This story is a sequel of the story "Older". Pan and Bra were in love with Trunks and Goten but were way too young for them. So they sneaked inside the Timbe Chamber for seven years (which seemed like a week to the outside world). Reading Older would be very helpfull for understanding this story better.
Have fun everyone with my newest story: 'Absence of Love'
Prologue
A young woman with long black hair, a curved body and big onyx coloured eyes gnawed on her pencil. Ever since she finally got the love of her life she had no need of writing sad poems anymore. The book of poetry she always had next to her bed in a drawer had been untouched for months. She caressed the first page that was dated about 9 years ago when in fact it was only 2 years. She had been so young, so naive and so careless. Much had changed since then…
She reached the page that held the last poem she had ever written, a nostalgic feeling came over her as she read the words that had come straight out of her heart.
Older
I wish I was older
So the gap was gone
I wish I was bolder
And insecurity done
I wish I was more beautiful
More of a woman too
I wish I wasn't pitiful
I wish I wasn't blue
I wish you loved me
Like I love you…
If you only knew, Trunks,
If you only knew…'
-Pan Son, date 792 AD
She took actions then, convincing her best friend Bra to give up their youth for love. They went inside the Time Chamber and came out a week later being 7 years older. They were both about 20 then instead of 13. So she was older now and the gap between her and Trunks was gone. It was a bold thing to do and a lot of trouble had been on their way but even though they conquered that and were a couple now the insecurity was not done. Yes, she was more beautiful now and more of a woman than she ever was before. She did not exactly feel pitiful, but she did feel a little blue. Trunks knew she loved him and he had always said that he loved her too. But right now, Pan wasn't very sure. He had been so busy these past few months with his work. He took over the company Capsule Corporation and hired Goten to help him. Both of them have been covered in work and Bra and Pan had not seen much of their boyfriends. Of course they had college so they had quite a busy schedule as well.
'It just doesn't feel right…' She thought out loud, 'I thought thinks would be different, this is definitely not the way I imagined it. And I doubt that Bra experiences it differently.'
She looked down to the page next to the poem she had just read and then took the pencil out of her mouth. She had to write something, she had to get rid of this dreadful feeling. This feeling that something was not right and something even worse was about to happen.
She stared at the blank paper but for a long while nothing came. Then she heard raindrops, first softly then harder and even a thunderstruck. Then it hit her, inspiration… and she started writing.
The absence of great love
Absence diminishes small love
and increases a great one
That is what I always thought
But my faith in our love is gone
-Pan Son, date 793
A tear made some of the ink spread in the last sentence, she did not bother to wipe it, more came. She threw the pencil with such force that it went straight through the window, glass shards where everywhere and rain clashed inside.
Her mother came running inside her room, after hearing the loud crash and she found her daughter in tears next to a broken window.
'Pan! What in the Dende's name is going on?'
'I don't think Trunks still loves me as much as I love him, mother…'
