Chapter One

"It’s been a year of silence really, after what happened I don’t think any Son has seen or spoken with a Briefs. I can remember it like the events are occurring now. Strangely enough if you really think about it…in my earliest memories Trunks and I already were friends. In all honesty I can’t think of anyone in the neighborhood we haven’t tortured with our endless pranks. You know, things really changed when you two left. Grandma probably aged twenty years in twelve months. And Pan your daddy…I can’t even explain it properly. Gohan changed to say the least. He moved back to mother to keep her company he says, but I think he just couldn’t stand being in the town anymore. Around every corner he turned something stood there waiting for him to remind him of you and your mother. I think the words moment was when I got a call at college. It was a policeman telling me to get to this shady bar and get my brother before somebody died. I never saw somebody so alone…and broken. Never in his life he had seen let alone taken a drink. Despite all that came over him in life and all he lost he had always managed to cling to his pride. Anyways as soon as he sobered up enough I asked him why he went there. Deep down inside I knew why but I wanted to know…needed to hear his truth even if it was dying. Basically Gohan wanted to forget, to experience the mindless bliss of escaping your demons, to killing your memories even if it only lasted for one evening. His demons caught up with him the next morning. I’ll spare you two the details.

"Your daddy Bra……Vegeta……actually nobody knows. About one month after he took the coward’s way out again. Not a single soul knows what happened between him and your mother. I was out getting groceries for Mama, and she has been dead set on remaining in the forest until the end of times with Gohan. I think she has become afraid of the outside world. Walking down the main street I stopped and joined the group of people who seemed to be gawking at something. Sure it was a beautiful sight but heee its not like we haven’t seen it before. All that the human eye saw appeared to be a spaceship blasting off. All that my eye saw was a desperate man trying to escape his own feelings of guilt.

"I think you should know this Panny, I really loved you as my niece……I miss you more than I ever knew you could miss anyone. It’s funny really…Did you ever know Bra that I had such a crush on you and for that matter, Panny you should know that Trunks also had a crush on you.

"I even don’t know if this actually gets somewhere, it just needs to be said by me.

"Never forget that I love you both, I hope you two are happy."

A blossoming willow stood in a small opening in a forest teeming with life. Fish in every color of the rainbow swam in the small pond. Springtime had arrived again and every part of the world seemed alive.

A small group of bumblebees zoomed happily around the fresh forest flowers bestowed upon the graves.

Disturbed during their playtime, six yellow birds hastily exited towards the sky. Consumed by his own thoughts, a handsome young man strolled towards the tree and carefully kneeled down about two meters away from it.

"Hmm I wonder who left these flowers here. So the year finally passed, a year of grief and silence…after you and Pan-chan left, we all died inside. Mother hasn’t smiled since that day…even Vegeta missed the high-pitched squeals. But on with the story. Exactly one month after…it, dad left us again. When I came back from the office, I found Mom standing silently in the Garden. She did not even notice the dozens of people gawking. Only looking up to the sky as it she was willing the sun to extinguish. Deep down we both knew that why left and that he will come back to us…someday.

"Actually, nothing else of interest happened, our old gang never comes together anymore. With everyday that passed we became more and more closed and to ourselves. Eighteen and Krillin tired to help and visited often.

"God……I miss you Sis, I never thought I’d see the day I would miss your and Pan’s scamming…Jeez how pathetic, really, here’s one of the strongest people on earth and I’m sitting here crying and talking to a couple of graves.

"We even tried the Dragonballs although we knew it wouldn’t work. I will never forget the expression on Gohan’s, Goten’s, and mom and dad’s faces. The illogical hope we all cherished was crushed when we heard, ‘I cannot bring back those who died naturally.’ ………Pan, I really have one regret in life. Never I had been able to summon up enough of the famed saijin courage to tell you how beautiful you really are. Stupid, huh, I had a crush on a girl almost half my age.

"It doesn’t matter anymore. Nothing matters anymore…"

Two white lilies rested solemnly on the young grass.