~*A Broken Heart*~

"Trunks! Listen I wanted to tell you that I!..."
"What is that girl's name!?" he asked while pointing to the blonde haired girl. Pan turned around in disappointment that she couldn't finish saying how she felt to Trunks. You were never meant to be with him in the first place. So it is a good thing you can't tell him Pan. He never liked you that way. He never will. He only likes that other girl. You aren't cut out for love. Pan shook her head getting the discouraging voice out of her head. She looked in the direction that Trunks was pointing to. She turned her head back to him to see a twinkle in his eye as he was watching the mysterious girl.
"Oh that's Marron! She is one of my friends!"
"How come I haven't seen her at school!?"
"That's because she doesn't go to our school!"
"Oh! Well can you introduce me to her!?" he said still trying to talk over the ear pounding music.
"Sure. I guess I could. After all, you would never be interested in me." She said to herself.
"What! I can't hear you Pan!"
"I said sure! I'll be right back!" She walked over to Marron then tapped her on the shoulder and told her about Trunks and guided her in his direction. Marron walked over to Trunks while Pan decided to sit at another table alone. She didn't bother to join the others bowling until she calmed down. Goten noticed Pan wasn't around anybody and was looking down in the dumps. He walked over to Pan and pulled a chair up next to her.
"Pan! Are you ok!?" he said with concern.
"I'll be fine! Just go have fun!"
"Well cheer up ok! Don't look so down!" he said while tapping her on the top of her head.
"I will!"
"Come bowl when you cheer up ok!"
"Alright!" While Pan finished talking to Goten, Uub was starting to walk back with the pizza. Pepperoni with extra cheese. Goten got up from his seat to continue to bowl with the others. On his way to the lanes he sniffed the air and recognized the scent of pizza. The smell was getting stronger by the second and Goten turned his head slightly from where the smell was coming from. At the corner of his eye he spotted Uub holding the pepperoni pizza and started to run straight toward him. When Goten was running he tripped on another person's foot and fell straight at Uub who was no more than six inches away from him. Suddenly...CRASH!!! The pizza was flying in the air while Uub and Goten fell on their ass.
"I got it!" Goten screamed as he jumped in the air with his mouth wide open engulfing the pizza in one bite. He fell on top of Uub and without hesitation he gave his dad's famous grin. The one Goku does when he had done something stupid.
"Goten!" Uub yelled with only a little anger in his voice.
"Sorry Uub but I was hungry!" he said with a chuckle.
"I guess!" Uub said sarcastically. "How many more pizzas should I get for you Mr. Eat Everything In Sight." He said laughing.
"How about twenty-three!?"
"You're kidding, right!?"
"Nope! Sorry!" Goten laughed.
"I guess you do have your dad's appetite!" They laughed together. Pan still sat at the table with sadness watching everyone, especially Trunks, having a good time. You knew you could never get him to like you. So why try. Look at the bright side. You have a friend who will be there for you. He'll be there for you when you need him most. It seems like he would never let you down or leave you. He's too good of a friend. By now the black lights went out, the lights came on, the music stopped, and the announcer told everyone the place was gonna close in ten minutes. Everyone put their balls away, turned in their shoes, and said their good-byes. Pan still sat frozen in her seat looking into the nothingness of the empty bowling alley. Everyone had left except for Pan, Bra, Marron, Goten, and Rin. Bra began to wave her hand continuously in front of Pan's face trying to bring her mind back to reality.
"Pan. Hello, are you still there?"
"Huh," she shook her head as her thoughts were coming back to the real life and had a confused look on her face.
"Oh, hi. Welcome back," Bra said jokingly.
"Pan, who was that Trunks guy? He was really cute. Also, who was that older guy?" Marron said with a huge smile.
"I'll tell you about Trunks later, and that older guy is... nobody. He's just nobody. C'mon lets go." Pan stood up from her chair and her friends began to follow. They walked outside into a cold weather. They all stood there together and waited for Videl to pick them all up.

***END FLASHBACK***

Pan arrived home and started to head up the stairs. The blood was still dripping from her battle against Vegeta and she still went through a lot of pain. The bruises started to show from all the places where she was hit and they were all turning into a dark shade of purple and was almost black. As she neared the top her father noticed Pan arrived home. He walked up to her with a show of anger in his face.
"Pan! Why the hell are you here? You should be at school."
"What happened to your arm?" Videl said as she first saw the blood trail that Pan had left behind her. She couldn't help but to notice that the wounds on her arms had been bleeding for quite some time since Pan's shirt was almost covered in blood except for the collar. Videl also noticed a trail of blood from Pan's lip to her chin had been there for a while too.
"Dad, it's Saturday. Mom, I was fighting and only got a few scratches. I'll be fine."
"Who the hell did this to you!?" Gohan started to yell in rage because his daughter was hurt pretty bad.
"If you really want to know, it was Vegeta."
"That fucking idiot! I'll kill him!"
"Gohan, calm down," Videl turns her head to Pan. "Why did he fight you?"
"Well, I went to..." While Pan was explaining to her parents what happened, Bra was at home having a fight with Trunks. After he had just finished a brutal and strenuous battle against his dad.
"Trunks, you fucker! Why'd you have to humiliate me again?"
"You wouldn't wake up," he said smiling.
"Oh you think this is funny do you? Well no thanks to you Pan just..." Trunks cringed as he heard the name he so despised.
"Pan!? Don't mention her name around me! She made me lose the most precious thing to me! I hate her for it!"
"Oh, uh-huh, sure. She made you lose Marron. Well Trunks listen to this. This... is... BULLSHIT! She tried her best to keep you and Marron together! You kept pulling her into your troubles and she tried to stay out of it because she didn't know much about relationships. You heard how her first relationship went. So she got scared and tried to stay away."
"No she didn't! She made things worse and now Marron is gone! She doesn't love me anymore because Pan got in the way. Besides, you don't know what it feels like. What it feels like to make a girlfriend and a best friend happy. You don't know my pain!"
"You don't know Pan's either!"
"She deserves to suffer since she made me and Marron break up. Now leave me alone."
"Fine, but she still cares about you." Trunks' frustration got worse since they were talking about Pan.
"Get out of my room!"
"You bumbling idiot, this is my room!" Bra said as she pointed to the 'Bra's Room' sign. Trunks turned to look at the sign and realized his stupidity. With this he stomped out of the room and headed to his room. Bra leaned into the hallway to watch her brother be so angry, because Bra always wanted victory, and now she got it. Trunks entered his room, turned around, and slammed the door. Bra ran back inside her room, shut the door, and headed to the phone. She dialed Pan's number and held the phone up to her ear.
Ring... ring... ring... ring. "Hello, this is Pan. Sorry I couldn't come to the phone, but leave a message after the beep." BEEP!
"Hey Pan, I have some exciting news. I finally beat Trunks! Not at the video games cause you know he always wins at those. I was arguing with him and he got really stupid. It was hilarious. Well call back or get online ok? Bye." Bra hung up the phone.
Over at the Son house (Goku's place), Gohan was telling Goku about Vegeta and what he did to Pan. A few minutes later Goku and Pan went into another room alone.
"Pan, can you tell me what happed?"
"Grandpa, you already heard it from dad. Why do I have to repeat it?"
"I just want to know what Vegeta said to you during your fight, how it all happened, and why Vegeta got ticked in the first place."
"I took Bra home after some asshole took her out of bed and dropped her in front of another one of her friend's houses. I went to go get her, then took her home. Vegeta saw me bring Bra back and she was in tears. He thought I was just playing heroic and made it look like I am nothing but a good person." Pan said this and then mumbled under her breath thinking Goku wouldn't hear, "Trunks you asshole." Goku heard this because of his Saiyan hearing.
"Pan, let me ask you this. Why are you mad at Trunks?"
"I have my reasons for being mad at that inconsiderate buffoon."
"Pan, calm down."
"Why should I? He has hurt me so badly and I can never forgive him for what he has done to me. If he ever came back to talk to me I would make him suffer. I... HATE... HIM!" A sudden burst of chi flared from Pan's body all across the room. Goku sat there and watched how Pan was showing her anger. While Pan was flaring her chi, Krillin was at home and felt the enormous chi thinking it could be Cell or someone else. He looked around and noticed the chi was coming from Goku's house. He ran outside and slammed the door behind him and flew off in a hurry. Not a minute later Krillin arrived at the Son house. He ran inside and saw everyone's face was calm. Gohan and Videl looked at Krillin with a look saying 'why are you here?'
"Hey, I felt a strong chi and thought you guys might need help. Is everyone ok?"
"We are, but Pan isn't," Videl said worryingly.
"What's wrong with her? Is she hurt? Did someone die?"
"Well from what we know so far, Vegeta beat up our daughter pretty bad and she is also hurt mentally because of Trunks. She and Trunks haven't talked for months now."
"What!? I could never see Trunks do that to someone. He has always been a good kid. So why is he mad at her?" Krillin said surprised.
"We don't know."
"Well can I ask you this then? How come Pan hasn't some to visit Marron or even call anymore?"
"You mean she hasn't called Marron either?" Gohan and Videl said in shock.
"You mean you two didn't know about that either?" Krillin asked facing the concerned parents of Pan.
"No." In the next room the flaring of Pan's chi caused her to break a vase and Gohan, Videl, and Krillin went in there to check on Pan. When they entered the room Pan gave an angry glare at her parents and Krillin and shot out the window causing it to break as she flew out with great speed.
"Why can't they leave me alone? Don't they see that when I'm in pain I want to be left alone? Never mind. I'll just look for a place secluded so they can't pester me."

***FLASHBACK***

It was Halloween night and Pan was having her party like she had every year for the past four years. Everyone was having a good time. Goten, Trunks, Rin, and Uub were swimming in the heated pool listening to their music. Bra, Tohru, Kagura, and Kyo were shooting pool in the pool room listening to their own music. Pan was outside handing out candy and would once in a while check on her guests. She checked on them to see if they needed anything or just to relax a bit. Every chance Pan or any of the other guests would have, they would venture off to the kitchen and get something to eat. At this point Pan was sitting outside alone in the cold dark night waiting for more trick-or-treaters to come by. It had been over an hour since Pan checked up on her guests and Bra got a bit worried. She stopped playing pool for a bit and went outside to look for Pan. Bra opened the screen door and turned her and saw no Pan. Instead, Bra heard a faint cry from a few feet away. She followed the cry and noticed it was Pan.
"What's wrong Pan?" Bra said as she wiped the tears off Pan's face.
"Well for a few weeks Trunks and I haven't talked and even though he still came to the party I can't face him."
"I kinda noticed that. He hasn't even mentioned your name. What's going on?"
"Trunks and I are fighting because he said I was the cause of his and Marron's breakup. He kept pulling me into his troubles and I would listen, but I tried to stay out of them. So when Marron broke up with Trunks, they both yelled at me for getting the way. I was really confused and upset. Then I tried to talk to him but he yelled at me and said that I had to let go of him. To forget him. Then I said only if I can say goodbye one last time. He promised that I could tonight, but I know he won't. I'm so stupid for even liking him."
"Pan? Are you gonna be ok?"
"No. Bra, I'm sorry but I have to tell you something. I should have called you. The reason is that I had a gun up to my head three days ago. I put it there intentionally. I was so hurt after losing Trunks and Marron. Even though I knew there was still going to be a party on Halloween I was so desperate to die. The gun was there in my hand. I pulled the trigger... but there were no bullets. I couldn't take the pain of losing two friends and being raped."
"You were raped!?" Bra said hesitantly. "By who?"
"Brolli." Pan said this while lowering her head knowing she had to one day tell Bra the news of her rape. She felt so ashamed.
"You mean that senior at our high school you secretly dated last year?"
"Y...y...yes." Pan started to cry even harder. Bra pulled Pan up to her shoulder and Pan stood there to cry. "Pan, why didn't you tell me?"
"It too much to even think about it. I couldn't tell anyone. Until three months ago. That's when I told Trunks about the rape. He was shocked and mad when I told him. I think I shouldn't have told him," she said wiping her tears.
"It's ok Pan. At least the fucking bastard is gone, but Trunks shouldn't be mad at you. Can you tell me how he raped you?" Pan froze with a little look of horror from remembering the rape. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"No I'll tell you," Pan the started to explain everything to Bra. Well, the things she thought Bra wanted to hear anyway.

***END FLASHBACK***

Pan headed over to the park where she was always left alone. The birds were chirping, the sky was blue, and the cherry blossoms were at full bloom. She laid down in the grass starring at the sky. Why can't everyone leave me alone about the whole Trunks issue? Oh forget it. At least he knows the secret about me liking him. That's a good thing. Now that he knows I can forget him a lot easier. After all, that's what he wants me to do. He wants me to forget him. So I will. The day was passing by slowly as Pan watched the clouds and birds go by. She started to fall into a slumber until she heard a voice she recognized so well.
"Hello Pan. It's nice to see you again. I missed you baby. Where have you been?" Pan quickly opened her eyes and whipped her head around to face the person who spoke to her. Her eyes widened, and she began to cry for she had been standing in front of the man whom she hated the most. The one she tried to forget the most.
"You!? Get away from me..."

Who is this mysterious guy Pan is seeing at the park? Will Pan ever talk to Trunks, or will she forget him like she promised him? Find out next time in... Chapter 4. thanks for reading my story so far. If you would like to, please send a review so I know what to write next. Thanks ^-^.