The two teenagers were walking out of the main doors, side by side. They walked in silence, neither really sure what to say. Around them were various other students that were lagging behind after school for one reason or another, be it detention like them or just trying to speak with a teacher.

Videl looked down at her watch. It was already four thirty and she was getting rather hungry. She rarely ate a great deal at lunchtime, trying to keep to a self-imposed diet. That included this day, and because of the extra hour of hard labour that the school had forced upon her, she was even more starving than normal.

The two of them were now leaving the school's grounds, heading in the same general direction. "Where are you going now?" She asked him politely. She still felt very bad about landing him in detention.

"I was going to head home, I'm getting hungry." He replied. "Plus, I'm pretty tired."

"Would you like me to give you a ride, my jet copter's fast."

"That's all right, it isn't far, just a ten minute walk." He studied her face intently, and the girl seemed a bit upset at this. It wasn't obvious, but her face dropped a little. He expected her to retort with something about people not accepting Mr Satan's daughter's help.

"I still feel guilty about what happened, since it was my fault after all. And since you're hungry, do you want to go somewhere?"

"You don't mean a date or something like that do you?"

"No!" She laughed, not at him, because maybe she wouldn't really mind going out with him, but certainly not after they had only just started talking properly. "Just like friends. It can't be easy, with you still being new and all, not after all of the groups have settled over the last couple of years."

A couple of seconds later, Gohan found himself being pushed into the passenger seat of her flying contraption, that he was rather dubious about getting into, until he saw the CC insignia on the side. Maybe he was a little bit more loyal to Bulma and her father than he though.

Gohan watched her skilfully control the aircraft, and they were soon soaring over the nicer areas of the inner city. The copter was indeed quite fast, but Gohan was quite sure it couldn't hold a candle to nimbus, let alone flying for yourself.

"So, where are we going?" He asked, hoping that they wouldn't be going anywhere fancy, where he might inadvertently embarrass himself.

"Just a diner that I go to sometimes when I need to get away from stuff. You know what I mean?"

"Sure, when I'm at home I can just step out of my door and fly off. I don't like it in the city, I can't relax here."

The girl looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "You fly off?"

He laughed nervously. "Well...obviously not literally. I'm not Saiyaman after all."

"Yeah, I thought that would be pretty weird." Suspicious indeed. "I thought maybe you meant a jet car or something for a moment, but that would sort of defeat the object. So, did you move into the city just for school?"

"Yeah, I actually live in an apartment that belongs to my godmother, she lets me stay rent free. It's hard being away from my family, but I go home at the weekend." Gohan looked out of the cockpit of the vehicle and noticed that they had begun to descend. He spotted a car park next to a small one-story building that was clearly their destination.

They landed gently and Gohan pushed his door open. The jet copter was probably specially designed for someone of Videl's stature, and the large male had trouble clambering out of the door. By the time he had freed himself, Videl had walked around to see what was taking him so long. She began laughing at him, but he didn't mind. He liked the sound.

"Maybe you shouldn't have eaten all of your vegetables when you were a kid. Maybe you wouldn't have grown up to be so big and strong."

"You don't know the half of it." He mumbled, thinking how he was going to manage not to eat everything inside the diner.

"What?" She asked, hearing his grumblings.

"It doesn't matter." He said, as he finally fell out onto the hard tarmac, feeling as though he might have a huge bruise on his backside.

He got up swiftly before anyone else saw his predicament, while Videl continued to guffaw. She slowly began to wander over to the diner entrance, and he followed her closely behind.

"Just order whatever you want, it isn't like I can't afford it."

"Daddy's credit card?"

She turned around to him, noting a slight hint of animosity in his voice. "I have a certain allowance. The only way my father knows how to take care of me is to throw money my way. Besides, who are you to talk Mr rent-free."

Gohan scratched the back of his neck. "Touché."

As they entered, it appeared to be very quiet, and the waitress waved at Videl happily as she entered, who waved back, a smile on her face. Gohan followed her to a booth in the far corner, and threw a menu to Gohan.

He browsed it quickly, and decided on a simple cheeseburger and fries. Videl didn't even look, and he supposed that she must have a 'usual'.

As the boy laid his menu on the tabletop, the waitress that had waved earlier wandered over. She beamed at Videl. "The usual Miss Satan?"

"Yes please, Beatrice."

The woman turned to Gohan.

"I'll have a cheeseburger and fries please, ma'am." Videl chuckled at his politeness.

"And to drink."

"Um...coke." Gohan wasn't allowed coke at home; it sent both himself and his brother hyperactive. One glass wouldn't hurt though.

The waitress left, and a few moments later returned with their beverages. She walked swiftly back to her colleagues, where the discussion over the pair continued. Videl had only ever been here alone before, and she had certainly never brought a boy. The two teenagers appeared to be getting on rather well, and bets were flying over the relationship between the two. None of them guessed that they had only met that day.

As soon as the food was ready, Beatrice carried the two plates over to the table. Upon setting them down, she asked the question that was on the lips of the half a dozen people that worked in the restaurant.

"So, Videl...is this your boyfriend?"

Luckily the girl wasn't sipping her coke, because it would have flown all over Gohan's face if she had. "No!" She cried, while blushing a deep crimson. Gohan looked just as red.

"That's a shame, the two of you make a cute couple." She spoke honestly.

Videl just buried her face into her hands and reddened even further.

The two teenagers ate in silence from this point, both more than a little embarrassed by the waitress' remarks. It was Videl that piped up first. "I made sure no one thinks you're weird or anything…I made sure they don't know that you're strong. I'm pretty sure most of them thought they were hopped up or drunk when they saw and heard what was going on."

"Oh…thanks." Gohan was truly appreciative; a low profile was certainly something he wanted to keep. Although he knew hanging around with Videl Satan too often might grant him a particularly high one.