Okay, okay. You guys are probably angry right now, but don't blame me! Blame my math teacher!
You know how EVERY story has a filler chapter? Well, this is it!
And if you see any mistakes; Please, do tell!
Enjoy!
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Yellow stared wide-eyed at nothing in particular; not completely able to take in the information that had been laid in front of her.
"B-but he can eat a-and breathe fine," She recalled what the nurse had said earlier, "his vocal chords wouldn't b-be the only thing i-injured," she told herself more than she told Green and Blue.
"But the nurse said that that was by a miracle," Blue reminded Yellow, "and you ran away before she finished telling us his condition."
Yellow didn't know how to take in it all. She looked to Red and saw that he was still facing the wall, "So, what happens now?" She asked, wiping away any stray tears and feeling somewhat stupid.
Green sighed and also looked to his old rival sadly, "The nurse said that his voice will never be able to come back, and that he will most likely try to force himself out of anything social," he explained.
Red scowled at the wall, angry at his friend for saying something like that. I'm right here guys, I can hear everything you're saying, he frowned when he realized, his relationship with his friends was already changing, and he was already pushing himself away from them.
"Right now, all we can do is our best to make sure that doesn't happen," Green finished saying.
Yellow still kept her eyes on Red, and began to sway away from the duo, toward the mute boy, "Red, please don't do this," She pleaded.
Red didn't turn to face her, Yellow, I'm sorry. I just don't know what's happening. I can't… I just can't face anyone like this; he really wanted to tell her.
Yellow had gotten close enough to his bed and slowly reached for his arm. She couldn't bear to see him like this.
Just before she made contact with him, Red abruptly pushed his legs under the bed covers, pulled the covers over his head, and lay down on the bed still facing the wall, to shield his eyes from everyone in the room.
Sensing that Red wasn't going to face them any time soon, Yellow tried her best to be optimistic about the situation. "Well, I'm glad that you're okay Red," she said to the figure buried under the bed covers.
"I'm not so sure he's okay," Blue said, raising an eyebrow at a nervous Yellow.
Yellow decided to brush off the comment, "As soon as you're released from the hospital, feel free to come over," She told the still motionless figure.
No response.
Green closed his eyes, "I'm already getting tired of his attitude," He said, clenching his fists.
"Hold up Green! He just needs time and care," Blue insisted.
"No, he needs to understand that he needs to act like a normal person, even if he can't talk anymore!" he firmly told the girl, who began boiling with anger.
"Do you even know how to deal with things like this Green?!" She asked.
"Like you do?!" He said back.
The two started out in an all out argument, just about how they should treat Red, while Yellow stood quietly by Red's bed, trying to hold back tears.
Red couldn't believe it. His friends were fighting over how they should treat him, and he could hear the whole argument. He could only imagine how Yellow was reacting to the fight.
At least Yellow talked to me, he thought, not talking about me as if I'm not here.
The argument continued only a short while longer until-
SLAM. The sound echoed through the room. The quarrel between Blue and Green stopped, and they all looked at Red whose fist had slammed into the wall.
That was the only way Red could think of, to end the argument; both for his sake, and for Yellow's.
The room was silent, except for the shuffle of bed covers when Red pulled his arm back under the covers.
Breaking the silence, a middle-aged doctor shuffled into the room and said, "I apologize for interrupting, but I need to do a final check-up before the patient can be discharged from the hospital," he explained.
Blue and Green suddenly realized how loudly they were arguing. Yellow was the only one to respond, "Okay, we understand. See you soon Red." She bid her farewell before shuffling out of the room followed by a dazed Green and Blue.
Once they had left, the doctor spoke up, "Quite a friend you got there, don't yah?" He said, without looking at Red.
Red sat up, his mood changed completely, and curled just the ends of his lips upwards at the very thought of the girl.
Yes, was echoed in his mind, yes I do.
() (later) ()
Lock Red up in a prison cell, and he would've felt better than this.
The rest of the group of four, consisting of Green, Blue, and Yellow, was walking, and half dragging, Red through Viridian City, back to Pallet town.
This is stupid, he thought. I would walk, but Blue keeps hovering around me as if I'm going to fall the second I pull a foot up from the ground.
In a seemingly endless daze, Red thought about the minute when he woke up…
- (Flashback)-
I woke up to the suffocating aroma of disinfectant. I scrunched my nose at the horrible smell, and didn't open my eyes until I remembered what happened.
I was training in the forest, he recalled, and then Golem lost control, my throat was hurting, and that was all I could remember-
My eyes snapped open as I felt something sharp in my arm.
I heard my quick and heavy breathing, and saw a single nurse in whatever room I was in.
"Why, hello young man. Do you feel okay?" She asked.
Oddly enough, I didn't feel the slightest bit bruised from the accident earlier, even my throat seemed to be fine, so I responded with a nod.
The nurse had turned around, so I decided to say, 'yes' but when I tried, I felt a painful burning within my throat.
I seemed to give off a very quiet cry of pain because the nurse seemed somewhat startled that I hadn't answered.
"Does your throat hurt? Hold on, I'll look at it!" She panicked.
If my throat wasn't burning as painfully as it was, I would've been able to easily point out that this nurse was most definitely new at her job.
She grabbed her medical equipment from a counter, and rushed across the room to me.
"Okay, open your mouth and say, 'ahhhh,' " she told me.
I opened my mouth, despite the burning, and she held a flashlight in front of my mouth.
"Say 'ahhh,' please," She repeated.
I shut my eyes tight, the pain was too unbearable, and I pushed her arm away and closed my mouth.
"Ohh, Dear." Her fingers rose to her mouth, "I'm afraid that… your vocal chords are damaged to the point where we cannot fix them." She stared at me, pity etched in her eyes.
"The rock that hit you impacted your neck the most, shaking your esophagus and your windpipe, but damaged your vocal chords to the point where surgery would be too dangerous," she explained.
I must've been in shock for a few minutes before the information seeped in.
It doesn't matter! I- I can still be normal! I'm the fighter! My friends will still be my friends and Yellow-
Yellow.
The word seemed to echo in my mind.
Yellow is my friend… she'll still be there for me, and I can still, somehow, get her to go out with me! And- and-
It was then that I thought of something that would change the entire outcome of the situation.
I'd worry Yellow; I'd be a burden to her, and who am I kidding?! Who would want to be in a relationship with a mute boy?!
I was almost screaming to myself, for not moving out of the way of the boulder, and for… everything. I began to sweat; the thoughts were apparently raising my anxiety to an extremely high level, to the point where I was breathing heavily and might've run out of the room if the nurse hadn't forced me to lie down in bed again.
It seemed like forever had passed until, "I'm so sorry," She whispered to me, barely audible, before leaving the room.
How was I ever considered The Fighter? I asked myself.
- (present)-
"Red, we're leaving now!" Blue yelled into his ear.
The sun was already setting, and Red guessed that it was about six o'clock.
He stood up straight and nodded his head at Blue and Green, but his eyes were fixed on the ground. The flashback of just a few hours ago darkened his mood even more.
Green elaborated, "I have to go back to the gym, and Blue promised that she would visit Silver tomorrow," he explained.
And I want them to have some alone time, she mentally added. I know now's not the time for matchmaking, but I just can't help it!
And with that, the group of four split, leaving Red and Yellow alone on the pathway leading to Pallet Town.
The mute boy silently sighed and thought; At least I'll be able to walk.
Yellow moved her head around trying to get a glimpse of Red's incredible eyes, with a sad smile. "I have nowhere to go today or tomorrow; can I go to your house, Red?" she asked.
That made Red snap his head up and look into her hazel eyes, you want to… hang out with me?
Remembering that she couldn't hear him, he nodded his head slowly.
Her face shined with a real, genuine smile, "Yay, let's go!" She said, grabbing Red's hand, and running back to Pallet Town dragging him along the path.
So much for walking, he laughed to himself.
Although he didn't show it, Red was happy to be dragged along by this girl. He was happy to have pleased her. He was happy, because he was near her.
And happy that she was holding his hand.
Wait, what?
He stopped suddenly, pulling his hand out of Yellow's grasp.
She turned back to look at him, confusion etched into her face until she realized what she had been doing.
A crimson color flowed onto her face, "S- Sorry Red," she stuttered.
He stood there, regretting letting go of her, and shielding his face with his bangs.
Yellow, I don't want to burden you. I'm worthless now and I know it, he thought; although the green-eyed girl didn't think so one bit.
Red couldn't think of a response that would reach her and cheer her up; except for one thing.
He began to slowly walk toward the frozen, petite girl, and for a brief moment, stood by her side.
He brushed his hand over hers, and kept walking; hand in hand with her. It was his turn to do the dragging.
Yellow followed him, in a complete daze, not even realizing what was happening, until she collapsed completely; falling right into his arms.
I was wondering how she managed to stay up for this long, Red thought; she must've been really worried.
He looked sadly toward the beautiful girl, collapsed in his arms.
Sorry for worrying you, Yellow.
He apologized by laying a single kiss on her forehead, not fully realizing what he had done.
As he attempted to find a way to rid his face of blush, he picked up the girl and carried her bridal-style to his house.
Along the way, the boy mentally said; no matter how hard I'm trying not to, I'm still falling for you.
() (later) ()
Yellow woke up a while after Red had laid her down in one of the guest bed rooms.
She didn't remember how she got there, but she stood up and walked through the hall, and into the kitchen.
She looked to a clock that read "8:31" and pondered whether or not she should make a snack for Red.
She decided to find the said boy to ask him if he was hungry or not.
"Red, do you want something to eat?" She asked, and her voice echoed through the large house.
Red shuffled out of a room that Yellow assumed to be his own and shook his head, then returned to the room.
Even when I'm not near her, I still burden her! He scolded himself.
There was no way that Yellow was going to leave him alone. She needed to know what happened to The Fighter she once knew.
Before exiting the kitchen, she grabbed two pencils and some sticky notes, for the high chance that she'd have to resort to plan B in talking to Red, and made her way to the room.
He didn't move at her presence, not that Yellow expected him to. He stayed facing the plain, blank walls, and staring at the tan carpet that covered almost every floor in the house.
The room looked like any regular boy's room: a bed, a few pieces of furniture, plain walls except for one item.
A picture.
Yellow knew Red had stored away all his pictures of his deceased parents, so she didn't have a clue what scene was encased in the picture frame.
Much to her surprise, the picture was of Red and her; at one of Blue's many parties.
They were playing spin the bottle, and whoever the bottle turned to, would have to draw a dare that was written on paper from a hat. (A/N: I'm going to write a FanFic about this plot later! So I'll explain once I finish that story! But, just so you know, it might be a while!)
This time it was Yellow's turn. She pulled a paper from the hat that read, Spin the bottle again, and whoever it lands on has to give you a piggy back ride until their next turn.
Yellow thought she was lucky; she didn't have to do anything embarrassing that turn.
Well, that was until the bottle stopped on Red.
In less than three seconds flat, every DexHolder had their cell phones out, ready to take pictures of the scene.
And that was the picture on the dresser.
Yellow put the sticky notes and pencils down, and picked up the picture, flushing a bit at the memory, but touched that he actually kept the picture.
At the DexHolder gift exchange last New Year's Eve, Blue had given both Red and Yellow a copy of that that picture. The original, Yellow suspected, was in a book of memories and blackmailing pictures that Blue had.
Yellow had originally expected Red to brush it off and toss the picture, but he kept it instead.
"We can still have fun times when you're like this, you know," She said. "You don't need your voice to enjoy time with your friends."
He didn't turn around, or even move from the spot where he seemed to be planted on the bed.
Okay then Red, she mentally sighed, now it's time for Plan B.
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Red's still in a depression, but trust me, Yellow will snap him out of it in the next chapter!
I hope this explained what you all were wondering about. Like why his vocal chords were damaged and not the rest of him and why he's acting like that.
But keep asking yourself this: Why didn't Red just move out of the way? I dare you to guess! (Hint: It's obvious, but not obvious at the same time!)
In case you're wondering, No, Yellow is not turning into Blue. Plan B, IS NOT EVIL.
Sooo, a lot of Shipping moments in this chapter I guess!
And, there's only one chapter left! (It'll probably be a long chapter.)
Ummm, yeah… that's all I got for now so…
I'll update as soon as I can, and please review!
I love y'all! *wink* (Notice the accent? XD I really wanted to add that in for some reason!)
