Epilogue

Two figures stood on the boundary of Capsule Corp, watching the sun set together.

"It's so beautiful," Videl said. "Don't you just love it?"

"Hm?" Gohan said. He was looking at something beautiful, all right, but it wasn't the setting sun.

"Gohan," Videl reprimanded. "We haven't seen each other in weeks, and you're not even trying to pay attention to what I say!"

"Gee, I'm sorry," Gohan said. "But for me, you've only been gone a few hours."

"Oh, yeah," Videl said. "Time travel."

His hand found hers and squeezed.

"I still missed you, though," he said. "If that makes a difference."

"It does," Videl said. She turned her head to smile at him, and caught him staring at her. Maybe it was a weird effect of the dying sunlight, but it almost looked like Gohan's face was shining.

She squeezed his hand and moved in closer to Gohan, leaning her head on his shoulder, hoping he'd take the hint.

He didn't.

She sighed. "You know, Dad's going to kill me for being out this late."

"Mom's going to kill me, too," Gohan said. "We should leave soon...but not yet."

"Not yet," Videl agreed. This was too nice to spoil.

"For what it's worth, I'm really sorry you got into this whole mess," Gohan apologized.

"It's not entirely your fault," Videl said. "I shouldn't have stolen that capsule from you."

"So you forgive me?"

Videl let go of Gohan's hand and removed herself from his shoulder. Immediately, a short burst of sadness went through him; for some reason, he really liked the feeling of Videl leaning on him.

The sadness went away when he realized she wasn't leaving—she was just turning to the side so she was facing him.

"Of course," Videl said.

A brief kiss on the cheek.

"I missed you a lot while I was gone, Gohan."

"Videl, I...you..."

"Yes?" she smiled.

Gohan stared into Videl's face, but his mind was too busy reeling to come up with coherent thoughts. The only thing he could think of was that her eyes were kind of pretty when they weren't squinting in suspicion at him. He leaned his face towards Videl's, and...

"Son Gohan!" Bulma yelled from inside Capsule Corp. "Stop kissing your girlfriend and go home!"

"Bulma! She's not—I mean, you're not—I mean, Bulma thinks you're my girlfriend," Gohan explained to Videl. "But you're not, unless, of course, you want to be...?" he said, sounding hopeful.

Videl laughed. "We'll talk about it in school tomorrow," she said. Then she flew off into the sky, heading for home. "See you later, Gohan."