Chapter Two: A Surprise Visit
Pan got to the skating park in ten minutes and spotted her friends Tommy and Teresa (they were twins) sitting on a bench. She walked over to them and started to sit down but was interrupted by a sharp voice. She looked up.
"Um, excuse me? But you're sitting in my seat."
Pan's face crumbled. She did not want to deal with Miss "Prissy Paula". "Paula, are you serious? These are my friends."
"Pan," Teresa started. "Paula's not all that bad you know. Tommy and I got to know her over the last two years. Tommy and Paula are even going out now."
"What!" Pan looked incredulously at Tommy who in turn, flushed deeply. "How did this happen! We made a pact to never mix with the "preps". How could you do this to me!" She glared at both Tommy and Teresa.
"Because," Paula sat down. "They knew you were nothing and always will be." She smiled at Tommy. "Isn't that right, darling?"
"Right," whispered Tommy as he gazed into Paula's eyes.
"Uh!" Pan looked at Teresa. "From this day forward, all contact with you" She looked at Tommy, "and you," she glared at Paula, "and most definitely you, are broken." She then left her former friends and worst enemy staring at her back.
"Who needs her anyway?" Teresa sniffed.
"Indeed," Paula smiled. "Who needs her?"
'Uh, I hate this stupid world!' Pan kicked a can along the sidewalk. 'Why can't anything go my way!" She then kicked the can into a brick wall, making it break.
"Wow! You've got one hell of a kick!"
Pan suddenly spun around and came face to face with a guy about two years older than her that she didn't know. She became wary. "Who are you? And what do you want?"
The guy put a hand behind his head. "Whoa, sorry! I didn't mean anything by it. It's just that that was one hell of a kick!" He laughed.
"That's not what I asked!" Pan tried to calm her anger but this guy just made it worse. She spun around and began to walk away. "I'm not in the best of moods, so leave me alone!" She threw over her shoulder.
The guy lowered his arm and watched as Son Pan walked away. He scowled. He was supposed to play "nice" with this girl. 'Like hell!' Then he turned and glared at the car waiting for him. 'This had better be worth it.'
Pan swung on the swing set in the park just as she and Trunks used to. She remembered the time when they went to outer space with her grandpa Goku. She went farther back in time and saw herself as a child, when everything was going her way. Now she was eighteen and everything was horribly wrong.
Pan sighed. 'I wish Grandpa was here.'
"Hey Pan!"
Pan's head snapped up. 'It couldn't be…' She turned around and saw her Grandpa waving at her. Pan slowly stood up and rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't dreaming. "Grandpa," she took a step forward.
Goku walked slowly to his granddaughter and looked up and down at her while still smiling. "Hey, haven't seen you in awhile. Have you been training?" Then he noticed the tears. "Hey! Whatcha crying about?"
"Oh Grandpa!" Pan threw herself into her grandfather's arms and started crying.
Goku grimaced. It was always bad when Pan was crying. He sat down on the ground and then waited until she was quite through. "So, what's going on? I was training up there," he gestured to the sky, "so I haven't been updated in a while. What's got you so upset?"
Pan moved away from her grandpa and suddenly felt foolish. She never cried, for any reason! "Uh, it's nothing Grandpa. I just felt like I needed a good cry."
"Well, there's gotta be something important down here I was sent to help," He scratched his head and laughed in his "Goku" way, "unless, they just wanted me to go home."
"Oh Grandpa," sighed Pan. 'He was always a goofball.' She sighed again.
"Come on! Let's go surprise everyone!" Goku took off into the sky and Pan was following after.
"Grandpa, why don't you just use your instant transmission?"
"Because Pan," Goku said, smiling back at her, "it's more fun this way!"
Pan smiled and realized her grandpa was right. It was more fun this way…