UNINTENTIONAL
CHAPTER 116 year old Leaf walked into class, grumbling under her breath as she readjusted her white fedora and attempted to pull down her white fedora as much as possible. Even then, it barely reached mid-thigh. 'Why must it be so short?' she thought, feeling glum.
She walked up to a group of girls she called her friends and sat down to the one with the red bandanna, her best friend, known as May.
May, and their two other friends, Dawn and Misty, looked Leaf up and down in complete awe and surprise.
"Oh my-you're wearing a skirt!" the bubbly bluenette squealed.
May, on the other hand, looked stumped. "Wha-what happened?"
"My mom happened." Leaf grumbled.
"Your mom forced you to wear a skirt?" Misty asked, amused by the look on Leaf's face.
"Actually, she blackmailed me into wearing a skirt."
Leaf's friends laughed, taking it as a joke, not realizing that Leaf was serious about her current situation. It was true; her mother had almost slapped her when Leaf tried to defiantly refuse to wear such a small article of clothing. Leaf sighed, frustrated by the methods her mother used to exert her authority. It wasn't child abuse; it was just the wrong way of showing who the boss was. It was frustrating why her mother enjoyed controlling Leaf's life so much. Why couldn't she just wear what she wanted to?
Leaf snapped out of her thoughts when the root of her problems walked right up to her with a group of their mutual friends. Gary Oak, tall, sculpted and inquisitive eyes buried in a text book, snapped the book shut and greeted her with an amiable smile. Leaf gnashed her teeth. A random member from his horde of fangirls squealed and presented him with a box; spinning around, Gary, surprised, accepted the gift with a sheepish smile and a murmured thanks. The girl flushed, adjusted her horn rimmed glasses and took off at lightning speeds, leaving dust in her wake. Gary blinked and opened the box. An assortment of chocolates and cookies stared back at him. Beaming, he held the box out to his friends and they swarmed all over him. Leaf shot him a withering look and stormed away. Oak smiled tightly and stowed the empty box away in his bag, he wanted to reach out to her. Why? He wondered, does she hate me so much?
And why did he find her so fascinating? Time and time again she made it clear that she hated him. And yet…why did his heart beat so fast each time he caught a glimpse of her brown tresses?
"Hey, guys." Misty called out to the approaching boys.
"Hey, Mist." Ash greeted her back. A chorus of greetings rang throughout the small group, while Gary just stood there awkwardly, his hands deep in his pockets.
He glanced over at the brunette. Everybody else was occupied in their own conversations.
"Uh, hey Leaf…" he began, hoping to strike conversation. "How was the weekend?"
He was given a death glare in response, and the girl turned back to her thick novel. Gary bit his lip and looked away. 'Why is she like this?'
(-o-)
Leaf returned home after an exhausting day at school. She clicked open her front door and stepped inside.
"Leaf, is that you?" Leaf followed the voice to the kitchen where she found her mother lazily cooking a simple dinner.
"I'm home." She informed her mother.
"How was school?" the woman enquired, as she tucked a lose strand from her bun behind her ear.
"Good." Leaf replied, as she was about to turn around and walk up to her room.
"Any tests returned?" Leaf froze. She hesitated to answer. "One."
"What did Gary get?"
Leaf grimaced at the question. Deciding to just suck it up and tell the truth, she answered. "98%"
"And what did you get?"
Leaf sighed heavily. "96%"
Helen, Leaf's mother, frowned. "How come you got a lower grade than him?" she asked, with a disappointed expression across her face.
The younger Green looked away, annoyed. "Because I'm not Gary, ok?"
"If he can do it, then so can you." Came the firm reply.
Leaf breathed in sharply, trying to keep her cool. "If I could have done it, then I already would have."
"You could have done better if you'd spend less time training for useless battles with those Pokémon of yours, and more time studying."
"Gary's got Pokémon too, Mom. He trains them too. I'm not the only one."
Helen let out a laugh. "Don't be silly. Gary gave up competitive battling a long time ago. He's working to be a researcher now."
The brunette wondered where her Mom had found such accurate information, but she wasn't ready to give up.
"A Pokémon researcher." She argued.
"A researcher all the same." Her mother replied, smirking slightly.
Leaf grit her teeth in frustration. "Well, I don't want to be a researcher!" she burst out.
Helen frowned. "Mind your tone, Olivia Green."
Leaf grimaced at the use of her real name as well as her mother's severe tone-something that had begun to occur quite often recently.
Frustrated, Leaf grabbed her backpack and walked out of the kitchen with a brisk pace, heading straight for upstairs, before catching sight of her annoying red-head younger brother, Silver, standing there and laughing at her.
"Look at me!" he mocked, in a high-pitched voice. "I'm Leaf Green, and I'm going to be a Pokémon Master! Alright!" He fist-bumped and jumped up, attempting to re-enact the way the characters jump up in that kids anime show about a kid on his own Pokémon journey, who never actually seemed to win a League. (Poor kid.)
But Leaf wasn't worried about whether that kid won a League or not. Enraged by her brother's mockery of her dream, she grit her teeth and lunged at him, pushing him down. Overacting, he fell backwards onwards to the ground.
"Mom!" he whined. "Leaf pushed me!"
"LEAF!" came a loud yell from the kitchen. "BEHAVE!"
"You're a year younger than me and you act like a total baby." She hissed, before running upstairs to her room and locking her door behind her. Taking deep breaths, she opened her closet and rummaged around, pulling a Pokeball out that was hidden in the back, and spilt its contents.
"Espeon." The purple feline Pokemon purred its name as she was summoned. She hopped onto her master's lap, who sat on the bad, and purred loudly. Leaf pet its glossy pelt fondly. "I miss the others. Hey, do you want to go see them?"
Espeon nodded enthusiastically, eager to meet her teammates. Leaf giggled a bit, before leaping of the bed and running downstairs, Espeon in pursuit.
"Mom! I'm going out!" she yelled and proceeded to run out of the door, hoping that her mother wouldn't question her.
"Where?" a voice behind her said, causing the brunette to freeze in place, her hand still on the front door handle. She gulped, her brain whizzing to think of an excuse.
"To May's." she answered her mother truthfully.
"Why?" her mother asked. "You're supposed to be studying, not wasting your time."
Leaf visibly gulped again, not being able to tell the real reason. "We have a project." She lied, managing to say it without a stutter. 'I must be getting better at this.'
"On what?"
'Why must you ask so many questions?' she thought to herself. Racking her brain for a suitable answer, she replied with the topic they had studied just that day. "Photosynthesis."
"She's lying." Silver said in a sing-song voice, earning himself a heated glare from his sister. He ducked behind his mother.
"I better go talk to that idiot of a teacher who gave such a useless project just before test week." Helen said, crossing her arms.
"You can't!" Leaf blurted out quickly, afraid of the outcome of her mother blaming a teacher for a project that they never even gave. "It's just a small one, so it won't take that long. Plus, it'll help me revise for the test."
Helen raised her eyebrows, not completely satisfied by the answer she received. "I want a perfect score in every single one of your tests, and you better beat Gary."
Leaf frowned hard at the name of the one she despised. This was getting ridiculous. Why her mother compared her to a guy like him was beyond her understanding. Not wanting her mother to start a lecture about how great Oak was, she turned around and left the house, cursing the brunet for…well, for just existing.