Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Butterfly ❯ Awkward Moments ( Chapter 10 )

Just a word for you: <something in these brackety things is Bulma's thought train while someone else is speaking>

Butterfly

I had never liked the colour white. It was too clean, too pure and just too damn white!

So when I woke up to a white ceiling glaring down at me, white walls boxing me in and white sheets covering my body, it didn't bode well for the rest of my day.

I moaned in agony as the pain ebbed at my now fully conscious mind.

"Finally."

Someone in the room. There's someone in the room.

I opened my eyes to be greeted with the interesting sight of two easily recognisable young men. One had a worried and concerned look on his face and the other a smirk.

"Hello Raditz."

I gave him a wary smile

"Vegeta."

A nod.

Before I could even sit up, Raditz was at my side, fussing over me.

"Are you okay Bulma?" he practically cried at me.

"I'm…"

I had to think of a reply that was acceptable. I wasn't brilliantly terrible or terribly brilliant. I was…

"Fine."

"I wouldn't worry about that weakling. He's been fussing around your bedside since we got here. He only just sat down until you decided to finally wake up."

I began to wonder if Raditz actually knew I wasn't on `good' terms with his brother, to put it lightly anyway. I always thought Raditz and Goku were pretty close but maybe they just haven't discussed this, but there were much more important things to be thinking about.

"How did I get here?"

"Ambulance."

"I guessed that, but how did I get out of the car. Who found me?"

"We both did," Raditz piped in. This was confirmed by a jerk of Vegeta's head.

"I was out driving and I heard someone shouting for help. So I tracked down where the shouting was coming from. I spotted Raditz pull up next to you and went to help."

"How lovely of you," I said. I sounded sarcastic but I really did mean it.

"After you ran out of the party, I stopped that girl to ask her if she knew what was wrong but she didn't. I found Nappa to ask him if he knew and he said he didn't but I knew he was lying because I could smell your scent on him <I already knew about the Son family being Saiyajin>. So I followed your trail and heard you laughing. Why were you laughing?"

"I was going to die. How could I not laugh?" I said seriously.

The two guys gave me this strange `she is absolutely insane' look.

"Anyway. I saw Vegeta and shouted to him to get his mobile out and phone 999. I wrenched off the door and got you out of the car with Vegeta's help. We checked you over and moved the car away so if it caught fire and exploded we wouldn't get hit so badly. Eventually the ambulance arrived and now you're here," Raditz finished, "What happened Bulma?"

Well, think about it. I wasn't just going to sit down and say to someone I didn't even like that much and the brother of a person I despised, `Oh, you see the thing is, Nappa tried to rape me so I drove really fast. My brakes stopped working so I crashed.' No, it wasn't going to happen.

"I realised I had to be home or my Dad would find out I was gone and it wouldn't be nice when I got home. I was driving quite fast to get home but the car skidded on the road surface and I crashed. That's all."

Raditz nodded, completely accepting the crappy lie I had just spun. Vegeta on the other hand, raised that suspecting eyebrow and gave me a look that gave me the impression that he could see right through me. I shuddered a little. Why were there so many uncomfortable moments with Vegeta and myself? Why Kami, why?

"Well, now that we have all of that sorted out, I gotta go pick up my brother from Chi's."

I huffed at the mention of the couple.

"Oh. I'd forgotten that you lot aren't talking."

"To put it extremely mildly - yes."

"What's gonna happen between you guys?"

"Nothing," I spat bitterly, "They told me to forget them, so I have. Goodbye Raditz and thanks again," I smiled warmly. It was a complete change of face from the bitter Bulma to warm smiling lovely Bulma. Raditz exited the room.

"Since when did you care what you're Dad thought?"

"I don't!" I retorted without thinking.

"Why did you run out of the party then?"

Alarm bells rang loudly in my head. ALERT! UNCOMFORTABLE MOMENT WITH VEGETA APPROACHING! There was no way to avoid it now, so I answered him honestly…