For the rest of the evening Gohan was trying to create strategies and tactics to make sure he would never have a certain superpowered teen find out his little secret. Though she would get suspicious as she did say she would make it her life's work to murder Gohan and it's not every day you stab someone and their skin breaks your blade. Morning came quicker than each of them would have liked and Gohan sluggishly entered his car, mentally fatigued from all the worrying and hassle this secret was putting him through. She was going to be the death of him, invulnerabe or not.
Videl on the other hand, she wasn't tired at all. She was full of energy, excited even. Sone where in her mini breakdown she came across a side to herself she had never seen before. Determined. Before she didn't have to care about anything, everything always went her way. Now that she discovered a bone she couldn't break, a life she couldn't take, an impossibility - she was amused by the challenge. Gohan didn't know what he was getting himself into.
Gohan's drive to school was full of tension, contrasting to the day before when he was as carefree as a bird. He had been so much younger yesterday. His mind kept playing tricks on him, telling him that Videl was somewhere. Waiting. Ready to pounce at him. Oh, he wasn't wrong. She just hadn't taken the trouble to travel so far outside of the city, especially when she could personally greet him for the following 7 hours.
Eventually, he miraculously got to school without crashing his car from the terror he was feeling. Why was he scared? It wasn't like he was in any danger.
Terrifying him, Erasa snuck up on Gohan from, behind causing him to shriek in fear - more startled than the blonde had planned. He spun around on his heel and almost dropping. Erasa was certain she saw a glare painted across his face before it softened into a more relieved stare. She then noticed the faint bags under his eyes that were certainly never there before.
"Woah! Uh...Sorry!" Erasa apologetically chuckled. This Videl business was really getting to him.
"It's okay! Sorry, you- You just scared me a bit!"
It took a few moments for his breathing back to normal. Well, racing a little slower.
"Are you okay? You seem a bit paranoid today." Erasa noted. "You don't have-"
"No! I mean, I'm good. Don't worry about me." Gohan reassured. The chocolate eyed teenager didn't believe him. She slid her hand up Gohan's arm slowly, causing a faint blush to begin appearing on his cheeks.
"We're friends. You can talk to me, don't forget that." She stated, continously holding his arm softly. "And anyway, I'd hate for anything happen to you. If you're sick who knows how many people Videl could kill now that we don't have you to stop her."
Ah, yes Videl. The reason he had been freaking out all morning. Said girl who was glaring at him from behind Erasa. He glanced at her and was puzzled to see her traditional 'I could murder all off you if I wanted to smirk' instead of her petrifying glare and scowl. It was the type of glare that he had only seen his father's 'uncle' Vegeta wear. Though being like a second father to the boy, he couldn't lie; the man was one scary dude. It was like she was awaiting him.
"Uh, yeah totally." Gohan replied, obviously not hearing what she had said last. He had been too preoccupied having a mini staring contest with the girl who dubbed herself as 'Gohan's murderer.' She was half way there, all she had to do is... actually kill him.
Gohan obeyed her implicit orders and walked over to her, making Erasa quite frustrated. Strangely, as he took each step towards her, his panic faded. Knowing exactly where she was seemed to calm his nerves.
"Hi, buddy!" He greeted with a hint of cheek.
"Don't call me that." She ordered sternly, her smirk evaporating.
"Yes, ma'am." He said out of impulse. Gohan internally face palmed at his reaction and cleared his throat. "So, you still trying to kill me?"
"I never stopped, smartass." Videl snorted.
"Can I ask you a weird question?" Gohan suddenly blurted out.
Her eyebrow raised meaning she was amused. For once she actually decided to humor the boy, seeing as he wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.
"Why do you wear the trench coat all the time? Like even indoors and when it's boiling!" He inquired.
"We aren't there yet."
Videl stormed off, further down the hall. Meanwhile his brain was processing the 4 gobsmacking words he had just heard her utter.
'We aren't there yet.'
'We aren't there yet.'
He was actually warming up to her somehow. Enough that she even went through the trouble of finding him in the hall way. Thank Kami for invulnerability. Erasa chased after him with great celerity and practically jumped on his chest.
"WHAT DID YOU GUYS SPEAK ABOUT?!"
"I asked her about her trench coat and she said 'we aren't there yet'." Gohan recounted.
Erasa paused for a moments before pecking his cheek and whispering "Get there." before finding Sharpener in the crowd of students.
"S-sure. I'll...try." He replied as if she could still hear him, flushed and sheepish from the affection. It was time for Registration and they all made their way to class and Gohan having to survive somehow sitting next to Videl. Luckily they would part ways in the next 30 minutes and avoiding her would be much, much easier.
Erasa nudged him a few times, whispering that he should try to socialize with her even more which wasn't completely on his agenda.
"You did it this morning..." Erasa stated. "And you have to do it sometime!"
"Yeah but I didn't ask her to hang out this morning, did I?" He retorted as quietly as he could.
"Do it. Please." Erasa pleaded, playing on his guilt. "You do want to help us, don't you? Just rip it off. Just like a Band-Aid."
The black haired teenager huffed and spun in his chair towards Videl.
"Psst. Videl."
"Yes?!" She replied exasperated. "You do realise I hate you, right?"
"But you waited for me this morning."
"I know. Because how else do murder someone if you're not in the same room as them?"
"With a gun?" Gohan questioned innocently. He regretted it when he saw the smirk crawl unto Videl's face.
"Anyway, I wanted... to know... if-you-wanted-to-hang-out? After school?"
Just like a Band-Aid.
"...Do you flirt with all your attackers or am I just special?" Videl snorted.
"Well, seeming as you're my first attacker. Ever. I'm going to go with the latter?"
Videl paused for a quick second before immediately bringing up the point that,
"So you were flirting with me?"
The other teen began stuttering for a few seconds, attempting to clear his mistake, before Videl interrupted him.
"Ew. I don't know who needs the bleach more, me or you?"
"What bleach?" His response was another malicious smirk. "For the sake of my sanity I'm going to say that you are joking. And, um... I didn't get an answer."
"I thought 'ew' was pretty self-explanatory."
"Yeah, for 'Excited, When?'" Gohan joked.
"Well, you clearly got an answer. An imaginary one, but still an answer. So you didn't need to ask me, this conversation was pointless and you're going to die." Videl sneered, reluctantly amused.
Gohan spun back around to Erasa and sighed once more.
"That was pretty ballsy." She stated, implicitly complimenting him. "Keep being cool like this, kay? I feel like this is working."
Gohan couldn't help but hope that they both had the same 'this' in mind.
Meanwhile Videl was right beside the two, internally vomiting repeatedly. Why does Erasa, most popular, manipulative girl in their school waste her time with the weird, intelligent new boy? She was never going to understand how this social 'rubbish' worked. She momentarily lost her temper out of pure disgust and decided to annoy the two. It's not they could do anything back.
Gohan and Erasa were both terrified when Gohan's shirt disintegrated into a pile of ashes on his lap and left his tank underneath.
"You guys were messing around so much I thought I'd just fast forward. That okay?" Videl teased.
Gohan attempted to hide his shame with his bag and ran to the bathroom. The class erupted with laughter meanwhile Erasa and Videl were having a mini staring match.
"You're a bitch, Videl." Erasa spat.
"Watch your tongue." The blue eyed teen warned.
I'm going to end it here, I hope you enjoyed this chapter of You Can't Fix What Isn't Broken. And AHHH Videl's a teenager! Yeah, this chapter was kind of fun to write. See you lot next chapter!
