Sweet Love and Bitter Defeat Chapter III
Just as the same time when Rio and Gale arrived at the training grounds, Bunny and Red have finished their exams. For pokemon who did not join the Royal Guards program, they have to take exams to get a job class to earn money for a living. Should they finish their exams with flying colours (meaning when they have perfect scores in their test papers), the pokemon will have great opportunities to get a high class job such as a chef in a fancy restaurant, a top lawyer, or an official in the community who are part of the counsel of pokemon that makes the decisions of the community's welfares. Failure, they will have to repeat the exam all over again or they will have no choice but to work on low-key, mediocre jobs like garbage disposal.
Though Red mange to pass and earned a job as a doctor, Bunny became a reporter of a newspaper group called The Arceus Tribune. Happy and excited about her new job, Bunny hop around with an excited face, throwing her graduate hat in the air and left, leaving Red behind with a sympathetic smile for her overconfident friend.
Red looks at the sky, her gentle red eyes looking proudly as she awaits about the future.
Her first day in a prestigious hospital called Community Medical Hospital was exciting. Being a doctor of paediatrics (meaning that she studies the development, care, and disease of children Source: Miriam-Webster Dictionary), Red was easily applied by the director of the Community Medical Hospital; the Happiness pokemon blissey named Angelina, also a paediatrician.
"I hope you do your job well Miss Red" Angelina reminded before leaving Red in her own office, giggling, "The children are very active so be vigilante."
"Yes Doctor Angelina" Red said, closing the door. The door is inscribed:
Doctor Red, M.D
Kirlia
Paediatrician
Red sat down at her own desk, waiting for patients who are either sick, injured or need to be diagnosed.
Red had managed at least thirty kids in less than 5 hours since her first day. She diagnosed her first patient, the Tiny Raccoon pokemon zigzagoon, a disorder called ADHD (Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder); told a mother of a Mushroom pokemon shroomish that he has hay fever; and prescribed a Fairy pokemon snubbull to eat an aspear berry regularly to prevent from having a cold.
It was already noon when her last patient left. "Thank goodness" Red said to herself, sitting on the chair lazily, "The last patient was very energetic like Bunny, always excited about something."
Just when she was about to leave her office, the telephone in her office rang and answered it. "Hello?" she asked, "This is Dr. Red's office. Who am I-"
"Oh Red!" a girly-girl voice rang the ears of Red. It was Bunny, the reporter of the Arceus Tribune.
"Oh Bunny" Red said, "What is it?"
"Do you want to have lunch with me?" Bunny asked, "We can, like, talk about stuff."
She smiled. "Yeah sure" Red replied, "Where are we going to eat?"
"I know this cheap but delicious restaurant I know. It's called Evan's and it's not that far from the hospital your working."
Evan's, as Bunny said, is a Cheap but delicious restaurant. The building has a sign of a Sleeping pokemon snorlax stirring a soup in a pot. The inside looks ok, except the occasional yells of the customer who was complaining that his soup is not hot.
Red waited for Bunny for fifteen minutes before being jumped by her. "Hey girl friend" she cried excitedly.
"Bunny" Red said, "My, did the Tribune give you all of those clothes?"
"Oh this" Bunny said. Red noticed that Bunny is indeed wearing different: she wears a fedora with a piece of paper sticking out of her hat; a pink sling bag over her shoulders; and wearing black sun glasses over her cute brown eyes.
"Never mind what I wear" Bunny insisted, "I'm hungry. Let's eat!"
She grabs Red by the arm and dashed inside the restaurant.
A few minutes later, they were done eating and decided to talk a little bit.
"I am known as the Ace Reporter of Entertainment" Bunny boasted, pounding her root beer mug with her paw, "Without my expertise of reporting the big scoop, the editor-in-chief said his newspaper business would fail."
Red calmly sipped her orange juice, listening to her rant until she asked a question:
"Are you in love with Gale?" Bunny asked curiously, smiling coyly at her.
Red spewed her drink in surprise, the orange juice splattered on Bunny's sunglasses. "No, no, no, no" she chattered, her faced being furiously red, "Not yet, I mean."
She giggled. "I know you're lying red" Bunny said, winking at her.
Silence looms at their table. "Yes" she admitted, holding the white Ying pendant around her neck.
"Why?" Bunny continued to ask, bringing out her notepad and pen from her sling bag.
Red stared at her in disbelief. "Why should I tell you?" she questioned, blushing a little bit.
She twirls her pen patiently. Bunny doesn't quit that easily.
"Alright" Red said, sighing, "You win being a reporter and all."
Bunny grinned defiantly. "I'm the Ace Reporter of Entertainment after all" she boasted.
"Well..." Red said, touching her cheek where Gale kissed her, closing her eyes and blushing a little, "Gale is handsome and strong and all, but I see him as a lone wolf. He's sometimes alone whenever he finishes training with Rio; I picture him being all by himself.
"But when he bumped me when we first met, I knew something different in him: Gale is gentle and just to his friends, always there by their side and protecting the weak from the oppressed. He is also good with a topic that interests me that I once talked about the legendary trainer of the training grounds is a slowking named Master Grant."
"Gale is a very sensible and a gentle guy that I started to develop feelings for him already. I really like him very much. His caring attitude made me feel comfortable whenever he's around; his calm voice makes me feel happy; and I believe he likes me also..."
Red stopped talking, only to see Bunny with her eyes humourlessly crying a waterfall of tears. "That was sweet Red" she sniffed.
She handed her a handkerchief. "Thanks" she muttered, blowing her nose.
"I guess you didn't write everything down, right?" Red said.
"Yeah" Bunny responded, showing her notepad is wet with tears, "I didn't write everything down."
Red checked the clock of the restaurant. It's already passed her shift!
"I got to go!" Red said, "Thanks for treating me for lunch Bunny!"
She left the restaurant, only leaving Bunny all alone. "I didn't say I was going to treat you" Bunny said grumpily.
But she suddenly smiled. "At least it's already recorded on my tape recorder" Bunny snickered, holding a tape recorder behind her.
The sly Bunny, the self proclaimed Ace Reporter of Entertainment knows Red's dreamy crush. But Will Rio also do the same to Gale to tell him that he also likes Red? Find out at the next Sweet Love and Bitter Defeat!
