---Disclaimer---> I do not the lyrics to the song ---Roses Are Red---

-----Chapter Nine

It didn't make any sense. Scratching his head, he took a sip of his coffee. The handwriting on each letter was different. Did she have three secret admirers?

Gohan shook his head, looking at the clock. 3:00am. He'd been in his room for nearly five hours just trying to figure out who had written Videl the letters. He only expected two but found three instead.

Letting out a heavy sigh, he rested his forehead on his desk. If there was only some way he could figure it out. He was supposed to be a genius!

"Who are you?" Gohan asked the letters. Pinching the bridge of his nose, Gohan lay down on his bed, giving up. He lay there for several minutes but rest didn't come and the minutes turned to hours and before he knew it, the sunlight was on his face.

Hearing the clatter in the kitchen, he decided to help out his mother prepare breakfast.

"Roses are red my love," Gohan heard someone singing. He immediately remembered the first letter. "Violets are blue-Ooh."

Gohan quickly ran downstairs to find Goten raiding the fridge… As he sang.

"Sugar is sweet my love, but not—As sweet as you—Ahhh!" Goten yelped. "Gohan!"

"Goten, where did you hear that song?" Gohan slowly walked to the table, keeping his eyes on his brother.

"On the radio."

"We don't have a radio."

"At Trunks' house!"

"Why are you scared?"

"Because you're scaring me."

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to eat."

"Tell the truth."

"I swear!"

Gohan sighed, out of breath from firing questions at his brother in a hurry wanting to catch him off guard if he were hiding something but the idea failed. He slumped down on a chair.

"Sorry sport, I guess playing detective is driving me crazy."

"Detective?" Goten asked as he continued to pull food out from the fridge.

"I'm trying to find out who's been sending Videl letters," Gohan explained. "So far… I've got no idea who it is."

Goten piled the food on the table before sitting down across from Gohan. He felt bad. Gohan looked so sad and very tired.

"Is a secret admirer… A boyfriend?" Goten asked.

Gohan nodded sullenly. "And I really don't want her to have a boyfriend…"

"Why? Trunks said all girls need a boyfriend or girlfriend and you don't want to be Videl's boyfriend remember?"

Blushing, Gohan replied, "But now I want to be her boyfriend."

Yes! The plan worked! To hide the smile on his face, Goten stuffed large pieces of bread in his mouth. Goten continued to gulp down the food like a machine. Once he was done, he let out a loud burp. "Hee, excuse me."

Gohan had a distant look on his face. Goten hopped off his chair and gave Gohan a hug.

"It's okay Gohan," Goten said trying to comfort his brother.

Gohan smiled. "Thanks Goten. Let's spar. Maybe that'll keep my mind occupied."

"Okay," and the two of them headed outside.

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A few hours into the afternoon, Goten left Gohan to help Trunks with Zack's training, well more like work out. The warm up, they decided, consisted of trying to catch Goten and two hundred push ups. Zack of course failed both tasks.

"I'm hurting all over! It's too hot! I'm hungry!" complained the human as he fell to his knees.

"At least his gut is gone," Goten shrugged. He poked Zack's chest. "Firmer chest too. I think we're done Trunks."

Goten was right. He did look okay now… But he wasn't ready to end his fun just yet, thus making Zack do three hundred sit ups.

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"Don't you ever get sick of studying?"

Gohan looked around. His room was empty but he could see Piccolo right by his window.

"I'm not studying, I'm trying to figure out who wrote these," Gohan replied. He picked up the letters and walked over to the window to show Piccolo.

"What is this? It looks like it's been written by a bunch of monkeys… Except for the last one," Piccolo said in disgust.

"Three different people."

"You mean four don't you, including you?"

"One girl," Gohan sighed. "I wish I had at least one clue."

"You do," Piccolo thrust the last letter to him. "Capsule Corp."

"Capsule Corp?" it was then he noticed the logo on the stationary. "Oh damn, why didn't I see that?"

"You know what I'd do once I found out who these idiots were?"

"What?"

"Beat the crap out of them. They're moving in on your girl."

"They don't deserve to be beaten up and Videl and I aren't even dating!"

"I know," Piccolo smiled, "I just wanted to see you kick some ass."