Disclaimer: You know as well as I do that Dragonball belongs to Akira, okay?
A/N: Thank you again soooooo much for your reviews!!! They really mean a lot to me!
@ Ed: Just for you, a chapter that is longer than the last one! *gg*
@ Videl17: (Referring to chapter 7 aka 100 review special) I see that you maybe have an idea what character Takeo will play… Let's see, maybe you're right. After all you've mentioned something that will play a bigger role in the chapters he'll appear in. Oh, and please don't hurt my Trunksie, I'll really hurry with my new chapters!
@ Princess-of-Light: In my story Pan just wears her bandana when she's at home. Not at work or in public, otherwise it would be too easy to recognize her.
@ Z: I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I won't take the easy way out. That would just be too boring…
Chapter 10: The first date
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Not even bothering to take the elevator, Pan flew the twenty floors to her apartment, having a huge smile on her face. She softly landed in front of her door and silently entered it. After flicking the light on and throwing her purse on the table in the living room, she went to her bedroom, the whole time humming a happy tune. Too tired to go to the bathroom, Pan just changed into her pajamas and snuggled into her blanket. She just hoped that she would dream of Trunks. At that thought a small giggle escaped her lips. She felt like a little schoolgirl, who wanted to dream of her first crush. Well, in some way it was true, Pan mused to herself, Trunks was my first crush…
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Trunks was still sitting in his car in front of the building Pia's apartment was in. He looked up to where it had to be and saw just a short time later the light flickering on. After the lights went out again, Trunks finally started his car and drove home, the dreamy smile not once leaving his face. For the first time in his life he really felt those butterflies, everyone was talking about, when they fell in love, in his stomach. And this time, Trunks was sure that the relationship to Pia would last. She was the woman of his dreams.
As he got home a few minutes later, everyone was already gone. Just the cleaning bots were left, taking care of the remnants of the party. But of one thing they couldn't take care of. Of his memory. He would always remember this party, because at the end of this wonderful evening, he and Pia had shared their first kiss.
Sighing happily, Trunks let himself fall on his bed. This kiss was a kiss worth to remember.
The next morning Trunks was woken up by the chirping of the birds. Normally he would have liked to blast them into the next dimension for waking him up, but this morning it was different. He was in a really good mood for someone who usually slept in till afternoon on weekends. Stretching lazily, he crawled out of his bed and opened the window, welcoming the fresh air and the already warm sun with a big smile. After enjoying the play of the light wind and sunbeams on his face, he decided to get ready for breakfast. Not that he was starving, but being a Saiyajin, eating was something he could do non-stop. After taking a shower and getting dressed, he almost danced into the kitchen, humming a happy tune the whole time and still having this dreamy smile on his face. "Morning mom," he greeted his mother and gave her a quick peck on her cheek as he passed by on his way to the counter. He grabbed a glass and poured in some orange-juice, before sitting down at the table, where Bra and Goten were already sitting.
Bulma absently touched her cheek. The last time Trunks did something like that, was… as he was still at Junior High! "Trunks, honey, are you okay?" Bulma asked, immediately growing worried.
"Of course," he answered, still smiling, "why should something be wrong?"
Bulma just shook her head at her son's strange behavior and turned her attention back to the pancakes.
"My brother is in lo-ove…" Bra said with a singsong voice.
"What?" Goten asked stunned, for the first time that morning looking up from his plate. "Who's the lucky one?"
"Silly," Bra scolded him, "Pia of course. Who else?"
Suddenly Trunks jumped up. "Oh shit, Pia… I have promised her to call her today!"
"But not now, mister." Bulma pushed him back in his chair. "First you'll have breakfast. I don't want you to starve before you and Pia could give me some grandchildren. And besides, it isn't even noon yet, so you still have plenty of time."
"Uh-okay…" Trunks obeyed reluctantly, not even noticing the grandchildren-comment and began wolfing down the pancakes Bulma was placing in front of his nose. He couldn't wait to see her again!
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Pan was lying sprawled all over her bed, soundly asleep, as suddenly an annoying noise was trying to tear her out of it. She rolled over, wanting to ignore the ringing noise, but it was impossible. She rolled back and carefully opened one eye, glancing at the clock. Eleven o'clock. Still way too early for her, since she still had to do some catching up from the previous week. Slowly she registered that it was her telephone that was ringing. Groaning she closed her eye again, deciding that whoever would call her, could try later again. Right now she just wanted to continue dreaming. Continue dreaming about Trunks and the kiss they shared last night. A grin spread over her face. Their first kiss, the kiss that would change everything between them. The kiss that she couldn't describe with words.
Suddenly Pan sat straight in her bed. "Oh shit, Trunks… He had promised me to call me today!" she cursed and climbed as quickly as possible out of her bed. Now fully awake, she rushed over to her phone, begging that he hadn't hung up yet. She grabbed the receiver and pushed a button. "Hello?" she said out of breath.
"Hi Pia, it's me, Trunks!" she heard his cheerful voice saying. "I hope I didn't wake you up."
"You did, but don't worry… But first of all, good morning…" she said just as cheerful.
"Did you sleep well?" he wanted to know.
"Yeah," Thanks to you, she added in her thought, "and what about you?"
"Yes, thanks to you," Trunks spoke out loud what she had been thinking. "So, uhm… I've heard that there's a fair in town… and… uhm… I wanted to ask you… uhm… if you wanted to go there with me…"
"That would be great!" Pan said excitedly.
"Okay, then… I'll pick you up in two hours?"
"Fine with me! See ya!"
"See ya, too… Oh, and Pia… I love you."
"I love you, too," Pan answered and hung up. Pan couldn't help herself but to squeal with delight. Her first real date with Trunks! It was just too good to be true. Now there was only one problem: What to wear?
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At about the same time, far away and high up in the sky, the god of the earth went up to another inhabitant of the Lookout, who was floating in the air meditating. The god stopped in front of the other Namek, waiting for him to react. Not even a minute later, the elder Namek floated down to the ground and stood up. "What do you want, Dende?"
"You came back late last night," Dende remarked.
Piccolo scoffed. "You know Bulma and her parties."
"Yes, I know…" the god said. "So, they're suspecting something."
Piccolo nodded. "But as you know something different."
Dende just shrugged. "At least she has now someone she could confide in. Vegeta found out about her. No big surprise, if you ask me. But you don't know what has happened after the party, do you?"
"No, but I guess it has something to do with her and Trunks."
"You're right. Pan followed Vegeta's advice and let the Saiyajin in her go. But it didn't go further than a kiss."
Piccolo just shook his head. "This girl will just get into trouble when she goes on like this."
"Maybe. But that is one part of growing up. She has to make mistakes and she has to know pain. Those are very important things that form a person. Right now she is trying to find out where she stands, who she is. She wants to show that she can take care of herself. That's just understandable. And you know that we can't interfere in her life. She needs to make her own decisions, even though they could hurt her. But that's the way life is. It is never easy. You of all people should know that, Piccolo."
Piccolo snorted and turned his back to the younger Namek. He closed his eyes and started to float again, deep in trance.
Dende smiled at him. You're just worried about her, because she's Gohan's daughter, right Piccolo? You've come to care about Gohan like a son, so it's just natural that you see her as a part of the makeshift family you had with him. Don't worry about her too much. I'm quite confident that everything will turn out well.
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Exactly one hour and fifty-five minutes later Pan stood in front of the dwelling house, waiting for her date. After posing in front of her mirror for about half an hour, something Pan never thought she would do someday, she decided to wear a sky-blue summer dress with spaghetti straps that stopped just above her knees and white sandals. She was tapping with her foot in anticipation for the afternoon. Impatiently she checked her watch. Two more minutes until Trunks wanted to pick her up.
After another minute has passed, a silver metallic convertible stopped next to her. Pan smiled as she recognized its occupant. It was Trunks! He got out of the car and walked up to her. "Hello Pia…" He kissed her gently. "Wow, you're beautiful."
Pan noticed a small blush on her face. "Thank you…" she answered shyly. It was still new for her to see Trunks looking at her like this. "But you don't look too bad yourself," she said, after she got over that small moment of embarrassment.
A grin spread across her face, as she saw that also Trunks face turned slightly reddish. He was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a white shirt with short sleeves. "Really? Well, uhm… Bra helped me to pick this… Her fashion sense is far more developed than mine…" he admitted grinning. "So, Pia… Shall we go then?" He opened the door on the passenger side.
Pan smiled at him and got into the car. "You're really a gentleman, do you know that?"
He flashed her a smirk, while he also got into the car and started. "As you see, my mother made a good job raising me. Are you now ready for some fun?"
"Sure!" Pan smirked back.
Trunks turned his attention to the road, put in the first gear and drove off. Pan wiped some strands of her now freely flying long black hair out of her face and looked at Trunks. His lavender looks were also flying in the wind, as they drove through the city. He smiled at her, as he now changed into the fifth gear and speeded up even more. Pan closed her eyes, enjoying the wind in her face. It was almost better than flying on her own.
A few minutes later they arrived at the huge place where the fair was. Music could be heard everywhere and they could see many happy people going in and leaving the place. Trunks got out of the car and opened Pan's door, helping her getting out. "Here we are, my lady," he told her.
"Thank you, Mr. Briefs," she said, as he helped her out.
Trunks just smiled and took her hand, squeezing it lightly, before they mingled with the crowd. Since they both didn't try to fight those feelings anymore, they weren't as intense and pushing as they were before. Now it was just a pleasant feeling, some kind of warmth, that they were feeling when they were close to each other and their bodies touched.
Both had much fun as they were going from booth to booth, trying different attractions and so on. They were on the Ferris wheel, at the dodgem and many other typical attractions. Suddenly at one booth something caught Pan's eye. "Oh," she cooed, "Trunks, look, isn't that cute?" she asked him, referring to a big brown teddy bear.
"Yeah," Trunks agreed. "If you want I could try and win it for you."
"You would really do this? Oh please." Pan felt like a child again and it might sound silly, but she wanted nothing more than Trunks winning this adorable teddy bear for her.
"Of course, anything for you." He looked at her again, the smile never leaving his face and then turned to the owner of the booth, putting some money on the counter. "What do I have to do to win this teddy bear?"
"You just have to throw off those ten cans from their pedestal with those three balls," the old man explained to him.
"Doesn't sound too difficult," Trunks mumbled. "I just have to hold back…" He grabbed one of the balls and carefully threw at the cans. With some noise, the pyramid crumbled, letting just a few of the cans lying on the pedestal. The old man built the remaining up to a new pyramid, which Trunks almost completely destroyed with the second ball. Now just one can was left. Trunks took the last ball, aimed and threw it at the can, blowing it down. "Strike!" Trunks yelled.
The next thing he knew was his date clinging at his neck, a huge grin on her face. "Thank you Trunks! I know you could do this!"
"Here, sir, your prize. An adorable teddy bear for an adorable woman."
Trunks took it, nodding gratefully and gave it to his girlfriend. Pan lovingly clutched it at her heart, a quite difficult task, since the teddy bear was about as big as the upper part of her body. Even though it was just a teddy bear, she couldn't tell how much it meant to her that Trunks won it just for her.
"I see you like it," Trunks stated.
"That's the understatement of the century. I love it," the still grinning Pan told him. She got up on her tiptoes and gave Trunks a short kiss on his cheek. "Thank you so much…"
For the rest of the day they continued roaming at the fair. First as the sun began to set, they decided to call it an end and Trunks drove her home. Both remained seated, after Trunks stopped the car. "Trunks, I wanted to thank you for this wonderful day. I'm sure that I will never forget it. And thanks again for the teddy…" Pan said, referring to the big brown occupant of the backseat.
"You don't need to thank me. For you I would even get the stars from the sky," Trunks told her. He leaned forward and gave her a sweet and gentle kiss on the lips. "Goodnight… I'll see you tomorrow at work."
"Goodnight Trunks," she said smiling and got out of the car. She then grabbed the teddy bear, waved one last time at Trunks and disappeared in the building. Trunks looked after her until she disappeared and then drove home, happy that he just had to wait one night until he would see her again.
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So, another chapter finished and I promise that I'll try to hurry with the next chapter…
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