Chapter 2 : Classes Begin
That night, the first floor activity was held. The R.A. of 2nd Floor, East Wing, Janet, was collaborating with Gohan and Videl's R.A., Eric and they were having a floor get together. When Gohan came down to the room with his roommate, Matt, he quickly scanned the room. Eric and Janet had set up a punch table and were busy doling out punch to the kids in the room, and Nic, who lived in East Wing, was talking with Mary and a few other students. Videl, however, was no where to be found, and thanks to Gohan's sharp senses, that meant she hadn't arrived yet.
So, Gohan headed into the crowd of people and started to make his way to the punch table, when the girl from the desk bumped into him. "Hi, there...Sarah, right? I didn't know you lived on my floor." Sarah was ecstatic that Gohan remembered her, and her response showed it.
"Yeah, I can't believe you remembered me! You must have met a lot of people already, and you still remembered me! That is SO sweet..." and she continued on. Gohan had already tuned her out; he could handle girls like that. I mean, he handled Erasa throughout high school, why not this Sarah chick throughout college?
Just then, Gohan recognized a familiar face walk into the room. Videl had just come down to the room, and she had come down with some guy that Gohan didn't recognize. For a brief moment, Gohan felt a bit hot under the collar, but then he asked himself "Why do I feel like this? Its just Videl talking with a friend that she's met...I just was sort of doing the same thing... And its not like Videl and I are anything more than friends...not really..."
Just then, Videl noticed Gohan standing in the group of people and waved him over. "Hey, Gohan, meet Alex. Alex, this is my best friend Gohan. Alex lives two doors down from me, at the end of the hall." Alex was a big, broadly built guy that probably lifted weights for about an hour every morning, from the look of him. He also seemed to have no respect for this puny guy who was Videl's "best friend."
"Nice to meet you," Alex said, putting on a good fake smile, a fake that Gohan saw right through. Videl didn't, though.
"Pleased to meet you, too," Gohan replied, nearly letting his anger slip out. Videl did catch Gohan's little slip, and gave him a pretty fierce look. Gohan looked back into her eyes, a sheepish look in his own. She sighed and then went back to talking with the two of them. Or, about one to the other, that is.
"Alex is a football player, Gohan. He got a full ride scholarship to play for the team. Isn't that neat?"
"Yeah, he's a real hero..." Gohan, apparently, was not impressed, nor was Videl, that is, she was not impressed by Gohan's attitude. She excused herself and took Gohan over where no one else was around, and then she gave him a good verbal thrashing.
"What is wrong with you, Gohan? You are acting so childish over there! What is it that you don't like about Alex?" she demanded.
"Well, if you must know...I'm sorry, Videl," Gohan had nearly let his anger take over, and with Videl, no less. He would have to be more careful, keep it more firmly in check. "I didn't mean to get mad at you right there. I just don't like him, that's all...he just doesn't seem quite right, to me."
"Oh, is somebody jealous? Just because we're best friends doesn't mean you can monopolize all my time, Gohan. I mean, I'm going to have friends here, too, so don't go thinking that you and I will do every little thing together." At that, Gohan looked a little crestfallen, and then the two of them headed back to the main area.
On their way there, Nic came over with two cups of punch. "Hey, guys! I thought you might want these, you're looking a bit on the dry side."
Gohan and Videl each took a cup and started to sip on their punch. "Thanks, Nic," they both said. Nic just shook his head and walked off to talk to a few guys sitting on the couch in the corner.
"Mmmm, what's in this punch? Its pretty good..." Gohan said.
"You're right, Gohan, this is pretty good stuff..." Unbeknownst to them, Nic, being the little troublemaker he is, had slipped a little something into their beverages to loosen them up a bit. Nic also was a bit of a matchmaker, and he tried to hook people up that would have a tough time hooking up without his help. And, when he had first seen these two, he had said "BINGO!" to himself.
As they were about to finish their drinks, Nic had went back up and gotten them some refills, this time with a little more of his secret ingredient. "Hey, guys...those drinks are looking a little empty, here are some fresh ones!" He traded cups with them, and then he saw Alex headed over, wondering where Videl had went.
Well, he had a backup plan for this one. He waved at Mary, who was talking to Sarah, Gohan's little admirer. Mary said something to Sarah, and then she headed right for Alex. She intercepted him just in time, and they stood there talking for quite some time.
A little ways away, Gohan and Videl were beginning to feel the effects of the drinks in their hands. Nic had mixed their drinks well, and they were well on their respective ways to tipsy-land. In the few short minutes since he had given them their second drinks, Gohan had gotten an arm over Videl's shoulders and she was leaning pretty heavily into him. "They were much easier than I thought..." Nic thought to himself. "I'm gonna owe Mary on this one..."
Unfortunately for Nic's master plan, Eric and Janet decided the party was pretty much dead and sent everyone home just a little too early. Gohan walked Videl up to her room after the party, but then he told her good night and he'd see her tomorrow. He was just sober enough that he was still thinking, and he wanted to be ready for class in the morning. And it was a good thing his Saiyan metabolism was so fast, otherwise he might have been hurting in the morning...
The next morning, Gohan woke up fresh as a daisy. He had slept good and hard, as if he had trained the whole previous day, but without the pain in places he didn't know existed before then. He rolled out of bed and started doing his morning exercises on the floor by his bed.
Matt, however, was not so wide awake. He was still totally gone, and he would be lucky to be up for his one o'clock class. Gohan decided he would come home and make sure he was up during his lunch hour, but he would let him sleep for now.
Gohan's first class of the morning was Math 132, Advanced Calculus. He and Videl were taking the class together, and he had to meet her at her room in 45 minutes. He showered and dressed, then he headed down to the dining commons for breakfast. After a small (only 3 servings!) breakfast, he headed up to Videl's room.
Videl, however, didn't have Saiyan metabolism, so she was not feeling all to great that morning. She had hit the snooze button 4 times, and so when Gohan knocked, she had just gotten out of the shower, and definitely wasn't going after breakfast this morning.
Gohan knocked a second time, then heard a muffled "Come in!" from inside. He opened the door and walked in, then looked around for Videl. He saw her standing by her bed wearing nothing but a towel wrapped around her, and he quickly looked away. He also blushed much like he had blushed the last time he had seen her like this.
"Sorry, Videl. I didn't know you weren't ready yet..."
"Its okay, Gohan. Hold on a second," she shut the curtain between the two rooms and then finished getting dressed. "Okay, I'm ready," she said, opening the curtain and coming out. She grabbed her bag of stuff, and then the two of them headed off toward their Math class.
They got there just in time. Well, sort of. They got to class a few minutes late, but they beat the professor to class and there wasn't a grad student for this class, so they were fine. A moment or two after they took a pair of free seats in the back, the professor walked in. "Good morning, class, and welcome to Advanced Calculus. If any of you are in the wrong class, please be on your way."
Two students, sitting near the door, got up, shamefaced, and quickly left the room. "Any others?" No one got up this time, so the professor went on with the class. "As I said, welcome to Advanced Calculus..."
The class seemed to take forever, but, thankfully, Gohan and Videl were sitting together in the back of the room. "So, what was wrong this morning, Videl? You didn't look too good..." Gohan whispered.
"I don't know..." she whispered back. "I just had such a headache and my body just hurt..."
"That's odd...I got some of the best sleep I've had in a while last night." After that comment, they just listened to the professor. He passed out a few things and then finished talking, then he looked up at the clock.
"Well, class, its only 11:00, and I know class goes until 11:20, but I'm going to let you all go early. I'll see you all back here Wednesday at 10. Have a good day." The class, pleasantly surprised, filtered out of the room. Gohan and Videl walked out of the room and then headed back to their dorm for lunch.
Just as they walked in the front door of the residence hall, Gohan remembered something. "Hey, Videl, I'll meet you in the dining commons, I want to make sure my roommmate got out of bed okay."
"Fine, Gohan, I'll see you down there."
Gohan headed up to his room. As he had expected, Matt was still snoozing the last of the morning away. Gohan walked over to him and started to shake him. "Mmmm? Wha...?" Matt rolled over, continuing his slumber.
"Hey, Matt...you gonna be okay?" Gohan shook his roommate again.
Matt, finally, rolled over and sat up. "Mmm..? Wha..Gohan? What are you doing here...?"
"Just making sure you get up for your class. You up?" Matt nodded. "Well, I have to go meet Videl for lunch. Have a good day at class." Gohan walked out and hurried down toward the commons. However, he was in for a rude surprise when he walked in...
Stay tuned for another chapter some time this weekend...and you will love what happens in Chapter 3 : Surprises, Surprises.
-htmLord
That night, the first floor activity was held. The R.A. of 2nd Floor, East Wing, Janet, was collaborating with Gohan and Videl's R.A., Eric and they were having a floor get together. When Gohan came down to the room with his roommate, Matt, he quickly scanned the room. Eric and Janet had set up a punch table and were busy doling out punch to the kids in the room, and Nic, who lived in East Wing, was talking with Mary and a few other students. Videl, however, was no where to be found, and thanks to Gohan's sharp senses, that meant she hadn't arrived yet.
So, Gohan headed into the crowd of people and started to make his way to the punch table, when the girl from the desk bumped into him. "Hi, there...Sarah, right? I didn't know you lived on my floor." Sarah was ecstatic that Gohan remembered her, and her response showed it.
"Yeah, I can't believe you remembered me! You must have met a lot of people already, and you still remembered me! That is SO sweet..." and she continued on. Gohan had already tuned her out; he could handle girls like that. I mean, he handled Erasa throughout high school, why not this Sarah chick throughout college?
Just then, Gohan recognized a familiar face walk into the room. Videl had just come down to the room, and she had come down with some guy that Gohan didn't recognize. For a brief moment, Gohan felt a bit hot under the collar, but then he asked himself "Why do I feel like this? Its just Videl talking with a friend that she's met...I just was sort of doing the same thing... And its not like Videl and I are anything more than friends...not really..."
Just then, Videl noticed Gohan standing in the group of people and waved him over. "Hey, Gohan, meet Alex. Alex, this is my best friend Gohan. Alex lives two doors down from me, at the end of the hall." Alex was a big, broadly built guy that probably lifted weights for about an hour every morning, from the look of him. He also seemed to have no respect for this puny guy who was Videl's "best friend."
"Nice to meet you," Alex said, putting on a good fake smile, a fake that Gohan saw right through. Videl didn't, though.
"Pleased to meet you, too," Gohan replied, nearly letting his anger slip out. Videl did catch Gohan's little slip, and gave him a pretty fierce look. Gohan looked back into her eyes, a sheepish look in his own. She sighed and then went back to talking with the two of them. Or, about one to the other, that is.
"Alex is a football player, Gohan. He got a full ride scholarship to play for the team. Isn't that neat?"
"Yeah, he's a real hero..." Gohan, apparently, was not impressed, nor was Videl, that is, she was not impressed by Gohan's attitude. She excused herself and took Gohan over where no one else was around, and then she gave him a good verbal thrashing.
"What is wrong with you, Gohan? You are acting so childish over there! What is it that you don't like about Alex?" she demanded.
"Well, if you must know...I'm sorry, Videl," Gohan had nearly let his anger take over, and with Videl, no less. He would have to be more careful, keep it more firmly in check. "I didn't mean to get mad at you right there. I just don't like him, that's all...he just doesn't seem quite right, to me."
"Oh, is somebody jealous? Just because we're best friends doesn't mean you can monopolize all my time, Gohan. I mean, I'm going to have friends here, too, so don't go thinking that you and I will do every little thing together." At that, Gohan looked a little crestfallen, and then the two of them headed back to the main area.
On their way there, Nic came over with two cups of punch. "Hey, guys! I thought you might want these, you're looking a bit on the dry side."
Gohan and Videl each took a cup and started to sip on their punch. "Thanks, Nic," they both said. Nic just shook his head and walked off to talk to a few guys sitting on the couch in the corner.
"Mmmm, what's in this punch? Its pretty good..." Gohan said.
"You're right, Gohan, this is pretty good stuff..." Unbeknownst to them, Nic, being the little troublemaker he is, had slipped a little something into their beverages to loosen them up a bit. Nic also was a bit of a matchmaker, and he tried to hook people up that would have a tough time hooking up without his help. And, when he had first seen these two, he had said "BINGO!" to himself.
As they were about to finish their drinks, Nic had went back up and gotten them some refills, this time with a little more of his secret ingredient. "Hey, guys...those drinks are looking a little empty, here are some fresh ones!" He traded cups with them, and then he saw Alex headed over, wondering where Videl had went.
Well, he had a backup plan for this one. He waved at Mary, who was talking to Sarah, Gohan's little admirer. Mary said something to Sarah, and then she headed right for Alex. She intercepted him just in time, and they stood there talking for quite some time.
A little ways away, Gohan and Videl were beginning to feel the effects of the drinks in their hands. Nic had mixed their drinks well, and they were well on their respective ways to tipsy-land. In the few short minutes since he had given them their second drinks, Gohan had gotten an arm over Videl's shoulders and she was leaning pretty heavily into him. "They were much easier than I thought..." Nic thought to himself. "I'm gonna owe Mary on this one..."
Unfortunately for Nic's master plan, Eric and Janet decided the party was pretty much dead and sent everyone home just a little too early. Gohan walked Videl up to her room after the party, but then he told her good night and he'd see her tomorrow. He was just sober enough that he was still thinking, and he wanted to be ready for class in the morning. And it was a good thing his Saiyan metabolism was so fast, otherwise he might have been hurting in the morning...
The next morning, Gohan woke up fresh as a daisy. He had slept good and hard, as if he had trained the whole previous day, but without the pain in places he didn't know existed before then. He rolled out of bed and started doing his morning exercises on the floor by his bed.
Matt, however, was not so wide awake. He was still totally gone, and he would be lucky to be up for his one o'clock class. Gohan decided he would come home and make sure he was up during his lunch hour, but he would let him sleep for now.
Gohan's first class of the morning was Math 132, Advanced Calculus. He and Videl were taking the class together, and he had to meet her at her room in 45 minutes. He showered and dressed, then he headed down to the dining commons for breakfast. After a small (only 3 servings!) breakfast, he headed up to Videl's room.
Videl, however, didn't have Saiyan metabolism, so she was not feeling all to great that morning. She had hit the snooze button 4 times, and so when Gohan knocked, she had just gotten out of the shower, and definitely wasn't going after breakfast this morning.
Gohan knocked a second time, then heard a muffled "Come in!" from inside. He opened the door and walked in, then looked around for Videl. He saw her standing by her bed wearing nothing but a towel wrapped around her, and he quickly looked away. He also blushed much like he had blushed the last time he had seen her like this.
"Sorry, Videl. I didn't know you weren't ready yet..."
"Its okay, Gohan. Hold on a second," she shut the curtain between the two rooms and then finished getting dressed. "Okay, I'm ready," she said, opening the curtain and coming out. She grabbed her bag of stuff, and then the two of them headed off toward their Math class.
They got there just in time. Well, sort of. They got to class a few minutes late, but they beat the professor to class and there wasn't a grad student for this class, so they were fine. A moment or two after they took a pair of free seats in the back, the professor walked in. "Good morning, class, and welcome to Advanced Calculus. If any of you are in the wrong class, please be on your way."
Two students, sitting near the door, got up, shamefaced, and quickly left the room. "Any others?" No one got up this time, so the professor went on with the class. "As I said, welcome to Advanced Calculus..."
The class seemed to take forever, but, thankfully, Gohan and Videl were sitting together in the back of the room. "So, what was wrong this morning, Videl? You didn't look too good..." Gohan whispered.
"I don't know..." she whispered back. "I just had such a headache and my body just hurt..."
"That's odd...I got some of the best sleep I've had in a while last night." After that comment, they just listened to the professor. He passed out a few things and then finished talking, then he looked up at the clock.
"Well, class, its only 11:00, and I know class goes until 11:20, but I'm going to let you all go early. I'll see you all back here Wednesday at 10. Have a good day." The class, pleasantly surprised, filtered out of the room. Gohan and Videl walked out of the room and then headed back to their dorm for lunch.
Just as they walked in the front door of the residence hall, Gohan remembered something. "Hey, Videl, I'll meet you in the dining commons, I want to make sure my roommmate got out of bed okay."
"Fine, Gohan, I'll see you down there."
Gohan headed up to his room. As he had expected, Matt was still snoozing the last of the morning away. Gohan walked over to him and started to shake him. "Mmmm? Wha...?" Matt rolled over, continuing his slumber.
"Hey, Matt...you gonna be okay?" Gohan shook his roommate again.
Matt, finally, rolled over and sat up. "Mmm..? Wha..Gohan? What are you doing here...?"
"Just making sure you get up for your class. You up?" Matt nodded. "Well, I have to go meet Videl for lunch. Have a good day at class." Gohan walked out and hurried down toward the commons. However, he was in for a rude surprise when he walked in...
Stay tuned for another chapter some time this weekend...and you will love what happens in Chapter 3 : Surprises, Surprises.
-htmLord