"Wow you look awful" Ethan said in alarm as he saw Silver enter the bar looking like his eyes were blood shot while his body was on edge. So far his mind was still buzzing about the fact he had done something stupid. Of all the things he could have easily done- a bet with his rival and it wasn't just an ordinary bet. It was to date her and she could do whatever she wanted, the worst part- he could do nothing to stop her.
"I feel like crap" Silver muttered darkly as he rubbed the right side of his head in frustration, "so don't go sugar coating it" he added as he sat down at the counter looking like he had just forced himself out of bed just to get to this place.
"Need a drink?" Ethan asked looking shocked at how Silver was being honest given their history, that and the red head was acting like he had done something stupid. Did he kill someone and stuffed them in a noticeable area?
Silver spying the glass of alcohol cringed and groaned before moving it away despite the fact the glass was in Ethan's hand. Nope no more alcohol since Alia had really made him regret drinking, before it was considered funny to Ethan and the red head could easily black out the night since his mind kept wandering to things that he wanted to push away for various reasons. Now thanks to Alia that right was taken away from him, not that he held it against her for defeating his father or finding out about his past. In a way his father deserved to lose in such a humiliating manner but it didn't mean he was thrilled to have her find out about his past. On the other hand she never held it against him and was kind about it to his surprise.
"Wait you're not going to drink Silvy? Are you sick or something?" Ethan asked in alarm as his jaw almost dropped from the refusal. Then again it was thanks to him that Silver took up drinking and found out the funny but hard way why Silver shouldn't drink. Silver glared at Ethan and almost sneered.
"I'm sick of looking at you but I'm stuck with you regardless" this shocked Ethan as his jaw dropped in surprise "why don't you go back to farming like your girlfriend or why not go frolicking with Mareep or something?" he suggested dryly before looking at the floor by his leg.
"Hey! Come on that's low even for you" Ethan said with a frown as he rested his left elbow on the table "I didn't do anything-"
"Didn't you?" Silver rounded at him. "It's thanks to your stupid idea of encouraging me to drink that Alia's got me in a stupid bet! Happy now?" he barked ignoring how silent some of the bar had gotten from his yelling. He then turned to glare at some onlookers with hatred in his eyes
"What? Got nothing better to do than gawk or eavesdrop?" he spat before scowling and leered at the bartender. "Just give me a water so I can drown my head in that" he said darkly as he shook his head.
"A word of advice" the bartender said darkly as he placed the glass of water down "the next time you get cheeky I'm throwing you and your friend out" he hissed at Silver who leered at him.
"Got a girlfriend through a bet?" he said darkly at the confused bartender "a word of advice from me, just find the nearest area that's dangerous enough to throw yourself in" he added coldly as he grumbled. Where did he go wrong? He was a strong trainer, he was unbeatable minus the fact that he kept losing to Alia but that was only one person. Despite being a female she held her own to most of the males surprise and she had the gals to step down as champion years ago when she had been eleven. Sure it was a low blow for him since she took off only to come back years later but she never did lose her touch in battling. She was still tactical and knew how to deal with types enough to switch relevant Pokémon when necessary. If anything it was her skills that got him to respect her, her personality on the other hand… really off putting at times.
"What did you do?" Ethan asked in shock as he was still trying to process what Silver had said, Silver hearing him groaned and looked at him.
"I made a bet with my rival that I would be her boyfriend and she's-" he paused as he heard his pokégear go off, Ethan however felt his mouth dropped from the confession Silver had dropped on him. "Excuse me" he muttered darkly as he answered it as he saw the ID, why now?
"What?" he asked bluntly.
"Oh Silvy! That's not very nice to greet your girlfriend" Silver almost cringed at how high but fake her voice sounded, then again who liked to hear people speak to them in a baby voice?
"Alia…" he gritted his teeth as he tried to release some air he held. "Why are you calling me?" he asked calmly as he spied the glass in Ethan's hands, it wasn't too late to drown himself in the drink since the bet was for tomorrow.
"Well I was going to ask you how you were, you left half an hour ago without telling me anything" she said sounding like she was pouting at him on the phone. Ethan hearing her raised a brow from what he was hearing. Silver however felt anger form in his mind, it wasn't even day one and already he wanted not only to quit but he felt the urge to strangle her for acting all innocent and peppy.
"Damn woman! It's not even day one so why is she calling me?" he mentally ranted before collecting his thoughts.
"Alia, it's not day one and I don't have to tell you where I go" he said only to hear her whining.
"Silvy Weavy you're so mean! Why are you thinking mean stuff about me!" Silver's eyes went wide at her words.
"Shit I forgot she can read my mind-stop it!" he mentally screamed at how he was still at it when he was on the phone to her.
"Language Silvy Weavy" Silver cringed and felt a shiver leave his body. Really?! She was calling him that now?!
"Alia… just stop with the name please" he mentally berated himself for having to reduce to pleading with her.
"No!" she said in a child like tone as she pouted.
"I'm asking you nicely" he said while trying to remain calm.
"Make me!" she snapped "Oh wait you can't! I'm over here and you're at the bar you stupid soon to be drunkard! I knew you were a freeloader!" she ranted causing Ethan to cough on his drink while the bartender who was listening gave Silver a look that said he was not amused.
"I'm not drinking alcohol I'm drinking water! Ask Ethan" he snapped.
"Oh like I'm going to listen to someone being bias?" she said coldly. "Well since you're going to drink, expect to sleep outside for the night! You dirty rotten cheater" she said before hanging up.
"Wait! Excuse me?!" Silver yelled now standing up in anger, ignoring that his stool hit the ground as he focused on the phone "I am not-ugh she hung up" he muttered darkly as he shook his head and placed the phone down. Silenced greeted the trio before Ethan snorted as his drink causing Silver to turn and scowl at the male.
"Having fun?" Silver asked dryly feeling like he had been humiliated by allowing Ethan of all people to eavesdrop on the conversation.
"I'm sorry but… Silvy Weavy?!" Ethan cried out in surprise before laughter left his lips, immediately he hugged his stomach due to the fact that it was starting to ache. "Oh wow! She actually called you that and I thought Silvy was a bad!" Ethan chortled while the bartender tried not to smirk even though he felt some sympathy for the angry red head.
"Yeah yeah laugh it up" Silver said dryly but then glared at the bartender "having fun at seeing me being miserable?" he asked as the man staring at them snorted lightly.
"I'm sorry but I've never seen that kind of behaviour, so you say she got you involved in some sort of a bet?" the man asked before Silver leered at the water.
"Give me something stronger" Silver said darkly before the bartender pushed the water glass to him.
"I think for your sake that it's best to have the water, that is unless you want the lass getting angry at you" the bartender said while Ethan fell on the floor after thanks to his laughter as it got louder to Silver's annoyance. Silver seeing this kicked Ethan's back earning him the sound of the injured male's cry of pain.
"I feel like something inside just died from hearing that name" Silver muttered dryly as he shivered again.
"I've seen worse, so what's this bet about?" the bartender asked as he watched Silver reluctantly drink the water, Silver mauled on the question before sighing. What else could go wrong?
"Silvy time to go to the job centre!" Alia's loud voice could be heard from the door causing Silver to jump as he woke up, a groan left his lips before placing a hand to his face. What did he do last night?
Pausing he remembered talking to the bartender and beating up Ethan who was still laughing at his misery before the black haired male called him 'whipped'. Sadly for Ethan he learned the meaning of being whipped when Silver dragged him back to Lyra's house, once there Silver had told her to keep a leash on her boyfriend before tying Ethan to a lamppost due to being annoyed by the fact that Ethan was still mocking him instead of behaving when Lyra gave her boyfriend a look.
As much as it felt satisfying to get even with Ethan for the jabs he felt tired and irritated since the bet was now hovering over his head. Sitting up while his hand was still on his face, Silver soon opened his eyes only to blink as he saw white gloves. First off didn't he have black gloves? Second, didn't he take those black gloves off so why was he wearing white ones?
"What the-? Oh shit" Silver grounded his teeth in anger as he saw that he was not wearing his black vest and shorts but instead… was wearing a pink dress. "ALIIIIA!" Forcing himself out of bed he stormed out the room while some Pokémon took caution and avoided him as they stared at him in shock. A Cubone who was drinking from a sippy cup turned to look at Silver from where he was which was near the top of the stairs. He soon looked at his drink in confusion before looking back at the red head who was now sporting a pink dress, the tiny dinosaur stared at the male in shock before his mouth dropped causing water that was in his mouth to fall to the floor.
"What the…hell am I witnessing?" Cubone asked looking like he was witnessing something traumatizing. "What did this guy do last night?" he muttered as he leaned close to see Silver storming towards Alia who turned to look at him from where she was.
"DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY?!" Silver screamed as he gestured to his clothes as Alia stared at him while holding her book. "Look at me!" Alia however was smirking as she tried not to laugh. "I'm a guy not some fairytale princess!" he ranted before looking down and whined.
"Oh come on! Stockings too?! This is low even for you!" he added as he glared at her.
"I'm sorry Silver but what do you want me to say? I didn't do it, I don't have that kind of skill to do that. Were you drinking last night?" she asked as she tried not to laugh but it getting harder to given what he was wearing.
"That's what I like to know" Cubone muttered from his hiding spot, meanwhile Silver's Weavile who was walking by slipped and landed on the floor due to the wet wooden flooring causing the injured Pokémon to curse loudly from the pain.
"Who left that mess on the floor?!" Weavile snapped before getting up and glaring as he saw Cubone holding a cup. "Did you leave that mess on the floor?" Weavile growled only to pause as Cubone slowly pointed at something that now got the ice Pokémon confused, curious he looked at what the tiny dinosaur Pokémon was pointing at only to choke on air. No… way!
"I have you know I was only drinking water and I am pretty sure I was not dressed as this when I went to bed! I was sober! SO-BER!" Silver added angrily.
"Well I don't know what to tell you, I was asleep" she said with a weak smile.
"Oh don't give me that! You're always awake before me" he ranted as his face now started to match his hair colour.
"Okay Silver, this isn't getting us anywhere" she said as a few snorts left her lips "Go back upstairs and change, then go to the job centre" she said as she shook her head. Silver glared at her darkly.
"This isn't over" he warned before storming upstairs but ignored the two stunned Pokémon who stared at him in shock.
"This is…your owner right?" Cubone's voice sounded faint as he stared at the red head entering the guest room.
"Aye, but I wish he wasn't right now" the long clawed Pokémon said wearily as he placed a clawed hand to his face, talk about embarrassing.
"GHAAAAAA!" Silver screamed startling the Pokémon before he shot his head out the now open door. "I'm going to kill her" he said darkly as he now realised that he had make up on his face.
"I stand corrected… can I just join your lot?" Weavile asked almost sounding like he was pleading.
"Might want to ask Alia… given this idiot, she might consider it" Cubone commented.
Silver grumbled as he went to the job centre to get himself sorted, sadly for him there was a long waiting cue which meant that he had to stay for a while until he could be seen.
"What are you doing over here?" A red haired male wearing a black cape asked now looking confused from seeing Silver sitting in the waiting room. Silver hearing the male looked up and mentally groaned, perfect…
"I've been forced to get a job or I'm getting kicked out of the house" the male blinked in surprise from hearing Silver's words.
"You weren't working?" the male asked as he tilted his head slightly causing Silver to glare.
"I was battling trainers" this made the male the shake his head at Silver.
"That's hardly a stable income you know" the male berated lightly at Silver who glared as anger continued to form.
"Yeah yeah I know, I was told that already" Silver scowled. "So what are you doing here dragon boy?" the male glared at Silver slightly.
"I was giving a lecture on how to raise Pokémon thank you" the male replied bluntly, Silver rolled his eyes. "I don't see why you don't put your skills into teaching or something"
"Again I was told that but I don't have a schooling degree" Silver muttered surprising the male.
"Why not?" the male asked causing Silver to frown.
"I was taken out of school after my mother's death" that shocked the male while Silver rolled his eyes again at the reaction. "I don't want your pity, I just need a job" Silver commented not believing that he was talking about this with the male.
"Well my cousin needs gym trainers" Silver raised a brow "she lost two given her temper" Silver nodded at that one.
"Not surprising" Silver muttered as he almost shook his head.
"Look I'm not saying go there but there are plenty of options, have you thought about field work or something? After all it'll be good for experience" Silver stared at the male blandly.
"Hey don't take my word for it but Blue does it from time to time" the male commented.
"And yet the gym has had to close because of this" this they couldn't disagree with.
"Just give it some thought, not everyone can get an ideal job. Just having one that earns you a stable income is better than not having one at all, I doubt being forced to live on the streets or having to crash into someone's home for a bit would be ideal for anyone" the male said before shrugging not noticing Silver cringe when he mentioned the last bit. "Best head off before Clair gives grandfather a hard time" he added and with that he was gone. Silver meanwhile bit the inside of his cheek, sadly the male had a point.
"I can't believe I am agreeing to this" he muttered before hearing his number.
"Any luck?" Ethan asked now fully recovered from his ordeal with the lamppost, Silver grunted but shook his head with a glum look.
"Who knew that it would be this hard, you and Alia make it so easy" Silver commented bluntly as he sipped water.
"Sadly it's not, hard work means putting a lot of effort. Just like battling, it takes time and patients" Ethan said while trying to cheer Silver up. "Tell you what why not volunteer at my grandparent's day care centre? It'll be good for experience" Ethan suggested causing Silver to raise a brow.
"Why would you want me to work there?" Silver asked in confusion.
"Why not? Besides friends help each other… despite the fact you tied me to a lamppost last night" he commented coldly causing Silver to smirk at the remark.
"You had it coming" Ethan waved it off as he looked at Silver while they sat in the café.
"Either ways, I'm sure you'd do the same for me and it'll get Alia off your back. Sure you might not get paid but knowing you're getting experience, you could eventually get a paid job" Ethan suggested to the skeptical male.
4 hours later
"I'm out" Silver muttered darkly as he stomped through the living room, not caring that he was damaging the plush rug as he had just enough of the Pokémon who decided to mock and torment him for the past hour.
"Oh come on Silver it's day one, besides not every Pokémon is going to be like that" Ethan complained as he chased after a muddy Silver who was covered in moss, dirt, leaves and other unfortunate things.
"I don't care! The answer is still no!" Silver snapped "Being attacked by birds for food is not what I have in mind" Silver added only to hear his phone, groaning he answered it.
"It's me!" Alia chirped causing him to scowl quietly.
"Everything okay?" Silver asked as he tried not to lash out.
"It's fine, I'm just on my break from work" Alia commented causing him to twitch.
"Of course… rub it in why don't you?" Silver wanted to scream but kept it quiet.
"That's great" Silver said falsely but calmly.
"How was today?" Alia asked eagerly.
"Oh it was fantastic, right now I'm taking a break as well" Silver seethed while Ethan backed away knowing that Silver was about to blow.
"Really? You got a job already?" Alia asked in surprise.
"It's voluntary" he said while his teeth still clenched together.
"Wow that's good, have fun I've to go now since my breaks going to be over in a few minutes. Have fun Silvy Weavy~!" Alia cooed before hanging up.
"I want to kill her for this" he said darkly, Ethan on the other hand was slowly starting to become scared of even going near the angry red head.
"Remind me to murder him in his sleep" Alia hissed as she heard his thoughts on the phone, glaring at her Xtransceiver she almost threw it but placed it in her coat pocket and got ready for her shift.