A/N '..' Means there thinking. Ok that's it.

About an hour had passed and Eighteen had changed her mind about the snare. It was fun, but hard work. The other drum members were a juniors and freshmen. They were on bass drum and on junior was on snare. A girl was on cymbals and a very short guy was on the other cymbals. The sucked big time, but little guy was very good.

Tien was there helping the girl. He was blushing most of the time. "Ok Lunch crash the cymbals on two and four," She crashed on one and three. "No two and four. Like the way Chaozu does it."

Eighteen found them to be very funny. Tien and Chaozu were very good but Lunch couldn't do anything the right way. Vegeta was getting pissed and couldn't take it any more.

"Kami woman! It's on two and four! Not one and three! Can't you count!" she did it again. "Alright that's it with the cymbals! Go do some mallet work or some thing! Do some..........pit stuff!"

"A.....ok Vegeta." Said Tien "Come on I need to work on my four mallets any way.

"I need to work on my scales" said Lunch. "These cymbals hurt!" They all walked off.

"Gees, Four years in years in band and she still works on scales?" said Nappa "Damn that woman is dumb!"

"At least that side of her is." Mumble Raditz

'What does her mean 'that side of her'?'

"Lets get to work. We've wasted more time then we needed to with those love birds so let's get to work." Yelled Vegeta They continued to play. Eighteen found this funnier then she though.

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5:00 came around and practice was over. Every one started to leave.

"Eighteen wait up." Yelled ChiChi Eighteen stopped

'What does she want?'
"Eighteen. I just wanted to say 'Welcome' If you ever need any help with anything, you can come to me, Bulma, Tien, Goku or maybe even Krillin." She stops to think. "Well maybe not Krillin as much as the rest of us."

"Well thanks but I can do things my-self." Eighteen started to walk off.

"Oh Eighteen wait! I also wanted to know if you'd like to go shopping with me and Bulma on Saturday. I'd like to get to know the new people around here."

'Yeah right, Like I go.....wait a minute did she say shopping?' "Did you say shopping?"

"Yeah me and Bulma go shopping every Saturday there's a sale. Would you like to come with us?"

Eighteen loved to shop. That was her biggest weakness. Before she could think of what she was saying she answered. "Sure, why not."

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The next day at lunch Eighteen sat by herself. She saw all of the band geeks and started to listen in on there conversion.

"So what's up with Tien and Lunch?" asked Yamcha "Are they together or what?"

"I don't think so." Said ChiChi "Kushami doesn't want to have a boyfriend just yet. Lunch is all up for it but Kushami isn't. Poor Tien. It must be hard to be in love with a woman that has 2 personalities."

'Two personalities? Wonder what the other one is just as dumb?'

"Hey you guys." Said Goku with his mouth half full. "What do you think about that new girl?"

"You mean Eighteen right?" said Yamcha

"Yeah her!"

'What? If they say any thing bad about me I'll....'

"I think she pretty cool." Said ChiChi "Oh I hope you don't mind Bulma, but I asked her to go to the mall with us on Saturday. Is that ok?"

"Oh that's cool. The more the merrier,"

'What?'

"Ya. If she was to talk to us more she would be fine by *gulp* me!" said Goku as he ate a pizza.

"I agree with Goku." Said Bulma

"I think she hot. Do you think she'd go out with me?" said Yamcha

'Please, I'll eat my foot before I date a geek like you.'

"Yamcha please." Said Bulma "She maybe blonde but she's not dumb, she knows not to date a geek like you."

"Well you must be the dumbly cause you dated me!"

"Yeah and I admit that."

"Well any way if she's anything like Maron, she'll be on me like ants on a picnic."

"Oh I hope *gulp* she's nothing like Maron." Said Goku "its hard dealing with one Slut. It would be harder *gulp* with two."

'Don't worry about that. The only guy I cared about was my brother and that's it' Eighteen went into daze about her childhood and bad it was when she heard a slap.

"Damn it woman, what was that for?" yelled Vegeta as he rubbed his face.

"What do you think it was for?" said Bulma as she started to cry.

'Wow, how long was I in a daze? When did this Ass hole get here?'

"If your mad at me cause I didn't make it to English class I'm sorry. I had something I needed to do."

"That's not the point. You promised me you wouldn't drink or smoke. And what were you doing yesterday? Drinking of course! I'm tried of your lies Vegeta." Then she ran off behind the school building.

"Bulma wait!" Vegeta ran after her. "You don't understand!"

Every one saw them run off. "Man they just love each other to much." Said Goku "They love each other to where it hurts them."

"So do we." Said ChiChi as she hugged him. He smiled.

"Yeah I think I'll go see what Tien and Chaozu are up to." Said Yamcha as picked up his lunch. "I'm getting tried of seeing all these couples around."

"Did you forget Yamcha?" asked ChiChi "Tien is looking for Lunch. There's an other couple."

"Well I'll go see if I can find Maron." Then he ran off.

"What? Why would he want to find Maron?" asked Goku

"I think I know why, but who cares. Now we have more time with our-self."

'Oh brother, I'm not going to watch this. I wish my brother was here to talk to.'

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As the week went on, Eighteen found it that band wasn't as band as she though it would be. She though the people would be total geeks, but they were really nice. By Saturday she was ready to go out with them to the mall. She met up with them at school. She saw them waiting in the parking lot.

"Hey Eighteen, ready to go?" asked Bulma.

"Ah yeah, where are your boy friends?"

"Oh you mean Goku and Vegeta? This is just a girl's day out." Said ChiChi

"Besides we can't get them to come for shit." Joked Bulma

Eighteen giggled 'Yeah there right. No guy in there right mind would come on a shopping trip. I know Seventeen would never want to come.'

They drove in Bulma's car. "What kind of music do you listen to Eighteen?"

"Oh I listen to.......never mind." 'They won't like what I listen to'

"No come on." Said ChiChi "Tell us. We won't say any thing."

"Well I listen to Bjork and Evanescence."

"You're kidding!" yelled Bulma as she turned up the volume to the Bjork CD she had in there. "I love Bjork and Evanescence! Have you ever Heard Tori Amo's?"

"Yes I love her!"

Next thing they new they were talking about the music that they loved. They got to the Mall before they new it.

"Wow Eighteen we have a lot of stuff in common." said ChiChi

"Yeah how weird is that?" said Bulma as she parked.

"This is weird, the person I have every really talked to was my bro....." she cut her self off.

"Your brother, You have a brother Eighteen? That's cool what's his name?" asked ChiChi. She then saw Eighteen put her head down. "Oh Eighteen, I 'm sorry I shouldn't have said...."

"No it's ok." Said Eighteen "Lets just go shopping and forget we said any thing about it."

"Sounds good to me." Said ChiChi. Bulma shook her head.

They went into a cloths store and started to shop. "So tell us about your- self, Eighteen, or at lest what your willing to tell us that is."

"We....My real name is Juuhachigou. I hate that name so my brother would call me Eighteen. My mom died when I was 5 my dads an ass, and my brother I'd rather not talk about."

"That's understandable." Said ChiChi

"Yeah we where close but I guess not close enough." Eighteen stared into the cloths.

"Lets not talk about that." Bulma said. "We'll tell you about us. Me and ChiChi have known each other since 6 grade. I've known Goku and Krillin since Kindergarten and they still act the same!"

"Hey no they don't." argued Chichi "Goku has grown out of some things since then, but he's not childish!"

"Well Krillin acts the same. Anyway we all have been friends forever. I meant Vegeta in 8th grade. He's very hotheaded and stubborn, and can some times if he wanted to be kind. He's a jealous man, to any on who gets in his way."

"I know." Said Eighteen as she rolled her eyes "Why are you with him if he's so bad like that?"

"Well he had a bad childhood and I felt bad for him. I need deep down he loves me its just hard for him to show it I guess."

"Well if you don't mind me asking, were you and that creep Yamcha together at one point?" asked Eighteen

"Oh kami" Bulma rolled her eyes "Yeah we were together for about 2 years I think. He lived on my block and was very shy of girls. You can even say he was scared of them, until puberty came and took its place. He's just a creep now."

"What about other people?" asked Eighteen?

"Like who?" asked ChiChi

"Ah like Tien, Chaozu, and Lunch, what's up with them?"

"Oh everybody asks that one." Said ChiChi "Ok Tien and Chaozu have been best friends since Preschool. Around I think 7th grade they turned Goth. Don't ask why none of us know." ChiChi gave a sign. "Any way Lunch has two personalities. One is one you have seen, Lunch the other is named Kushami. Lunch is nice and kind of a ditz. Kushami is nothing but! Let's just leave it at that."

"Oh and some one we should warn you about is Maron!" said Bulma with a evil look "She is a slut. A major slut. She has a new boyfriend or should I say "boy toy" every other three hours at the lest."

"Oh my Kami!" said Eighteen "What a bitch! I feel bad for the guys who have been with her!"

"He longest boyfriend was about a year, but even then she was cheating on him. He broke up with her cause he couldn't take it any more. He couldn't fake it, pretended noting was going on." Said ChiChi with a long face

"Poor guy. Who was he?"

"Krillin. He never really got over being used like that, but if you were to talk to him he would sound happy and over it." said Bulma "He was always the clown of things. He loves to joke around and can be hard to get into a serious mode but once you have he there he can be very serious."

"I think that is every one. You should know about." Said ChiChi The day went on and they shopped till they dropped. It was around 9:00 when the store was going to close. "I think was should go home now. Store is closing."

"Your right. Ah Eighteen want me to drop you off at home?"

"Ah no I need to get my car out of the parking lot so drive me there."

"Ok then. I feel like listening to Evanescence on the way back. Is that ok?"

"Yeah sure." On the way back they talked until song number 4 came up. "Oh I don't like this song that much. 'My Immortal' is just too sad for me." Bulma was about to change it when Eighteen stopped her.

"No wait! I like this song.......A lot. It reminds me of my brother. Please let me hear it."

"Yeah Bulma let her hear it. I like it to even though it is very sad." Said ChiChi

"Oh ok."

Eighteen sat there listening to the words. There was one line it the song that really got her to tears. When it came up she started to cry.

"I've Tried so Hard to tell Myself that you're gone

And though you're still with me

I've been alone all along."

"Eighteen, You gonna be ok?"

"Huh?"

"Eighteen" said ChiChi as she looked at her. "You alright?"

"A yeah" Eighteen looked at the window "I'll be just fine. Thanks for taking me to the mall. I needed to get out and think."

"No problem. We'll do this again some time ok?" said Bulma as she let her out of the car. "Bye Eighteen."

"Bye see you at school on Monday!" said ChiChi

"Bye." Eighteen walked to her car. She sat in her car and looked at the picture of her and Seventeen, when they were 5. He looked so sad in the picture.

'Why did you run away Seventeen? I know are dads an ass, but I though we were close. Why did you leave me to deal with him all alone?! Why did you but him on my shoulder to deal with!! I need help! I can't do this on my own!'

She then took the picture and threw it in the back of the car. She put her head on the wheel and started to cry more.

"I can't take this on my own! I need some one to talk to! I can't talk to just any one, I need to talk to some one that knows what I've been threw! I need help!"

Eighteen spent half the night crying in the parking lot.

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As the second week went on, the band practices got harder. Eighteen felt stupid for cry in the parking lot so she didn't tell any one. She just lied and said her eyes were red form lack of sleep.

"Ok, ok class." Said Piccolo "Take out your instruments and go out side, Were marching today."

The whole class groaned. "Oh come on. Don't give me that. We're a marching band that's what we do! You knew we had to this sooner or later." Yelled Piccolo "Now, I don't want to hear it! Is that clear?"

"Yes Piccolo." Moaned the class

"Good."

As every one walked out, Yamcha ran over to Eighteen. "Hey ah Eighteen."

"What ever it is the answer is no."

"but you don't even know what I what to ask?"

"Fine what is it?"

"Will you go out with m......."

"No." Eighteen walked off with her snare.

"Ok battery, get your buts over here." Yelled Vegeta "We need to do are warm ups."

As the battery warmed up, Yamcha looked at Eighteen, and then he looked over at Maron. 'Oh hell yeah, Eighteen is way better looking the Maron. Why won't she go out with me man?'

"What the hell are you looking at Yamcha?"

He then went out of his daze and saw Maron standing right in front of him. "Oh hey Maron, ah nothing..nothing, I'm not looking at any thing."

"It looked like you were staring at my chest."

"Ah no. ah why would I look at that?"

"Cause you like it, admit it." She then gave him a sly grin.

"Well you mite be right about that......"

"Yamcha and Maron get your but over her for tuning!" yelled Bulma

"Coming." Yelled the both of them

"Well, well, well if it isn't Yamcha and Maron matching up." Said Nappa as they finished the warm up "Isn't that a pretty couple."

"Yeah I bet." Said Raditz "Bet you she gives him head by the end of the week."

"I'll give it until the end of the day."

"Ok stop." Yelled Vegeta "I don't what to talk about what ever, that slut dose in her spare time, especially if it has to do with Yamcha!!"

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"Ok class. Now for the whole point of a marching band. We are going to march. Now for the Freshmen and rookies who don't know how to march, I will show you."

Piccolo then marched forward, backward and side to side while he was explaining what he was doing. He explained every thing about marching and how it should look. "All right now it's your turn. Do it first with out the interments then with."

Eighteen found it hard to stay focus, but she liked marching. She found it kind of interesting. Then they marched with there interments. Eighteen now found this hard. Vegeta saw her struggle and decided to take this opportunity to "help her out"

"Here let me help with the marching." He then went up to her back. "You see, you need to keep your back straight, like this." He then punched her back as hard as he could.

"Ahh!!!" she then curved her back straight up from where he hit her.

"Like that! Stay like that for about an hour or so." Laughed Vegeta He then stared to march off while playing a cadence. Eighteen was pissed off. Nappa saw it all and made it worst.

"Ha ha, what's the matter snare export? Can take a little hit?"

"Yeah baby, what's wrong with you? Ha Ha ha!" yelled Raditz. He and Nappa started to march of playing the same cadence laughing.

Eighteen was really pissed, but she didn't what to show it. Instead she listened to the cadence they were playing and started to play it back. Vegeta looked back and saw her play the cadence just as good as Raditz was playing it. At one point she was playing even better then him.

"What the hell?" yelled Raditz He stopped playing cause he got thrown off. "How the hell did she do that? We never showed her THIS cadence!"

"I know what she's doing." Said Vegeta "Nappa! Faster tempo."

"Ah sure you got it." They played faster, but Eighteen played just as fast. "I have to stop. I have to admit it. She's good Vegeta."

"Shut up Wimp. I can take her!"

Vegeta then made the tempo faster. Eighteen was just as good, but none of them would let go. At one point a crowd came. Vegeta then decided to stop playing the cadence and play a little game called Play and Repeat. Vegeta made sure to play hard rhymes, but Eighteen played them right back on the snare. It got really intense. Vegeta was just about to quit when....

"Ok that's it!" yelled Piccolo The both of them stopped. "I will not allow this kind of stuff to happen during my rehearsal. Do this type of stuff on your own time."

As every one left Vegeta looked at Eighteen with an evil look. "I don't know what your trying to pull, but it won't work on me! Your lucky Piccolo came you would have.."

"Or I would have what, won?" said Eighteen with a devilish smile "I saw you weakling out." She started to walk off. "The session is just beginning, Jackass. Just you wait."

Vegeta just stood there pissed. 'No one has ever been able to play what I told them to play. Shit. I my have just meet my match.'

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Well that's it for now. Tried -_-zzzz Any way tell me what you think about the story and how is it going so far. Thanks for reading my story. ^_^