What If: Flying Lessons by Jeffrey Graham (beautiful books to read TXT) 📖

What If: Flying Lessons - Chapter 1

"I'll be back tomorrow." Videl stated

"What!? But I already taught you how to fly! All you really need is some private practice!" Gohan argued.

"I wanna learn more about this…or is my presence a burden on you!?" Videl asked while giving him her death glare.

"Oh…umm…of course not! It's just..." Gohan stuttered.

"Good, it's settled then." Videl said as she threw out a capsule and her jet popped out. "Cya tomorrow." Videl said leisurely walking towards her jet.

"Ya, cya." Gohan said waiving goodbye. Gohan then remembered something. "Oh, Videl?" he asked.

Videl stopped at eh door to her jet to turn and look at Gohan. "Yes?" she asked.

Gohan then got very nervous. "Umm…I was thinking…about your hair…" Gohan slowly said.

"Huh?" Videl said realizing it wasn't a question about fighting, but simply about her…her appearance.

After building up enough courage, Gohan finally finished his sentence saying "It might be better short." ending it with a short laugh.

Videl just stood there, slowly taking in what Gohan had just told her and then looked down at one of her pigtails. Then slowly putting a hand on it she started to form a blush on her cheeks. 'He thinks I would look good with short hair?' she thought. 'Is he interested in me!?'

'Why is she blushing like that!?' Gohan asked himself 'I've never seen her blush before…Oh man, I wish I knew more about this girl business.'

Videl then looked up at Gohan which caught him by surprise as she was still blushing at him and he wasn't used to this side of Videl.

"So you mean you like short hair…on girls Gohan?" Videl asked excitedly looking straight into hi onyx eyes.

'Uh Oh' Gohan thought as a large sweat drop formed on the back of his head. 'What do I do now? If I tell her no, she will probably feel insulted and then I'll be in serious trouble. I better say yes.' Gohan decided. Then putting his hand behind his head, and giving off the biggest grin he could, he said "I mean ya, I think you would look better with short hair." Gohan's grin disappeared at what he said. "I mean…not that you don't look good already…GAH!!...I mean…."

Videl laughed as Gohan frantically tried to find the right words to say. 'Well this changes a few things' she thought as she turned around to get up in the driver's seat of her jet copter.

Gohan saw this and wondered if he had said something wrong. Then just before she took off, he noticed that she was still smiling and blushing at him. "Thanks Gohan! I'll be here same time tomorrow ok!?" she yelled.

Gohan cocked his head to one side pondering what all just happened, but just instinctively said "Ok, Cya tomorrow Videl." And with that she took off.

It was Gohan's turn to blush as he remembered how he told Videl she looked good. 'I need to stop letting my emotions get the better of me around her.' He thought.

"What's up with you Gohan?"

Gohan snapped out of his thoughts to see Goten right behind him.

"Hey, why is your face all red?" Goten asked

"Oh, don't worry about it Goten, let's just get back to training on our own, just like you want right Goten?" Gohan said quickly trying to rid his face of its redness.

"Oh Boy!" Goten yelled. "I'll get you this time!"

Gohan smiled. "We'll see." He snickered.

Chapter 2

'Wow, what a day' Videl thought. She was flying back to her house recounting her day at Gohan's. 'First was that run in with Gohan's mom Chi Chi.' Videl laughed. 'But her cooking was so good! Way better than what the cooks at the manor can make.'

Videl then remembered when Chi Chi mentioned something about Gohan marrying her and even Goten asked if he would have a new sister. 'It was funny when Gohan got really nervous and denied it all' Videl laughed 'but I wonder why it peeked my interest so much when Chi Chi and Goten said those things.' Videl thought slightly blushing.

"Wait!" Videl said out loud to herself. "I'm not…falling for Gohan….am I…?" Videl then thought back to when she first met Gohan in class. 'He looked like such a nerd.' She thought, but then smiled while still blushing. 'But like Erasa said…he is pretty cute…"

She finally reached the outskirts of Satan City. "Finally!" she said. "Why does Gohan have to live so far away!? Well, as long as I learn to fly as fast as him, I guess it won't really matter in the end." She laughed.

She reached the Satan Manor and landed. She got out, decapulized her jet copter, and went inside trying to avoid hr father only to see him waiting in the living room for her.

"Videl! Do you know what time it is!? Where have you been!? What have you been up to young lady!?" Hercule yelled

"Whoa dad, calm down," Videl said rather nervously not wanting to get her father mad. "I know it is pretty late and I'm really sorry. I was just out with some friends." She lied.

Hercule gave her a suspicious glare which she knew all too well seeing as she gave it to Gohan all the time. "Hmmm…ok sweet pea" Hercule said. "Just try not to make this a habit ok?"

"Ok daddy, I'll try!" Videl said as she ran up the stairs to her room. "Love ya!" she yelled.

'She's not telling me everything…' Hercule thought. 'I need to get to the bottom of this…BUT FIRST! I'm going to watch more videos of how great I am!"

Videl finally reached her room and shut the door behind her. She threw her book bag on the ground and walked over to her bed where she laid down and heaved a big sigh.

"I can't let Dad know that I've been hanging out at a boy's house. He will kill me…actually, he will probably kill Gohan…but then again, Gohan is the Great Saiyaman, so maybe he is stronger than my dad…and dad said I could date a boy stronger than him…GAH! There I go again!" Videl said to herself.

As she was thinking, Videl started playing with one of her pigtails. "My hair…" she whispered.

Then Videl sat up abruptly. "My hair…" she said again.

Videl got up, walked across her room into her bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. She started to play with her pigtails again while thinking.

'No one's ever suggested I do something with my appearance' she thought. 'Probably because they know I would beat them to a pulp if they said anything like that to me.'

Videl closed her eyes. 'So why didn't I do anything to Gohan when he told me I should cut my hair?' She looked back up at herself in the mirror again trying to picture what she would look like with short hair. 'I can't actually be considering this can I? I mean…I would look like a boy! And what would people think of me?'

Videl then chuckled slightly at what she said. 'No one would care. All they see in me is the daughter of the World Champ, a celebrity, and nothing more…except for Gohan.' Videl thought.

'Gohan actually treats me as a regular person and not as a celebrity. Maybe…maybe that's why I trust him…' Videl smiled.

She reached down, opened a drawer, and pulled out a pair of scissors.

"Well, her goes nothing." She said as she took her pigtail in one hand and the scissors in the other, and closing her eyes, she did it. She cut her pigtail right off.

She opened her eyes to see the damage. "Wow" she said. Then, taking her other pigtail, she said "Well, no going back now." And she continued to cut her hair until she was satisfied with how it looked.

'Hopefully Gohan will like it.' she thought. 'GAH!! I need to stop thinking like that! He was probably just saying that to be nice. He doesn't have feelings for me like that…does he?' Videl blushed. 'I guess we'll just have to wait and find out.'

MEANWHILE

"Boys! Time to come in! Goten it is way past your bed time!" Chi Chi yelled out the window.

"Ahww man!" yelled a depressed Goten.

"Its ok squirt, we'll pick up where we left off tomorrow." Said Gohan.

"But what about Videl?" Won't she get in the way of our 'real' training?" Goten asked.

"Oh ya…don't worry Goten, we'll find time." Gohan assured Goten.

"OK!" said Goten as he ran into the house to get ready for bed. Gohan followed suit to see Chi Chi waiting for him at the door.

"So? Anything happen between you and my future daughter?" she asked.

"MOM PLEASE! Videl and I are just friends and I'm just teaching her how to fly." Gohan yelled waiving his arms around frantically.

"Sure" Chi Chi said smiling. "Anyway, you should go to bed too Gohan, you've had a long day."

Gohan nodded "ok" he said giving his mother a kiss on the cheek. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight" Chi Chi said but her mind was somewhere else. 'Finally…GRANDBABIES!' she thought.

Gohan went to brush his teeth and then went into his and Goten's room to see Goten already fast asleep. 'Poor little guy, he must have been really tired after everything that e did today.' Gohan thought.

'Today was pretty strange though. Especially with Videl. I can't seem to figure her out, yet I really want to.' Gohan thought as he changed out of his clothes into his boxers and climbed into bed.

He looked up at the ceiling deep in thought. 'Her whole attitude really seemed to change when I told her that her hair would look good short. Now why'd I have to go and say that!?'

He mentally kicked himself. 'Well, hopefully she won't kick my butt or anything.' Gohan then thought of the way Videl acted when he said that. She actually thanked him. 'Maybe…just maybe she might cut her hair…NAH!' Gohan said shaking his head.

'I mean c'mon, she wouldn't do it just because I mentioned it to her, that's not like her…still…she would look good.' Gohan blushed. 'What's up with me? This whole girl business is so complicated!" Gohan thought before he finally decided it was time to get some sleep. 'Tomorrow will be interesting.'

Chapter 3

"Big Brother! C'mon! Let's go train before Videl gets here!"

Gohan flickered open his eyes to see a very excited Goten jumping on top of him. "Goten? What time is it? Just thirty more minutes." Gohan said pulling the covers over his head.

"Humph, well then, I guess if you don't want your breakfast then I'll just have for you!" Goten said hopping off the bed grinning.

"NO!!!" Gohan yelled sitting up suddenly. Then Gohan saw Goten sprawled out on the floor laughing his head off and realized that Goten had tricked him. "Fine Goten, you win, I'm up." He sighed.

"Yippee! Now go eat quickly so that we can train!" Goten said as he ran out of the room.

'Haha, eat quickly?' Gohan snickered as he climbed out of bed and put on his training gi. 'I'm a saiyan! Eating quickly should be no problem for