Tales of Parenthood
Author's Note
Sequel to Coming of Age. Everyone except Goku and Doctor Briefs are alive, but Goku visits. Grand Tour happened and the dragon balls are gone. Ignores Dragon Ball Super.
Pan is 37/38
Bra is 40
Goten is 50/51
Trunks is 52
Henry is 20/21
Cora is 17
Maddox is 19
Litta is 15
Cami is 14/15
Bardock is 11
Vegeta Jr is 4
Disclaimer: I do not own DBZ or any characters or variations of DBZ. I only own my OCs.
Chapter Thirty-Four: Moving Out, Match Makers, and High School Drama
"Focus," snapped Piccolo pushing Litta back. Gohan and Cami were sparring off to the side. Litta was becoming frustrated and emotional.
"I am," she shouted lunging at him and missing.
"If you were, you wouldn't have missed," snorted Piccolo. She growled energy started crackling around her. "Now focus," he ordered again. She went for him again, landing one hit. "Better," he observed landing a hit of his own. She doubled over in pain. "Get up," Piccolo commanded.
"Shut up," she growled standing up. Her eyes went red as she glared at him. Piccolo frowned. Gohan looked worried but kept Cami from noticing. Energy was crackling around her again, but this time it was destroying the ground around her feet. She attacked Piccolo with force. His arm was removed by the snarling saiyan. Gohan attacked Litta from behind knocking her unconscious.
"Gampa your supposed to be sparring with me," whined Cami not realizing what just happened.
"I think we're done for today," commented Gohan scooping his niece into his arms.
"What's wrong with Litta?" Cami asked floating over to Gohan and Piccolo.
"Nothing, she just needs a little rest," he lied.
Cami looked between Piccolo and Litta. "Did her powers go all out of control again?" she asked.
The two men glanced at each other. "You knew about this?" Gohan asked.
"Yeah, I'm stronger most of the time, but if Litta loses control, she's stronger," shrugged Cami. Cami was more observant than most people gave her credit for.
"You shouldn't fight her when she loses control. She isn't herself," Gohan attempted to warn his granddaughter.
"Yeah, but she won't calm down till she gets it out of her system," Cami countered.
"This happens often?" asked Piccolo. He seemed unbothered by his missing arm.
"Every couple weeks," Cami replied still not seeing the big deal. The two men made eye contact for a second time.
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"Hey I was hoping I'd catch you," Henry grinned coming into his mother's old bedroom.
Litta was sitting on the bed. She felt out of it. Uncle Gohan had told her she got knocked out. "What are you doing out here?" she asked pulling her knees to her chest.
"Delivering a late birthday present," he announced pulling a box from behind his back.
"I thought you forgot," she blushed as Henry handed her the box.
"No, they were just harder to make than I thought," he rubbed the back of his head in a Goten like manner.
She smiled ripping open the box. Inside were two silver cuffs. "You made these?" her eyes were wide at the beautiful bracelets.
"Yeah, sorry it took so long. Making jewelry is harder than I thought," he apologized. He smiled watching her put them on. "Aunt Bra says cuffs are coming back. I don't know how true that is, but I thought you would like them," he explained.
Litta bounced up wrapping her arms around his neck. "I love them," she assured him.
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Once everyone had left for the night, Gohan told Videl what happened.
"She lost control again," Videl looked worried.
"Yes, Cami says it's been happening pretty often," Gohan sighed.
"You know Henry shows up like clockwork every time it happens," Videl's worry seemed to leave when she mentioned of her grandson.
"You don't think they are together, do you?" Gohan asked.
"No, but he always knows when she needs him. Pan and Trunks got together when she was sixteen and he was thirty, so who knows. They may get together next year or in ten," she smiled.
"I wonder when Pan and Trunks will figure it out," chuckled Gohan.
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Cami wore her headphones as she danced about singing her music. She wore a tank top and short spandex shorts.
"What is she wearing?" demanded Trunks turning to Pan for answers.
"Shorts?" shrugged Pan. She didn't buy them for her.
Trunks popped a headphone from his daughter's ear. "Angel, where did you get those shorts? They are a little inappropriate," he asked nicely.
"Grammie Del got them for me. She said they are like the ones she wore in high school," Cami answered before putting her headphone back in and dancing away.
"Your mom gave her those," grumbled Trunks.
"Well, my mom is shorter and probably wore longer shirts," replied Pan.
"Yeah, she did," commented Trunks smiling a little to himself.
"Wait, you thought my mom was hot," Pan croaked out.
"Hey, Goten and I both did," he laughed.
"Well who's hotter me or my mom?" Pan asked with a slight huff.
"Panny, you know it's you. I love you," he wrapped his arms around her from behind pulling her back tight to his chest.
"You better," she said with a fake pout before turning around to kiss him.
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"Daddy, it's an all girls dormitory," Cora rolled her eyes. Her father had been worried about her and Maddox being at school together.
"But boys can come over?" Trunks made a face setting another box in her new dorm room.
"Yes, but there is a curfew for male visitors," Cora went on hoping he would worry less.
"Can I come visit?" asked Cami carrying a box.
"Sure," Cora shrugged not surprised Cami wanted to come visit.
"We could have a slumber party!" exclaimed Cami.
"I will have schoolwork to do ya know," Cora rolled her eyes.
"You still better come home every now and then," Pan warned while helping Cora to start her unpacking.
"I will, I promise," Cora hugged her mom. Henry snickered to himself. He had moved straight from his parents to his apartment at Capsule Corp. Though his mother still gave him the same lecture.
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"So you're in an all girls dorm," Maddox stated aloud.
"Yeah, and it's almost visitor curfew," she smiled at him. He was sitting on her floor while she unpacked.
"So I should go then," he got up slowly not wanting to leave.
"One sec let me grab my bag," she told him grabbing her backpack.
"Why are you doing that?" Maddox seemed confused.
"Cause I'm spending the night at your place," she rolled her eyes.
"Oh that's great," he grinned like an idiot. A smirk played on her lips as she pushed him toward the door.
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"I was worried we were going to have a problem once your sister went off to college," the principal sighed. Cami fidgeted in her seat.
"We didn't do anything," grumbled Litta.
"Of course you didn't," the older man gave them a glare.
"I think we need to have a talk with your parents," he stated pushing back his hair smiling a bit at the girls' discomfort.
"My parent's are out of town today," Cami informed him.
"Well then I'll just have the next contact called in for you," he replied heading out to instruct his secretary who needed to be called.
He came back in and sat as his desk as they waited. After about half an hour his intercom buzzed, "Miss Briefs grandmother is here."
"Send her in," the principal sat forward in his seat. Videl walked in. "Vvvidel," he stammered.
"Sharpener?" she questioned straining to see if it was really her old friend from high school. He still had blond hair but it was starting to gray. It wasn't quite shoulder length and was slicked back similar to his old style.
"Yeah, uh you look great," he hurried around the desk to hug her. "So what brings you down here?" he asked sitting on the front edge of his desk completely forgetting about Cami and Litta.
"I was called about my granddaughter being in trouble," Videl gave him a questioning look.
"You can't be a grandmother yet," he complimented her.
"Well I am. Want to tell me what's going on," she was getting irritated. Sharpener had away of not getting to the point.
"Well a student was pushed down the stairs after having a confrontation with your granddaughter and her friend," he explained.
"We didn't push him down the stairs," announced Cami.
"Yeah, if we were going to hurt him we would have just punched him in the face," Litta chimed in.
"Not helping Litta," Videl got on to her niece. "Do you have any proof they pushed him?" she asked.
"No that camera is broken," Sharpener went on.
"So no proof, and no one saw them do it," she smirked.
"Well no," Sharpener had a feeling he knew where this was going.
"But they did see this kid bothering my granddaughter earlier. Are you doing anything about that or are you too busy trying to pin something on them?" she got in his face.
"Uh I will give him detention when he's back at school tomorrow," he told her holding up his hands defensively.
"Great, can my granddaughter and niece go back to class now?" she asked staring him down.
"Of course you two go," he instructed. They quickly fled the room. "Briefs is your granddaughter… I should have put it together Cora was great at sports," he held a finger to his head as he announced his realization.
"Yes, she was. You haven't been the principal that long have you?" she asked lightening up.
"No, this will be my third year. From what I hear, Cami is like her brother not her sister, though I never met him," Sharpener elaborated.
"Cami's a good girl," she shot back not likely him insinuating she and Henry weren't good kids.
"God, and Cora looked so much like you. How did I not see it?" he was still stuck on his earlier realization.
"Sharpener, if there are any issues with Cami, call either me or Gohan," she instructed him heading for the door.
"Gohan that lucky king of the nerds," he said to himself after she left his office.
Rini entered the main office as Videl exited Sharpener's office. "Hey Videl," she greeted her sister in law.
"I already handled it," Videl informed her with a smile.
"What happened?" Rini asked walking back out of the school with Videl.
"The girls got blamed for something with no proof," she replied.
"Oh that principal is lucky I didn't get my hands on him," Rini huffed.
"Apparently the principal is an old high school friend of Gohan and I's," Videl smiled again.
"So he backed off because he remembered you?" Rini asked raising an eyebrow.
"That and the fact he still has the hots for me," Videl had a smirk playing on her lips.
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"Welcome back to class ladies," the choir instructor shook his head at the girls. "As I was saying, the drama department will be putting on Frozen this year as their musical," he announced to the class. "Everyone who tries out will get five points added to their final grade, and anyone who lands a part and accepts will get ten points added to their final grade in my class," he went on. The students were now discussing whether or not to try out. Seeing he had lost their attention, their teacher sighed and pulled a book to read from his desk for the last five minutes of class.
"I hope I get the part of Anna," Cami grinned.
"So were not going to talk Aunt Videl knowing our principal?" Litta asked already knowing the answer.
"Anna was always my favorite character," Cami went on.
Litta grinned, "I'll try out for Elsa."
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Bar dodged as his mother stabbed a knife at him. They had been at this for nearly an hour. "Bar, you need to be careful. You should be faster than that," Rini got on to him.
"You know most mother son bonding doesn't involve knife fights," Bar took a deep breath now that she had put the knife down.
"I think weapons bonding is special. Your dad and I did it a lot when we were dating," Rini smiled spinning the knife on the table. Bar stuck out his tongue in disgust.
"Mom!" yelled Litta heading through the house and into the back yard where they were.
"Yes?" Rini smiled her children were very loud like her.
"Can I paint my room?" she asked.
"You don't like blush anymore?" Rini made a sad face at her daughter.
"Mom my room's been blush since before I was born," groaned Litta hoping her mother was only pretending to be upset.
"True, fine you can paint it, but no designs just one color," Rini stated firmly. Bar opened his mouth to speak. "Yes, if you also hate your mother's paint choice you can do yours too," she cut him off.
"I don't hate it," he muttered.
"Thank you Mom!" she hugged her mother and rushed off.
"Mommy can you bake me cookies?" Bar asked in an extra pitiful voice.
"No, but you can help me bake cookies," she told him heading toward the house.
"As long as they're chocolate chip!" he yelled running into the house.
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"Lavender is so pretty," giggled Cami watching as Litta opened to paint can.
"I think it'll look great," Litta smiled stirring the paint.
"Knock Knock," Henry poked his head in.
"Henry!" Cami tackled her brother. He laughed swinging her around to avoid falling.
"Aunt Bra said you left this after taking all that time to pick it out," he handed her a garment bag.
"My new dress!" she squeaked snatching it out of his hands.
"Go put it in the living room so we don't get paint on it," instructed Litta. Cami rushed off.
"Painting, I see," he leaned down and stirred the paint.
"Yes, we're painting my room," Litta told him moving back to admire the walls.
"With my color," he commented pouring the paint into the tray.
"No, it's a darker lavender than your hair," she stuck out her tongue.
"It is," he agreed handing her the roller and tapped a dot of paint onto her nose. "Have fun," he laughed leaving her room to say bye to her mother and his sister.
She huffed wiping off the paint annoyed.
"I should ask my parents if I can paint my room," Cami smiled rushing back into the room.
"What color would you want to paint it?" Litta asked surprised Cami would want to paint her room.
"I don't know. Maybe light yellow or a dark blue," she shrugged.
"Isn't Cora's old room light yellow?" asked Litta not quite remembering Cora's room.
"Yeah, that's why I don't think I should do yellow. Cora would think I was copying her," Cami made a pouting face.
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Cami's hair was braided into two very long pigtails. She was humming her try out song for Frozen as she got her school stuff ready. Trunks grinned watching her. Pan dished out breakfast smiling as well.
"Daddy can I paint my room?" she asked shoving two pieces of toast into her mouth.
"Angel, what's wrong with the color it is now?" he asked already knowing he was eventually going to say yes.
"I like the light green, but it's always been green," she gave a little pout.
"So you want to paint it a different color than green?" Pan asked taking a seat beside Trunks.
"Yeah, like blue," she nodded shoving more breakfast food in her mouth. Pan nodded trying not to laugh.
"Your mother and I will think about it," Trunks announced. Cami nodded eating like only a saiyan could.
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Cora was walking with Maddox through the Library. She stopped suddenly causing Maddox to topple to the ground.
"What's up?" he asked looking at the bulletin board.
"Orchestra try outs," she pointed to the pink flier.
"I knew you couldn't just do softball," he snickered taking a picture of the flier with his phone before pulling her away.
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"Thank you for trying out," the drama teacher thanked the girls making notes on her clipboard.
"Do you think we'll get parts?" Cami asked doing a little spin in the hallway.
"I'm sure. I just don't know if we'll get big parts or not," shrugged Litta.
"Gampa Gohan said Piccolo is going to train with us again today!" Cami ran off to her locker to grab her bag.
"Fun," muttered Litta following after her.
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Henry felt miserable. He had to meet with the matchmaker for the Society. She was a plump woman who wore way too much makeup and dyed her hair a very bring orange. She always pinched his cheeks… He hated her.
"Henry, sweetheart come on in," she opened the door to her office. He walked in and took a seat.
"You have over fifty requests for dates," she told him waving a pink sheet of paper. He cringed internally.
"Ms Loveday, you know I'm way too busy to go one fifty dates," he gave her a charming smile and brushed his hair out of his eyes.
"Of course hon! Not all of these women are good enough to meet with you, but I do have a few I would definitely recommend," she took out a pen and began circling and scratching out names.
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Trunks and Pan were making out on the couch in the middle of the afternoon.
"Panny I love you," Trunks told her after breaking the kiss.
"Daddy where's my violin?" Cora asked walking into the house unannounced.
"What are you doing here? You don't live here," whined Trunks. Pan giggled hopping off his lap to help Cora look.
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"Ho, Ho, Bitch, and Slut," Ayumi commented reading through the list of names Henry had been given.
"I have to pick at least five to go out with," Henry reminded her.
"Ah yes, the ten percent rule. If you would be less charming, you would get less requests," she sighed looking for her phone. "Do you want girls you might like or girls that will be easiest to shake off your trail?" she asked now scrolling through her phone.
"Ones I'll like that are not likely to stock me," Henry clarified. Ayumi gave a snort laugh.
"I can see what I can do. Let me guess you have to turn this in by Monday?" he nodded.
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"So Faye got a new capsule car for her birthday," Litta mentioned at dinner.
"And you want permission to go ride around with her?" Rini asked filling in the blanks.
"Well yeah," Litta was a little surprised her mother had caught on so soon.
"I don't know… Is she a bad driver?" Goten teased. Rini snicker at her husband.
"I bet Litta will be the worst driver ever," chimed in Bardock.
"Hey, we don't know that for sure. The only thing we've seen her drive is the battery powered Barbie jeep," Goten chuckled.
"Well I don't have to know how to drive yet," Litta stuck her tongue out making a face at her little brother.
"You can ride around with Faye on the days uncle Gohan isn't taking you out to train," Rini announced. Litta was so excited she jumped up to hug her mother.
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The cast list was posted on the bulletin board in the arts hallway for everyone to check. Cami ran up to check it. Her happiness seemed to fade.
"Cami you okay?" Litta started to read the list assuming neither of them got parts. They had both gotten parts just not the ones they had tried out for. "Lets go talk to Ms Ritz to see if it's a mistake," offered Litta pulling Cami toward the drama room.
"Hi Ms Ritz," Cami greeted the teacher.
"Can I help you girls?" the drama teacher asked looking up from her desk.
"How did I get my part? I didn't try out for it," Cami asked her smile returning a bit.
"You both have talent, but you are better suited to the others' role. Cami, you can hit the notes, and we won't have to buy a wig. It's a win win," explained Ms Ritz.
"And I got Anna because?" asked Litta speaking for the first time since they entered the space.
"You are a good singer and are shorter than Cami so the little sister bit is easier to sell," replied the teacher still not acknowledge the girls obvious botheredness.
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"Boss, Ms Nattak is here," one of the lab assistance told Henry with a nudge. He was tinkering with a new test product wearing white lab coat over his suit.
"Hey," he waved to her heading over taking off his safety glasses.
"I made your list," she handed him a sheet of paper.
"You are awesome!" he gave her a half hug to avoid getting her dirty.
"I know, now just don't forget to turn it in," she reminded him waving bye as she left the building.
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"I don't know why you two are so upset. Most girls would kill to get a leading role," Faye asked driving them to get ice cream.
"Cami just hates when people think she looks like Elsa," Litta explained from her spot in the back seat.
"I don't look like her. My hair isn't white, it's lavender," she poked at the large lavender messy bun that sat on the top of her head.
"You really do though. Tall but curvy, long light colored hair. You even have fair skin… Though your eyes are a different color," Faye pointed out.
"I guess. Litta are you going to wear a wig or just braid your hair?" Cami asked looking back at best friend.
"Wigs never agree with my hair. I'll probably just clip in a white stipe and braid it," Litta shrugged.
"You should dye your hair!" Faye nearly screamed.
"I'm not sure on that," Litta made a face.
"Well the shows not till the end of the semester, so you have lots of time to think about it," Faye laughed.
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"Excellent choices!" Ms Loveday went through the list Ayumi had made him.
"So can I just meet them at the club or…" Henry trailed off.
"Oh I can't let you get away with that again. You have to take these nice ladies out. I can work with you to set it up if you don't have ideas," she batted her eyelashes at him.
"I'm sure I can find nice dates to take them on," he gave her a charming smile wanting to end the meeting as soon as possible.
"Here's the contact info for the five young ladies. I'll let them know to expect a call," she informed him handing him a sheet of paper. He took it and quickly exited the room.
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Maddox was carrying Cora's bag while he walked her to her classes.
"I could carry that," Cora remarked, usually she didn't care when Maddox did things for her, but they had been getting a large amount of looks from the other students on the campus.
"I know… I saw a flyer for a fencing team," Maddox ignored the looks they were getting from their peers.
"You don't fence," she eyed him questioningly.
"I don't, but you do," he smiled giving her shoulder a bump.
"You want me to do fencing?" she asked in a monotone voice.
"I want you to do things you enjoy," he grabbed her hand giving it a playful swing.
"I enjoy you," she gave him a light push and made a quiet noise resembling a giggle. Maddox face turned red looking around quickly to make sure no one heard them.
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"So dates figured out so far are: Leslie 'Talks Too Much," Keiko "The Easily Surprised," and Charlotte "The Hot Mess." That leaves Saya "The Assertive" and Fleur "The Whore," Ayumi listed off.
"If you hate all of them, why did you pick them?" Henry asked trying not to laugh at her commentary.
"Hey just cause I wouldn't date them, doesn't mean they won't work for you," she shrugged.
"Well where should I take Saya and Fleur?" Henry asked trying to get back on topic.
"Definitely take Fleur to a late dinner, she's not nick named Fleur the whore for nothing," Ayumi wiggled her eyebrows suggestively. Henry laughed. "Saya take out to lunch. It will be harder for her to bully you that way," she went on. Henry nodded.
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The rain was pouring as Faye drove the girls toward their homes.
"Faye, I think maybe you should pull over," Litta commented from the seat behind the drivers. Cami was in the passenger seat watching the intense rain.
"I'll be fine. I'm going five below," Faye assured them. A large truck was trying to pass them on the road.
"Slow down a little and let him pass you," Litta instructed.
"Fine," Faye braked as the drove along allowing the truck to pass. They continued on through a three way intersection. "See I'm a great driver," Faye announced seconds before they were impacted from the side slamming the car into the guardrail.
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"I think you're all set," Ayumi was getting her things together to leave Henry's in lab office.
"I'll walk you out," Henry offered walking her through the busy lab.
"So what is all this stuff?" she pointed at several disassembled machines.
"Product testing. I run all the new product testing. I work out all the bugs before we launch the products," Henry explained.
"So these are all new products?" she asked clarifying.
"Yeah, I don't mess with the old stuff. Grammie does the recall and defect testing. I do the before work," he explained. They noticed most of the people in the lab were watching the television that was muted in the corner of the room. The two walked over to see what was so interesting. It was a bad car crash. The bottom headline read, 'famous daughters sent to hospital.' "Someone unmute it," ordered Henry.
"Three young girls were in the vehicle that was hit. We believe one of them to be the daughter of Trunks Briefs President of Capsule Corp and the other to be the daughter of Goten Son the current World Champion," the tv reporter announced near the wreckage of the vehicle.
"Henry that's," Ayumi spoke softly placing a hand on his arm.
"I have to go find my dad," he headed for the door.
"I'll come with," she hurried after him forgetting her plans to leave.
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"Mr Briefs you can't go in there," shouted the secretary. Ayumi was behind him on the phone trying to confirm what hospital they were at. They barged into the board meeting.
"Ah the young Mr Briefs," one of the board members commented seeing Henry. They all knew he had more power than any of them, so they would have to deal with his interruption.
"Dad, I think Cami was in a car wreck," Henry announced ignoring the men completely.
"What?" Trunks stood no longer caring about the meeting.
"The hospital wouldn't confirm it out right, but they said it would be best if Mr Briefs and Mr Son were to come in," replied Ayumi hanging up her phone.
"We'll finish this meeting at a later date. I'll call Goten on my way there. Which hospital?" he asked as the three left the room.
"That boy is worse than his father ever was," scoffed one of the older board members.
"It's only a mater of time before his father makes him Vice President," commented another.
"We'll have to make sure that doesn't happen," a third stated firmly.
xxXXxx
"Angel are you okay?" Trunks, Henry, and Ayumi rushed in to the room.
"I'm fine, you know I can't get hurt that easy," Cami smiled causing the stiches in her cheek to be more noticeable.
"And I suppose it's that easy for me," commented Litta being wheeled into the room by Pan and Goten. Litta's leg was in a brace.
"You broke your leg?" Henry squawked out in a near laugh.
"Yes, she did. She'll be in a cast for about six weeks," Goten patted her head.
"No way, I thought it was impossible for you to do that," Cami yelped.
"Really, people break bones in car wrecks all the time," Ayumi was surprised.
There was an awkward pause. "She just means that Litta hasn't broken any bones before now, and they've always been very active," Pan covered for her daughter.
Henry seemed to be growing uncomfortable. He left the room wandering the hall and ending up near the nurses' station. "Those girls are lucky," one older nurse stated.
"Yeah, the driver got it the worst, and she'll be out of the hospital in just a few day," another younger nurse agreed. Henry headed outside to make a few calls.
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"You're such a loser. I would never have broken my leg that bad," Bar teased his older sister.
"Hey if she was human, she'd be in a cast for six months instead of six weeks," Rini reminded them handing her daughter a cookie.
"Mom, I can't not train for six weeks," groaned Litta.
"Maybe you'll get fat," Bar grinned at his sister.
"Bar," Rini gave her son a disapproving look.
"She won't get fat. Saiyans have great metabolisms," Goten commented. Rini sighed knowing Goten didn't even know he was making things worse.
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