perhaps if we pretend hard enough (things will be different)

by DrakoSquirtle

she didn't expect to ever care for the optimistic surfer; however that was where she found herself. roxanne/brawly

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Sometimes he scares her with little things; with his messy azure hair, and blue eyes that glint just so seamlessly under the sun – because it's always summer in Dewford.

But still she can't understand him and his smiling, and optimistic, and high-fives. She doesn't understand why he takes so much pride in his surfing or granite collection; or why he loves being a gym leader.

Because what does it mean, really, to be a Gym Leader?

To train your Pokemon to amazing strength? To be considered just another obstacle in the face of an aspiring-trainer.

And so she sits quietly by the beach on Route 104, wondering if the little things she considered trivial, were not little at all.

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