Chapter Three: Seduce Him
"Well, it was nice meeting you Cecelia. I'm sure you two have somewhere to be, so I'll stop my jabbering now." Chi Chi grasped Cecelia's hand again and then looked out the window… and almost had a heart attack. "Goku," she whispered.
"Hi everyone!" Goku landed on the balcony outside with Pan right beside him groaning.
She'd told him that someone outside the family was here, but no, he had to come through the window.
"Father!" Gohan rushed to his dad. "When did you get here?"
After that everyone crowded around Goku to hear him, almost forgetting Cecelia. She'd never seen anyone greeted with so much enthusiasm. Well, she'd never known anyone who could fly either. Goku was the first to notice her.
"Hello," he smiled. "I'm Goku!"
Cecelia smiled. "And I'm Cecelia! Nice to meet you." She glared at Trunks out of the corner of her eye and then noticed the halo. 'Hold up, is this guy dead?'
Trunks blushed and walked to her side. "She's my girlfriend Goku."
"Ohhh," he looked at Pan over the tops of their heads. She had her head bent and was scowling. "So you're the one," he whispered under his breath.
Cecelia gave a puzzled frown. "Excuse me?"
"Oh!" Goku laughed. "It's nothing!" He looked at Chi Chi. "Got any food! I'm hungry!"
"Goku! Don't you have any manners at all?" She scowled and walked towards the kitchen. "I might as well fix you something anyway!"
Goku gave a smile to everyone and followed his wife into the kitchen.
"Yep, that's Goku." Bulma shook her head and smiled. He was hard not to love.
"Guess we'd better go. Come on Cecelia." Trunks grabbed her hand.
"All right," she turned to Pan and mouthed, "he's mine," to her. Then she flounced outside.
"We should leave too Vedel. I have to grade some papers at home." Gohan looked at his daughter. "Are you coming?"
"No thanks Papa. I think I'll hang around here a few more hours."
"Okay," he glanced at Bra, who was sprawled on the couch reading a magazine. "Bye Bra."
"See ya Gohan."
When they'd gone, Bra lowered the magazine. "You should seduce him."
Pan jumped up. That was… unexpected. "What?"
"I said you should seduce him. You know, my brother?" Bra got up and walked over to where Pan was leaning against the window. "I know you like him."
Pan blushed. "But I can't… do that. He's Trunks for Kami's sake!"
"So! Live a little! He can't be that bad."
"Bra! That's your brother we're talking about here! That's just disgusting!"
"Oh you know you want him. I can feel your jealousy seeping through your body like bad blood. Why don't you just tell him?"
"Because, it's too complicated; he's nine years older than me. He's got a girlfriend who everyone, at first glance, seems to like. And," she dragged out and, "he probably doesn't even like me," she ended with a wistful sigh.
"Those are the worst excuses I've ever heard. You're eighteen Pan, he's twenty-seven. You're both going to live for a very long time. Who cares about age anyway?" Bra sighed as if this was such a trivial matter.
"But--?"
"So he's got himself a girlfriend, so what?" Bra carried on. "Make him forget about her. And if you haven't noticed, only Mom and Chi Chi like her. Everyone else is just wary of her, including Vedel. And the last thing," She looked into Pan's eyes, "he likes you. I can tell these things. It's the way he does everything. I'm sure he's lusted after you for quite awhile now after all. And--."
"Enough!" Pan screamed. "I think I understand now." Pan sighed. Once Bra starts going she never stopped. "I'll think about your… suggestion, but for right now, I need to go home and unpack my stuff." She stood up. "See ya later Bra." She then walked into the kitchen and stopped.
Her grandparents happened to be making out and hadn't noticed her presence. 'Those two phrases should never be in the same sentence!' She screamed at herself. She ran from the room and almost ran over Bulla in the process.
"You do not want to go in there!" Pan slammed the door in her hurry out of the house.
"Why not?" Bra stepped into the kitchen and smiled. 'So was love in the air?'
'I think I'm going to faint.' Trunks was being dragged through all the clothing stores in the West City Mall. Cecelia had insisted she needed more stuff and he had obliged her. 'I'd rather be sparring with Pan.'
"So what do you think Trunks?" Cecelia spun in front of him. He didn't seem to be paying any attention to her. "Hey Trunks!"
He jumped up. "What!" Then he looked up at her. "Oh Cecelia, I'm sorry. You say something?"
"Yeah!" She put her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes. "You weren't thinking about that pipsqueak were you?"
Trunks glanced up sharply. "What?" 'She had better not be talking about Pan.'
"I'm talking about that girl who jumped you. She has the hots for you!" She noticed the glint in his eyes and thought he was mad at Pan for jumping him so she babbled on. "It's all right darling. I made sure to tell her that you were taken." Cecelia turned around then so she didn't notice when Trunks clenched his hands.
Trunks suddenly stood up and exited the store. He needed to cool down.
Cecelia turned around expecting to see Trunks but all she saw was the vacant chair. "Trunks?"She looked around. 'Did he ditch me?'
She hurriedly went to change and then exited the store, noticing Trunks sitting in a bench not too far away and made her way towards him. He was going to pay for leaving her and not telling.
Pan opened the door to her bedroom and saw that all was the same. She had white lacy curtains on her windows and a whole collection of stuffed animals all along her back wall. Those seemed to be the only feminine items in her room. On her walls she had pictures of great fighters and her gramps, Hercule Satan. She also had a picture of all the Z fighters and her when she was just four.
Pan then turned to her favorite item of all. It was just a miniature of a horse. Trunks had given it to her when she was five. She remembered the day fondly for that's when she "fell in love" with him.
Pan sighed. It was obviously not meant to be. She walked over to her bed and flopped down. Then she remembered that she still had the miniature in her hand and quickly got up to put it away. That's when she noticed the small gift wrapped present on her bureau. She slowly picked it up and shook it. Then she sighed again. 'Why am I so dense?'
Pan set the miniature down and sat on her bed, tearing open the present. Then she gasped in surprise for it was a ring box. Something told her she shouldn't open it but she did anyway. She gasped again.
It was a sapphire ring with small diamonds glittering around it. Pan twisted and turned it to see if she could find some kind of mark pertaining to who it belonged to but all she saw was, For Pan, on the inside.
"Oh my goodness, I wonder who it's from." Pan then looked on her bed and saw the small card. She picked it up to read.
Dear Pan,
I know it seems I've been harsh but I want you to forgive me. She doesn't mean anything to me but I could hardly turn her down. We just started going out so don't start bugging. I'll come around later to spar with you. I hope you forgive me.
And…
I missed you. Welcome home,
Trunks
'Whoa.' Pan stared at the card, rereading it a dozen times to make sure what she read was still there. The she looked down at the ring once again and slipped it on her right ring finger. It was the perfect fit. 'How did he know?'