Could This Be True: Chapter two - Broken Promise.
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Trunks scooped Pan into his arms, he jumped up and flew off toward her home. 'Why did she have to pic out here, so far away from her home.' he complained in his head. Of course he was worried about her, she was his best friend, but he knew she would be okay. It was just exhaustion coming over her. He glanced down at her unconcious body, her black hair dancing in the wind and her face curled against his chest. She felt so fragile in his arms, he was afraid that at any moment she would shatter into a million pieces. Trunks noticed his own heartbeat flutter then begin thudding in his ears. 'I can't like Pan! She's just a friend, she's too young, and she hasn't expierenced life yet.'

A few minutes later Trunks arrived at the Son family home. He thudded on the door with his foot, and held Pan closer in his arms. At first he was terrorfied that Gohan would make mince meat of him because he thought Trunks did it. Then he was afraid of if Gohan ever found out that Trunks secretly admired Pan. He pulled Pan closer to him, for fear it would be the last time he held her.

But Trunks' worry stopped when Videll answered the door. Trunks let himself in the door without a word from Videll and walked into the living room and placed Pan on the sofa. He turned to face Videll but noticed Gohan was there too. His stomach knotted as he remembered the words of Gohan just before he left, "Take care of her, Trunks."

Gohan's expression was a mixture of worry and anger while Videl's danced around worried. Gohan went to Pan's side and put a hand on her forehead, "What happened."

Trunks began to tell him everything. From the start, when he first left the house. He told them how Pan had been dancing around in the field and then he noticed that she was looking pale and that he made her sit down. Then he told them that she passed out and he immediately flew her back home.

Videl had taken Gohan's place and put a wet washcloth on her forehead. Moments passed without words and Trunks felt he was out of hot water. That was until Gohan started to speak again. This time his tone sounded more agitated, more fatherly, "Trunks, if you don't mind I'd like to have a word with you in the kitchen."

Trunks nodded and followed him into the kitchen. The half Sayian stood before a menacing Gohan, of course he was terrorfied but that was only because he felt that Gohan thought Trunks had let him down. "Yes, Gohan, sir."

"I thought I told you to take care of her, Trunks."

"You did, sir. And I-"

He was cut off by Gohan's piercing stare, "And you bring her home unconcious."

Trunks stood in silence, half frozen by what Gohan was to do next and half thinking of something to say. He opened his mouth to speak but found that no words seemed right. Giving up he sighed and looked at Gohan, "I'm really sorry, it wasn't my fault she passed out. I think she just got too exhausted, honestly Gohan you think I'd do something like that to Pan?"

Gohan noted the sincerity in Trunks' voice, "I know you wouldn't." After he said that he walked away into the living room and stood beside Videll, who was still patting on Pan's hand and cooing at her in an attempt to bring her back to conciousness. Gohan nor Videl seen this as a time to use the senzu beans, they figured that she'd recover quickly enough.

Trunks entered the room without a word and sat in the chair facing the sofa. He felt uneasy as Gohan muttered something to Videll who in return to that shot him a agitated glare, then they both returned their attention to their daughter. Trunks felt out of place as he watched the Son family from the background and just as he was about to excuse himself and go home, Pan started to stir about. The violet haired Sayain had to restrain himself from rushing to her side so instead of doing what his insticts told him, he sat and patiently waited for her to sit up.

Pan's eyes fluttered a few seconds before she opened them up. Her dark orbs reacted negativly due to the brightness of the room which caused her to squint. She couldn't remember getting hit hard enough to- Oh no! Trunks, she'd passed out in front of Trunks, she thought he must think badly of her. As she internally kicked herself she noticed her mother and father sitting at the edge of the sofa she was now taking up. At first glance she thought Trunks was gone, until she scanned the room and found her favourite violet haired Sayian sitting across the room staring at her.

Videl was the first to speak, "Pan, sweetie?"

Then was Gohan, "Pan. Are you okay?"

She sighed and rubbed her head, "Yea, juss have a headache 'sall." Her speach was slightly slurred and she felt exhausted just trying to speak, "What happened?"

"You went to spar with Trunks but before you two could even begin, you sortof blacked out." Gohan looked at his daughter, "Is there anything you want or need?"

"I'm a little hungry, and thirsty.."

With that being said Videl and Gohan went off into the kitchen to fix lunch for the four of them. .

As quickly as Gohan and Videl cleared out of the room, Trunks was at Pan's side, "Pan.." he looked down at the raven haired teenager.

"Hm?" she didn't bother looking at him, she was too worried that he'd think of her as a sissy or something and that would just crush her.

"Pan, I'm so glad your okay," his warm embrace startled her slightly, but he smiled when he felt her arms wrap around him in return. As he pulled back to look at her, he kept his hands cupped on her shoulders, "Don't ever, ever do that again! I though you had died or something! I was terrorfied!"

A smile threatened to warm up on Pan's face, but she faught back the urge and looked at him instead, "I won't."

Trunks nodded, sighed, and sunk back into the sofa. He heaved a heavier sigh and looked at Pan, "Look, we need to talk.."

"I thought thats what we were doing?" a grin danced around on Pan's face.

"Yeah, but about serious stuff," he paused and sighed out the words, "about us. About me and you."

"Um, okay?" She didn't understand, what could he possibly want to talk to her about? Could he know about her crush on him, did he not want to spar with her because she was so weak that she feinted before they could start, or maybe.. just maybe he felt the same way about her as she did for him. Thinking that she perked up and waited for him to gather the words that he wanted to say.

"Pan I can't do this.." pausing for a second, "I-its not right. Your just now starting your life, you'll be 18 soon I know, but if just feels.. wrong. I know you have no clue what I'm talking about, but I know you'll understand that I won't be coming back over to spar with you unless Bra or Goten comes over too." He knew the words wouldn't effect Pan, afterall she didn't like him the way he liked her. She thought of him as a friend, thats all she wanted and thats all he would be to her.

"Wh-what?" her eyes threatened to tear up and her throat got that feeling, the one after you cry alot, "What do you mean Tru-"

Before she could finish her sentence, Trunks' lips gently pressed against her, causing her eyes to pop open and her to gasp slightly. But that only opened oppourtunity for Trunks to keep the kiss going. Before she knew what she was doing, she pushed him away and looked at him wide-eyed.

"Thats what I mean, I'm sorry. I never want to see you again." The violet haired Sayian stood up and took one last look at Pan before walking out the door and taking flight towards his home. He felt tears wedge their way out of his eyes and stream down his cheeks, he reached up and wiped away the tears and groaned. "What did I just do?" he scolded himself.

Pan was still slightly dumbfounded because of the kiss that had just taken place in her living room, and her heart was crushed over the words Trunks had said. But what was the deal with the kiss, why had he kissed her and then never wanted to see her again. Was that his way of playing with her emotions, did that make him feel better about destroying her heart? She stood up and started to walk upstairs to her room.

Videl walked in to ask her what she'd like to drink when she noticed Pan was heading upstairs and Trunks was gone, "Pan, where did Trunks go?"

"Home."

"Aren't you hungry anymore?"

"No, just tired."

"Okay sweetheart," Videl began but was only answered by the sound of Pan's door slamming shut.

Pan draped herself across her bed and wimpered. Pulling her knees into her chest, she put her face into her knees and sobbed. She didn't understand, what had she done to deserve that. Her heart felt like it had been torn into tiny pieces and stuck through a shredder and Trunks acted so calmly about it all! He didn't care that he had just broke her heart all to pieces! She hated him, hated him for everything he was doing to her! She hated him because she still loved him! She hated him because she couldn't hate him! It just wasn't fair! Her first kiss and it was a good-bye kiss.