Like Pop Rocks and Pepsi
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Chapitre quatre: Coinciding
Whoa. I just sat down like, two seconds ago, and the teacher has already started. The bell didn't even ring yet! What's her hurry?
"Hello class, and welcome to your literature class! I'm sure you're all excited-"
Yeah right.
"-so we'll get started right away! My name is Miss Smith! Please take out the play that was assigned to you to read over the summer!"
This teacher was waaay too thrilled.
"As many of you may have noticed, questions for this play were assigned, but no project was! That's because we'll be doing the project over the next few weeks! Now remember the number I assign your row!
She began at the end closest to the door and started assigning the rows either a one or a two. So my row is one. I wonder what this is about?
Ok everyone! This will be a partner project, and there is an even number of people in this class! All the ones look to your left, and all the twos look to your right! That will be your new partner for the next several weeks!
I looked to my left. No. Way. Gohan? I smacked my head down on the desk and just stayed in that position. That's when someone had the audacity to start poking me.
"Um, Videl? Are you ok? If you don't want to be my partner, I'm sure the teacher will let us trade-"
"No. That's just fine." I said tersely, not even bothering to sit up to talk to him. Why, oh why? It's only been two classes, and I'm already- uh, nothing. When's the teacher going to tell us what we have to do for this silly little project of hers anyways?
"Now I'm sure you're all wondering what wonderful project I have planned for you!"
Well, she got the wondering part right. I don't know were she got the 'wonderful' part from.
"It's all on these sheets right here! Some of you may only need a few days, and some of you man need the full three weeks I'm giving you to complete this project!" Miss Smith said as she began to pass out the assignment papers.
Does this lady ever speak without making every sentence sound like she's excited? I bet if you wrote down what she was saying, you'd have to end every sentence with an exclamation point.
I just got my paper. Let's see…we have to write a research paper? A Shakespeare research paper? How is that, in any way, shape, or form, 'wonderful' as Miss Smith has claimed? I don't want to research about a dead guy! That's just dumb.
Suddenly, it was Gohan's turn to smack his head on the desk. I looked over at him, wondering what his issue was.
"What was that for Gohan! Are you trying to break the desk or something?" Never mind the fact that I'd done the same thing.
He kept his head on the desk, but managed to turn his head so he could see me. "I hope you don't mind working relentlessly on this until we finish it quickly, because with the way my mom is, we'll have to have it done within the week, and she'll want it to be perfect."
"Why?"
"I told you she was really strict on my studies didn't I?"
Now that he mentions it, I do remember him saying that this morning. "Yeah, how bad could she be though?"
"Bad. She'll probably start ranting about how I have to get it done as soon as possible so I don't fall behind in all my classes or something."
He turned his head back, and started talking into the desk, but I still heard what he said. It made me laugh, because it was probably true. He did get perfect scores on the entrance exams. He said something along the lines of 'it's not like I don't already know all this junk anyways…'
"Well class," Miss Smith began again, "I expect you to meet with your partner to get this done, so for today, I'll just give you the rest of the class to become acquainted with your partner!"
Acquainted. Hel-lo! Been there, done that! But wait; didn't I want to find out more about Gohan? So if we were supposed to meet with our partner…and if his mom would really want us to get the project done ASAP…heh, heh, heh…I feel evil…
"Gohan!" I said a little too excitedly. He raised his head and looked me in the eye. "Do you think we could get together at your house? My dad's going to be out of town for a while, and he doesn't like having strangers there when he's away."
Hey, at least I told the truth. Dad was leaving this afternoon for a short book signing tour of his newest book.
"I guess. I live really far away though."
"Yeah, 439 mountain area, you told me. I have a jet copter."
But how do you travel to school huh? I didn't see any other copters this morning. I guess that's one thing I'll find out.
"Um, ok then? When do you want to meet?"
I smiled sinisterly. "Tomorrow after school."
"Alright then."
Too bad it would be freaky if I just started laughing evilly…
Crap. I'm starting to feel bad now. Stupid conscience! Go away! Why do I feel bad about exploiting Gohan? It's not like I haven't done it before to other people! Why is Gohan making me feel all these things! Gah, this is madness I tell you! Madness!
I shrugged. Oh well.
"Which one of these topics do you want to do?" Gohan asked, referring to the list of topics on the assignment paper.
"Whichever one looks the easiest."
Duh. Why would you want to do the hard one?
"How about 'the real Macbeth vs. Shakespeare's Macbeth? It shouldn't be too hard to find all that information."
"Fine with me." Ha! Like I really cared.
I think my head is just going to explode. First I was normal, then I got mushy, and now I'm just thinking kind of cruelly.
Gohan smiled back at me.
Again, wow. Nice smile.
"Well why don't you tell me about yourself now, since we already talked about me last period."
Oh crap.
"Like what?"
"Um, where do you live? What's your family like? What activities do you like to do? You know, just make small talk."
We both smirked, knowing we had just repeated verbatim the conversation we'd had last period, only reversed.
"Well, I live in my house."
Duh.
"My dad is famous, he defeated Cell and saved the world, and he's also the current world champion."
Duh, everyone knew that.
"I like to do martial arts and crime fighting."
Everyone knew that too.
"You fight crime?" Gohan said, surprised.
Or not… apparently Gohan was completely unaware of that fact.
"Yeah. The police call me on this communicator watch here." I said, pointing to my watch. "Whenever they need help with something, they can just call me and I go save the day."
"Wow, that's a really neat thing to do! How long have you been helping the police?"
Good question. How long have I been helping the police?
"Uh, I think only a year and a half. I get called out of school to help too sometimes. In fact, I got called this morning when I first got to school, but by the time I got there, some 'gold fighter' person had already taken care of everything! I don't know, I only talked to this one guy, so maybe he was hallucinating or something, because he said the gold person was 'some kind of super human'.
"Oh."
Gohan quit facing me and just stared straight ahead at the chalkboard at the front of the room.
Why did he suddenly become uninterested after I mentioned the events of this morning? I'd think most people would be interested. Maybe…he knew something?
"Do you know anything about the gold fighter?"
Gohan jerked suddenly and looked at me. "Huh? What did you say?"
"Gold fighter. Do you know anything about him?"
"Uh, nope! Don't know a thing!"
Liar. You're such a bad liar. What do you know!
I don't think pressing the issue will get me anywhere now, but I'll have to remember to bring it up later. Instead, I just mimicked Gohan, and stared quietly at the front of the room.
The bell unexpectedly rang, and it was time to go to our next class. Oh boy, our next class. I still can't believe we a have all of our classes together.
To A.P. Chemistry, away! That was like a cheesy super hero line.
The class isn't that far away, so it didn't take very long to get there. I think we're having a quiz today. At the end of regular chemistry last year, everyone who was scheduled to take AP had to take this packet home, and over the summer we were supposed to memorize the symbols and correct spellings of all the elements on the periodic table, and we also got this list of like, forty polyatomic ions that we had to memorize the names and symbols of. Fun stuff.
There's a seating chart sitting on the first desk. Let's see here, oh finally! Gohan and I are on opposite sides of the room! Freedom! It's not like he's annoying or anything, it's just, he makes me…
Hey, what are all these papers on our desks? Lab equipment, weekly assignments, and rules. Ok.
Mrs. McCleanne just came out of the lab.
"It's nice to see you all again. As you know, we were supposed to have a quiz today, but unfortunately, the copies haven't come in yet, so we'll be postponing that until tomorrow. I'm posted your lab partners up here, so today we'll just be putting our labs in order. There's a list of all the equipment on each of your desks, so as soon as you find your partner, please come into the lab and collect all that and organize it in your cabinets and drawers."
She stuck a couple of post it's on the board and left the room.
I walked up to the notes to see who my partner for the year would be.
Hey, are these alphabetical? No, it can't be. There aren't very many people taking this class, so there might not be anyone between our names… Satan Videl and…crap. Is the whole world out to get me? Huh?
I wonder what people would do if I just fell on the ground right here and started sobbing.
"Come on partner." I said as I shoved Gohan from behind, trying to make him go into the lab.
"Again?"
"Yup."
"Weird."
"You took the words out of my mouth Gohan. Ok, here's the deal. I read the list, and you go find the junk, ok? 25 mL graduated cylinder."
He walked to one of the cabinets and pulled back the glass door to get the cylinder.
"100 mL graduated cylindar."
He pulled out another one.
This partnership might work out after all.
"50, 100, and 400 mL beakers."
"Hey Videl?" He asked as he pulled down the equipment.
"Forceps, tongs, utility clamp, what."
What's next on our schedule?
"Ring stand, glass stirring rod, thermometer, study hall- there's no lab today."
"Oh, thanks. What room is that in?"
"Six Pyrex test tubes, test tube brush, test tube holder, 407."
"Alright. Where is that?"
"Wire gauze, spatula, medicine dropper, just follow me again."
"Ok, thanks again Videl."
"You're welcome."
Gohan gave me a strange look.
"What? That's all that's on this list!" I exclaimed as I help up the list in my defense.
He laughed as he grabbed the list and began checking off all the equipment as he put it away in the cabinets and drawers under our lab table.
I shook my head slowly. Can this day get any more coincidental? I think not!
He he. That's all.
Wow, I got a lot more responses on last chapter! Sweeeheheheeet!
Ok people, I know I'm making Videl a little strange, but is it ok? I was trying to get her stereotypical 'tough girl' attitude out, while letting you see a softer and a little more prone side of her. I guess I made her sort of made her funny too, because that's just how I write. I always seem to inadvertently crack jokes all over the place unless I try really hard not too. That's just how I am I guess.
I was just doing my own little thing, and 'different' is the way it came out. You guys don't want to read something that's just a random mix of a bunch of other people's fic's do you?
I certainly hope not…
Anyways…
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