Chapter Twoooo
The bell rang a long and monotonous tone. As the class started to file out of the room, Charlee pulled the folded up piece of paper out from her pocket. 'Well then, I'm off the cafeteria.' She thought to herself as she held the schedule in her hands as she too walked out.
When she reached the loud cafeteria, Charlee stood behind the doors and looked in through the glass. She didn't want to make a fool of herself and just randomly stop in the middle of the cafeteria.
'Who am I going to sit with?' She scanned the tables one by one ruling majority of them out, 'I could sit with Matt, but that might seem stalkerish or something, especially considering the fact that I just challenged him to a pokebattle. Plus, he's sitting with some scary looking kid.'
She sighed and looked again; just about ready to skip the whole idea of eating dinner all together, when she found a familiar face sitting by himself. 'It's that one kid from earlier! The really too-smart-for-class tour guide!' Seeing as Near was her only not-as-awkward option she planted her tray and body at his table.
Near looked up at her without saying anything and went on with his meal. They sat there in silence for what felt like hours. 'Maybe he doesn't recognize me? Maybe he judged me on my first impression and I left a bad one!' She tore off a small piece of her roll and ate it. She knew it was bad table manners, but it was a habit she picked up at her last school.
Near watched her eat it and broke the silence, "You eat weird."
Charlee gave him a half confused and half embarrassed look. "What makes you say that?"
"Before you put anything in your mouth, you look at it." Near stated as he twisted a strand of his white hair.
"I guess that is weird," She shrugged, "But, everyone does have their bad habits."
With the last sentence, Charlee started to tell Near the story of when she met a parent of one of her friend's. She explained how he would pick up salad pieces in his fingers and waved it around as if it was what everyone should be doing. It was official that the awkward silence was broken after that. Near didn't talk so much other then putting in a couple of words here and there. She was in the middle of starting a new story when the bell rang for the dinner period to end.
As Charlee was talking and walking with Near the crowd swooped her away and she was had no choice but to follow the crowd of kids. It wasn't until someone yelled out, "Hey kid!" that she noticed the hallways thinning out. She looked to see who it was that yelled towards her. To her surprise it was the maroon haired kid from earlier, from the looks of it the scary looking kid that was sitting with him was no where to be found.
Matt grinned as Charlee walked over to them. "Hope you didn't forget our little battle plan?"
"You sure you still want to battle? You know if you're scared you can still back down now." She grinned back at him, if there's one thing Charlee loved, it was trash talk.
Matt grew uncaring and impatient, "Go fetch your DS already; I'll wait for you here." He pulled out his own DS deciding to get his team ready and organized.
When Charlee arrived back, Matt yawned. "Took ya long enough."
Charlee rolled her eyes at his statement as the two of them started to walk off, Matt leading the way.
The room was normal, two beds, a computer, a decent sized television set, complete with loads of gaming systems and games, and a couple of bean bag chairs. Matt pulled up a few bean bags in front of the television an instructed her to sit. She did so and plugged a wire from the TV to his DS and did the same with Charlee's.
"I never knew that was possible." She said as the two of them switched on the power of their game system.
"Let's just say, I have my ways." Matt grinned pulling the orange goggles from around his neck to over his eyes.
The game's theme song and title screen started to play. The game rules was simple, battling in the 'level 100' option, which makes all the Pokemon chosen for battle to automatically be such level, trainers were to choose three Pokemon of their liking. No items. No intense rare ones like Palkia or Mewtwo. Though some of the lesser rare ones like Alakazam or Empoleon are allowed.
Charlee grinned, judging by his obvious character she could tell at least one of the three Matt was going to use. Though maybe not the exact Pokemon, but the element type he must love to man-whore around.
Both entered the game and they instantly pressed the prepared Pokemon they all had set up. The battle music began to play as the anime style trainer sprites slid across the screen.
"Trainer Isabella wants to battle? Isabella?" Matt said with a grin on his face.
"Shush trainer Alexander. Call it my muse." Charlee said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Well, we'll call my name that too then." He responded with a grin.
The trainer sprites threw out the first Pokemon of both teams.
Trainer Isabella sent out Pikachu!
Trainer Alexander sent out Scyther!
"Nice choice." Charlee stated choosing her Pikachu's first attack. Matt didn't pay any attention to her. He kept 100 of his focus on the game. 'Gee, a little TOO serious?'
Scyther uses slash! The HP of Pikachu drops down 1/4th of the way.
Pikachu uses thunder! The HP of Scyther drops by 1/2.
Scyther uses slash! Critical Hit! The HP of Pikachu is now at the half mark.
'Is he letting me win this one on purpose?' Charlee thought to herself as she watched the animations of the attack moves. 'I personally just want to see his battling tactics, but by the droned out look on his face, he's using some home styled skills.'
Pikachu uses thunderbolt! The HP of Scyther drops to the red zone!
Scyther uses slash! The HP of Pikachu is now in the yellow zone.
Pikachu uses thundershock! Scyther fainted!
Charlee looked over at Matt. His face made no change between now and when he first droned out.
Trainer Alexander sent out Swampert!
Pikachu uses slam! It's not very effective. The HP of Swampert is lowered by 1/7.
Swampert uses earthquake! Pikachu fainted!
Charlee glances over at Matt, who's now wearing a gigantic grin plastered to his pale face. He was scheming and it was starting to show.
Trainer Isabella sent out Torterra!
Swampert uses hyper beam! The HP of Torterra is now in the red zone!
Torterra uses Frenzy Plant! The HP of Swampert is now in the red zone!
The two Pokemon must restore energy.
'Here it is! Whatever Pokemon has the quickest speed wins…"
Torterra uses razor leaf! Swampert fainted!
The grin on Matt's face lowered in power a little when he read the word 'Fainted' but came back as soon as he sent out his last one.
Trainer Alexander sent out Charizard!
'Fuck. So long Torterra.' Charlee thought and a small smirk crossed her lips, 'I knew it.'
Charizard uses flamethrower! Torterra fainted!
Trainer Isabella sent out Grumpig!
'If one thing is for sure, the Charizard is well trained. This could get messy.'
Charizard uses sunny day! Bright light begins to shine.
Grumpig uses Psybeam! The HP of Charizard is lowered by 1/4th Charizard is now confused!
'This battle is mine, Matt.' Charlee thought to herself as she stretched out her arms a little. She looked down at her DS screen. "Chuuuu…." The screen cut to black right then.
"What the hell just fucking happened?!" Charlee exclaimed. "What did you do to my DS?!"
Matt blinked at her, "Like I would do anything to your stupid DS!" he took in a breath, "I would NEVER sink so low just to beat you!"
Unable to think of anything smart to say back to him, Charlee tackled Matt to the floor. She just kept him there unsure if she should strike him or yell at him more. He didn't put up any struggle against her. Or at least until the door slammed open.
"Matt! I heard yelling in the hall-" The boy stopped midword shocked at what was going on.
Matt lightly pushed Charlee off of him and she didn't fight it. "Now Mello, before you lose your head…"
Matt's word's didn't coax him at all. He exploded like a potato in a microwave. "What in the world were you two doing in here?!?" He paused to inhale, "I'm gone for five. FIVE minutes, and you and the new girl are on the floor?!"
With that Mello stormed out the room an slammed the door behind him. Matt sighed and shrugged his shoulders.
"What was that all about?" Charlee asked Matt confused.
"He's just temperamental." Matt walked over to the TV and started to unhook everything. "Here's your DS back." He said handing it to her.