Part 4: School Daze
Chapter 21: Where's the Tylenol?
I do not own Dragonball Z.
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"Finally, lunch!" Exclaimed Gohan as the bell rang. "I'm starving!"
Videl smiled at Gohan as she followed him into the hall. She too was hungry, it has been four hours since they ate breakfast after all, but was able to hide it better. Suddenly Gohan stopped. "What is it G-chan?"
"I just ummwhere's the cafeteria at?" Videl snickered. He had been so psyched about finally getting to eat that he didn't check to see where the cafeteria is.
Erasa eyed her friend. Unless her ears had deceived her, Videl had called Gohan G-chan. And that nickname sounded a bit more friendly then just friends.
Sharpner blinked before laughing at him. "We don't eat inside on nice days like today, Brains." Replied Sharpner.
"Ummok." Replied Gohan.
"Just follow me." Said Videl. Gohan fell into step beside her, his arm itching to be put around Videl.
The group quickly arrived in the shade of a large tree. Videl was just about to join Sharpner and Erasa on the ground when Gohan threw a capsule. What popped out of the capsule made the eyes of the two blondes bug out and Videl's mouth to water. Piles of food covered the table. She knew simply by the smell who had cooked it. Anyone with Saiya-jin blood knows the smell of the sinfully delicious food cooked by Son Chi-Chi. And from the looks of it, there was enough for two. Silently she praised the woman for thinking of her when fixing her son's lunch. 'Now I don't have to eat that crap, no offense Mom, that I brought for lunch.'
Sharpner and Erasa blinked and suddenly Gohan and Videl were sitting at the table stuffing their faces full of food. Seeing Gohan eat like a vacuum cleaner was surprising, but seeing Videl eat like that was shocking.
"V-V-Videl?" Stuttered Erasa. "W-what are you d-doing?"
"Eading unch." Replied Videl without missing a beat.
"I uhs-see that. But uh"
"I think what Erasa's trying to say is WHY THE HELL ARE YOU EATING LIKE THAT?" Yelled Sharpner.
Gohan and Videl stopped shoveling food into their mouths and looked at each other before turning to Sharpner and Erasa. Videl swallowed the food in her mouth and asked, "Like what?"
"Likelike some vacuum cleaner!" Replied Sharpner before looking at Gohan. "And why are you eating the same way?"
"I uhwe're uhhungry?" Replied Gohan.
"Oh, ok." Chirped Erasa before sitting at the table and eating her lunch.
Sharpner stared at her like she had just lost her mind. "How can you accept that as an answer so easily? The way those two were eating just isn't normal!" Yelled Sharpner.
"What's the big deal Sharpie-chan? He was telling the truth." Replied Erasa as she munched on her sandwich.
Gohan and Videl looked at each other with a raised eyebrow before shrugging and returning to inhaling their lunch.
"I'm surrounded by lunatics." Muttered Sharpner before eating his lunch as well.
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The bell signaling the start of the last class of the day rang through out the school. In the gym the teacher took roll before telling the students that they have a choice of either martial arts, something that is almost always available for them to do, basketball, or just sitting and chatting.
Gohan, Videl, Sharpner, and Erasa walked over to the mats set up for sparing.
"So should I beat you now or do you wanna wait till later?" Sharpner asked with false confidence as they took their positions on the mats.
"Now's fine." Replied Gohan as he flowed into his fighting stance.
"O-k." Sharpner's voice cracked, he had feeling that this was going to hurt. And hurt a lot he mentally noted after seeing how relaxed Gohan seemed.
"Wish me luck babe." Muttered Sharpner as he spared a quick glance at Erasa while dropping into a fighting stance. Unfortunately Gohan thought that Sharpner had said this to Videl since the two girls are standing next to each other.
Videl, not noticing the flash of anger that exploded from Gohan, yelled, "Begin!"
The next thing Sharpner saw was the ceiling of the gym as he lied flat on his back, struggling to breath after having the air knocked out of him. Videl blinked in confusion, why had Gohan been so aggressive all of a sudden? She watched as Gohan leaned down over Sharpner, his voice barely audible above the din of the other students in the gym. "You better not even think about calling her that again. Got me?" Videl saw that Sharpner's eyes are wide with fear as he nodded his head.
"Gohan," Videl said softly as she approached him, "he was talking to Erasa." Gohan looked at her with puzzlement in his eyes. "She's his girlfriend."
"Oh." Replied Gohan as Erasa, breaking from her shock-induced trance, ran to Sharpner's side. "Errsorry about that." Gohan said while grinning at Sharpner and Erasa.
"Noproblem." Sharpner wheezed. 'You're good, brains."
"Hehethanks." Gohan replied before being dragged off by Videl to sit in the bleachers.
"You really need to control your strength more. And not fly off the handle every time someone says something to me." Said Videl as they sat down.
"Ok, but you have to promise the same thing."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
"I heard your thoughts earlier. You know, when Erasa called me cute?" Videl's eyes widened in surprise before narrowing.
"So? Thinking about it is a lot different from actually doing it."
"Yeah. You're right." Gohan replied with a mischievous smirk.
"Oh no you don't Son Gohan. Not while we're at school." Replied Videl upon picking up some of his thoughts.
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The rest of the day passed without any real excitement and the friends went their separate ways. But there was one thing that Gohan and Videl weren't counting on when they decided that Gohan would sleep over.
Early the next morning there was a nock on the door. Hercule, who had been walking past, opened it and saw Sharpner and Erasa, two of Videl's friends from school.
"Hello Mr. Satan. Is Videl here?" Asked Erasa.
"Yeah, she's up in her room getting ready for school." Replied the world champ before going off to do something.
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