Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Hey there everyone! I know I really shouldn't be starting another story, since I can barely cope with the ones I've already got, but I'll manage somehow! This idea just won't leave me alone and I've already got the first four chapters written (they just need editing now) so I thought I'd post the character profiles and prologue and see what happens.
I know character profiles aren't always the most interesting things to read, but please do absorb each character's history and relationships with the other characters because it saves me from having to waste too much time explaining it in the actual story. Thanks :)
Enjoy!
Character Profiles
Name: Leaf Greene
Age: Sixteen
Chosen Subjects: Dance, Theater, Music, Sport
Best Friend: Gary Oak
Close Friends: Drew Hayden, Ash Ketchum, May Maple, Dawn Berlitz, Misty Waterflower and Paul Shinji
Family: Two parents living in Kanto, only child
Other: Has been on a few dates but never really had a proper relationship before
Name: Misty Waterflower
Age: Seventeen
Chosen Subjects: Sport, Music, Theater, Dance
Best Friend: Ash Ketchum
Close Friends: Drew Hayden, Gary Oak, May Maple, Dawn Berlitz, Leaf Greene and Paul Shinji
Family: Three older sisters, no parents
Other: Has a 'magic mallet' which she uses to keep everyone in line
Name: May Maple
Age: Sixteen
Chosen Subjects: Music, Theater, Dance, Sport
Best Friend: Dawn Berlitz
Close Friends: Drew Hayden, Gary Oak, Misty Waterflower, Ash Ketchum, Leaf Greene and Paul Shinji
Family: Younger half-brother, Max Maple (fifteen years old), who shares May's mother but has a different father. Her mother, Caroline, re-married to Norman after May's father left her. She also has a step-brother, Gary Oak (five months older than her).
Other: Her father left her mother a few months after May was born but he always kept in touch, which is how May came to know Gary. Gary's mother died when he was six years old and his father didn't want him so asked Caroline to take him in. Caroline felt sorry for Gary because both she and his mother were played by Ralph, May and Gary's father, so she agreed to look after Gary. He and May basically grew up together. She has also been unofficially dating Brendan Birch for about a year - they don't call each other boy/girlfriend but they keep going out on 'not-dates' and are off-limits to other boys or girls relationship-wise.
Name: Dawn Berlitz
Age: Seventeen
Chosen Subjects: Music, Dance, Theater, Sport
Best Friend: May Maple
Close Friends: Drew Hayden, Gary Oak, Misty Waterflower, Ash Ketchum, Leaf Greene and Paul Shinji
Family: Mother is Johanna, deputy head of Celestic Arts High
Other: Is currently dating Lucas Johns, but none of her relationships have been known to last for more than a month
Name: Ash Ketchum
Age: Sixteen
Chosen Subjects: Sport, Music, Theater, Dance
Best Friend: Misty Waterflower
Close friends: Drew Hayden, Gary Oak, Dawn Berlitz, May Maple, Leaf Greene and Paul Shinji
Family: Mother lives in Kanto and he has a cousin called Red who also attends Celestic Arts High
Other: He is very over-protective of the girls in the group and hates to see any of them get hurt
Name: Drew Hayden
Age: Sixteen
Chosen Subjects: Music, Dance, Theater, Sport
Best Friend: Paul Shinji
Close Friends: Ash Ketchum, Gary Oak, Dawn Berlitz, May Maple, Leaf Greene and Misty Waterflower
Family: A rich father who is always away on business trips and who has a new girlfriend every month
Other: Is also known as Celestic Arts High's heartthrob, however he rarely gets involved with his admirers
Name: Paul Shinji
Age: Seventeen
Chosen Subjects: Sport, Music, Theater, Dance
Best Friend: Drew Hayden
Close Friends: Ash Ketchum, Gary Oak, Dawn Berlitz, May Maple, Leaf Greene and Misty Waterflower
Family: Older brother, Reggie, and no parents
Other: Despite being 'close' friends with the rest of the group, no-one actually knows that much about him – he keeps himself shut away and his emotions strongly under check most of the time
Name: Gary Oak
Age: Seventeen
Chosen Subjects: Theater, Music, Sport, Dance
Best friend: Leaf Greene
Close Friends: Ash Ketchum, Drew Hayden, Dawn Berlitz, May Maple, Paul Shinji and Misty Waterflower
Family: Mother died when he was six, his father left her well before that. His younger (by five months) step-sister is May Maple and although he isn't related by blood to Max Maple, they grew up as brothers.
Other: May's mother, Caroline, and her step-father, Norman, took Gary in after his mother dies, so he calls them his parents now and May and Max are his siblings. He is also the biggest player in the school and has a new girlfriend every week but never stays faithful to them, always cheating on them.
Prologue
Celestic Arts High is a school like any other. Only it's not. It's highly esteemed and nearly impossible to get into. There are barely fifty students per year. The campus is huge with state of the art facilities including a recording studio, multiple practise rooms, two large theatres, two inside stages and one outside stage (in the centre of campus – all the buildings are situated around it), a huge swimming pool, two sports halls and four large outside courts, and luxury boarding rooms.
I suppose that's why it has enemies. CA High produces the teenagers who go on to become famous and many people who don't get in become jealous. Of course I knew that. We all did.
Being a teenager with all the normal drama going on is hard enough, but when you add the media sniffing out secrets that are supposed to stay buried, that just complicates things a whole lot more.
If I could turn back time and go back to where it all started, on that fateful day in November, I would. Because despite what he'll tell you, I never meant to hurt him.
I never meant to break his heart.
Author's Note: In case it wasn't clear, they all attend Celestic Arts High School and they're in their third year there (Max is in his first year). Their chosen subjects were in order from the most prioritised to least prioritised, and the list of close friends were in no particular order for each person.
Since I've already written the first chapter, I'll post if it I get a couple of reviews ;)
Thanks for reading!
~ Jay