This is the first chapter of Blind Luck. I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon, but I guess this story belongs to me, so don't copy!

I sat on my plush, soft bed. I felt it's familiar, tattered edges brush against my hand. Mom always is nagging me about changing it. I won't cave, however, because I like familiar things. They comfort me.

'Poppy!' Mom called, from downstairs. I groaned, and stood up reluctantly. I felt along the wall, down the hall, and stepped slowly down the stairs.

'Poppy, there you are; I was getting worried. I hope you remember that you're going with your friends to the movies?'

I might as well explain here, as to why I am behaving in such a way. You see, I was blind from birth. I am now 16 years old, I turned 16 last Thursday. Mom thinks I'm going to the movies this afternoon with my friends. I'm not. I'm going to the dam, with my friends, and my boyfriend. I can't tell Mom, though, because she'd freak.

'So, the plan is, you're going to the bus stop at the end of the street, the bus'll pick you up, and you'll go to the movies? And then you'll have a sleepover at Jamie's house?' Mom inquired, worrying. Jamie's my best friend.

'Yeah, and I'll see you at 10am tomorrow. Oh,' I turned and picked up my bag. 'The bus'll be here in a little while. See ya!' Before Mom could start whining, I trotted quickly out of the room and down the street. I heard her call out to me as I jogged away, 'You look great, sweetie!'

I was glad I knew the street, in Pallet Town, and I navigated it easily.

I made my way to the bus stop, and sat down on the bench to wait. I thought I was alone, but a polite cough sounded from the other side of the bench. Startled, I peered in the general direction of the cougher. 'Hi,' said a masculine voice. I couldn't place it, however, it sounded familiar.

'Hello,' I hesitantly said. 'Who's there?'

'It's Peter, Pete for short.' He sounded friendly, hopeful. I knew who it was. Geek Pete, the nerdiest guy at the school, whom my friends and I despised.

'Oh,' I said sneeringly, 'Geeky Petey. Where's your friends? Oh, that's right. You don't have any…'

I heard him sigh sadly from the other side of the bench. 'Yeah… So, um, where are you going?'

'Are you actually talking to me? Oh my fucking god, the boy thinks he's good enough to talk to me. Me? He must think I'm desperate enough to talk to him. Ha!'

We sat in an awkward silence for a few minutes. He tried to initiate conversation, asking a couple questions, but I completely ignored him. Except on this question.

'Are you doing the Kanto League Challenge?'

'No. I hate Pokémon, especially the snakey kinds.'

Gotta give to him, he's a bugger who doesn't give up. 'I am. I decided not to get a starter, and I chose to get a random egg from a breeding farm. I can't wait to see it! Can you?'

'No.'

The bus pulled up, and a few got out. He stood up, and took my arm to help me up. I snatched my arm away, and muttered, 'fuck you,' under my breath.

He brushed the insult away, and walked to the bus's door. I walked over, and he said, 'Lady's first.'

I replied, scathingly, 'Then shouldn't you go on first?'

A titter of laughter and giggles followed my remark. I got on, and walked to the back of the bus. My friends were there, and so was Jak, my boyfriend. He pulled me down onto his lap, and looped his arms around my tummy, just under my boobs. 'You ready to go to the dam?' He asked.

'Fuck yes. I can't wait!'

We finally got to the dam. We piled off in a great horde, and raced over to the dam (I didn't, Jak carried me over). We all got undressed, and went skinny-dipping. I heard the guys whistling, and clapping as I walked past. I moved over to Jamie, who sounded like she was fuming. 'What's wrong Jamie?'

'Nothing. Let's go in the dam.'

A few hours later, the sun was setting. I could feel the dying sun warming my back. I longed to see, to experience the breathtaking colours. I asked mom about it once, and she told me it was like nothing you could ever dream of, like heaven itself. I felt a solitary tear run down my cheek. My friends were laughing and jeering, and splashing in front of me. I turned around so the sun was on my face. I walked through the water. The water was around my knees, and was undulating as I shuffled forward.

The others were about 20 meters behind me, so I could just hear them. The whole dam was only supposed to be about 70cm in depth. That was good, because I couldn't swim. I mean, der. I'm blind.

I kept walking through the water towards the sun. I knew that about 40m away, the dam rose up to form a gentle hill. I wanted to sit on that hill, feel the sun envelop my body, make up for the blackness that engulfed me.

I had gone about 5m, when the dam floor dropped off. I teetered forward, and fell face-first into the water. I spun, trying to get a breath of air, but I was disoriented to which way was up. I struggled, and flailed about. I screamed help, and copped a lungful of water. My throat burned, and my eyes watered. I reached up, and I could feel the surface, the sweet air, of which I could not get. I knew then, my life was over. My world grew darker, and then I was no more.

I felt air in my lungs, and breathed deeply. 'Welcome,' said a booming voice.

I opened my eyes, and the world was still black. I sighed. 'If this is heaven, can't you have the fucking sense to give me sight? I thought this was paradise…'

'My dear, dear Poppy, this isn't heaven.'

'It isn't? And don't call me your dear. I don't know you, creep.'

'Well, my… Poppy, this is me giving you a chance.'

'What chance?'

'The chance to live again.'

'And that means?'

'You can live another life, be born again. You'll be born with sight.'

'Count me in!' He/she smiled, and chuckled.

'As you wish.'

I felt myself being sucked into an even darker pit then before.

'Wait, what's the catch?' I heard another chuckle.

'You'll see.'

'No!' Was all I managed to choke out, before I was sucked of all air.

It was nice, wherever I was. A soft pink light covered everything. I was floating, in what felt like time and space. Or jelly. An annoying booming noise came into my little cocoon of jelly, filtered so it sounded like random rumblings.

I felt tapping, shaking my jelly. 'Come on,' the rumbling said.

'Fuck no.' I said back. 'I like my jelly.'

I heard a cracking noise, and a bright light shone into the jelly. 'Come out, let's see you, my little baby.'

Apparently this rumble wanted me to come out of my jelly. Well, that rumble can go and fuck itself.

More bright lights pierced through my jelly, burning my eyes. A particularly large one opened, and my jelly and I came slopping out.

Everything was way too bright. I blinked and blinked for a long time. When my eyes adjusted, my first sight, with my eyes, was the beaming face of Geek Pete.

Oh shit.