Shout outs: Kate, Angel, Aly, Starving Rabbit, Sorano, Forever Tine, and Shabadoo. May the road rise to meet ya'll.
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ. 'Nuff said.
"Oh, that is gross. Here, Cosette, you hold it." Goten urged as he held frog guts up to my face.
"Um....... no, thanks. I'm trying to cut back......" I insisted, earning a giggle from Shaba.
Goten's partner was Shaba, and since I was new, I didn't get a partner. I got to watch.
Trunks was working with a girl named Joanne, who also, obviously didn't like frog guts.
"Trunks! Get that...... uh..... whatever that part is away from my face!" She yelled.
"It's the heart. And it's nowhere near your face. Now hand me that tube over there."
My thoughts turned to the teacher, and I could only think of one thing.
Ben Stein.
The man who played the boring, monotonous science teacher on the "Wonder Years". This man was an absolute clone.
I started to giggle as thoughts about Ben Stein poured into my mind.
"Cosette, what's so funny?" Shaba asked.
"Hey, Shaba. Let's ''Win Ben Stein's Money''!" I said in a hushed whisper, almost dying of laughter.
"What are you talking about?!" She demanded.
"Your teacher! He's Ben Stein!" I claimed, falling over from the giggles.
Joanne heard me. Luckily for me, she too, thought this was highly amusing.
"Ben Stein!" She practically yelled, falling over laughing.
"What's going on, students?" ''Ben Stein'' asked in his monotone voice.
"Uh....... nothing, Mr. C.! Just...... calm down, Cosette! Uh....... everything is under control!" Goten assured the teacher.
"Miss Cosette Son. I'd like you to stay after school with me today."
"Oh, now you've done it!" Goten exclaimed.
"Oops......." I said, blushing.
"Yea, I'll say ''oops''!" Goten yelled at me. "Now sit and stay quiet 'till class is over!"
"Yes, Goten." I said, hanging my head.
Joanne stuck up for me, though. "Yo, Mr. C! It wasn't her fault!"
"Then whose was it?"
"Mine." She said defiantly. A couple of instigating "oh"s were heard from around the room.
"Then the both of you can stay after."
"What?! Why?! She shouldn't have to stay after for something I did!"
"The both of you interrupted my class, the both of you will stay after."
Goten scolded me. "Look what you did, Cosette! You got Joanne in trouble, too!"
"Shut up, Goten! I got myself in trouble. You just leave her alone!" More "oh"s heard from around the room.
"Ms. Joanne, double detention."
"Ya see what you did?!" Goten yelled at me.
"Will you leave her alone! She had no part in that last conversation! Leave her out of this, cause she didn't do anything!"
He sat down. "Alright. You win."
The teacher was getting a little annoyed. "Can we continue the class, now, ladies and gentlemen?"
"I cannot believe you got detention on your first day!" Goten whispered to me. "Mom and dad are to flip when they hear this!"
I shrugged it off. "I've gotten worse."
"What could possibly have been worse than this?!"
"I once got detention for making out with someone in class." I said, lying but he bought it.
"Well, now you can hold some frog guts and help. Thanks to your little 'escapade', we're behind on our project." Goten said, getting angry again.
So I ended up spending the rest of the period socializing with the inside of a frog and getting a talking to about acting up in class. Then, after seventeen hours, the class was over. Time go to....
"Uh, Goten, where are we going now?"
"Let's see. We are going to....... oh no."
"What?"
"No......" He groaned.
"What?! What class do we have now?" I demanded.
"We have gym."
"That's not bad. You can leave me outside the locker room, I won't bother anybody or get in trouble, again." I vowed.
"It's not you I'm worried about. Gohan's in our gym class."
"Ah. A gym class that doesn't divide the school by grade."
"Exactly. You had that in Holy Angels?"
"Sort of. When you were a soph through senior they did that. They kept the freshmen together."
"Oh, well here they divide the school up completely."
"Who else is in our gym class?"
"Trunks, Angel, Akira, some other people you don't know."
"I don't like that 'Akira' person." I said, scowling.
He laughed. "You should join the club!"
Just then, a person put his arm around me. "Hey babe. Why're ya with the loser?"
"Oh, hi, Akira." I said, in a monotone, removing his arm from my waist with great disgust. Then I whispered to Goten, "Speak of the Devil."
This made Goten snicker.
"Well, Akira. He's not a loser in my book." I said, evenly. "Actually, Goten's pretty cool." I had hoped to ward off the monster, but instead, I made it worse.
"Yea? Yea. Hey, Goten, we were gonna study this week-end, weren't we?" Akira asked, suddenly interested in Goten.
"Actually, Akira, my dad and I made plans to go...."
"Sounds great then. How's Saturday at seven? See ya then!" He said, running towards the locker room.
"Why did you do that?" Goten asked me.
"Well, I thought that if I told him you were cool when he said you were a loser that he'd leave both you and me alone."
"It didn't work."
"Well all my plans do tend to back fire."
"Well, I've gotta go get changed for gym. Stay right here and don't make trouble!" Goten ordered as he sat me down outside the "Physical Fitness" office.
I was sitting there, minding my own business, when some girls walked by.
"Oh, my gosh, Stacy, that must be the girl Akira was talking about!"
"Yea! She fits the description perfectly!"
All of them then made a mistake. They approached me.
"Hi there! You must be new! I'm Stacy." She said sweetly, extending her hand towards me.
I accepted to be polite. "Cosette."
"You were hanging around with Goten, right? Why?"
"Well, I'm an orphan and his parents took me in."
"So that makes you like his sister or something, doesn't it?" Stacy asked in that "Valley Girl" voice.
"Uh....... I guess it does!" Acting like this was news to me.
"Would you do me a favor and put in a good word for me?"
"Uh..... why not?" I said, half-way willingly.
"You just made the best choice of your life, Cosette. Well, we must be going now. Nice meeting you. Oh, and, Cosette, one more thing."
"Yes?"
"Right now I like you. Keep it like that if you want to stay in this school. Kay?" She smiled sweetly and walked away.
I held my head in my hands. "Oh, Lord have mercy and lead me to salvation."
The gym teacher walked out of his office. "You must be the new student." He said and looked down at his attendance sheet to read my name incorrectly. "Coz-at Son?"
"It's pronounced 'Co-set'."
"I'll get it right eventually. You just sit here for now. I've gotta get the class started." And with that, he left.