disclaimer: Pokemon not mine.
pairings: Steven/May. Steven/Roxanne.
notes: I wrote this, while listening to classic Disney songs.
notes: I really like the book Dorian Gray.
and: I love Steven Stone.
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the unexplainable theory between Aphrodite and Athena
(you got to be in love when you lose all your wit)
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Roxanne is young when she met him— just another girl in Trainer's School, learning about things she already knows, but then he walks in. And she stares because he's a beautifulbeautiful boy and she thinks she can grow to love him.
Perhaps she already has.
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His face shows eternal youth— he demonstrates his pokémon as he calls out his Onix and an Aron to demonstrate to the class. His name is Steven Stone and he's the beautifulbeautiful boy that she might be in love with and she's the little girl who decided that she wanted to be a rock type trainer.
And when people ask why a warm girl like her would want to work with rock pokémon she just shrugs— and never tells them that it was because of him.
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Roxanne becomes a gym leader a few days before she learns that he's champion. And she envies that girl that makes it far enough to meet him— to battle him.
The moment she met the girl named, May— she learned the meaning of hate, regret and jealousy. Maybe, she should have chosen to be a trainer aiming to be the champion.
Maybe then, she won't have to wait for him to appear.
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The day he appears for a visit to his father, he visits the gym. And she's oh so happy, and delirious and he speaks to her— complementing her pokémon, her gym, her. But then the moment is over when he reads the engraved victors of the gym.
"May Maple?" His raises one of his eyebrows, before smiling as he looked at her and her heart breaks into tiny little pieces as he says—
"She's going to be something alright."
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Roxanne doesn't understand what's so great about her.
Her silence, her charm, or is it her blue sapphire eyes? And when Roxanne looks at herself in the mirror— dark hair, blue eyes— but not as blue as her, she thinks wretchedly.
Roxanne and all her brilliance is not as great as her— who became champion just like that. And that little girl didn't even study anywhere. Roxanne had nothing (she worked for this), but while she has a father who is a gym leader. And she scorns that girl— as tears stream down her face.
With all her brilliance why can't he just look at her?
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She likes to read a lot.
Roxanne likes to read all sorts of fairytales, but looking at Mr. Stone speak about that girl she battled so long ago and his son—
She wonders if fairytales are for the brokenhearted and hopeless.
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And as she reads the invitation that Mr. Stone is handing to her—
She sees that her theory is true.
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the end
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(and sometimes when she passes by that girl he loves— she would scorn at her with her bright smiles and welcomes. Because love and brilliance always clashed.)
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