Hey! Thanks for the reviews! I'm out of school now!! (Yeah, I'm not lying! I was in 8th grade and since next year I go to a high school, they let us out a week earlier than the rest of the schools in my city!) So, now updates should come quicker except when I'm on vacation. I may even start doing one a day...maybe...

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Last time:

Often I had wondered why I continued living. But then I always thought of my dad. What would he want for me? He would want me to keep living and make life better for myself. That's what I intended to de.

Still, I often wondered.....

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I suddenly found myself falling. I had lost concentration! I screamed and tried to stop falling but I just couldn't get my concentration back. Looking up, I saw Trunks flying after me, his arms outstretched to catch me. He quickly caught up and locked his arms around me. I felt myself stop falling.

"You okay?" Trunks asked. "You just suddenly started falling." He had that worried look on his face.

"I'm fine, Trunks." I answered. "I just lost my concentration, that's all."

"Oh, okay. You had me worried. I thought that your not eating was taking effect." Trunks smiled a little. "And speaking of eating, I'm hungry! let's take a break for lunch!"

"Lunch? but it hasn't even been that long since we ate breakfast!"

"Yeah, I guess you're right...Okay, well, let's keep flying then." He said. We practiced flying for about an hour and a half before we, or rather he, decided to stop for lunch. You've probably guessed I wasn't hungry.

As we were getting back to the clearing, I moved closer to him. He looked at me and smiled a little, then wrapped an arm around me. I laid my head on his shoulder and slowly eased into him doing to flying. When we got back to the clearing, he eased us to the ground. Only when my feet were firmly on the ground did he seemingly reluctantly let me out of his grasp.

We sat down on the soft grass after getting out the food Bulma had packed for us. It was quickly gone...mostly eaten by Trunks. (Not that I minded or anything, I didn't want much.) For the rest of the afternoon, I practiced flying. I only fell a few timed and each time, Trunks promptly caught me and allowed me to talk off from his arms.

When we decided that we'd better get going back to C.C., I was able to fly the whole way. As we were flying back, my vision became clouded. I forced my eyes to focus and kept flying. Again, they went out of focus. I slowed a little and again forced them to focus on the trees below me. Suddenly I was falling again, then blackness.

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When I woke up, Trunks was landing on the ground. I started to move and he looked down at me. It took a minute to realize where I now was, but as my eyes focused, I saw that we were at the grounds of C.C.

"What happened?" I asked.

"You passed out." Trunks answered.

"Oh..." I answered, wondering why. I was also thinking that he was wondering the same thing. I sighed and asked him to put me down. He did so, though I could tell he didn't want to. As he put my feet on the ground, a black blur came at me and before I could react, I was tackled to the ground. I was unable to get up because of the weight pinning me down.

"Panny!!" It was my Uncle Goten. I should have known. "I'm so glad you're back! ...Sorry about tackling you like this...I didn't think you'd fall over." He let me up and extended a hand and pulled me to my feet.

"Hi, Goten. I'm glad I'm back, too. And it's okay." I smiled a little at him. He suddenly got a concerned look on his face.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't want to talk about it." I answered.

"Awww...come on, you can..." Goten was interrupted by Trunks clearing his throat and shaking his head no, telling him not to persist. Goten caught on and shut his mouth.

"Are you staying for dinner, Goten?" Trunks asked.

"No, I can't. Mom wanted me back there."

"That's too bad. It would have been nice." I said. Goten sighed.

"Well, I had better be going." Goten hugged me and took off in the air towards his home.

"How about we get some dinner? I think Mum, Dad, and Bra have probably already eaten."

"I'm not very hungry..." I'm sure he was getting really sick of hearing that.

"How can you not be hungry?! You barely ate anything for breakfast and definitely not enough for lunch! And to top it off, you passed out probably because of it! I really don't see how you can't be hungry!" Trunks yelled. For some reason, his words really hurt. It was probably the fact that he wasn't just yelling to vent, he was yelling at me because he seemed angry with me.

"I don't know, Trunks." I said quietly, holding back tears. "I don't know." I took off into the sky, not even thinking about the fact that I might fall. It just came naturally. Subconsciously, I flew to a place where I had always come to think. I guess it was a habit from before I left.

I landed near a waterfall and ducked quickly through. I sat in the cave behind it and cried. I didn't really understand why his words hurt for sure, but I just cried. I cried until I had exhausted myself. I don't think all those tears were from what he said, I think they were from Angel's death...and they were the tears I couldn't cry when all seemed hopeless.

Finally, I fell into a cold and restless sleep.

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Well, I thought this would be a good place to stop, so I did. Please review! PLEASE!!!

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