Disclaimer: I do not own DragonBall Z, so please do not sue me.
Ages: Pan: 15 Trunks: 16 Uub: 16 Marron: 15 Roaue: 17
Before You Read: Bra isn't even supposed to be born in this story, because it will just screw up my whole idea! Sorry for Bra fans! But Goten's in here...and he's not related to Pan, it's confusing but hopefully you'll figure it out.
A/N: I have posted this story before, but as I read over it recently, I realize that it had terrible grammatical errors, and the plot was not as good as I first remembered it as being. So, here is a new version of:
LOVE WILL FIND US
Chapter 1
"Oh, look who it is, mister I think I'm a total hot shot Trunks. I mean, that kind of attitude is so frustrating and childish. After all, it is the ninth grade, you think that him - being a sophomore - would grow up just a tad and not wallow in himself." Marron stated as she tossed her hair over her right shoulder. She proudly pushed herself past all of the younger kids on the school bus and found an empty seat near the back.
"Marron, ouch. You could give the poor guy a break you know. I do not believe it's his intentions to flaunt around and completely and totally piss you off." Pan said with a giggle. She joined the blonde-haired blue-eyed girl who she had dubbed her best friend since childhood in the same bus seat.
"See, that's where you have been terribly mislead my dear naïve friend. Trunks over there has been playing the good guy-bad guy act. He talks and hangs out with all the preps in classes, but when it boils down to it, he's always hanging around that prick Roaue." Marron said looking at Pan straight in the eyes, hoping that in some way it would get her point more clearly across. Apparently, it didn't.
"Honestly, he's probably just doing that to see where his personality fits in the best. The poor guy acts like he moved in here from God-knows-where only two months ago, I mean, he's just trying to find his place. He wasn't as lucky as we…were…" Pan drifted off as she noticed her crush since the fifth grade walked on the bus parallel to them, her heart leaped and soared and she couldn't help it.
"Oh goodness, not Uub again…" the blonde-haired teen beauty said. She could not resist the urge to roll her eyes at how completely ridiculous her friend had been on the approach of her crush.
"Wow, it's been four years and he still leaves silly knots in my stomach." Pan said, a dumb smile playing on the corner of her lips. She saw her age-old best friend rolling her eyes in her peripherals and slightly shoved her. "Come on, Mar, you know he's pretty cute."
"Yeah, if you like boys who have yet to hit puberty. Uub has yet to grow any facial hair and he still talks like he did when you first fell in love with him in the fifth grade." Marron said and snorted.
As Pan's gaze could not be averted from the window, Marron sat impatiently waiting for the busses to finally rev up and take her home. Not a second later, the busses started to move and the desperate brown eyed girl turned her gaze from the window with a heavy sigh.
In some way to distract her mind from the boy of her dreams, she enacted a conversation with Marron.
"So, I still cannot understand why you just completely detest Trunks so much. Is there any way you could elucidate on the matters?" Pan said, giving her friend a look of all seriousness.
"First of all, don't use all of those crazy big words around me you English nerd, you know I'm in Intermediate English! Second of all, Trunks is just a douche bag. He needs to find some reliable friends and dump his slut of a girlfriend." The blonde stated and crossed her arms over her chest. She felt that there was no other appropriate explanation.
"Well, instead of bitching about it, you should try talking to him instead." Pan retorted, a smirk playing on her lips.
"No, because he'd probably tell me to get lost or something, and I really don't care about that stupid freak."
"I just have a quick question."
"Yes?"
"Are you capable of being nice?"
"Nope!"
The bus halted suddenly and each girl looked out the window to see where it had stopped. Unfortunately, it was Marron's stop and each of them sighed.
"See you tomorrow, girl. I'll try to call you tonight!" the bright blonde said before getting off the bus. Pan nodded and waved goodbye to her crazy best friend.
Pan's bus stop did not come for another ten minutes, and she usually just stayed in her seat until the stop, but today, she felt a little spontaneous. Instead of sticking to the norm, she hopped out of her seat to venture off to an old elementary school friend, Goten.
Poor Goten was sitting all by himself. Usually, he was sitting by his wishy-washy best friend Trunks, but today he was not. Pan saw the remorse on the sixteen-year-old's face and lightly tapped him on the shoulder to grab his attention.
"Hey, buddy, what's been going on?" she asked, trying to start a light conversation.
"Oh, nothing." Goten replied. He sounded pathetically sorrowful as he glanced at the dark haired girl. "I'm just a little aggravated at Trunks. He seriously needs to get his act together or I'm not gonna stand by his side anymore."
"Why? What happened?"
"Today that douche bag Roaue was beating up Trunks and - like a good friend would do - I was trying to help Trunks out of his situation. But, Trunks pushed me away and yelled that he could take care of himself."
"That blows. What a shitty friend." Pan blatantly said.
"Yeah, but we've been pretty good friends since about fifth grade, and I really don't want to ruin our friendship over something stupid."
"I get where you're coming from." Pan agreed. The bus made another sudden halt that forced everyone forward in their seats. Pan glanced out the window and saw the driveway to her humble home. "This is my stop dude, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Yep, see you." Goten said and goofily waved at her.
As Pan walked up to her home, she sighed sadly knowing that she would not be greeted by anyone. She unlocked the door with the clumsy house key that hung from her neck and when she was finally able to get into her home, she headed straight for the kitchen to get an afternoon snack. Ever since a young age, Pan was capable of putting away a lot of food in a short amount of time.
After finishing her very delicious snack, she began to head down the hallway to her bedroom. She was abruptly interrupted by the phone ringing loudly in her ears. Growling, she did a three-sixty in order to answer the phone before it went to the answering machine.
"Hello?" Pan asked politely. The answer she received was a silly 'Hey girl!' on the other end. "Oh, it's only you Marron. Listen, I have a lot of homework and if I don't do it my dad may kill me. Yeah, I'll call you back later tonight if I got some time, okay? See you later. Bye."
As much as she loved her best friend, she really did not like talking to her right after she got out of school. Marron had known for years that Pan had to finish all her homework before she was allowed to do anything else, even use the bathroom! Putting the phone back on the hook, the raven haired girl walked back down the hall and to her bedroom to finally tackle the horror that was her homework.
Time seemed to fly by and Pan was done with her homework in less than an hour. She figured that it was safe to call Marron now, and just as she reached for the phone, the front door opened up wide, Pan's father was standing in the doorway.
"Hey dad!" Pan said as she wrapped her arms around her father's thin waist. She had always been a 'daddy's girl' since she was a little girl, and it increased more after the divorce of her parents.
"Hey Panny, how was your day at school?" Gohan asked, returning the warm hug from his loving daughter. He always had to keep tabs on his little girl, to make sure she did not get in any trouble at school.
"Not too bad, I've had better." Pan said with a sigh. "It would be great though if Mr. Sposato would not give us so much History homework, I mean seriously, what is so great about history in the first place?"
"It lets us see what mistakes we don't want to repeat, but somehow end up doing anyways." Gohan retorted.
"Yeah, yeah."
"And your love life?" Gohan asked with a wriggle of his eyebrow.
"Dad!" The brown eye girl said as her eyes sparkled with the thought of Uub. She elbowed her dad in the gut. "I think you know how my love life goes: I see Uub, Uub says hi, and my heart melts into goo."
Gohan chuckled in reply, he had known about his little girl's crush on Uub the second that it appeared. He knew that it was merely a phase, and that she would eventually grow out of it.
"You know, looks can only get you so far. For a lot of those chums, they'll be lucky if they get through high school. Remember Panny, it's always brains, and that's why I want you to always keep your grades up."
"I know, I've heard this lecture so many times before that I think it is permanently engraved into my brain. Seriously dad, I get it, and it's not like I've even been out on a date…ever."
"You know why I don't want you to date though honey."
"Just because you and mom dated in high school and you don't want me to end up like you two did."
Gohan sighed heavily and ran his fingers through his raven hair. He truly did not want the conversation to take a turn like it had. Instead of approaching the subject he lightly rubbed his head,
"Panny, I'm really hungry, we should go get something to eat." he said with a goofy smile. Pan understood what that meant and rolled her eyes, she knew that her dad still was not ready to talk about her mom and why she left.
"Okay, let's go." Pan said, reasoning with her father.
An hour later and two stomachs completely full, Gohan and Pan returned home. Upon the return, there were two messages on the answering machine. Gohan promptly played the messages. The first one was for Gohan, it was some man calling about an important meeting next week, and the other one was for Pan, it was Marron. Marron had called to say she was not going to be at school the next day.
"Aw, that sucks." Pan said and watched her father delete the messages.
"Wow, it's gotten pretty late! You better get in bed or you'll miss the bus tomorrow morning." Gohan said, glancing at the clock on the wall. Pan frowned at her father, but nodded in agreement, fully knowing that she was notorious for missing the school bus.
"Good night dad." Pan said and gave her father a hug, he returned the favor and also said good night to his only loving daughter.
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"Shit! I'm gonna miss the bus!" Pan exclaimed as she rolled over and saw that her alarm clock read 7:08. Considering that the bus left at 7:18, Pan realized that she would not have too much time to spend in the shower. As soon as she got out, she quickly slid on her clothes and grabbed her books in a race to beat the school bus. Luckily by the time she made it out the door, the bus was just pulling up.
"Wow, that was a close one." she noted aloud. She casually got on the bus, and was highly disappointed when she noticed that Marron was not on it. Sighing, she suddenly remembered that Marron was not able to make it to school that day. She found her routine seat on the bus and sat on it all alone.
That's how the brown eyed girl's day went. At breakfast, no one sat by her, in all of her classes, she was left with an empty seat next to her. She truly did not realize how much she depended on Marron until she was gone.
By the end of the day, Pan had enough of sitting alone, and she was truly dreading getting on the bus. Yet, as she began walking down the aisle she heard someone calling her name.
"Pan, your friend Marron isn't here today?" an unfamiliar voice questioned. As she turned around to see who it was, she was faced with the lavender haired Trunks. Sure, she had known him since he came to the school ages ago, but she really never actually talked to him all too much.
"Hey Trunks." she said casually, tossing her hair behind her shoulder. Her brown eyes quickly took notice of the empty seat next to Trunks and before he could reply she hastily said, "You mind if I sit here?"
"Nope, it's not a problem." he said with a smile.
"So, I don't really talk to you much but- Oh my gosh, what the hell happened to your arm?" she said as her eyes averted to some rather large and fresh bruises that were on Trunks' arm.
"This?" he asked, pointing to the bruises, "That isn't anything. Roaue had some aggressions about this girl who basically turned him down, and instead of beating the shit out of her, he did it to me instead.
"Are you okay? Does it hurt?"
"Oh, I'm fine. It really doesn't hurt all too bad." the blue eyed teenager responded, lightly hitting his arm. Truthfully, it did sting really bad.
"Why do you put up with the way he treats you, you should go to the counselor or something and tell them about Roaue's issues."
"Yeah, and if I did that, I would look like a complete and total pansy. I don't think so." Trunks snorted. There was no way he would tell anyone about anything.
"What if I said something about it?" she asked, her eyes lighting up with an idea.
"That would look worse, because people would think that you were my girlfriend or some shit like that. I mean, you're not bad looking or anything, it's just, I am dating Penelope, and you know, that would look bad on my rep."
"Yep, I see what you mean."
"Sorry about that. So, I'm kind of reassessing my friends, mind if I give befriending you a shot?"
"Sure, friends it is."
For a second there, Pan felt as though she was back in first grade, but the bus jolted her back into reality as it pulled up to her driveway.
"Well, this is my stop Trunks. I'll see you tomorrow." she said with a cheeky smile before getting off the bus.
The next day at school Marron still wasn't there. Pan didn't want to spend the whole day alone again. So when she got on the bus, she sat by Trunks.
"Hey dude." Pan said as she sat down next to Trunks. "Mind if I sit with you again? Marron's still not here, and I don't want to have to spend today alone again, you know?"
"Oh, I don't mind it at all." Trunks said. He knew that even if he did decline her offer, she would still be sitting there, and anyway, Trunks was not a rude person, he would not have told her no in the first place.
As the school bus pulled up to the school, Pan shyly went to sit alone again at the breakfast table. Twisting her hair in her fingers, she realized that she had lost most of her appetite and really wished she could figure out where the blue eyed boy had left to in such a hurry. Sure enough, she saw him out of the corner of her eye, and he was carrying two breakfast trays in his hands. The raven haired girl smiled up at him eagerly waited for him to sit down.
"Hey, Pan." a cool voice said as a hand was placed on her shoulder.
When Pan turned around she had nothing else going through her mind except for the boy she saw behind her, it was none other than her childish crush, Uub. Blushing, she made a little room for him at the table.
"Hey, what's up?" she said, trying to act casual. Little did she know that Trunks was angrily storming off in the opposite direction as soon as Uub had sat next to her.
Huffing, Trunks made his way to the table that his best friend was sitting at, Goten.
"Here you go Goten." Trunks said with frustration built in his voice. He forcibly sat the tray down and a small bit of gravy spilled onto the table.
"You okay dude?" Goten asked. Trunks pointed a finger towards Pan, who was now giggling uncontrollably at something ridiculous Uub had said. Goten obviously turned his head to see what his lavender hair friend was talking about, when he noticed it was Pan, he looked someone confused. "I don't get it, it's just Pan."
"Yeah, well, I had the decency to get her a tray since her dweeb of a best friend hasn't been here. I thought that she could at least accept the tray instead of going off into La La Land with the most disgusting guy in the Sophomore class." Trunks said, pretending to gag on his food. "Man, he's a perv."
"I guess I get it." The raven haired boy eyed his friend's tray. "Are you gonna eat the rest of that?"
Shaking his head, the blue eyed teenager shoved the tray across the table to his friend.
"Look dude, don't think too much about it. I mean, it's not like you're dating her. Remember, you've got Penelope, only like, the hottest chick around." Goten remarked, shoving food into his mouth. "If she wants to blow you off, then you blow her off right back."
"Yeah, I think I will." Trunks agreed, pushing himself out of his chair. "See you in homeroom dude."