Well, here I am again! Thank you very much for the clerks! I'm really happy that you like my FF. And continue with the next two chapters!



7. I am strong!

"But Bulma, you don't know exactly what happened on this planet." says Mrs. Briefs, who is sitting next to Bulma in the bed and is persuading her well. "Maybe you attacked him and he was just defending himself?" Mrs. Briefs continues talking while Bulma is still lying in bed facing away from her. After a while, Bulma straightens up and wipes away a few tears: "Yes, it could be." Mrs. Briefs looks at her daughter carefully. "Tell me dear, why is it all taking you so much?" she asks now. Bulma wraps her arms around her drawn knees and rests her head on them. "You seem to like Vegeta a lot, don't I?" hesitantly attaches Mrs. Briefs. Bulma doesn't answer that. "Do you love him?" she asks Bulma directly.Bulma winces briefly, lets her shoulders sink again and whispers: "Maybe ..." "If that's the case, and you're serious, then try to find out what and why it happened. And try to understand him." Mrs. Briefs gives her advice and stands up. "Well, I'll see after dinner now! I hope it's not burned." she puts on her smile again and opens the door. Bulma sits motionless on the bed and hears the door slam. "Damn Vegeta! Why are you doing that ?!" she wonders hard. "Is it maybe my fault?" it comes to her mind now. “Maybe he just set off into space because he can't cope with the whole thing?” She ponders. "Did I overwhelm him that he had to react somewhere? And then this people was just right for him?" she is stuck in her thoughts. Bulma slowly gets up from her bed and goes into the bathroom to freshen up her weeping face. Back in her room, she opens the closet.She fishes out her black tight pants and orange sweater and changes. She can't stand it here any longer. She needs to get out of here asap. Away from him. Her mother advised her to approach him, but Bulma is of the opinion that it might be better to get out of his way first. She has to think about it first. What would she tell him? What did she want to tell him? If she ran into him now, they would probably just argue violently and that would only make things worse. She grabs her little black bag and swings it over her left shoulder. She tugs her hair at the mirror and leaves her room. On the ground floor she gets out of the elevator and calls through the anteroom to her mother in the kitchen: "I'll be gone!" "But dear! Where are you going?" rushes towards her Mrs. Briefs. Vegeta, who is just coming down the stairs to go to lunch, slows down his next step. "I've got to get out of here!I'm going shopping! "Bulma explains to her mother in a slightly irritated tone and walks towards the front door. As she passes the stairs, she notices Vegeta. She looks him seriously and with a firm but cold look in the eye. No sparkle, no shine , just a certain coldness was to be seen in her sea-blue eyes. Vegeta returned her gaze and withstood it. Bulma snapped her head away and pulls her nose upwards. With a "Pf!" she walks past him and through them Entrance door, which she slams loudly, to the outside. Vegeta looks after her and sighs. Luckily she hadn't spoken to him, he didn't know what to say to her. Bulma steps out of the garden gate and walks off towards the city center. Her heart was beating up to her neck and she didn't know, should she be angry with him or should she just let everything stay? Just forget everything? What he had done on the planet? What had happened that night ? Bulma notices a few tears gathering in her eyes again, but she wipes them away as quickly as possible."I will not cry!" she speaks to herself and hurries on. "I'll wait and see for now and forget everything in the meantime! I'm a strong girl and I won't let that get me down!" she encourages herself and starts to think about what she would buy today. She needed new things anyway. And the new fall collection was entirely her taste. She was already looking forward to storming the counters and coming home with bags and bags.



8. First approaches

A whole week had passed since Vegeta had come back from space. Vegeta preferred to train in the desert because the spaceship had to be overhauled and repaired. Bulma and Vegeta were conspicuously avoiding each other. And if they happened to run into each other anyway, they looked past each other. Bulma's parents were beginning to feel strange. Because Bulma could never be at odds with someone for so long without starting to tease and annoy them again and again.Bulma's behavior was really strange. If she was mad at someone she yells it around so loud that everyone just has to notice. But this time it was different. She was very calm and not very talkative. She buries herself in her laboratory and throws herself into her work. She also helps her father to check the spaceship. Vegeta is acting weird too. Not so much different than usual, because that he trains all day and doesn't show up was like that before. Only this time does he seem to concentrate even more intensely on his training than before. In that whole week he had just come back from the desert 3 times to eat. When Mrs. Briefs asked her husband about the strange behavior of the two, he only said: "At least we don't need to be afraid that Vegeta will blow something up here." Mrs. Briefs suspected bad things. She knew how Bulma was and that when she was so calm she would hatch something. Or they cannot process something.In particularly difficult crises, Bulma tends to remain silent about it before burdening her parents with it. But Vegeta also seems to be worried about something. When the two meet in the hallway, they pass each other. And Vegeta doesn't even dare look Bulma in the face. "Really strange!" notices Mrs. Briefs and looks outside through the window in the kitchen. Because then she sees Vegeta, who thinks it is necessary to stop by again. Dejected, he walks across the lawn and comes through the back door. "Ah, Vegeta, nice to see you again!" Mrs. Briefs greets him kindly. "Mh ..!" Vegeta grumbles past her. "Take a shower first! I'll make you something to eat in the meantime!" she calls after Vegeta, who is marching through the anteroom.

Vegeta closes the shower cubicle and turns on the water. Ice cold, he lets it flow over his battered body. He suddenly feels so tired, dog tired. He has not slept much lately, because what on the day he came back from space can no longer go and keeps his thoughts trapped.He has withdrawn into the desert to distract himself from it, but it is of no use. The training just went by the way and his thoughts were always somewhere else. In fact, his thoughts were mostly with Bulma. And with what she had told him everything. He doesn't want to admit it, but it hurts him to see her suffer so. And the fact that he was to blame only makes it worse. "Where is she anyway? I haven't seen her in a long time." now he notices, leaves the shower cubicle and wraps a towel around his hips. When he stands in front of his room door he pauses and takes a look at Bulma's room door. That the door is open can only mean that Bulma is not there. She must be in the lab or shopping. He enters his room and looks for fresh clothes from the closet. "How is she doing now?" he asks himself and he has to admit that he is a little worried about her. Nothing else is so easy for her to get away with, and that without fussing around.He suspects that she just eats everything into herself. “Maybe I should talk to her again?” He thinks and makes his way to the kitchen. "I just hope that the spaceship is ready to go again soon! Then I can finally get out of here again!" "Lord God! Why is it all so complicated with her ?!" he hangs on and enters the dining room where the table is already set and the smell of delicious food spreads. "Mh ... but before I talk to her I should have something to eat!" Vegeta makes up his mind, sits down at the table and just shovels the dishes into himself, as if it is the last time he gets something between his teeth.

After Vegeta has eaten himself full, he asks Mrs. Briefs where Bulma is. When they answer, he makes his way to the laboratory. Perhaps this time he should be more careful and not fall into the house with the door. She should see that you can talk to him normally and he politely knocks on her laboratory door.But, after a little while, he notices that nobody says "come in" or anything like that. "Hey, it's me! Are you in there ?!" he speaks through the closed door. Again no reaction, then Dr. Letters past the door and speaks to Vegeta: "If you are looking for Bulma, she is in the great hall and works on the spaceship." "Aha, thank you!" it comes barely from Vegeta and makes off in the direction of the said hall. "She's working on the spaceship? Why is that ?!" he thinks. "Well, either she's not so angry with me anymore or she wants the spaceship to be airworthy as soon as possible and I get out of here as soon as possible." He ponders uncertainly. When he arrives at the large door of the hall, he hesitates and thinks about whether he should really go in there now. After a little thought, he still pulls himself up. "Don't pinch! Show what you can!" he encourages himself, slowly pushes the door open and peers in. The hall was really very big and when he turned his gaze to the right he saw the spaceship.“It has to be somewhere!” He ponders when he can't see Bulma anywhere and enters the large room. He approaches the spaceship and sees Bulma on top of a high scaffold. She sits there next to this scratch in the outer shell and fiddles with it with a welding device. When she switches off the welding rod, takes off the goggles and wipes the sweat from her forehead with a sigh, she notices Vegeta, who is watching her from below. He looks at her seriously. It was this look again that tried to look inside her, but didn't reveal anything of his