"So…Uh…What exactly is going on?"

Poor guy. He was sitting in the Professor's Lab, just confused. His brother seemed excited, kicking his feet at the couch he was sitting on. Ayden stood beside the two of them, her arms crossed and waiting. Not impatiently but…just bored.

"You know you're getting a Pokémon, why worry about the details?" Ayden didn't feel the need for explaining anything. Nothing important he really needed to know.

The boy looked down at the ground for a moment. "Uh…I suppose you're right." He felt a little tense, and Ayden certainly wasn't making it any better.

"Stay here a sec, kay?" Camilie said, retreating to another room for whatever reason. Moments later the Professor returned with two bags. She handed one to Ayden and one to the boy. She smiled brightly.

"Here you go! Your Pokémon, along with 5 Pokéballs, a Pokédex, a Pokénav, and a map of the region!" She said joyfully. It wasn't every day she got to give out Pokémon to new trainers, certainly. She was happy she got to make an extra person happy especially.

Ayden paused for a moment, looking at the bag. "Are you sure Nidoran is in this one?" She always wondered how Trainers could tell. Prof. Camilie merely nodded, and Ayden grabbed the bag and thanked her. Although…she still wasn't very sure.

The boy stared at the bag his was given. "…What Pokémon did I get, anyway?" He wasn't sure of the situation, but he was sure he was getting a Pokémon. Which one though?

Camilie smiled and put her finger to her lip. "You'll find out later. Good luck on your new journey, trainers! Let's hope you meet lots of new Pokémon and make friends along the way, and fulfill your dreams!" Ah, the grand goodbye speech. How she loved to say it.

Ayden nodded, just going along with it, and headed out the door. The male trainer followed behind, with his younger brother by his side. Once they headed out the door, the boy felt it necessary to say something to her.

"Hey…" He managed to call out, hoping that she heard him. His brother, Sammy, looked up curiously at him.

Ayden turned his head to him, wondering if that was directed to her. "Yeah?" She replied, rather quietly, just in case it wasn't for her.

"So, one way or another we're both trainers today, right? That means we share something in common. My name's Alex." He thought the start to a journey is the best time to try to make a friend.

Even if she seemed to have a bit of an…attitude.

With this, Ayden turned around completely. Ayden felt the same way, though maybe a few words could be changed around. "Uh, hey, I'm Ayden." She nodded to him, not really knowing what else to say.

It seemed Alex was quite unsure of what to do as well, so he just stood there for a moment. "I gotta go get ready for this journey now, as it seems. But I hope I can see you later on somewhere along the way." He nodded, and took his brother and walked off.

Ayden stood there a bit, watching them walk off, then bringing her eyes to the bag in her hand. 'Maybe I should…Pack up?' She already had her green messenger bag with her, no use carrying another.

She walked over to a tall tree beside the Lab, and sat under it so she was nice in the shade. She dumped the contents out of the bag the Professor gave her and examined them a bit.

Yep, every thing she said would be in there is there. Well, it looked that way at least. She wasn't exactly sure what half of the things she said were, though she'd never admit that.

She looked at the 6 Pokéballs that fell from the bag in front of her, her face expressing puzzlement. 'Uh, okay…which one has the Pokémon in it?' She honestly wasn't sure. So, one by one she picked up a Pokéball and called out the Nidoran. It emerged from the third ball and Ayden sighed.

She reached into her back pocket, pulling out a sheet of stickers, which had different shapes in various colors. "Well…good thing I had these then." A young girl, a granddaughter of her grandma's friend, who had maybe 5 sheets of stickers once offered them to her, and she didn't want to seem entirely mean so she just took it. Good decision.

She peeled out a purple star and stuck it on the Pokéball she had released her Nidoran from. Petting the Pokémon beside her, she put the leftover Pokéballs in her right side pocket, and the rest of the things she got from the professor in her bag. She got up, took a stretch, and then stared down at her Pokémon.

Time to start a friendship with what seemed to be the most important friend to make: her first Pokémon. "So…haven't really gotten to know you yet. Wanna take a walk?" The Nidoran nodded with a smile and Ayden started taking a quiet stroll.

Not too long into the walk and Ayden's home was only shortly back in her sight. Nidoran ran behind her, trying to keep up even though she was merely walking.

Once Ayden was almost positive that the homes were in that little dinosaur's sight, she pointed loosely to her home and looked to her Nidoran. "That's my house. Wanna meet my family?" The Nidoran happily agreed and off they went. Ayden walked a bit slowly so her Pokémon could follow easily, not particularly in the mood to carry him.

Ayden, eventually, made it to the front door of her house. She grabbed a key chain from one of her pockets, picked out a silver key with three holes in it, and unlocked the door with it. She peeked inside, but no one was near the front door.

She opened the door wider, and brought her whole body inside. Her Nidoran slowly walked in and examined what parts of the home he could see. "You guys here?" She called out, loud enough so it could hopefully be heard throughout her home.

They weren't there when she was leaving; they might not be there now. And…they weren't. She didn't get a response, just silence. Ayden called out again, waiting a bit more then before. She then shrugged to her Nidoran.

"I don't think they're here. Come on, they might be at the marketplace." If not, where else could they be? Probably just needed to get some grocery shopping out of the way or something.

Nidoran seemed to understand, replying with that never-gets-old "Nii." And off she goes, her Pokémon following close behind as she heads towards the town square.

Little did she realize she was about to live one of the most embarrassing parts of her life.