Chapter 2:

Old Friends

The sky was painted orange as the sun began to set. Stacey sat inside the pokemon center drinking some orange juice after eating her dinner. She spun the straw in her drink, absentmindedly, looking outside the window. Suddenly, a group of trainers entered the pokemon center. Stacey found herself staring at the black haired male. 'Could that be…?"

"ASH!"

Ash Ketchum spun around to see a brown haired female headed toward him. Once he realized who it was, he was already being glomped. "Hey, Ketchup-chan!" Stacey said while hugging him tightly. His group of friends snickered. "Ketchup-chan?" asked one of the girls, Dawn, while giggling. Pikachu sweatdropped.

"Get off me, Stacey." His muffled voice commanded. Stacey did what she was told. "Hehe, sorry Ketchup-chan," She noticed Brock. "Hey Broccoli-kun!" Brock sweatdropped. "Hey…Stacey."

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Stacey, Ash, Brock, Dawn, and Kenny all sat in a booth in the back of the café. "So, who are you peoples?" Stacey asked bluntly. Both Kenny and Dawn sweatdropped. "My name is Dawn," the blue haired girl said. "And mine is Kenny." Stacey nodded. "My name is Anastasia but you can call me Stacey," She took a drink out of her cup. "I'm a Coordinator participating in the Floaroma Town Contest."

"We are too!" Dawn and Kenny said simultaneously. They glared at each other. Stacey sweatdropped and turned to Brock and Ash. "So, what's up with you two? Where's May and Max?" Brock sipped his drink. "Nothing besides me becoming Pokemon master!" Ash said enthusiastically. Stacey rolled her eyes. "May is in Johto while Max is home in Hoenn." Brock said. Stacey nodded.

"Well I'm going to bed, I have to be ready for the contest tomorrow," Stacey said while walking away. "Oh and by the way, my older sister Violet told me to tell you hi." And with that, Stacey left Ash and company as Brock went into love sick mode and his Croagunk hit him with a poison jab.

/the next morning/

Stacey woke up with the sun streaming from the windows. Her long brown hair was crazy from bedhead. "Ugh, I hate bed head." She muttered. She got off from her bed and began to get ready.

Once she was dressed, Stacey grabbed her dress and proceeded down to the Pokemon Center where Ash, Brock and Dawn were. "Hey, Stacey, do you wanna walk down to the Contest with us?" Ash asked. Stacey grinned. "Sure, Ketchup-chan!"

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The group walked down the road to the arena, saying nothing. "Hey Stacey, how's Gary?" Ash asked suddenly. "Fine, just being the annoying cousin as always." Dawn looked confused. "Who's Gary?" she asked. "He's Professor Oak's grandson and Stacey's cousin." Brock explained. Dawn's eyes lit up. "So does that mean you're good at Pokemon Poetry too?" Dawn asked. "Um, not really…" Stacey said nervously.

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"Grrr!"'

Both Stacey and Dawn sat in the dressing, fussing over their hair. The two well dressed females were discouraged that their hair didn't look the way they wanted it. Dawn wanted hers in a simple, nice, low ponytail tied with a red ribbon with long and curly bangs clipped with her yellow barrettes. The ponytail was simple but Dawn couldn't get the barrettes to be parallel with each other. Finally, she was done.

"There we go, I'm finally finished," Dawn said. She turned to the seat next to her. "Are you done yet, Stacey?" Stacey put down the hair dryer. Her long brown was down in two braids connecting to the back of her head with a ponytail. It was tied with a purple ribbon. "Yeah, I think so." Stacey replied. She jumped off the seat and brushed off her dress.

Stacey wore a strapless, lilac dress that ended at her knees. Under it, she wore a violet short sleeve top with a V shaped neckline that connected with her dress at the middle of her chest. A violet and pink ribbon wrapped around her waist and formed a violet bow with pink strands in the back. On her feet, she wore lilac sandals and on her right hand, she wore a single pink glove.

"Let's start this show!" Stacey exclaimed as the pair ran out of the dressing room.

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Review pwease. the next chapter is in Stacey's point of view