It had been a week since Trunks' accident. Doctors had discovered a heart failure, the muscle had stopped working for a split second, and Trunks was currently in hospital to complete tests. A cause as to why this had happened was still unknown.
But without Trunks there, school had been lonely. With Trunks still in hospital, she has no one to talk to. And after a month of having him around her all the time, she got used to not being alone. But now he wasn't here…well, the loneliness was uncomfortable…bearable but uncomfortable.
Fortunately, school was over and everyone was let out of the building. And, with the weekend only a day away, Pan skipped going home like she usual did before visiting Trunks, and took the bus there, straight after school.
'He'll sure be surprised' She thought, a huge grin on her face as the bus took her to the hospital.
The doors to ward, huge and white, were pushed apart by her and she entered the place with long strides. Surprised, pleasantly of course, to see Vegeta and Bulma outside in the waiting area, she approached them with a smiling face.
"Hello Bulma" She waved at Bulma, someone she had come to know better since the incident, "Vegeta" She nodded in his direction and he nodded back
"Train. Tonight. GR" he mumbled, closing his eyes again. Pan, after hearing that every day for just over a week, had thought of that as his personal greeting for her.
"Hello Pan" Bulma smiled, grabbing the girl in a hug "School ok?"
"Never better!" Pan replied, an essence of falseness in her voice
"Always good to hear. Trunks has got a visitor at the moment. But I'm sure it'll be ok to go right in. After all, you're his girlfriend" Bulma winked and Pan groaned. After telling Bulma of Trunks' and her's relationship, the teasing from Bulma never ended.
"Ok Bulma" She waved, jogging off into the ward "See you later"
Her shoes squeaked on the floor and her hand fiddled with the cuffs on her wrist, as she made her way to his room. Meeting with the wooden door and confirming that it was in fact his room (a mistake she had made once in the past. Terribly embarrassing) she knocked quietly. The force of her hand on wood opened the door ajar slightly and a flood of voices came out of the crack in the door.
"…can't believe you've pulled it off" An unfamiliar voice commented, followed by Trunks' chuckled. Curious, she leaned in closer, forgetting the reason she had come in the first place
"Told you I could do it" Trunk's voice retorted, pride obvious in his voice
"Ok, ok. No need for an ego trip" The other one said "Just take your money"
"Where am I gonna put this?" Trunks asked, "I'm in a hospital for Christ sake and I have no idea when I'm gonna get out"
"Not my fault you decided to have a heart attack"
"Not mine either" Trunks snapped, "Just…put that into my account"
"Ok man, ok" The mystery guy answered and shuffling was heard from inside the room "Still cannot believe you've done the bet...Taming Pan son…whoa. And I thought it was impossible!"
Pan gasped, hearing her name and bet in the same sentence. Was Trunks only with her for a bet?
She peeked her eye through the crack, spying on the two in room
"All in a days work. Only took me a month to make Pan my girlfriend" Trunks smirked from his hospital bed
"Wana make another bet?" The other one, who Pan recognized from her school. One of the head jocks…
"Depends…what is it and how much?" He asked, tilting his head to the side in questioned
"Get Pan into bed by the end of this month for...oh, lets say…200?"
"Deal!" Trunks smiled, unable to keep away from the thought of easy money
Pan backed away from the door…he was using her…for money! Bastard! She stumbled away from the room, feeling the hurt of betrayal. Trunks had…and she was stupid enough to fall for it!
'I feel so…dirty…so used! I cannot believe Trunks would…I thought…I mean…' Her thoughts whizzed around her head. She grasped her head with one hand, the other pumping through the air as she ran through the corridor
"Hey, no running-"
"Stop!"
The cried for her to stop were ignored; the thought of escape was too much to slow down for. Zooming past Vegeta and Bulma who sat in the waiting room, she shoved the doors open, pushing them apart and running out of the hospital compound with tears flying behind her, trailing her path as she ran. With no thought in mind, with no destination, with no vision on where her legs were taking her, she just ran.
"Hello Pan" She recognized that voice…She stopped running and looked in fear at the person she called her father…
