Where's My Dolly?
Okay, I've decided to write a Halloween fic so it will have some... Not really scary parts; just unusual or freaky- depends on how you interpret it. Hope you'll like it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon (But for future reference, just see profile)
Prologue: A mysterious Package.
As soon as the sound of the alarm clock rung, a small hand with silky smooth skin reached out from under the white, cotton bed covers for it and not long after that, an object hitting a wall sounded loud and clear throughout the house.
Leaf wasn't exactly thrilled about breaking an alarm clock so often but, in her opinion, it had to be done. Those things were like immobile devils.
She threw back the bed covers and got out of her warm, soft mattress and she could really feel the cold rush of the morning air in her room hit her. That was something that she was going to have to get rid of by shutting her room window; she didn't even remember opening it last night.
Stumbling into the bathroom down the hall, she could hear her mother stopping the mailman from doing his job once again and her father humming to the song on the radio. It seemed like it was going to be another typical day.
After she had dressed herself into something school appropriate such as a red tartan skirt and a tight white top with a white bow embedded onto it and a pair of black flats to match, she headed down stairs and into the kitchen, where her parents were and more importantly, where her breakfast of chocolate milk and chocolate cereals with extra sugar was.
"Morning." she greeted but to her surprise, both her parents were gone already despite being able to hear their voices just a few minutes ago. Leaf looked at the clock on her wall. No wonder they were gone already, it turns out she was running late. Stupid alarm clock, but it did just prove her point of them being immobile devils; they don't even do their job right!
She was about to leave when a moderately sized box that sat on the table caught her eyes, and being the nosey person she is, she decided to see who the package was for. She thought it was weird when the first line of the package read her name: Miss Leaf Green.
'Well, if the package is mine, I should open it.' She thought to herself before she tore of the layer of tape off and pulled out an object completely covered in bubble wrap. She stopped to pop some of the bubble wrap before proceeding to remove it and under all that was a doll, a porcelain doll.
The doll wore a lacy cream coloured dress and had curly dark blond locks, just like how most of dolls of this type tend to have. The shoes on her feet were flat and red while her eyes were a very nice shade of blue.
'I don't remember buying a doll.' She thought to herself. Trying to find a return address, Leaf wanted to suss out where the doll was sent from but shrugged off the thought when she could not find one and ran up to her room instead, where she placed the doll sitting, leaning against the mirror of her vanity. After that, she left.
She skipped down the hall and took a seat once she reached her homeroom. She had barely sat down properly when her friends called her.
"You seem even more cheery than usual." May said, "Why?" she asked, leaning in for an added intimidation effect, though, it rarely worked.
Leaf gave her a really wide smile. "It's almost Halloween."
May thought about that. "So it is!" she reached into her bag and pulled out her planner and double checked.
Dawn sat down beside her. "So what is?" she asked.
"Halloween." May and Leaf replied in unison.
Dawn thought about it. "Really?"
May and Leaf nodded but Leaf's action was much more frantic and awake looking.
Just then the teacher walked in with a cup of coffee in one hand and his briefcase (that was usually empty) in the other. He looked up to see which of the student weren't in after he placed his coffee down on the table and his but onto his reclining, black seat, which Leaf often feared was going to give into his weight at any time.
"Where is Oak?" he bellowed after he had figured out that he wasn't there.
All the students except Leaf slid further down into their seat, after all, this teacher was known to shout and was very aggressive, strict and down right grumpy; all the more of a reason for Gary and Leaf to pull pranks on.
Leaf felt a kick on the back of her seat, which caused her jump upwards. She looked to the seat behind and saw May look away but when she turned round, she was quick to figure out why. The teacher was hovering over her desk, casting a daunting shadow over her.
"Answer my question, Green." he demanded loudly, "I know you're very close to Oak."
Leaf thought about what Gary said to her while they walked home yesterday. It was at times like these when she really wished that she had listened instead of being distracted by the shine of his new watch, which by the way, she still had.
"I can honestly say I don't know." Leaf answered, completely oblivious to the teacher's scary glare. She had a hand on her chin and was doing a thinking pose.
The class could hear him mutter something that sounded like: "For once." Then, he turned around and walked away disapprovingly, like how he walked whenever he was happy or sad.
'That's a good question.' Leaf thought to herself, 'Where is he?'
Up until lunch break, time seemed to be unusually slow moving and to make things worse, Gary had not returned Leaf's text messages. She raised her wrist up and looked at the time on Gary's watch. It had been barely a minute since she last checked it. She could feel this typical day turning out to be a drag – fast.
When she had finally bought her lunch, she headed to her table where she usually sat with her friends May, Dawn and occasionally Misty.
"What took you so long?" Dawn asked as she took another bite out of her plain cheese sandwich.
"Lines are HUGE!" she exaggerated, using her arms to help her emphasise out the length. She prodded at her cheese and tomato pasta with her fork and was about to eat a bit when she saw a figure in the canteen that sure looked a lot like Gary's. "Hey, he's here after all!" she exclaimed before jumping out of her seat and running over to him.
"Gary!" she yelled as she tried to stop her feet from skidding as she approached him. "You're not dead after all." she added while she tried to stop herself from sliding into him and causing a collision.
He stuck his hands out slightly and caught her by her elbows. "That's a pretty obvious observation you've made there." he pointed out.
"Where were you? You didn't text back." She narrowed her eyes at him.
He shrugged. "I left my phone in my locker... And I left my watch in your possession." he added after he saw his watch on her wrist, "I was wondering where I left that."
Leaf just gave him a really wide smile, like how she did so earlier.
Meanwhile...
"Stupid canteen... They're not supposed to run out of food." May returned to the table that she usually sat at with her friends and noticed that only two of them were there. "Where's Leaf?" she asked as she sat down.
Dawn pointed over to the middle of the canteen where Leaf and Gary were talking... And still holding onto each other's arms.
"Childhood best friends." Dawn said in envy, "She claims that but not from where we stand... Or in this case, sit. Just look at how cute they are together." she made a heart with her hands and raised them so that inside it was Gary and Leaf. She let out a dreamy sigh.
May on the other hand, had more important priorities in her mind. She sat there eyeing up Leaf's lunch before she plucked up the courage to take the plunge and steal Leaf it.
"May!" Misty yelled.
"What?" she said just before the pasta reached her mouth.
"That's not yours." Misty pointed out.
"But Leaf's not eating it and the canteen ran out of food again!" she defended.
"Misty, just let her eat it." suggested a masculine voice that was too familiar to May and not in a good way, "She has no impulse control anyway." he flicked his hair back in the same way he did every day and boy did it get on May's nerves.
"I do too have impulse control!" she shouted at him while he started to walk away. May followed him, yelling at him while she walked.
"I love how they always do that." Dawn commented as she watched May and Drew's figures became smaller and smaller.
"Tell me about." Misty said.
"Okay!"
It was the end of the school day. Leaf walked beside Gary while he checked his phone for missed calls or messages and saying he had some would be an understatement. He read most of them and looked at Leaf.
"How many messages did you send, no, bombard me with?" Gary asked, clearing the inbox of his phone.
"Wouldn't have needed to if you told me where you were, like how you always do." Leaf countered casually.
Gary sighed. "I told you that like what, twenty four hours ago?" he said rhetorically, "I was doing driving test."
Leaf tried to think back to yesterday. "You should know not to distract me with shiny things." she pointed out. "We've known each other since we were two and you're still making a rookie mistake. Tsk tsk."
Gary ignored her last comment and read yet another message from the same sender. "What's this about a doll?"
Leaf suddenly remembered the doll and told him all about her morning. Only a small percentage of her story was related to her new Porcelain doll, of course.
"That's weird. Was there a return address?" he inquired.
Leaf shook her head frantically. "Nope but it's pretty so I left her sitting on my vanity before I left this morning." she recalled, "Come over and I'll show you."
Gary shrugged. "Sure."
"I'm home!" Leaf shouted when she made it home with Gary behind her. But no response.
"Hm, that's strange. Your parents are always home before you are." Gary said as he headed for the staircase.
"They usually are..." she followed him up the stairs, "I'm going to the bathroom first, and I'll meet you in my room in a minute."
Gary nodded and proceeded to walk into her room. Once inside, he realised that Leaf hadn't cleaned her room (again) but he ignored that and went straight towards the doll, which was standing on the vanity.
"That's odd." Gary thought aloud.
"What is?" Leaf asked as she entered her room.
"I thought you said the doll was sitting against your mirror," Gary remembered as he handed Leaf the doll, "Not standing."
"I did leave it sitting on th-"
Gary interrupted her. "And more importantly, I thought you said her eyes were 'a beautiful shade of blue'." He repeated, quoting what she had said in her texts.
"They ar-" Leaf stopped herself from finishing her sentence this time when she looked into her doll's eyes.
The eyes appeared to be green.
This is my first chapter so not much happened in it but I hope you liked it so reviewing would be a great way to tell me that... You get the hint, right?
*silver-hedgehog
Edited: 13/03/12