Break- Chapter 1
By Tanyaneko
Disclaimer: Same one as the last chapter. Well, here's Chapter 1!
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Present....
"I'm going to do it."
"Um... Trunks?" his best friend began over the line. "I know it may sound like a stupid question, but wasn't your first time awhile ago?"
"Goten, you perv!" Trunks yelled into the phone. "That wasn't what I meant!"
"Oh, sorry Trunks, then what do you mean?"
Trunks got an idea, and he listened carefully. Sure enough, he heard a girl's voice in the background. "Geez, Goten. No wonder you're thinking's skewed. Why didn't you tell me you were preoccupied?"
"Go-chan..." the girl was saying, "come back. It's getting cold."
"Hold on a bit, will ya, babe? I'm talking to Trunks."
"My stupid brother can wait! If you don't come back, I'm going to tell Daddy who I'm going out with!"
Trunks finally realized who the girl over at Goten's was. "Holy Dende, Goten! I can't believe you're with my sister!" he screamed.
"Oh, yeah? Why not?" Goten answered defensively. "At least I- just a sec, Bra, please?- anyway, at least I didn't wait 'till she was in a college out of the country to decide I was in love with her, unlike a certain best freind of mine and my niece who doesn't even know!"
"That's what I've been trying to say, Goten. I'm going to tell her. When she comes home for winter break, I'm going to tell Pan I love her."
"Really? You're going to tell Pan you love her?"
"Didn't I just say so?"
"Trunks is going to tell Pan? Finally! Give me the phone, Goten," Bra ordered.
"No! I'm still talking to Trunks," he whined.
"I think I have a right to talk to my own brother!"
"Not when I'm talking to him!"
"Why don't you just press the 'speaker phone' button?" Trunks sighed in exasperation.
"You're going to tell her, Trunks?" Bra asked happily. "How are you going to do it?"
"That's what I need your help with. I'm going to give her a present. One that will definitely tell her I love her."
"What about me?" Goten asked. He didn't like this feeling of being left out.
"Both of you. I'm looking for something, and I'm going to need your help finding it. I don't have enough time to search for it myself. Christmas is only two months away, and I have to have it before then."
"My brother is searching for the perfect gift for Pan." Bra sighed dreamily. "How romantic," she commented meaningfully, poking Goten.
He didn't notice, though. "What is it you're looking for, Trunks?" Goten asked his friend, his tone filled with that childlike excitement he'd never lost, even at the age of thirty-one.
"I'm looking for a dragon."
Suddenly Bra understood, and she smiled. So Trunks hasn't forgotten after all. But it was obvious Goten didn't have a clue.
"Trunks, aren't the dragonballs gone?" He asked. "How are you going to get the dragon without them?"
Trunks almost laughed at how confused his best friend sounded. "That's not it, Goten. I'm looking for a little dragon. A little dragon holding a heart."
