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Last time:

"Well, that was one crazy game of leapfrog." Bra muttered as Goten opened the door of the car for her. Goten gave her a sheepish look, got in after her and shut the door. I turned around in my seat and stuck my tongue out at Goten, who in turn rolled his eyes at me.

"I'll get it next time! Just you wait!"

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I woke with a start to a loud rumble. I was facing the window and as I opened my eyes, I was met with a bright flash. I liked morning storms. They were different than the ones in the middle of the night. These were kind of cool to wake up to, unlike in the middle of the night when it's dark and kind of unnerving.

I rolled over to go back to sleep for a few more hours when I suddenly remembered something. I jumped out of my bed and ran next door to Trunk's room. He was still sleeping soundly. I jumped on his bed and started shaking him.

"Trunks! Wake up! Trunks! Trunks!"

"Huh? Panny?? What's wrong??" He looked around and grabbed my shoulders. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine! I wanna watch the lightning!" I said. As if on cue, we saw a flash of lightning and soon after heard the rumble of thunder.

He sighed and climbed out of bed. We walked down the stairs and across the house to he sunroom they had in the back. Before I had left, we had always sat there and watched the lightning when I had slept over. Bra always slept through them, but I couldn't. I was afraid, so I would sit down here. Trunks would get up to get a snack and see me here, huddled under a blanket and come sit next to me.

It was him that told me what thunder was and explained what lightning was as well. After that, I wasn't so afraid anymore. And, after a while, I got used to thunderstorms. In fact, I grew to like them.

"Pan?" Trunks asked, waving his hand in front of my face. "You going to sit down?" He looked a little concerned.

"Huh?" I snapped back to reality. "Oh, yeah. I was just thinking about how we used to sit here." He smiled.

"Yeah, when you were gone, I would still sit here and watch." I smiled and sat down, then he took a seat next to me. He pulled a blanket over us and we relaxed and watched the display.

As I watched the bolts of lightning flash across the sky, I thought about the storms I had endured in the ghetto. They were nothing like this. Then, it had seemed like I was a part of the storm. Now, I was just watching. Just a viewer.

I liked it better this way.

I started to wonder whether I liked the thunder or the lightning better. The lightning was pretty, but I could feel the thunder. Sometimes it would be so loud that it would shake the floor and the pictures on the wall. But, I especially liked it when I could feel it in my chest. It's like at a fireworks show when just after the flash, you hear the boom and there's a sudden pressure in your chest. I'm not sure exactly what causes it, but I like it.

As I snuggled into Trunks, his grip on me tightened. I sighed contently and listened for the next boom of thunder. The storm was getting further and further away. I could tell by how long it was between the flash of lightning and the boom of thunder. The more time between the two, the further away the storm was.

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I slowly opened my eyes, wondering what was going on. I hadn't even realized that I had fallen asleep. I looked outside and saw that it was still raining, but there was no thunder or lightning. I lifted my head off Trunks' shoulder and look up at him. He grinned back at me.

"It's just raining now," he said. "and I want to go play in it." I looked outside and grinned. He jumped up off the couch and pulled me with him. We ran out of the sunroom and into the backyard. From the backyard, we ran to the front and out into the street where the puddles were the best.

I grinned deviously at him and kicked water from a puddle at him, making it to his face. He mock-frowned at me and kicked water back at me. And there it began. We both had bare feet and were soaked through, both shivering. But did that make us want to stop? No way! We ran down the street, jumping in all the puddles, splashing each other.

When we finally stopped running, we were both out of breath. However, just looking at each other caused us to start laughing; I looked up at him and one glance at his messy hair caused me to start laughing. He looked at me to see what I was laughing about and chuckled to himself. It started small, but soon grew to a thunderous laugh that wouldn't let me stop laughing either.

I guess my hair was just as bad as his was.

Suddenly he just stopped laughing. I looked over at him stopped as well. The look in his eyes was one that I had never seen before on him. I stared into his eyes and he just stared back. Then he began walking slowly towards me.

I watched the raindrops fall through his hair and off the tip of his nose. He was right in front of me now. I noticed the droplets that were caught in his eyelashes as well as the ones that slid down his cheeks.

Wait, those weren't raindrops!

"Trunks?" I reached out to wipe the tears. "Are you okay?"

"Pan-chan," He smiled, "you have no idea how happy you make me!" Then, he leaned down.....and kissed me.

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Yes, yes, short, I know, but I really wanted to update! So, a little is better than none at all, right? I think so. Ah, yes, thank you to those who reviewed! I hope to reach the 200 mark with this chapter! (I think I will.........I hope)

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