Disclaimer: Just so you know DragonBallZ, Not mine.
A big thank you to Psycho Ann for pre-reading this story and pointing out the mistakes I have made.
"Talk"
~Thought~
[1-4] Author's Notes
*****
Videl rounded a corner and entered the ladies room dropping her book bag and the file on the floor. She turned on the cold water to full and started to splash the water on her face, after several successions of this she looked at herself, then around the room to see if she had company. She turned back to the mirror and looked at her reflection. "Damn it, Videl get a grip, you're strongest in the world only second to your dad. You haven't ever been threatened or frightened by a crook. Gohan is just another piece of trash, trash you put in its place." She coached herself as she splashed more water on her face. The face she saw starring back at her was that of a woman who was disappointed like she had just been let down. "Why should I be disappointed about Gohan's past, just because I believed he is or was Saiyaman." Something deep in her told the feelings of disappointment ran deeper than that.
18 had beaten Videl to the ladies room and had been hovering in a stall, watching the young girl's little speech. She could see the interest was a lot more the girl had admitted out. As Videl exited with renewed confidence, 18 floated out from behind the stall door, waited as Videl ki grew further away, 18 walked out of the bathroom and back to her classroom.
Videl enter her Geometry class She looked to see who had arrived, most of the usual suspects had already arrived and were chatting among themselves. When Videl arrived at her seat only to find Erasa sitting in the wrong chair. "Erasa that's my seat."
"I know but you're stronger than me and I didn't think you mind if we swapped. Because Gohan really scares me." Erasa looked up at her with her puppy dog eyes.
Videl felt her resolve wash away like a sand castle in the ocean's tide. "Ok." Videl relented, the puppy dog eyes could not hide the fear.
Videl took her seat as 18 entered the room, went to her desk and pulled out a sticky pad before starting to write on the pad. Once done, 18 removed the folded paper and reinforced the top two corners with tape as Gohan entered.
"Mr. Son, you left your lunch capsule behind." Mrs. Chestnut stated as she pointed out the capsule sitting on the note. "Will you please hang this for me?" She asked as she held out Marron's artwork and pointed to the wall behind her.
The rumbles for gossip started the moment the class to heard that the nerd, geek, or the bumpkin depending in what circle you traveled referred to Gohan as. And now he had spent lunch alone with the hottest teacher at Orange Star. [1]
Gohan took a pair of pushpins and place the first through the taped corner of the art. He stretched to his full height and with great care pressed the pin into the sheet rock being sure not to press through the flimsy material. As he started to put the second pin into place, a shrill whistle from the P.A. system pierced the air causing the Saiyan to drop the pin to cover his ears. Once the reverberation of the whistle had passed he looked to the ground for the dropped pin, he bent over to grab the wayward pin, to the chorus wolf calls cheering and clapping form the Gohan fan club. [2] Gohan simply stood up and scratched his head as he tried to understand what all the noise was about as he completed his task.
~That boy is so dense, its just not funny.~ "Thank You, Mr. Son, don't forget your lunch capsule." Mrs. Chestnut pointed to the capsule and the note as she thanked her student as he returned to his seat.
Videl had watched Gohan enter the classroom to be stopped by Mrs. Chestnut and asked to assist the teacher. Videl watched as Gohan grabbed his ears when the P.A. system act up ~So, Gohan has trouble with loud high pitch noise.~ she logged that little bit information away as he bent over to retrieve the lost push pin to the roar of applause from female population, Videl had felt the urge to join the ruckus. ~That boy is so dense, its just not funny.~ She thought as he scratched his over the roar of approval. ~What the hell, Videl, now that you think he is dangerous you're suddenly attracted to him? Sure, you did find him interesting before but never like this.~
"Gohan may be terrifying, but he still has hottest can in the whole school." Erasa stated.
"Yah," Videl started, "Er huh, the whole school certainly agrees with that, yah." Videl managed to put together. ~I hope that Erasa didn't notice that I had agreed with her!~
"Videl I didn't know you were into bad boys." Erasa quipped.
~D'oh!~ Videl said as she mentally slapped her head. "I'm not, I just have feeling that something isn't right with this picture." Videl said to switch the topic.
Gohan had seen the seating change and had mentally laughed at the change till his common sense woke up and told him that he now had to sit by her. ~D'oh!~ Gohan took his seat and looked down the line at his friends, He could see and feel their discomfort, even Videl showed signs of unease.
"What's matter? You act like I just killed your dog." Gohan joked as he stuff his lunch capsule into a pocket on the inside of his vest. He looked at the note that he had picked up when he recover his capsule.
Gohan,
Videl does like you for more than a punching bag ask her out before you pull the bag off her head.
18
~Yah right, does she think I'm stupid.~ Gohan flipped the note over to reveal more of the note.
P.S. If don't I will tell your mother about her. *wink, wink*. Good luck.
"Damn." Gohan muttered.
Videl had seen the note but could not read it. The note had been written in a language unfamiliar to her and her craving to know what Gohan's secrets were jumped into gear, then it was slammed into high gear when she heard him curse under his breath.
Gohan looked over to his pain in his ears, he could see the questions boiling up, but he was saved by the bell. [3]
Geometry was completed in a blur as Mrs. Chestnut proved to be a stiff and unrelenting teacher. Only Gohan and couple of other kids escape with light loads homework.
"Ugh, this is awful, I got detention!" Erasa pouted.
"Well, if only you haven't laughed when Sharpener tried to hit on Mrs. Chestnut and received his detention." Videl stated.
"She gave detention so my love and I could be together." Sharpener said proudly.
"You're aware that Erasa, Videl, and myself will be present as well for your detention date?" Gohan asked with disgust. Gohan didn't bother to wait for an answer that the jock would clearly not have an answer to. ~Gym, the class I hate the most.~
*****
The principal knock on the door as he entered Mrs. Chestnut's classroom. "Hello, I just wanted to welcome you again."
"Thank you, Mr. Volley." Mrs. Chestnut answered.
"Um, I read in your file that one of your minors was Physical Education." Mr. Volley started.
"It was one of five, there was also Accounting, Robotics, Civil War History, and Poetry."
"R. Lee Ermey the P.E. Instructor here broke his leg in his last class and I was hoping you could fill in. By tomorrow I will have a replacement for Mr. Ermey or he will be back." Mr. Volley answered in a voice that bled patheticness. [4]
"It would be awfully boring to sit around till the end of school so I can start detentions." 18 thought out.
"So, you will do it?" Mr. Volley asked.
"Yes, but don't make a habit of it. I'm not exactly dress for it." 18 replied.
"Thank you, yes of course, thank you again. There are shorts
and shirts for those students who left their gear at home, but I don't know
what to do about
your shoes."
"I have sneakers in the Mustang, and I better hurry to class." 18 answered as she left for the parking lot.
*****
Videl had just started changing into a baggy pair of gray sweat shorts and matching sweatshirt with the sleeves cut off at the elbows, when Mrs. Chestnut entered the locker room drawing the full attention of the female population. She went to one of the benches and kicked off her shoes as removed her vest, and started to remove her shirt.
"Uh, Mrs. Chestnut, uh can I ask what you doing?" One brave girl spoke up.
"No you may not, and for the record I'm changing. Mr. Ermey has sustained an injury, and I'm filling his position." Mrs. Chestnut answered as she folder her shirt and placed it in an empty locker.
"Mr. Ermey prefers to be called Gunny." Videl stated.
*****
"Gohan, tell us how you know Mrs. Chestnut?" Maxwell asked as Gohan enter the locker room.
"Yah, Nerd Boy, how does a bookworm like you meet such a hottie?" Added Sharpener as he put his two cents in.
"My dad knew her husband, since they where kids." Gohan answered as he checked to see if any wandering eyes where on him. As usual, all eyes were staying to themselves, in a blurred motion Gohan changed from his school clothes to his baggy sweatshirt and pants. The total of both items of clothing tipping the scales at a weighty twenty-two hundred pounds.
"The guy who has a such hot piece of ass like that must be a monster of a guy." Some piped up.
"What Krillin lacks in size he makes up in power." Gohan replied as he added a ki-suppressing necklace while he walked out into the Gym. Once out of the locker room, Gohan did some rapid high kicks and punches to loosen up a little.
"With only a ki-suppressing necklace is that all the power you have?"
"Don't forget the weighted training gear, 18." Gohan answered his friend.
"How much is that?" She asked.
"Twenty-two hundred pounds total." Was his answer, when no retort was heard he turned to find his family friend. She was wearing a white T-shirt with the Orange Star High logo, it was a little on the tight side, but the real kicker was the bright orange pair of shorts, short shorts.
Videl came out of the lockers to see Gohan on the floor laughing to the point that his face was blue, and Mrs. Chestnut was red in the face with anger.
Mrs. Chestnut blew the pea whistle as hard as possible, once the attention of a certain Demi-Saiyan was focused she calmly stated, "For that you will spend this class sparing with me, I will be using full strength."
By then, the rest of the class had filed out of the locker rooms and had gone to different sides of the fence. About their teacher's clothing, there was the side that was jealous and the there was the side that wasn't.
"Ok, this will be a free class you can do anything you want." Mrs. Chestnut announced.
The jocks quickly started half court basketball game while some girls and a couple boys played volleyball, the rest just sat down on the bleachers and waited for this hell to end, while Gohan and Mrs. Chestnut went outside.
"You ready, Mrs. Chestnut?" Gohan asked.
"How about a little bet?" 18 offered.
"What would that be?" Gohan asked.
"If Videl tries to care for your injuries, you have to drive me home for a month."
"And if Videl doesn't?" Gohan queried.
"I will supplement your lunch with additional food that I personally prepared." 18 responded.
"Deal." Gohan smirked.
18 could not help but feel a cold shiver run down her back.
*****
Author's Notes:
[1] The song "Hot for Teacher" rocks my mind right now.
[2] Why not?
[3] *Rimshot* Actually double, at Videl and the reference to that awful show, like 'the pain in the ass' but pain in the ears, because her lungs.
[4] Ah, Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey, U.S.M.C. (Retired) Host of "Mail Call" on The History Channel. He served 11 years in the Marines, before he play the part of Drill Sergeant Hartman in "Full Metal Jacket" R. L. Ermey has been in other movies, as well television.