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Mistakes

Chapter 6:

Their Language

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."

-Peter Drucker

Why are we so fragile? When we're born we should have warning labels on us. We are so liable to get confused and doubt ourselves. We spend out childhoods playing with life and then when we get older more things are expected of us. When we are teenagers we have to discover ourselves. But why should we have to discover ourselves? We're here, not invisible! So after we deal with that bull shit we move onto college and trying out experiments and then that's when we get screwed.

We have to "re-find" ourselves again.

Then we realize that maybe those birth marks that our mothers love to kiss and tease us about are probably the warning labels. They show us we're imperfect and we'll never be perfect and life is just one confusing cycle after another. Then again I realize how stupid I was to even think that up. Maybe I should call my mother and ask her: "When they pulled me out of the womb, did they just happen to drop me on my head?"

Whoever said "Regret nothing", screw them they should be taken out of the genetic line of our race. What kind of saying is that? So am I supposed to tell my mother that "yes I did take the alcohol out of the cabinet and no I don't regret it even though I dropped it and glass shattered into my foot and now I'm here at the hospital with you trying to have the doctors remove the glass pieces that are inside my foot as well as the alcohol that's burning the wounds." Yeah I totally don't regret that…NOT!

It must have been a man that said that. Men are stupid women should throw rocks at them, except the homosexual ones because we do need some sort of man to trust. I'm blabbing on and on and I can't even comprehend what I'm confused about and what the hell the ringing is in my head. I told someone to get the noise but they didn't answer. Then I realized, no one is even there. I'm all alone; I'm in bed all alone.

Why did I decide to sleep on this side of the bed? I always sleep on the left side of the bed. I feel like I'm sleeping in somebody else's spot. Now I remember this isn't where I used to sleep on planet Vegeta. This isn't the same bed.

Erase. Delete. End of Story.

I sleep on the right side now. Fuck the world I sleep on the right side now.

And that alarm clock is coming over to the right side. So I lunged myself to the left side picked up the alarm turned it off and took it with me to the right side. Much better.

-(Pan Son at 6 am without three shot mocha coffee)

P.S. And why are we all so dependent on Starbucks coffee?

(AN: If you didn't understand. I wrote this as her being half asleep so you could find faults in what emotions she tries to hide. So please don't think that I wrote this as a lazy author.)

She swirled the liquid in her cup and absently thought that's what her stomach must be doing too. The company expected her to have her paper work done by the end of the day. Normally, by now, they would have been done. Instead she had stirred her coffee for a half an hour and went to the bathroom to put foundation under her baggy eyes. She found that when she got to her bathroom she forgot why she was there.

Her mind was scattered across the universe and could not collect itself back down. She just turned on the BBC news and it said the ministers of Planet Vegeta had left today. Then she heard the one that was supposed to represent earth would be delayed for another five days for personal reasons.

Pan reminded herself to call him when she got the chance. Of course she was busy right now. Her now tepid coffee needed attending to as she switched the way she stirred it. Should she stir it how the corellas effect is in the South Hemisphere of earth or the Northern Hemisphere?

Then again, what does it matter?

On planet Vegeta all water swirled clockwise like it did in the Northern Hemisphere.

Why was she referring back to her middle school science class?

Then she remembered. Today after a long thirty- six hour flight her Company limo service would pick up her dad, uncle, best friend, and the unlabeled, at the airport. She can imagine her father's worried tone at why she left. She actually wasn't supposed to leave for earth until, well, today. She had her excuse in mind but she didn't like lying to her parents.

Unlabeled, of course was going to be a problem, but she had a plan for him once they got to the office. Mr. and Mrs. Briefs were in town and they knew about the visit. Needless to say they were excited…

There was a knock at the door. She sighed loudly but her secretary may have taken that as a "leave me alone sign" and walked away. Pan dumped her cold coffee in the trash and motioned for Rin to come back into her office.

Rin practically tip toed behind her because Pan was moving at a sluggish rate. Pan finally got to her desk and sat down. Rin took the chair on the other side of her desk. Pan's eyes met Rin's and she gasped.

"Say it, I look like shit. Just say it."

Rin shook her head, "No miss you're always beautiful but you look like you've hardly gotten any sleep! Maybe you should take a sick day today and go home."

Go home she thought. No never! She couldn't do that. No she had a plan. She must stick to the plan and carry it through. She had papers to finish by the end of the day but no major work to be done. It would only take two hours to finish the papers at most.

"Absolutely not!" Pan yelled making Rin flinch all of the sudden. A few seconds ago she had been depressed now it was time for a change.

"Rin, round up everyone on this floor and bring them here; this is an emergency."

"What's wrong?!" she asked, surprised. Her hands were over her mouth and she was standing.

"My family and friends are coming today and I need to make them think I'm extremely busy so I'm practically pushing them out of the office. Mr. and Mrs. Briefs are coming to help make a diversion but they don't know about it so we can't tell them."

"The company president and his wife?!" she shrieked.

"I'll explain more when you get everyone in my office!"

Rin ran out of the room saying "Yes m'am! Right away m'am!"

"It's PAN!!! NOT M'AM, RIN!" Pan yelled out her office but Rin was already long gone.

"So I bet you're all wondering why you're here? That's an easy question because it has a simple answer. If you do this for me …" she paused for a moment watching everyone around the room they seemed fearful of her. She was their boss but she didn't want them to be afraid.

"We'll have a huge office party next week! I really need this favor and I would appreciate it! Anything you need in the future to this degree we'll do it unless we actually have some major work to do!"

She stopped. Everyone seemed to be on a calmer degree now. They were all smiling at her pleas.

"What do you need?" one of the men from the accounting department on her floor simply asked.

"Good question Lee," a woman named Yuna added.

Pan smiled at them, "My father is coming today. His flight arrives in an hour and right now we have nothing to do at the office. I need it to seem like we're really busy this week at the office and that we're swamped so I possibly can't have anytime to…"

"We understand," a cheerful Rin said but then added, "But why would you want to do that to your father. I thought you got along well with him."

"Trust me if it was just my father I wouldn't be asking this favor. It's my uncle and his best friend that need to be gotten rid of. I can easily get rid of his best friend. My uncle is the hard part."

"Why do you need to get rid of them?" a few men asked at the same time.

Pan sighed, "I left my home on planet Vegeta very quickly and I had my reasons but if those two get in the way they can cause uproar in my family and that's the last thing I need. Now I need you guys not to freak out but…"

Everyone looked around nervously as she paused.

"My uncle's best friend is the Prince of Planet Vegeta. And yes that means he is the grandson of President Briefs and his wife. That's how I'm getting rid of him today. The President and his wife will be here in two hours."

"My office isn't clean!"

"Oh my god, I spilled coffee on Mr. Briefs one time. I hope he doesn't remember!"

"I didn't wear a tie today!"

Pan looked around the ruckus and took the stapler on her desk and slammed it on the desk like a judge calls for order in a court.

"Okay, Okay! I know it's bad. Everyone needs to stay with me! When the Briefs come they will be so overjoyed at the thought of not seeing their grandson for a year that they won't notice anything wrong with the office. The Briefs are personal family friends of mine and they like me.

They're easy going people they're not going to care if an office isn't clean or if you spilled coffee on them once or if you're not wearing a tie. All they care about is if our department is running smoothly, which it is. I just need all of you to cooperate with me. When I have everyone in my office I'm going to pretend to be working very hard. I need all of you to act the same as well. The hardest you've ever worked in your life! When they get to my office I need you all to start calling me non- stop! Do you understand?"

"Yes m'am!" Everyone shouted.

"No M'am!!! Do I look old to all of you? I'm twenty-one years old and my name is Pan. I think it's an odd name personally but for the love of Buddha, God, Allah, Dende, or whatever you believe in please just call me by my name. Pan…say it with me P-A-N."

"Pan," Said all of the workers in her office.

"Good. Thank you everyone I really appreciate it! I love all of you and next week we're having a Hula Pizza party!"

"Or you could just buy us all Starbucks for a week and then we're well paid off! Have you seen the prices there recently?! Outrageous, but I just can't resist their Vanilla Lattés every time I walk past the cart downstairs…"

"Alright Lee I'll get you your Vanilla Lattes. Does everyone want the week of Starbucks or the pizza party?"

"Starbucks," the whole office stated in unison.

"Starbucks it is," Pan smiled nervously. This has to work, because if it didn't the truth would have to come out. In her opinion she would destroy her family's honor.

"Ladies and gentlemen please put your seats and trays into their upright positions in preparation for landing. We would like to thank you for using Star Struck Airlines for your space travel. Please join us again."

"Damn look at that pollution cloud. Earth really needs to get it together," said Goten.

"Yeah…" absent minded Trunks replied.

"Dude, do you remember when we used to play at my house in the mountains? I bet it's all gone to hell now. I wonder if the birds even chirp there anymore…"

"Yeah…" Trunks closed his eyes and sighed.

"Okay seriously. Dude, we're in first class, we've gotten more sleep than economy. We have actual meals. We have movies that are out in theatres right now. So what is your issue? You can't seriously be this tired? And…Trunks are you even listening to me?" Goten said getting frustrated.

"It's nothing. I'm fine I just can't wait to get out and stretch my legs."

"Then why do you look nervous Trunks?"

Trunks sat up quickly and took a hard look at Goten. He noted that Goten's tone had taken the form of his mother's. He also had this look to him. It was also one matching his mother's. It was the "all knowing" look. Trunks took a deep nervous breath into his deflated lungs. He knew.

He opened his mouth to say something but Goten beat him there, "Don't worry about Gohan. He's a couple rows ahead of us."

"Goten…"

"Did you honestly think that after twenty five years of friendship that I'm that blind? Come on you know me better than that."

"How long have you known?"

"The sex or the love?"

"Wha-?"

"The love, I don't know, you've always loved her like I have. But I think you really fell for her when she was around sixteen because you totally stood up a date with that hot exchange student Danielle to help Pan fix her car when she first got her license.

But let's get to the good stuff. I've known about the sex for about half the year. Yeah I asked one of the guys that Pan was supposed to go out with why he stood her up. I told him that I would Kamehya kamehya his ass if he didn't tell me. I mean I just didn't understand why guys would stand her up. I mean I'm her uncle but I'm not stupid Pan is hot. Any guy would brag about a date with her.

The guy told me that someone else threatened him but also bribed him not to go out with Pan. I told him that I wasn't going to bribe him but he would die a slow and painful death if he didn't tell me.

Trunks let's be honest here. You're not exactly hard to recognize. I mean you're prince of a whole country. He identified you right away. And then a couple weeks later when Pan said she was sleeping over at the palace a lot to do extra work for Bulma, I knew where she really was. I also knew how you felt about her. So that's the only reason why I didn't hurt you. I knew that the only one that could get hurt was you. And look what happened…"

Needless to say Trunks was dumbfounded. His best friend, careless Goten, had figured this entire thing out. He never thought Goten was stupid. Goten was just like his father, a smart guy that acts like he has a lot of air in his head. Sometimes Trunks would forget his best friend was a smart person.

"Look Trunks, I don't think you should have come. You and I don't do this feelings thing…but you're just going to get hurt. What are you trying to accomplish-?"

"Dammit Goten, stop analyzing Pan and me."

"I'm just saying"

"Just don't say anything and listen," Trunks gave him a stern look, "You may have known what was going on but you have no idea about the feelings involved. You've never made love to anyone in your life. There's a difference Goten. A phenomenal difference. It's like you're a scared virgin again. Because there's a woman in front of you that you love and you're trying to bare your soul in a way which she can not only understand but feel. And you are absolutely terrified but you do it. You do it with every fiber in your being dedicated to her.

And then one night she looks at you. It's not like she had been avoiding your eyes. She always looks at you. This time it's different though. She understands now. Everything that you had been trying to accomplish has come to this point. Instead of turning you away, she not only lets you continually touch her more, but she makes love to you this time.

It's another language Goten. One I'm sorry that you don't seem to understand. It's a language between two people that love each other and have known each other in every single way. And it's something unexplainable. The joy you feel that after all that time she loves you back. She can deny it to everyone she meets, her family, her best friend, but in that language we feel together she cannot deny it.

So don't tell me how she feels. Because I already know how she feels. Earlier I thought she might have been confused about the difference between love and sex but now I know that she already knows that. I've thought about it a lot. Pan Son always knows where her priorities lay. I was not apart of them. That's why she left early Goten. I'm not here to find out why she left. I've already figured it out. I'm here to take her home with me." Trunks lay back in his seat, indicating that he was done with his rant. He looked over at Goten daring him to contradict what he had just said.

Goten opened and closed his mouth a couple times before he was finally able to speak, "Okay. Just do me a favor."

"What?"

"No regrets."

"Okay."

"What no rebuttal on that? I thought you don't believe in that phrase."

Trunks snorted with humor, "Goten there's a difference between running away drunk from the cops through a manure field with you and Pan."

"What's the difference?"

"I could never regret Pan."

Below them a long stretch of screeching could be heard. They had landed.

Two hours later…

"EVERYONE IN POSITION!" Pan yelled, "The lobby called and the Briefs are here! My dad's limo service called and they said they should be here any minute!"

Pan ran back to her office and made sure she left the door open. The door opened signaled that she was needed a lot in the office that day. Pan placed the phone between her shoulder and ear. She held some of her paper work and the she had purposely scattered all over the desk

The elevator came to rest on her floor. The Briefs were here. Instantly several phones had gone off in the office. Rin was pretending to argue with an angry client on the phone. Stating several times that Miss Son was busy and she would have to contact him another time.

Yuna pretended to be running from the copier to her cubicle and "accidentally" fell on the way. Lee kept on mumbling about company profits. And Pan was apparently talking to one of Capsule Corporation's important clients.

"My dear, it certainly looks busy around here. Doesn't it honey?" Mrs. Briefs said looking toward her husband.

"Let's drop in with Pan and see what's going on," He said looking worriedly over at the girl who had just fallen.

"MR. BRIEFS!" Rin yelled pretending to be astonished.

"Well hello," he said looking startled at the girl.

"We had no idea you were coming sir! Please! Can I get you anything?"

"Well no thank you. Is Pan in?"

"Yes sir! She's on the phone with Mr. Nakano right now though. Big sale happening but he wants everything filed by today and Pan is trying to get him to ease the deadline. He doesn't seem to be budging. So everyone is frantic to try and complete this sale in time."

"Mr. Nakano?" Mr. Briefs said confused, "Who is this client? I've never heard of him."

"Well according to Pan he's a new and uprising company on the market."

"What company does he own? I still don't understand why I've never heard of him."

Rin looked nervous for a second but Mrs. Briefs came to the rescue for her, "Honey remember we've been traveling a lot lately. Remember last month when we went to Rome and then the month before in Paris. Then before that we spent the year in Uganda building schools for those poor unfortunate children. We've been busy."

"You're right dear. Of course I've never heard of him," Mr. Briefs said convinced. Rin sighed in relief.

Just then the elevator announced it's presence once again. Three tired men stepped out of the elevator and made their way to the receptionist desk politely asking where Pan's office was. They then proceeded to walk to the back of the floor where Rin's desk was visible and Mr. and Mrs. Brief's stood.

Then men didn't seem to notice Mr. and Mrs. Briefs standing off to the side. Gohan, who was in front, asked Rin, "Is Ms. Son in right now?"

"Yes sir, but I apologize she's on the phone. And I she has a couple already waiting for her."

All three men looked off to the side. Trunks was immediately shocked.

"Grandma? Grandpa???"

"OH SWEETHEART!!" Mrs. Briefs immediately ran up and hugged him.

"How're you son?" His grandfather gave him a long hard handshake.

"I'm alright…What are you doing here?" Trunks asked still stunned at their appearance.

Mrs. Briefs was still swooning over her grandson, "Well Pan told us that you were going to be in town so she called us to let us know. So we cancelled our trip to New York to spend some quality time with our grandson! We barely see you anymore! How is your mother? Your sister?"

"Uhh…" Trunks had completely lost his train of thought. This was not was he was here for.

At that moment Pan ran out of her office and motioned for Rin to get out of her chair. Pan ran rolling the chair with her to the middle of the office. The Briefs, Trunks, and her family watched on confused at what she was doing. She got up on the chair without falling. Amazing since she chose to wear four inch heels today.

"EVERYONE LISTEN UP!"

The office went quiet except for the sound of furiously ringing telephones.

"After spending a good two hours on the phone with Mr. Nakano. He still won't let up on the deadline. I informed Mr. Nakano with an order as big as he was requiring that we needed at least two weeks to deliver it to his company's various locations. He has decided to keep stern with decision. The order needs to be completed with in a week!"

A bunch of disappointed and frustrated employs could be heard all through out the room. One man stood up on his desk from his cubicle that was near Pan's office.

"M'am we have the factory on the phone and they say they're booked and our order is behind five other big orders!"

Pan walked back toward her office and stopped at the man's cubicle. "Give me the phone. Let me talk to the general manager of the factory."

Pan grabbed the phone. She felt a little ridiculous talking into an empty phone, but this is what acting was all about. She sighed and looked over at the large group of people just staring at her outside her office. She glanced at all of them, but barely looked at Trunks. She nodded her head in their direction motioning her index finger up towards them.

"Hello is this the General Manager?"

"Then why am I talking to you Barbara? Get the General Manager now or you'll find yourself out of a job. You have no idea who you're dealing with right now… Yeah I'll go on hold but it better be quick or Mr. Briefs himself will be informed of this ill treatment towards me…."

Pan looked towards her father, "Daddy hi! I'm so sorry but as you can tell we're swamped here! Can you please, please, please go to the hotel and I'll come by and we can talk there," She then acknowledged Mr. and Mrs. Briefs, "I'm glad you found Trunks. My secretary can give you the list of all the things I thought you guys could do together while Trunks is here. There's more stuff on there than the time you have but I thought it would give you a lot of options."

Pan's father and uncle gave her a hug and a kiss on his cheek. "We'll see you at the hotel after five Pan," her father said sternly toward her.

"Of course Daddy."

The Briefs with Trunks in tow walked over to Pan, "Well Pan I know you're doing an efficient job here. I have nothing but trust in you," Mr. Briefs said smiling at her, "keep up the good work."

"Oh and thank you for notifying us about Trunks being in town! We'll defiantly have to take a look at that list," Mrs. Briefs said gratefully. Rin walked up behind her and handed her the list.

Trunks looked at her. Pan met his gaze and felt herself swimming in the ocean. She felt hurt wash over herself and immediately she knew that Trunks was in pain. He had figured out her plan and he wasn't angry. Instead he seemed heart broken that she had gone that far to avoid him. Right before he turned away to follow his grandparents he gave her a look that rivaled her fathers.

As he walked away she knew what was happening next. This was far from over. Nothing was going to stop Prince Trunks from seeing her again.

As the elevator carried the group to the lobby, everyone cheered that the plan had worked. They all patted Pan on the back while she still stared at the elevator doors were she had last seen Trunks. She still held the phone in her hands. Rin walked over and took the phone out of her hands and placed it on the hook.

Pan slowly regained consciousness toward everyone around her. She cleared her throat and spoke loud enough for everyone to hear, "Thank you guys! Starbucks for a week!"

Everyone cheered again instead of Pan and Rin. Rin watched Pan drag herself into her office and slowly shut the door.

When she shut the door, she let the ocean she had captured earlier out of her eyes.

Okay so I'm off exchange. Now I'm in college which means tons of work. I'm on Christmas break now. It's one o'clock in the morning. I'm tired. I'm going to bed. This chapter was eleven pages long. Probably the longest chapter I've ever written. It's too bad I can't write essays this long like this at school!