DISCLAIMER: If I owned it, I'd be rich. I'm not. Raijin's mine, that's it. OH AND MIGHT I ADD. I'm hurt it took so long to get two measly reviews. :pout: I have up to like chapter 7 done... but I'd figure I'd milk a bit of praise out of a couple of chapters... hrmph, I'd even accept a flame... oh well, I just got my very nice friends who had read the fic and liked it to review, so you people get an update.

Chapter 2 A New Student

The next day when Pan woke up, the pain was gone physically, but she definitely was still affected. She growled slightly as she tossed her blankets to the side, and got up and walked to her vanity. Looking in the mirror, she questioned her looks. She was skinny, toned, overall she had a nice body. Her complexion was clear, and her hair was well kempt. Torankusu was wrong. He had to have been - he's just being like that because he knew he couldn't have Pan. That must be the only reason!

For some reason, however, when Pan went into her closet, she picked her newest pair of jeans, and a more stylish shirt. She didn't have to show up at school until ten, so she headed down to the kitchen for breakfast. Her mom and dad were already down there, Biideru making some sort of breakfast food or another, and her father at the table with a paper open. Pan went to the fridge and pulled out a bottle of milk, then walked over to where her mom was cooking. She grabbed a piece of her dad's toast as it popped up, and gave her mom her good-morning kiss on the cheek. "Morning mom, shouldn't you be leaving for work soon?" "Don't worry.. I won't be late." Biideru replied, and that happened to catch Gohan's attention.

"Speaking of being late..." He said, lowering his paper slightly, and looking over the top of his page. He was wearing his glasses again - his eyes didn't seem to be that great anymore... Well, compared to what they used to be.

Pan just groaned a bit. "Oh come on dad.. you're treating me like I'm still twelve. I mean, heck, I had more freedom when I was twelve, I was off in space."

"You snuck off to space, if you remember, Pan."

"Dad! I'm twenty-one for crying out loud!"

"You're eighteen, Pan. That time you spent dead doesn't count. You didn't age one day, so as far as I'm concerned, you're still eighteen."

"Oh honestly, just because I didn't age physically doesn't mean I haven't matured. I'm actually quiet exceptional for a hot-tempered quarter saiya- jin!"

"Ah, I see, so that's why you ended up fighting with Torankusu yesterday?"

"What?! How in the world did you find out about that!" She asked, wide-eyed and gawking. "Did he tell you???" That would be just like him. Of course he'd try and get Pan in trouble...

"No, I overheard some of your classmates gossiping. Pan, you're not as mature as you think. So as far as I'm concerned, until your next birthday, you're still going by my rules." He had a very final tone in his voice, you know the one. It sort of makes you feel like if you fight anymore, it'll just be a lost cause since he's not listening to reason anymore.

"Oh whatever dad. It doesn't matter anyways, I don't have gym again until Wednesday. I won't even see him." With that Pan just quickly ate her toast and poured a gulp of milk into her mouth before re- corking the bottle and heading towards the back door. "I'll see you guys later, I'm going on to school now." Before even so much as a goodbye could be heard, Pan left the house by the back door and kicked up into the sky. By the time she got to school, there was still twenty minutes until the bell. She sighed and went to her locker, getting her books and following the normal routine. Everything was going mechanically, and nothing in particular happened until she walked into her next classroom and sat down. As she watched people file in from her seat in the back, she immediately saw someone new. And oh boy, was she wowed. She blinked a number of times, and immediately thought, Oh my gosh... He's so cute... He's got lavender hair, too... Are those emerald green eyes? Wow... man and what a build... But she was quick to remove her eyes before she got caught staring. She looked down at her open composition book, and started absentmindedly doodling. Before she knew it, she realized what she was drawing, and gasped a bit. There was the face of that new guy, staring right back at her. By the time she even looked back up around the class, she realized the scheduled lecture was now half done. She looked around for a bit of lavender hair in the sea of black, brown and blonde, and finally spotted him, about three rows in front of her. I'm still trying for Torankusu though... So oh well I guess...

The whole rest of the day she kept thinking back to that class. The way things were going, she had a feeling she'd end up back in a relationship she didn't want, rather than trying something new. That new guy was really cute, and he seemed like he'd be a nice person, but Pan was after Torankusu. That's that... She had a feeling she was heading into a relationship she didn't really want, rather than just trying something new. But what could Pan do? Her little crush already proved she couldn't fess up to her big talk.

After the next bell, Pan knew she was done with classes until about two. At a loss for what to do, she decided to head down to the gym and watch Torankusu's class. Not talk, just watch. When she walked into the gym, however, she found that the gym was empty. Not even Torankusu was in sight. Pan blinked, but shrugged it off. Okay, so there's no class right now. She simply turned to leave, but when she did she got quite a scare. She jumped back and yelped, but after she regained her composure she immediately registered anger. "TORANKUSU! YOU JUVENILE PAIN!" She shouted to an oblivious and laughing Torankusu. She didn't know why she hadn't expected that, or even sensed it out. Well, actually, she knew why she hadn't sensed it out - she'd stopped sensing energy levels quite some time ago unless she really needed to find someone. There just wasn't that much use in it. This time, however, Pan salvaged herself from a farther embarrassing outburst - which, she knew he just irked her for some entertainment, so why give it to him? - and stormed from the gym once again. This was becoming a routine for crying out loud! Twenty minutes later, Pan had cooled down again. In fact, she seemed to be talking big once again as well, but this time just to a friend. "I'm telling you Suika, Torankusu and I aren't getting back together. He's a damn bastard. I think I found someone else though. I mean, we haven't talked, but he's in a couple of my classes. Really, really cute... emerald eyes, muscular, sorta whacked out lavender hair. I swear, he's ten times cuter than Torankusu. I wish I knew his name, he sits like in the third row of my dad's Advanced Composition class."

"Well, whatever he's like, I'm sure you'll get him. I mean, you're so popular you could get any guy you want."

Pan just giggled slightly. "Yeah, only if he doesn't mind a tomboy..."

"Oh shut up Pan," Suika replied, and the two giggled some more. "So do you think he's my type, too?"

Ironically, neither girl was able to put their attention outside the conversation long enough to notice that the very person that was being talked, and giggled, about was walking by. He noticed the girls giggling too, and took a glance at them. He thought for a moment about one of the girls, remembering seeing her in class before. Unluckily for the girls, he also wasn't quite normal. He was catching a lot of the girl's conversation, even through all the chattering and other sounds of a busy college courtyard.

"No WAY!" Pan said back to Suika in a protective way. "With eyes like those, sorry, but he's got a 'Reserved For Pan' sign on him. I mean, look, I even sketched him into my composition book for crying out loud!"

"Oh, wow, you are obsessed Pan! I bet you do have a good chance though. I just want to know what weird thing you have for lavender hair - Torankusu was the same way, wasn't he?"

"No! Torankusu was a jerk! This guy isn't, I'm just sure of it."

Our mystery man was so bewildered by their conversation and mass of giggling that he didn't notice one of the courtyard's trees sneaking up on him. Before he knew it, he was on the ground and blinking, a line of pain right down his face. The next thing he saw made him wide-eyed - his papers were fluttering away in different directions. He scurried to pick them up, trying his best, but he definitely could have used a hand. It seemed almost right on cue that the warning bell would ring, and Suika and Pan said their goodbyes, heading off in different directions. Pan turned to head towards her next class and saw something that made her just desperately wish Suika had to come this way too. Her crush was frantically grabbing for his papers, and was right in her path to her next class. Pan sucked up her nervousness though, and hurried over to help him. She snatched a number of papers from the air, all the ones he'd missed, and held them out for him to take. Her voice was hurried as she said, "You should be a bit more careful, hm? Don't feel too bad, I've had my fair share of accidents around here." Pan wanted to just whack herself upside the head for that, she just made herself sound like an idiot. She didn't get any responses from the guy, and didn't notice that all he seemed to be able to do was blink and nod silently. "Well, I'm off to class, bye!" Pan added quickly and hurried off to her next class.

Mystery guy couldn't quite place what was odd about her - or not odd at all, as may be the real case. He was quite sure that he wouldn't know what to do if every meeting of their was like that, though! Funny... was it just him, or didn't that girl just walk into the same building he was heading for?

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