The unlikely couple
Chapter 7: Can this day get any worse!?!?!
Disclaimer: I own nothing! Get it? If I would have owned the series, do you think I would even be wasting my time on saying this or writing this story? DUH NOT A FAT CHANCE. The only thing I own is the plot, the character Maria, the papername I made up and the lyrics of the song from chapter six! Okay I'm done with my ranting! On to the fic now.........grr
Hay peepz! I'm back and once again..thanx to the people that reviewed my last chappie! I have nothing else to add as enjoy the chappie and R and R!
Love,
Duffie
It was a cold, but sunny January morning. Last night mother nature decided to cover the entire West City Capitol in a blanket of snow. And that meant that a certain part of town was not forgotten either......
It was the round building in the middle of town. It was famous all around the world and almost everybody could tell you who lived there or rather what company it was. Of course it was Capsule Corp in which the famous Briefs household was settled. The front lawn was covered with snow a meter high. Yes as you could see mother nature had been very busy last night indeed...
It was still very early in the morning, but the birds were already beginning to chirp and the sun was just coming up behind the horizon. Suddenly the front door of Capsule Corp burst open. Out came an all to familiar figure with jet-black hair shaped in a flame, defying gravity itself. It was Vegeta who was already up to start his training for the day. He had a towel around his shoulders and wore black training trousers and was bare on his upper- body. That would be called insane because of the cold, but our prince didn't even seem fazed by it.....( a/n Ow man I wish I could run my hands down on that chest of his!!!!! drools)
Vegeta looked around at his white surroundings. He had never seen snow before. Of course the woman had told him about it, but he never actually saw it before. It was probably a rare sight to behold, to see THE Vegeta actually be in awe over something. But he was looking with wide open eyes at the snow around him. He actually found it quiet beautiful . He bent down to touch it and when he did it felt really cold on his hand and after a few seconds it melted down to water in his handpalm. He finally dared to set a foot outside the door, only to sink away in snow about a meter high.
"Damm!" he cursed.
He decided that it probably wasn't a very good idea to do what he did and he powered up his ki to melt down the snow around him. He started walking towards the GT and while doing that also melted the snow on his way there. He turned around to look at the path his ki had left behind and cracking a small and honest smile which was very rare to see indeed, before slamming the door of the GT closed behind his back and starting his usual training routine.
A few hours later the sun had come up fully from behind the horizon. It's rays leaking through the curtains of a certain bedroom on the second floor of Capsule Corp. It shone on a pale, peaceful looking face that had her long, curly hair that was loose draped across her pillow. That person was Bulma Briefs. For now she was still sound asleep, save in her warm cocoon, but that would soon change................
BEEP!!!
The alarm clock started ringing next to her on the nightstand. The person in the bed started to groan, turned on her side and put the pillow on her ears to block out the annoying sound of the alarm clock. But it continued with beeping away merrily. After a while she had enough of it and her hand shot out and landed on the alarm clock with a thud, shutting the thing up instantly. She heaved a grateful sigh, turned on her side again and resumed her sleeping trial.
Meanwhile in the GT room Vegeta was finishing the morning workout he took every day before breakfast. He was pushing himself up for the 1000th time. He got up and walked over to the panel to turn up the gravity a few notches as he was done with the warming up. He set it on 230 times the gravity of earth and the real work could begin now. He flipped a few other switches on the panel he was standing in front of , that started up the set of drones next to him on the wall( I knew he blew them up the last time, but come on doccie Briefs made sure he had a new set by now or else he would have to face the wrath of our Veggie lolz! )
Vegeta jumped back to avoid the blast fired at him by the first droid and dodged the others fired at him back at the other ones. However one of the droids stood still and did nothing. It was turned on, but it was just standing there, doing nothing.
"Great! It's broke! Can't that good for nothing weak, human scientist do anything right for once!" an irritated Vegeta huffed while walking over to the malfunctioning drone.
He bent down and took a look at it to see what was wrong with it. After checking it over a few times and not finding any lose screws or fried wires he stood up right again. He gave an annoyed look at the thing before giving it a swift roundhouse kick and splitting the thing in two halves. He knew for certain that the woman would get angry at him again for pulling this stunt. But honestly he didn't care, the thing was broken already and it didn't matter what he would have done with it anyway.
"At least I prepared the thing for going to the junk yard where it belongs" said Vegeta while smirking to himself.
"Hmmph...I might as well go start a verbal spar with the woman or I could bug that good for nothing wimp of a father of her and threathen him to fix those damm droids...or face the dire consequences of refusing to do so......" Vegeta thought to himself and starting to laugh.
He hadn't forgotten the last time when the doctor contacted him on the comm screen to tell him that dinner was ready and his drones were fixed. The look of pure terror on that guys face! It had amused him to no end! Yup, Bulma's father was definitely afraid of him, now the daughter, she was an entire different story. That girl was much too alike him in that respect. She had a tamper with a sort fuse like him and a don't mess with me attitude and a mouth that always got her in trouble. Yes, but also a mouth that could stand up to him in a verbal spar. Where other people would have backed of and run away like the scared dogs that they are, she stood her ground and she wouldn't let anybody tell her what to do. She, a weak human with a powerlevel that was even beneath the human average stood up to him and her friends who were a hundred times stronger were so scared of him they would wet their pants. He would never admit this to anyone and certainly not her, but he admired her courage, her spirit and her always witty and smart mouth remarks. She was the only person that had ever defied him openly and the only one who had gotten and would get away with it either. He would reluctantly admit this to himself, but she had definitely won his respect the first day he had met her..........
In Capsule Corp main building.........................
"Bulma honey! Breakfast is ready dear! Are you dressed and ready yet?" her mother's voice sounded from downstairs.
Bulma who was still sleeping was waked up by the sound of her mother's voice. She groaned and turned again coming to lie flat on her back. She tilted up her hands and rubbed her eyes. Slowly her closed eyelids began to open and safire blue eyes began to focus on her surroundings. She was still groggy from lack of sleep, but slowly sat up. She turned her head to the side to look at her clock to see what time it was. The clock read 7.30 Then suddenly it hit her.....
"7.30!?!? But I set it on seven! Ow my god I'll be to late for work!" she yelled
By now she was wide awake and in a daze got out her bed and ran into the bathroom to take a shower. Bulma had totally forgotten that today was her first day of work again. Her two weeks of Christmas holiday were over and the normal routine of work would resume today. She could hit herself on her head for her stupidness as she turned on the shower and undressed herself and got under it. She had a meeting scheduled in her agenda at 8 am sharp this morning and now she would be way to late, as she knew she would never be ready on time!
"Way to go B! I can already see all their faces! Nice example as Ceo of Capsule Corp you'll make! And that already on your first day of work!"" Bulma muttered to herself while the warm water ran down her body.
Today would be her first day as Ceo of their famely's company. Her father had retreated as Ceo last year and by giving a huge banquet he had introduced his daughter as the next heir to the company. That was before holiday and now that holiday was over, today was D-day.
Bulma was done with her shower and turned down the running water and hurriedly dry toweled her hair and put on her bathrobe and walked out of the bathroom straight to her walk in closet. She searched through her clothes for a decent outfit to wear to work. She was already late, at least with her appearance she could make up for it a bit. She decided to wear her most formal skirt and a white blouse above it. She took out panties from the drawer and began putting them on. After she had those on, she slipped in her skirt and buttoned down her blouse. She decided to wear black high heel shoes to go with it. She checked herself in the mirror. Satisfied she turned around and took a look at the clock on the nighstand.
"Shit! It's already ten minutes to eight!" Bulma thought to herself.
She picked up her brush and combed back her hair in a few strokes. She pulled it up into a tight bun, but decided she looked like an old coot that way and decided to wear it in a ponytail instead. She let a few bangs hang lose. She had five minutes left and decided to put on some makeup as she had bags under her eyes from lack of sleep and her face looked pale as a white sheet of paper. It wouldn't matter anymore if it took yet some more time, she was already late for work that was a certain fact. She took out her makeup kit and rummaged through it to find some foundation, mascara and lipstick. Normally she wouldn't even wear any makeup as she looked pretty enough from herself naturally and didn't even need make up. But today she saw a walking zombie looking back at her in the mirror. She applied foundation under her eyes to conceal her bags that had formed from lack of sleep. When she was done she applied the mascara and her lips she tinted a light peachy pink ( Okay don't even ask me which colour that is!) She took a look at herself when she was done and thought she looked a lot better now. She walked over to the curtains of her window and pulled them open to let in the sunlight. When she looked outside and saw the snow her mood was brightened instantly. A smile appeared on her face and stayed there even when she left her room to go downstairs.
When she entered the kitchen she found the entire table standing full with yummy food. Her mother was sitting at the table reading the newspaper and Vegeta at the other end of the table was busy stuffing his face with the food in front of him. Her mother looked up from her newpaper to greet her daughter.
"Good morning dear. I thought you'd be down earlier. Isn't it your first day of work again as the holidays are over?" her mother asked her.
"Yeah mom, you're right. I overslept that's all. I should've been at work by now. I was supposed to be in the middle of a meeting right about now." Bulma replied to her mother while walking over to the kitchen counter to pour herself a much needed cup of caffa. She walked over to the table and sat down and sipped on her coffee. She took a look at the clock and saw that it was already 5 minutes past eight.
"Oh well I'm late already" she thought to herself
"Hay mom. I'm of after I finish my cup of coffee okay?" Bulma said to her mother.
"But dear , shouldn't you at least eat something before you go?" said Mrs. Briefs.
"No time mom. I'm already late enough as it is. I'll pick up something to eat along the way or I'll have a bigger lunch at work then normal I guess" Bulma replied to her mother. She was drinking her coffee way to fast and so she burned her tong on the hot liquid.
"Ouch! That hurts! muttered Bulma.
"Well next time, be more careful onna!" snickered Vegeta at Bulma's obvious discomfort.
"Oh shut your trap vegetable! I'm not in the mood for any of your antics today!" an annoyed Bulma bit back at the prince
Bulma's mother could only smile at the two bitching at each other.
"You know the way you two go at each other every time again, one would suggest you two are involved with one another! I mean look! To my eyes you two are having like what...a lovers quarrel perhaps?" Bulma's mother asked the both of them with a sly smile on her face.
Her goal was to shut those two both up and it appeared the mission was a total success. They both had stopped bitching at each other and were looking dumbfounded at her.
Bulma's face turned beet red at her mother's comment and Vegeta appeared to struggle which face to pull, an annoyed one or a surprised one and that resulted in a face that had Bulma's mother break out laughing.
After a few seconds Bulma and Vegeta came to themselves again. Vegeta lost his temper when he found out he was being humiliated by Mrs. Briefs and stalked out of the kitchen. Cursing and cussing could be heard all the way back in the kitchen. Bulma turned to face her mother after Vegeta's display.
"Mother! What the heck did you think you were doing! Sometimes I just can't believe you! That was so humiliating!" Bulma screeched at her.
Bulma's mother was still laughing and that made Bulma go straight from embarrassed to angry. She sipped up the last coffee in her cup, slammed it down on the table and got up to leave.
"Fine! Have it your way! I'm of to work! BYE!" Bulma threw at her mother, before she slammed the kitchendoor shut behind her leaving her laughing mother behind.
When she came outside she was still angry at her mother, for pulling that stunt that she didn't look where she was going. She had only set one foot when she sank away in the snow and fell over flat on her face into the snow.
"Argh! Can this day get any worse?!?! I'm late for work! My mother makes a fool out of me! And on top of that I fall first face into the snow! Look at me!" Bulma cursed to herself inside her mind while she got up, only to lose her balance and fall back onto her butt in the snow again.
She could hear someone starting to laugh somewhere above her. She turned around and looked up to find Vegeta sitting on the roof looking down at her while laughing.
"GRRR stop laughing! It isn't funny!" Bulma yelled at him.
"Haha ow you bet it is!" Vegeta replied to her while almost losing his balance from laughing so hard.
"What are you doing up there anyway? Shouldn't you be training?" Bulma replied back annoyed and pressing her lips together in a tight line. She had not much patience left after the kitchen ordeal and her selfcontrol was on a thin and I mean thin tread at the moment.
"And miss this show?" Vegeta replied to her while slowly regaining control of his breath and calming down.
When Bulma didn't reply to him he jumped of the roof and landed on the ground with a thud a few meters away from her. He walked over to her and made a surprise move. He stuck out his hand towards her. Bulma looked at his hand in surpise and unable to utter a word.
"Well are you gonna sit there all day? Or are you going to give me your hand, so I can pull you up" said Vegeta while cracking a smirk at her.
"huh? Oh yeah..." Bulma replied sheepishly while coming to herself again.
She grabbed Vegeta's hand and he pulled her up and of the ground.
"Thanks...." Bulma replied unsure of what to think of this kind act of his. "Why is he being so nice all of a sudden?" She thought to herself while beginning to dust herself of , to get the snow of off her. "Great, my clothes are all wet and my hair is a mess!" She thought to herself miserably.
When she was done she looked up again. Vegeta was still standing in front of her. And a bit to close for comfort she added to it. Unexpected Vegeta stuck out his hand and touched Bulma's face to wipe away snow that was on her nose and on her cheeks. Bulma grabbed his hand, surprised and scared at his bold move....
"What do you think you're doing" she almost whispered, her cheeks turning a little rosy-red( is that a colour? Lolz!)
"Well, I was trying to wipe away snow that was stuck on your face....What was it according to you that I was doing?" He said, while a small smile came around the corners of his mouth. "I mean you're not blushing for nothing correct?" he finished.
"Well.. I...I...I...." Bulma stuttered unable to find her voice.
"Well I'm waiting for an answer.....Bulma" Vegeta replied.
Bulma didn't even notice that Vegeta gently unclasped his hand from her small one and snaked it around Bulma's waist. She was to shocked and busy staring in the dark impenetrable orbs that were his eyes. With a sudden move Vegeta pulled Bulma even closer towards him. There faces were only inches apart now....
"Did you just call me Bulma..instead of woman......." Bulma shakingly answered. Suddenly the shock subsided and she became aware of how close they were......
"I think I just did" she heard Vegeta's voice whisper in her ear while his hot breath tickled her neck.....
Hehe I left it at a cliffie again......Yes I'm very evil...but I don't care;):P. If you wanna find out what happens......................well you know the way to the button Catch ya later!
Duffie