Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Slumber Party! ❯ Tori's Close Call ( Chapter 1 )

It had been a difficult day. Shoving a lock her blonde hair from her eyes, the girl sighed and sat down hard on the grass outside her house. She didn't really want to go inside yet and face her family. She thought she deserved a little peace inbetween her hectic school schedraul and her home life, didn't she?

Besides, it was Friday and her mother had all ready promised her two days before that she could go over to her new friend's house and stay the night. In fact, her friend had told her it was going to be a slumber party and she said she'd introduce her to some other people she knew.

There was a sudden chirping noise and she realized it was her cell phone. Flipping back he cover, she spoke in her normal, somewhat breathless voice, "Hello?"

"Tori?" The voice on the other end asked, also breathless, "So, are you coming over or what? I've got everything ready and the others are just dying to meet you! So hurry up and get your butt over here, girl!"

"I have to say night to my Mom, Bulma, and grab my overnight bag." She giggled, tossing her flaxen hair behind one ear as she stood up and walked to her front door, "I'll be there…"

"Hurry up! We can't start this little party with you!" Bulma cried before hanging up the phone. Clicking the cover shut on her phone, Tori stuffed it into her pants' pocket and went inside her house.

"I'm just here to grab my stuff and then I'm leaving!" She cried as she raced up the stairs to her room, grabbed her bag, which she had all ready packed the night before, and raced back down, "Don't wait up tomorrow, byeIloveya!"

She shut the door and hoped down the porch steps, taking them two by two. She sighed with relief when no one came running after her demanding her time and attention. Sometimes it was a pain in the butt being the older sister. She smiled and started in the direction she knew her new friend lived.

It had been a god-send when she'd ran into the pretty, blue-haired woman at clothing store a few weeks ago. Tori and her family had just moved into the neighborhood and she had yet to meet any other girls she could talk with. Even though, she was a senior in high school and Bulma and her friends were too old for school, they were only a few years older than Tori and Bulma acted younger a lot of the time so had gotten along great with Tori, especially when she'd needed a friend so bad.

As she approached the street that Bulma said she lived on, she realized that she'd been walking for quite some time. The afternoon had been steadily becoming darker and darker. Tori paused for a moment, looking around, hoping that the house was coming up soon. As much as she enjoyed peaceful walks in the dark, something told her that tonight was not a good night to be walking out alone. A cat hissed and she heard a garabage can fall over with a crash and some animal, could have been the cat, yowl in pain or surprise followed closely by the bark of an excited dog.

Shuddering, Tori started across the street. Suddenly, without warning, three hulking shadows rose up from all around her. She spun about, terrified, as they drew nearer and she realized they were men. Mean looking men. She heard one of them laugh and it sounded like a metal cheese grater being scrapped upon a chain-link fence, making her wince.

"Looky what we got here!" One of them, the one directly in front of her said, laughing, "What's a matter, babe? Out all by ya lonesome?"

Tori looked around frantically for an escape route, but found none. She felt the two behind her as they stepped closer. The one who'd spoken grabbed her face and roughly turned it towards him, her eyes wide with terror; "Oh, don't go being a little baby and all. We jus' wanna have s'fun, ya know?"

She could smell beer on his rancid breath and tried to turn away in disgust. Someone was behind her, tugging on her jacket. She screamed and swung wide with her overnight bag, hitting the one who'd grabbed her face in the stomach and the one who'd grabbed her jacket on the side of the head. "Get away from me!!"

"Why you little…!" She heard one of them, the one from behind her, she thought, cursed as he picked himself off of the ground and advanced on her once more, "Your gonna pay for that, you bitch!"

Tori did not answer in words, she just continued to scream and swing her bag in front of her, backing away, desperately. Tears were streaming down her cheeks and it was getting difficult for her to see what was in front of her as everything was becoming a foggy, liquid blur.