Here it is! Chappie 6! Now usually I skip a few scenes when I go to a new chapter, this time I'm going to pick up right where I left off. Remember Pan just helped Bra get over her break up. (If not, go back and re-read chappie5) They were about to go paint the town when I ended the chapter. Well, grab some paint and a paintbrush, because this chappie is all about painting the town – Pan & Bra style!

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The Perfect Life – Chapter 6

"Bra dear! You're out of your room. How are you feeling, are you okay?" Bulma was standing in the kitchen cooking something for the party, which was being held at Capsule Corp.'s banquet room. It was large enough to hold a party for all the Z warrior's families and friends times two. When Bulma said un-formal, she meant it. The room really wasn't decorated much since CC was back in business after the holidays, and she really did not have much time to decorate or clean up. "Yeah mom. I have the best friend ever. Thanks to Pan, Dumping Jake now seams easy. I'm glad I did it. We're going out for a while and will be back soon. Okay? Love ya." Bra then winked over to her mom and led Pan out the front door." Tell Trunks…" Pan tried to tell Bulma as she was dragged out the door by Bra. "My car's in the garage, unless you want to take yours." Pan looked at Bra while pointing to the five-car garage on the side of the house. "No, we can take yours. It seams to fit the mood." They climbed into Pan's silver Porsche and drove towards town. Not much was open due to it being New Years day, but they were determined to fine some poor sap working.

"I wonder if that little old lady still works on holidays?" Bra pointed towards a side street marked DEAD END. They had the radio on and it was playing Christmas songs, which they willingly sang along to despite the fact they could hold a tune in a bucket when singing together. "Maybe, lets go look. I loved her fresh bread on cold winter mornings when I was a little girl. I hope she's still in business." Pan turned the car down the small snowy street which seamed to not of been plowed in weeks. "Um let's park here and walk. My cars good, but not that good even with snow tires." So they got out and Pan enabled the car alarm, just incase and they started down the snowy street towards an old, small bakery at the end of the road. When they got there, the lights where on and it still smelled like a bakery. They opened the door and brushed off all the snow and walked up to the counter. "Its kind of sad if you think about it. I heard she lost all her family in a car crash when she was around our age. She just never could quite get over it." Bra said, as she looked around at all the freshly baked bread. "I heard she had a little girl about the age of two when the crash happened. That's probably why she was always in love with us whenever Trunks babysat us. I remember him walking us down here just to get away from CC. He would always buy us fresh bread so he and Uncle Goten could have an excuse to buy some, too." Pan craned her neck to look out back where all the bread was made.

"Is that my little Pan and little Bra?" The girls jumped, but when they turned around, they saw a plump old lady with long gray hair pulled back into a bun wearing a flowered dress and winter coat. "Hi Granny!" The two girls shrieked with joy when they saw the little old lady who they loved to visit on cold winter days. "What brings you out here to this neck of the woods?" The lady slid off her coat and walked behind her counter. "We're just painting the town today, Granny." Bra said with the biggest smile like a little kid at Christmas. "My, you two girls sure have grown up fast. Look at yourselves, grown women standing before me now. Your gonna make some young man very proud you know." Pan blushed when she heard this and Bra began to giggle. "That the whole reason we're painting the town…" Bra leaned on the counter. "I just broke up with my boyfriend, Jake; and Pan is celebrating her engagement with my brother, Trunks." Now by this time, Pan's face was as red as an apple. "Oh… congratulations deary!" Granny seamed just as happy as the two girls. "Now let me see how good this old memory of mine is. You two used to me brought in here by two young fellows, a purple haired boys and a boy with black spiky hair. Now, Trunks was the one with the…purple hair, am I right?" Pan and Bra both nodded as the old grandfather clock in the back started to chime to remind everyone it was even o'clock. "Goten was the other boy, he's my uncle." Pan smiled as she patted Bra on the back. For the longest time when they were little, Bra had a huge crush on Goten, until she found out that he was like seven years older then her, and then she moved on. "Well now dearys, we don't want to be holding you up on your painting job. Best get moving on with the heart break…" Granny patted Bra on the shoulder, "…and get planning with that grand Princess wedding." She then placed a hand on Pan's shoulder. "You two would always come in here holding hands with those boys, never once thought you would fall in love. But, I guess when you would play dress-up and force them to play, it was only natural that something was going to happen." Granny smiled and walked over to her shelves of fresh bread. "Oh...your probably wondering how I know about the dress-up games…" She turned around and reached under the counter where she pulled up a small picture frame with a photo of Pan, Bra, Trunks, and Goten all dressed up in play clothes. It was taken back when the girls were only five. They loved to tourcher the boys. In this picture, they were playing pirate and the boys were the prisoners. Of coarse, Goten was stuck wearing a dress and Trunks was wearing a sheet like a toga. Pan was pirate with a patch over her eye and bandana over her head, and Bra was the first mate, using a coat hanger as a hook on her hand.

Granny smiled and turned back around to get some bread for the girls. Pan put the picture back on the counter and looked over at Bra who was laughing. "Your mothers sent it to me one Christmas a long time ago. They said they though it might cheer me up, since you two girls weren't visiting as often as you used to since you started school shortly after that picture was taken." Granny turned around and handed Pan a plastic bag full of freshly baked bread. "Hear dearys, take this as a way of saying congratulations. Tell your mothers I said hello." She smiled so sweetly that the girls did not dare object. She was just like their grandmother. She was always kind to them and used to give them free chocolate chip cookies when Bulma or Videl brought them in. "Thanks Granny." Pan and Bra both took turns giving the old lady a hug before saying good-bye and promising to visit again. After they left, they headed back to the car. While they were in there, it started to snow again so the car had a dusting of snow all over it. "I miss being little. Even though there is so much we can do no that were could do then, there are some things I miss about my childhood." Pan unlocked the door and put the bread in the back on the floor. "Hey, Bra. Look in here." Pan pulled out two small plastic baggies each tied with a pink bow. The contents of the bags were chocolate chip cookies - fresh and soft. The grilse stood there, in the snow staring at the two bags of cookies for a moment. After they got in the car, the clock on the radio read 7:30 so they decided to head back home.

When they got back to the house, Bulma and Vegeta already headed over to CC, so the girls drove straight there. When they got there, they decided to take the bread in to share with everyone. Because it was Capsule Corp. they had to be signed in. So the clerk at the front desk called up to Bulma. "Madam, two girls are standing in the main lobby with a bag of fresh bread and are looking to enter your New Years Party. Excuse me? Oh, okay. Yes, madam. Yes it looks like your daughter, Bra. Okay, I'll send them up. What? Oh okay. Thank you madam. Good-bye." Then the clerk hung up she looked over to the girls and smiled. "Due to policy here at CC, you need to be escorted unless you have an ID badge. So your mother has sent down your brother to escort you into the party." She smiled again and when back to work. Pan patted herself down looking for her wallet. She worked at Capsule Corp. now for three years and had an ID badge in her wallet. "Oh drat, I left my wallet in the car." Pan made a face that made Bra laugh. "That's right, you've been working here haven't you? How long now?" Bra looked over at Pan as they walked over to the chairs against the wall and took a seat. "About three years now. Trunks said if I keep it up I'll be promoted to his secretary, since he claims he needs one." Pan winked at Bra as they heard some one walking down the hall. "What's the matter Bra? Can't go anywhere without your big brother holding your hand?" Trunks smirked and had to duck quickly to dodge the flying magazine that Bra whipped at his head. "Nope, its me this time." Pan skipped over to Trunks and kissed him on the lips quickly. "I was away from you to long and felt I needed an escort." She winked at him as Bra started giggling. The girls started up the hall as Trunks took a minute to figure out the situation. "You do realize your just digging yourself into a deep hole there, Mr. Briefs? That Pan girl had always been that way and always will be." Trunks turned to look at the clerk behind the counter. She was smiling at him and shaking her head. She was married for four years and has one son. She has been working for CC ever since Bulma decided to expand, and she's been a really good friend of the family. "Thanks Lara, I think I can handle a little runt like her." Trunks smirked and headed up the hallway. "I heard that!" Came Pan's voice from down the hall.

Trunks finally caught up with them at the elevator where the elevator man wouldn't let Pan 7 Bra on without an ID card or an escort. "But, but…" Bra kept pleading. "I'm sorry Ms. Briefs, but without an ID or –" He was quickly cut off by Trunks showing up. "Or your big brother, you really can't do anything can you?" Trunks began to laugh again as the elevator man stepped aside to let them on. "Your lucky you're my brother or else I would kill you." Bra looked up at Trunks with the same devilish look Vegeta is known for. Pan was clinging onto Trunks' arm like no tomorrow. She was so clingy that when he needed to grab his wallet out of his pocket, he had a difficult time doing so. "Pan, I need to get my wallet." Trunks looked down at her but quickly realized saying that was the big mistake. Pan released her grip on his arm and grabbed his wallet out of his back jeans pocket faster then the eye could follow. "PAN!" She quickly moved to the other side of the elevator to avoid Trunks grabbing the wallet back. "Ohh… look at the cut little picture on the ID card. I think it needs to be updated. This was taken when? You were what, 19? 20?" Trunks grabbed the wallet back and slid his ID card into the slot in the elevator, which then allowed them to select the floor they wanted. "You know Pan, sometimes you can be a real pain. Floor 9 please, James." The building itself had 10 floors. Trunks and his mother worked on the 10th while Bra and Pan worked on the 8th. When they got to the 9th floor, Trunks led the way down the hall. There were quite a few people working on New Years then expected. "They get paid extra and they also chose to come in." Trunks told Bra and Pan when he noticed there expression on their face. Pan held Trunks' hand al the way down the hall. When they could hear music playing from the banquet room, which was located at the end of the hall. When they passed a certain room, he seamed to pick up the phone and say something like 'coming forth'. The music seamed to quiet down after that. Pan and Bra did not notice anything, but Trunks seamed to notice the noise level in the party.

"It got quiet." Trunks looked over at the door to the party then down at Pan. "It did? Hmm…I did not notice a difference in sound, did you Bra?" Pan looked over at Bra who shook her head no. Forgetting about it, they reached the door and started to open. "It does seam a little quiet for a party thrown by a bunch of sayians and a few party animals." Bra looked back at Trunks who shrugged his shoulders. When they first opened the doors, the room for some reason was dark and the music was very low. Then quickly Pan remembered the guy on the phone just as all the lights turned on in a big flash.

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I know, I know! Cliffhangers aren't that fun! Well, to write them they are, but not to read them. I just hate reading them but I love writing them. Stay tuned for chappie 7!