TRANSITION
"AHHH! I am late!" Bulma said after taking a look at her watch and began to search for her clothes.
"Where are you going?" Vegeta asked while watching her getting dress.
"Out with Yamcha."
"I thought it was over between you two."
"Well not officially, but I wanted to tell him today that I have someone else."
"I think he knows that already." Vegeta said.
"What do you mean?" Bulma asked while straitening her hairs.
"He was here five minutes ago, I think he saw us."
"What? Why didn't say something?"
"I was busy." Vegeta said smirking.
"Ha-ha, I better go talk to him." Bulma said while running outside where she met her mother.
"Here you are Yamcha was looking for you he looked very worried."
"I know mom, I am going to change and go after him." She said going to her room, she left half hour later got on her car and drove to Yamcha house. Of course the warrior was absent but she met with his furry friend who told her that he didn't come back yet, so Bulma decided to wait for him.
Yamcha was shocked to discover a man sound asleep under the cover; he couldn't say how long he was staring at him while wondering what he should do 'Easy, get the hell out of here!' his mind screamed at him, but when he tried to get off the bed his feet got caught in the sheets and fell head first on the floor.
"Ouch!" he said in pain.
"Good morning." Yamcha heard him say in a soft speaking voice and lift his head to see two blue eyes looking at him from the bed.
"Bruno?" Yamcha said surprised as he recognized for the first time the man at his side.
"Hi, how are you feeling?" the blond-haired man asked.
"I've been better." Yamcha said while trying to get up but fell back on his rear as his legs refused to obey.
"Sorry for hitting you with my car last night." Bruno said while getting off bed. The young scientist was wearing a night-blue pajama with cute brown teddy bears the kind a nine year-old might be wearing, while Yamcha was just wearing a grey sweat pants way too big for him. Bruno helped the z-warrior to get on his feet and began to notice the other man discomfort "is there something wrong?" he asked.
"Uh, let's say that I never woke up on other man's bed before." Yamcha said with embarrassment.
"Oh that? I have to say it's not every night I served as teddy bear to another man!" Bruno said giggling, but this only made Yamcha feel worse.
"Well don't worry nothing happened, I am not the kind to take advantages of others in their moment of weakness, even if the offer was really tempting." Bruno said while winking at Yamcha who stood there mouth wide open.
"I am going to prepare breakfast, if you want to fresh up the bathroom is at your left you should find something to fit you in the clean laundry basket while waiting for your clothes to be cleaned." Bruno said while leaving the room and Yamcha sighed while swearing to himself to never drink again.
Later on the two began silently to eat their breakfast while reading the newspaper but Yamcha was actually looking secretly at Bruno.
"Is there something you'll like to ask me?" He said while putting down his papers.
"Well, I can't really imagine that you are a…" Yamcha began.
"That I like men." Bruno said to make it easier for him.
"Yea, you don't look or act like one."
"Oh, how does one suppose to look like and act?"
"You know all girly type."
"Ah, but you aren't like that are you?"
"Hey! I am not gay!" Yamcha said offended.
"Sure and last night just proved it by what I recalled." Bruno said while sipping his coffee.
"Give me a break I was drunk I mistook you for a girl!" Yamcha exclaimed.
"What? Me look like a girl, what are you blind?" Bruno said offended.
"What's wrong? I thought guy like you would be glad to be mistaken for one." Yamcha said surprised by the reaction of the young man.
"What do you know?" Bruno asked sighing while grabbing his paper.
"Exactly!" Yamcha exclaimed.
"What-ever!" Bruno said while turning the page.
"What's bugging you? What happened to your gaiety self?" Yamcha asked snickering.
"Are you trying to make fun of me?" Bruno asked frowning and Yamcha shook his head in negation.
"Good, because I would tell you that I rather be gay than cheated on." Bruno said and Yamcha clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he remembered the events of last night while leaving the table and walked outside on the balcony which at it views to a neatly kept garden. Bruno looked at him leaving and decided to follow him a moment later.
"I am sorry; it's that I am really touchy on the subject." Bruno told him.
"No need to apologize I started it." Yamcha said while trying to hold back his tears the best he can.
"Yamcha?" Bruno said gently and the man burst in tears to the scientist great surprise, the young man slowly approached him and took him in his arms and Yamcha didn't resist but instead hold on him tight and began to cry his heart out.
"How could she do that? How could she?!" he said between sobs.
"She was my first love Bruno, my only love." The warrior said still crying.
"I know, I know." Bruno just said while trying to calm him down. They couldn't tell for how long they stood there in the warm light of the morning sun.
Later on Yamcha found himself comfortably sat on a sofa in the living room listening to relaxing ambient music. 'I can't believe myself! I can't believe I just cry like a baby in the arms of a man! I must be a wreck, but I have to admit I feel a little bit better.' he thought when the feel of crying came back again.
"Drink this you'll feel much better after." Bruno said while giving him three tablets and a glass of water. Yamcha took them and fell deeply asleep ten minutes later. He woke up hours later and was able to watch the sunset before deciding that it was the time to leave. He called out for Bruno but the young man was out so he left a note and left for his apartment.
"Yamcha there you are! I've been waiting for you all day long are you alright?" Bulma asked when Yamcha entered his apartment.
"Guess?" the warrior replied angrily.
"You saw us."
"Yes, and I never thought one day you'll betray me."
"Of course it is ok for you to do so."
"I never said that!"
"Listen to me Yamcha; I am so sorry for hurting you that way, but you have to admit our relationship wasn't working for quite sometimes now. We know each other for years and we are still at the same point as when we first met, look at Gokou and Chi Chi they are married and have kid! I want a serious relationship but you were just playing around and not taking me seriously."
"Oh so you think Vegeta is going to do better, girl you are in for some disappointment because he's not the prince charming you are dreaming of, well he maybe a prince but you can forget the charming part! He's only using you he'll never love you!"
"You are wrong Yamcha, Vegeta and I are sharing a powerful bond one that cannot be broken something you and I never had."
"For your own sake I hope you are right!"
"Yamcha even though we are not lovers anymore do you think we can still be friends?"
"I wish I can give you two my blessings and all but I am only human so…GO TO HELL!" Yamcha shouted while turning his back at her, she sighed and left the apartment. Once gone Yamcha sat on the sofa and began to silently shed some tears, they've have broken up before but this time it was for real they won't get back together ever again.
It was about three in the afternoon when someone ring the bell on Yamcha's apartment door and Puar went to see who it was.
"Hi Puar, is Yamcha there?" Bruno asked, Yamcha who heard him was about to flee through the window, but this one refused to open.
"Damn it!" He said in frustration.
"Yes he's here, come in" Puar said.
"Hi Yamcha, how are you feeling?" Bruno asked.
"Better, thanks for your help." Yamcha said embarrassed.
"You are welcome. Can I ask you for a favor?" Bruno asked.
"What is it?" Yamcha asked hesitantly.
"Well I got these opera tickets and don't want to waste them, will you like to come?"
"Uh?"
"Pretty please."
"I would like to go but I don't have anything to wear."
"No problem, come!" Bruno said while dragging him outside.
Later on Yamcha was having his measures taking by a tailor for a brand new tuxedo while Bruno was sitting on a chair looking at him with that dreamily look on his face until Yamcha brought him back to earth by saying
"Where are we going next?"
"To the barbershop you totally need a haircut."
"Yeah I agree I hate that do."
"Why did you cut them like this anyway, where you trying to imitate Vegeta or something?" Bruno asked and Yamcha began to blush. Bruno had everything delivered to Yamcha's apartment for this to get ready for tonight; the young man came to pick him up later on.
"Wow Yamcha you look great even sexy in a tuxedo!" Bruno exclaimed when he saw him coming out while himself wearing a tailored tux.
"Well thanks" Yamcha said embarrassed, but forgot about it when he saw the car Bruno was driving it was a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.
"That's a sweet ride you got here!" He said while checking the car out.
"It was made in the 20th century a very rare car, do you like it?" Bruno asked.
"Yeah" this one replied without leaving the car of sight.
"Well it's all yours!" Bruno said while throwing him the keys, Yamcha caught them stunned
"What? No I can't accept this it must have cost you a small fortune."
"Yeah it did, but let's say this is your compensation for hitting you with my other car last night. Now let's go!." Bruno said while sitting in the passenger seat.
"You must be loaded if you can afford this car." Yamcha said while starting it.
"I am not that rich I am afraid, let's say someone else paid for it."
"Who? Your mysterious friend?"
"No, your ex-girlfriend."
"What? How come?"
"Let's say that I wasn't always a good citizen."
"You stole the money! How?"
"By hacking the Briefs bank account they won't notice neither will miss it and for them to find out they will have to really be thorough in checking their books."
"This is very wrong." Yamcha said while shaking his head.
"So you want me to return the car and the money?" Bruno asked.
"Hell no, I think I love the car even better than before now." Yamcha said while accelerating. The two men went to see Madama Butterfly a play about a geisha married to a faithless American husband who abandoned her and came back to take away the only thing that she loves more than life itself, she took away her life by doing a ritual suicide. At the end of the play Bruno asked Yamcha if he liked the show and this one replied he never new how moving but still think that opera is for snobs. Later on they went to a nice restaurant and began to eat silently when Bruno asked.
"How are you holding out?"
"So far so good." Yamcha said while putting his fork down and began to stare at his plate.
"I know it must hurt. It isn't easy to love someone doesn't love you anymore or who's in love with someone else." Bruno said while smiling weakly.
"Oh" Yamcha said.
"Yeah, I have that guy I liked even loved, but he likes women more specially my best friend. It pains me for awhile but when I look at them I think they are better together." Bruno said.
"I guess you are right, Bulma and Vegeta deserve each other, but this sucks." Yamcha said.
"Tell me about it." Bruno said while emptying his glass.
"I don't understand how come a man can be attracted to another." Yamcha said.
"Same here" Bruno replied and the both began to laugh.
"Who was he?" Yamcha asked.
"Who?"
"Your first love."
"Computer science teacher, but the bastard was just using me." Bruno said while repressing a sob.
"How come?"
"He just wanted me to hack computers and crack top-secrets codes. He got caught by the Feds while selling the information so to get out the son of a bitch sold me out. I was in deep trouble with no way to get out of that shit." Bruno said while ordering another drink.
"What happened?"
"I got clemency at the condition I work for them. They said I am talented that it shouldn't go to waste."
"Lucky."
"Yeah, but not him." Bruno said while smirking.
"What did you do?"
"You don't wanna now." Bruno said grinning.
"You sure are a naughty boy" Yamcha said.
"You've got no idea." Bruno said while looking at a vagabond through the window. Since that night the two men became best friends, they were inseparable. They went out almost every night and the warrior had to admit with Bruno around he didn't really have the time to dwell over his lost love that was going through some tough time now.
"Vegeta, why have you ordered to load the ship? Are you leaving?" Bulma asked to the saiya-jin warrior one night.
"I have to go in space to continue training I have too much distraction here on Earth."
"Are you coming back?" she asked worried.
"Of course I still have to still have some unfinished business with Kakorott!"
"Oh"
"Are you going to give me a going away present?" Vegeta said smirking.
"Maybe if you could think of something else I wouldn't be such a distraction." Bulma said while feigning to be serious, but that night Bulma threw away her birth control pill down the drain before joining Vegeta in bed.
For Christmas Eve Yamcha and Bruno decided to spend it in a bar that was having a karaoke night, Yamcha was enjoying his drink while Bruno was singing Sweet Dreams originally sung by the Eurhythmic. It went as such:
'Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused…'
"So true." Yamcha said to himself while emptying his glass. "Why are you so gloom? It's almost Christmas!" Bruno said cheerfully while coming down from the stage after his song but Yamcha just look the other way.
"Let me guess you used to spend it with her, well I know something that'll turn that frown upside down!" Bruno said while dragging him outside and pushed him toward the car. They drove outside the town where a balloon was waiting for them.
"What is this?" Yamcha asked.
"Just get in you'll find out soon enough." Bruno said and they got in and started taking altitude.
"Can you tell me now?" Yamcha asked while looking at the city's lights down.
"It's beautiful from up there isn't it? They look some small down there. I like watching the world that way it makes me feel all powerful." Bruno said laughing while taking his hand held computer from his pocket and started keying some commands in.
"What in the world are you doing?" Yamcha asked curiously.
"Just watch." Bruno said as some lights all over the city went off and the ones still on were placed in such pattern that they made a message.
"Merry Christmas Yamcha" the z-warrior read and Bruno began to laugh.
"You did that?" Yamcha asked.
"Of course" Bruno said still laughing.
"You are crazy." The warrior said smiling and Bruno stopped laughing and replied
"You are right I am crazy Yamcha…I am crazy for you." Bruno said to him and the two men looked at each other in the eyes.
What will be Yamcha's answer? What will be Vegeta's reaction once he came back? Don't miss out the next chapter of Unforgivable "Change of Heart!" Thanks for your reviews!