HEY! It's Malibu! And it's SATURDAY! (Not like this week went on FOREVER, or anything...). Happy Saturday! Enjoy my newsest chapter: The Glitch in the System! I hope you liiikkkeee it! 3.
I DO NOT OWN POKEMON! Never have, never will!
Inspired By What Boys Want by Surfergirl14.
The Five Rules of Being Psychic
Part One: The Rules
Chapter Two: The Glitch in the System
Ever since she was a little girl, Leaf Green had been able to read the minds of boys. Not only that, but Leaf had been blessed – or cursed – with empathy. She was able to feel – and manipulate – how people were feeling. Feelings affected her greatly. Sometimes she was happy with her 'gift', but usually it gave her a headache. Like when she was in hallways. There were so many conflicting emotions Leaf wanted to immerse herself in aspirins.
"God, I hate the cafeteria." Leaf rested her forehead on her hand. "Hate, hate, hate."
"So much hate isn't good for one person." Dawn told her. Misty nodded while taking a bite of her salad.
"It's too…emotional." Leaf complained.
"Everyone's emotional, Leaf. Just calm them down."
"I have too much of a headache." Leaf sighed. She slumped over the table.
"You're pathetic," Misty shook her head, "Speaking of pathetic, where is May? She should be here by now."
"Oh, My, God!" May ran in, panting. She slid into her seat, bouncing up and down, "Oh. My. God. Guys!"
"Cute guy?" Dawn asked, smiling knowingly
"Well, yes. But here's the thing-"
"She always gets excited over the cute ones." Misty shook her head.
"Seriously, guys! Focus! I couldn't read his mind!"
You what?" Leaf's head bobbed up, which caused her brain to feel like it was being torn in half. She put her head back down.
"I couldn't read his mind."
"Name." Dawn said sharply.
"Drew Hayden." May's bright blue eyes flickered over to a table full of boys. One boy with green hair's head stood out among the rest. "Green hair. That's him."
"Keep tabs on him." Leaf said. Her head was down, so her voice came out muffled, "Watch out for more boys like him."
"Leafy, are you alright?" Misty petted Leaf's hair.
"No! Ow! My head kills!"
"Take an aspirin." May suggested. Through her hair and arms, Leaf shot May a look. May countered it by engulfing Leaf in an illusion. Leaf was suddenly in a forest. She swatted subconsciously at mosquitoes.
"Let me out!" Leaf growled, "This isn't helping my headache!"
May slowly let Leaf out of the illusion. She smiled. Leaf, again, gave her the evil eye.
"Hey guys!" Leaf peeked out of the other side of her arm to see a tiny ginger girl with huge blue eyes smiling down at them, "Mind if I sit here?"
"Sure!" May scooted over, obviously knowing the girl,
"Who's this?" Misty asked, not looking up from her salad.
"This is Sam Bennett. She's my locker neighbor. We have a few classes together, too."
"Hi!" I'm Dawn!" Dawn chirped, smiling brightly at Sam.
"I'm Misty." Misty smiled, "And that mass of brown hair is Leaf. She has a headache."
"I have aspirin!" Sam reached for her bag, ready to dig them out. "Do you want some?"
"No thanks." Leaf's muffled voice came through her hair.
"Okay." Sam shrugged, dropping her bag back on the floor. She started eating.
"Okay, so we're looking out for that guy, right?" Dawn said, a few minutes late. She looked the other three girls square in the eye. Sam was oblivious. They nodded before she noticed anything was up.
"And…break!" Dawn called as the bell rang. The girls went off in pursuit of Drew Hayden. The glitch in the system.
Misty scanned and scanned all during History class. She couldn't get a good reading on anyone because she was so tried from Trig the period before. She didn't even know there was a Raven-haired boy sitting behind her, smiling cheerily at the back of her head, thinking who knows what.
Dawn was determined to find something. And when Dawn had a mission...watch out. She read each and everyone one of the boys minds that she passed.
I wish I could punch Sho.
Harley can go to Hell.
I'm going to ask Courtney out. I'm going to ask Courtney out.
Oh, hot chic, hot chic, hot chic, oh, ew. God, that is just wrong.
Dawn was trying to figure out who the boy was thinking about, so she could judge if he was right – which would have been a very mean thing to do – when her books flew out of her hands. She dropped to her knees to pick them up when someone's foot hit her square in the stomach and they went flying over her. It was kind of a catastrophe.
"Oh, my Mew, I'm so sorry!" Dawn cried, standing up and rushing over to help the purple-haired giant up.
"You shouldn't stop in the middle of the hallway, Troublesome." The boy helped himself up.
Dawn's blood boiled, "You should watch where you're going!"
"You're annoying." The boy said flatly, as if this was the total of what Dawn was. She felt like he had already made up his mind about her. Dawn hated when people did that, because they did it a lot. "Goodbye, Troublesome."
Dawn watched him walk away, steaming. It was only when he was too far away did Dawn realized she forgot to read his mind.
May felt like a stalker. She'd been focusing on Drew Hayden's mind all through gym class. Yet to no avail. She didn't get anything. And she'd tried sending him into an illusion, but she was pretty sure it didn't work.
That was weird. She was liking this Drew Hayden less and less by the second.
Leaf loved English class. It wasn't ever that emotional and she loved to write. Even though her 'talent' was business. This reminded her! 'Talents' was next period! 'Talents' was the only class all four girls had together! Leaf's sudden excitement got the whole class buzzing.
She hated when she did that. Sometimes she subconsciously passed her emotions to everyone else. Especially when they were strong emotions.
Leaf calmed everyone down and sighed. She tried to focus on the minds of the boy in the first row. She had been trying to do that all class, take readings on each and every individual boy, but she kept getting distracted. By the time class ended, Leaf hadn't even gotten halfway done. She didn't even notice the boy in the far back corner, whose eyes never left her face.
Leaf braced herself for the hectic hallway, and ran to Talents. She so needed her friends.
Misty was already in class. That was so like her. Leaf was grateful she didn't have to look like a loner, though, and quickly grabbed the seat next to her.
"Hey." Misty sighed, "Anything?"
"Nope. I tried, but I couldn't get anywhere!"
"Me neither." Misty rubbed her neck, "This is harder than I thought!"
Dawn walker in with her shoulders slumped and May on her end tails.
"Hey guys," Dawn sighed, "Any good news?"
"We have a class together!" Misty kept rubbing her neck.
"It's the end of the day!" May perked.
"We have talents?" Leaf tried.
"I meant about situation BWMWCR!"
"That's much too long a name." Misty stated, "Who about Situation BOYS?"
"What did BWMWCR mean, anyway?" May looked confused.*
"Seriously, May?" Dawn looked down at her, irritated.
"What?" May backpedaled. She then became defensive, "It's a legit question."
"It doesn't matter." Leaf mediated the fight. She rubbed her head. She was really tired, and wasn't in the mood to hear May and Dawn fight. She really just wanted class to be over with. And it hadn't even started yet.
"Okay class!" Cynthia, their teacher and a talented Pokémon trainer, walked in "Pay attention!"
Everyone in the class instantly shut up. Leaf had a feeling Cynthia was one of those teachers. The awesome ones who could make a class shut up just by talking.
"We're going to start with the basics. You all have talents. You are all very young. Yet these talents are very prominent. You know what you're good at and you know how to do it well.
"Or so you think. For your first assignment, I want you to write Five Rules." Cynthia stopped to write the words 'FIVE RULES' on the board, "Of your trade. Due tomorrow. Begin."
Leaf was feeling a tingling in the back of her neck. She turned around to see four really cute guys staring at the girls with confused looks on their faces.
What the hell? Leaf wondered why she hadn't noticed these boys before.
She focused on their thoughts, and got…nothing? Absolutely nothing. She tried to get their feelings. She got three gauges of bored. Just three?
The purple haired one was annoyed and bored. The green-haired one – Drew, right? – was just bored, and the raven-haired one was cheerful and bored. It was the auburn haired one, then. The one she couldn't even get emotions on.
Leaf turned to her friends and whispered quickly, "They guys in the back? Got anything?"
Dawn paused for a moment, cocking her head to the side and then turning to look at the boys casually, "Nothing. And I can't see the purple-haired one's aura!" She whispered when she was finished with her inspection.
Misty frowned. "Nada. Nothing. Sorry."
May glowered at Drew from her seat, but then turned back to the girls, "Nothing."
Leaf sighed, "I guess we found our glitches…"
The girls, watching Cynthia walk past, quickly stopped talking and got back to work. Leaf let her eyes stray back to see the auburn haired one's staring at her back with a meaningful gaze. Upon further inspection, Leaf decided he was really cute. His eyes were a chocolate brown and his auburn hair was artfully styled. He was lean and muscular and obviously a heartthrob. Leaf could tell by the way he leaned on the desk. He caught her staring and smiled back at her.
Leaf knew this game, she'd played it before. While other girls might have blushed and stammered and turned away, Leaf met his gaze confidently and smiled flirtatiously back.
There was something about that boy that intrigued her. Maybe it was the mystery, because he was so…unreadable.
And Leaf liked a challenge.
She winked at him, before turning around and writing her Five Rules.
"This is IMPOSSIBLE!" Leaf yelled from the couch. She was staring at a blank sheet of paper. Well, it wasn't blank. It read: The Five Rules of Business by Leaf Green at the top in Leaf's legible, neat printing, and it had numbers one through five written neatly down the side, but that was it. Nothing substantial.
"Poor Leafy." Misty said in mock pity, "Because the rest of ours are going so well."
"Hey!" Leaf perked up in her seat, "I have an idea!"
"What kind of an idea?" Dawn said warily. She was slumped over the counter, her Five Rules halfway done.
"What if we wrote our own Five Rules?" Leaf got up and walked over to the kitchen.
"Like, rules of friendship or something?" Misty rolled her eyes.
"No, for Psychics!" Leaf swatted at Misty.
"Yeah!" Dawn smiled brightly, "Like, Rules to live by, or something!"
"The Five Rules of Being Psychic." May said. She had been sitting quietly on the stairs, "We could call it the Five Rules of Being Psychic."
"I like that!" Dawn cheered, "I'll get paper and we can get started!" She ran off to get a sheet of paper.
"Really?" Misty rolled her eyes again, "I can't believe we're doing this."
"Oh, shut up, Mist. It's gonna be fun!" Dawn called from the hallway.
"Yeah, sure. Fun." Misty shook her head.
"Here we go!" Dawn help up an important-looking sheet of paper. On the top, she had written:
The Five Rules of Being Psychic
By: Dawn Berlitz
"Now you have to sign your names." Dawn passed the paper around. Leaf signed, then May, and then – reluctantly – Misty.
"Now," Leaf looked at the sheet of paper, "Rules."
It was – for once – silent in the large house. The Five Rules of Being Psychic were coming out like Leaf's Five Rules of Business. Blank.
"Maybe," May said quietly, "It's not like a right-now thing. Maybe it should be...like, as we live life kind of thing."
"I like that!" Dawn bubbled, "That's a good idea, since it is rules to live by!" She tacked The Five Rules of Being Psychic on the fridge and smiled at it.
"At least now we have a project." May smiled.
"Yeah," Leaf agreed, "Now we have rules to live by."
"Hi, I'm Gary." The auburn haired boy whose mind Leaf couldn't read slid onto her desk. She was trying to finish her paragraph for English before the bell rang, but it looked as if that wasn't going to happen.
"Hi." Leaf smiled, "I'm Leaf. We have-"
"Talents. We have Talents together." He cut her off, still smiling.
"Right." Leaf agreed. She was just slightly annoyed that he had cut her off.
"So I was wondering…on Saturday, do you want to go out?"
Maybe it was the fact that she couldn't read his mind or his emotions, or maybe she just thought he was cute. But for some reason, Leaf opened up her mouth and spilled out the words: "Yeah, sure. It's a date."
YAY! END OF CHAPTER TWOOOO! 3 That sure was fun! Make sure to review! Because I love you guys! Review! Review! Review! Review! *tries to use mind control* Review!
Okay! Make sure to stay in tune for the next chapter:
Chapter Three: Crushed!
The girls get paired up with no one less than the boys to correct their Five Rules.
IN THE B-STORY:
Misty and Ash start to get along...:D (yes, Pokeshipping, guys!)
Alright, that's it! Just reivew! I love you guys!
Love forever and always,
Malibu :D