Anyway, let's get on with this fic so that I can finish it sometime this year.
"I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WEAR!" Videl screamed, causing Erasa to cover her ears. "You're supposed to be helping," she glared at her friend standing beside the closet.
"Don't worry girl, we'll find you something," Erasa promised her best friend. "Just settle down a little and let me see what I have to work with."
Erasa stepped into the walk-in closet and started to toss things over her shoulder. She was exceptionally good at this. Things that looked promising ended up in one pile while other things landed in a separate pile. "No, no, maybe, no, maybe, maybe, no, no, definitely not, no . . ." She continued in this fashion until she had cleaned out the entire closet.
"Let's see . . . this might work," she said as she held up a pink dress.
"No way," Videl sneered, "I refuse to wear pink."
"Well then, how about this?"
Videl scrutinized the outfit the girl held and said, "that's ok, I guess."
"All right, now for the hair."
"What's wrong with my hair?" Videl asked. She had cut her hair short but it had now grown down to her shoulders.
"It just needs a little help."
At the end of the little makeover, Videl was dressed in a simple black dress that reached her knees. She had argued with Erasa about wearing shorts underneath it, and won. Her hair was clipped back with two simple silver clips and Erasa had managed to get her to allow hairspray. Her shoes were a pair of black slip-on flats and she wore stocking socks that reached her mid-calf. Erasa had let her borrow a pair of small gold hoop earrings and a bracelet to match on her left wrist.
"Wow!" Erasa practically squealed. She had been trying to get Videl to dress up for years and now . . . "You look amazing."
"Thanks. Are you sure I look all right?"
"You look better than all right. Gohan is going to faint when he sees you."
"I doubt it. I don't think he even notices me." Videl said, her voice soft and her head bowed.
"Don't worry girl, you just go and knock'em dead."
"You're right." She said as she looked at the clock. "I'd better go or I'll be late. See ya later Erasa." And with that, Videl grabbed her present for Gohan and headed over to Capsule Corp.
Meanwhile, at Capsule Corp., Chi-chi was in the kitchen putting the finishing touches on Gohan's birthday cake when she noticed a hand reaching out towards the frosting.
CLANG!
Goku held his head, nursing the bump, as he made his way out of the house and into the yard to see how the decorations were coming. He noticed Vegeta leaning against a tree nearby, his arms crossed and the usual scowl on his face, watching Gohan through half lidded eyes.
"Hey Vegeta, whatcha doin'?" Goku greeted and was soon faced with a scowling prince glaring at him.
"Hmph," he said, turning his attention once again to Gohan. "I'm only here because I haven't had a good laugh since you got your head stuck in the turkey last Thanksgiving."
"It wasn't that funny," Goku pouted, and then thought about what Vegeta had said. "What's going to happen?"
"That brat of yours is going to go through the change and I will be here to see it. It should be a lot of laughs."
"What do you mean, change? What's going to happen to him?"
Vegeta growled and said, in a frustrated tone, "when a Saiyan male turns eighteen, he becomes a man and he can understand the attraction to the female species. Until this change, a Saiyan male can not even process what the purpose of being with a female."
"Oh," he said simply, still not entirely understanding but not wanting to get Vegeta even angrier with him. He then walked over to Gohan who was chatting with Bulma at one of the picnic tables that was set up.
"They should be here any minute now." Bulma said, and at that moment the guests began to arrive.
The first to arrive were Yamcha and Puar, who gave Vegeta a wide berth and put a present on the table. Tien and Chaotzu, who came next, placed a small gift on the table, greeted Gohan and went to talk to Yamcha. Piccolo arrived next surprising Gohan by having a present for him and went to lean against a separate tree from Vegeta.
Dende and Mr. Popo had managed to come next and presented Gohan with their gifts and Yajirobe presented him with a bag of Senzu beans from Korin, who was unable to attend. Krillin and Eighteen arrived next, with Marron running off to play with Goten and Trunks. Master Roshi and Oolong arrived soon after with an oddly wrapped box and, after giving Gohan a secretive wink, they placed their gift among the others.
Finally, a yellow copter landed in the front yard and Gohan ran to greet the last guest to the party. "Hey Videl," he waved to her as she exited the copter and encapsuled it.
"Hi Gohan. Happy birthday." She said as she stood there waiting for some comment from Gohan on her attire.
"You look great Videl. Come on, I want you to meet everyone."
Videl blushed at the compliment and followed Gohan into the backyard. Upon entering, Videl saw that Gohan had been right in saying that some of them were weird. Two of them were green, one was midnight black, one had three eyes, one looked like a little floating clown, one was a floating cat, and one was a pig.
"Come on, I'll introduce you to everyone," Gohan said, taking her hand and leading her around the yard.
The first people they approached looked somewhat normal. He introduced the scarred guy as Yamcha, the blue-haired woman as Bulma, the short man as Krillin, his wife as Eighteen (which Videl didn't think was all that normal), and the floating cat as Puar. After smiling politely and saying things like 'It's a pleasure to meet you', Gohan dragged her off to greet some of the not-so-normal people present.
Gohan quickly passed by Vegeta's tree saying, "You've all ready met Vegeta," and continued on to where the three-eyed man, the little clown, and a man that looked very similar to Gohan were talking. He introduced the men as Tien, Chaotzu, and his father, Goku.
Upon moving to the next group of people, she was surprised to notice they were now heading towards the two green men and the little black man. "Videl," Gohan began, "this is my sensei Piccolo."
"It's nice to meet you," Videl said politely, trying her hardest not to stare.
Piccolo just looked down at her and 'hmph'ed as Gohan motioned towards the other two men. "This is Dende, he's pretty much God, and that's Mr. Popo. He takes care of the lookout where they live."
Videl was a little startled and whispered to Gohan, "you know God?"
"Well, yeah," he said, putting his hand behind his head in the classic Son gesture, "he's one of my best friends."
"It is very nice to meet you," Dende said, taking her hand and shaking it gently.
"Likewise," Videl said, smiling.
Just then, two streaks came hurling out of the back door followed closely by a little blonde girl. "That's Marron, Krillin and Eighteen's daughter." Gohan said, motioning towards the girl standing in the doorway. "And those," he pointed to the two little kids rolling around on the ground, "are Trunks, Vegeta and Bulma's son, and Goten, my little brother."
The two boys stopped wrestling once they noticed the new arrival. Trunks looked over at Gohan, a smirk that could rival Vegeta's, on his face, and then turned to Videl. "So you're Gohan's mate."
Gohan glared at Trunks when Videl said, "no, we're just friends."
"That's not what dad says."
This caused Gohan to turn and glare at Vegeta who just glared back and shrugged his shoulders with a smirk evident on his lips.
Goten spoke up then and said, "momma says your gonna marry big brother and then she can have grandchildren."
Gohan grabbed Videl's hand once more and dragged her away from the two chibis who were now chuckling heartily at Gohan.
"That's about everyone," Gohan said, when Videl noticed that he had not introduced her to two other people.
"Who are they?" She asked, pointing to an old, bald man and the little pig.
"You don't want to meet them. Trust me." He said, just as the two noticed her and began walking over to her.
"Hey Gohan," Oolong said, "aren't ya gonna introduce us to your girlfriend here."
"She's not my girlfriend. Videl, this is Oolong and Master Roshi. Guys, this is Videl."
"Uh, nice to meet you," Videl said cautiously. She didn't like the way the old man was ogling her and it seemed to her that Gohan was almost growling inaudibly deep in his throat.
"You're a pretty thing aren't ya," he said.
"Thank you," she said, and then decided to hurry away by saying, "Gohan, there's something I want to ask Bulma."
"Ok," he said, grateful that she had given them an excuse to leave. As they turned to leave, Roshi just happened to reach out with his hand and the next thing any of the Z fighters knew, Roshi was at the top of Vegeta's tree with a huge bruise on his chin.
Wow, I got three whole pages written for this chapter and it's only half of the party. The next chapter will be out soon, I hope. I really want to get this finished and work on my Sailor Moon fic. If any of you would be so kind as to read that for me and tell me what you think I would be most appreciative. Don't forget to REVIEW this story!