*screams and hides from reviewers* I'm realllllllly sorry for the long wait! My mom has butchered my computer privileges! u.u Not fair at all, I tell ya..But anyways! You guys have waited long enough! Onto chapter 14!
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Chapter 14
Friends With Benefits
It couldn't have been a more beautiful night. For some reason there were no annoying bugs. Nor was it hot and muggy--the temperature was just right. Pan leaned out of the more further and gazed at the sky. There wasn't a cloud in sight and the stars were shining as brightly as ever. Their desolate location didn't fog the sky up hinder the stars like the suburbs did; the quiet darkness of the island enhanced their brightness.
And everybody knows what that means...
Pan pulled her head inside and turned to look down at the five girls sitting on the floor playing strip poker.
"I'm not sleepy at all!" complained Pan. "I mean, look at it out there! It couldn't be a more perfect night to go out and do something. We can play cards on other nights, you guys."
Bra laid down her hand, commanded the others to lose an article of clothing and looked up at Pan.
"You are absolutely right, Pan" Bra nodded seriously but suddenly her face lit up as she peeked at her new hand, "But right now I have a game to win!" Cackling evilly she put her arm high in the air and then quickly slammed her cards down on the floor, revealing to the girls her royal flush.
"The winner!" Bra goofily roared while puffing her chest out and flexing her biceps.
Pan sighed and went to explore the house.
Playing cards had been fun for a while but seeing as how they wanted to move onto strip poker instead of Uno, Pan had decided she wanted to do something else. She hated being a wallflower and a poor sport but once she had looked out of the window and felt the warm breeze on her face, she developed an adventurous urge to do something a little more exciting than playing strip poker with her bunch of gal pals.
Sneaking out of the room, Pan took a last peek at them before stepping out. Bra was still gloating, Marron was fully clothed, Jessie was hiding behind a chair since she had somehow ended up naked five minutes into the game, Shannon was down to the essentials (bra and underwear), and Saiven still had her lavender spaghetti-strap tank top on but was sitting there cross-legged with just her matching lavender panties on. Pan would have laughed at the sight but she wanted to get away unnoticed. Stepping into the hallway, Pan crept out quietly stopped suddenly when she thought she saw someone's foot disappear around the corner a few feet ahead of her.
Eyes narrowing, Pan quickly ran forward and around the corner only to run into Trunks and Goten.
And what might you boys be doing sneaking around in hallways?!" Pan hissed as quietly as she could, grabbing onto Trunks and Goten by the fronts of their white beaters.
"We were looking for the kitchen, we swear!" pleaded Goten.
"Really, Pan! We were!" agreed Trunks, holding his hands up in the air.
Pan's voice went deadly calm, "And you just so happened to come wandering down our hallway while the girls were playing strip poker?"
That seemed to be the cue for them to seek escape. Trunks's eye twitched and him and Goten both simultaneously turned, bursting out of Pan's grasp and booking it down the hallways with Pan hot on their heals.
Goten pushed past Trunks and jumped into a bedroom to his left.
"Sorry man, but I don't wanna get beaten up by her for the second time!" called Goten as he slammed the door shut and locked it.
Trunks gasped, looking horrified, "You're as bad as Benedict Arnold!"
"I'm surprised you're smart enough to know who that is!" Pan snarled, making a quick leap and tackling Trunks.
The two landed hard on the floor. She was just raising her arm back, about to teach him a lesson that he'd remember for the rest of his life (if he lived through it, that is) when Trunks threw his arms up again and quickly began spouting words, "PleasecalmdownPan!It'snotwhatyouthink!Wewerehonestlylookingforthekitchenwhenweheardlaughtercomingfromyourroom!Wethoughtit'dbeokifwecheckedoutwhatwassofunny(andaskyouwherethekitcheniswhilewewereatit)" Trunks gulped and finished a little more slowly, "And you girls had left the door open..."
Pan looked at him suspiciously, appearing to be considering what he had just said even though it was almost incomprehensible.
But then Trunks got an idea.
"Besides, you weren't playing so I wasn't interested in looking at anybody else," said Trunks, giving her a flirtatious grin and twiddling and piece of her soft, black hair in his hands that had fallen over her shoulder onto him.
One of Pan's eyes twitched and she became an embarrassing red.
"Nice try buddy, but sweet talk isn't going to save you now."
O.o...
Pan clapped her hands together, getting the dust off of them. Walking out of the room Goten had fled into and stepping over the shards of the broken door, Pan didn't even look down at the heap on the floor that resembled Trunks.
"Ahh! Much better!" exclaimed Pan, a big smile plastered on her face. Her saiyan blood was giving her a euphoric high like no other after that pounding.
"Now to find something else to do!" said Pan happily as she skipped down the hallway.
The girls had heard Pan's cries of rage earlier and had coming running but when they saw her pummel Trunks, rip down the door that was next to her, and heard Goten's screams of pain, they had decided they had better leave her alone and ask her about it later.
Humming happily to herself, Pan decided she was going to find the kitchen before they recovered. She had worked up quite an appetite due to that little bit of exercise. Turning to her left, there was the kitchen.
"Oh c'mon!" called Pan, "The kitchen's right HERE!"
Hearing loud thunks and running coming from behind her, she turned around looking dumbfounded. "No way..." Pan started but gave a yelp when she saw Trunks and Goten stampeding towards her.
Pan turned to her side just in time as Goten whirred past her but not in time to miss Trunks. He stopped just enough to bump into her slightly but enough to knock her off of her feet. Trunks grasped Pan's shoulders, holding her body against his for just a second and then pushed her aside lightly, looking straight ahead at the fridge, "'Scuse me Pan!"
Pan gave a frustrated growl, hair poking out of her head at odd angles.
"Geef Pah, wuh are ya fo ruffled abou'?" Goten asked through a mouthful of food.
The two miraculously seemed to have forgotten all about their earlier incident now that they had finally reached their precious destination--the kitchen.
Sighing, Pan reached out for a plate that held a last, lone chocolate chip cookie.
Trunks's head snapped around quickly, nearly dropping the sandwich he had just bitten into, cheeks nearly bursting. "MURF MURF MURF??"
Pan stared at Trunks's lit up eyes that looked like they were about to spill a gallon of tears if she took on bit into the luscious cookie. Grinning evilly, Pan turned around and slowly began walking away but making sure that Trunks could see her raising the cookie to her open mouth.
"Mur--!" Trunks swallowed, "No! Wait!"
Pan saw him leap out of his chair from the corner of her eye, giving her a split second warning. Breaking into a run for the door, Trunks caught her from the back, his arms clasped around her chest. The two landed just outside the doorway, out of Goten's unwatching and uncaring sight (for he had food to eat right now) in a heap on the floor.
"Gah! Trunks! It's just a cookie!" Pan squirmed, trying to get him to release his hold from around her chest...which she had just noticed how innocently his hands were placed.
"HEY! Hands off!" yelled Pan, trying to pry his hands off of her with one arm whilst the other held onto the cookie.
Trunks grinned and took advantage of her busy hand. Quickly loosening one arm, Trunks reached for the cookie.
"Ah! Oh no you don't!" shrieked Pan as she frantically held the cookie high above her head.
Trunks squirmed and reached for the cookie, propping himself up so he could get closer to the cookie--by placing a hand on one of Pan's breasts.
Pan's eyes went as wide as saucers, turned deep red, and screamed so loud the floorboards shook.
Trunks moved his hand upward into a safer 'territory' and laughed so hard that he could hardly breath.
Goten stepped into the hallway to see Trunks laying on top of Pan who had turned red all over and was wearing a demonic expression while holding a cookie high above her head.
"It's just a cookie, man," muttered Goten as he turned around, reached down, and grabbed both of Trunks's ankles, dragging him off of her.
Still laughing, Trunks voice faltered as he was jerked downward, his face landing right in Pan's chest. The sudden jerk downward was caused by Goten going around the corner but it had also caused Trunks's chest to jerk downwards on Pan's--pulling her black spaghetti tank top front downwards also, not leaving much to the imagination.
"Oooh!" Trunks chirped and then broke into hysterical laughter but was jerked downwards again, his face landing on her hard stomach.
Pan was ready to spontaneously combust. Pulling her top up, she kicked him off of her before he could be dragged down onto any more dangerous regions. Standing up quickly, she shot a glare at laughing-nearly-crying Trunks and stalked out of the hallway into the first room she could find--the bathroom. Grabbing a plush, sky blue towel, Pan screamed into it. Since screaming into the towel wasn't enough to vent her frustration, Pan turned and began banging her head repeatedly on a large, peach panel on the wall. Giving it one last, particularly hard hit, Pan yelped as she felt the wall give way--or at least that's what it felt like. Pan stood sprawled against a wall, her feet still on the floor, but her torso was bent over lying inside what seemed to be a linen closet. Pan straightened up and looked it over.
"A linen closet? With a door like that?" Pan thought as she surveyed it. She concluded that the panel had rotated like that of a secret passageway when she had given it that last hard hit to one side.
Stooping into it, she noticed a small copper-colored knob on the inside back wall. Crawling inside it, she saw what it was.
"A door?" questioned Pan, her eyebrows furrowed. Reaching forward, she slowly turned the knob and gave the door a little push. The wooden door creaked and moaned, sounding as if it had been years since it had last been opened. A piece of hair fell into Pan's face as her eyes widened in a stare, looking out of the small doorway that appeared to lead right outside. Scooting forward a little more, Pan squinted and saw that there was a path leading from the doorway with dark trees and thick shrubs surrounding it on both sides, even from above.
"Ok, now this is getting REALLY weird," said Pan as she swung her feet off of the edge and jumped out, landing softly on the ground.
Looking back into the secret passageway, she saw a little switch on the wall.
"Well curiosity killed the cat but I'm still alive and luckily I'm not a cat," said Pan as she quickly flicked the switch on. A soft multicolored glow came from behind her at once. Turning around, Pan saw that the pathway was lit up by small, colorful Japanese lanterns, all of them strung together leading down the trail and further into the woods.
Pan began glancing back and forth between the passage and the lit up path.
"I'm brave but c'mon, I don't know what's at the end of that path," thought Pan as her imagination went into turbo-drive, filling her head with creepy images.
O.o...
Pan burst into the room, startling the girls who appeared to be playing Go Fish.
"What's the matter Pan?" Marron asked, setting down her cards. Jessie's eyes innocently wandered downward to look at Marron's displayed cards and quickly hid behind her own hand to hide the evil smile that had formed.
"Just come with me! I have to show you something!" said Pan, beckoning them to follow her.
All of the girls got up, most of them in tank tops and pajama pants, except for Jessie who decided to just throw on a large t-shirt.
Pan lead them into the bathroom and showed them the secret passage. The girls immediately broke into a commotion.
"This is way cool!" said Shannon giddily, already getting excited.
"Why a bathroom?" questioned Marron, her head cocked to one side.
"Who cares! Let's be like Nancy Drew and find out where it leads!" chirped Pan, thinking it was a very good decision to bring the girls.
"Yeah!" they all cheered in unison as they piled through the entrance.
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Woo! Six pages this time! I hope that somewhat made up for the long wait! (That is, if there's still some few devoted readers waiting. u.u) The next chapter might be out by tomorrow.=D Please review! It gives me motivation to keep updating and conquer writer's block! Thanks for reading and nighty night for now! n.n
With back aching and hands cramping up with carpel tunnel syndrome as we speak,
Mandypanchan