeta liked really really sweet coffee, just watching the saiyan pour enough sweetener and milk that the coffee turned nearly white was making him question if this was real life.

But hey, he can't judge right.

Krillin tapped his finger against the cup, "Is your coffee good?" He was definitely not watching him drink his coffee, watching those lips, wondering how they would taste—

Vegeta hummed, "It's pretty good, I still can't believe you like yours black?" Thank you Vegeta for knocking some sense into him but on the other hand.

The ex-monk raised an eyebrow, "What can I say, black coffee is delicious." He another a sip to prove his point. Take that, you smug saiyan asshole.

A scrunched-up face was his answer and Krillin wasn't having it, "Hey, you never tried it, so you can't judge me."

The prince then rolled his eyes, "Maybe I haven't but at least mine doesn't smell like death." Okay that was bit of an exaggeration and he'd show him.

Krillin placed his cup in front of Vegeta without taking his hands off it, "If you are so sure then you won't mind taking a sip than." He watched as the saiyan grabbed his cup and that was when he realized his hands. Before he could say a word, the feeling of those hands was on him and now he lost the ability to talk apparently. Vegeta brought the cup to his mouth and drank some while Krillin closed his eyes as he got lost in his star-filled vision.

"Mhmm, it's still bitter to me." Krillin snapped out of it and saw the serious face of Vegeta looking at him. He took the cup back while covering his face because, for the second time in a row, he was blushing like a teenager.

Get a hold of yourself Krillin, it just coffee. He took a sip of your coffee with his sexy, hot, mouth that you want to—

"Your turn, Krillin." He blinked out his thoughts and looked to see Vegeta holding his coffee up to his face. The sweet smell of milky coffee was under his nose and he realized what the saiyan wanted him to taste his coffee.

I mean I want to taste more than coffee from him. Krillin was going to ignore that and just grabbed the cup, which still had Vegeta's hands on them. Great. He leaned it down and took a sip of sugary coffee. It wasn't bad but way too sweet for his liking, but he tried anything for Vegeta.

He smiled at Vegeta and gave back his cup, "It wasn't a bad, but I rather stick to my black coffee."

The saiyan tutted and took a sip of his own coffee. Krillin thought it was the end of it and they soon went back to silence.

"How did you even get into black coffee anyway?" That actually made him think because how did he get into it. It has been a few years now, maybe a decade even since he started drinking coffee and honestly, it didn't know why either.

So, he told Vegeta just that, "Ya know, I don't know Vegeta, I just I was drawn to it." Like I'm drawn to you. These thoughts were getting out of hand and needed a damn filter before one of them came out his mouth.

He turned the question on Vegeta, "So what about you then, I wouldn't suspect the prince of all saiyans to like something so sweet."

He watched the saiyan look up at the ceiling before back at him, "Most saiyans don't like anything too bitter, its never seats right with us."

Well he has never seen Goku eat something sour/bitter things, so he couldn't argue with that, "Wow and here I thought you guys could eat about anything. I mean Goku has, I don't really count what he can't eat." He was definitely wasn't going to test that theory when he visits Goku, that would be immature of him.

"What is your relationship with Kakarot anyway?" Well that was a weird question and Krillin blinked at that one.

When he looked at Vegeta, the older saiyan wasn't looking at him anymore, which was odd. "Oh, me and Goku have been best friends since we've been kids. What did you think we were?" Then it clicked and Krillin slowly put his cup down and stared down at the saiyan because he couldn't believe that thought crossed his mind.

"Vegeta, d-did you think me and Goku dated?" The silence was enough of an answer for him, "He's married, how the hell did you think Gohan was born?!"

The saiyan had the decency to look embarrassed, "I know that Kakarot is mated but I was just curious." He muttered and if Krillin was honest, he looked really cute like that.

He rolled his eyes and brought the cup back to his lips, "You're lucky that you're cute because if you were anyone else, I'll be insulted." The words left his mouth before he could reword that, and he just felt his heart drop.

Thankfully, it seems liked Vegeta didn't hear him as he the saiyan continued muttering to himself, so he was a bit lucky, it seemed. The prince definitely heard him but didn't want to say anything because honestly, he wanted to save that compliment to himself. It made him feel good that Krillin found him attractive and he's never been described as 'cute' before, so yeah, he was keeping that.

They soon finished their coffee and Vegeta had to go back to training and he got up from the table, "Well, I best be going, I see you later Krillin."

The human hummed a goodbye and walked him walk out the kitchen, he may have stared at his ass, maybe not. Yes, you are Krillin. Stop kidding yourself.

He decided that he needed a second cup of coffee for the day because he deserved it at this point.

~STARS~

It was nighttime now and Krillin decided that he couldn't stay in his room for the entire day because that's 'unhealthy', not his words. No, those were the words of his blue-haired scientist friend who had bags under her eyes and her hair standing on edge. The pot calling the kettle black or in his own words, Bulma's a massive hypocrite but whatever.

Not really having much to do, a movie night was a good way to waste time. So, he grabbed the covers off the bed and camped out downstairs with as many movies that the Briefs had on their rack. This was at like three pm, it was now almost 11 pm and Krillin was on his sixth movie.

His dumbass thought it would be a good idea to watch some horror movie as his latest film and now he was hiding under a blanket like some child. It wasn't even that scary but don't tell his brain that there wasn't some killer in the house right now and every single sound wasn't an indication of his soon death.

"Krillin what are you doing?" The ex-monk did not scream, no he did not. It was just a yelp, nothing else. Krillin looked from under his blanket shield and turned his head to see Vegeta standing there staring at him, still wearing his capsule corps shorts but was wearing a t-shirt at least.

The human side in relief and took of the blanket, "Oh Vegeta, don't scare me like that!" He pauses the movie, "What are you doing up so late, aren't you usually asleep by now." He didn't mean to sound snappy, but it just came out like that.

Vegeta raised an eyebrow at him, "I heard noises down here and thought I should check on it. I was concerned when you weren't in your room, I wanted to make sure you were alright." Well that wasn't all the way true, he did hear noises, but he really just wanted to see Krillin, though he didn't have to know that.

Now being filled with guilt, Krillin rubbed his neck, "Huh that's really nice of you, Vegeta." He gave a nervous laugh, "Wow, I feel really bad for being a jerk, sorry about that."

The saiyan smirked at him, "Well you can make it up to me by letting me join you then." He was teasing, he didn't think that Krillin took him seriously.

Krillin lit up like a Christmas tree, "That's a great idea, come on!" He walked over to Vegeta and grabbed his hand to walk him over the couch. "I'll be right back; I'll go get us some popcorn." The saiyan sat down and watched Krillin go back to the kitchen.

In a few minutes, the human came back with a large bowl of hot popcorn, well he might as well just enjoy the ride.

The movie was turned back on and the popcorn stayed in Krillin's lap and that wasn't awkward at all. It was great to reach in the lap of someone he was having feelings for but Krillin didn't seem to notice as he was engrossed in the movie.

Vegeta still didn't know what was so scary about it, he had seen worst while working under Frieza. It was child's play to him. Though, this movie did have its benefits, the best one being that he was close to Krillin, who was really close to him, he was enjoying that. The human was curled in the blanket, his body in a tight ball and was leaning heavily on Vegeta, which relaxed him even further.

He looked over at the human ball and couldn't help but smile at the image, Krillin looked really cute all huddled up like that. Vegeta wondered how he would feel if he held him like that, covering his whole body and never letting him go. A scream came from the movie and while Vegeta just looked back at the screen. Krillin, on the other hand, squeaked (which was adorable by the way) and hid his face in the saiyan's neck. The world stopped as Vegeta lost himself because, dear goddess, that felt wonderful. Krillin had this smell about him that made his butterflies move all around, it was so…calming to him and it was making him dizzy. He had to resist the urge to sniff him and he just stiffened to stop himself.

When the scene was over, the human was still in his neck and he decided what was best for him. Vegeta nudged him, "Krillin you can look now, it's over." He watched him peak out his shoulder and Krillin's eyes widened.

In a matter of seconds, Krillin left his shoulders and sputtering apologies like mad. The blanket was off him now and popcorn bowl, which was empty thankfully, fell on the floor. He also had this really nice blush and he wanted to know if it could go even lower but that wasn't what he needed to focus on right now.

He grabbed Krillin's hand and that made the human look up at him, "I didn't say I minded." Vegeta picked up the blanket and bowl off the floor, he put the bowl on the table and draped the blanket over the two of them.

The human still was blushing a dark red, but he snuggled back under the blanket, "Again, I'm really sorry Vegeta, I shouldn't have done that." Having that he didn't want to hear the same apology over and over again, he put his hand up.

Krillin stopped, getting the message, and settled back into the couch. The movie continued and little-by-little, the human scooted himself back over to the alien. By the time the film was approaching its end, Krillin was right back laying on Vegeta. This time the human laid his head on his shoulders and it was nice. Though, he didn't think he would get this far with Krillin being scared of a crappy horror movie, but he'll take it. Vegeta laid his head on top of Krillin's. He heard a little hum and he thought it was good thing, so he didn't press anything.

When the movie finally ended, he looked down at Krillin to see him sound asleep, fully snuggled into his side. He turned off the TV and tried to move off but that only made Krillin whine and nuzzle him even more, nope that was unfair. He sat back and the human stopped moving, still asleep. He sighed and stared at the peaceful round face that has been on his minds for the past few weeks and Vegeta could get use to this, if Krillin would let him.

Realizing that he wouldn't be able to move anywhere, Vegeta closed his eyes and listened to the quiet of the room as it lulled him to sleep.

God I need some sleep. Bulma was exhausted but she still needed to get work done, so she found herself staggering over to the kitchen. She just needed to eat something and go back to her cave for the next day and a half. Grabbing a snack was her main goal at this point.

Well she was completely surprised to find Vegeta and Krillin on the couch in the living room asleep. Oh good, those two are getting along swimmingly. It was kind of cute to see Krillin all cuddled up on her guest and she knew what she had to do.

She took out her phone and took several pictures of the two of them. It was great to have blackmail when Vegeta gave her a reason to.

God she was genius.

~STARS~

When Krillin woke up, he was confused to find himself back in his room when he could have sworn that he fell asleep on the couch. He also was pretty sure he fell asleep on Vegeta and— dear Kami, he cuddled with Vegeta!

He groaned into his pillow because really, why did he have to choose to watch some scary movie, why did he snuggle on Vegeta, god he felt so bad for him. He shouldn't have done that; he must have freaked out the saiyan.

While he should have stayed in his room to not deal with this, he knew that Bulma got sick of him being in here and just drag him out so he might as well just get on with the day. But maybe he can wallow for another few minutes, just to get it out of his system.

After an hour of reviewing how his life got him here, he finally left his room. He did feel much better now that he at least slept a few hours now, well he can at least thank Vegeta for that.

As he walked the halls of the mansion, he wasn't paying attention to where he was going like he always was because that would make sense wouldn't it.

All he could think about was that he cuddled Vegeta because he somehow couldn't control himself around the saiyan. In a span of what? Two days? He has straddled his lap, called him cute and now, has cuddled up against him. Wow, he was going off the deep end.

"Oh, there you are Krillin!" He stopped in his track and turned to see Bulma walking up him. Once she caught him up to him, "I was wondering where you were. Me and Vegeta were looking for you." Wait, Vegeta was looking for him?

He was suddenly grabbed by the hand, "I was going to make you come down for breakfast because you haven't eaten in a few days! Don't lie to me, you haven't." He wasn't going to lie, Krillin was just going to not answer the question until she got tired of asking the same question over and over again. It worked before.

Bulma dragged him off to the kitchen, where Vegeta was sitting at the table that was piled with food and wow did the embarrassment hit like a freight train again. This wasn't how he wanted to have a conversation about his behavior with the saiyan.

He was forcibly sat at the table, right across from Vegeta, thanks Bulma! The alien had given him a small smile and that was not helping his stomach at all.

"How did you sleep Krillin?" Great, fantastic, wonderful, you are very comfortable by the way. He just smiled, "Pretty good, you were nice to lay on." Can he not shut the fuck up?

Bulma was drinking some water and nearly chocked on her laughter as she smothered it with her hand. The glare she was given by her first guest didn't stop the humor of this situation. Dumbasses, the both of them.

Krillin filled his mouth with some of his food because stuffing his face would shut him up before he says something even more stupid.

Bulma was not helping like always but Vegeta hoped he can turn that around, "Well that's good to hear. We did have a good night together."

That made the human smile because it seemed that the saiyan wasn't angry at him for what happened last night. "Yeah I just we did."

The woman watched the two of them smirk at each other and resisted the urge to roll her eyes as she walked out before she hurled at the cuteness of both of them.

~STARS~

He couldn't believe this, in all of his years alive, this may be the most embarrassing thing that happened to him. The throbbing headache didn't help at all either, which brought him to why he even was hurt in the first place.

It was a late night and he was training of course and while his body was moving but his mind was somewhere else. As he dodged the drones, the thoughts of Krillin came to him. That little smile he gave him, a cute little round face that made his butterflies fly with delight and such a quiet little giggle that echoed in his ear—

A drone slammed right into his face, which frankly, hurt like shit. He did end up blasting it, but his face and head was screaming from pain but he was fine. Well, that was what he said to himself as he dripped blood everywhere once he left the gravity room.

Bulma saw him and lost her shit. He was taken to her lab where she patched him up with her bitching at him like she always did, which was not helping his headache by the way. She demanded that he at least not train for a few hours and to get some sleep. So now he sat on his bed, staring at the ceiling for the past hour because guess what, he couldn't sleep. What the hell was he supposed to do then?

He heard a knock on the door and thinking it was the woman, he just yelled, "It's open, you can come in! Its not like you ask anyway." The last part got lost in his throat because turns out is wasn't his hostess, nope, a way better person came in.

It was Krillin with a bowl in his hand and that smile that got his butterflies moving, "Oh Krillin, hello." Really, was that the best he can do?

Krillin walked over to his bed, "I heard you got hurt from Bulma and I wanted to make you something." He put the bowl in his lap, and Vegeta was surprised by how much stem was coming from it, "Don't worry it just some soup I made, you know, like warmed broth."

Oh, that made sense, he looked down at the spoon in the bowl and used it to take spoonful of the soup. It was good, like really good and it filled his stomach with so much warmth that he hummed in delight.

"Well I better get going, you need to your rest, hope you feel better Vegeta." The saiyan snapped out of it and watched Krillin about to walk out and he didn't want that.

He cleared his throat and that made Krillin stop and look back at him, "You don't have to leave if don't want to. I wouldn't mind that company." He watched the human's smile get even brighter and he knew that he made the right decision. Krillin didn't expect to stay long in the room, he just wanted to give him the soup and leave. He really didn't think that Vegeta wanted to see anyone because Bulma said that he was extra irritable after getting hurt. But here he was being asked to stay with him and was he going to take him up on the option. Oh absolutely, he would be dummy if didn't.

He smiled at the alien, "I would love that Vegeta."

"How did you make something like this, it's delicious!" Krillin laughed at how ecstatic the prince was at the concept of soup, but it was nice to see him so happy. It was done by within minutes and for the last ten, Vegeta had been raving about it.

He just shrugged his shoulders, "It just some broth Vegeta, are you always going to be surprised by what I cook for you?"

The saiyan blinked at him, "You'd make more for me?" He couldn't believe that the human would do something for him like that.

Krillin patted his knee, "Sure, I mean if you would like that." Vegeta grabbed his hand that he put on his knee and gave him a genuine smile that made his heart flutter. Then he yawned. That was weird, he hadn't been tired all day and that was one of the main reasons he was even up at this point. Dear god, how late was it?

Vegeta frowned at him, "Is everything alright Krillin? You seem tried." He didn't think that Krillin has been here too long for him to get tired, was he keeping him from going to bed.

The human waved him off, "Don't worry about me, I'm fine. I just got tired all of sudden." He rubbed his eyes, "Funny thing, every time I go back to my room, my tiredness goes away. I don't know why."

"Well you can stay here for the night, I wouldn't mind." That was not what he expected to come out but Vegeta wasn't know for having the best mouth.

You know you want to. You already cuddled him; the bedroom was the next step. "Are you sure, I don't want to be a bother." Vegeta shook his head.

"I would love to be in bed with you, Krillin." Poor word choice but he would stand by it.

Not trying to decode that sentence, the human gave a small laugh and laid down on the bed but propped himself up with his elbow. Vegeta followed suit and they were now laying across from each other, staring at each other.

They were a few feet away from each other, but it still felt so close, just looking at one another like this. It was so weird, this feeling of warmth that he hadn't felt for someone, Vegeta wasn't used to someone like Krillin.

"Hey Vegeta." He was cut from his thoughts when he heard Krillin's voice. He turned his head to see the human staring up at the ceiling.

"If you do mind me asking, how did you get hurt." He didn't say anything at first, so his guest continued, "Its just that you're usually such a focused guy, so it must have been really distracting."

This must have been the goddess' way of showing him that to let out what he was feeling, to let Krillin know how he feels and to let him decide how they were going to continue. Every logical part of him wanted these thoughts gone, so that he could feel something different. Who knows, maybe this would end great for him and he can enjoy having something with each other. But he couldn't, he just couldn't do it.

He paused for some kind of lie but he could only think of, "My mind was somewhere it shouldn't be, it was on someone who's has been on my mind for a while now. They've been on my mind for a while now since I've been spending so much time with them, that I don't want them to go." It wasn't a full lie but neither a truth either.

Krillin looked back at him, now laying on his arms, "Do you dream of them?" He didn't know Vegeta thought of someone like that, it didn't seem like him.

"No, I think of them." He couldn't stop thinking of Krillin, for the last few weeks, the need to be around to him, it was all consuming. He wanted it to stay that way.

The human hummed and felt his eyes get heavy, "They must be a lucky person then if they'd gotten your attention." The last thing he heard was Vegeta's laugh and he strangely felt happy at such a sound, it suited Vegeta.

When the saiyan looked back the human, he was sound asleep again. He smiled, "I think I'm the lucky one Krillin." He scooted closer to him, now only inches away from Krillin before settling back down for the night.

He watched as the human breathing and it started to lull him to sleep, finding that this is where he wanted to be for the rest of his life.

"I'll think of you tonight." Was the last thing he whispered before sleep overtook him.

Endnote- Hey look, I kept my promise! Cute chapter right, well next chapter is going to be…not so happy. Oh, and chapters 8 and 9 will up two weeks from each other because they're pretty easy to write! See ya in two weeks!