Title: Oh, God, I'm Blushing!
Author: RaliNeoBlade
Rating: PG-13
A/N: I am SOOOOO sorry it took me this long to get this up! I don't know what was wrong with me, I had it written the whole time. ::dodges from flying vegetables:: ACK! Sorry! Sorry! On with the fic!!!!
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"AAAAHhhhhh," Pan yawned, stretching her arms and rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She looked at the calendar, it was the next day, Thursday. Then she looked at her clock- and leapt out of bed with a yelp. She struggled to get her clothes on, shouldered her backpack quickly, and ran downstairs to the kitchen.
A piece of toast was just popping out of the toaster, and Pan grabbed it, rushing through her apologies to Videl, stuffing the toast into her mouth, mumbling excuses for getting up late to her father, and zipping out the door.
She knew she really should walk to school to make up for missing the bus, but she didn't want her Henin to think that his talk with her had just gone in one ear and out the other, so she flew, making sure she was high enough so she would only look like a speck to the people on the ground, and carefully checking around the park before landing, crossing the street, and stepping into class just before the bell rang.
She slumped in her chair, dumping her backpack on the floor next to her.
"Rough night?" Pan turned to see her friend Lei smiling sympathetically at her.
"You got it," Pan replied, yawning again. "I was up until midnight last night."
"What? Only midnight?" Lei asked with mock disbelief. "You call that late?"
Before Pan could answer, Henin came into the room and rapped his pointer on the desk to get their attention. Since Pan had him for both first and seventh period, (English and History,) she both entered his class in the morning, and left at the end of the day.
As much as she tried to avoid it, during individual spelling practice Pan slipped into her favorite daydream. She and Trunks would have been alone on the beach, watching the sunset on her birthday. They were on towels next to each other, Pan in a bikini and Trunks in...well...trunks. There'd be a slight breeze, and both of their hair would be slightly ruffled.
Just as the sun would slip below the horizon, they were both to sit up, Trunks turned to Pan and she to him, and Trunks put his hand under her chin, lifting her head to make her look at him.
"Happy birthday, Pan. I love you," he would have whispered in Pan's dreamworld, then he'd lean down, his lips would settle on hers...
"Pan!" Lei hissed frantically, nudging her to get her attention.
"Wha-?" Pan sat up from being slumped in her seat. The dreamy smile was wiped from her face and her eyes became focused again. She looked up and gulped. Henin was staring sternly at her. Then she glanced back down at her notebook. And gulped again.
Out of fifty spelling questions, she'd only managed to finish three! Pan bit her lip, picked up her pencil and wrote furiously until the end of the period.
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"What has been *up* with you lately, Pan?" Lei demanded as they walked out the door, Pan having avoided being snared by Henin again. Pan looked at her friend guiltily.
"I don't know, Lei. My mind has just been slipping. I can't seem to do anything but daydream..."
Lei clucked sympathetically, shaking her head. Then she asked, "Okay. Who is it?"
Pan frowned, lost. "Who's what?"
Now Lei frowned. "Who's the guy?"
"*What* guy?" Pan scowled.
"The guy you're daydreaming about!" Lei finished, exasperated, as they stepped into their second period class.
"I have no idea what you could possibly mean," Pan replied huffily, and that was the end of that discussion.
Math went by pretty quickly, and better than English had, since Pan had no *time* to daydream. There was a timed test on the properties they'd been studying, and it lasted through the whole period. Pan avoided Lei on her way to Science, not wanting to tell any more people than necessary about her feelings for Trunks.
She daydreamed through that class, dimly registering the different stages in the 'life' of a star, and what she was supposed to do for homework. Stepping out of Science with a sigh, Pan walked to the lunch area, where she was met by a not-that-unusual sight.
Her friends Lei, Tess, Nuriko, and Sakura were gossiping incessantly at their usual table. When they noticed Pan approaching, they motioned for her to hurry up, and scooted around to make more room.
"Okay," Pan said wearily, "What have you got for today?"
"Well," Sakura started hurriedly, "This is just instant, *right now*, news, but a few girls I passed on the way here were whispering something about-"
"*I* was going to tell her!" Tess interrupted fiercely, then went on, "They were saying that they saw a really enormously, incomprehensibly, astoundingly cute guy walking around the school *right now*!"
"It's true!" Nuriko burst in excitedly. "I *saw* him! He's tall, looks majorly smart, and, oh my god! You should have seen his muscles!!" She went into a dream-like state. "And those *eyes*...I'm telling you, guys, he's totally locker material!"
Pan's eyes widened. Being 'locker material' was the highest compliment you could get among the girls at Orange Star High School. What it really meant was that if a guy was 'locker material', his picture was worthy to be taped on the inside of every girl's locker in the school. This guy couldn't be that cute, could he?
"Do you think he's still around?" Sakura prodded, "I want to get a look at him! How old do you think he was?"
Nuriko stuck her tongue out of the corner of her mouth, giving the impression that she was doing some serious thinking.
"Late, late teens of early twenties, I'd say," she announced finally.
"More! Tell us more!" Tess squealed. All the girls leaned toward Nuriko, also urging her to continue.
Nuriko was getting her look of smug superiority as she opened her mouth and drawled, "Weeelllll..." Then her jaw dropped.
"What? What?" her friends cried. Nuriko pointed behind them, nearly fainting.
"That's him! That dreamy guy!" Nuriko whispered, her voice hushed. Pan whirled around and found herself face to face with...Trunks.
Confused, Pan craned her neck left and right, trying to see if there was someone behind him.
"Hi, Trunks," she said absently, not really thinking about why he was there. "Hey, is there someone behind..."
Trunks grinned. "Fine greeting! Do you address all your friends like that when they drop in at your school on their own time, Pan?"
Pan suddenly remembered that Trunks didn't go to her school, that he was already out of school.
"Oh!" She went slightly red. "Sorry, Trunks, I guess I've been a little preoccupied. There isn't anyone standing behind you, is there?"
Trunks frowned slightly, puzzled, then looked behind himself. "No."
"Oh," Pan said again. She wondered who Nuriko could have been talking about, then.
"Uh, Pan?" Trunks asked tentatively, waving a hand in front of her face. She looked at him.
"Oh, yeah. What brings you here, Trunks?" she inquired. He'd never come by her school before.
"I just thought that maybe you'd-" Trunks started, but was interrupted by Nuriko, who jumped up and grabbed Pan's arm. Her friends had been sitting at the table with their mouths hanging open, and practically the whole lunch area was quiet, all the girls gaping like fools at Trunks.
"What is it?" Pan snapped, annoyed. Nuriko, still not able to find words, tugged at her arm, pointing to the door. Pan sighed, then apologized to Trunks. "Sorry, Trunks. I think Tess wants to tell me something...I'll be right back." Nuriko pulled her toward the door. "Meet me in front of the school!" Pan called as she was dragged away.
Trunks scratched his head, perplexed. Maybe high school had changed since he'd left...Then he looked at the rest of the lunch area, finally noticing the admiring gazes and drooling of all the girls. He backed up, nervously, stuffed his hands in his pockets, muttered, "I'll go wait in front, then," and rushed out the door, blushing like crazy, before anyone could follow.
Outside the cafeteria, Nuriko groped for words as Pan stood with her arms crossed, clearly extremely irritated.
Finally, Nuriko managed, "Do you *know* that guy, Pan?" breathlessly.
"Who, Trunks?" Pan asked, kind of confused. "Yeah."
"HOW?"
"I've known him forever, Nuriko. Don't ask me how, because it'd take a week for me to explain how far back we go."
"Pan, you don't seem to realize, but *that's* the seriously hot guy I saw asking where the lunch area was."
"What?!" Pan gasped. "Trunks?! But-but you can't - he's-" she clamped a hand over her mouth, realizing just in time that she had been about to say, 'he's mine', which wasn't true at all. How could she have missed it!? How could she have forgotten that Trunks was just as attractive to every other woman as he was to her?
"Whatever," Pan shrugged, pretending not to care. "I'm going to see what he came over for."
Nuriko walked with her, along with Sakura, Tess, and Lei, who were all mystified, begging, "Introduce me! Introduce me!" To which Pan snapped, "No! No!"
Just about every other girl in the school had followed Trunks to the front of the school, and he was now thoroughly uncomfortable evading their questions and concealed attempts to grab his attention.
Pan was particularly pleased to see a girl called Carly among them; she was a popular cheerleader Pan didn't really get along with, (understatement) who was currently looking horrified that a guy was actually ignoring her. Trunks sighed with relief when he saw Pan.
"Sorry about that," Pan apologized again. "My friend just wanted a word with me. What were you saying before?"
Before any of Pan's classmates could butt in, Trunks slid on casually, "I was just thinking that maybe you'd want to go out to lunch for a while and talk about what you want to do tomorrow."
Before Pan could reply, Carly sidled inbetween Pan and Trunks, put on her best 'dumb blond smile', (A/N: no offense to blonds) and giggled, "I'd LOVE to go on a date with you!"
Trunks threw her a strange look, and Pan snorted at her with disgust. Still trying to be polite, Trunks corrected her, "I was talking to Pan." Then he turned back to Pan. "You can go off school grounds during lunch, can't you?"
"I'd go even if I wasn't supposed to!" Pan enthused. Then, seeing Trunks' worried look, she assured him, "But I can, anyway, so let's go!"
Struggling and 'excuse me'ing their way through the crowd, they strode quickly to Trunks' car. Pan hopped in without opening the door, and Trunks followed suit, grinning.
"Where to?" Pan inquired as Trunks pulled away from the school.
"Your choice," Trunks offered graciously.
"Anywhere, as long as the food's good and we can get a lot of it!" Pan replied, rubbing her stomach. Trunks grinned again.
"I can sympathize. I'm hungry, too."
As Trunks drove into the center of the town, Pan leaned back in her seat, thanked Dende that he was driving sensibly today, then lost herself in staring at him. He didn't seem to notice, luckily. She also gloated to herself about having put Carly in her place, they'd been rivals for a long time. This was the ultimate victory!
"Pan? We're here." Pan sat up, startled that time had gone by so quickly.
"Where are we?" she asked as she got out of the car and walked to Trunks.
"Chinese restaurant. All-you-can-eat buffet. You don't mind Chinese, do you?" he asked anxiously.
"Of course not!" she scoffed, grabbed Trunks' arm and pulled him toward the restaurant while he laughed. "I feel kind of sorry for the cooks at this place," Pan reflected. "They've going to finally meet their match when two saiyajin come into town."
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RaliNeoBlade: Well…There. ::scuffs floor with shoe reluctantly:: I don't particularly like this chapter, but if you guys do, then what the hey? Anyway, Bra, Goten, and Marron ARE scheming something, and it WILL happen in the restaurant, 'K? Just keeping you on your toes…heh heh heh
Rali: Well at least I finally got that up. I'll be working on the next chapter, but don't expect any miracles, a'ight? Cuz I'm really horrible on getting these things up quickly. All right, I'd like to thank YUE'S LOVER, ills, Miss Myrhe, SaiyanMad, Elijah Wood cute, Bra Briefs-Vegeta, medagirl 2, x0ferociousfemme0x0, mrchezzysnickers, Trunks' Princess, Saiyan Princess, Bunny, monica sanders, Hotohori4life-H4L, Jennifer Nguyen, Britt Hedlin, lalala, DR. SQUEE, Lt. Sparky, monica, carol, jakie, Gokou's Gal, Mairai_Pan, ?????, Periwinkie, Katie, damsalndistressdriseilla-asif, cb, Princess-of-Light, Madame Blueberry, Faith, and Rindou-chan for reviewing the last chapter! Ja ne!!!
Author: RaliNeoBlade
Rating: PG-13
A/N: I am SOOOOO sorry it took me this long to get this up! I don't know what was wrong with me, I had it written the whole time. ::dodges from flying vegetables:: ACK! Sorry! Sorry! On with the fic!!!!
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"AAAAHhhhhh," Pan yawned, stretching her arms and rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She looked at the calendar, it was the next day, Thursday. Then she looked at her clock- and leapt out of bed with a yelp. She struggled to get her clothes on, shouldered her backpack quickly, and ran downstairs to the kitchen.
A piece of toast was just popping out of the toaster, and Pan grabbed it, rushing through her apologies to Videl, stuffing the toast into her mouth, mumbling excuses for getting up late to her father, and zipping out the door.
She knew she really should walk to school to make up for missing the bus, but she didn't want her Henin to think that his talk with her had just gone in one ear and out the other, so she flew, making sure she was high enough so she would only look like a speck to the people on the ground, and carefully checking around the park before landing, crossing the street, and stepping into class just before the bell rang.
She slumped in her chair, dumping her backpack on the floor next to her.
"Rough night?" Pan turned to see her friend Lei smiling sympathetically at her.
"You got it," Pan replied, yawning again. "I was up until midnight last night."
"What? Only midnight?" Lei asked with mock disbelief. "You call that late?"
Before Pan could answer, Henin came into the room and rapped his pointer on the desk to get their attention. Since Pan had him for both first and seventh period, (English and History,) she both entered his class in the morning, and left at the end of the day.
As much as she tried to avoid it, during individual spelling practice Pan slipped into her favorite daydream. She and Trunks would have been alone on the beach, watching the sunset on her birthday. They were on towels next to each other, Pan in a bikini and Trunks in...well...trunks. There'd be a slight breeze, and both of their hair would be slightly ruffled.
Just as the sun would slip below the horizon, they were both to sit up, Trunks turned to Pan and she to him, and Trunks put his hand under her chin, lifting her head to make her look at him.
"Happy birthday, Pan. I love you," he would have whispered in Pan's dreamworld, then he'd lean down, his lips would settle on hers...
"Pan!" Lei hissed frantically, nudging her to get her attention.
"Wha-?" Pan sat up from being slumped in her seat. The dreamy smile was wiped from her face and her eyes became focused again. She looked up and gulped. Henin was staring sternly at her. Then she glanced back down at her notebook. And gulped again.
Out of fifty spelling questions, she'd only managed to finish three! Pan bit her lip, picked up her pencil and wrote furiously until the end of the period.
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"What has been *up* with you lately, Pan?" Lei demanded as they walked out the door, Pan having avoided being snared by Henin again. Pan looked at her friend guiltily.
"I don't know, Lei. My mind has just been slipping. I can't seem to do anything but daydream..."
Lei clucked sympathetically, shaking her head. Then she asked, "Okay. Who is it?"
Pan frowned, lost. "Who's what?"
Now Lei frowned. "Who's the guy?"
"*What* guy?" Pan scowled.
"The guy you're daydreaming about!" Lei finished, exasperated, as they stepped into their second period class.
"I have no idea what you could possibly mean," Pan replied huffily, and that was the end of that discussion.
Math went by pretty quickly, and better than English had, since Pan had no *time* to daydream. There was a timed test on the properties they'd been studying, and it lasted through the whole period. Pan avoided Lei on her way to Science, not wanting to tell any more people than necessary about her feelings for Trunks.
She daydreamed through that class, dimly registering the different stages in the 'life' of a star, and what she was supposed to do for homework. Stepping out of Science with a sigh, Pan walked to the lunch area, where she was met by a not-that-unusual sight.
Her friends Lei, Tess, Nuriko, and Sakura were gossiping incessantly at their usual table. When they noticed Pan approaching, they motioned for her to hurry up, and scooted around to make more room.
"Okay," Pan said wearily, "What have you got for today?"
"Well," Sakura started hurriedly, "This is just instant, *right now*, news, but a few girls I passed on the way here were whispering something about-"
"*I* was going to tell her!" Tess interrupted fiercely, then went on, "They were saying that they saw a really enormously, incomprehensibly, astoundingly cute guy walking around the school *right now*!"
"It's true!" Nuriko burst in excitedly. "I *saw* him! He's tall, looks majorly smart, and, oh my god! You should have seen his muscles!!" She went into a dream-like state. "And those *eyes*...I'm telling you, guys, he's totally locker material!"
Pan's eyes widened. Being 'locker material' was the highest compliment you could get among the girls at Orange Star High School. What it really meant was that if a guy was 'locker material', his picture was worthy to be taped on the inside of every girl's locker in the school. This guy couldn't be that cute, could he?
"Do you think he's still around?" Sakura prodded, "I want to get a look at him! How old do you think he was?"
Nuriko stuck her tongue out of the corner of her mouth, giving the impression that she was doing some serious thinking.
"Late, late teens of early twenties, I'd say," she announced finally.
"More! Tell us more!" Tess squealed. All the girls leaned toward Nuriko, also urging her to continue.
Nuriko was getting her look of smug superiority as she opened her mouth and drawled, "Weeelllll..." Then her jaw dropped.
"What? What?" her friends cried. Nuriko pointed behind them, nearly fainting.
"That's him! That dreamy guy!" Nuriko whispered, her voice hushed. Pan whirled around and found herself face to face with...Trunks.
Confused, Pan craned her neck left and right, trying to see if there was someone behind him.
"Hi, Trunks," she said absently, not really thinking about why he was there. "Hey, is there someone behind..."
Trunks grinned. "Fine greeting! Do you address all your friends like that when they drop in at your school on their own time, Pan?"
Pan suddenly remembered that Trunks didn't go to her school, that he was already out of school.
"Oh!" She went slightly red. "Sorry, Trunks, I guess I've been a little preoccupied. There isn't anyone standing behind you, is there?"
Trunks frowned slightly, puzzled, then looked behind himself. "No."
"Oh," Pan said again. She wondered who Nuriko could have been talking about, then.
"Uh, Pan?" Trunks asked tentatively, waving a hand in front of her face. She looked at him.
"Oh, yeah. What brings you here, Trunks?" she inquired. He'd never come by her school before.
"I just thought that maybe you'd-" Trunks started, but was interrupted by Nuriko, who jumped up and grabbed Pan's arm. Her friends had been sitting at the table with their mouths hanging open, and practically the whole lunch area was quiet, all the girls gaping like fools at Trunks.
"What is it?" Pan snapped, annoyed. Nuriko, still not able to find words, tugged at her arm, pointing to the door. Pan sighed, then apologized to Trunks. "Sorry, Trunks. I think Tess wants to tell me something...I'll be right back." Nuriko pulled her toward the door. "Meet me in front of the school!" Pan called as she was dragged away.
Trunks scratched his head, perplexed. Maybe high school had changed since he'd left...Then he looked at the rest of the lunch area, finally noticing the admiring gazes and drooling of all the girls. He backed up, nervously, stuffed his hands in his pockets, muttered, "I'll go wait in front, then," and rushed out the door, blushing like crazy, before anyone could follow.
Outside the cafeteria, Nuriko groped for words as Pan stood with her arms crossed, clearly extremely irritated.
Finally, Nuriko managed, "Do you *know* that guy, Pan?" breathlessly.
"Who, Trunks?" Pan asked, kind of confused. "Yeah."
"HOW?"
"I've known him forever, Nuriko. Don't ask me how, because it'd take a week for me to explain how far back we go."
"Pan, you don't seem to realize, but *that's* the seriously hot guy I saw asking where the lunch area was."
"What?!" Pan gasped. "Trunks?! But-but you can't - he's-" she clamped a hand over her mouth, realizing just in time that she had been about to say, 'he's mine', which wasn't true at all. How could she have missed it!? How could she have forgotten that Trunks was just as attractive to every other woman as he was to her?
"Whatever," Pan shrugged, pretending not to care. "I'm going to see what he came over for."
Nuriko walked with her, along with Sakura, Tess, and Lei, who were all mystified, begging, "Introduce me! Introduce me!" To which Pan snapped, "No! No!"
Just about every other girl in the school had followed Trunks to the front of the school, and he was now thoroughly uncomfortable evading their questions and concealed attempts to grab his attention.
Pan was particularly pleased to see a girl called Carly among them; she was a popular cheerleader Pan didn't really get along with, (understatement) who was currently looking horrified that a guy was actually ignoring her. Trunks sighed with relief when he saw Pan.
"Sorry about that," Pan apologized again. "My friend just wanted a word with me. What were you saying before?"
Before any of Pan's classmates could butt in, Trunks slid on casually, "I was just thinking that maybe you'd want to go out to lunch for a while and talk about what you want to do tomorrow."
Before Pan could reply, Carly sidled inbetween Pan and Trunks, put on her best 'dumb blond smile', (A/N: no offense to blonds) and giggled, "I'd LOVE to go on a date with you!"
Trunks threw her a strange look, and Pan snorted at her with disgust. Still trying to be polite, Trunks corrected her, "I was talking to Pan." Then he turned back to Pan. "You can go off school grounds during lunch, can't you?"
"I'd go even if I wasn't supposed to!" Pan enthused. Then, seeing Trunks' worried look, she assured him, "But I can, anyway, so let's go!"
Struggling and 'excuse me'ing their way through the crowd, they strode quickly to Trunks' car. Pan hopped in without opening the door, and Trunks followed suit, grinning.
"Where to?" Pan inquired as Trunks pulled away from the school.
"Your choice," Trunks offered graciously.
"Anywhere, as long as the food's good and we can get a lot of it!" Pan replied, rubbing her stomach. Trunks grinned again.
"I can sympathize. I'm hungry, too."
As Trunks drove into the center of the town, Pan leaned back in her seat, thanked Dende that he was driving sensibly today, then lost herself in staring at him. He didn't seem to notice, luckily. She also gloated to herself about having put Carly in her place, they'd been rivals for a long time. This was the ultimate victory!
"Pan? We're here." Pan sat up, startled that time had gone by so quickly.
"Where are we?" she asked as she got out of the car and walked to Trunks.
"Chinese restaurant. All-you-can-eat buffet. You don't mind Chinese, do you?" he asked anxiously.
"Of course not!" she scoffed, grabbed Trunks' arm and pulled him toward the restaurant while he laughed. "I feel kind of sorry for the cooks at this place," Pan reflected. "They've going to finally meet their match when two saiyajin come into town."
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RaliNeoBlade: Well…There. ::scuffs floor with shoe reluctantly:: I don't particularly like this chapter, but if you guys do, then what the hey? Anyway, Bra, Goten, and Marron ARE scheming something, and it WILL happen in the restaurant, 'K? Just keeping you on your toes…heh heh heh
Rali: Well at least I finally got that up. I'll be working on the next chapter, but don't expect any miracles, a'ight? Cuz I'm really horrible on getting these things up quickly. All right, I'd like to thank YUE'S LOVER, ills, Miss Myrhe, SaiyanMad, Elijah Wood cute, Bra Briefs-Vegeta, medagirl 2, x0ferociousfemme0x0, mrchezzysnickers, Trunks' Princess, Saiyan Princess, Bunny, monica sanders, Hotohori4life-H4L, Jennifer Nguyen, Britt Hedlin, lalala, DR. SQUEE, Lt. Sparky, monica, carol, jakie, Gokou's Gal, Mairai_Pan, ?????, Periwinkie, Katie, damsalndistressdriseilla-asif, cb, Princess-of-Light, Madame Blueberry, Faith, and Rindou-chan for reviewing the last chapter! Ja ne!!!