"Honey I'm home!" Ashy says sarcastically as she walks into one of the rooms at the Pokemon Center in Hearthome City. I roll my eyes at that, and shake my head. She can be such a goofball sometimes, I swear. I turn my gaze to the two other figures in the room, and am pleased to see Ashy isn't rooming with any boys.
Good, I think to myself, She doesn't need to have boys around her yet...
As if she can read my thoughts, Ashy sends me a look that says, "I'm eighteen, Silver, I think I can have them around if I want". I roll my eyes that, before I turn and take in the appearance of the two other girls in the room.
One of them looks really young-and when I mean really young, I mean she looks 15. She has bright green hair, and almost as bright blue eyes. She's wearing a green shirt, with a black skirt that goes a little bit before her knees, and green leggings that run down to her boots-which, go up to the middle of her calves. Shecocks her head to one side, and looks very interested in me.
The other one, doesn't look so interested in me. She's got short brown,hair and her blue eyes take in my appearance, and they seem to make a judgement of me, before they look away towards my sister. She's wearing a white shirt that fades to purple at the bottom, that shows off her mid drift. She's wearing a black, long sleeved jacket over it, and she's wearing a purple skirt. She's wearing knee high black boots. "Ashy, who is this?" The girl asks, frowning at my sister.
"Gabi, Feather," Ashy says, nodding to both of them, "This is my brother, Silver. Twin brother, may I add." She says with a grin, before turning to me, "Silver, this is Gabi," she says motioning to the brown haired girl, "And this is Feather." She says, motioning to the green haired girl.
"Nice to meet you!" Feather beams, as Gabi watches me warily. Something tells me, Gabi doesn't really like me. And I don't think Feather doesn't like me, either.
"Nice to meet you too," I tell both Feather and Gabi. Gabi cocks her head back, and murmurs, "you too". I turn to Ashy with a sigh, "I met your friends, so can I go now?" I ask her, very boredly.
Ashy saddens. "Aw come on bro, stay for a bit. Get to know 'em, I'm sure you'll like them if you stay."
"Look," I say with a sigh, "I really, really need to get to Pastoria City."
"What's so important in Pastoria City?"
"My gym battle."
"You can fight him any day!" Ashy scowls. "C'mon Silver, please?" I pause for a moment, before sighing, signaling to her that I'll stay. "Yay!" She says excitedly, and her eyes widen as she suddenly thinks of something, "Oh my god! We can go to the annual bonfire that's happening tonight right outside Hearthome!"
Feather's eyes widen too. "Great idea, Ashy!"
Gabi doesn't say anything, but I guess everyone else can tell that her quietness means no. "Oh come on, Gabi, it'll be fun. It'll take your mind off of-"
"If it'll stop you from mentioning his name," Gabi cuts her off, "I'll go."
"Great!" Feather chirps, not heading Gabi's warning. "What about you, Silver?"
I sigh, "I'll go." I tell them, and both Ashy and Feather high five each other after I have agreed to go.
"Sweet!" Ashy grins. "This shall be awesome!"
"Yeah...awesome..." I hear Gabi mumble, and I'm sure I wasn't supposed to hear that.
As we near the bonfire, I can hear laughter, and Pokemon cries. I'm pretty sure this bonfire is all about Pokemon battles, not about having fun. I look up at the sky, and wish I was in Pastoria City, not in the forest surrounding Hearthome.
"Silver, come on!" Ashy says as she grabs my wrist, and begins pulling me towards the clearing. I glance behind me to see both of her friends looking amused. Haha, I think to myself, Laugh it up.
When we burst into the clearing, everyone stops what they're doing and looks at us. "Hello everyone," Ashy says, suddenly losing all her confidence, especially when a Onix looks at her. I don't know why, but she's terrified of all rock and ground type Pokemon. Well, except for a few.
Everyone stares at us for a few more seconds, before going back to what they were doing. I watch as Feather darts off to watch some Pokemon battle, leaving Gabi, Ashy, and I by the entrance to the clearing. "So...um...I'm going to go...over there," Ashy says, before running away in the direction Feather left, leaving Gabi and I alone.
Thanks a lot, sis, leaving me with the girl who I think hates me the most out of the two. I think to myself. "Er..." I begin, turning towards her, "I understand if you want to leave with my sister, and Feather, I'll go find a Pokemon battle too-"
She cuts me off, "No...it's fine," she says, blue eyes unreadable. Something tells me, from the way she looks at all of the boys here, that either she just hates men, or she recently had a bad break up. I assume, from the way she's gripping a gold ring on one of her hands, that it was a bad break up.
Gabi notices me looking at the ring, and she covers it up. "Sorry," I quickly apologize, "Didn't mean to stare." Gabi rolls her eyes, and gives out a noise that sounds like, "mhm". "I'm really sorry I'm not-"
"I know," Gabi says, tight-lipped. I snap my jaw shut, sighing inwardly. I wonder who crapped in her cheerios this morning. She sighs, and says, "Come on, let's go watch those trainers over there," she says, nodding towards a double battle.
I shrug, "Okay," I say before we both head over there.
"Arcanine use fire spin!" One of the trainers shout, as the Pokemon dives at an Infernape.
"Dodge it Infernape!" Another trainer yells. Gabi and I watch the battle between fire types-all the Pokemon that are in that battle are Arcanine, Infernape, Magmortar, and Houndoom- for a few more minutes, before both Pokemon on the left side of the battle field -the Pokemon on that side of the field are Infernape and Houndoom- faint, making the right side the winners.
One of the trainers on the right side turns to the crowd, and asks, "Who's next?!" The crowd backs away from the field, and Gabi and I are the only ones who didn't. I look around, once I realize that everyone else backed away. Gabi looks completely calm, as the trainer says, "Alright-looks like you two are next to be defeated." He says with a grin.
I glance at Gabi, who walks forward and takes her place on the left side of the field. I take my spot beside her. I look at the other two, who admittedly throw out their Pokemon. "Go, Cherrim!" One of the trainers shout.
"Go, Jumpluff!" The partner shouts.
"Go, Violet!" Gabi shouts, throwing out a pokeball.
"Espeon!" The psychic type Pokemon cries as she comes out of her pokeball.
I wait a minute, trying to decide who I'm going to choose, before deciding on Snatch. "Go, Snatch!" I shout, throwing the pokeball. The poison type Pokemon comes out, and slithers across the ground before curling up in the middle of the floor, tongue flickering.
I glance at Gabi, whose gaze is focused on the field.
The one with Cherrim gives a cocky grin, and says, "May the best trainer win."
"Snatch, use poison sting!" I command the poison type Pokemon.
"Arbok!" Snatch cries, as he spits out the poisonous thorns towards Jumpluff, who couldn't dodge it quick enough.
"Jumpluff!" The Pokemon cries, flying backwards, and lands on the ground, and faints.
"Violet," Gabi begins, "Use confusion."
"Epse," Violet begins, eyes and the gem on her forehead suddenly glowing bright red. Cherrim flinches as the red light surrounds her, and the Pokemon's body shakes. Violet's eyes flicker, before she flings the grass type Pokemon backwards into a rock.
"Cherrriiiimmmm!" The Pokemon cries, before fainting.
The two trainers stare in shock at their fainted Pokemon. I glance at Gabi, who's stroking Violet's head, with a smile on her face, and telling her good job. Snatch slithers up to me, and I stroke the male Arbok's head. "Good job, Snatch," I tell him.
"Arbok..." The Pokemon hisses, content.
I smile at him, before looking at Gabi and Violet, "You two did awesome too, by the way," I tell her.
She looks up at me, and smiles at me, "Yeah, you two did too." She says, before glancing at our ex-opponents, "I don't think they're taking it too well-Losing, I mean." She says with a grin.
I glance back at them, to see the one with the Cherrim looking absolutely furious. "I agree with you there-I don't think they planned on losing."
Gabi opens her mouth to say something, but gets cut off when Ashy and Feather storm up to us, Ashy looking pissed off as hell. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" She asks, as she pushes her index finger and middle finger in my chest.
"What do you mean, 'what the hell am I doing'?" I ask her, scowling slightly, "I think what your friend Gabi and I were doing, we were teaching a stupid punk what it feels like to lose." I tell her. I didn't notice a change in Gabi's eyes, until I look over and watch them flicker back to their usual emotion.
Unless I've gone crazy and started seeing things that aren't there.
Ashy's body shakes. "That's not a 'stupid punk', Silver. That's a Pokemon trainer like you and me. And before you ask what the big deal is, the big deal is that Pokemon trainers talk to other Pokemon trainers, who talk to other Pokemon trainers, who talk to other Pokemon trainers, who-"
"Okay I get it," I say, cutting her off, scowling.
"No, you don't, because what if some...people hear about this, and then tell you-know-who?" Ashy says, giving me that look.
Giovanni, I think mentally to myself, when she says "you-know-who".
"Okay, obviously I don't get it," I tell her, "But I'm sure it'll be fine..."
"Yeah, because there are totally about a thousand kids in the world with red hair, red eyes, and a Arbok named Snatch." She says sarcastically.
I narrow my eyes at her. "You're overreacting-don't worry, I'll be fine and so will you. They haven't found us, in four years, Ashy! I'm sure they aren't going to find us now!" I say, scowling.
Ashy is about to respond, when suddenly we both hear Feather clear her throat. "Um...hello? We're uh, still here..." She says. I look over at the green haired female to see her rubbing the back of her head.
Gabi has her eyes narrowed at us, and her Espeon in her arms, "Guys, what's going on? And who's this... "you-know-who" fella?" She asks, as Violet cocks her head back.
"No one," Ashy says quickly. My gaze snaps over to her. Obviously she hasn't told her friends everything about her yet. I can see why, considering how freaked out she is right now about this.
"Ashy," Gabi says, voice growing softer, "You know we don't hide any secrets from you-so why are you hiding them from us?" Ashy doesn't respond, and when she doesn't, Gabi just sighs, shaking her head, before walking off, after saying, "Come on, Feather, let's go watch that double battle." Feather sends Ashy a look that says "we'll pry it from you later, I hope you know that" before following Gabi.
"They really hate being lied too, don't they?" I ask casually, before turning back to my sister, who has her arms crossed over her chest, "Ashy?"
"Bro, I should have never brought you here." She says with a scowl, "I should just have let you gone to Pastoria," Ashy sighs, "Now I got both Feather and Gabi breathing down my neck trying to figure out who's "you-know-who"."
"You were going to have to tell them sooner or later," I tell her.
She looks me in the eyes, and sighs, "Yeah...I know..."
