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Alright, so here it is: THE NEW VERSION. ;D

I apologize for the inconvenience for switching up yet another one of my stories…. It gets old, but I promise this is the last time!

In any case, I hope you guys enjoy the new, and improved, Just Like the Rest.

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Chi-Chi's dad pulled up to Orange Star High in their fancy, sleek, black convertible. Chi-Chi glanced hesitantly at the school and pulled her bag up to her chest, holding it tightly. Her father patted her shoulder and grinned at her.

"Oh, Chi, it'll be alright," he began, patting his daughter's thigh affectionately. "You'll make tons of new friends. It won't be much different than boarding school!"

Chi-Chi sighed in annoyance to her father's ignorance. "But, Dad…. Boarding school is a lot different than public school…" she mumbled. "They separated the girls from the boys…. I-I won't know how to react!"

Ox sighed and looked at his daughter apologetically. "I'm sorry hun, but I couldn't deny this new position in the wine business! I promise things will work out. Would you like me to take you in?"

Chi-Chi shook her head and gave a small laugh. "Dad, I'm not in Kindergarten anymore! I'm a Senior!"

"Oi!" the big man moaned, "don't remind me. I want to cherish the last year I have with you!"

Chi-Chi giggled, unbuckled her seatbelt, and kissed her father on the cheek. "Thanks for the ride Dad, I'll see you after school!"

With that said, the petite, dark-haired girl exited the car and walked towards the school. She turned around and gave her father one final wave before entering the front doors.

Chi-Chi glanced around at her surroundings and inhaled deeply.

The school was huge! It consisted of four stories, over fifty classrooms, and one, large lunchroom. It also held slightly over a thousand students - nowhere near the small size of her boarding school.

Chi-Chi shuddered slightly as realization dawned on her.

Today would be the day she would have to interact with…boys. "No matter, I can do this," she mumbled to herself, slipping a hand into her pocket, she pulled out a small crinkled paper.

"Now, this will tell me what I need to do, and where I need to go…" she said quietly to herself, scanning the paper.

Chi-Chi Mau.

Grade: Senior.

Locker Number and Location: Second floor, Locker number 19.

Homeroom: History, Whitman, Todd. R:416

2nd Period: Art., Workman, Drew. R:422

3rd Period: P.E, Stallard, Will. R:436

4th Period: Science, Patton, Matthew. R:425

5th Period: English, Howard, Trisha. R:444

Lunch-45 minutes

6th: Teacher's Assistance, Smith, Patricia. 2nd Floor, R: 225

7th: Math, Matthews, Amanda. R:445

Chi-Chi nodded reassuringly to herself before walking down a hallway, turning left, and walking up a flight of stairs.

After a few moments of walking, she was in a new hallway on the second floor. She treaded the hallway slowly, careful not to bump into other students as she glanced at the small metal plates above each locker.

"Twenty-two… Twenty-one… Twenty… Nineteen!" Chi-Chi grinned victoriously as she stood in front of her locker. "Now for the lock combination…." she thought, glancing down at her paper once more. "27, 14, 37. Hmph! Easy enough to remember..." Her long, slender fingers expertly unlocked the door with ease. She opened the tall metal door and glanced inside the bare abyss.

"That will need some decorating!" chirped a female voice, making Chi-Chi jump and hitting the cool metal door. She whipped around to face the mysterious voice, rubbing the side of her face as she did.

The girl who spoke to Chi-Chi was strikingly beautiful; she had blue sea-green hair and aqua blue eyes.

"Hi, my name is Bulma! You must be the new girl that was transferred from the boarding school?"

Chi-Chi blushed and stammered. "Oh geez, does everyone know about that?"

Bulma laughed slightly and shook her head. "No, no. The Principal explained to me your predicament, and arranged for me to have locker twenty so I could show you around the school and introduce you to people. Luckily, I have some other friends who also use lockers here, so you can get a head start on meeting people!"

"Oh…thank-you!" Chi-Chi chirped with a smile. "It's unfortunate that I'm being presented as the lost new girl though."

The statement made Bulma laugh. "I like you already," she said with a smirk. "You seem like you've got a smart mouth on you, so you'll fit in well with me and my friends. By the way, what's your name?"

"I'm Chi-Chi," the ebony-haired girl replied shyly.

"Alright Chi-Chi," she began with a smile, "are you ready to go to your homeroom? If you tell me where you need to go, I can help you out."

"Oh, uh," Chi-Chi fumbled with the piece of paper in her hand. "I need to go to 's class?"

Bulma's eyes lit up. "We have the same homeroom!" Bulma grabbed the small slip of paper out of Chi-Chi's hands and observed it, a smirk slowly began to creep onto her face. "In fact, we have half of our classes together except science and english..." she gave a small laugh. "Oh our teachers will be in for one hell of a ride!" Bulma handed back the paper to Chi-Chi. "Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah, whenever you are..." Chi-Chi replied, closing her locker.

"Alright, let's go ri-" Bulma began, but was interrupted by a girl and a boy that neared lockers seventeen and eighteen.

"Hey! I told you to knock it off!" a paranoid blonde girl yelled in irritation as she threw a crumpled piece of paper towards the black haired boy.

The boy chuckled. "Oh come on Sis! It wasn't that bad! It was just a joke!"

The girl released a laugh of disbelief. "Oh yeah, the first day of school and you already stole half of my school supplies that I bought with my money."

"But aren't siblings supposed to help each other? Especially twins?"

The girl with blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and ankle high boots rolled her eyes. She placed her combination into locker eighteen and opened the door, ignoring her brother.

"Hey," Bulma exclaimed, her smile brightened at the sight of the duo.

"Hey Bulma," the boy said with a grin. "Blondie over here's upset at me, so I'll just excuse myself," he said with a chuckle. He quickly disheveled his sister's hair before slinking away from the trio, and around the nearest corner.

"He's such a pain in my ass," the blond girl with icy blue eyes mumbled before directing her attention towards Chi-Chi and Bulma. "Hello Bulma," she shut her locker, "who's this?" she questioned, pointing towards Chi-Chi.

"Oh, this is Chi-Chi, she's new. She's from a boarding school," Bulma butted in before Chi-Chi could reply, much to her embarrassment.

The blonde girl's gaze flickered to Chi-Chi's. "Eighteen," she introduced with a small nod.

Chi-Chi blinked at Eighteen, her brows furrowing in confusion. "Like your locker number?"

Eighteen barked out a laugh. "My parents weren't very creative in picking names…my brother is Seventeen. We purposefully chose these lockers, because, well," she said with a shrug, the answer being obvious.

Amusement sparkled in Chi-Chi's eyes as she released a titter. "Very clever," she mumbled, cupping her chin thoughtfully before she smiled. "I like it."

Eighteen smirked. "So, where is your homeroom?"

"Bulma and I share the same homeroom with the history teacher…Whitman, I think?" she stated, looking toward Bulma with raised brows. "Did I get that right?"

Bulma released a small laugh and nodded. "Yes, what about you, blondie?"

Eighteen groaned. "You and my brother, I swear…" she mumbled, looking away in embarrassment at her nickname. "I have Whitman as well," she stated with a snickered. "He'll have a fun year."

"Alright! Let's go you three!" Bulma exclaimed, interlocking her arms between Chi-Chi's and Eighteen's over enthusiastically.

Chi-Chi glanced at Eighteen, who shook her head, and rolled her eyes.

The ebony-haired girl shrugged. 'There's no point in complaining,' she thought with a smile, 'at least I am making friends.'

"….And this is Chi-Chi! She's originally from a boarding school, so this is her first year in a public school." Bulma stated, speaking to and a girl with blond hair and green eyes.

"Ah," said , smiling at Chi-Chi. "It's going to be a pleasure to have you, you possess high-ranking test scores, and you have made some friends. So, I am inclined to believe this year will be a great year for you!" turned back to the white-board writing the word 'Welcome' in large, bold letters.

The green eyed girl raised a skeptical brow toward the group. "Hey Bulma, Eighteen. Who's this girl?"

"This, Launch, is Chi-Chi," Bulma replied.

"Pleasure to meet ya Chi-Chi," Launch said nodding her head.

"Nice to meet you, Launch. I like your red bow," Chi-Chi said, waving to the top of her head . Chi-Chi glanced at her white shoes, green shorts, and yellow tank-top, smiling slightly.

"Thank-ya very much. Now, where are we all sitting? Whitman?"

"Wha- oh," said the teacher waving his hand. "Sit where ever, I don't care until it gets unbearable. I'll change everyone's seats in a few days, depending if this is a good class or not."

Eighteen smirked and immediately walked up the flight of stairs to the student desks and sat in the fourth row, in the fourth desk. Chi-Chi shrugged, and followed Eighteen, sitting down next to her, leaving Bulma and Launch to their own devices.

"So Eighteen," Chi-Chi mumbled. "Is Bulma a girly-girl?"

Eighteen chuckled. "Was it that obvious? She's a Brief. She can get whatever she wants, when she wants; but that doesn't make me not like her any less. She's still my friend and she doesn't have many genuine ones, just Launch and me. She'll warm up to you and bring down a few walls once she knows you're not after her money."

Chi-Chi's eyes bucked. "A Brief? You mean a Capsule Corp Brief? I didn't even recognize her! I don't understand why people do that, just shows they're greedy idiots," Chi-Chi mumbled.

Eighteen glanced at Chi-Chi. "I think I'm going to like you," a pregnant pause fell between the two, "a lot. We appear to have a lot in common so far."

At that moment, Bulma and Launch came charging up the stairs. Launch sat on the left of Eighteen, and Bulma sat on the right of Chi-Chi.

"Whatchya talking about?" Launch questioned.

"Nothing much," Eighteen shrugged. "Just speaking of how people tend to use Bulma. Just giving Chi-Chi fair warning not to do so, but I can already tell she won't."

Bulma pursed her lips and raised a skeptical eyebrow towards Chi-Chi. "You won't?"

Chi-Chi shrugged. "Why would I? My father makes enough money as it is, how else do you think I was able to afford to go to boarding school? Besides, I'd rather have real friends than fake ones."

A smile crept onto Bulma's lips and she stood up from her seat. "Girls! I now officially adopt Chi-Chi into our group!"

Launch clapped her hands and grinned while Eighteen mumbled something along the lines of: "Oh God, help us all."

Chi-Chi laughed and shook her head, standing up with Bulma. "I am pleased to be acquainted with interesting people like you." Chi-Chi plopped back down into her seat with a grin, leaning back into her chair.

"Good, because it'll definitely be interesting hanging with us, I guarantee it!" Bulma said, looking towards the door where five boys entered the room. "Yamcha's here!" she squeaked, before hustling over to the boys.

Eighteen groaned. "Oh great, we have our two sweethearts since Kindergarten in the room now," she said sarcastically.

"What?" Chi-Chi asked quizzically.

"The one over there," Launch pointed over to the one boy in the group wearing dark blue jeans, black shoes, and a white shirt. "With the nasty long hair? Yeah, Bulma's dating that."

Chi-Chi's nose scrunched up in disgust and she stuck her tongue out. "I didn't go to school with any guys' basically… They separated them from the girls, but I know enough that he's not an attractive male. At least...not my type? I'm guessing that he's Yamcha?"

Launch nodded. "Yes, and the tall bald one in the green shirt is Tien, the short bald one in the red shirt is Krillin, the other tall one with unruly hair going every which way is Goku, and last but not least, the other one is -"

"Vegeta Ouji," Launch, Eighteen, and Chi-Chi said in unison.

"What is he doing here?" Chi-Chi questioned, a frown appearing on her face. "My dad's working under his father's wine company. I wouldn't think that he would come somewhere like...here."

"Well, it's his first year, just like you." Eighteen said, propping her feet up onto her desk. "There's a lot of rumors as to why he's here… but nobody really knows. I suppose we'll all find out sooner or later," Eighteen said with a shrug.

Chi-Chi gave a thoughtful look before leaning against her desk. "Fair enough. There's no need to get into his business." She glanced at the clock and shrugged. "There's still twenty minutes until school begins, why do most people come early?"

"Why did you come early?" Launch questioned with a grin.

"Err," Chi-Chi blushed and twiddled her thumbs. "So I wouldn't get lost," she said sheepishly, with a shrug.

The two blondes laughed and shook their heads, but from then on, their conversation grew.

Minutes passed by, and more Senior piled into the room, placing themselves in their desired seats. In no time, the first hour of the school year began.

"Alright students," said, walking in front of his desk, smiling at the kids. "We have a new school year, and frankly your last, so let's make this year count! Every Senior year is an important year. So, make sure you do your best. Now, onto more important matters," said, bringing out a sheet of paper. "I will be taking roll call, say here if your name is called."

After about ten minutes, finished roll call. "All right, we have two new students this year. One would be Mr. Vegeta Ouji, and the other Miss Chi-Chi Mau. Be sure to help these two around the school!"

Students began murmuring to each other, speaking of the new, notorious child in the classroom.

"All right students!" Whitman said. "Let's begin on speaking how this year will be different from others..."

Lunch came quickly upon all the Seniors, giving them forty-five minutes to do whatever they wished.

Launch laughed and Eighteen allowed a small smile slip onto her face. But the happy atmosphere around the three girls was immediately crushed when Bulma and the five boys came up to them.

"Okay, since you two know all of these guys," Bulma said pointing to Launch and Eighteen, "I'll introduce them to Chi-Chi." Bulma smiled and pointed to Yamcha. "This is Yamcha, Chi-Chi. He's my boyfriend."

Chi-Chi stood from her chair and held out her hand for Yamcha to shake. He gladly accepted it. "Nice to meet you," he stammered. Bulma smiled and nodded at their interaction, and began naming the other four.

"This is Tien," he waved in greeting. "Krillin," there was a mumbled 'Nice to meet you,', "Goku," she said pointing to the boy who was intensely observing Chi-Chi. "And Vegeta," she said lastly, her face faltering slightly with displeasure, much to Chi-Chi's confusion. "Anyways, guys, this is Chi-Chi. Now that you've been introduced, you can go and do… whatever it is you do!" Bulma walked around the group, and sat down next to Chi-Chi.

Chi-Chi sat back down and ran a hand through her hair, smiling at Bulma. "Thanks for introducing them to me," she said, nodding towards the boys. "And nice to meet you all." With that said, the five boys walked away, seating themselves sporadically around the room.

Bulma dragged Chi-Chi, Launch, and Eighteen outside under a large Oak tree.

"Oh wow," Chi-Chi breathed out as they sat down, "I love oaks in the fall they are so beautiful," she murmured to herself quietly. Anyways," she said unpacking her lunch. "How are your classes so far, Eighteen and Launch?"

"Boring, as usual," Launch groaned.

"What she said," Eighteen said pointing towards Launch.

Bulma laughed. "Guess who Chi-Chi and I ran into?"

"Who?" The two blondes questioned in unison.

Bulma hit Launch on the shoulder lightly with a frown for talking with a mouthful of food. "Makara Self."

Eighteen's face contorted with displeasure and Launch groaned.

A confused look appeared on Chi-Chi's face before released a gasp of realization. "OH! The one who is assuming that I stole that one boy away from her?"

"You mean Goku?" Bulma asked rolling her eyes.

"Yeah, him! Are they dating or something?" Chi-Chi asked.

"No, no, no!" Bulma waved her hands in front of her in disgust. "That bitch has been after Goku for years, but Goku's not interested."

"I can see why she would assume that though, there's talk that Son likes Chi-Chi," Eighteen stated, shrugging her shoulders.

"WHAT?!" Bulma and Launch exclaimed.

"Huh?" Chi-Chi asked dumbly.

"Yeah, Son might have a crush on you Mau. Be on the look out."

Chi-Chi snorted and bit into an apple. "Too bad I don't like him."

"Oh no, you're going to like him!" Bulma said in a matter-of-fact voice.

Chi-Chi rolled her eyes. "I'm not interested in boys. I've lived without them in everyday day life up until this point, I can manage. Besides, he's probably just like the rest."

Eighteen snickered at Bulma and gave a thumbs up towards Chi-Chi. "Finally, a girl who knows what she's talking about!"

Bulma rolled her eyes with a huff. "Whatever! But don't say that I didn't warn you: he'll stop at nothing! Besides, Goku is a sweet boy."

"Good! Then he'll understand when I tell him no," Chi-Chi gave Bulma a wink, releasing a giggle. Despite the clear disapproval in her eyes, Bulma joined the girls in a fit of laughter.

In that moment, Chi-Chi decided that making new friends might not be as hard as she thought.

The shrill of the last bell finally rang, giving the clear for all Orange Star High students.

"Yes!" Chi-Chi mumbled, exiting her class and meeting up with Launch, Eighteen, and Bulma. "We're done for the day!" Chi-Chi exclaimed with a smile.

Launch laughed. "You survived your first day of real school!"

"As interesting as it was," Chi-Chi began with a snort. "I'm ready to go home!" They arrived in front of their lockers, and Chi-Chi quickly opened hers, placing her new textbooks inside, before slamming it shut.

"Alright," Chi-Chi said. "I better get going… I have a somewhat long walk ahead of me!"

Bulma's eyebrows furrowed and she shook her head. "I'll take you home Chi-Chi! It's a tradition between us three," she said, pointing to the other two and herself, "for me to take everyone home after school."

Chi-Chi's face lit up. "Really?! Thank-you!"

"No problem," she beamed. "After all, I did adopt you into the group."

The four girls walked down the flight of stairs, down the hall, and out the entrance doors to the school. They walked towards a dark blue car that was surrounded by the five boys Chi-Chi met earlier that morning.

"Just came to say goodbye," Yamcha said, pecking Bulma's cheek.

"Thank-you," Bulma said, unlocking the car with a smile.

"Kakarot," said Vegeta's gruff voice, surprising the girls. "Aren't you going to ask?"

Goku grinned as he adverted his gaze towards Chi-Chi. "Hey, you're the new girl, Chi-Chi, right?"

Chi-Chi nodded and raised a brow.

"Well, I was wondering if you wanted to go out on a date with me?"

Chi-Chi snorted. "I thought your name was Goku?"

"It is to me, others such as my parents and Vegeta, it's Kakarot," he stated, offering her a shrug with a large grin.

"Hm, sounds a lot like carrot to me!" she said jokingly."Too bad for you, I don't like carrots." Chi-Chi released a laugh and gave the boy a wink, before opening the back door, and sliding into the car.

As she closed the door, she heard the other four boys erupt in laughter, and the girls joined in with them. Chi-Chi sat in the back with a smug smirk as the other three girls quickly joined her.

As Eighteen sat in the passenger seat, she wheezed for air and turned towards Chi-Chi, her face bright red. "Good Kami, if you keep that up, we'll be friends for eternity!"

Chi-Chi giggled with her friends, her eyes sparkling with amusement.

Maybe public school wouldn't be that bad?

Alright, so I am going to admit I am a little insecure about this story. I am not really a huge fan of high school stories, with the exception of Gohan and Videl. And to be honest, it's actually hard to write one! High school stories tend to be...really crappy? I dunno, it's just not my forte. However, because I adopted this story for you guys, you at least deserve me to finish it.

It's difficult to try and describe high school, when really...it flies by? It's also really weird to try and apply past experiences into one story, but we'll see how it plays out?

You guys might want to expect this story to be short, it's definitely not my number one priority, nor, am I really excited to write it. But, I had to do it for you guys.

In other words, if YOU GUYS HAVE SUGGESTIONS LET ME KNOW. XD

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, and that you enjoy the rest to come. Let me know what you guys think!

Until next time!