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Chapter Three - "Working Late Again"
I couldn't stop thinking about Trunks. What was wrong with him? He used to be the one who
made our weekend plans and would drag us all to various clubs and bars, laughing the whole
time and making sure we all had fun. Now he seemed to have his dick caught in his zipper. He
was an uptight businessman.
"Pan?" I looked up and noticed that Bra was staring at me, I think she expected me to say
something. Most likely she had asked me a question... I couldn't think of a way to pretend like I
had been paying attention. I admitted defeat.
"Sorry Bra," I said, "I wasn't listening."
Instead of chewing me out though, she gave me a somewhat sympathetic smile. "It's okay," she
said in a sugar-sweet voice. I couldn't help but wonder where this was going. "I just thought
you'd like to know that a really cute guy is staring at you..."
Some really cute guy was staring at me? Well that was nice, but I sure wasn't about to return the
favor by batting my eyelashes like a ditz and starting a conversation. I was worried about
Trunks. I wasn't going to drop everything and go flirt with some guy. The thought made me sick.
I looked over at him. He was well built by human standards, and had dark hair and blue eyes.
He was gorgeous, true, but I'd still seen better. For instance, Trunks was better looking. In fact,
he was better looking than any guy I had ever seen. And he was one of my very best friends. I
wasn't in the mood to flirt with this guy, who was now walking towards me. All I could do was
worry about Trunks and sulk. He wasn't happy.
"Hi, ladies," the guy said, taking a seat next to Bra and I at the round table we shared at the ice
cream place. "Mind if I join you?" Well it's a little late now. And yes, I do mind, you asshole.
"Bra, we'll talk about that little STD problem later," I said bluntly. The look on her face was
classic. Her eyes completely bulged out of her head and her mouth hung open.
"That's okay..," the guy said nervously, getting up, "I didn't mean to interrupt." With that he left.
"Pan! I can't believe you did that!" Bra was completely flustered. "Now he thinks we have
STDs!"
"I never said we had STDs," I pointed out. "But who cares? Let him think that." I couldn't have
cared less at that moment. I mean, really - who really cared about some guy who was trying to
hit on us? All he wanted was sex anyway, and if that wasn't true then he wouldn't have left after
I had mentioned STDs. (A/N: For those of you who don't know, STD means sexually
transmitted disease.)
Bra narrowed her eyes at me. I sighed. "Bra," I said, "could we just do something else? I'm just
not in the mood to be here right now."
"Alright," she said and stood up. "You're still sleeping over tonight though, right?"
I nodded. It was Saturday, and usually on Saturdays I would sleep over Bra's, or she would
sleep over my house. Actually, the whole group of us used to sleep over at Capsule Corp. when
we would come back from the clubs or bars. But that changed too...
"Good," Bra said, snapping me out of my thoughts once again. I followed her to the mall, where
we ran into Goten. He was with Marron. Goten waved and both came over to us.
"What are you two doing here?" Bra asked as casually as she could. Still there was something in
her voice that was a little accusing, and I think that's because of Bra's small crush on Goten. I
had always thought that she liked him, and when I forced it out of her, she said she only liked
him a little. But I could tell she probably liked him more than she wanted to admit to me, his
niece. She definitely was trying to control herself right now. But no one else seemed to notice
Bra's slight hostility.
"Hey guys," Marron greeted cheerily. "There are some big sales today! I tried to call you guys to
see if you wanted to come with me but Bulma said that you two had left already. I was all by
myself shopping for two whole hours!" She fake-pouted.
"Oh no! Shopping by yourself?" Bra asked, feigning sympathy. I could tell she wanted details as
to where Goten came into the picture. I couldn't help but snicker a little bit, and luckily no one
noticed.
"Yeah, I just finished, then I ran into Goten and now you guys," Marron replied. "It's okay though,
I survived shopping alone. I don't want to ever do it again though!"
Bra laughed with Marron. Although it was a bit funny, it still kind of disgusted me. Bra and
Marron were die-hard shoppers, and I was not. They were both kind of girlie, which annoyed me
to some extent. I loved them both as sisters, but I couldn't stand it when they got two-faced with
each other over guys and fashion and such. It irked me that Bra had just two seconds ago been
mad at Marron because she thought that she and Goten had a thing going on, but as soon as she
found out that they didn't she was laughing and joking with Marron, without Marron ever knowing
what was going on. I sighed and turned my attention to my uncle.
"So what brings you to the mall, Uncle Goten?"
"Well, I figured at least one dimwit would be here," he joked. I glared at him. "And," he
continued laughing somewhat nervously, "I was pleasantly surprised when you showed up too,
Pan!"
He was so good at saving his ass from his own dumb comments. I love my uncle dearly. He's
like a brother to me since it never seems like we were too far apart in age. A lot of times I just
leave out the 'uncle' and call him Goten. We hang out often, and even our close friends are
shocked at how much alike we can be... it must be those Son genes. I shook my head, laughing
at him for his corny comment. He stuck out his tongue at me and winked.
"You're my favorite niece, kiddo," he said. He had told me that a million times before as I was
growing up, and he still occasionally says it still to test me and see if I remember my answer.
"I'm your only niece," I replied with a smile.
A little later we found ourselves walking around the mall, looking for something to do. Of course
I was still thinking about the incident in Trunks' office that morning, and Goten could tell I was
upset about something. He tried everything to make me feel better. It was actually starting to
work, too.
Marron dragged us all over to the women's department in Macy's to show Bra a cute purse that
she had seen earlier that would be perfect to match some shoes that Bra had. Now, why Bra
would need a purse to match her shoes, I didn't know. I'm really not the fashion expert here. I
rolled my eyes as they got all google-eyed over the purse and talked about how great it was.
Needless to say, I was bored out of my mind.
"Hey Panny," Goten called.
I turned around and instantly began to laugh. Goten and Trunks would do this all the time... and
it never ever failed to make me laugh.
Goten grinned at me and shimmied a little bit as I continued to laugh at him. He had put on
various women's accessories. On his head he wore a pink sun hat with a large flowing ribbon on
top, and around his neck he wore a women's fashion scarf. He was holding an ugly, gold
flowered hand-purse in his gloved hands. Well, 'gloved hands' doesn't do it justice. He basically
had his not-so-dainty hands shoved in some tiny women's gloves... the gloves looked ready to
burst at the seams, and he couldn't put his fingers all the way in the small fingers of them. He
had his feet shoved in a pair of bright red high heels, and on his face he had these hideous, large
sunglasses that you'd only catch old people wearing. He grabbed a fancy shawl from a table and
threw it around his shoulders.
"How do I look?" He shook his hips and did his best to act like a woman. I stifled laughter at his
dancing techniques. "Oh, look at me go!" He shook his hips wildly. "Feisty!" He blew me a kiss
and winked as he continued his little shimmy and the occasional compliments to himself on his
loveliness and wonderful dancing. I was rolling on the floor laughing by the time Bra and Marron
turned around. Bra almost instantly joined me on the floor as she too laughed.
"Goten," Marron hissed, "Do you want to get us kicked out of the store?!" She looked almost
frightened.
"Nobody would kick a beautiful woman like myself out of the store," he said, waving a 'gloved'
hand and sticking his tongue out at her.
Bra's cell phone rang just then, and we all calmed down enough so that she could answer it.
"Hello?" We waited in silence to see who it was. "Oh, hi Uub!"
It was only Uub. I looked over to Goten again and was about to tell him to put the stuff back
when I noticed something funny. He wasn't smiling anymore, he was just staring intently at Bra.
Though he was wearing those huge dark sunglasses, as well as the various other women's
accessories, I could see that he looked kind of sad. Even the big fluffy ribbon on his sun-hat
looked sad, too, as it fell into his face. He blew it away. The corner of his mouth twitched
slightly, like he wanted to smile or say something but couldn't, as he waited to see what else she
was saying to him. I was immediately confused by this. If it was jealousy, it was the second time
I had seen it that day.
"Yeah, we're at the mall," Bra said, continuing her conversation with Uub. "Goten is here too....
yeah, we found him and Marron.... okay, well where do you want to meet? No, not there, I hate
that store... alright, that'll do. I'll see ya in a bit then. Bye."
We all looked at her expectantly, waiting for her to tell us where and when we were meeting Uub.
"Uub said he's bored as hell, and he'll meet us at the fountain outside in about fifteen minutes,"
she told us.
"I didn't know he knew your cell number," Goten said casually. He was acting uninterested, as
he took off the accessories, but I knew he was in fact very interested in her answer.
"My mom gave it to him today when he called my house looking for all of us," Bra said as we
began walking towards the fountain. I glanced at Goten. Question answered, problem solved.
He was smiling again, as if nothing had happened.
I knew it! Goten did like her! I'll have to have a little chat with him later. I wonder what Trunks
will think about Goten liking his sister...? Or did he know? And with that, I completely forgot
about Goten and Bra and my thoughts trailed back to Trunks. I was suddenly not in the mood to
be at the mall anymore. We reached the fountain and sat down on the edge as we waited for
Uub. Bra, Marron, and Goten talked and joked around with each other. I just kind of sat there. I
didn't even notice when Uub arrived and sat down and began talking with everyone else.
Finally I felt a gentle nudge on my arm. I snapped out of my depressing thoughts and turned to
my uncle. He looked worried.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," I lied and plastered a smile onto my face. He didn't buy it. I guess I should have
known he wouldn't - after all, I have the best uncle in the world. But he didn't pester me with
questions asking what was wrong. He knew I'd hate that.
"Pan you're not fine," he said. Bra, Marron, and Uub were still talking to each other. He glanced
over at them, and I guess he realized that I'd probably prefer a more private conversation.
"Could you tell me what's wrong later?"
I sighed. "No," I said, "I'll just tell you now. I'm kinda pissed that Trunks isn't ever around
anymore, and he sort of snubbed me this morning when Bra and I went to his office, and now I
just can't stop thinking about him, er... I mean *it* - I can't stop thinking about it, and it's ruining
my day."
He raised his eyebrow. I clenched my fists. I knew what Goten was thinking. And I wanted him
to STOP thinking it immediately.
"Guys?"
Bra's voice snapped us out of our conversation. We turned back to our friends.
"We were thinking we would go back to my house to watch movies or something," she said.
Goten and I nodded and we all got up got ready to fly off.
"We'll talk about you and Trunks later," Goten said, winking. He then began to smile his typical
goofy smile and was about to fly off with everyone else until I grabbed his arm.
"Good, we can talk about you and Bra later, too," I said vindictively, winking at him this time, as I
flew off to catch up with the others. Goten didn't join us for a few seconds. I think I shocked the
hell out of him, with the way I figured out his crush on Bra, so it took him a few seconds to realize
what was going on before he took off and caught up to us. I could tell that he wasn't going to ask
me any more questions about Trunks.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I stared at the TV but I wasn't concentrating on the movie Bra had put in almost two hours
earlier. Instead, I was off in my own little world thinking of how miserable Trunks was. He really
was absolutely miserable. He hadn't said so, but I could sense that he was. Call me crazy, but I
could feel it, and it was making me miserable too.
"Pan," Goten whispered. "Are you alright?"
"Uh?" I was completely startled out of my thoughts. I guess I forgot I was in a crowded room. I
wasn't sure what Goten had asked me, but I figured I could give a pretty indistinct answer that
would work for nearly anything he asked me. "Probably," I said.
"Panny, I asked if you were alright," he said, "but I guess you're not."
Damn, so close! If I had chosen to just say 'yeah' instead of 'probably' then I could have nailed
it.
"I'm just thinking," I told him. He only nodded, and I guess he figured out that I was still thinking
about Trunks. I mean... how Trunks is so miserable, and how I wish he'd have joined us last
night. He opened his mouth to say something, but then shut it again. I knew exactly why he
wasn't saying anything. He had to be really careful of what he said, because yours truly knows
that he likes Bra! He opened his mouth to say something else.
"Hey guys," Bra said, interrupting our conversation once again. I should remember to thank her
for her good timing which worked for me not once, but twice today. "Let's go clubbing again
tonight!"
Everyone agreed that we'd go around seven. It was five o'clock now, and the movie only had
about half an hour left to go. We decided that as soon as the movie was over, we'd start getting
ready. They went back to watching the movie, and I went back to my own little world for another
twenty-seven minutes. The movie was over all too soon, and everyone got up to get ready to go
clubbing. Uub and Goten left for their houses to go get dressed, and Bra and Marron started up
the stairs.
"Come on, Pan," Bra called.
"I'm going to stop by my house to get that cute outfit I bought last time you drug me to the mall,"
I lied as I headed toward the front door.
She nodded and continued up the stairs. "Hurry back," she called over her shoulder.
Well, that wasn't exactly a lie. I was going to have to go get the outfit now since I told Bra that
that's where I was going. But instead of flying straight home, I flew down the road toward the
Capsule Corp. office buildings. I know that Trunks has to be here. The brunch he was going to
should have ended hours ago.
I reached the parking lot and looked around. The place was completely deserted - no cars were
anywhere. Something caught my eye in one of the parking spaces. I went over to have a look.
"Oh Kami," I breathed, seeing the smashed pieces. It was the water cooler that Bra and I had
noticed was missing! It was scattered in a million pieces all over someone's parking space. I
checked the sign above the space. "Reserved for Marie P. Birch" There must be vandals, or
something. I shrugged and continued on my way to the entrance, and then the elevator of
Capsule Corp. I reached the top floor and glanced down the hall. Trunks' office door was
slightly ajar, and his light was on. So, like I suspected, he was here.
I needed to see him. It was incredibly necessary, because I knew I could not have any fun
tonight without him. He's making me miserable.
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Chapter Three - "Working Late Again"
I couldn't stop thinking about Trunks. What was wrong with him? He used to be the one who
made our weekend plans and would drag us all to various clubs and bars, laughing the whole
time and making sure we all had fun. Now he seemed to have his dick caught in his zipper. He
was an uptight businessman.
"Pan?" I looked up and noticed that Bra was staring at me, I think she expected me to say
something. Most likely she had asked me a question... I couldn't think of a way to pretend like I
had been paying attention. I admitted defeat.
"Sorry Bra," I said, "I wasn't listening."
Instead of chewing me out though, she gave me a somewhat sympathetic smile. "It's okay," she
said in a sugar-sweet voice. I couldn't help but wonder where this was going. "I just thought
you'd like to know that a really cute guy is staring at you..."
Some really cute guy was staring at me? Well that was nice, but I sure wasn't about to return the
favor by batting my eyelashes like a ditz and starting a conversation. I was worried about
Trunks. I wasn't going to drop everything and go flirt with some guy. The thought made me sick.
I looked over at him. He was well built by human standards, and had dark hair and blue eyes.
He was gorgeous, true, but I'd still seen better. For instance, Trunks was better looking. In fact,
he was better looking than any guy I had ever seen. And he was one of my very best friends. I
wasn't in the mood to flirt with this guy, who was now walking towards me. All I could do was
worry about Trunks and sulk. He wasn't happy.
"Hi, ladies," the guy said, taking a seat next to Bra and I at the round table we shared at the ice
cream place. "Mind if I join you?" Well it's a little late now. And yes, I do mind, you asshole.
"Bra, we'll talk about that little STD problem later," I said bluntly. The look on her face was
classic. Her eyes completely bulged out of her head and her mouth hung open.
"That's okay..," the guy said nervously, getting up, "I didn't mean to interrupt." With that he left.
"Pan! I can't believe you did that!" Bra was completely flustered. "Now he thinks we have
STDs!"
"I never said we had STDs," I pointed out. "But who cares? Let him think that." I couldn't have
cared less at that moment. I mean, really - who really cared about some guy who was trying to
hit on us? All he wanted was sex anyway, and if that wasn't true then he wouldn't have left after
I had mentioned STDs. (A/N: For those of you who don't know, STD means sexually
transmitted disease.)
Bra narrowed her eyes at me. I sighed. "Bra," I said, "could we just do something else? I'm just
not in the mood to be here right now."
"Alright," she said and stood up. "You're still sleeping over tonight though, right?"
I nodded. It was Saturday, and usually on Saturdays I would sleep over Bra's, or she would
sleep over my house. Actually, the whole group of us used to sleep over at Capsule Corp. when
we would come back from the clubs or bars. But that changed too...
"Good," Bra said, snapping me out of my thoughts once again. I followed her to the mall, where
we ran into Goten. He was with Marron. Goten waved and both came over to us.
"What are you two doing here?" Bra asked as casually as she could. Still there was something in
her voice that was a little accusing, and I think that's because of Bra's small crush on Goten. I
had always thought that she liked him, and when I forced it out of her, she said she only liked
him a little. But I could tell she probably liked him more than she wanted to admit to me, his
niece. She definitely was trying to control herself right now. But no one else seemed to notice
Bra's slight hostility.
"Hey guys," Marron greeted cheerily. "There are some big sales today! I tried to call you guys to
see if you wanted to come with me but Bulma said that you two had left already. I was all by
myself shopping for two whole hours!" She fake-pouted.
"Oh no! Shopping by yourself?" Bra asked, feigning sympathy. I could tell she wanted details as
to where Goten came into the picture. I couldn't help but snicker a little bit, and luckily no one
noticed.
"Yeah, I just finished, then I ran into Goten and now you guys," Marron replied. "It's okay though,
I survived shopping alone. I don't want to ever do it again though!"
Bra laughed with Marron. Although it was a bit funny, it still kind of disgusted me. Bra and
Marron were die-hard shoppers, and I was not. They were both kind of girlie, which annoyed me
to some extent. I loved them both as sisters, but I couldn't stand it when they got two-faced with
each other over guys and fashion and such. It irked me that Bra had just two seconds ago been
mad at Marron because she thought that she and Goten had a thing going on, but as soon as she
found out that they didn't she was laughing and joking with Marron, without Marron ever knowing
what was going on. I sighed and turned my attention to my uncle.
"So what brings you to the mall, Uncle Goten?"
"Well, I figured at least one dimwit would be here," he joked. I glared at him. "And," he
continued laughing somewhat nervously, "I was pleasantly surprised when you showed up too,
Pan!"
He was so good at saving his ass from his own dumb comments. I love my uncle dearly. He's
like a brother to me since it never seems like we were too far apart in age. A lot of times I just
leave out the 'uncle' and call him Goten. We hang out often, and even our close friends are
shocked at how much alike we can be... it must be those Son genes. I shook my head, laughing
at him for his corny comment. He stuck out his tongue at me and winked.
"You're my favorite niece, kiddo," he said. He had told me that a million times before as I was
growing up, and he still occasionally says it still to test me and see if I remember my answer.
"I'm your only niece," I replied with a smile.
A little later we found ourselves walking around the mall, looking for something to do. Of course
I was still thinking about the incident in Trunks' office that morning, and Goten could tell I was
upset about something. He tried everything to make me feel better. It was actually starting to
work, too.
Marron dragged us all over to the women's department in Macy's to show Bra a cute purse that
she had seen earlier that would be perfect to match some shoes that Bra had. Now, why Bra
would need a purse to match her shoes, I didn't know. I'm really not the fashion expert here. I
rolled my eyes as they got all google-eyed over the purse and talked about how great it was.
Needless to say, I was bored out of my mind.
"Hey Panny," Goten called.
I turned around and instantly began to laugh. Goten and Trunks would do this all the time... and
it never ever failed to make me laugh.
Goten grinned at me and shimmied a little bit as I continued to laugh at him. He had put on
various women's accessories. On his head he wore a pink sun hat with a large flowing ribbon on
top, and around his neck he wore a women's fashion scarf. He was holding an ugly, gold
flowered hand-purse in his gloved hands. Well, 'gloved hands' doesn't do it justice. He basically
had his not-so-dainty hands shoved in some tiny women's gloves... the gloves looked ready to
burst at the seams, and he couldn't put his fingers all the way in the small fingers of them. He
had his feet shoved in a pair of bright red high heels, and on his face he had these hideous, large
sunglasses that you'd only catch old people wearing. He grabbed a fancy shawl from a table and
threw it around his shoulders.
"How do I look?" He shook his hips and did his best to act like a woman. I stifled laughter at his
dancing techniques. "Oh, look at me go!" He shook his hips wildly. "Feisty!" He blew me a kiss
and winked as he continued his little shimmy and the occasional compliments to himself on his
loveliness and wonderful dancing. I was rolling on the floor laughing by the time Bra and Marron
turned around. Bra almost instantly joined me on the floor as she too laughed.
"Goten," Marron hissed, "Do you want to get us kicked out of the store?!" She looked almost
frightened.
"Nobody would kick a beautiful woman like myself out of the store," he said, waving a 'gloved'
hand and sticking his tongue out at her.
Bra's cell phone rang just then, and we all calmed down enough so that she could answer it.
"Hello?" We waited in silence to see who it was. "Oh, hi Uub!"
It was only Uub. I looked over to Goten again and was about to tell him to put the stuff back
when I noticed something funny. He wasn't smiling anymore, he was just staring intently at Bra.
Though he was wearing those huge dark sunglasses, as well as the various other women's
accessories, I could see that he looked kind of sad. Even the big fluffy ribbon on his sun-hat
looked sad, too, as it fell into his face. He blew it away. The corner of his mouth twitched
slightly, like he wanted to smile or say something but couldn't, as he waited to see what else she
was saying to him. I was immediately confused by this. If it was jealousy, it was the second time
I had seen it that day.
"Yeah, we're at the mall," Bra said, continuing her conversation with Uub. "Goten is here too....
yeah, we found him and Marron.... okay, well where do you want to meet? No, not there, I hate
that store... alright, that'll do. I'll see ya in a bit then. Bye."
We all looked at her expectantly, waiting for her to tell us where and when we were meeting Uub.
"Uub said he's bored as hell, and he'll meet us at the fountain outside in about fifteen minutes,"
she told us.
"I didn't know he knew your cell number," Goten said casually. He was acting uninterested, as
he took off the accessories, but I knew he was in fact very interested in her answer.
"My mom gave it to him today when he called my house looking for all of us," Bra said as we
began walking towards the fountain. I glanced at Goten. Question answered, problem solved.
He was smiling again, as if nothing had happened.
I knew it! Goten did like her! I'll have to have a little chat with him later. I wonder what Trunks
will think about Goten liking his sister...? Or did he know? And with that, I completely forgot
about Goten and Bra and my thoughts trailed back to Trunks. I was suddenly not in the mood to
be at the mall anymore. We reached the fountain and sat down on the edge as we waited for
Uub. Bra, Marron, and Goten talked and joked around with each other. I just kind of sat there. I
didn't even notice when Uub arrived and sat down and began talking with everyone else.
Finally I felt a gentle nudge on my arm. I snapped out of my depressing thoughts and turned to
my uncle. He looked worried.
"Are you alright?"
"I'm fine," I lied and plastered a smile onto my face. He didn't buy it. I guess I should have
known he wouldn't - after all, I have the best uncle in the world. But he didn't pester me with
questions asking what was wrong. He knew I'd hate that.
"Pan you're not fine," he said. Bra, Marron, and Uub were still talking to each other. He glanced
over at them, and I guess he realized that I'd probably prefer a more private conversation.
"Could you tell me what's wrong later?"
I sighed. "No," I said, "I'll just tell you now. I'm kinda pissed that Trunks isn't ever around
anymore, and he sort of snubbed me this morning when Bra and I went to his office, and now I
just can't stop thinking about him, er... I mean *it* - I can't stop thinking about it, and it's ruining
my day."
He raised his eyebrow. I clenched my fists. I knew what Goten was thinking. And I wanted him
to STOP thinking it immediately.
"Guys?"
Bra's voice snapped us out of our conversation. We turned back to our friends.
"We were thinking we would go back to my house to watch movies or something," she said.
Goten and I nodded and we all got up got ready to fly off.
"We'll talk about you and Trunks later," Goten said, winking. He then began to smile his typical
goofy smile and was about to fly off with everyone else until I grabbed his arm.
"Good, we can talk about you and Bra later, too," I said vindictively, winking at him this time, as I
flew off to catch up with the others. Goten didn't join us for a few seconds. I think I shocked the
hell out of him, with the way I figured out his crush on Bra, so it took him a few seconds to realize
what was going on before he took off and caught up to us. I could tell that he wasn't going to ask
me any more questions about Trunks.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I stared at the TV but I wasn't concentrating on the movie Bra had put in almost two hours
earlier. Instead, I was off in my own little world thinking of how miserable Trunks was. He really
was absolutely miserable. He hadn't said so, but I could sense that he was. Call me crazy, but I
could feel it, and it was making me miserable too.
"Pan," Goten whispered. "Are you alright?"
"Uh?" I was completely startled out of my thoughts. I guess I forgot I was in a crowded room. I
wasn't sure what Goten had asked me, but I figured I could give a pretty indistinct answer that
would work for nearly anything he asked me. "Probably," I said.
"Panny, I asked if you were alright," he said, "but I guess you're not."
Damn, so close! If I had chosen to just say 'yeah' instead of 'probably' then I could have nailed
it.
"I'm just thinking," I told him. He only nodded, and I guess he figured out that I was still thinking
about Trunks. I mean... how Trunks is so miserable, and how I wish he'd have joined us last
night. He opened his mouth to say something, but then shut it again. I knew exactly why he
wasn't saying anything. He had to be really careful of what he said, because yours truly knows
that he likes Bra! He opened his mouth to say something else.
"Hey guys," Bra said, interrupting our conversation once again. I should remember to thank her
for her good timing which worked for me not once, but twice today. "Let's go clubbing again
tonight!"
Everyone agreed that we'd go around seven. It was five o'clock now, and the movie only had
about half an hour left to go. We decided that as soon as the movie was over, we'd start getting
ready. They went back to watching the movie, and I went back to my own little world for another
twenty-seven minutes. The movie was over all too soon, and everyone got up to get ready to go
clubbing. Uub and Goten left for their houses to go get dressed, and Bra and Marron started up
the stairs.
"Come on, Pan," Bra called.
"I'm going to stop by my house to get that cute outfit I bought last time you drug me to the mall,"
I lied as I headed toward the front door.
She nodded and continued up the stairs. "Hurry back," she called over her shoulder.
Well, that wasn't exactly a lie. I was going to have to go get the outfit now since I told Bra that
that's where I was going. But instead of flying straight home, I flew down the road toward the
Capsule Corp. office buildings. I know that Trunks has to be here. The brunch he was going to
should have ended hours ago.
I reached the parking lot and looked around. The place was completely deserted - no cars were
anywhere. Something caught my eye in one of the parking spaces. I went over to have a look.
"Oh Kami," I breathed, seeing the smashed pieces. It was the water cooler that Bra and I had
noticed was missing! It was scattered in a million pieces all over someone's parking space. I
checked the sign above the space. "Reserved for Marie P. Birch" There must be vandals, or
something. I shrugged and continued on my way to the entrance, and then the elevator of
Capsule Corp. I reached the top floor and glanced down the hall. Trunks' office door was
slightly ajar, and his light was on. So, like I suspected, he was here.
I needed to see him. It was incredibly necessary, because I knew I could not have any fun
tonight without him. He's making me miserable.
A/N: It's a bit of a long chapter, I'm so proud of myself!
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