Bura looked at Pan as they drove to the club and heard her sigh, "You okay?"
"I want to go home," she reasoned. "Because of Trunks?" Bura asked and Pan laughed bitterly. "Please, I'm just tired, I've had a long day."
"What did you do all day?"
"Worked, I had a meeting with your mother this morning, then I had lunch with a few clients, before filing papers all day and organizing the photos for CC next issue," she said as she craned her neck.
"Why don't you take a vacation?" Bura offered and Pan laughed once more, "How? Or more so when would I be able to do that?"
"You're supposed to make time, that's why it's called a vacation," Bura stated and Pan arched a brow, "Oh really?"
"Yes, you choose when and where and people must schedule their lives around it, it's a onetime thing you must do, place yourself before everyone and you must report back to me about how it feels." Pan merely rolled her eyes though her mind agreed that it was a great concept.
And as they pulled up to the club and slipped out of the low car allowing the valet to park it Pan craned her neck as Trunks and Goten walked up with their girls curled close to their sides. They walked to the beginning of the line and the bouncer shook his head. "No one allowed in without a VIP pass," he groused and Trunks smiled while Bura grumbled. "Come on I'll pay you a good chunk of change to let us in," he reasoned and the bouncer still shook his head.
Pan laughed and pushed past Trunks while the bouncer turned his back on them ignoring them.
"Pan," Bura began and Pan winked at her and turned to the bouncer.
"You won't even let us in for an old friend, Cad?" she catcalled and his shoulders visibly stiffened as he slowly faced them. "Son Pan," he growled and Trunks stiffened while Goten went on high alert. "You little catty piece of shit," he continued, "Where's your fine ass been all these years?"
Trunks felt his blood curdle and she winked. "I've been working just like you have, now come on, its Goten's birthday and we want to treat him right, I promise to let you treat me to a drink later," she flirted and he stepped aside pulling the rope back. "Come on in."
They filed in and Bura followed her confused. "Who was that?" she whispered and Pan shrugged, "My old tutor," she commented and her jaw fell open, "Your tutor?" she exclaimed and Pan shrugged, "What can I say he's a sweetheart."
"What in the world did he tutor you in?" Goten murmured and Pan giggled. "He tutored me in thermodynamics when I majored in science during my Bachlor's."
And then Pan's eyes went wide and she ran further inside. "Omigod, Tapon!" she exclaimed, a blue haired man turned and his gaze brightened as Pan ran at him throwing herself into his arms.
His own eyes went wide, until he got a good look at her. "My god girl, I haven't seen you in ages, how long has it been since you were last here?" he exclaimed as he lifted her up looking her over. "Girl you got some curves on that kid body of yours that would kill a man," he admitted truthfully.
Goten frowned and stepped forward as Pan faced them smiling, Trunks's hands had tightened into fists and Pan introduced them.
"Tapon, this is my uncle Goten and my best friend Bura, as well as her brother Trunks, and their dates Sherri and Coco," she introduced. "Bura this is Tapon, the guy who got me my first designing job here at the club," she explained.
Bura's eyes brightened then and she nodded. "I remember now, you were the nerd," she reasoned and he turned crimson as he set Pan on her feet. "Yeah, I had some pretty thick glasses back then in college, man, you've got to be in the big leagues now, I hear your name with Mrs. Bulma's on the television every now and then. You've got to come by the college sometime, I'm a professor up there now."
"Are you really?" Pan pondered and he smiled boldly, "Of course," he boasted.
"Tapon? Sweetheart?"
A small voice came from behind the large man and he smiled as he let Pan go and turned to the owner of the intruding voice, "Honey," he began, "Look who's here." Pan's eyes went wide once more, "Tonia!" she screamed and Coco went dead still as Sherri squealed, "Tonia I didn't know you'd be up here!" Sherri stated and Tonia grinned, "Hey girls…"
Bura looked at her brother finding his gaze hard, his eyes glassy and his hands in tight fists no one could release. "Trunks," she murmured then, walking up to him and giving him a hug, "Leave it be," she advised and he curled an arm around his sister.
He shielded himself from the others as he admitted to her. "I can't help it." Bura shook her head, "Pan is who she is she wouldn't be the woman you wanted. Because you didn't want her."
"It's not that I didn't want her," he began and she shook her head, "We'll finish this later," she reasoned as she pulled away and turned back to the crowd.
"So? Does this big guy got a table for six or what?" she laughed.