Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Young Love and Hot Nights ❯ chapter seven ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter Seven

Back at Capsule Corp. Trunks was awake from his nap and was helping Bulma in the lab. They were working on their newest line of appliance capsules for the holidays. "Mother, can I ask you a question?" Trunks asked quietly. He kept his focus on the electrical circuit he was working on so his mom couldn't see how embarrassed he was. "Of course son, you know you can always ask me anything." Bulma answered from her seat at the bank of computers they kept. "Well, if Bra wanted to date a guy who was several years older than her, would you and Father care?" he wasn't entirely sure what he was asking about but he felt that he had to somehow settle the uneasiness he had been feeling since he realized he was attracted to someone so much younger than him. "I don't know, it would depend entirely on who the man was, and I can tell you right now that your father isn't going to want anyone near Bra, regardless of who they are." Bulma looked up at her son when she answered. She was confused now, she had been sure he was going to ask about Pan. Then she realized that maybe he was and just used his sister as an example, but maybe he was just concerned about her obvious crush on his best friend. To clarify the question she smiled at him and asked, "Trunks honey, is this about your sister or are you asking about Pan?" Bulma laughed when Trunks' head came up and a bright blush spread across his face. "Umm, no that's absurd, why would it have anything to do with Pan?" Trunks managed to stumble out. "Oh, no reason. But remember when love is involved, age doesn't matter." Bulma smiled again and turned back to the printout she had been reading. A second later, she heard Trunks sigh deeply and she knew his question had been about Pan. "Well, it's a good thing that he's thinking of her too since the girls have already decided they should be together. And I think that Vegeta kind of likes the idea too." Bulma thought this to herself before she heard Trunks rise and then slam the lab door on his way out. "Poor Trunks, he never had a chance." Bulma smiled and shook her head her babies were grown up.

Trunks was flying back toward the house after he had left the lab frustrated when he saw Goten pull up in Bra's car. "What the hell? Why is he driving Bra's car. I thought Mom said the girls had gone shopping." His confusion grew when Bra and Pan fell out of the backseat. They sat on the ground for a minute giggling. From his vantage point above them Trunks could hear Goten tell them to get up before someone saw them. He looked up when Trunks landed next to him. "Hey Trunks" Goten greeted his best friend with a sheepish smile on his face. "Hey Goten, what are you doing here?" Trunks returned the greeting and glanced at the girls who were now standing but who were still gigging. He could tell they were drunk. He raised his eyebrows in question. "I don't know what they're laughing about, they started in about 10 minutes ago and they haven't stopped." Goten replied to his silent question. "Pan called from the city and asked if I could come get them because they were unable to drive. So here we are, home safe."

The girls had started to walk towards the house when Trunks called out to them, "Hey, go up the back stairs, Mom is in her lab and I don't know where Dad is, but he usually stays away from the back stairs." "Thanks" Bra called back to him. Pan turned and winked at him before grabbing Bra's hand and dragging her in the house. He turned to his friend and asked, "Do you know how much they drank?" Goten shook his head, "nope, but Marron was really drunk, we dropped her off first." He was still staring toward the house were the girls had just been. He couldn't help but think to himself, "Man, Bra sure is pretty, even when she is plastered." He grinned he knew Gohan would be livid if he knew what his precious little girl was doing while he was out of town. Of course, he knew that Pan hid a lot from her father as well. Trunks noticed that Goten was still staring at the door and he heard him sigh when the girls had disappeared into the house. Maybe he'd ask Goten about his situation with Pan since he seemed to have the same problem, even though Trunks wasn't completely thrilled with the idea.

"Shssh, we don't want to run into your parents. I don't think that they would be happy with us." Pan tried to quiet Bra's giggles. "Oh yeah, quiet, right." Bra snickered. Both girls started laughing as soon as they reached Bra's room. They flopped down on the floor beside the bed, still caught up in their laughter.

Downstairs Trunks and Goten were in the rec room playing pool. Waiting for his turn Trunks thought about how he could word his question to ask Goten. He decided it would be best to skirt the issue and just ask a general question. "Hey Goten, can I ask you a question?" Trunks asked when it was his turn again. "of course, you know that," Goten answered before turning to grab a soda out of the fridge. "ok well, how can you tell if a girl is interested in you or not?" Trunks asked hesitantly. Goten had more experience with women than he did. He spent most of his time working and was slightly shy around women. Goten was somewhat surprised at Trunks' question, but he supposed it did make sense. Even though he was popular with women because of both his looks and his money and position, Trunks didn't spend a lot of time in a woman's company. Goten thought about the question for a moment before he answered, "Well, that's kinda hard. They never do the same thing, but usually it is something along the lines of paying more attention to you, dressing cute to get your attention, flirting, stuff like that. Sometimes they even come right out and tell you. Some girl got the hots for you?" Goten questioned Trunks good-naturedly.

"Well, it's more like I have the hots for her but don't want to waste my time if she's not interested." Trunks explained and then looked up from the table since he missed his shot. "Sounds like a smart plan to me. So do I know her?" Goten asked. He was curious as to what girl or women could catch Trunks interest so easily. Before Trunks could answer him the door opened and Pan walked down the short flight of stairs. "Hi guys!" Pan said happily. She had taken a short nap and now she was hungry. "Hi Pan, how do you feel?" Goten asked grinning. Gohan would surely kill him if he knew that he was "allowing" his niece to get drunk. Of course, Goten had no control over Pan but Gohan didn't understand that his daughter was an adult now. "I'm fine. Bra's asleep upstairs and I'm starving." Pan answered as she walked over to the fridge. "order pizza or something." Goten told her, but his mind was really on Bra sleeping upstairs. "Can I eat this?" Pan turned to ask Trunks about the ice cream she had just pulled out of the freezer and found him staring at her. Trunks slowly smiled and replied, "of course, you know that you are welcome to whatever we have." Pan felt her stomach start to flutter at his slow smile. She gave him a bright smile in return and said playfully, "well, thank you, its good to know that I have free range to everything in the house" she gave him a n approving glance that made Trunks start to think that it might not be a completely one-sided attraction.

Goten saw the exchange of glances between the two and began to wonder if the girl Trunks had been talking about was Pan. A slight frown marred Goten's face for just a moment. He wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of his best friend and his only niece being together as a couple. Trunks was quite a bit older than Pan, but then Goten realized that the age difference between them was the same difference between himself and Bra. When he thought about it that way he realized it wasn't that bad, and he knew that Trunks would be good to Pan. Goten looked over at Trunks and noticed that he was watching Pan closely as she draped herself over the armchair in the corner. "Yep, it's definitely her" Goten thought to himself and grinned. Now that he was over his initial protest he was happy about the whole ordeal, they would be good for each other. He decided he would go check on Bra and leave them by themselves for a few minutes. "Hey guys, I'm going to go check on Bra. Be right back." Goten set his pool stick down on the table and then bounded up the stairs. "So, do you think he's got a thing for her?" Pan asked licking ice cream off her spoon. Trunks' attention turned from the stairs to the delicate sweep of Pan's tongue. "What? Oh yeah, I know his interested in her, he's been half in love with her since the summer she started high school." Trunks answered once his brain straightened out her words. Pan heard him stumble over his answer and smiled to herself. "maybe this won't be as hard as I thought," Pan thought to herself.

Chapter Eight will be up soon, thanks everyone for reading this so far. I hope everyone is enjoying this. If you have any suggestions or comments let me know. thanks