Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ I Promise You ❯ Chapter 1

I Promise You

Chapter 1

Pan

It was just like old times, Trunks and I just sitting, watching the sun slowly set on the horizon. I lied down on my back and stared aimlessly up into the magenta sky. It should have been a happy time for me, but something was bothering me.

"Trunks?"

"Humm?" he asked as he lied down beside me, putting his hands behind his head and closing his eyes.

"Do you ever wonder, what happened to make it all change?" He opened his eyes to stare at me with a questioning look.

"I mean, it seems like one day you're a happy-go-lucky child and life is simple. And then…the next day…you're all grown up and life is complicated and confusing and unsure."

Trunks chuckled a little at me. He turned on his side to face me. "What's really bothering you Pan?"

I sighed, he knew me all too well. "I'm just worried…about going off to college. America's a long way from Japan. I'll miss it, being able to see all my friends and family when ever I want. And I know a lot of things are going to change…things that I want to stay the same…"

He reached out to me and pulled me close to him. I just rested my head on his well-toned chest as he wrapped his arms securely around me. It was a comforting embrace from one good friend to another, but it still meant much more to me.

It was true that I'd had a crush on him since I was a little girl, when we made that trip into outer space, just him, me…and my grandpa. It was rather comical look back on some of the things we had done, but I would always remember it because that was when I truly fell for Trunks. But, lying in the grass under the dimming sky in his arms, I denied all my growing feelings for him and told myself that I had gotten over that little girl crush, even though my heart still fluttered when he was near.

Even if Trunks didn't love me we were still very good friends. I could not bring myself to tell him that what I was truly worried about was losing him as a close friend in the time that I'd be gone. I knew that if that were to happen I wouldn't be able to bear it.

Trunks

I got the feeling that there was still something bothering her that she wasn't telling me, but I figured asking her about it wouldn't do any good. She'd tell me when she wanted to.

So we just lied there, the sky now striving to lose the last glow of day. I felt, probably for the first time in my life, helpless. Helpless, to be able to do nothing but hold Pan who was on the verge of tears, and to have no idea why. So I tried my best to comfort her.

"No matter what happens, I'll always be there for you Pan…no matter what. I promise you."

With those words the first crystal tear slipped from her eyes, down her cheek, and eventually fell to my chest. There was nothing I could do but hold her closer.