Chapter 20: Secrets

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Pan and Trunks reached the beach in record time. When they got there, Bra was sitting on the sand with one hand on her mouth and the other on her shoulder.

"What happened here?" Trunks questioned noticing his sister.

"Well, we were playing in the water and then suddenly Bra screamed" Goku answered rubbing the back of his head.

Pan sighed when she saw Bra clutch her shoulder tighter. She walked over to her and bent down to her level. "Bra, what happened?" She asked acting like she had no clue.

Bra looked at Pan in the eye and understood what she was trying to do.

"Nothing, it's just that a piece of seaweed got tangled in my feet and I got scared and screamed" She grinned sheepishly "Sorry for startling all of you"

"It's okay, anyone could have made that mistake" Goten reassured and stretched his hand out towards her. Bra smiled and took his hand and got up along with Pan. Bra was still clutching her shoulder tightly.

Pan groaned loudly, gaining the attention of everyone. "I'm getting thirsty! Bra let's go get a drink!" She grabbed Bra's hand before the aqua-haired girl even had a chance to protest, and ran off in the direction of the vending machines.

Everyone stared at the running forms of the two girl's questiongly and were about to call out to them when a loud splash distracted them. They turned to look at Goku in his super-saiyan form, grinning sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head, slightly staking a step back now and then and an extremely wet and pissed off Vegeta.

"Kakarot…." Vegeta chanted menacingly and turned super-saiyan as well and flew towards Goku, who dodged and appeared behind the prince.

Everyone sighed at Goku and Vegeta's everyday antics and continued doing whatever it is they were doing, except for Trunks, who quietly went and sat down on a beach chair, thinking about the past best few minutes in his whole life. Then he remembered the strange look in Pan's eyes when she asked Bra what happened. She looked like she was faking it. She was definitely hiding something, and he was going to find out no matter what!

Pan dragged Bra behind the vending machine, and glared at her.

"What?" Bra mumbled, slightly squirming ender her friends glare.

Pan sighed and held out her hand "show me"

Bra slowly removed her tight grip from her shoulder and revealed a small green mark. Pan inspected the mark before opening her other hand to reveal a tube.

"You're lucky, the concealer only got removed from the bottom a little" She squeezed out a peach liquid from the tube, and began rubbing it on Bra's arm.

"What happened anyway?"

"Well, after a little while, the guys began playing with us too. I was playing in the water with Goten and didn't notice the seaweed behind me. It got tangled in my foot and I fell in the water" Bra summarized the whole story.

Pan raised one eyebrow and smirked "Well, at least you weren't lying when you said you tripped over seaweed" she stated blowing on her shoulder lightly.

Bra glared at the raven-haired girl and pulled her arm back as Pan stood up.

"Let's go back before the others get suspicious" Pan suggested.

Bra nodded and followed her best friend.

Pan plopped down onto her head, wearing the same clothes she had been wearing on top of her bikini. She groaned as she felt her spine straightening out.

Today had been the best day of her life. It made her regret not celebrating her birthday more often. Bulma had booked the entire beach for the Z-warriors, she and Bra got to eat the biggest cake she had ever seen and she had gotten to kiss her now lover. She sighed in content at the memory and touched her lips, remembering the kiss she and Trunks had shared. She sat up on her bed and for the first time in her entire life, squealed like a fangirl.

It was night time, and she almost forgot that she had to go to work tomorrow, so after taking a quick shower and changing her clothes, she plopped down on her bed and immediately falling asleep. The last she thought of before going to sleep was thinking of Trunks.

Pan took in a deep breath reaching out for the door handle again, but like before stopping in midway. She woke up feeling confident and brave. She didn't bother taking a shower because she had taken one last night and instead changed into her clothes after washing her face and brushing her teeth. Her clothes consisted of a purple button-up longneck dress, which had elbow length sleeves, with a ruffle skirt, that reached a little below her knees. She was wearing black long socks with black ankle-length boots.

As she had entered the building, she began feeling sicker and sicker until now, where she was scared to even open the door. Taking in one final breath, she entered the office, where Trunks was as usual, sitting behind his desk, singing papers. They both blushed as their eyes met and mumbled a small "Good morning" to each other, before starting to work again. Pan, for once, thanked God that she had so many papers to sign.

At 7 in the evening, Pan had finished all of the paper work, but was still stalling by arranging them in different orders over and over again. Unknown to her, Trunks was doing the same.

They both sighed quietly in sync, before Trunks got up and walked over to Pan's desk and stood in front of her. Pan, who had noticed him move the second he got up from his seat, pretended to be too caught up in her work and not notice him.

Trunks waited patiently for her to notice him, he was extremely nervous but he had to set some things right between them. When she showed no signs of looking up, he coughed. Pan knew the second he coughed, she wouldn't have a reason to ignore him anymore, and that's exactly what happened.

Pan slowly lifted her head up and met the ocean-blue eyes of her boos, the same eyes she had fallen in love with. She inwardly cringed as she felt a light blush making its way onto her face.

Trunks sighed "Pan…. What am I to you?"

Pan looked at him, surprised at his bluntness. She had expected the question sooner or later, but not this straightforwardly.

"You're…..special" Pan mumbled.

Trunks made his way behind her desk and stood directly in front of the girl. Pan gulped an turned her gaze towards the ground.

"Pan, how am I special to you?" He asked.

Pan bit her lip. There was no point in hiding her feelings like all of those cheesy romantic girls did in dramas, and if she knew anything, it was that Pan Son did not live her life like a cheesy drama. So instead, she raised her head, and stood up and did the most reckless thing she could think of. She kissed him.

Trunks' eyes widened in surprise at the bold move, but he eventually closed his eyes, and kissed back. Pan deepened the kiss when she felt him respond. Trunks kissed her back with equal passion. Pan snaked her arms around his neck and leaned back, while Trunks' arms found their way around her waist and he pulled her closer. They parted when the need for air became too much to ignore. Pan rested her head on his chest, and he placed his head on top of hers.

"So… now can I introduce myself as your boyfriend to everyone?"

Pan giggled into his chest and nodded. Trunks smiled and hugged her tighter. Trunks was savoring every single second of the moment, when he suddenly remember something.

"Pan?"

"Yeah?"

"Back on the beach, what really happened to Bra?"

Pan pulled away and looked at him in the eye and then sighed. She opened her drawer and took out a key. She went over to the main door and locked it tightly, leaving the key inside so nobody could open it from outside using a key.

She walked back over to Trunks and looked at him.

"Trunks, I love you and I trust you, but you have to promise me that you will never tell anyone about what you're about to see"

Trunks was surprised at her seriousness, but nodded.

Pan sighed again and brought her hands up to her dress, and started unbuttoning it. Trunks' eyes widened and his mouth opened up widely as he blushed furiously, but still didn't look away. Pan unbuttoned her dress till her stomach and turned around, took the dress off from one shoulder. She took a tissue from her desk and started rubbing it on her shoulder thoroughly. When she removed the tissue, it was covered in peach, but what Trunks saw, made him forget about the little fantasies he was having a moment ago.

On Pan's arm were two red roses, which were intertwined from the stems, and two green colored leaves were sprouting out from opposite sides of the stems. The roses and the leaves were outlined with black.

"Pan…. You have a tattoo….?"

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