Friends Forever
By: Faye_Valentine00
Faye_Valentine00@hotmail.com
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Disclaimer - I do not own any of these characters! :)
(A/N - Please Read and Review so I know someone is reading my stories out there. Thanks)
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"Mom! Mom?!" Pan ran through the house excitedly. "Dad?! Mom?!" After throughly searching the house, Pan sighed and grabbed the phone. She had to tell someone the good news.
Pan dialed the phone numebr for Capsule Corp and after the first ring, she heard Bras voice. "Hello?"
"Bra?! Its Pan!"
"Hey! How are you? You sound hyper." Bra had graduated high school 2 years ago and Pan was still a senior but they remained close.
"You'll never never never never NEVER guess who asked me to the prom!" Pan was rambling excitably.
"Hmmmmmm... I have no clue." Bra couldn't help but laugh at her best friends enthusiasm.
"James Bradley!"
Bra let out a gasp. "James, the quarterback of the football team, Bradley?!"
"Yup!"
Although Bra knew that James had a reputation as a player, she also knew that Pan wasn't stupid. She'd be able to take care of herself so Bra was happy for her friend.
"Thats awesome, Pan! When is prom?"
"2 weeks from now."
"What are you going to wear?"
There was a long silence on the other end of the phone. Although Pan had outgrown being a toal tomboy, she was still pretty clueless when it came to formal wear.
"Well... I don't know..."
Bra sighed with a giggle but tried to sound put-off when she realized that her best friends was asking her to go shopping. "When do you want to go to the mall?"
"Tomorrow after school?"
"Well, I work at Capsule Corp until 5pm so how about I pick you up after that. No sense in flying with all those packages, right?"
They both laughed. "Thanks Bra. You're the best. See ya then!"
*** 2 Weeks Later ***
"How do I look?" Pan did a spin in front of her mom and Bra who had both helped her get ready.
Her dress was royal blue. It was strapless with black and silver beadwork and it fell to the floor in an A-line cut. Her shoes were simple 2" heels that had been dyed to match her dress perfectly. Videl had done her makeup which was nice and classy but not gawdy. Bra had curled her hair so it hung down loosely to frame her face.
"You look beautiful, Pan!" Videl smiled at her daughter with watery eyes.
"I agree. You look like a million bucks!"
They all laughed until they heard a soft knock at the door. They turned around to see Gohan smiling at Pan from the doorway.
"You look beautiful." He walked over and kissed her cheek before winking. "Your date's at the door."
"Thanks Daddy." Pan gave each of them a hug and then headed out the door to meet her date.
*** 11pm that night ***
Prom had just ended and the night had gone perfectly. James had been sweet and attentive all night. He never failed to give her a compliment or to get food and drinks when they weren't dancing the night away. Now they and a group of friends were standing in front of the ballroom doors in the Satan City Hotel. After a while, James turned to Pan with a seductive smile.
"Hey Pan. My dad got us a room here in the hotel, so lets go one up." He pulled a room key out and jiggled it around before grabbing Pans hand and pulling her towards the elevator.
Pan was angry and insulted that he would just tell her to come instead of inviting her. It wasn't as though she was interested but even if she had been, she would have refused simply because he was asking like she was exspected to go.
Even though she was mad, she didn't want to make a scene in front of his friends so she allowed herself to be pulled to the elevator and out of earshot before ripping her hand away.
"I'm sorry James but I'd rather not." Pan was trying to be nice but she was taking the insult personal and it was becoming hard to keep her ki in check. Her pride and quick temper were two things that she had never grown out of. In fact, once Bulma had even told her that she acted like Vegeta when she got hotheaded.
"What?" James looked shocked and then started to laugh like it was some kind of a joke.
Pan ignored his laughed and repeate herself. "I said I would rather not go upstairs."
"Awwww, don't worry Pan. It will be fun. I won't hurt you." Then he put his arm around her shoulder and tried again to get her in the elevator but she simply stood her ground. Even when he tried to muscle her into the door, she didn't budge and he looked at her like she was crazy.
"I said No!" Her ki was beginning to spike and had they not been in a public place, she would have hit him but after spending the last few years trying to be normal, she didn't want everyone to realize exactly how powerful she really was. If it wasn't bad enough, everyone knew that she was the granddaughter of both the Worlds Champion, Mr. Satan AND the Worlds hero, Son Goku. They also knew that she was the daughter of Gohan (the golden warrior and the great saiyaman) and Videl (Satan Cities sweetheart and the great saiyaman #2) which didn't help either. If she attacked him now, it'd ruin everything that she'd worked towards... a normal life.
It was obvious that James was angry. "What do you mean, no? No girl has ever turned me down. You don't know how lucky you are to have this kind of offer from me."
His lack of modesty made her grit her teeth in annoance. "Well consider this a first!"
"Fine Pan, don't come but this is going to prove to everyone how weird you are. You may try to act normal but everyone know the truth. You're a freak! You're whole family is a bunch of freaks with powers nobody understands! People are only nice to you because they know your grandpa is loaded and that you could beat them up." His voice was filled with venom and the words cut to her heart like a knife. "What ARE you anyway?! Amber (the head cheerleader of Orange Star High School) says that she even saw you flying through the air one day!"
Suddenly he grabbed her wrist tightly and looked at her fiercly. "So, what do you say? Are you coming upstairs or at school on Monday morning, am I going to be telling everyone the truth about you?"
Pan anger shifted to pain. She'd had a crush on James for the last 3 years and now his sudden show of true colors broke her heart. She fought back tears as she ripped her wrist from his grip and shoved him away. Her wild emotions made her forget her strength and she ended up shoving him into the wall so hard, it cracked the plaster.
"I'm not going upstairs with you so say whatever you want." Pan knew that everyone in the room had seen thin, petite Pan shove big, bad James the quarterback into the wall and when she turned around they were all whispering and pointing. Pan knew then that her life would never be the same again.
Just as Pan was about a walk away, she saw Amber run over to James and help him to his feet.
"Thanks Amber." Pan watched as James gave her the same smile he'd used on her. "Wanna help me up to my room?"
Amber blushed slightly at James before glaring at Pan with wicked amusment in her eyes. "I'd love to James. Anything to get away from that FREAK!"
'that FREAK!' The words echoed in Pans head over and over as she watched the two climb into the elevator. Whe she turned to get out of the hotel, the other students gaev her a wide berth as if afraid that she would attack them. Grabbing her skirt so she wouldn't trip, Pan took off out the door at a run.
When she got to the street, she just picked a direction and ran, having no clue where she was headed. Finally after running for quite a while, she stopped and wiped her eyes. tears streamed down her face and she fought back her sobs unsuccesfully as James and Ambers words and hateful faces replayed over and over in her head.
She continued to walk as she fought to get control of herself. Being a proud saiyan was one thing that Pan took extremely seriously. Even though she was only 1/4 saiyan, she knew how much her family and friends had worked for all those years and she'd be willing to do the same at anytime. The other part of her just wanted to be normal and have friends that like to go out and have fun. She knew James would keep his word about telling the whole school the truth about her. That was going to ruin everything.
Suddenly Pan looked up and found herself standing in front of the office building of Capsule Corp. That meant that she was almost 5 miles from the hotel. Being almost midnight on a Saturday night, she knew that everyone would be gone but upon further inspection, she noticed a light on the top floor and she immediatly knew that it was Trunks' office light.
Pan sliently thanked Dende that Trunks was there because he and Pan had been friends forever. She didn't want to go home but she did want to talk to somebody who would understand and she knew that nobody understood trying to fit in normally better than Trunks.
After a quick check for anyone passing by or watching, Pan flew up to the window and knocked lightly. Trunks nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard the knocking but once he realized her ki signature, he recovered and ran over to the window to open it. As soon as he saw Trunks' tear-stained face, he pulled her into the window and gave her a tight hug. then he kept his arm around her and walked her to the couch.
"You look beautiful tonight Panny. What happened to get the worlds strongest woman so upset?" He knew she was only upset and not hurt so he tried to keep the mood light.
Suddenly Pan burst into tears and buried her head into Trunks chest. After a few minutes her sobs subsided and she told Trunks the whole story. He didn't inturrpt her as she spoke but Pan could feel his ki rise in anger. When she finished talking, Trunks wrapped his arms around Pans shoulders and smiled down at her wickedly.
"Well Panny. I think we'll have to teach that boy a thing or two about manners. Nobody threatens my friends like that, especiall one as strong and beautiful as you." He winked playfully and Pan couldn't help but blush at the compliment. "Heres the plan."
They put their heads together and plotted their revenge.
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Next Chapter - What are they planning to do?! Read the next chapter to find out! :-P