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Scene: Broadcasters from the media podium
"…and it looks like there's a change in the starting lineup for Madison"
"Let's see here Tom…a change indeed. Vegeta Ouji is back on the quarterback position"
"Well that's a surprising substitution John. Why would Madison change the best wide receiver in the nation right now to play quarterback?"
"I think their starting quarterback is injured. Yep. Krillin Roshi appearing on the disabled list as of today"
"Wonder how the team is going to do without Ouji as a wide receiver. He was leading the league in touchdowns scored, yards earned and turnovers. I dare to say one thing though"
"What's that Tom?"
"Ouji's change will surely make the team better"
"You think?"
"Yes I do, John. Vegeta is not only a strong well-built athlete with a good body definition which gives him the great advantage to set up quickly and be ready to throw in an instant"
"That is true"
"But he has been the leagues' and the nations' leading quarterback these past four years. He's a mature and confident field leader who is well-respected by his teammates and he's very competitive with the opposition"
"The young lad has a lot of experience considering the grade skill he's in. The Junior from Tarzana, California has quite shown the world that youth doesn't mean anything as long as you know how to play like you've been playing for years"
"That's right, John. Guess Foley knew what he was doing when he took Ouji in while he was in his sixth grade. The principal and athletic director of the school did not want the kid inside the school parameters due to a list of misconducts and rule violations that went against the school's morale"
"He can be sorry now laughter"
"Laughter Yes he can John. Yes he can"
"Ouji has brought to High School football something that only good professional players from the NFL used to bring in their times"
"What I'm wondering is if Ouji will be up for the wide receiver MVP awards or if he now qualifies for quarterback MVP awards"
"Well Tom I think that won't matter in the end. He's the league's MVP which is the award received for conference performance AND he's the national MVP which is the award received for national performance. Out of more than eighty states with a High School football program Ouji is the best of the best. There is no one that can become close to comparison with him"
"What we don't know John is whether his statistics are going to be affected by the sudden change of position"
"Let's hope not, Tom. Let's hope not…"
Fame
Change of Scene: School. A day after the game
"… and he showed he has good mechanics and an incredibly fast release, showed accuracy on his long tosses and had a very lively arm in the short areas…"
"…he's very composed under pressure, throws a cacheable ball putting impressive touch with zip to make it easy for his receivers to pull in the ball..."
"…and he displays tremendous velocity with proper timing when he airs out the long bomb getting optimal effort behind his powerful arm. He also had the vision to easily pick up the stunts and scans the field well, feeling the pressure quickly to avoid the rush while maintaining his composure…"
"…he shows the ability to locate the secondary targets when the primary ones are covered…"
"…he's a very effective scrambler, an 'NFL hall of famers' mold, but it is his maturity that allows him to be patient as he first waits for the play to develop.."
"Geez!" Bulma looked around amazed as she entered the school's main building. Everyone who was everyone had a newspaper on hand. 18 waved a hand in the air which Bulma quickly localized and directed towards quickly
"Hey" the girls greet each other with a hug "what's up with the papers?" Bulma asked. 18 rolled her eyes settling a newspaper before her as well
"I dunno. Some guy was giving them out at the entrance of the parking deck saying there's full coverage on yesterday's game" she said. Bulma nodded
"I see. Well, what does it say that's so important?" she asked curious. 18 opened the paper on the page that the index indicated the story was. The picture didn't amaze her. There was Vegeta throwing the ball in all of his glory. The words 'Conference & National MVP' were written beneath the picture. 18 scoffed as if it was absurd
"I hate how they say it's full coverage of yesterday's game when everyone knows for a fact it's just full coverage of Vegeta's performance yesterday as a quarterback" she said rolling her eyes again. Bulma read the article uninterested. She didn't see anything wrong with the coverage being about Vegeta
"I mean sometimes I just wonder how the rest of the team feels" 18 continued to complain "cause they all know that no matter what position Vegeta plays he's going to do well in it but the newspapers have to go ahead and make this whole big deal about it when its really not"
"Just because he's a good player doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to be in the newspa-"
"You don't get it, Briefs" 18 cut off annoyed "it's been like this since they were all in seventh grade. No one gets awards but him. No one gets nominations or recognition, chances to score the best scholarships in the nation, NFL draft spots; no one, absolutely no one gets them except for him. And that's what really bothers me. The whole team works as hard as he does. It's not fair" she said. Bulma sighed
"I'm sorry 18. I guess it's kinda hard to deal with all this when your boyfriend's position was the one he replaced" she said kindly. 18 showed her a part of the report on the paper
"Look at this: 'he throws the ball with a tight spiral and makes the proper reads when scanning downfield. He can also throw off his back foot when he's making his drop sets and he drifts and settles in the pocket displaying a soft touch to feather the ball over the defender's head' expressed head coach Mark Foley of the Madison Eagles'. Can you honestly tell me that Krillin didn't do that when he played? It's not even about Krillin. Can you tell me that Yamcha or Kao or Lou didn't do that before he decided to put Vegeta as a quarterback?" she asked annoyed. Bulma shrugged her shoulders
"I wouldn't know" she shook her head. Just then Vegeta made his grand entrance wearing his football jock jacket, his gray sunglasses and his proud, very confident smirk. His friends walking aside and all around him wore the same jacket including Krillin who was now on crotches. 18's expression changed from annoyed to happy. She walked towards the guys and before even saying something to Krillin she leaned in to hug Vegeta
"Awesome game yesterday, I'm so glad you guys won" she smiled hypocritically. Vegeta nodded incoherently not listening to a word she was saying. His attention had drifted to Bulma as she placed her books in her locker looking even more beautiful today than she had looked yesterday. The guys stayed behind as Vegeta walked ahead to meet with Bulma. Little did he know of the commotion that 18 was causing behind him due to the newspaper thing…
"Hello gorgeous" a low voice came from behind the opened locker door. Bulma shut the door closed finding none other than 'prince charming' behind it…or should she say…the opposite of him
"Can you please apply to yourself to call me Bulma?" Bulma protested irate
"I thought I told you I call you whatever I want-"
"Not in this world" said Bulma "you will call me by my name if you want to address me. This is the last time I'm going to tell you. Next time I will opt for ignoring you. Not that I wasn't drawn to do that in the first place but…oh well" she fixed the books in her arms before turning around to walk away. Vegeta followed
"Woman who do you think you are-"
"Hello? Yes…how are you? I'm good. Yeah..." Bulma started talking on her cell phone completely ignoring that Vegeta was there. Vegeta frowned
"I'm talking to you" he raised his voice. Bulma waved a hand in front of him so he would shut up
"Yeah. Oh don't worry. Just an asshole beside me being as loud as he can be" she narrowed her eyes with a smile her conversation on the phone pretty fluid and calmed. Vegeta grunted but said nothing. Instead he kept walking aside her…
A few seconds later Bulma was done on the phone. She placed it on top of her books and kept walking towards her classroom with a pissed Vegeta on her side. She glared at him then smiled
"You look pissed. What's wrong with you?" she asked naïvely. Vegeta grumbled giving her a death glare
"And you dare to even ask me that?" he replied angrily. Bulma giggled
"I thought you were smart enough to understand that I am not going to respond whenever you call me by one of those stupid little names you call the other sluts in this school. I guess I was wrong-"
"I told you I-"
"No, no, no" she stopped dead in her tracks stopping Vegeta with her "If you want me you come and get me but this is serious. If it isn't then forget about it. I'm not going to be another trophy for your collection" she leaned in and kissed his cheek
"You can think about it" she added leaving a blushing Vegeta behind her as she left to get to her classroom. Vegeta looked at her walk away then breathed profoundly, in and out, trying to control his temper
"This woman…" he started talking to himself "makes me want to strangle someone…" he continued. Just then…
"Hey Vegeta what's going on?" Goku's innocent childish voice came from behind him. Vegeta turned grabbing him by the collar of his shirt
"Who the fuck does she think she is?" he almost screamed at his face. Goku held his hand up to Vegeta's on his shirt so he would let go
"Easy man. Breathe. Calm down-"
"She's messing with my head! How the hell can you tell me to calm down? You calm down!" he shot wildly veins popping out of his forehead. Goku tugged at his hand on the collar of his shirt and the shorter male finally decided to let go. Fixing his uniform Goku approached Vegeta closer so people wouldn't hear what he was about to say
"Vegeta…uh…I don't really know how to say this….but um-"
"Damn it Kakarot just say it!" Vegeta spat at him resting his back against the lockers behind him with his arms crossed on his chest. Goku breathed shakily
"Alright, here goes. I think you like Bulma more than what you've liked all those girls" he let out the first one "and I mean not that I blame you 'cause man is she hot" he let out the second one "and plus like the girls said. It's time for you to settle down and stay with someone who can take you seriously-"
"Shut up!" Vegeta ordered but Goku continued like he hadn't listened
"…and you know, that Christine girl was just not-"
"Kakarot, shut up!" Vegeta demanded again ready to punch him
"…and Bulma's a lot better. I mean she's really smart and really pretty and-ug" before he could continue Vegeta had his hands around his neck compressing with a great force
"Did I tell you I felt like strangling someone?" he asked squeezing tighter. Goku raised his brows
"Oh really? I didn't know. You can't do it to me though" he said with almost no voice coming out of him. Vegeta smirked evilly
"Why not?" he inquired in his low voice. Goku tried easing the grip the shorter guy had on him
"Because…there are no more defensive players like me on the team" he said. Vegeta let lose immediately. Goku held his neck
"Gee man. You really are losing it with this girl business" he stretched his neck from the side to the side. Vegeta frowned
"Kakarot one more word about that blue haired wench and I swear to Kame I will strangle you" he warned. Goku waved his hands in the air attempting for peace
"Sure man" he shrugged "I was just saying" the two males resumed to walk to their respective classrooms….
1st Period - Math
"Hey" greeted 18 settling on the empty seat before Chichi turning so they could share a conversation before class started
"Hey" Chichi said "did you read the newspaper?" was the first thing she asked. 18 frowned
"I know it's ridiculous. I can not believe they're making such a big deal about Vegeta playing quarterback. It's retarded" she said angered. Chichi breathe out
"Ugh they make it seem as if Vegeta was the most hardworking player on the team when the truth is they all work as hard if not harder than he does" she said. 18 nodded agreeing with her. Goku appeared out the corner of the classroom. He pulled a seat aside Chichi since there was none and kissed her on the cheek
"Hey honey" Chichi turned to kiss him on the lips "we were just talking about the paper's coverage on yesterday's game. Or should I say on Vegeta's" she said sarcastically
"I was thinking of going to dinner at Cavaricci's tonight" said Goku not giving her comment much thought
"Excuse me!" Chichi called upset "Goku the papers and the media have taken it upon themselves to make the Madison football team all about Vegeta. They have forgotten about you and Krillin and Raditz and all of you guys. I mean here I am pouring my heart out and you just hush me?" she cried paranoid. Goku shrugged his shoulders
"Well he's a good player and he works hard to be where he is, Chi. Besides they did talk about us on the paper-"
"Sure!" 18 cut off "a mere paragraph compared to two pages describing Vegeta's play yesterday" she said. Chichi frowned at Goku
"I can't believe you're so careless about this" she started. Goku relaxed on his chair
"What do you want me to do about it, Chi? It's not like it bothers me-"
"Well it should! It would bother me! This is something that's keeping you from being a good prospect Goku-"
"It's not keeping me from anything Chi. Except for Miami, Vegeta and I have the same scholarship offers. We have a spot on the NFL draft, I mean, his position is a bit higher than mine but that doesn't change anything really" he explained getting serious. Chichi breathed out
"It's not about that Goku-"
"Then what is it about, Chichi? What do you want?-"
"Why are you being such an asshole?" Chichi cut him off. Goku stopped for a second thinking thoroughly of a way to say what he was going to say
"I'm sorry" he sounded repented "but I don't want you to say or even think that he doesn't deserve to be where he is. I grew up with him and I prefer to stay where I am before having to go through all the shit he went through to be where he is" he said. Chichi and 18 exchanged a look. Chichi turned to Goku and cupped his face in her hands
"Baby" she kissed him "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" she kissed him again. 18 rolled her eyes turning away from them
"More mushy mushy and kissy kissy….I hate this world…"
1st Period - Science
"Hey woman" a voice called from behind a certain blue haired female. Bulma rolled her eyes tired of him by now. She knew if she didn't acknowledge his presence he would keep on calling her names until she recognized he was there so she decided to turn and look at him
"You know what I was thinking?" she asked
"What?" asked Vegeta
"I was thinking it must be really hard for you to go around the world carrying a malfunctioning brain" she said smugly. Vegeta narrowed his eyes at her
"You aren't the only one with a flawless GPA" he said
"I've heard about your distinctive cleverness jackass so let's save some time to both ourselves and don't even try to fool me" she cut through the bull. Vegeta raised a brow
"May I ask who's been filling you in with all these details?" he asked with arrogance. Bulma blinked her beautiful blue eyes at him once noticing just how uncomfortable he had become all of the sudden. She smirked feeling like she had gained an upper hand on him. Was he actually starting to feel affection for her?
"I'm sorry but you're out of luck. Twenty questions with Bulma Briefs is over for the day plus I'm sworn to secrecy-"
"Sworn to secrecy?" Vegeta questioned
"Yes" she confirmed "means I swore on my life that I would never tell. And I won't" she insisted. He smirked making Bulma blush. Something about bad guys just made her surrender under any circumstances. This was not good
"I know what it means" Vegeta said grouchily. Bulma retreated faking she was taken aback
"Sorry. I was so sure you didn't since your brain is running kinda…slow?" she sniggered. Vegeta grunted
"Oh and I suppose you're a fucking genius?" he said ironically. Bulma nodded conceitedly
"As a matter of fact I am…or close to it-"
"Sure. Right next to Einstein-"
"And Newton-"
"Shut up you lunatic nerd-"
"Don't tell me to shut up you brainless jerk-"
"Go out with me Saturday night" Vegeta requested giving the conversation a 360 degree turn. Bulma scoffed not seeing that one coming
"This is absurd! You are absurd! You are the most absurd person in the world!" she shot back. Vegeta teased her with his devilish glare smirking sexily and making her blush
"I know what I want-"
"You are completely mentally unbalanced not to mention ridiculously self confident and pathetic-"
"Yes or no?" he interrupted. Bulma scoffed again
"I can NOT believe you're asking me this. You're so imprudent and so amazingly selfish. You're the most egocentric demented asshole-"
"Woman-" Vegeta was starting to lose it "yes or no?" he asked impatiently. Bulma narrowed her eyes at him
"You are rude, mean, OH! I can't forget unmannered-"
"Woman" he breathed out "I'll pick you up at eight-"
"Seven thirty and don't be late. If you are a second late I'm not going-"
"Right" he agreed standing from the seat behind Bulma's so he could go sit at the back of the classroom. Bulma sat on the first seat of the same row, being the smartest person in the class and all, ready for class to start any minute now
"What am I doing?" she whispered to herself "how did I get myself into this predicament?" she ran her hands through her hair in a desperate attempt to bring herself back to reality…
1st Period - Spanish
Raditz: zzzz….Zzzz…zzzz
Yamcha: zzz….Zzzz…Zzzzz….zzzz
The Bell Rings
"Goku was acting really weird today" 18 noticed as both girls made their way out of the classroom Goku making a quick stop at bathroom. Chichi nodded
"I dunno, I mean, he does have a point you know. Vegeta has gone through a lot" she said. 18 raised her brows
"I wonder if Krillin feels the same" she said with a sigh. Chichi furrowed her brows
"What? You haven't talked to Krillin after everything happened" she asked angrily. 18 looked away not wanting to show her face to Chichi. The last time she had talked to Krillin had been soon after he had gotten injured and it was just to make sure he was ok. They hadn't talked at all after that
"We've talked…I mean some…" said 18. Chichi scoffed
"18 this is always the problem with you and Krillin. You're never there for him and he's never there for you. Why did you even get back together?" she asked irate. 18 sighed
"I don't know what it is I have to do to be there for him. Besides I had a lot to study-"
"On Friday? Our second day of class?" Chichi raised a brow. 18 nodded
"As a matter of fact yes. My teachers are being hard on me this year as opposed to last year or the year before last-"
"Cut the bullshit, 18" Chichi cut her off "you need to pay less attention to yourself and more attention to the people you say you care about-"
"He knew how much I had to study!" 18 attempted to defend herself
"So? That doesn't mean he's fine with it. Relationships work because of the sacrifices you make to be with each others-"
"But-"
"If you're not ready to let go of yourself 18 then you might as well call the relationship quits and move on until you are" said Chichi as both girls came to stop on their spot. 18 rolled her eyes
"Gosh, why is this a big deal? Our relationship works because he understands-"
"Understands what! That you're totally careless and selfish? That you're taking him for granted?" Chichi cut off angry. 18 sighed
"Fine, maybe it isn't right. That still doesn't change the fact that I had to study yesterday" she spoke for herself. Chichi shook her head in disbelief
"Whatever I'm not in for an argument anyway, less when it's not even about me and my relationship problems" she said the two girls facing away from each others. Bulma joined the pair
"Hey you guys. I wanted to…talk…about…" her words came to a stop when she heard both 18 and Chichi humph with their arms crossed on their chests. Bulma raised a brow
"Is everything ok?" she asked but the two women refused to say a word. Bulma smirked subtly so not to let them see her. It sure was funny to see these two 'fighting' with each other
"I'm going on a date with Vegeta" Bulma announced making the girls face her with big glistening eyes
"You're kidding?" said Chichi. Bulma shook her head
"I'm not though I don't feel I'm making the right choice-"
"Of course you're making the right choice" 18 interrupted "you know what this means Chichi" she looked at the black haired female the previous incident long forgotten
"Our dreams!" said Chichi. Bulma furrowed her brows
"What-"
"Our goals!" interrupted 18. Bulma was starting to freak out
"Hang on" she said "can you tell me what in the world are you two talking abo-"
"Don't worry Bulma" said Chichi. 18 came behind her
"Yes! Don't worry! Everything will be fine. Just don't have sex" the pair advised then turned to meet their boyfriends that happened to appear out the corner with the rest of the team. Bulma watched them go puzzled but soon decided to let it slide. Who said these girls were mentally sane anyway? And it wasn't like she was planning to give herself up that easy…least to a guy like Vegeta…
End of Ch.6. Well, what did you like and what did you NOT like about this chapter? Feel free to tell me…or better else…REVIEW and tell me. I have news, these maybe bad or good, however you wanna take 'em. Classes are starting again…and you know what that means…Yes...no more free time L I'm so sorry. I will try my best, once again, to write chapters as fast and as thorough as possible but I need you to understand that it is still going to take me a while. Finals are on the way and I need full concentration on those. So I love you all a lot, and I hope I will be able to do my best in these upcoming weeks. Thank you for everyone supporting my story and I really do hope you stay tuned for the next chapter which will be coming out soon! Take Care
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