Disclaimer: I don't own dragon ball z or it's characters. The following belongs to Akira Toriyama.

A/N: Pan is 23 and Trunks is 37. They've been dating since she turned 20. Bulla is 25 and Goten is 36. Marron is 32.

Summary: When Bulla (Bra) realizes she'd fallen for Goten, she knew it meant trouble. Why? Because he was Marron's ex and to top it off, she was currently in a relationship with 17, of all people. As she battles with her emotions and struggles not to mess everything up, she learns the hard way that life was never meant to be easy….

P.S, The credit for the summary and title belongs to PAN TRUNKS LOVER. She came up with it. :) This is my fifth story! Enjoy and review!

Chapter 1

*Saturday afternoon*

Bulla sighed as she watched Trunks and Pan hold hands. They've been together for a couple of years now. They were definitely perfect for each other and you could tell that the love they possessed for each other was definitely true. They seemed extremely happy, in fact everyone was happy for them. She sighed once more and looked to her right. Goten was stuffing his face like always. She always contained quite a crush on him, but then it just grew in to something more as she grew older. Although she wasn't the shy type and was usually bold about who she wants and what she wants, with Goten it seemed the complete opposite. When she was around him, she felt nervous, a little self-conscious, and jittery. But hey, what can you say? Goten's not your average guy, he's a total sweetheart, he's kind, naive yet smart, and he always looks at things through a positive aspect. She could list many things she adored and admired him for, nothing negative about Goten could be said and everyone who knows him, knew that.

It's too bad one of her best friends dated Goten already. According to the rules of friendship, he's technically off limits. She really regrets not telling him about her feelings for him. She had the perfect chance to after he and Valese broke up. She just thought it was too sudden, she didn't think she'd have any competition since he just got out of a relationship. But little did she know, she was wrong. She's been friends with Marron for years now and she never knew she had feelings for Goten, but she did have a feeling that Marron knew about her feelings for the demi-saiyan and just wanted him because she did. She just didn't say anything, in hopes of keeping their friendship intact.

Nobody really knew why Goten and Marron broke up, but Trunks knew and no matter how much she tried to pry it out of him, he just wouldn't tell her for anything in the world. Whatever it was that caused them to break up, had to be pretty bad.

"Bulla? Bulla?"

Bulla snapped out her trance and turned to face Goten only to see that his face was only inches from her own. She gasped at how close the were and ignored the voice telling her to close the distance. She couldn't do that could she? After all he just broke up with Marron a week ago and he still seemed to be hurting and plus she was still currently seeing Marron's uncle. Shaking her head from side to side, she finally answered and said, "Oh hey Goten. What's wrong?"

Goten raised an eyebrow at her strange behavior and said, "I've been calling you for the past three minutes and you weren't responding. Are you Okay?"

"Yeah. Of course. I was just doing some thinking."

"You look like you were thinking pretty hard. Anything you want to talk about?"

Bulla sighed once more, there was so much she needed to get off her chest. Her feelings for Goten, her current boyfriend 17 and how things are falling apart with them, but she couldn't tell him that. She couldn't worry Goten with her problems. He just dumped Marron for reasons unknown, except by Trunks and himself.

"No Goten. I'm fine."

Goten looked at her skeptically for a moment before smiling once more.

"Okay Bulla if you say so."


A\N: Okay there was chapter 1! Don't forget to review!