Author's Note:

Da daaaa! Here is chaaapter 4! I don't own DBZ Green Day, or any other stuff in this story other than the plot. Once again, I am sorry for the shortness of chapter 3, and if it was cliffhanger like. This is one chapter I know I will have fun writing, and I hope you all like reading it! Thank you, reviewers! Ya'll are very kind ya' know? Oh, and I forgot—A HORNET is a when you get a rubber band a small piece of bent (hard) paper, put the paper on the rubber band (bent side facing the band) pull back the band, let go of the band and shoot it at people. They've gone as far as to call your parents if you have em' with you at my school. That's why we don't get caught. 0 I'll tell you the positive post of a chapter in my profile okay? (Incase you were wondering.)

Mood: Points of Authority- Linkin Park Change My Mind- Puddle of Mudd

HIGH SCHOOL BLUES

Chapter 3

Vegeta sat on his bed, staring at the posters in his room. He was into most all rock bands so that's what filled up his wall space. He even had a poster of his dad's band, Nickelback, above his bedpost. It was Saturday, and he needed to get out of the house in 15 minutes to go to the park and have Goku's brother drive him to the Kame house. Nothing happened at school since Tuesday, other than a few more fights with Bulma, a detention for too many tardies the first week, and sassing teachers. (A/N that's happened to my friend Cody. Such sensitive teachers. Honestly.) Turles and Raditz said they were going to wait to do Mr. Redwood's truck Sunday to cause a big stir on Monday. And he had to have his detention next week because the teachers had a meeting. Good. Then he would be able to sneak out to Kame. Vegeta was told to bring his swim trunks and some chips. He had wrinkled his nose at that, because in truth he wasn't a very good swimmer. At all. The last time he had went swimming it was when Bruno threw him in the water and said, "Swim or drown." Ah. The good old days. It was 5:03pm. Time to get out. Bruno and Liz were suppose to take care of him when his dad left, which should be around right now. Hopefully, they wouldn't call him downstairs or check on him or something. He had no idea when he'd get back, so this whole situation was going to be trusted with hope. Which he didn't have much of. Which was bad.

Vegeta looked down the staircase for people. Nope. So far, so good. He grabbed his swimming trunks and put the chips inside them, then headed back down the stairs. He crept passed the stairs going to the basement, and to the door. He held his breath without knowing it as he grabbed the doorknob. He turned it and opened the door. It creaked loudly and his heart skipped a beet. He didn't move and looked at toward the basement. Nothing happened for a minute. Vegeta quickly went out of the house and shut the door slowly. After that, he turned and hightailed it to West City Park. He was safe—for now.

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At the park, Goku was waiting on a bench with Chi Chi, everyone else sitting a table waiting for Vegeta. When he came up to them, Tien sighed and handed 17 five bucks.

"I told you he would show." 17 said with a superior smirk on his face. Tien rolled his eyes, (just two of them), and started to mutter something about a 'lucky guess'. Vegeta stood up straighter and cocked his head toward the cars.

"Are we going to go now?" He asked wanting to leave the city. If Kame was out of the city. He supposed so because Krillin said it was an island. He had no idea how they were suppose to get to an island, so thought Krillin was trying to trick him. Maybe they all were trying to trick him just to get him to someplace and abandon him, it's not like it hadn't happened before. But he was already here, so he might as well go with them, if he trusted them or not.

"Um… Vegeta, I'm afraid you can't ride with me and my brother." Goku said suddenly very interested in the hole in his knee. Great. Thought Vegeta starting to sneer. He should have known they would do this, now he had to go back home and never talk to these creeps again and face Bruno and Liz and— "You have to ride with Bulma."

"What?" Vegeta said looking a bit baffled, and snapping out of his thoughts.

"You have to ride with Bulma," Goku repeated. "She's the only one with room left, unless you know how to ride a motorcycle—Krillin usually rides with me and my brothers, and I sorta' forgot to tell him you were coming so—yeah…" Vegeta frowned and replied,

"I'll take the motorcycle." Goku looked at him.

"Oh, you know how to ride? Okay then—"

"No," Vegeta said interrupting Goku. "I don't know how to, but I'll take my chances over riding with Miss Blue over there." Bulma, who was listening to the conversation with an annoyed expression on her face, perked up.

"Do you think I want to do this anymore than you? I was just trying to be nice by volunteering to let you ride with me. I don't know why I keep on making that mistake, besides you probably wouldn't fit on my motorcycle with that overgrown head of yours,"

she stated looking at Vegeta angrily. He didn't seem fazed.

"Is there any other way?" he questioned Goku. Goku shook his head no. Vegeta growled and began to decide if getting caught by going back to his house or riding with Blue was worse. He was just prolonging the inevitable. Okay—he didn't like this girl much other than her retorts, not many people had comments worth saying to him, but it was better than getting beat to a pulp. Vegeta sighed. "I'll ride with you," he mumbled and Bulma rolled her eyes taking a capsule out of her pocket, and threw it. Vegeta looked a bit startled, he heard of these but never used one before.

"Dad created it. I am the great Dr. Brief's daughter, ya' know," Bulma said cockily not even waiting for Vegeta to ask. He rolled his eyes and sat behind Bulma on the motorcycle, half-heartedly grabbing her around the waist as she put on a helmet and he put on his. "Tap my shoulder if you need anything. And hold on tight! I don't need to obey the rules!" With that said, she accelerated it, and rode down the road. The others watched as all that was left was a bit of dust.

"I bet you five bucks Vegeta will jump off halfway through the ride," Tien said.

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Vegeta, slightly green in the face, tapped Bulma on the shoulder.

"What?" she said over the roar of the engine.

"Slow down," Vegeta rasped out. So far, in one whole hour, they almost ran into a stop sign, a dog, a bush, a house, a cat, and they actually skimmed the side of a mailbox. When they got pulled over a bit earlier, Bulma got away with it because she was Brief's daughter, and Vegeta threatened for his dad to sue. Duh if the lead singer in Nickelback sued you, you would lose. The policeman let them of with a warning and hightailed it out of there. He didn't want to lose his job. On the subject—Vegeta didn't want to lose his lunch, so that's why he was telling Bulma to slow down. "Slowwwwwwwwww dowwwwwwwwwwwn," he repeated poking her shoulder multiple times. Bulma rolled her eyes and turned her head, not slowing down.

"What? Can't take the heat, Vegeta? Well if that's the case I'll slow down just for you," she stated, starting to slow down.

"I can take the heat, but I also know when you're riding at a reasonable illegal pace and a death ticket pace! This is the second one, if you haven't figured that out," Vegeta retorted.

"Well fine then," Bulma replied speeding up. Vegeta growled and asked,

"When will we get there?"

"Funny you should ask that question," Bulma replied as she rounded to a vast lake. Vegeta frowned.

"Where's Kame?" he asked as the others drove in like a frenzy. Yamcha had a hoodless car where Launch, 18, Tien, and 17 were all riding in. They were hooting and talking like normal teenagers. Following, Turles, Raditz, Krillin, and Goku jumped out of the Jaguar. Chi Chi rode in a red jeep, right beside Goku. They jumped out of their cars and grabbed chips, pop, and chocolate bars. When they got all their stuff, they backed away from their cars and went to Bulma.

"Capsules, please," Yamcha stated and grabbed them from Bulma, but not unkindly. He threw his capsule at his car and grabbed the little pill-shaped plastic thing that came from the small explosion that erupted. His car wasn't in sight. Vegeta watched as Turles and Chi Chi did the same. Bulma took out six more pill things and threw them, making a small explosion and six yellow round things about 4 feet long and 5 feet wide appeared. They had little things that looked like wings on the sides, about a foot long and wide. There were controls in the front that looked like old video game joysticks and buttons, and two seats in all of them. By looking at their faces, Vegeta could tell it was pretty much a normal everyday thing. But that's what he got from coming from Michigan, he guessed. Tien caught sight of Vegeta and sighed like he did earlier, then handed 17 five more bucks.

"This is getting old already," he mumbled kicking a pebble. "I'm running out of fives."

"So," 17 said ignoring Tien, "Who are you going to ride with Vegeta?" Everyone turned and looked at him. Vegeta just stared.

"I don't know…" he responded. 17 smirked.

"You can ride with me, if you want," he said nodding his head towards one of the weird yellow vehicles. Vegeta shrugged his shoulders and sat behind 17 in the odd vehicle, who took the controls and went straight for the water. Vegeta was a bit startled, but didn't say anything. Bulma and Launch were in front of Vegeta and 17, while everyone else was behind them. Nothing to do but follow.

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The Kame house was on an island. It was pink with the words 'Kame' spread above the white door. The house was kind of small, with a palm tree hanging over it on the left. It had only taken 30 minutes to get there. Vegeta got out of the 'water skimmer' as 17 had called it. There was an old bald thin guy with sunglasses and a mustache and beard. A large turtle was beside him, and Roshi had a turtle shell on his back. There was one word for this scene. Odd. Very odd. The old guy laughed.

"So I see you've gotten another member for your group, eh? I'm Master Roshi," he stated putting out a hand for Vegeta to shake. Vegeta looked at the hand, to Roshi, to the hand again. Chi Chi saw this and sneered at Vegeta.

"Ignore him," she said addressing Roshi. "He likes to be a pig." Krillin let out an exasperated sigh.

"Please guys," he begged. "Not now, we're supposed to be having fun." Vegeta arched his eyebrows and said,

"Define fun. I haven't been having any fun since we left the park." Yamcha looked at Vegeta a bit angrily.

"You don't have to be a jerk and ruin all the fun you know," he ordered more than said. Vegeta turned his head to him.

"It's my job. You should get yourself one rather than spending all your time blabbing off to people who don't really care what you have to say." Roshi looked at Yamcha and then to Vegeta, who were shooting sparks at each other through their eyes.

"L-let's go inside now, kids… don't want any trouble here, heh heh," he said uncertainly heading for the door.

"Yeah, just drop it you two, and lets go inside and start the party." Tien stated. 18 shook her head a little and said,

"You all just had to break it apart before the fun began. It is so like you." Everyone entered the house.

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Once inside, everyone put the chips, snacks, and pop on a table.17, Turles, Raditz and Yamcha went downstairs to play pool, all the girls and Goku, Krillin, and Tien were going to go swimming. That left Vegeta… alone. He sat by a window and looked out, hating his curiosity at such a stupid thing. It defiantly wasn't worth getting beat for. As he thought, Master Roshi walked over to him.

"Why aren't you playing, boy?" he asked.

"Because everything here is a waste of time. I shouldn't have come in the first place," Vegeta responded.

"Well your friends didn't invite you here for you to sulk around! Get around the house and find something to do! Go swimming! That's what most of them are out doing!" Vegeta glared at the old man and went into a room with a white sign that read, 'bathroom.' He hoped he wouldn't regret this.

Once in his swimming trunks he rapped a towel around him. He didn't plan to go swimming at all, just to get the old man off his back. He stalked around and went out back, where 7 of the other group members were swimming. He sat on a chair and folded his arms. Goku spotted him and waved.

"VEGETA!" he shouted waving an arm in the air. "OVAH HERE!"

"No thanks," Vegeta responded. "I'm perfectly fine right here." Goku frowned.

"Come on, Vegeta! The water's fine!" Vegeta sneered and Chi Chi scowled.

"Don't invite him, Goku. He's just being a jerk," she said. Goku put his head down looking let down, but went over to Tien and Krillin to get a plan to get Vegeta into the water.

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Vegeta was under the palm tree, towel still wrapped around him, even though was it hot outside, fall though it still may be. He didn't see Goku get out of the water and creep up behind him.

"HI, VEGETA!" he shouted in Vegeta's ear, making him jump about up and turn. Tien, who was on his other side, grabbed his legs and yanked them in the air. Goku grabbed his arms and they moved him to the water. Vegeta was flaying his arms in the air and yelling at them.

"WHAT THE HELL! STOP IT! STOP IT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING! PUT ME DOWN! I SAID PU—" Before he could finish, they threw him in the water, towel and all. Vegeta hit the water and screamed angrily. He started to run out of the water, but went back in when he realized he lost his towel. These guys didn't need to know about his family life. Chi Chi gasped. Too late.

"What happened to your back and stomach! And your legs?" She asked frantically.

"I-," Vegeta said thinking fast. "I went skateboarding and crashed… it was just a while ago. I still have got some bruises. I was on the Death Hill at the park." Chi Chi scowled.

"You would do something stupid like that. You haven't been skateboarding for a long time, have you?" Vegeta shot her a nasty look and didn't respond. He didn't like to admit he couldn't do something, whether it was for a lie or not. But at least Chi Chi was backing him up unknowingly, making his statement a bit more believable. Bulma stared at Vegeta and didn't say a word. They had closed Death Hill over a month ago, and those bruises definitely weren't that old.

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They came inside around 9:00pm, when it was getting dark. Vegeta was really worried about getting caught now. There was just no way he would get out of trouble when he got home. Wasn't home supposed to be where your heart is? He was reminded of the Green Day song, 'City of the Damned.' Well, he was going to be damned if he didn't get home quickly. On second thought, he was going to be damned when he got home anyway. Vegeta sighed heavily and sat at a table. Actually, it was a few tables. The group had put a whole bunch of tables together so they could all sit together. Vegeta sat by the old guy and Krillin. He was still mad at Goku and Tien for dumping him in the lake, and planned revenge. They put all the snacks and drinks they brought on the table, and pulled up chairs and benches from all around they house. 18 and Launch had made hotdogs on a grill out back, enough for all of them to have seconds or thirds, and Chi Chi brought potato salad from home. Vegeta liked that idea. Bulma was across from him, flirting with Yamcha. Or more like it, Yamcha was flirting with her. It was all the same to him. Vegeta grabbed a hotdog and put potato salad on his plate, then threw some onions, mustard, and ketchup on it. He didn't put relish on it, though. He hated relish. Bulma made a face at his hotdog.

"Yuck! I can't believe you put mustard on it! That's gross!" She stated sticking out her tong.

"Go screw with Yamcha, wrench. I have better things to do then listen to you squabble. Like eating this hotdog for example," Vegeta responded taking a big slow bite out of his hotdog to emphasize what he said. Bulma looked like she was about to retort, but then changed her mind and kept eating. That really surprised Vegeta, he thought for sure she would bite off his head for that comment. Maybe she was going to screw with Yamcha, thought Vegeta, and didn't want to deny it when witnesses were around. HE smirked at the thought and took another bite out of his hotdog. Goku sat down next to Bulma, and Vegeta made the worst face at him he could muster. A/N (excuse the pun.)

Goku was oblivious.

"Hey, Vegeta guess what? I forgot to say, but we train here at Kame, too. If you're interested, we learn marshal arts moves and evasive techniques. Me, Tien, Yamcha, 18, Krillin, and Chi Chi are all in the class. 17 thinks he's too good for it, though," Goku stated, and then practically inhaled his food, like he always did. He got up before Vegeta could say anything. Vegeta thought about it. If he learned some moves and got stronger, he could eventually fight off Bruno… with a LOT of practice and hope. But when he got home, he was probably going to get beat, yelled at, and watched every living moment from then on, so there was almost no way he could sneak out of the house again… unless he got lucky and Bruno wouldn't tell his dad, he could ask him… Vegeta shook his head. He was putting too much faith in hope, and that would never get him anywhere. He started to eat his potato salad, a little less enthused in food for the while.

"When do we go home?" he asked when Goku came back with twice as much food piled on his plate then he had before. Goku looked at him and replied,

"In a little bit. We'll eat, train for about a half an hour, and then go home. Oh, do you want to train?" Vegeta stared at his food and then answered,

"Sure." Maybe if he got lucky, he would learn a move to avoid getting shoved into a wall and punched. Or thrown to the ground and pinned down. Maybe even being able to stop getting pushed into a table repeatedly then slammed on the floor. If he was lucky. Which he wasn't.

When they finished eating, Goku lead Vegeta outside where they trained.

"You train in the dark?" he asked looking around. Goku smiled.

"It's to help us be able to adjust our eyes quickly to the dark. We've been doing this for a long time, so I can see around perfectly fine right now," he replied. Vegeta frowned.

"How can being in the dark all the time improve night vision?" he muttered asking himself more than anyone else. Master Roshi came outside.

"Going to be training with us, now? Well come along…" he ordered. They walked out back and when Roshi said "Start!" They started sparring with each other. Vegeta had no one to spar with, so he sat down, only to be knocked in the head by the old guy.

"What the hell!" he asked more then said angrily.

"Fight!" the old guy said pointing to the others. Vegeta stared at him, getting angrier.

"There's no one to fight with! I don't know what to do!" Vegeta said defending himself. He didn't want to be ordered by this guy. Especially when he was him reading a Playboy magazine laughing like a maniac when he came in from the house. Ick.

"Fine!" Vegeta shouted and walked up to Goku, and jabbed him on the shoulder. "Want to fight?" he asked firmly. Krillin saw this and stopped fighting Tien.

"Maybe you should fight with Yamcha, Vegeta," he said uncertainly. Vegeta glared at him.

"I'll fight who ever I want!" he replied. Yamcha glanced at him and added,

"You should listen to him, Vegeta. Goku is really stro—"Yamcha didn't get to finish his sentence because Vegeta threw a punch at his mouth, and was surprised to see him block it. However, Vegeta was getting angrier by the second and wasn't going to take that. He threw another punch at Yamcha, hitting him on the forehead. Yamcha looked surprised, and then punched Vegeta in the jaw.

"My step-mother hits harder than that!" he shouted flinching a bit and punched Yamcha in the jaw, making him growl.

"If you want to fight me, then fine! But I've had a lot more experience than you!" Yamcha stated grabbing Vegeta by the shoulders and kneeing him in the stomach. Vegeta yelled angrily as Yamcha took advantage of Vegeta's short height and his own tall height—it didn't help that Yamcha was broader than him, too—and spun Vegeta around flinging him to the ground, and jamming his knee in his back. It was the same move Bruno used. The same move! Vegeta snapped. He'd been pinned down by Bruno, he'd been pinned down by Liz, he'd been getting pinned down all his life and now he sure as hell wasn't going to be pinned down by some older teen wussy. He cursed and flipped himself over, pushing Yamcha to the ground and started to punch his face repeatedly. Tien ran over and pulled Vegeta off, who was now beyond mad, beyond furious, beyond anything he could think of at the moment. He was so tired of feeling so… so… so helpless. He pushed Tien away with a force he didn't know he had and started to run back to Yamcha, only to be stopped by what felt like a brick wall. It was Goku. Vegeta screamed angrily when he fell. Goku then grabbed Vegeta by the shoulders.

"Vegeta, calm down… Vegeta… calm down," he said soothingly—but firmly. Vegeta didn't care. He was seething. It wasn't just Yamcha's surprising strength that upset him; it was everything that had happened… Bruno, Liz, school, trouble… it was just getting to be too much. He tried to pull away from Goku's strong grip only to be flipped on his stomach again, with Goku grabbing his arms and keeping them behind him. He breathed deeply for a while then stopped struggling and stayed where he was. Goku got off him and reached out a hand to help him up, but Vegeta only sneered and got up himself. He dusted himself off, and felt everyone staring at him.

"What do want?" he asked nastily. Master Roshi looked troubled.

"You've got quite a temper there, boy…" he said only to be interrupted.

"Shut up. Just shut up and bring me home." He saw them looking at each other skeptically, but didn't care. He wanted to go home, even if it meant facing Bruno. Goku went inside, and Vegeta sat by the palm tree shaking with rage and embarrassment. A few minutes later, Goku came out. Vegeta heard him say something like, "Don't disturb Vegeta," and felt his heart thump faster and his head start to hurt. Everything was making him angry, and he was getting sick of it. Why couldn't that idiot tell he could hear him? Why didn't they just shut up? Goku nodded his head over at Vegeta to the water skimmer, beckoning him to come. Vegeta stomped over and jumped in the boat, not saying a word. He was pleased to see he Yamcha with a little blood on his lip and a slight bruise on his cheek. Goku got in and turned on the machine, the engine making only a soft buzzing sound on the water. Nobody talked the whole way.

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Vegeta was dropped off at the park, he ignored Goku as he said goodbye. He kept his head down and walked to his house. It was 11:00pm, the streets already almost empty and dark. He trudged his way to the house as he made his final steps. He looked at his big gray house, and noticed the porch light was on. So they were waiting for him. It's not like he didn't expect that. He took a breath and opened the door. Bruno, Liz, and his father were sitting on the couch in the living room. They all looked at Vegeta as he came in. Vegeta didn't know his father was going to be home today, but figured it was just his luck.

"How wonderful for you to join us, Vegeta. We were all just discussing how to deal with you," Bruno said, being blunt and order-like as usual. Vegeta didn't say anything. His father's face showed disapproval, probably the thing that bothered Vegeta the most.

"Well, brat," his father said. "I don't know what to say." Vegeta averted his eyes to the ground. He didn't know what to say either. But he dreaded what might happen next.

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