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Dance Partners

Family Problems

I arrived home minutes later. I live about 10 to 20 minute away form the dance studio and 20 to 30 from the school . Our house is extremely big. I guess that's what happens when both your parents are martial arts champs.

I walk thru the door and I hear yelling, again. Like always, almost routinely, my sister, Bra, is arguing with our father. Mother is no were to be found, probably in the garden pretending to garden, as not to get into their fights.

I stay still, never moving, I don't think I'm even breathing. I stay still.

"Why don't you let me transfer?" Bra yells.

"You think it will be different at another school? What's to say that same shit won't happen there" Father snaps back.

"I just can't stand it there. Let me transfer!" Bra pleaded.

"The only way you can go to that other school is to get your drivers license before the year is over if not you can't go" Father said.

Bra just growled and went into her room.

I look and it's okay to move. I exhale deeply, letting out the breath I didn't even know I was holding. I look at my father, I didn't say anything. I just walk pass him and walk towards Bra's room. I open the door and walk in very slowly.

"Hey, B-chan" I say, she was laying on her bed, she didn't move, she just laid there, with tears streaming down her face.

"Panny, do they honestly want me to kill myself?" She was dead serious with this question. I knew why she wanted out of Orange Star High. People would say she's running away from her problems, they'd may be even say she's being selfish but I don't see how. I wouldn't she just has to get away, correction she needs to get away.

I walk over to her bed and sit right down beside her and wipe away her tears with my thumb.

"Does he want me to tell him why I want to transfer? I bet that'll brighten up his day" Bra said sarcastically.

Last year, Bra's Freshmen year, my junior year, she found out her friends at the time were never her real friends. They never treated her like a friends. They used and abused her friendship. Bra would fight anyone who dissed any of her friends. She got into so many fights as I have won dance trophies, trust me that's a lot. All because of friendship. A friendship she thought was real but in reality it wasn't. Also another reason, the number one reason she wants out is because in the same year, April 28, 2000, her best friend, Yoon, tried to force himself on her, in other words he tried to rape her.

First reaction, when she told me, "He's DEAD!" I mean what sibling wouldn't say that, common reaction but she didn't want that, she didn't want him dead or anything, that wouldn't make the pain go away. That's what she wants, she wants the pain to go away but no one can ever do that. I wish I could but I can't. I'm only human, I can only comfort and protect her and that's what I'll do till the day I die.

She will never tell father because she's in between a rock and a hard place. Scenario 1, she tells father and he believes her and he kills the boy and she doesn't want his blood on her hands and our father to go to jail, the rock. Scenario 2, she tells him and he doesn't believe her, the hard place.

I didn't say anything to her. I just held her and tried to comfort her. Trying to convince her to live, how I couldn't live without her.

"Panny?" She said.

"Yeah?"

"So, have you told Trunks how you felt?"

I couldn't believe her, a few moments ago she was just crying and know she's asking me this.

"Have you told Goten how you felt?" I answered her question with my own.

Goten is a junior at our school, he's okay looking. Him and my sister have been friends over 3 years, and for the record he liked her first when she was in 7th and he was in 8th but nothing happened and they became friends. Well over the years, Bra grew to have feelings for him and I think he feels the same way, they're just both too afraid to admit it.

"We need help sis, we both like our best friends" Bra chuckled.

"Yeah, we need help. Why don't you tell him?" That was hypocritical.

"He has a girlfriend, Paris. I don't like her. She doesn't let me talk or see him. She forbids him to see me. And he see's it as a joke. And he won't break up with her because they've been dating too long." she sighed deeply "9 months to be exact, you see, he usually dates girls for 2 months and now he has this girl that he's been dating for 9 and if something goes wrong he'll try to fix it because he can't let it end because he's been dating her for so long. Does this make sense?" she asked.

"Yeah it does" no really, it does. What she's saying is that he's gone so far with this girl that he can't let it end. Which is not good for him because he'll only get hurt in the end.

"So, why don't you tell Trunks?"

"Because he just thinks of me as a sister, nothing more."

"What makes you think that?"

"Hello, we've known each other for 12 years and I help him take care of his kid. And TJ calls me Ninang."

"Ah"

Ah, what kind of response is that, Ah. That's not helpful. I need feedback here, people. I need advice, although I may not even use it.

"We're pathetic" she said "We both love our best friends, 2 guys we can never have" she sighed deeply.

I sighed deeply too "Yeah, we are" I looked at her "You better?" I asked.

"A bit, I guess I should sign up for drivers ed, tomorrow, if I want to leave, huh?"

"Yeah, if you want, I can help you with driving"

It was good to see a smile on her face. I haven't seen her genuinely smile in a long time.

There was a knock on the door.

"Yeah?" Bra said.

"Dinner's ready?" mother said thru the door.

"Okay, be there in a few" Bra said.

"Let's eat" I said. I was really, really hungry. Three hours of dancing will do that to you.

Bra wiped the tears from her eyes "I don't look blochee?"

I look at her, into her cerulean eyes "You don't look blochee"

Bra has blue hair and matching blue eyes, which is strange because both parents have black hair and ebony eyes, I got their hair and eyes but Bra didn't. Father thought mother cheated on him, she didn't. He even had the audacity to check if Bra was even his. I wonder why mother didn't divorce him when he did that, can you believe that? He checked her and found our that Bra was his. Well, duh. I could've told him that. Sometimes our father can be an asshole but we still love him, is that strange? I don't know.

We ate dinner in silence for awhile until I broke it with a question.

"Did any letters come yet?" I was applying for some colleges in Tokyo. I really needed to get away but father wanted me to stay and Bra wanted me to take her with her, she couldn't stand living with our parents by herself, mostly our father. I agreed, it'd be cool living with her but father wasn't having it as usual, mother didn't mind. She knew we'd be fine on our own, she trusted us unlike some people. Luckily for us mother coarse our father to agree. I love our mother, I really do.

"Yes on the counter" mother pointed to them.

I looked over to the counter, I got up form my seat and looked thru the letters. There it was, University of Tokyo. The college I wanted, needed to get into. I had to get into it for me and my sister. I frantically opened the letter. I pulled out the letter.

"Dear Son Pan..." I started mumbling the rest of the words "AHHH! I got accepted" I screamed in joy and started jumping up and down, clapping my hands.

Bra ran over to me "You got accepted?" I nodded and handed her the letter. "You got accepted!" She yelled and hugged me "That means..." I nodded and we both started to jump up and down joyously.

Mother came up from her seat and hugged me "Congratulations" she whispered into my ear.

I hugged her tightly "Thank you" I said back.

Father just got up and stood up looking me directly into my eyes "Congrats" he said and hugged me. I knew he didn't like that I was moving away and the fact I was taking Bra with me. He was losing both his daughter in one big swoop.

"Thanks" I said.

"Are you 2 done eating?" Mother asked. We both nodded. "Okay wash up and do your homework. And Panny even though you're a senior. I expect you to give it your all, in all your classes" Mother said.

I nodded.

I went into my room , sat at my desk and did my Calculus AP homework, the only class I really had to work on. I turned on the stereo system in my room and Limp Bizkit's Nookie played. I like Limp Bizkit, they rule and so does Korn. I'm really into alternative rock. I know I shouldn't be listing to that kind of music while doing homework but it helps. I've been doing it for the longest time know.

"Panny" I hear Bra say over the music. I grab the remote to the stereo system and turn it off.

"Yah?" I ask still doing my Calculus homework.

She walked over to my bed and sat right on the edge of it, so she was right next to me. My bed and desk are very close to each other, there side by side.

"I think we should tell them how we feel before we go to Tokyo"

I sighed deeply, she was right. What's the worse they could do. They could say no at least we'd know, right? "Yeah I guess we should" I put down my pencil and spin in my chair so I'm facing her.

"When?" she asked.

"I think we should do it together, may be my dance completion or graduation or the day we leave, anytime" I really don't want to do this but we must because I don't think I can handle just wondering what could've been.

"Yeah, together would be good. Maybe the competition?" she suggested.

"Yeah, maybe the competition" I looked at her, looking her in to her cerulean depths. "We should be happy, we get to leave this place" I smiled.

"Yes, we do" She said happily "But I still need to learn how to drive"

"Yeah, remember I'll help"

"Yeah I know. You always do" she stood up and left my room.

I was a few hours into my homework when I heard tap on my window.

AN: Who is tapping on Panny's window?? Who knows, well I do. Hehehehe. You just read this chapter, and that conversation that Panny and Bra had, is real. What do You think my sister should do about the character Goten is playing? Should she tell him about how Paris really is?? So basically, I'm asking you, what would you do, if you fell for your best friend but he or she had a boy/girl friend and that person forbided him or her to see you, what would you do?? Remember, this isn't for the story, this is for REAL LIFE!!! So leave a review, with ur input. PLEASE REVIEW!!