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How great it is to be loved by you!
by: Pic's Pixie
Chapter 7: And the day started so well....
The next morning was about the same as the last, Bulma had shaken Piccolo awake and had laid out yet another stunning outfit for her to wear today.
"Where is that girl ,she's going to be late?"
Vegeta didn't want to admit it but after seeing Piccolo in that last outfit he was looking forward to what else his wife was going to have the hot teen girl in. Piccolo chose then to enter the room ,wearing tight, faded ,low cut ,bell-bottom jeans, with a no sleeve tank top that just made it past her belly button. The shirt was white with pink splotches on it with the words 'if you can read this, STOP LOOKING AT MY CHEST!!' written in black, graffiti-like writing. She also had on pink wrist warmers, pink and purple hearted socks, and her hair was pulled up into a high ponytail with pink feathery hair elastics.
"PINK! Could you choose a more girlie colour for me?" Piccolo actually liked the colour pink, it really suited her new form. But in no way was she going to admit to that especially when the monkey prince was sitting right there.
"Nice look today girly, going for the Barbie fad?" Vegeta in no way was going to let her leave the house without a comment from him.
"Leave her alone. I think she looks sweet!" Bulma defended her fashion taste.
"I do too!" Trunks added. "Can I tell Goten what happened? He's been bugging me about who was able to beat his time for SpeedMaster(the video game Trunks made Piccolo play)"
"No, not right now, I think it would be best if we waited till this was all over he might tell Gohan ,then Piccolo's cover would be ruined."
"Aww, okay." Trunks wined.
Bulma grabbed Trunks' and Piccolo's lunches and headed for the front door yelling for them to hurry it up.Vegeta shot Piccolo a funny comment and slapped her ass as she was making her way out the door. Piccolo squealed, she had not expected that. She added a humorous comeback and ran out the door grabbing her bag from Bulma who was waiting at the car. Bulma did as she had done before and dropped Trunks off first and had now parked in front of the high school.
"Piccolo do you think you could start walking to school from now on? I'm getting to be really busy at work and Trunks will have to walk as well."
Piccolo thought for a moment and realised it was no big deal so she nodded.
"Could you also walk Trunks to his school first so that he gets there safe and with no distractions, you know how that boy can be."
Piccolo nodded and got out of the car waving slightly to Bulma as she sped away down the street almost hitting a number of students on her way. Piccolo had come through the front door and gotten to the classroom door when she felt Gohan's ki signature. Piccolo dashed down the hall and around the corner to the staircase. She flew up those since no one was around and burst through the door just in time to see Gohan hop off the Nimbus.
"Hey Gohan!" Piccolo yelled ,scaring herself with how excited she sounded. Gohan turned around to see Vicki walking towards him with a big smile on her face.
"Oh hey Vicki!" Gohan couldn't hide the blush that had crept to his cheeks.
"How did you know I was here?"
"Oh...ummm../think fast / oh Vegeta taught me to sense power levels." Piccolo inwardly congratulated herself on her quick thinking.
"Really?" Gohan was shocked that Vegeta had taken time to teach a relative of his wife some ki tactics.
"You do know we're going to be late?" Piccolo added not really caring.
"What? Oh yeah ,lets go!" Gohan grabbed Piccolo's arm and was running down the stairs before Piccolo could even blink. They had just reached the door when the bell rang.
"Oh no!" Gohan sounded like it was the end of the world.
"What? I'm sure they won't care if we're only a second late." Piccolo whipped open the door, just to have everyone in the room turn to stare at her, even the teacher.
"Where were you two?" Mrs.Alto said in a calm voice.
"We just got here." Piccolo saw no need to dig around the bush and look for an excuse.
"Well then if it took you this long to get here it should be no problem for you two to wait a little longer before coming in." Piccolo was confused she didn't really know what the sensei had meant by that. Gohan seemed to know ,and he pulled Vicki aside in the hall and closed the door. He sat down and put his head on his knees.
"So what? We just wait here?" Piccolo was sorry that she had made him late.
"Yeah. She usually only lets a person wait about 20 minutes at most out here."
"Sorry about making you late." Piccolo tried to ease the silence.
"Oh it's okay. I'm just upset because now my mother has another thing to be mad at me about."
"Another thing? What is the first?" Piccolo knew Chichi was usually upset about something but didn't know what it was this time.
"She's mad at me for not calling last night. I'm grounded this weekend and I can't continue our tour of the city today." You could hear the sadness in the boy's voice he really wanted to spend time with her like the night before.
"It's okay. We can continue it on Monday." Piccolo finally sat down next to him and sighed ,this might be a long 20 minutes.
They had been sitting there for a while when Piccolo had got bored. This puzzled him because he was used to just sitting alone in silence. But he wasn't alone, Gohan was with him.
Gohan had just been sitting there avoiding eye contact because his face was still red. All of a sudden Vicki had jumped a bit and started to root through her bag violently. She then pulled out a diskman and some head phones. Bulma had given these to Piccolo in case she got bored ,and she was bored. She put them on her ears and had turned down the volume not wanting to loss her hearing. Bulma had even left a CD in it for her. The band was called 'Atomic Kitten.' Gohan could hear some of the music through the headphones he loved this song 'Whole again.' Piccolo hadn't realised that she had gotten into the music so much she had her eyes closed and she was swaying her body slightly to the rhythm of the music. Gohan was watching all of this and was adoring every minute of it ,Vicki was so cute. Then out of the blue Gohan could hear faint singing. His eyes went wide as he looked over to see Vicki singing some of the song. Piccolo didn't even think she knew the words, but I guess she heard it enough from Bulma playing it all the time that she was familiar with it, but no way had she been ready for what her body was doing.
"and if you see me with another mann, laughin and jookin ,doing what I caan, II won't put you doown , cos I want you aroouund ,you can make me whooolle again."
That had to be it, Piccolo had finally lost his mind, he was singing out loud. Gohan was astonished at first and then his expression turned to that of silliness. He tapped Vicki on the shoulder and brought her back to reality. Piccolo jumped almost 3 feet in the air, no doubt she was startled. Piccolo thought for a moment before her face became redder than Ruddulf's nose, and she quickly turned off the CD player and shoved the diskman and headphones into her bag and put her head down as if nothing had happened. Gohan was silent he just looked at her ,trying to reason to himself as to why he isn't kissing her right now just for how adorable she looked when she's embarrassed. Piccolo was looking at her knees which were pulled up against her chest trying to shelter herself from the humiliation she had just suffered. Nothing happened and after a while Piccolo was wondering if Gohan was even still there or if the teacher had let him inside and forgot to tell her. She looked up and looked at him just to see the son-smile(he seems to do that somewhat often) looking back at her.
"I think you have a really nice voice." Gohan wanted her to feel comfortable around him so he gave her a compliment in hopes of her coming back out of her shell. Piccolo just sweat dropped for a moment, then she just couldn't hold back the laughter. Piccolo crumbled over on top of Gohan laughing so hard her sides hurt. Gohan had been in utter shock ,Vicki was basically sitting in his lap, shaking from hysteria. The body contact alone was starting to get him aroused and he knew that wasn't a good thing, especially in a public place not to mention in front of her. After a few minutes Piccolo had regained most of her senses and stopped shaking uncontrollably. She put her hand against his rock hard abs to support her as she sat herself up to look into his face. She smiled shyly and said a simple "thanks." Gohan didn't really know what she was thanking him for but before he could question her about it the classroom door opened to reveal a slightly annoyed teacher tapping her right foot against the tiled floor. Piccolo and Gohan quickly rose and hurried to their seats they could see she wasn't in a very good mood. The day had gone by slowly and with not anything interesting happening. The bell was going to ring in about 15 minutes and the teacher had got tired and given the kids some spare time. Videl immediately turned to Gohan to find out what he had done yesterday.
"Hey Gohan, how did your tour with Vicki go last night?" Videl was curious but also edging on jealousy as soon as she noticed a slight change in Gohan's facial colouring and seen a silly look over take Gohan's normally calm features.
"Oh ,it was okay, we got to main street and then decided to call it a night, so I walked her home." Gohan saw no need to get Videl involved with everything else they had done the night before, she would only get hurt if she realised he liked Vicki.
"Hey Victoria what do you say you and me go get something to eat after class is over?" Piccolo didn't immediately know where the voice had come from but soon realised it was behind her. It was Sharpener the boy who sat beside Videl.
"Huh, oh sorry I have plans." Piccolo didn't really mind Sharpener it's just that she didn't want to get anyone's hopes up.
"Really? What kind of plans?"
Piccolo didn't know a reasonable excuse and was running out of time and was just about to agree to go when an unexpected voice rang out from all the others.
"She's hangin' with me after school, you know girl stuff." Videl had saved her and she was eternally grateful.
"Yeah that's right girl stuff." Piccolo went along with this idea quickly.
"Fine, I don't even want to know what kind of girl stuff you're talking about." Sharpener didn't need a second hint.
Piccolo turned towards a smiling Videl and then looked beside her towards Gohan as if he would know what her ulterior motives were, but he was busy talking to the cheery blonde next to him.
"Sooo, what type of girl stuff do you have in mind?" Piccolo wanted to know what was in store for her.
"Nothing much, just some tryouts I thought you might be interested in." Videl got a kind of evil look on her face and then busied herself with stuffing her backpack. The bell rang and Piccolo joined Videl who was waiting by the door. They started for the back field and saw Gohan heading home on his way out.
"Hey Vicki, Videl." Gohan wanted to know what they were doing.
"Hey Gohan" Vicki said somewhat nervously still not knowing what Videl has waiting for her.
"Yeah, hi Gohan. Or should I say bye. Didn't your mom ground you?" Videl sounded as if he were just in the way.
"Oh yeah, I have to go and I can't come out all weekend." Gohan frowned.
"Well I guess I'll see you Monday then." Videl ended her conversation with him and was now dragging Vicki away with her.
"Yeah bye Videl, bye Vicki!" He shouted so that their retreating figures would be able to hear him.
"Bye Gohan." Piccolo didn't really want him to leave but hesitantly bid him fare well.
Piccolo then noticed a growing crowd of girls out in the middle field accompanied by a few guys but not very many.
"Videl what are we doing?"
"We're trying out for cheerleading." Videl said this with her head held high she knew she would be on the team for sure she always made the cut. And she was looking forward to seeing Victoria fall flat on her face during her tryout, she had no doubt that that would happen from how clumsy Vicki was just walking in heels as if she had never worn them before now.
"WHAT?!" Piccolo was shocked ,she only associated cheerleading with ditzy blondes and snobby brunettes.
The gym teacher finally stepped out onto the field and introduced herself, all the students just sat on the grass in a semi-circle.
"Now listen up! You all will be shown a few moves to do along with a chant or two and then will be given 5 minutes to practice. Then each of you will perform it in front of myself and two other judges ,you will sit down right after your addition and at the end we will post a list of all those who made the cut. We apologise in advance to those who don't make the cut and we look forward to your tryouts next year. Those who get in will then be measured and will be assigned uniforms on Monday. Please note that cheerleading practices will be held on Wednesdays on this field don't forget your uniforms. Well that's it now to the demonstrations." Piccolo was feeling kinda queasy ,this had sounded like she had joined the military or something.
The teacher then demonstrated the cheer that they would have to perform. It was yelling the words 'Go Hawks,Go Hawks, Go, go, go Hawks!' the saying was simple enough to remember but kinda stupid. They also had to start with a back flip, twist, splits, then say the chant while waving your arms in the air, and then you would jump to your feet again , do a 360 and land on one knee with your arms spread out. Then as an extra they would ask you to show them your highest kick. Piccolo didn't find any of the moves too difficult, she just had to remember them. Piccolo and Videl sat on the grass along with the others while waiting for their turn.
"Videl" announced one of the other judges.
Videl stood up winked at Vicki and then bowed to the judges. She took a deep breath and did as she was told. She nailed the back flip, and the twist. She couldn't go all the way down on the splits but not many could, and she remembered all the words. When she was done she completed a very nice high kick which the judges loved.
"Very well Videl." One of the judges commented.
"Thanks" she bowed again and took her seat beside Vicki again.
"You did really well." Piccolo felt she had to say something to congratulate her friend.
"Victoria." The teacher spoke, looking towards the girls she didn't recognise the name so she figured she must be new.
"Here" Piccolo stood up and bowed to the judges. Piccolo cleared her mind and started. She conquered every move, the back flip, the twist, she went all the way with the splits and remembered all of the words, she finished, and did one of the highest front kicks the judges had ever seen. Piccolo had given such a graceful performance it put Videl's to shame. Piccolo just bowed and took her seat again. Videl was shell-shocked, how could she be better then her? The judges talked amongst themselves for a moment then put together a list. They posted it up on the activities board and those who didn't make it went off quietly. Easy to know that Videl and Vicki were both on the list. They followed the judges inside the school to the indoor gym and got measured. Videl and Vicki picked up their bags and were about to go their separate ways.
"Hey good work today, I'll see you Monday and this time don't be late" Videl shouted over her shoulder as she was walking away.
"Yeah sure thing see ya." Piccolo was glad that this was all over with but now what was she going to do, two days with nothing to do, no where to go, she'd probably be stuck at Bulma's listening to one of Vegeta's long boring stories about the proud saiyan race.
About this time Gohan had arrived at his house and had sat down at the kitchen table to have an after school snack along with his little brother Goten. Trunks had also come over for a visit with him. Gohan had been quizzing Trunks for info on his guest Vicki.
"Come on tell me. Where did she come from?"
"I don't know, I think she's from somewhere in the mountains."
"Really then she's not too far from here great!" Trunks immediately shut up so he didn't reveal any more.
"Who's Vicki?" Goku was standing in the door way listening when this strange girl's name kept coming up, he was getting curious.
"Huh, oh nobody." Goku then walked into the room and took one of the chairs to sit on.
"Come on Gohan. You can tell me. Who is she, is she your girlfriend?" Goku had a silly look on his face.
"Man I certainly hope not." Trunks more or less said this to himself but everyone else over heard him.
"Why do you say that Trunks?" Goten had asked that, he didn't know what the big fuss over this girl was about.
"Oh nothing it's just that she will be leaving in a few months and never coming back again. It would be a waste of time to get attached to her just so she can leave you. But she sure can play video games."
"What! Why wouldn't she be coming back?" Gohan was worried, now that he had met Vicki he didn't know how to live without her. It was so strange. He had just met this girl and he immediately felt this automatic connection with her, as if he had known her all his life. He wanted to be near to her all the time, and he was pretty sure that she felt the same in a way.
"Well I don't know she just isn't." Trunks couldn't think of an explanation for his last comment could be.
"So what does this Vicki girl look like?" Goku was still wondering about her.
"She has long, dark green hair, deep black eyes, the most amazing smile, her canine teeth are larger than normal ,she smells great too, like cherry blossoms and apples....." Gohan went on and on about how magnificent this girl was with a somewhat idiotic face. He gave a long sigh and finished with "she's so nice too!"
"Wow Gohan! She sounds great when can I met her?" Goku had a wonderful picture of her in his head and wanted to see the real live version.
"Meet her?" Gohan said in a quaky voice he hadn't thought that his parents would want to meet her.
"Yes Gohan of course we want to met her." That was Chichi, his mother.
"But mom."
"No buts Gohan ,you invite her over to our house for dinner as soon as you see her on Monday, is that clear?" Chichi more demanded that then asked.
"All right." Gohan had no choice, but what would his mother do to her, he remembered that Chichi still thought he should be going out with Videl since she is rich and all.