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Chapter 3

"Ha!" I exclaimed as I checked the time and realized that I had awoken before the annoying alarm went off. Five minutes earlier to be exact. I got ready and headed downstairs for breakfast, you know the usual. I headed off to school and met up with Delaney. Oh man, the look on his face when I greet Yvette is gonna be priceless.

"You're here early," he said surprised. "I was about to go meet with you too."

We began walking towards school. "A little too early," I said as I noticed that we had roughly forty-five minutes before class started. How didn't I notice?

"We could visit the little café downtown for some coffee if you want," he suggested.

"That's a nice plan, but we'll never make it," I told him.

"You'll be happy to know that I know a shortcut through a trail in the woods."

I agreed, and he showed me the way. I've been downtown plenty of times with my family, but never without them. The walk through the woods was uneventful until we ran into a certain someone.

"Lance look out!" Warned Delaney as he saw Yvette approaching. He moved behind me.

"Mornin' Yvette," I greeted as she advanced.

"Hey Lance," She then noticed Delaney hiding behind me. "Hey Delaney."

"We're going to get some coffee. Wanna come?" I offered.

"Dude are you crazy?!" Whispered Delaney confused as he was scared.

"Sounds great!" She said cheerily as she began walking with us.

I looked back at him. "Its fine, we're all cool now. Last time was just a huge misunderstanding."

The rest of the way was fairly quiet. I guessed that Yvette wanted to explain at the café why she had such a change of heart to the charmeleon. I knew that Delaney had to hear this one.

We arrived at the place not much sooner. The Seaside Café or something like that was the name. We went inside and found a nice booth next to a view of the ocean. Delaney sat first to the right side and I joined him with Yvette sitting on the opposite side. The black leather of the seats creaked as we settled down.

I noticed a gardevoir who was the waitress approach us, she looked young around her early twenties or so. "What will it be guys?" She asked.

"Just coffee for me," I ordered.

"Same here," said Yvette and Delaney at the same time. She looked at him with a faint smile and he ignored her.

The waitress acknowledged our orders and within minutes came back with three mugs of coffee. We thanked her and began to discuss how our mornings were going so far. After that I sensed a lot of confusion and hostility radiating off Delaney. I noticed that Yvette was feeling it too and she had a gloomy expression on her face. I needed to talk to Delaney alone, so I shot some glances at the lycanroc and she seemed to get the hint.

"I need to use the little girls room, I'll be right back," she said as she walked off.

"Dude what's your problem?" I questioned him.

"My problem?" He said, flabbergasted. "Excuse me if I'm just feeling a little off seeing you being best buds with the girl who has made my recent school years a living hell and tried to kill you yesterday."

"Okay, I get that, but she's changed- "

"In a day's time?! You don't think she's playing the part to get closer to you and me and cause more harm than she's already done?" He stressed.

"I don't approve of the things she's done to you or anyone, but it isn't entirely her fault. She explained to me that she has always been experiencing anger of some kind. What it is I can't tell you, because she never told me."

"That's a really shitty excuse to hurt other people," he said angrily.

"Look if you still hate her, that's fine. Just try not to show it by being rude towards her. So far, she's been pretty mild mannered. I cleared things up with her and I want it to stay that way," I explained.

He groaned, "Fine, I'll do this for you because you so obviously want to win her over," he joked.

"Wait what?"

"I'm back guys!" Said Yvette as my heart almost dropped from the sudden greeting. "Did I miss anything?"

"Not at all," I said quickly out of shock.

We were drinking in silence when I remembered something. "Delaney did you ever give me your number?"

He said that he hadn't, and Yvette wanted in too so we all traded numbers. Delaney refused at first, but he seemed to remember what I told him. We enjoyed our coffee and conversed about our classes and how they were going. Well, all of us except Delaney that is. He was quiet the entire time.

"You okay Delaney?" Asked Yvette.

"I can't keep this damn act up. Stop acting like we're friends!" He exclaimed. The entirety of the café looked at us before continuing with their business.

"Am I doing something wrong?" She replied.

"Don't act so damn innocent, you hate me remember? You tried to kill me and Lance. I don't why the hell Lance invited you to come with us. I hate you for all the things you've done, and you still have the audacity to treat me like we we're best pals?" He said angrily.

She looked at me, shocked then back at him. "Delaney, I know what I've done. I'm sorry, but I know that will never be enough. I'm trying to change," She put her head down and I swear I heard a whimper from her.

Delaney just looked at her and I with disgust. "I've had enough of this," he exclaimed before leaving a couple of poke for the coffee at the table then walking out of the café.

"Oh god Lance what did I do?" She said before beginning to walk out too.

"Yvette wait!" It was too late, she was out the door. I dropped a couple of poke on the table as well before rushing outside. I saw Delaney heading in the direction of the school and Yvette towards the beach. Great, more drama. This is just what I need. Delaney would be fine I presumed and chased after Yvette instead. She was staring away at the endless void of water.

"Uhh, Yvette? You okay?" I said, trying to get her attention.

"Why did you follow me? Why didn't you go calm Delaney down?"

"Trust me, he'll be fine," I hope.

"He was right, I was stupid to think that I could right my wrongs in a day. He knows what I've done. You know what I've done," She told me. I could tell that her eyes were beginning to water.

"Control yourself. He'll eventually warm up to you, I hope. Just give him some space on the account that you kind of did bully him for years on end."

She grew even more upset. "What if he never does? I wouldn't blame him if he hated my guts forever. He needs to know that I'm trying to be better."

"Just calm down, look at you Yvette you're almost crying again," I chuckled in an attempt to lighten the mood. I slowly put one arm over her shoulder to comfort her. "Just be calm, like I said he'll warm up to you soon. Now c'mon, we got to class. We have a couple minutes before it starts."

People were staring at us as we walked into the school and towards our classes. They had a look of shock as they saw me walking casually alongside the most feared girl in the school. I walked with Yvette to her class which was history and went straight to biology.

Delaney wouldn't even notice or acknowledge my existence that morning. I tried to start conversation with him every now and then only for him to give me the cold shoulder. I didn't know what to do. He's impossible. If he wants to play like that, so be it. I thought. During lunch I chose with not sitting at the usual table. I needed to find Yvette. I looked around the cafeteria for couple of moments before spotting her, sitting alone. The sight alone hurt my heart. She had dim look still on her face as she chewed her sandwich.

"Why so glum chum?" I asked her as I took a seat next to her. A faded smile formed on her face as soon as she saw me.

"Why aren't you sitting with Delaney?"

"He still needs to cool off and seeing you all alone was pretty sad," I said lightheartedly.

She scoffed, "Like you're any more popular."

"No seriously though, real talk here. Did you have any friends before I came along?" I asked then took a bite from my food.

"Well, short answer yes and long answer no. The only friends that I had last year was another girl named Lucy who liked to harass people like me. We were the two most feared girls in the school and inseparable. If any of us were I trouble we always had the others back," she explained.

"So, where is she?"

"She had to move. Dad got a job offering in Sinnoh and away she went. Ever since then I've never been too friendly to anybody until you came along and made me see differently."

I noticed some people were casting glares at us. They were probably surprised at the sight of someone sitting with the her. We ate our food and talked about if Delaney would go back to be his normal self.

"Well, I got to go," she said as she disposed of her trash and walked off without so much as another word to me. I guessed it must have been library duty and followed her a couple moments later. I grabbed a random magazine. On the cover was a gurdurr in football gear and was standing with his arms crossed as he looked aggressive and ready for anything. I do like sports, but I was always one to watch rather than play. I browsed it mindlessly while waiting for the bell to ring. I wanted to walk with Yvette to P.E since a certain someone was still mad at me. You idiot. You made a friend, but are close to losing the other one.

A couple of people were in the place, reading books and others working on school work. I decided to keep reading the sports magazine and sat down at an empty table. A couple minutes later I noticed a duo consisting of a mankey and ekans. They began to approach me, so I acted like I was more involved in the magazine.

"Hey, you're that guy," The ekans told me excitably.

"Uhh?"

"C'mon. Gym class? You were the one that beat the hell out of Yvette!" exclaimed the mankey quietly.

"So, how'd you do it? We saw you knock her flat on her face," the other said.

"I just got lucky I guess," I felt my face become hot with embarrassment.

They talked to me for some time before leaving content with the fact that they had talked to the guy who took down Yvette. Don't get me wrong, I hated what I did to her, but the fact still stands that me doing that opened her up a little. I also deeply regret hurting her like that. Just looking over at her stacking books and doing her little job made me sure that she had changed. She caught my glance and smiled at me. Yea, she must have changed. That smile is no lie.

Gym class was quite different today. The coach split us up into two teams by sending us off into different sides of the gym. Yvette and I were separated, but I got lucky and got Delaney with me. I'd try to patch things up between us. We lined up against the walls and waited for coach to release us with the sound of a whistle. It came not a moment later and I took off for one of the rubber spheres. I ended grabbing only one with my tail, and threw it at the nearest person opposite of me. It landed on some poor growlithes face and he walked over to the bench with a red face.

Yvette saw me and kicked a ball straight at me with quick force. I leapt to the side and let some poor girl standing behind me take the hit. Yvette knew she had to be better than that to hit me, so she closed in and almost struck me once again. Man, she's good at this, I thought. I hadn't noticed that she was also aiming for Delaney. She shot a ball at him and I jumped in the way. Stupid, I know, but I got to make friends with him again somehow. His expression was unreadable after my little selfless act.

Just be old Delaney already, I said to myself. I turned my head to Yvette and she seemed to read my mind as Delaney struck back and she let herself get hit. The match minutes later with Delaney's side winning. They cheered, and coach excused us to do whatever we wanted.

"Nice game," acknowledged Yvette as she approached me. "I was wondering if you wanted to do anything after school? I know you just got into town and everything, so I thought I'd show you around the island a little bit."

"That'd be great!" I accepted.

"You should bring Delaney along. I'd be good for him and us."

I looked over at Delaney who was playing basketball with some guys and he caught my glance. I smiled, but he looked away quickly. Yvette chuckled slightly as she saw what had happened.

"Rain check for him then?"

The final bell rung, and I headed towards the exit to meet up with Yvette. I passed by Delaney on the way and he didn't even acknowledge my presence. I must've really rubbed him the wrong way. Guess I'd have to wait until tomorrow. I saw Yvette and noticed that she had been waiting for me.

"So where to?"

"Wherever the wind takes us…" She cut off, her face dramatic. "Nah I'm just kidding, how about something to drink first?"

I've noticed that Yvette is still fitting in to the whole "nice" thing. We went to her favorite smoothie stand and there was a lopunny that I noticed that was from our school who was ordering. I sat down at a nearby bench while Yvette went to order. The lopunny was taking a while and Yvette became frustrated.

"Would you hurry it up already you twerp!" She snarled.

The lopunny turned around scared and faced her. She seemed to know who the lycanroc was almost immediately. "I-I'm sorry, Yvette." She said fearfully. Even the cashier who seemed to be in our age group grew timid. The lopunny hurried and waited for her order. Yvette was next and ordered two berry drinks. She sat down next to me and handed me the drink like nothing had happened.

"Yvette…"

"Yeah?"

"Really? C'mon what'd that girl do to you?" I asked.

"She was in the way…" She said quietly as she took a sip of her drink.

"You're going to need to apologize."

"For what?!" She growled before realizing that she was still talking with me. "You're right," she sighed. "Alright, I'll do it later, but first let me drink this."

She did like she said and I drank too. It tasted sugary and sour to my surprise. Nothing like in Unova I'll tell you that. After all that it was time for Yvette's apology. She grudgingly dragged her paws over to the lopunny who was enjoying an ice cream cone not too far from our bench.

"Hey there!" Yvette greeted.

The lopunny shrunk in her seat at the site of the rock type.

"Uhh, hi there…"

"B-Beth..."

"Nice to meet you Beth," She said and sat down next to her. "I came here just to say that I'm terribly sorry about what I said to you earlier. I'm just trying to be a better person right now and I hope you'll be able to forgive me for my actions," She finished with bowing her head.

"Yvette, right? I remember you, I remember you embarrassing me in front of my friends in 9th grade! You've threatened me just for simply walking in front of you. You do this to not just me, but everyone you've ever hurt, and you still have the audacity to beg for my forgiveness. You may have forgotten who I was, but I never forgot you. How could I?" She then stomped off much to the surprise of the lycanroc.

Yvette looked at me and back at her. "Why is so hard for me to change?" I heard her whisper.

I walked up to her and stood closely. "Hey its like what happened with Delaney. Just give everyone time and they'll learn to forgive and forget," I promised her. "C'mon weren't you going to show me more of the island?"

"Y-yeah, right."

"How much longer?" I huffed as I was almost out of breath.

"Just up this ridge," she answered up in front on me.

Our first location for the day was this waterfall that Yvette really wanted to show me. It had taken us thirty minutes to get there from the drink stand. To my surprise it was incredibly close to my house.

"Here we are!" Stated Yvette.

Looking down, I saw a river up high that poured out into a sparkly and clear lake below. It looked like one of those waterfalls you see in travel brochures. I sat there breathless for several moments until Yvette called for me to get closer.

"Wow…" I admired. The place was breathtaking, and I couldn't believe it was real.

"It's beautiful isn't it?" She asked as she turned to me. Her blue eyes matched that of the water fall behind her.

"It's stunning alright," I couldn't tell if I was talking about her eyes or the waterfall now. "I'm surprised this place isn't full of Pokémon right now."

"That'd be my fault… I kind of chased away anyone that went near here," She said, embarrassed. "I'm sorry."

I just laughed at the thought of being a random Pokémon wanting to go for a swim then being chased away by an angry Yvette. I sat down at a nice grassy area near the lake and so did Yvette.

"So, you want to take a dip?" She offered.

"Thanks, but no thanks. I've never really told anybody this, but I can't actually swim…"

She giggled like a little school girl I tell you and rolled on the floor laughing. Her eyes were sparkling now due to the tears in her eyes. Her face was also a shade of red I've never seen before.

"Quite a laugh you got there Yvette," I noticed. Honest to Arcues I've never seen her like for the three days that I've known her. It was surprising to say the least to see her from being a sad sap to laughing her lunges out.

She was now beginning to recover from her laughing fit. "But you're serious?"

"100%"

"I have never met someone who didn't know how to swim until now. I gotta teach you one of these days."

We spent the rest of our moments at the lake admiring its beauty and me listening to her stories about how she had come to find it. I knew there was something I wanted to ask her, then it hit me.

"Remember when I took you home after that thing that happened. Remember when I asked you what the source of your troubles were?"

She seemed to remember and nodded slightly. "This may sound kind of sad, but the reason I've been like this was thanks to my father. He left my mother's and I's life when I was only ten. I guess I've never gotten over it."

She had explained more than I expected. "I'm sorry."

"It's no one's fault except that assholes's. That idiot did nothing but drink all night long and came home angry and exhausted from either fighting some other drunk asshole or doing something stupid."

"Where's he nowadays?" I poked.

"No clue, not even my mother knows. All I remember was my mom yelling at him to get the hell the out or she would call the cops. He didn't even wish us goodbyes or apologies he just disappeared." Her joyful expression was now giving way to that of before.

I shouldn't have brought this up. You stupid idiot, she was optimistic just a minute ago! I couldn't think of anything to say so we just sat there in silence staring at the waterfall for a couple more moments.

"I think its time for us to go home," She said, breaking the awkward silence between us.

"Could I at least walk you home?" I asked.

She thought about it for a second before agreeing. We arrived a few minutes later and had not spoken a word on the way. We arrived through her backyard and onto her porch.

"Guess I'll see you tomorrow?" I asked.

"Yea, I guess I will."

"Yvette please don't be sad," I pleaded as I looked into her eyes that showed a hint of melancholies.

"I'm fine Lance, it's just remembering about my idiot of a dad usually sets me on a fit of rage. This time for some reason I just acted like I'm acting now. I think I have you to thank, I'd rather go through some sad thoughts than angrily lash out at others. Thanks for the help in making me see different," She said.

"Guess its time for me to go," I bid farewell.

"No, wait. You don't want to come inside for a drink or something?"

"Yvette I would really love to but its late and I'm pretty sure your mom would freak if she found me inside your house," I then turned around to leave.

"You're right. Guess I'll see you tomorrow then?" She asked.

I nodded and began to return home. The thought of patching things up with Delaney was still in my mind. How had I begun to become best friends with him then lose him in an instant? I had to fix this. Stuff like just takes time, it always does.

Oof this took forever to write. Sorry for not posting in forever, but school and what not. I'll get my mojo back once summer comes. See you till then!