Winning the Love of the Handsome Skater

Chapter Eight: Break-ups and make ups

Time dragged itself slower than ever before and pressed Bulma to the edge of sanity when she was actually at home or school, the two places she shifted inbetween. At home she had to take care of herself as her care-taker had taken a week off due sickness and her parents were on another Capsule Corporation meeting abroad. At school teachers were getting bitchier by the day and they pressured students to their limits with home work, early exams and such nonsense Bulma was usually accustomed to. But now her thoughts were plagued with a disease she had thought she was immune to with her oh-so-perfect ex-boyfriend, Yamcha.

The girl never had to worry whether she was wanted or not. She took for granted the fact she had all the attention she seemed to need. And she had thought she was happy…when in reality all of it was just as false as her assumption that Vegeta might have actually wanted her.

Now it had been a whole month since the beginning of school. And Vegeta and Juuhachi were still a couple. They were also getting really popular by the minute, even though Juu was not very well known among the high scholars. But, being 'Vegeta's chick' made one more famous than they could imagine.

Juu and Vegeta were now a steady couple. Or at least so it appeared to the cerulean eyed girl… When actually the two had a huge problem in their relationship that was far more than obvious ever since they got together.

They might've had passion, lust or desire for one another, they might've been together almost every night, they could've gone around together all the time, but that was not the core of the contagious virus that was threatening to devour their fragile union… It was the fact that they could care less for each other outside of the bedroom, that they had no common interest and besides the fact they were physically attracted to one another… there was no spark in the relationship…

Even so, the proud blonde refused for anything to show. She clung to her man for her dear life. He was a catch not to miss. When else would she have the chance to date and bed with the famous Vegeta Ouji?

Then again came the other issue. Now that Krillin was alone again, he had a lot of spare-time. And so did Bulma, so the two had decided to spend it together. At movies, going shopping (Krillin really hated that part for you wish to have no idea how long it takes Bulma to choose even one pair of shoes, or just a dress…), going to the fair, just hanging out around town.

Ever since they have grown to know each other, Juuhachi had developed a strange attraction for the short bald boy. There was something about him that made her heart clench whenever he was miserable, lonely or with another girl. The blonde teenager was a very possessive person, therefore she couldn't help but notice all the time the two spent with each other. She secretly glared at Bulma for 'taking advantage on him' while he was 'weakened'. Though, we have to confess, she hid it really well.

It was very well obvious that nothing could be going on between the short guy and the lavender haired girl. They were just friends; they were discussing school and silly topics together while actually chatting. Often, Krillin would even tell Bulma how bad he felt for being such a fool for so long. She would comfort him and remind him of her own love-life distress, and both of them would just laugh bitterly how stupid and blindly 'in love' they have been. Once Krillin even stated that Marron and Yamcha could make a nice couple! They were just perfect for each other, he claimed. So very alike they were, indeed…

Having a closer friend to spend more time with her, Bulma finally felt a little better. ChiChi and Goku were engaged in constant arguments about Goku's laziness at school and low grades and ChiChi's refusal to be 'nicer to Vegeta' since he was the taller teen's housemate.

But the worst of all was that Bulma's biggest fear had come true… Vegeta was now avoiding her as if she was plagued or had a highly contagious deadly disease. Even if he would talk to her, they always got in stupid pointless fights. Bulma would often space out and wonder what she had done wrong, where was the place she made the first wrong step that now lead to this disaster. She had never wanted to be on bad terms with him. But after the last fight, she ditched every thought of him and decided to let him and herself both be. She did not care for him, she told herself, and stubbornly refused to fix their fragile 'friendship's' little problem, for if not for her, the headstrong boy would never do it.

The only question that would just not leave her at peace was, 'Why'…

x.x.x.x.x.x

Friday late noon. No school for the rest of the week. Rumbling stomachs and hungry teenagers with no homework for the weekend. What else was there left for the youngsters to do than to go and fetch some good food?

"Vegeta!" Goku whined. "I'm hungry!" The other teen growled and shot his friend a death glare at the tone he had used. One thing that was more than clear was that Vegeta loathed whining, of any kind. And he despised Goku, or so it seemed. Not a very nice combination, you can see for yourself...

"Stop your bitching, Kakarott; your voice makes me want to pull you out of your misery in a flash! And I might decide on doing it if you keep that up!" He threatened loudly as he collected his board from his locker. Goku's was right next to his and the other boy performed the same action.

"But Vegeta!" Goku's stomach grumbled loudly, having the boy almost double over in pain. Obsidian dark eyes rolled at the sight of the complaining male. 'No good weakling!' Vegeta cursed him in his mind.

"Hey, guys! Me, Bulma and Krillin were planning on fetching some good stuff around here. What do you say about joining us?"

"I say you should shut your trap, harpy, and move your precious behind. Follow me, morons!" Vegeta threw the board on the ground, getting on it as soon as they reached the space down the stairs from the front entrance. ChiChi gritted her teeth at the way the arrogant prick had referred her and the fact Goku said nothing in her defense. She was about to turn to her side and scream at him for all he was good for when she noticed he was fast gaining up on Vegeta.

She growled loudly and ran for Bulma's car that was just in front of the front entrance. She got in and closed the door of the passenger seat. She found her childhood best friend behind the wheel with Juuhachi and Krillin in the back seat.

"So?" Bulma questioned eagerly.

"Drive after those idiots. The troll said we have to follow him." Bulma chuckled at the way the brunette referred to Vegeta and Juuhachi's icy blue eyes did not even flicker. She seemed to pretend not to have heard anything.

After a few minutes, the teenagers found themselves in front of a small building with glass-cases instead of walls to the front. It had the form of an irregular pentagon (A/N: Forgive my incompetence when it comes to math terminology… English no motherly language, no suey! ) and it seemed like all it had to offer a starved teenager was fast food.

Bulma's eye brows narrowed as did ChiChi's. They were quite tired of junk food. All they ever ate was barely edible junk food, like McDonald's, KFC and such. They have loved those places… till their tenth year? Vegeta had to be pullinh their leg!

"I say we go there and give Vegeta a nice twist of that stick that seems to be so permanently stuck up his goddamned ass." Bulma said as she locked the door after all of them have gone out of the car. ChiChi nodded in affirmation.

"But what an ass it is…" Juuhachi laughed at the stressed glance Bulma threw at her after the statement she had made. She gave an apologetic shrug and continued to chuckle until they reached for the door that lead inside.

As they could've figured, for such a small place it was quite unaired. The vapours from the steaming fries and meat lingered heavily in the air and flooded one's nostrils with a nice odour of what smelled like delicious food. Vegeta and Goku were already in the head of the line and were waiting impatiently for them to come further.

"What took you so long?" Vegeta snapped at Juuhachi.

"Yeah, Chi! What took you so long? You know how hungry I am after school!" Goku whined as he jumped slightly up and down in a psychotic fit. ChiChi gave him a hard glare.

"Goku, honey…" She emphasized on the second word with dripping sarcasm; she was in one of her moods... "You're always hungry." She stated as-a-matter-of-factly with annoyance. That caused Goku to think for a bit and scratch his head in confusion.

"Actually, you could be right…"

"You don't say…" ChiChi's voice was filled with uncontained sarcasm.

"Why did you drag us here, idiot? We wanted to eat something, not to get the next portion of junk food for the week!" Bulma barely contented the urge to jump on his throat and choke him until he begged for mercy like a helpless little moron that he was. She wondered in her mind for a second long where the ferocity for the teen came from? Was his rejection such a bad act to get her so viciously against him?…

"Have you ever been here before, wench?"

"No, I haven't, smurf."

"Then just shut up and let me eat before I decide your flesh might taste better than your rotten attitude." Bulma glared at him but didn't say anything. She was too hungry herself to argue. Well, her diet was sure to go to hell with this nutritious food she had been presented with.

As everyone bought a hamburger with whatever they liked, having an extra portion of french fries just because of the fact they were in the same gang as Vegeta Ouji, who was befriended with all of the girls behind the desk, the group sat on a bigger table to eat in peace. Or at least they intended to do so.

"I saw the way you were looking at her." Juuhachi hissed under her breath and Vegeta almost failed to decipher what she had said. He raised his dark eye brow at her in a mute question. "That girl, one of the cooks, or whatever she doing for a pathetic living." She bit on her hamburger.

"What's with you!" Vegeta snapped.

"Does there just have to be something wrong with me to notice the way you look at other women? Is that such a crime for me wanting you being loyal?"

"Are you accusing me of cheating?" Vegeta hissed in disbelief and set his third hanmburger into the plate in front of him.

"Of course I'm not. You're too goddamn perfect to be accused of anything, now aren't you?" She snapped back at him with the same tone of voice. By the time the whole table's attention was directed at them.

"Don't you try to blame anything on me. I have told you that my past has nothing to do with you and is none of your business. We agreed that we won't get in each other's ways and that was the only condition under which I would agree to this."

"It has nothing to do with me, but it has to do with your actions and your behaviour now, in the present, Vegeta! As much as you wouldn't like it to be so, your past obviously still affects you. And that is what matters truly!"

"If you're trying to pass me the ball of guilt, you have the wrong address. I feel no remorse for anything I have done to you. For I had been as flawless as I could ever be. And the fact your precious ex-boyfriend is now free and you're jealous of a dumb wench you feel so threatened by all the time is nothing I can possibly alter." Juuhachi, as well as the rest of the table were dumb folded. Bulma subtly scowled at the referrence that was made to her with such an insulting words. She wasn't dumb!

"How… When did you- … How did you see that-"

"I notice the most invisible things unlike everyone else you have ever known, woman. I notice things you would otherwise pay little to no attention at all. And I am anything but stupid. I can put the pieces together. Female rivalry because of a male is something I think I can recognize very well. If you're so willing to pick a fight with me and break up so you can run back to him, fine. Feel yourself freed of my presence as a figure in your intimate life."

The rest of the clique, as well as the blonde herself, had their jaws dropped nearly to the ground. They have never suspected that Juuhachi could be so possessive about Krillin, or any guy in her life whatsoever. She was always the monotone steady-paced one, as if lacking any emotional fiber in her whole body. But now it appeared that her most precious and hidden feelings were so obvious to someone like Vegeta, a person who had known her for no longer than five weeks long and he could already read her better than her closest friends.

"So that's it? We're just breaking up? So easily?" Juuhachi did not let herself fall on her back so fast.

"Is that not what you wanted of me now?" Vegeta questioned utterly bored and repulsed of the thought of putting any more food or drink in his mouth.

"I should've known from the beginning that nothing will turn out of this relationship…" Juu sighed and massaged her temples. Vegeta let out a cruel cold laugh that chilled her to the bone. Bulma also shuddered at the evil sound.

"Come on! Don't try to play the prey here, for you won't succeed. You have been leeching pleasure out of me as much as I did out of you. It was quite a mutual act of keeping bed covers warm. I, personally, had no problem with such a development, but it seems the fact baldy is free gives you a change in mind, eh?" He chuckled coldly, distantly. "That's still okay with me, wench; I don't really care. I have a line of women, as you have said, waiting for me just to snap my fingers and they'll throw themselves at my feet."

"Don't get too arrogant with me, Vegeta…" Juuhachi growled out. As strange as it was, she felt strangely humiliated by the fact Krillin was listening to their little fight…that indirectly definitely concerned him. The dark skater chuckled again and glanced out of the glass-case to see a pair of girls with long black pleated skirts and navy long shirts with a dark violet coloured ties around their necks approaching the place. His eyes darkened, his jaw line tightened and he grabbed his board, making a fast exit out of the door behind him, avoiding any kind of encounter with the two, or the group that had so kindly accepted him among them.

Bulma watched out of the corner of her eye how Vegeta studied something out of the window in his front, then his features hardened, his eyes grew dull and distant, as if a shield instantaneously went up to protect any kind of emotion showing. When he walked out without saying anything, she turned around for the other entrance to see two girls entering. Not noticing anything that could set one in distress, she shrugged the topic off and just enjoyed spending time with her friends.

But there was still a tugging feeling that something bad was approaching and fast…

x.x.x.x.x.x

When Bulma arrived back home it was already quite late. The sun had already set and darkness had fallen over the whole Capsule Corporation dome. She sighed and threw her backpack to an undefined direction and then went up the stairs to her room. She needed to lay down and let herself rest a bit. It had been a terribly long week. She was completely drained by the time…

As the girl lay herself against the sleek soft covers she couldn't help herself let her thoughts drift back to the figure she was often either cursing in her mind or pondering about. Vegeta had proved to be far more observant than anyone had thought. She still had not forgotten the fact he knew calculus. But he definitely did not look like the studying type, or the smart type. Yet there was something about him… Something very weird and wrong… A strange aura that floated around whenever he approached…

A loud thud downstairs snapped Bulma out of her trance. The sound, even if it might've not been so loud, resounded eerily off the walls of the silent huge compound. The girl jumped into a sitting position on the bed and looked at her surroundings with eyes wide with horror. Was it thieves? Burglars? Nasty kids?

Deciding that nothing was going to be solved just by staring stupidly and doing nothing, the young woman made her way slowly down the stairs. The bell rang this time, startling her as she had been completely focused on the task of getting herself to the front door as quiet as she could.

Front door? How stupid of a criminal must you be to come from the front door! The girl shook her head and went straight for the door-handle, wondering who could it be at that time.

As the door opened, Bulma's eyes watered slightly and grew wide in shock as she gasped loudly, pulling a hand to her mouth at the sight that revealed in front of her……


A/N: Evilness! Those of you that have read this fic before know what's going to be behind the door. But this time, it is edited and better, with much more thought inserted. Let me paste you a little teaser from the next chapter. Otherwise there is no hope for me getting as much as one comment on this lil' boring thing, now is that not correct?

Next time you'll read:

Bulma shrunk back in the dark wall. Whimpers of panic and imense dread from the approaching feeling of death escaped herthroat without her even trying to stop them. How was it possible? Why was he doing this to her? What was wrong with him? She never did anything so wrong in her life to deserve such a pathetic and gruesome death, did she? She prayed constantly, she went to church, she did charity... Squeezing her azure eyes shut when the huge being's breath tickeled her throat in anticipation to snap it in half, she looked up in the dark ceiling and muttered his name in a strange urge for it to be the last thing that ever emitted from her throat... "Vegeta..."

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