Bra realized that the knob wouldn't turn and began to panic. Forgetting about the fact that she refused to talk to Goten she really didn't like the idea of being trapped alone with him in a dark room and began to ask for help.

"Goten, Help me knock this door down," she said and began to power up.

Goten was immediately at her side and holding her arms behind her.

"Goten let go." She struggled but he only pulled her closer to him.

"Bra, stop it. Calm down and listen for a second. I already tried to knock it down, it wouldn't budge."

Bra felt as if everything stopped and she began to feel nervous being so close to Goten.

"Which means..."

"I'm guessing this was some sort of trap." He said.

Bra sighed and then they both realized that they had actually talked to each other, and when Bra could feel his breath on her neck she freaked out and wrenched out of his grasp while taking a few steps forward.

Unfortunately for Bra it was too dark to se and she tripped over something and landed straight on her stomach, while scraping her arms on the concrete floor.

She heard her voice mutter an 'ow' and so did Goten who had ignored the fact that she had pushed him away and didn't want to see him. Goten was at her side again and Bra reluctantly let him help her up. When she was standing she again tried to get away but Goten wouldn't let her move.

"Come on, there's a couch over here." he said and helped the stubborn and unwilling Bra over in the direction where he was sitting earlier.

Needless to say they were both uncomfortable and both scooted as far away from each other as possible.

The silence and darkness enveloped them and the only actual noise they could hear was the music that barely leaked through the walls and each others breathing, not to mention the light hum of the refrigerator and freezer that were also in the basement.

Bra tried to ignore the fact that she was locked in a dark basement to the one person she had been trying to avoid by focusing on remembering what the layout of the basement was. As far as she could remember there was a couch, which she was sitting on, that was on the opposite wall from the door. The wall to the left had tons of shelves with books and old toys. The wall to the right held the refrigerator.

Neither was exactly sure what to do. A few minutes ago they tried yelling but it didn't work and now they were again sitting on the couch. Bra was trying to decide what to do. 'I could...well nope. Darn, I don't want to talk to Goten right now, but then again he will probably just think I'm a little kid for worrying or being uncomfortable if I don't talk. Well, I guess I can get a drink...'

Bra slowly got up and walked to the right until her hands found the wall. She slowly found her way along the wall until she found the side of the refrigerator then she reached around and opened the door.

On the opposite side of the room, Goten was half asleep on the couch when the room was dimly lit with light. He blinked a few times and noticed that Bra was leaning against the wall with a soda in her hand.

Goten looked at her and decided he was pretty thirsty too. Now that the room had a small light he was able to easily walk over there and grab a soda. He sat down leaning against the open fridge door and took a sip.

Again the room was filled with silence and Goten noticed that Bra sighed.

"You know, I didn't even want to come to the party, but it sure beats being locked down here." She said and played with the tab on her soda can.

Goten looked up surprised. Bra usually loved parties, why wouldn't she enjoy this one? But then it hit him. 'Did she not want to come because I was here? I need to apologize, but I don't know if can face the fact that she might not forgive me...'

"Why didn't you want to come?" he asked, letting concern slip into his voice before he could actually prevent it.

Bra was needless to say surprised that he wanted to know. 'He's just bored.' she told herself and then became almost angry.

"I just didn't feel like it." She said and then noticed that the tab she had been playing with broke off of the can.

"Can you pass me another coke?" she asked setting hers to the side.

He reached into the refrigerator and grabbed another soda. "Here" he passed it to her and let his fingers brush over her hand as he handed it to her.

Bra looked down at the new can and again took a sip and began to play with the tab.

Goten let his eyes run over Bra for the first time since they had been locked in there. She was wearing a red dress with criss cross straps in the back. To Goten she looked like an Angel.

Bra again broke the tab off of her can and fell back into the silence. She felt something weighing on her and knew that it was most likely Gotens eyes.

"Bra? Are you okay?" Goten asked when he noticed her bottom lip quiver.

Bra sucked in a breath and got back her spine. 'He can't know that I'm sad around him. I won't let him no that he is the reason I'm so upset.'

She looked at him and smiled. "Yeah Goten, I'm fine."

Gotens eyes narrowed. He leaned closer to her and tried to look into her eyes.

"You're lying."

Bra looked quizzically at him, "Why would you say that?"

"Because I know you, and I know that something's wrong."

Bra became angry again and accidentally let her thoughts slip from her mouth instead of keeping them in her head. "Oh so first I'm just a kid and now I'm a liar?"

Bra slapped a hand over her mouth but the words already slipped out. Goten was surprised and needless to say upset. 'I do love her, I don't know why I said those things, I didn't even mean them. I never meant to hurt you Bra, please forgive me.' No matter how many times he thought those things he was never able to say them out loud.

Bra looked down at the now empty can in her hand. "Look, Goten I'm sorry I snapped at you; let's just not talk while we're in here."

Goten sighed and pulled her face up with his hands on her chin. "No Bra, I think we need to talk. I've been trying to talk to you for so long but I suppose I've never...had enough courage too. But Bra, we do need to talk. Please!"

Bra tried to get away but Goten kept his hand on her chin so she couldn't look the other way. Bra whimpered but steadily focused her eyes on his. She whispered "Ok" and he let go of her chin reluctantly.

"Bra, First I think I should apologize."

"No Goten, don't...please...You said what you meant. I don't care if you regretted it later; the fact is that you feel that way. I am not angry with you, I am just hurt. Please don't just apologize it will make things worse."

She was really thinking that if he apologized then she'd have no logical reason to hate him and would end up falling in love with him again, although she never truly fell out of love with him.

Goten felt like his heart was ripped from his chest. He didn't want to hurt her anymore, but he knew he had to apologize.

"Bra, I would normally respect your wishes but I can't do that now because you're wrong. Things can't get worse than they already are. Don't you see? I never meant what I had said. I don't even know why I said it. I just read those stories and couldn't believe it. At first...Bra, listen to me."

He again caught her chin with his hand and forced her to look at him. If she stared him in the eyes then she would know he wasn't lying.

"Bra, at first I was so jealous. I wanted so much to find Ralph and kill him. I've never felt that way about anyone before. I was never mad at you Bra; I never even meant anything that I said to you. I don't know why I said those things Bra, and I'm not going to lie to you about that."

Bra could now feel tears streaming down her cheeks and at first she tried not to listen but eventually she had too.

"But Goten, you did say them. You don't just say things you don't mean!"

"I know Bra, I was thinking about it and beating myself up inside ever since that day. I tried to find a logical reason but I couldn't, and that's when I finally realized I was scared. Yes Bra, I'm admitting I was scared. I had no idea when our relationship changed between friendship and love, so when we finally admitted our feelings I was so happy. Now that I look back at what went through my head at the moment I read the stories I realize that I was scared. I have never felt so strongly about a single person in my entire life. It worried me to know that if you were to end things with me my entire world would crash. Bra, I will continue to apologize every minute of every day of the rest of our lives if only to know that you can forgive me."

Bra looked startled. "Goten...I...I don't...I don't know what to say..."

Goten smirked, "Then don't say anything."

At that moment he leaned forward and brushed his lips against hers. He was scared that she wouldn't respond but as it turned out she made the first move and traced the outside of his lips with her tongue so he would open his mouth.

They stayed on the floor just kissing each other, and occasionally whispering things that no one would even remember later, you know, lovey dovey type stuff. Goten broke off a kiss for a breath of air that they both needed and let his hands reach her face and wipe off any left over tears. He searched her eyes for some sign that the kiss wasn't just a heat of the moment thing. "Bra, please say you'll forgive me."

Bra smiled and leaned forward to kiss his lips briefly. "I'll think about it," she said. In truth she meant it. She knew that she still loved him, and the fact that he loved her too would mean that she would have to think a few things over.

Goten nodded his head in understanding and they both looked up in time to see the door crack open.

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Pan had just finished talking with her mother who for some reason seemed to be steering the conversation in the fact that Trunks had called about 10 times the day before trying to talk to her. She held her own though and eventually tried to look for Bra.

She had walked thought the living room and the den but there was still no sign of Bra. She finally spotted Uubu and Marron kissing under some mistletoe by the stairs. She smirked and walked over there, making sure to stay away from the hanging device.

"Marron? Have you seen Bra? I haven't seen her in a while."

Marron looked around the room and then smiled, "Sorry, I can't be much help to you. I've sort of been in my own little world." she said and smiled at Uub.

"Ok, well if you see her tell her I'm looking for her."

"Ok, maybe she went to get more supplies, we're running out of drinks so maybe she's in the kitchen."

"Alright, I'll check...Have fun you two!"

Pan smiled and turned in the direction of the kitchen.

Unfortunately for her she entered the kitchen and closed the door before she knew what she had gotten herself into. It was the same moment that Trunks walked in from the other door and closed it and they both turned around to see each other and the fact that no one else was in the room.

In an awkward silence Pan decided not to just run out of the room like every instinct in her body was telling her too.

"Have you seen your sister? I need to talk to her." She asked. She didn't really need to talk to Bra, but she was worried about the fact that she was missing.

"Nope sorry, I've been looking for Goten, have you seen him?" asked Trunks who was also worried that his friend was missing.

Pan shook her head and then lifted an eyebrow, "You don't think..." She looked at Trunks who seemed deep in thought.

"Nah" they both said shaking their heads and laughing. Then they were both quiet again and looked at each other.

"Uhm, well, I uh should go look for her some more," said Pan who walked out the door and was followed by a persistent Trunks.

"Pan? Maybe we should look together. If we couldn't find them alone." He was just looking for an excuse to get to talk to her.

"Well...Oh, look, there is a light on in the basement." She said pointing towards the stairway that led down and also thankful for the interruption.

Trunks looked where she was pointing and was also thankful that she wasn't just trying to lose him. "Do you think someone's down there?" he asked and they both walked down the steps.

Pan tried to stay as far away from Trunks when they reached the bottom and tried to open the door.

"It won't budge." she said and stood back as he pulled a set of keys out of his pocket.

"Here we go." he said and opened the door.

Pan flicked the light on from the outside switch (just pretend it didn't have a light switch on the inside, ok?) And the room was lit. They both noticed Bra and Goten standing up and closing the fridge door.

"Finally" said Bra as she walked over and hugged Pan.

"We'll talk to you two later" she said and pulled Pan upstairs.

Later at the party Bra was thinking about everything that had happened. She was happy that Goten still had feelings for her, and knew she had feelings for him, but she couldn't help the feelings of doubt.

Eventually she walked to the stairs to go to her room and sleep on the decision. Goten saw Bra exit the room and quickly followed her in an attempt to talk.

She reached the first step when she felt an arm on her shoulder. "Bra...wait."

She held her breath and turned around to see Goten standing there.

"I forgive you Goten, but about this whole relationship thing. Do you want one?" she asked completely serious.

Goten smiled and lifted his hand to her cheek, "I only want a relationship if it's with you Bra. Do you think you can give me another chance?"

At that moment Marron and Uub walked into the hallway laughing as they made their way from the den to the living room. They stopped as they noticed Goten and Bra so close.

Bra leaned forward and kissed Goten on the lips until the kiss became more than a kiss, but a single way to communicate and express every single feeling for love that they felt.

Bulma and Chichi walked into the room and stood next to Marron and Uub to watch. "Do you think it's the mistletoe?" asked Chichi as she motioned to the small plant above her son and the girl in his arms heads.

Bulma smiled and shook her head. "No, I think this means more." she said and noticed Gotens arms pulling Bra closer and Bra rubbing his back. "I think this means...GRANDCHILDREN"

She said the last part rather loudly and Chichi clapped her hands in excitement.

Goten and Bra broke their kiss to notice the small crowd that had begun to form.

Blushing Bra stood on her toes and whispered to Goten, "I'll talk to you tomorrow. Goodnight."

Goten smiled and kissed her forehead, then watched her retreating form flow up the stairs and disappear. He stared at the same spot and thought non-stop about Bra for the rest of the night.



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Ok, well, there you go!! Goten and Bra are together now. That just leaves Pan and Trunks!!!! OH This is going to be good!!!! Well, sorry if there are any mistakes I wrote this one kind of quickly. I was surprised I could actually write it because Jen wasn't online for me to talk to! I guess that's got to be a first. Well, in the next chapter, I will probably talk about things after Christmas, and stuff like that. The mothers will of course have a nice little meeting, and don't forget...There's still one more party.

THE NEW YEARS PARTY!!!!! Can you guess what will happen? Oh, it will be good!!!!!!!!