Welp. I lost my muse but I vomited this up for Gold's birthday! I swear I'm working... kinda. I'm just uninspired. Sorry guys.
Unbeta'd and stuff. If you see any errors please tell me! And critique, I always love that.
Stay tuned for more. There's gonna be another chapter (that's hopefully M!).
Silver had about enough of his Pokegear ringing all day. It was always Crys, but each time he answered it was a different person.
"Ugh, who is it this time?"
"Hi Silver!" Yellow's cheerful voice rang out over the line. Silver instantly felt bad. He couldn't be mean to Yellow purposefully, she was too sweet to him.
But he also knew that the other seniors knew that. And they were using it against him.
"Hello Yellow…" Silver replies dully. "I imagine you're calling because of Blue, right?"
"No no, I wanted to call you on my own! Why won't you come to Gold's surprise party?"
Silver sighed into the device. It was the 21st of July, the birthday of the insufferable Hatcher. The Kanto quartet and Crys were planning a typical party for Gold and were inviting practically everyone he talked to. It was going to be big and noisy and full of people Silver didn't know… he did not want to deal with that. Silver was uncomfortable with his little bits of socializing as it is.
Among other reasons.
"Because," the Exchanger replies vaguely.
He hears Yellow exhale angrily. "But you're his best friend-" she tries to reason but its cut off by a muffled crash followed by a loud "Fuck!" that sounded suspiciously like Green. "Ah, please be more careful, Green!"
Silver really was glad he wasn't there.
"I know I am, but I hate this kind of thing," he drawls, saying the exact thing earlier today three times. Blue, Crys, and Red had all tried to convince him already, calling him incessantly so he couldn't get any of his extra. Silver eventually gave up trying to focus because he couldn't bring himself to ignore his friends, as much as he loathes to admit it.
"That's no excuse!" Yellow says loudly, voice muffled. She was probably helping Green with whatever he couldn't do himself.
"Yes it is. It won't be the end of the world if I'm not there," Silver says nonchalantly. "They'll be so many of his friends there he would barely notice me, anyways."
"Don't say that, Silver! He'll be really sad that you aren't there, we all will."
"He'll be too busy flirting with Whitney."
"No he won't."
"Or too busy trying to hoard all the attention."
"…Well, yeah, but you should be there to give him attention."
"There'll be plenty of people to do that."
"But… but… you're his best friend!" Yellow seemed to be struggling for words and Silver smirked.
"You already said that," Silver says with a hint of amusement in his voice. "Look, you're not going to win this argument. It won't be the end of the world if one of his friends isn't there."
"But you're his most important! That's the problem here!' Yellow sounds on the verge of tears and Silver starts to feel guilty. But he can't relent. He really doesn't want to suffer through a big party.
"He'll be fine. Go back to preparing his big celebration."
"Silver…"
"I'll talk to you later," Silver clips and ends the call before Yellow can reply.
When he lowers his Pokegear, he sees Weavile glaring at him. Silver glares right back. "You know I hate that kind of stuff."
Weavile's sharp eyes don't falter.
Silver huffs and turns away. "I have better things to do anyways." Even though Lance took the day off for the party and training on his own wasn't going so well… he still could find stuff to do. Like doing stuff for himself for a change, or watching reruns of Proteam Omega- oh wait, that involved Gold. Silver sighs and kneads the bridge of his nose.
Feeling Weavile's gaze on him still, Silver withdraws the Pokemon irritably.
He would surely find something to do. Other than Gold's birthday party.
0x0x0
"No luck, huh?"
"No… I tried, but he's so stubborn."
"Hah, I expected as much. Green, you should try next!"
"Tch, I'm not going to waste my time. It's obvious he doesn't want to, stop trying to force him to do anything."
"Hehehe. Somebody has a soft spot~"
"Sh-shut up, pesky girl."
"Hey guys, Crys says he's coming soon! We gotta wrap this up!" Red comes flailing from the gate entrance that leads to Goldenrod.
The Kanto group decided on National Park to throw Gold's party because it was big enough, the weather was nice, and most importantly free to use. Keeping Gold away from it was tricky, since Goldenrod was his favorite place to spend his days, but it seemed Crys managed. Somehow keeping the birthday boy away from the mess in the park was definitely a feat.
"But the Kimono Girls still haven't arrived," Yellow pipes in with a frown.
"They'll be here," Green assures with lazy wave of his hand.
"O-okay…"
"If not, we'll just have to substitutes!" Blue says happily, wrapping an arm around Yellow's shoulder.
"Wh-what?" The Healer cries with a blush.
"But there's only three girls," Red points out the obvious.
"Then we'll just need some guys to fill in~ Green, hmm?" Blue eyes The Trader deviously.
"N-no!" Green sputters out, turning as red as Yellow.
"Guys, guys, we need to finish the decorations!" Red suddenly says, flailing again.
Blue chuckles to herself and releases The Healer, returning to throwing streamers everywhere.
"Its too bad Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald couldn't make it," Yellow says sadly, helping Green put up a cheesy birthday banner.
"Not their fault they're so far away."
"But still…"
"Don't fret it, Yellow~" Blue saunters over with a grin.
"Yeah… ah, look!" Yellow points to the approaching caravan of flowing coming from the north gate of National Park. The Kimono Girls arrived in a graceful line, bowing once they settle in front of the scurrying Pokedex holders.
"Glad you made it!" Red greets. "Gold is sure gonna love your dancing."
"We're happy to help," one says with a bow.
"Here come more guests~" Blue announces.
"Sweet!"
Red takes it upon himself to greet everyone on the Kanto quartet's behalf, the other three racing the clock to transform National Park into the perfect party area. Gym leaders, Kurt and his family, even Lance all showed up to celebrate Gold's birthday. When deciding who to invite, Red figured they should ask everybody they knew Gold had contact with. And it was a great turnout; the big party Yellow was expecting was turning into a reality.
Soon enough, Crys came inching through the southern gate to inform the crowd that Gold was approaching. Red waned everybody to hide and jump out like a typical surprise party, but Green thought it was a terrible idea because there were only bushes. Red still failed to see the problem. But in the end, the idea was thrown out because Blue brought up the fact that the Kimono Girls couldn't get leaves and twins in their kimonos.
"Hey Crys, what's going on-"
"Oh crap- quickly everybody!"
"Happy birthday, Gold!"
0x0x0
Gold can honestly say that he was expecting the big party. The way Crys was leading him around and dodging questions was quite obvious, and she was horrible at lying. But he was not expecting literally everybody to be there. Gold felt his face nearly split from the big grin that grew on his face when he took in all the faces.
Everybody except one person. Gold tried to ignore the fact that the person he wanted to see most was absent and enjoy himself. He did a pretty good job at it since nobody questioned him.
The party itself Gold can confidently say was the best he ever had. He could tell all his friends put a big effort into it and appreciated every second. There was food and drinks, a show from the Kimono girls, and a chance to catch up with all his friends. His favorite part was obviously getting all the presents. He had to make multiple trips to carry everything back home when the party ended, and although he wouldn't use most of the useless trinkets he received, Gold had to polite.
Crys' present had surprised him. She had given him a single Cherish Ball with her trademark star on it. It was obviously a Pokemon, but Gold was not expecting the shiny Dratini that wriggled out. The party cheered at the sight of the magenta Pokemon and Gold hugged her as tight as he could. He couldn't imagine the effort she put into finding a shiny just for him.
So now Gold was laying in bed at home. The party had lasted well until midnight and only started dwindling around one am, so Gold should be exhausted from that and from being dragged around all day.
But he couldn't sleep. Silver's absence weighed heavily in his mind now that he didn't have the party to distract him. Why didn't The Exchanger show up?
They were boyfriends now, after all. Gold was hoping that Silver was just going to be late the whole night, but there were no traces of the redhead. "There's no excuse for this," he mumbles to himself, rolling over.
"Excuse for what?"
Gold jumps out of bed.
"Silver! Why the hell weren't you at my party?"