Watercolours in the Afternoon

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

Oh my gosh! Thank goodness! Everything's over! My exams, my school, everything! I'm literally jumping for joy. I'm free. FREE. FREE FREE FREE. And I'm loving it!

Of course, I'd still have to return to school on the 23rd and the 26th just to get the results of my exams and get my report card. My exams went well, by the way. My math exam was okay, not too hard, not too easy. I think I'm on the lucky side of my grade though. I heard that mostly everybody had a hard time with it. There were only three of us who seemed to have gotten similar answers on almost everything. I'm happy about that. I'm also happy with the fact that my programming exam wasn't too hard. I thought I wouldn't be able to figure out how to write a program for the problem, but it turned out that the problem was pretty easy. We had to write it on paper, though. My business exam was all multiple choice and a bit of fill in the blanks with a word bank. So, it was the easiest out of all three exams.

So now, I can focus all my time on my fanfiction life. I can't wait to get back. Seriously. A few reviewers have asked me to update already, and I appreciate to know that they haven't given up on me. I'm also contemplating whether to give out sneak peeks on my blog. Yeah, I think I should do that.

Okay then, here's one. It's from the edited Chapter 11 and 12 of 'Sticks and Stones'. The relevance of this part to the story? Not much. It's the only thing I have at the moment, so I'm putting it in. Next time I post sneak peeks, I promise they will be better. (I just found out that some people *do* read blogs. Hmm...)

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“Uh… uh… my, my name? My name is… is…”

What if I just pretended to be a different person? I didn’t have to risk being known. I could be someone else for a day; someone who wasn’t related to the great Hercule Satan; someone who Bulma would be happy to help. But that would be unfair for Gohan. He had done lots of things for me, including this, and it would be shameful for me not to go along with his plan… whatever that was.

Besides, I would then have to lie again. I lied to Goten yesterday; would I lie now? That would only add to the horrible image my father had carved to Gohan’s family. He lied to the world, and it would definitely be no surprise if I lied to everybody too.

No, I needed to tell the truth, because I’m not like my father.

“My name is… Videl,”

She craned her neck slightly towards me.

“Sorry, but I didn’t catch that quite too well.”

I cleared my throat and tried again, “I’m Videl.”

Bulma’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Videl Satan?”

I didn’t know whether to nod or shake my head.

Just then Gohan stepped in and confirmed the situation. He cleared his throat awkwardly before saying, “Yeah…”. He trailed off there and didn’t say any more.