Here is my third chapter. To move away from my usual plan of writing the
actual story for myself and posting to add these little notes I will just
get on with the chapter.
Chapter three:
After class as Gohan tried to sneak away to free his giant lunch hidden within a capsule and be able to eat enough to tide him over till dinner. He saw Videl, Erasa and Sharpner follow him outside. Resigning to the fact that he would have to eat with a bit of an audience, he decided these three would be plenty.
Videl saw Gohan stop under a tree and followed suit, with Erasa and Sharpner in tow. 'Ok now all I need is to come up with a plan to interrogate him, to find out what is up with him... and me, wait I did not mean it like that, did I?' She thought, becoming less surprised at her fixation with the new boy every time.
Just then she saw Gohan throw a capsule on the ground producing a picnic table full of food, enough food that she thought he would be hard pressed to eat it all.
"Wow I am starving, good thing I brought a ton of food today!" Said Gohan as he began to eat at a miraculous rate, putting his companions in awe. 'Good thing Bulma had the great idea of making her special super volume food capsules for me. To think this one sandwich here has the weight, mass and nutritional content of two-dozen sandwiches, amazing. And because she used Mom's recipes, delicious!'
The way Bulma had explained it, the process really was just making giant sized food and shrinking it down by compressing the ingredients. The only thing she had not perfected were the drinks so Gohan's lunch did have a case of soda. But the Sandwiches, rice, fish and even the chips were all super concentrated so a serving of each, or two would be fine at school. What a shame that when he was this hungry he could not eat any slower.
"G- G- Gohan? How can you eat so much so fast?" Asked Erasa, receiving a quick shrug in the middle of the feeding frenzy.
Then as soon as it started, he was done, the table was clear he was about to close it when his new friends all sat around it and began to eat their lunches, too dumbfounded to talk. They took their time with the last 40 minutes just eating silently, slowly, in shock.
After lunch, still a little surprised at how little Gohan could eat such a large meal in a small amount of time, Videl pondered her new friend, listening halfheartedly to class. 'Ok, so he eats a lot of food? No real big deal. His father may have been THE Son Goku. And there is something about him that all at once makes you suspicious and mesmerized. Maybe they are both the same thing? You might just be so suspicious that you cannot keep your eyes off of him. Or maybe you just have a crush on him? What? No! I just met him, that might come later.' As she decided that she really did not have a problem with her innocent fascination with the boy, or maybe even the idea of a crush, someone else noticed her attention.
"Wow Videl, I thought it was bad when you 'traded' seats with me. You have not taken your eyes off Gohan all day. What gives? You usually have no time for boys." Erasa whispered in Videl's ear. Gohan missed the exchange as the teacher decided to switch things up by using The Gold Fighter as a subject in a physics problem.
To bad for Videl and her suspicions as she was too caught up in her fixation with the boy, her embarrassment and finding way to yell at Erasa without disrupting class. She missed Gohan wince at the mention of his alter ego.
"Shut up Erasa, you have no idea what you are talking about!" Hissed Videl as quietly as she could, although it still relayed her anger.
"Oh, then why are you blushing so much now?" Whispered Erasa, as she held a pocket mirror up to Videl's bright red face as proof. Videl just glared at her friend, causing her to stop her teasing. Then Videl put all of her attention on the front of the classroom.
'Oh great, now I am a way to teach about vectors, what happened to the good old boat going across a stream, or the airplane with a head wind. Now it is the Gold Fighter stopping a car from the side. Though I do appreciate the teaching method.' Thought Gohan while visibly wincing and noticing the end of an exchange between the girls next to him. 'Are they fighting or something? Will have to see if I can help after class.'
For the rest of the period Videl used all of her mental strength to keep focused on the front of the class. After yet another time stealing a glance at the boy next to her, she summoned all her resolve and focused on a point at the front as hard as she could. Then after a time she was interrupted.
"Hey Videl, didn't you hear? Class is over. You can go home now." Said Gohan and Erasa just giggled before Videl snapped out her daze to give her a death glare, causing the blonde girl to abruptly leave. "Is there something wrong? Did you and Erasa get into a fight Videl?"
"No, nothing like that, just a disagreement. I'll call her later and smooth things over." 'Yeah smoothing things over with my fist if she does not stop that!' Added Videl mentally.
"Well as long as you say so, I should be going. I have a long way to travel."
'I can't let him get away without a little more of a talk.' Thought Videl quickly adding "Hey wait, I can give you a ride if you want."
"Um, if you really want to. West Capital is kind of a long way from here." He replied not really sure what she was doing, but deciding she was just being friendly.
"It's really no trouble, we can take my jet copter. Besides, now that school is out we can spend some time getting to know each other." Said Videl before thinking 'Oh sure, you got mad at Erasa and then you go say something like that.'
"Ok, sounds great. Where is your Copter parked?"
"I have it in its capsule in my locker. Lets stop there and we can go to the roof."
With that they both got up and went to their lockers, then up the stairs to the roof landing area on top to the school. Videl de- capsulated her jet copter and they were off to West Capital.
Erasa smiled brightly as her newest and her oldest friends flew off together, too wrapped up in their conversations about school and such to even notice her. She had gone up to the roof to catch Videl and apologize for making her mad, but after they took off, she knew better. She had been right all along, her best friend did indeed protest too much. She turned toward the stairs seeing Sharpner on his way up, probably to see what the girls were up to this evening.
"Hey Sharpie you just missed Videl, what do you say you and me go do something?"
"Sure, sounds like fun."
And they went to have their own fun.
[ A/N When I wrote this, the chapter break came here. I added the next section for flow.]
Once in the air, Videl was getting back her confidence to question Gohan. Though she really felt like apologizing to Erasa. The more time she spent with him, the more she realized how obvious she was. Though, Gohan had not seemed to notice. Odd.
"So Gohan, I was meaning to ask you about your father. Wasn't he Son Goku the greatest Martial artist ever at the World Tournament?"
"I don't know about that, but I think he won that he that contest once." Gohan replied with the hint of sadness.
"No, Gohan if your dad won the contest then I know that he is the greatest ever. I talked to the announcer and even got the records of the monks. They all agree he was the best. I even saw an old tape of him winning the 24th Tenkaichi Tournament, it was incredible."
"Yeah he really was the greatest at everything he did, even was a great father, I miss him so much." He said, with sadness and a guilty look on his face.
'What a shame my father could not be as great as Son Goku at anything.' She saw the look and was unsure about why, but felt a need to press him on this.
"I don't mean to pry, I know what it is like to loose a parent, but how did he die?"
"He died fighting Cell." He said simply, unsure as to why. He was supposed to be hiding his secrets, but somehow, he knew that she knew that already.
"Oh." Was all she could say. That proved she was right. He practically admitted that the blonde man who fought cell was indeed Son Goku. She knew this meant that he was the Gold Fighter, but she did not care. She saw his sadness when he said that. It moved her so much that she did not care about the rest. She tried to ask about more but could not, she could only do one thing.
"My mother died when I was 10. It was after papa won the tournament but before the Cell Games. After the party we had to celebrate that victory, she got sick, cancer. It did not take long just a few months, but by the time the end came, we were ready. Really we were glad, she was in such pain, wasting away." She stopped, overcome by emotion; it was all she could do to keep on flying. Silently Gohan reached in front of her and turned on the autopilot. Then he pulled her into a hug, and then she cried.
'I cannot cry. I have not cried since mommy died. I did not cry when papa missed that first birthday. I did not cry when I met that first girlfriend of his. I did not cry when I first found out that he lied to me and the world.' Then the memory of the second saddest day of her life came back. It was a couple months ago. She was looking though the attic of their old house, the one they had from before the Cell Games outcome had moved them to their mansion. They still had that old house she had discovered, not long before that day. Though not much was there, a little furniture, nearly how they left it. She found that the attic was still full of old stuff. It was like when they had moved her father had forgotten they had an attic. As she went through all the stuff it made her laugh with good memories, and sad when she came across something that was her mother. That was until she found a box full of old videotapes. She looked at a few titles; they were home movies. They were of before, when life was better. She was so excited to see that old life, to see when they were happy. When she was a part of a family, when she had a mother and a father. She took the box and hurried home.
She watched tapes for hours, throughout the evening and into the night. Laughing with the birthday parties and family trips, watching them without pause to keep her form getting sad about what they really meant. And then she came to the last tape. This tape had no title. She put it in quickly to avoid the sadness that would follow the last tapes completion. Little did she know how right she would be.
This tape had no title, nor clean editing. No theme music that she had seen over sections of these clips on TV over the years. No this was the unflinching eye of that day that changed her life again. The day that was almost worse than when she was told of her mother's condition, and prognosis. She watched as her father was slapped out of the ring like he was worthless. She saw a fight that her father could never have competed in, but that was clearly real. She saw almost all of it too. She saw the man that she knew later was probably Son Goku use one of those energy attacks and nearly destroy the evil monster only to see him regenerate himself, then just as something was about to happen the camera died. At then end of the tape was a description: Orange star city news remote Video drone recording. Power failure; caused this to be all of the video of the Cell Games. That was all.
Next Videl thought of all the work that she had done investigating the men who had flown into the fight. She had learned about Son Goku, Krillin, Yamcha and Tien from the Tournament monks, though they had very little information, but confirmed what she suspected. That those lights were no tricks but very advanced martial arts. She learned very little of the boy or the Green man except for some wild stories about demons and flying boys saving villages. And then a mere week ago a seemingly big break when she saw Bulma Briefs' husband on TV with her, she recognized him immediately. She had been trying for a week to get a hold of him to ask him about the fight, but the had apparently made the mistake of mentioning her name, further proving what she knew. Her father was a fraud.
All this flashed before her as they flew. And she thought. 'I may be closer to the real truth, and all I can do is cry about my mommy. I am flying with someone who might at least have heard about the fight, is not, oh my.. The blonde boy! The gold fighter! I might be flying with an eyewitness to the whole thing! And instead I am crying like a schoolgirl. I am not like that. I must be strong. I am stronger than my father and I must continue to be mentally tough. I am flying in this copter with... wait a minute if I am crying on Gohan's shoulder then who is flying this thing?'
She snapped her head up at that realization. Noticing for the first time that the engine was off and they had landed in the woods outside of the Western Capital.
"I decided it would be best if we landed here. We were getting close to the city and I am sure you would not want to be spotted in such a state. Plus I am not a very good pilot, so better we risk my landing in the woods with not threat to other people." Gohan laughed at his attempt at humor, mostly because he did not know how to land so he had cut the engine and used his ki to land the plane.
Videl did honestly laugh at his joke. She was happy to have her mood brightened before she worried about what she had done.
"I cannot believe I did that. I am so embarrassed, what must you think of me?"
"Well Videl I cannot help but notice you are not a very good pilot. That was dangerous!" he said sarcastically, causing her to laugh again, but then become even sadder.
"Hey, I was just joking. Videl you have nothing to be ashamed about, to paraphrase my new friend, 'I know what it is like to loose a parent' it is rough. I am just glad you trust me enough to let me help you through a sad moment." He continued.
"I haven't really cried since the day she died." She said weakly.
"Well no wonder. You have to let this out every now and again or you will explode." He then added quietly. " I should know."
"You know what? I feel do better. Thank you Gohan." Then she hugged him again, realizing for the first time they never really had parted their embrace from when she started her outburst. When she pulled back from the hug they went back to that intermediary position and arms length. Still they had yet to separate, and though they had both noticed it by not they did not really mind.
Then as if by some unspoken agreement they parted completely settling back into their seats at the exact same time.
"Thank you, Gohan."
"Thank you too, you may not have noticed but your shoulder is not exactly dry either."
Then Videl told him the story of the tape in the attic. She even told him her speculations. He listened intently. Then at the end as he was about to speak, she held up her hand and said.
"I want to hear what you know, but lets save that till next time. I am just drained emotionally. I could not take much more. Lets just call it a day."
"Ok, shall I fly us?"
"No, where to?"
"Capsule Corp. please." She was not really surprised to hear this, given what she suspected but she let it slide.
"You got it Mack"
"This really is a great taxi service Videl." [Big yellow Satan brand air taxis?]
"Yeah even got a complimentary laundry service."
They joked the rest of the way to CC, laughing and forgetting their troubles. They both ended up having one of the best afternoons they had ever had, tears and all. When they arrived Gohan leaned over and gave her a big hug goodbye. He whispered in her ear "Thank you" and as they parted gave her a timid kiss on the cheek. In response she treated him to the most beautiful smile he had ever seen. He smiled back, got out, and waived goodbye as she took off again home. Then he went inside to see Bulma about a disguise of some sort.
As Videl flew home she thought about what she had learned and what had happened. But most of all just thought about Gohan, and about seeing him again as soon as possible. 'Wow. I did not know I could be this happy anymore. Quite a day, I wonder what tomorrow will bring?'
End notes: This could serve as the end of the story, but to tie it back with chapter one, and the fact that I have over 2000 words more, it is a safe bet there is more to come.
Chapter three:
After class as Gohan tried to sneak away to free his giant lunch hidden within a capsule and be able to eat enough to tide him over till dinner. He saw Videl, Erasa and Sharpner follow him outside. Resigning to the fact that he would have to eat with a bit of an audience, he decided these three would be plenty.
Videl saw Gohan stop under a tree and followed suit, with Erasa and Sharpner in tow. 'Ok now all I need is to come up with a plan to interrogate him, to find out what is up with him... and me, wait I did not mean it like that, did I?' She thought, becoming less surprised at her fixation with the new boy every time.
Just then she saw Gohan throw a capsule on the ground producing a picnic table full of food, enough food that she thought he would be hard pressed to eat it all.
"Wow I am starving, good thing I brought a ton of food today!" Said Gohan as he began to eat at a miraculous rate, putting his companions in awe. 'Good thing Bulma had the great idea of making her special super volume food capsules for me. To think this one sandwich here has the weight, mass and nutritional content of two-dozen sandwiches, amazing. And because she used Mom's recipes, delicious!'
The way Bulma had explained it, the process really was just making giant sized food and shrinking it down by compressing the ingredients. The only thing she had not perfected were the drinks so Gohan's lunch did have a case of soda. But the Sandwiches, rice, fish and even the chips were all super concentrated so a serving of each, or two would be fine at school. What a shame that when he was this hungry he could not eat any slower.
"G- G- Gohan? How can you eat so much so fast?" Asked Erasa, receiving a quick shrug in the middle of the feeding frenzy.
Then as soon as it started, he was done, the table was clear he was about to close it when his new friends all sat around it and began to eat their lunches, too dumbfounded to talk. They took their time with the last 40 minutes just eating silently, slowly, in shock.
After lunch, still a little surprised at how little Gohan could eat such a large meal in a small amount of time, Videl pondered her new friend, listening halfheartedly to class. 'Ok, so he eats a lot of food? No real big deal. His father may have been THE Son Goku. And there is something about him that all at once makes you suspicious and mesmerized. Maybe they are both the same thing? You might just be so suspicious that you cannot keep your eyes off of him. Or maybe you just have a crush on him? What? No! I just met him, that might come later.' As she decided that she really did not have a problem with her innocent fascination with the boy, or maybe even the idea of a crush, someone else noticed her attention.
"Wow Videl, I thought it was bad when you 'traded' seats with me. You have not taken your eyes off Gohan all day. What gives? You usually have no time for boys." Erasa whispered in Videl's ear. Gohan missed the exchange as the teacher decided to switch things up by using The Gold Fighter as a subject in a physics problem.
To bad for Videl and her suspicions as she was too caught up in her fixation with the boy, her embarrassment and finding way to yell at Erasa without disrupting class. She missed Gohan wince at the mention of his alter ego.
"Shut up Erasa, you have no idea what you are talking about!" Hissed Videl as quietly as she could, although it still relayed her anger.
"Oh, then why are you blushing so much now?" Whispered Erasa, as she held a pocket mirror up to Videl's bright red face as proof. Videl just glared at her friend, causing her to stop her teasing. Then Videl put all of her attention on the front of the classroom.
'Oh great, now I am a way to teach about vectors, what happened to the good old boat going across a stream, or the airplane with a head wind. Now it is the Gold Fighter stopping a car from the side. Though I do appreciate the teaching method.' Thought Gohan while visibly wincing and noticing the end of an exchange between the girls next to him. 'Are they fighting or something? Will have to see if I can help after class.'
For the rest of the period Videl used all of her mental strength to keep focused on the front of the class. After yet another time stealing a glance at the boy next to her, she summoned all her resolve and focused on a point at the front as hard as she could. Then after a time she was interrupted.
"Hey Videl, didn't you hear? Class is over. You can go home now." Said Gohan and Erasa just giggled before Videl snapped out her daze to give her a death glare, causing the blonde girl to abruptly leave. "Is there something wrong? Did you and Erasa get into a fight Videl?"
"No, nothing like that, just a disagreement. I'll call her later and smooth things over." 'Yeah smoothing things over with my fist if she does not stop that!' Added Videl mentally.
"Well as long as you say so, I should be going. I have a long way to travel."
'I can't let him get away without a little more of a talk.' Thought Videl quickly adding "Hey wait, I can give you a ride if you want."
"Um, if you really want to. West Capital is kind of a long way from here." He replied not really sure what she was doing, but deciding she was just being friendly.
"It's really no trouble, we can take my jet copter. Besides, now that school is out we can spend some time getting to know each other." Said Videl before thinking 'Oh sure, you got mad at Erasa and then you go say something like that.'
"Ok, sounds great. Where is your Copter parked?"
"I have it in its capsule in my locker. Lets stop there and we can go to the roof."
With that they both got up and went to their lockers, then up the stairs to the roof landing area on top to the school. Videl de- capsulated her jet copter and they were off to West Capital.
Erasa smiled brightly as her newest and her oldest friends flew off together, too wrapped up in their conversations about school and such to even notice her. She had gone up to the roof to catch Videl and apologize for making her mad, but after they took off, she knew better. She had been right all along, her best friend did indeed protest too much. She turned toward the stairs seeing Sharpner on his way up, probably to see what the girls were up to this evening.
"Hey Sharpie you just missed Videl, what do you say you and me go do something?"
"Sure, sounds like fun."
And they went to have their own fun.
[ A/N When I wrote this, the chapter break came here. I added the next section for flow.]
Once in the air, Videl was getting back her confidence to question Gohan. Though she really felt like apologizing to Erasa. The more time she spent with him, the more she realized how obvious she was. Though, Gohan had not seemed to notice. Odd.
"So Gohan, I was meaning to ask you about your father. Wasn't he Son Goku the greatest Martial artist ever at the World Tournament?"
"I don't know about that, but I think he won that he that contest once." Gohan replied with the hint of sadness.
"No, Gohan if your dad won the contest then I know that he is the greatest ever. I talked to the announcer and even got the records of the monks. They all agree he was the best. I even saw an old tape of him winning the 24th Tenkaichi Tournament, it was incredible."
"Yeah he really was the greatest at everything he did, even was a great father, I miss him so much." He said, with sadness and a guilty look on his face.
'What a shame my father could not be as great as Son Goku at anything.' She saw the look and was unsure about why, but felt a need to press him on this.
"I don't mean to pry, I know what it is like to loose a parent, but how did he die?"
"He died fighting Cell." He said simply, unsure as to why. He was supposed to be hiding his secrets, but somehow, he knew that she knew that already.
"Oh." Was all she could say. That proved she was right. He practically admitted that the blonde man who fought cell was indeed Son Goku. She knew this meant that he was the Gold Fighter, but she did not care. She saw his sadness when he said that. It moved her so much that she did not care about the rest. She tried to ask about more but could not, she could only do one thing.
"My mother died when I was 10. It was after papa won the tournament but before the Cell Games. After the party we had to celebrate that victory, she got sick, cancer. It did not take long just a few months, but by the time the end came, we were ready. Really we were glad, she was in such pain, wasting away." She stopped, overcome by emotion; it was all she could do to keep on flying. Silently Gohan reached in front of her and turned on the autopilot. Then he pulled her into a hug, and then she cried.
'I cannot cry. I have not cried since mommy died. I did not cry when papa missed that first birthday. I did not cry when I met that first girlfriend of his. I did not cry when I first found out that he lied to me and the world.' Then the memory of the second saddest day of her life came back. It was a couple months ago. She was looking though the attic of their old house, the one they had from before the Cell Games outcome had moved them to their mansion. They still had that old house she had discovered, not long before that day. Though not much was there, a little furniture, nearly how they left it. She found that the attic was still full of old stuff. It was like when they had moved her father had forgotten they had an attic. As she went through all the stuff it made her laugh with good memories, and sad when she came across something that was her mother. That was until she found a box full of old videotapes. She looked at a few titles; they were home movies. They were of before, when life was better. She was so excited to see that old life, to see when they were happy. When she was a part of a family, when she had a mother and a father. She took the box and hurried home.
She watched tapes for hours, throughout the evening and into the night. Laughing with the birthday parties and family trips, watching them without pause to keep her form getting sad about what they really meant. And then she came to the last tape. This tape had no title. She put it in quickly to avoid the sadness that would follow the last tapes completion. Little did she know how right she would be.
This tape had no title, nor clean editing. No theme music that she had seen over sections of these clips on TV over the years. No this was the unflinching eye of that day that changed her life again. The day that was almost worse than when she was told of her mother's condition, and prognosis. She watched as her father was slapped out of the ring like he was worthless. She saw a fight that her father could never have competed in, but that was clearly real. She saw almost all of it too. She saw the man that she knew later was probably Son Goku use one of those energy attacks and nearly destroy the evil monster only to see him regenerate himself, then just as something was about to happen the camera died. At then end of the tape was a description: Orange star city news remote Video drone recording. Power failure; caused this to be all of the video of the Cell Games. That was all.
Next Videl thought of all the work that she had done investigating the men who had flown into the fight. She had learned about Son Goku, Krillin, Yamcha and Tien from the Tournament monks, though they had very little information, but confirmed what she suspected. That those lights were no tricks but very advanced martial arts. She learned very little of the boy or the Green man except for some wild stories about demons and flying boys saving villages. And then a mere week ago a seemingly big break when she saw Bulma Briefs' husband on TV with her, she recognized him immediately. She had been trying for a week to get a hold of him to ask him about the fight, but the had apparently made the mistake of mentioning her name, further proving what she knew. Her father was a fraud.
All this flashed before her as they flew. And she thought. 'I may be closer to the real truth, and all I can do is cry about my mommy. I am flying with someone who might at least have heard about the fight, is not, oh my.. The blonde boy! The gold fighter! I might be flying with an eyewitness to the whole thing! And instead I am crying like a schoolgirl. I am not like that. I must be strong. I am stronger than my father and I must continue to be mentally tough. I am flying in this copter with... wait a minute if I am crying on Gohan's shoulder then who is flying this thing?'
She snapped her head up at that realization. Noticing for the first time that the engine was off and they had landed in the woods outside of the Western Capital.
"I decided it would be best if we landed here. We were getting close to the city and I am sure you would not want to be spotted in such a state. Plus I am not a very good pilot, so better we risk my landing in the woods with not threat to other people." Gohan laughed at his attempt at humor, mostly because he did not know how to land so he had cut the engine and used his ki to land the plane.
Videl did honestly laugh at his joke. She was happy to have her mood brightened before she worried about what she had done.
"I cannot believe I did that. I am so embarrassed, what must you think of me?"
"Well Videl I cannot help but notice you are not a very good pilot. That was dangerous!" he said sarcastically, causing her to laugh again, but then become even sadder.
"Hey, I was just joking. Videl you have nothing to be ashamed about, to paraphrase my new friend, 'I know what it is like to loose a parent' it is rough. I am just glad you trust me enough to let me help you through a sad moment." He continued.
"I haven't really cried since the day she died." She said weakly.
"Well no wonder. You have to let this out every now and again or you will explode." He then added quietly. " I should know."
"You know what? I feel do better. Thank you Gohan." Then she hugged him again, realizing for the first time they never really had parted their embrace from when she started her outburst. When she pulled back from the hug they went back to that intermediary position and arms length. Still they had yet to separate, and though they had both noticed it by not they did not really mind.
Then as if by some unspoken agreement they parted completely settling back into their seats at the exact same time.
"Thank you, Gohan."
"Thank you too, you may not have noticed but your shoulder is not exactly dry either."
Then Videl told him the story of the tape in the attic. She even told him her speculations. He listened intently. Then at the end as he was about to speak, she held up her hand and said.
"I want to hear what you know, but lets save that till next time. I am just drained emotionally. I could not take much more. Lets just call it a day."
"Ok, shall I fly us?"
"No, where to?"
"Capsule Corp. please." She was not really surprised to hear this, given what she suspected but she let it slide.
"You got it Mack"
"This really is a great taxi service Videl." [Big yellow Satan brand air taxis?]
"Yeah even got a complimentary laundry service."
They joked the rest of the way to CC, laughing and forgetting their troubles. They both ended up having one of the best afternoons they had ever had, tears and all. When they arrived Gohan leaned over and gave her a big hug goodbye. He whispered in her ear "Thank you" and as they parted gave her a timid kiss on the cheek. In response she treated him to the most beautiful smile he had ever seen. He smiled back, got out, and waived goodbye as she took off again home. Then he went inside to see Bulma about a disguise of some sort.
As Videl flew home she thought about what she had learned and what had happened. But most of all just thought about Gohan, and about seeing him again as soon as possible. 'Wow. I did not know I could be this happy anymore. Quite a day, I wonder what tomorrow will bring?'
End notes: This could serve as the end of the story, but to tie it back with chapter one, and the fact that I have over 2000 words more, it is a safe bet there is more to come.
