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Girl of My Dreams

Chapter 13

"Goten, can you ask your mom if she has any wrapping paper?" Trunks asked when he had gotten to Goten's house. "I just bought this present for Pan and I wanted to wrap it when I got home, but I didn't know I would get home so late."

Indeed he didn't. A girl in the mall had kept following Trunks around and clinging to him. It took forever for him to get rid of her! Then of course the store where he planned on buying the present would not open until 9:00 in the morning, exactly 45 minutes after he got to the mall. So Trunks had had to wander around looking in different stores to see if they had anything he could buy, all the while avoiding the crazed girl, but he found nothing like what he had in mind, that he knew that the closed store had. So Trunks ended up staying at the mall waiting for that one store to finally open. When it did open, Trunks paid for the gift, and flew to Goten's house in hopes that they had wrapping paper.

"Sure, I'll go ask her."

Trunks set the book on Goten's bed and sat down next to it, just staring at the book as if it had caused all the trouble that day. Goten came back into the room holding a roll of birthday wrapping paper.

"Sorry, I don't think it's anyone's birthday, I hope this will be okay?"

Trunks stared at the paper. Another thing gone wrong.

"You could always turn the paper over you know…The back of it is white. It's plain, but at least it won't look so bad. You could write stuff on it too if you want," Goten said, noticing Trunks' dismay at the paper.

Trunks sighed, "Okay."

"What is that anyway?" Goten asked.

"This? Well, it's a journal for Pan." Goten nodded. "I thought since she doesn't want to tell anyone what happened, but she should get all of this off her chest, I figured that maybe she could use a journal. It helps me when I'm upset."

"That's a good idea," Goten replied and crossed his arms after handing Trunks the wrapping paper, "But do you think she'll use it? I mean, you can't guarantee that no one will see what is inside of that journal, it doesn't even have a lock on it. She might not want to write in it and actually commit all her thoughts to paper so that people can read it."

"Yeah, but no one in my family ever reads each other's journals. My mom and sister each have one. We all made a pact so that none of us would read each other's secrets and stuff."

"What about your Dad? Never mind, your family is beside the point. Pan is going to be living with Gohan, Videl, and Joey for a while and they might end up reading it. I don't think Videl would read it, but who knows. And Gohan…I would bet money that if he found it, he would read it."

"Don't you have one though, Goten?" Goten unfolded his arms and pulled out a drawer to take out his own journal.

"Right here. I've had it for a long time; Gohan gave it to me for my tenth birthday. I don't really write in it that often, only when I'm mad at a certain someone with black hair up in a bun that won't leave me alone about getting a rich girlfriend like Gohan did…"

Trunks laughed. "Well, if he got it for you, then he should know about no one reading it."

"Oh yeah, of course he does. Gohan had one when he still lived here. I remember that. But that's not the point. Gohan wants to know what happened to Pan and I don't think that she would go into any great detail about anything that happened to her, so I'm sure that he would read her diary to see what really happened. Gohan has always been protective of Joey, so I'm sure he'll be even more protective of Pan after all that has happened."

"Yeah I guess so," Trunks said as he finished wrapping the gift. He stared at the plain whiteness of it.

Goten noticed and said, "Why don't you write something one it?"

"Like what? I don't know what to tell her."

Goten sat on the bed next to Trunks. "I don't know…maybe something like, 'To my dearest Pan, be my mate, please!'" Trunks threw Goten a warning look. "Okay, okay. Don't write anything. Maybe you could draw hearts or flowers or teddy bears. Something girly that she might like." Trunks rolled his eyes. "Well I don't know! I wouldn't care what the wrapping looked like, I would care about what the present is. And not even that since it's the thought that counts."

Trunk sighed. "You're right. At least it's wrapped, right? Okay, I have to go now. I'll call you later okay?"

Goten said goodbye and Trunks left the Son house to go back to Gohan's and give Pan her gift.

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Pan was still sitting at the desk reading Trunks' journal at 9:30. She was reading the very last of the entries made in the journal.

"I can wait for her. She's worth the wait, especially since I know what she has been through. I just want to hold her and make her understand that I'm here for her and will do anything to keep her safe."

She read the rest and sat back against the chair. Pan sat staring at the book, then decided to flip back through the journal to look closely at a few of the entries.

"If she would let me, I would kiss her and hold her close to me and never let her go. I would take over Gohan's watch and make sure nothing ever happened to Pan."

"He's hurting my Pan!"

"What will happen if my soulmate dies?"

"Now I know I love her."

"I don't care if she feels like we're violating her privacy. This will put that son of a bitch in jail for a very long time, just like he deserves. Nothing could be better than that."

"I can't believe she put up with it for so long."

"I think I'm beginning to fall in love with this girl…"

The entries that she had read reverberated through her mind. "Does Trunks really love me?" Pan murmured while looking at the journal.

Suddenly she heard a door open and realized that Trunks must be coming back to his room. Just as Pan was going to stand up and close the book, the door to Trunks' room opened and Trunks found her, half out of the chair, with his journal open. Both stood frozen for what seemed like countless minutes.

"What were you doing?" Trunks asked, though he knew perfectly well what Pan had been doing. There wasn't a hint of anger, or of any emotion in his voice, just calm.

"Well…I uh, I was reading this…I saw this book here on your desk and I thought it was really a book, so I started reading it…But once I started reading it, I realized that it wasn't a book, it was a journal, obviously yours." Trunks stood just looking at in her calmly. Pan didn't know what to think. "I'm sorry, Trunks. I shouldn't have read it."

"How much of it did you read?"

Pan wrung her hands. "…All of it. I'm really sorry. Please don't be mad at me, Trunks! I'll cook you something, I'll clean your room, whatever you want, but please don't be mad."

Trunks saw that Pan was getting really nervous and had started backing away from him. "Pan, it's okay." He tried walking towards Pan, but she only backed up even more. "Really, Pan, everything is okay. That wasn't the nicest thing to do, but I'm not mad at you Pan. I won't hurt you." Still advancing on her, even with his hands in the air, gesturing peace, Pan became frightened and screamed. Trunks stopped dead in his tracks in shock. "Pan, I'm sorry, I'm going to back up now, but please don't be afraid of me."

Gohan and Videl burst into the room. "What's wrong!?" They both cried.

Pan was now huddled in the corner of the room, Trunks backing away slowly.

"She thought I was mad at her for reading my journal, but I'm not."

"What did you do?!" Gohan yelled. He grabbed Trunks' shirt, lifted him into the air and rammed him into the wall. "What did you do to my daughter?" Gohan's eyed flashed into the aqua green of a super saiyan, his hair flickering back and forth between gold and his own black.

"N-nothing Gohan! I didn't do anything to her, I was just walking towards her, I swear. I wasn't going to hurt her, she just got scared, Gohan."

Gohan kept Trunks suspended in the air for a few moments longer until Videl told him to put Trunks down. By that time, Pan had already stood back up from her crouching position on the floor in the corner.

"Are you okay, Pan?" Videl asked.

"Yeah," she replied. "I'm fine. I just got scared." Gohan growled at Trunks. "No, Dad, it's okay, Trunks never touched me. I'm okay, I just…remembered things that have happened before."

Videl looked sadly at Pan. "Oh honey, everything will be okay now, you're with us. You don't have to worry about being beaten or getting hurt in any way. Just look at your father. He's ready to kill Trunks if he so much as moves. He'll protect you. Don't worry, you're safe with us. We even have a lot of friends who won't hesitate to come and protect you too."

"Thanks, Mom," Pan said with a weak smile. "You can't protect me from my memories though. Those will always be there. But, if you don't mind, I'd like to talk to Trunks now."

Videl looked quickly to Gohan, who in turn glared at Trunks.

"It's okay, Dad. I know Trunks won't hurt me."

As a final word, Gohan growled and left the room and stood outside the door. Videl smiled and kissed Pan's forehead and left the room.

Once the door was closed Pan said, "Trunks, I wanted to know about a few things I read in there…"

"Oh…Like what?" Trunks straightened his clothes and picked up the white package he had been carrying that had dropped to the floor when Gohan had thrown him against the wall.

"Like…you feel like I'm your soulmate…you love me." Pan walked back to the desk and opened it to turn to the page that had struck her the most. She reread the passages that had touched her deeply and had made her want to cry with joy that someone really loved her. "Your exact words were: If she would let me, I would kiss her and hold her close to me and never let her go. I would take over Gohan's watch and make sure nothing ever happened to Pan. And there was also this one: I can wait for her. She's worth the wait, especially since I know what she has been through. I just want to hold her and make her understand that I'm here for her and will do anything to keep her safe. What is that all about Trunks?"

Pan turned to Trunks and saw that he had started to blush. "Well-I…um…I love you."

Pan smiled. "Really?"

Trunks nodded.

"Oh that's so sweet!" Pan ran and gave Trunks a hug and kissed his cheek. "I'm sorry though Trunks. I love you too, but…but I can't do anything about it. If you give me time, maybe someday I'll be able to be normal and be able to kiss you like a girlfriend should and all that. But I just can't do that right now."

Trunks smiled and nodded. "I know, Pan. That's fine with me. I'm sorry I scared you by the way. Here," Trunks handed Pan the white package. "I know it's not that great looking, but it's the best I could do."

Pan smiled and took the package. She opened it carefully to find a book, similar to Trunks' journal, except it was in brown suede. Pan looked back up at Trunks, who stood smiling at her. She opened it and tried to find a title page, but all she found were blank pages. "You got me a journal!"

"Yep," Trunks laughed. "I thought you could use one."

"Oh, wow! So…you're not mad at me for reading yours?"

Trunks shook his head. "Nah. You'll be able to read my thoughts soon enough anyway, so why should it matter now."

"Thank you, Trunks," she said and gave him another hug. "I read that you were going to get me something…It's kind of ironic isn't it? I read your journal then you gave me one."

Trunks laughed. There was a knock on the door and Videl stepped in the room.

"Pan, since you've been wanting to get out of the house, I was thinking that maybe we could go to the mall. Just you and me, a girls night out or something," Videl asked with a smile.

"Sure!" Pan exclaimed. "I really need to get out of here. I'll be ready in a minute." Pan ran out of Trunks' room to get dressed.

Gohan watched as she ran to her room, Videl following, then stepped into Trunks' room. His face was stern and his stance was imposing. "I want to talk to you, Trunks."

"Great," Trunks thought, "He looks like he's going to kill me."

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Don't worry guys, I'll write more of what Pan thinks about the things in Trunks journal. That will probably be in Chapter 15 though because there will be a lot of stuff happening in the next chapter like…the return of Charles! Thanks for reading! Don't forget to leave a review! ^_^ I still have my mailing list for you all to join! Just go here! http://www.angelfire.com/realm/ladybranwenxfiles/mailinglist.html

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