I used to sit there every Wednesday. They serve a really good coffee and it was a great get away from my assignments as the league's champion.
I just sat there, drinking coffee while looking through the window, watching the day go by. Sometimes I'd read the newspaper, just to entertain my mind with something. I was over stressed.
As the newest league's champion, I had to attend meetings, go to interviews, be harassed by the fans….just as an everyday thing, of course. I didn't even had much more time to train anymore. My pokémons were having a great time, playing and meeting new friends each day at the daycare, meanwhile I was stuck at a deadly boring meeting with the headquarters of the Pokémon League and the gym leaders. If anyone would have told me that this was what being the champion would be like, I….I would have go anyways to be honest, but I least I wouldn't have complained because I had a warning.
I was just soo close to get an outburst and escape to Mt. Silver and live there as a hermit forever.
But I just couldn't.
As much as I hated to be thrown from one place to another as a puppet doll, I had to recognize that the job had a bright side. I earned as much money as anyone would have ever dreamed to earn. I could travel literally anywhere, I got a really nice house and a new bike, and I would get permission to enter any place I wanted to. I was a VIP at any restaurant or hotel, and had a great health insurance.
So, I enjoyed the perks….and I would concentrate all of my anger and frustrations during the week and weekend, to release it quietly at a local dinner, drinking coffee, every Wednesday, all by myself.
Pretty lonely and sad maybe…but It was kind of okay.
And then she came by.