Chapter 1: Surprise Party

Rex was rudely awoken by her mother's Starly, who tackled her out of bed.

"Whoa, hey!" she yelped, falling and hitting her head on the floor. She rose and rubbed her eyes, chasing the Pokémon out of her room and slamming her door shut. She sighed and ran a hand through her dark and messy hair. Looking at herself in the mirror, she dressed herself in a yellow long sleeved shirt, a sky blue scarf, dark blue jeans, and some aqua Mary Jane's. After she combed her short, wavy hair down, she put a navy blue felt hat on her head that was decorated with a pretty yellow flower.

After she was dressed, she left to wake her little sister, Alice.

"Oh, good morning, Rex… Thanks for waking me up…" Alice muttered, as Rex shook her awake.

"No problem, man! Get ready for the morning, okay?" Rex was feeling grumpy, but she put on a smile for Alice anyways.

"For what? A SURPRISE PARTY?!" guessed Alice, who already cheerful, despite the jet lag that they were both experiencing.

"No, for breakfast." Rex said as she left Alice's room.

"I would much happier if it were a party…" thought Alice, walking to her closet as she braided her long curly hair. She dressed herself in an exotic purple Ribbon Smock Top with some damaged jean shorts and dark purple tights. She hopped out the door, pulling on her brown laced boots.

Rex sighed and chuckled upon leaving her sister's room and walking down to their first floor. She loved her to death, but a surprise party this early after the move? "No way, man." she thought as she was suddenly pushed to the side of the stairs.

"Move, Rexie!" yelled Alice as she sped passed her Slowpoke-sister.

"Dude!" Rex gasped, covering her face with her hat.

Their mother sighed, wanting to get them out of the house as soon as possible. Why did Starly have to wake them up? Mother slid out of bed to greet her daughters, still in her pajamas.

"Morning, girls. Mommy's feeling tired, so go outside and make friends, but don't be too loud, I want to sleep. I have to look well and rested for when I meet Diantha for that movie shooting today!" said Mother, walking towards them to push them out of the house.

"B-but, Mom! Breakfast?" asked Rex as the both of them were thrown outside.

Alice crossed her arms and sighed, lightly kicking the door. "Well, good luck at the shoot.."

"Ooh, a shoot~? Oh wait, don't tell me that… This is the famous Marcela J. Monroe's new house in the Kalos Region?" asked a pretty girl with tan skin and green eyes. Rex wondered how she got her pigtails to work as they did. The two other people next to her seemed to be as shaken up as she was, but definitely not as unafraid to speak. "How exciting! Rumors have been floating around for a week about this, but I didn't know they were true! My name's Shauna~! Who're you guys?"

Alice gave her a tiny smile. "A week? We've only arrived last night. We're her daughters-"

"I DIDN'T KNOW SHE HAD DAUGHTERS." Shauna squealed as she got closer to them, causing the black-haired male next to her to gently pull her back.

Rex grimaced a bit, but shook her hand. "Adopted. We also aren't very interesting. Acting, modeling, and just getting on stage in general were never our fortes. I'm Rex, and this is my little sister Alice."

"That's a weird name." the male said, chuckling a bit with Shauna as the girl behind both of them remained quiet.

"What're your names?" Alice asked defensively. No one picks on her big sister.

"I'm Calem and the girl behind me is Serena." he said, smiling at Alice charmingly.

"Calem is a really weird name too." she huffed, sticking her tongue out at the taller male.

"Thank you, Alice, but please don't be like that. It's nice to meet you guys, but why're you here?" asked Rex, patting her little sister's head.

Serena came up from behind Calem and fixed her hat. She spoke with a calm voice that really fit her name. "We came to meet our new neighbors. Calem just moved in yesterday too."

"Yeah~! Today we were going to get our first Pokémon! You should come with us, maybe there'll be a Pokémon for you guys too!" squealed Shauna, taking Alice's hand and looking up to smile widely at Rex.

"Well… Okay! But can we get some food on the way there?" asked Alice.

Serena nodded, and moved her hand to signal that they were leaving. "Yes, of course. We were going to meet at a café anyway, so you can just order food when we get there. Let's go."

"I'm… Not sure." Rex frowned. "Mom might get-"

"Mom wanted us to get out there and make friends, Rexeroo!" Alice pleaded, tugging on her older sister's arm.

"Please?"

"... Fine." she sighed, gasping a bit as Shauna pulled her and her sister away from the house and away from their town.

Mother's Starly looked out the window, proud of what it had done.