"What the hell goten?" she said once they were in the car and Goten swiftly pulled out the parking lot. Bra briefs laughed "I was looking forward to handling that myself." Goten smiled at himself. He was impressed at how much she had changed she used to hate fights and confrontation now she has really started to grow into them. She had really changed from last year.

"Well sorry Bra I didn't like seeing those guys treat you like you were some piece of meat. It's not right ..." Goten didn't finish so he changed the subject. "Sorry we didn't get to eat I just didn't feel like getting arrested today so we kind of had to get out fast." Bra looked at Goten while he talked and a crocked half smile formed on his lips. Not a full kind of smile that bears teeth but the cute almost half smirk kind that melted Bra's heart every time she saw it. 'Pretending not to care about him gets harder and harder ...' she thought to her 'I also miss him when he's gone I can't win.' Bra was silent as she thought about these things long enough for Goten to take notice. "You okay Bra?" he said shifting his gaze to her for barley a second then back on the road. "You're being kind of quiet."

Bra regained her grip on reality "yeah I was just thinking about how ... nice this was its always refreshing to hang out with you. You're not drama filled like everyone else it's a nice change." Goten immediately felt his cheeks begin to blush at this slightly. 'Get it together Goten it's just Bra no big deal it wasn't even that much of a compliment he tried so hard to convince himself it didn't mean anything. However deep down he wanted it to mean something and he didn't quite understand why. He had no idea how to respond so he changed the subject hoping he could pull himself out of his daze. "We have had some fun times over the years haven't we?" He said chucking to himself.

"Uh you mean you and Trunks all those times I was forced to tag along." Bra laughed back "basically anytime we ever hung out it was Trunks related."

"That's not true ... we hung out last year and your eighth grade year. Remember all those times you tutored me and made me feel dumb." He countered back smiling not a Son family smirk but a wide grin. With his eyes fixed on the road Bra noticed how he looked kind of like a little kid in a man's body. A very mainly body. She scolded herself mentally for noticing his physical appearance. There was a reason why every girl at her school last year was absolutely in love with him. He looked like a male model mixed with athlete.

"Really? When because I don't remember." Bra was curious.

"Really? Don't tell me you forgot all those times I was there for you when you were dumped by boys your eighth grade and my junior year." Goten took his eyes off the road briefly to meet hers then put them back to the road. "You were dating some guy in eighth grade. ...Fredrick or something like that. He had dumped you after you guys had dated for like a week I think you said and I had originally just been stopping by for I don't really remember , but I'll never forget how sad you looked so I talked Bulma into letting me take you to a late movie . There was a big high school Football game I missed just to go to the movie with you." He laughed again "It was some late night showing of some stupid comedy o don't even remember the name of , but I made you laugh I remember that and even smile that night when just a couple hours before you told me you would never be happy again." Goten laughed "And that wasn't the only time your forgetting about last year as well. "

Bra was stunned... Bra could remember that night now since he had eventually explained it to her, but not for the reasons Goten did. Goten remembered the being upset for getting Dumped that wasn't how it really happened.

Flashback *

Bra was sitting in her last class of the day at West City Middle School, and this day was a day from hell. Tonight was the big school Fall Dance. She had been looking forward to this night for so long she was excited. She had already talked to Marron her brother's best friend who had told her she was secretly in love with her brother. Bra had promised not to tell and the two had become close. She was going to help her with her hair before she was going to meet with Lisa and Emily, her two best friends at school, to help her with the short black dress she and her mom had picked out a couple days before.

Bra was so excited she couldn't contain it. She had been dreaming of going to a school dance her whole life. Dancing in the middle to a slow song with the boy of her dreams and to have her first kiss in the middle of the dance floor. She had seen so many movies where the girls and the boy in the story go to a dance kiss, then fall in love. She desperately wanted that. However in her dreams it had always been Goten, her older brother's best friend. Who she kissed that would changed now though . She was dating Fredrick. He was tall and Dreamy with black hair and green eyes. He wore glasses and he was so respectful. They had been dating for almost a week now and he had told her he loved her a few days before. She was so excited she almost couldn't contain herself. Her phone then vibrated and she looked down it was a text from Fredrick. "We are done I Don't want to go to the dance with you anymore." Bra did a double take as she looked down at her phone in class. She felt her cheeks go cold and hot tears form in her eyes. Instead of letting herself get upset she pushed away the tears. She didn't want the other students to see her cry. Then her pride hit her hard. 'What the hell.' She thought 'I am Bra briefs No one can just dump me and humiliate me the day of the school dance. I AM THE DAUGHTER OF VEGETA THE PRINCE OF SAYIANS THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN TO ME WITHOUT CONSIQUENCES.' the last bell of the school day rang and she went to his locker and found him in his locker. She punched the locked next to him causing a dent in the locker and Fredrick jumped causing his glasses to fall off his face. He looked at her in outer shock. "Bra..?" he said softly.

"How dare you." She said in a voice so contorted with anger it didn't sound like her usual soft she felt the familiar hot rush of sayian anger boil in her skin. The need to fight, it began to rear its ugly head again and she pushed it away. She normally could push her half sayian instincts away but she was to mad right now to try and control it. "You dumped me the Day of the Fall dance after I got all ready and OVER A FUCKING TEXT MESSAGE!" she got up into his face and she saw the unfamiliar shade of fear in his eyes and for some reason she saw this felt a surge of need like she was looking at prey to kill it was a sayian instinct her brother and father had told her to turn away from every time it raised its head. She immediately realized what was happening and she backed down but not before lightly hitting him in the gut. It was a very small hit by her standards. However, it was enough to double him over on his stomach and cause him to cry out in pain. Bra turned around and headed to her locker ignoring all the stupid people staring at her. She almost ran out of the school to where Trunks had been waiting since high school got out since he drove from high school to pick her up then took them both home she was able to hold her tears in till she got to the car. She tried desperately to keep herself from crying in front of trunks, but it didn't last when he smiled and asked her if she was excited for the dance. "Trunks ..."She moaned as she looked out the window while trunks was driving and begin to let tears roll down her face silently, and trunks sensed this. "Bra ..." he said in a low and steady sympathetic voice. "Whets wrong?" he questioned.

"Nothings wrong I'm not going to the dance!" She said still facing the window.

"What, Bra you been talking about this dance forever and you were so excited and… "Trunks then made the connection. "He dumped you today didn't he?"

Bra was silent as the tears began to rush down her face as she kept facing the window. "Yea." She mumbled so inaudibly that if trunks were a human he wouldn't be able to hear her...However, he was a sayian and had better hearing than the humans did. "Fucking coward." Trunks mumbled to him obviously talking about the little eighth grade boy who had broken his little sister's heart.

"Hey bra." he said turning to face her and looked her in her face. Bra looked up at her older brother who had recently let his purple hair grow out to about his neck. He looked so much like their father sometimes it scared her. However his face wasn't as harsh and his eyes were as blue as hers. Something they both got from their mother. He had on a capsule corp. jacket with a black under shirt and black pants. Unlike Goten who's outstanding physical body could be hidden with close. Trunks couldn't he's muscular chest showed in his shirt. He looked at her in such a nice way. He being a senior in high school had helped become nicer to his little sister.

"I'll tell mom and Dad what happened so they don't push anything about the dance okay? I'll tell Marron too so she isn't asking a million questions when you're not dressed up. "He smiled at this. That was when Bra could tell her brother had feelings for Marron as well though he might never well admit them. "Just promise her that you will let her do your hair some other time. She was really looking forward to it." Bra gave him a nice smile. "Yeah I will." she promised.

Bra went inside after her brother. She came inside just as trunks had finished telling his parents the story about her being dumped. Bulma, their mother, ran up and hugged saying so many comforting things bra couldn't keep track of them. Vegeta just cussed under his breath and mumbled something about wanting to kill the boy who broke his daughter's heart and marched off towards the gravity room. Bra wasn't at all offended by this that was how their father showed them he cared. Bra told her mother she didn't want to go to the dance that night without a date and she went up to her bedroom and cried. Around the time she went to her bedroom Goten and Marron arrived at Trunks house both of them a year younger than trunks in high school yet they were two of his best friends.

"Awe poor Bra." Marron stated after Trunks told them the story about what had happened to Bra on that day. Goten felt instantly bad for Bra and as he thought about her being upset about the guy who dumped her the more mad it made him. Even he knew how much Bra wanted to go to the school dance. "Hey uh Trunks, Marron I don't think I'm going to go to the homecoming Football game with you guys tonight. " Goten said as they were all standing in the briefs family kitchen talking about what happened to Bra that day.

"What why?" Trunks said obviously disappointed by his sudden change of heart. Marron was shocked as well by her second best friend's change of heart. "Well."Goten started moving his hand behind his head. How was he going to explain to his best friend that he wanted to miss out on homecoming the biggest football game of the year just to make sure bra was okay. "Yeah I just don't feel like going to the game you know me and football don't really mix not when I'm on the varsity Soccer and baseball teams. I think I'm just going to check on Bra then head out. Marron and Trunks exchanged looks.

"Okay Goten, whatever you say. We'll tell you how the game goes see yah." Marron says already walking out the door in a way like her mother 18 normally did. Trunks watched Marron walk out "Marron wait up, I'll see you Goten." he said as he ran out the door after Marron leaving Goten alone in the Briefs family house. Goten made his way up the grand staircase to the room right across from his best friends bedroom the one that belonged to Bra. He knocked on her closed door. Bra could sense by his ki signature that it was Goten. "Goten? Come in I guess." Goten entered her room to see bra with her head in her pillow. He could tell from the slouch in her shoulders that she had exhausted herself crying up her in her room and instantly felt bad.

"Hey bra." He said in a very kind voice, the voice that was different from his normal one. It only came out around her she noticed and it made her day a little bit brighter. She turned to face him and Goten was shocked by how red her eyes had been from crying. "Hey." she said back refusing to make eye contact with him. Goten moved himself to sit next to bra on her bed and turned his face to look at her. He moved his hand to her face and brushed a tear off of her cheek before him out his hand down. Bra 'started to blush instantly and prayed to god Goten didn't notice. "He's stupid bra just so you know ... any guy would be lucky to have you and stupid to dump you." bra felt her face flush at this comment as she met his beautiful brown eyes. They were so dark they were almost black it was enticing to say the least.

Goten then got this idea as if something popped into his head. "Hey Bra I have an idea for a fun night on the town. I know it's not the school dance you wanted but threes a new comedy movie out and maybe we can catch a late movie it will make you smile again. "He gave her that famous son family grin. "Let me go ask Bulma."

End flashback

She remembered that night not because the movie was any fun, but because she saw how much Goten really cared. How genuinely nice of a person he was and it made her love him even more. She ended up having more fun that night than she would have if she went to the dance with Fredrick. She now two years later could hardly remember Fredrick she hasn't spoken to him in years Goten however was still here in her heart and in her life.

"I'm surprised you remember that."She said as Goten pulled into the Briefs family house. "I had almost forgotten about that." she began to laugh. "I was so pitiful back then and I caused you to miss your senior homecoming."

"No don't think anything of It." he said as they exited the car. "I really wanted to help you've always been a cool person to hang out with." They both continued to walk towards the front of the house. "Are you coming inside?" Bra asked Goten as he walked towards the front porch with her.

"Well... I might as well I haven't seen Bulma in a while, and she might be mad that I dropped by from college and said hi to everyone but her. Besides I also need to talk to trunks about a few things, and ..."He said closing his eyes for a second as if to focus in on something. "I sense my brother is in there as well and I need to have a private word with him." His demeanor was suddenly serious. It always intimidated her how he could go from careless to serious in a matter of seconds. She had never seen anything like it not even from her Father or brother. They both had an intimidating personality by nature and it was scary to see those traits on Goten.

"Is everything okay?" she asked turning and somewhat stopping him from going inside yet. "You… you acted serious when you found out Gohan was here as well. Is everything okay between you and Gohan?" A look flashed across Goten's face.

"… yeah I guess so I mean were okay… I just... I haven't been training since going off to college. Gohan on the other hand is still training when he's not working or being a family man." He started "he works at capsule corp. under your mom so she gives him plenty of training time. Everyone's getting ready for the world Championship tournament and I just felt left out of it. So I was going to ask Gohan about sparing with me some. He has always brought out the best in me and I don't want my father to see how far behind I've actually fallen. "Goten shook his head. "It's hard when your father and brother are two of the strongest fighters in the world and have both saved the world. I don't want to seem weak compared to them but I want to enter the tournament. .. I miss the thrill." He hesitantly admitted.

"I didn't know you missed it that much." she said quietly... "I admire your drive for it."

"Thank you bra... Now let's go inside I know Trunks, Vegeta, and Gohan all sense me and I don't want them asking a thousand questions about why I was out here so long. "Goten said nodding at the door. Bra shook her head fast as if coming out of a daze. "Right "she answered when she got her bearings back. They opened the door and walked into the kitchen to see Vegeta leaning against the wall with Bulma, Trunks, and Gohan sitting at the table all deep in conversation until they saw Bra and Goten emerge into the room. "Hey mom and dad I'm back!" bra said as she rushed into the room with Goten trailing nicely behind her. "Brother."Gohan stated as he sat there. He was dressed in an orange gee which let Goten know he had just gotten done training with Vegeta. Gohan was 29 now a father and happily married to Videl who had given him two twins Pan and John both with black hair and blue eyes like their mother. Gohan like all the other sayian hadn't looked like he had aged a day past when he fought cell, though he like his father and Vegeta was much stronger now than he was then. "Gohan." Goten said back in acknowledgement. Bulma whipped around to see Bra and Goten who she had her back to just a second ago. "Bra honey welcome home." She smiled then turned her attention to her god son Goten. "Goten!? My goodness looks at you!You've grown since you've gone to college and you have gotten even more handsome AHH I bet those college girls love you!" Goten like always didn't know how to respond to that compliment like always. The girls in college did like him... A lot, but he was just kind of dating and hooking up he didn't have anything serious. His eyes shifted to Bra for that last comment and he swear he saw Bra have a pained look on her face however, it was gone as sat as it came. "Well ...i uhhh college is college I guess. " He began to laugh at the uncomfortable little question.

"Don't bore him with classic questions Bulma the better question should be why is he not training ... look at how soft he has grown he barley looks sayian anymore. Boy can you still even transform into super sayian?" Vegeta asked with a smirk. Bra's anger burned at her father's ignorance. No one was to talk to Goten in that manor! Gohan however was the one who spoke. "Ahh Goten Vegeta let's not forget Goten first transformed when he was only five. How old were you? Thirty something? "Gohan smirked as Trunks and Bulma laughed.

"Screw you kakarot Brats!" He said as he got mad and grumbled as he walked to the living room and turned on the TV." Gohan and Goten's eyes met and Gohan then could sense that his brother wanted to talk to him. "Bulma, thank you for your hospitality and Vegeta for sparring with me, but I need to get back home. Goten you coming?" Gohan motioned to his brother.

"Yes I'm right behind you and Nice to see you Bulma and Bra don't be a stranger I'm going to need your help with calc ." he said to her and smiled. "See you this weekend Trunks." He said as he turned away. "SEE yah man." Trunks said as his friend walked out the door. Outside Goten followed his brother till they both got to a spot far away from the Briefs house to where they knew neither Trunks nor Vegeta could hear them.

"What is it Goten? Why were you so adamant on talking to me alone?" he said once they were far enough away.

"It's about the world Championships… Vegeta is right I have gone soft I haven't even transformed into a super sayian in five years I'm not sure if I even still can.. I miss fighting call it my sayian half but it's like burning a hole in me and I need to get back out there." Goten looked down and Gohan looked shocked at his brother. Gohan himself was different than his father. Their father being the full blooded sayian he is loved fighting. He trained or spared every day. Gohan on the other hand loved fighting as long as it was for the right reasons... he hated pointless fighting but his daughter and Videl had begged him to enter so he didn't it for there sake. He however, felt the same call to fight as his father. He never thought Goten did since Goten had become so involved in all aspects of ordinary human life but now... he had just admitted he had that same sayian drive.

Gohan took a moment "…What do you want me to do about it Goten ... I mean you can always tell dad he can bring you back into shape fast and he can work around you college schedule. "

"No." Goten interjected "I don't want dad to know how far behind I actually am besides when dad was dead me and you trained and you always brought out the best in me. I have always done best under your training and you always pushed me to the brink as compared to dad who always held back. "

"Goten..." Gohan started "You understand I would have to hold back as well right... I all you are saying is true I'm going to be fighting with you in mostly my normal or super sayian forms that's not even my ascended super sayian or Ultimate forms.. But fine ill do it. "

"Thank your brother. "Goten started but was interrupted by Gohan. "Just be prepared I'm not going to take it easy on you just because you have gotten soft." Goten smirked. "I wouldn't have it any other way brother.

Back inside the Briefs family house hold Bra was a in her bedroom getting ready for bed and she kept playing the whole day in her head. Such a horrible day turned amazing by Goten. He always had that effect on her. She kept fantasying about him coming back and kissing her. Telling her that he loved her when a voice from behind her spooked her back into reality.

"Hey honey how your night with Goten was?" her mother prodded her... Her mother was one of only two people who knew about her being completely in love with Goten.

"It was fine nothing all that important happened he was just ….perfect as always..."She stopped and turned to her mother. "It's getting harder to hide how I feel mom..." Bulma gave her daughter a look. "Then don't hide it Bra, tell him how you feel he has a right to know."

"No I can't he's Trunks best friend and he had literally always been around are families are so close I can't afford for things to get awkward and he would never like me... " She said looking down. Bulma sighed and got up to leave her daughter's bedroom "you will never know unless you try Bra." With that she left and closed the door.

Bra spent that whole night tossing and turning thinking about Goten… 'my mom's right I can't do this forever , but I won't tell him I can't ' then she drifted off to sleep.