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Chapter 3 Yay! This Chapter has a lot of things in it and has a Ferris wheel episode! But seriously though I don't know how many chapters there will be. It can stop here or at the next chapter it depends on how many people read it. Anyways enjoy reading it and review if you like it.

Chapter 3: Reading between the lines

Sunday morning. Touko was sitting on a bench with half asleep eyes. "Why do I have to do this? I could be sleeping in my comfy bed right now but someone had to ruin it." She sighed and looked to the floor, remembering how she ended up here.

*-*-* Yesterday at dinner at the Summers Mansion *-*-*

They were all together eating at the table and tonight's dish was… fish. "Not again! How I hate this!" Touko looked at the plate in front of her. The fish had still its eyes wide open and the more Touko looked at it, the more she feared that the fish would suddenly jump out of her plate. Next to her sitting was Touya. He was excitedly eating his fish and constantly saying how much he loved it.

"So that's why…" Touko finally understood why he was doing everything to oblige her mother to cook fish for dinner. He wanted to irritate her.

"You did it on purpose didn't you?" she tried to whisper but it came loudly on the table. "What are you talking about dear sister? He looked at her innocently. "Don't try to talk your way out of it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's right in your plate." she hissed at him.

"And here they go again." Touko's mother said followed with a heavy sigh. Touko started to argue with Touya and their parents looked at each other. Touko's mother nodded to Touya's father.

"Ok kids calm down. Touko's mother and I had a great idea." The two teen stopped arguing and looked at Touya's father. "You two know that we are going to be a family soon so we had the idea that we could spend a day together in the amusement park in Nimbasa City! It will help us to understand each other better." "But I can't go because I have to run some errands to it will be just the three of you." Touko's mother apologized.

*-*-* Today at Nimbasa City *-*-*

Touko had tried to convince her mother to let her stay home but her mother was merciless and had to push Touko out of the door to force her to leave.

As she was looking to the ground, she saw another shadow across hers. "What are you spacing out for dear sister or should I say big head?" Touya laughed. Touko rose up from the bench and narrowed her eyes. "Would you stop calling me with these stupid names?" "What would you like me to call you then? Darling perhaps?" He showed his devilish smile.

They were starting to argue again when finally Touya's father came with the tickets. "Kids I hope to spend a wonderful day with you." "Yeah the wonderful moment for me will be when we get home!" Touko thought angrily following the two men into the park.

Each year they had upgraded the park so that it could be more enjoyable to the citizens. The roller coaster in the Gym was replaced by simple stairs that went up and down. Why did they replace it? Well because apparently a lot of Pokémon trainers were sick or collapsed due to the rides before they could reach the Gym leader. In the end they made a bigger rollercoaster in the amusement park. Now there were tons of other attractions too.

"So, where do you guys want to go first?" Touya's father asked. The teens shrugged. This was Touko's first time coming into the new built amusement park even though she tried the Ferris wheel quite often with a blue haired trainer who would always scream he would die every time they reached the top. She always got bruises from fingernails because he held onto her arm all the time.

Noticing the perplexed faces of the teens Touya's father suggested, "Why don't you try the haunted house? It's the nearest attraction!" They walked towards the attraction but suddenly Touya's father stopped. "This is as far as I'll go." He smiled to Touko who wore a stunned expression on her face. "But why? I don't want to go with him alone!" "Who knows what he might do to me in the dark?" Bad thoughts started bouncing in her head. "No you absolutely have to come!" Touko begged.

Touko's father just smiled innocently. "I'm sure this will help your relationship get better. Anyways I'll wait at the end, so have fun!" He walked away leaving an open mouthed Touko behind.

"Wait here I'll go get the tickets and then let's go and meet the darkness!" He send her a last devilish grin and went at the end of the queue to the ticket booth.

Touko stood frozen but soon a voice called her name and broke the ice. Touko turned and saw her two childhood friends.

"Bianca! Cheren. Are you on a date?" Touko approached them. "Of course, we wouldn't miss this beautiful sunny day without a date would we?" Bianca said before kissing Cheren on the cheek. He blushed and then looked around Touko. "Are you alone here?"

"Oh no, I'm with my soon to be stepfather and *cough* brother *cough*." "Hmm someone here doesn't like her soon to be brother." Bianca poked Touko's cheek. "If you only knew him. He's the devil in person." Touko crossed her arms. "What's his name? " Bianca asked cheerfully. "Touya."

Bianca widened her eyes. "What's with that look?" Touko turned to Cheren. "Don't ask me. I don't know him." Soon Bianca snapped out of it and replied. "Say, Touya as in Touya Summers?" Touko nodded. Bianca's eyes widened even more now. "Spit it out Bianca! Did he break out of jail or something like that? Surely I wouldn't be too surprised if he had done it."

"You never heard of him? They call him: Devilish Lover!" Bianca exclaimed. "Devilish Lover?" Touko repeated. "He? Why would they call him that? Oh wait I got my idea. It's surely because of his flirty nature isn't it?"

"Every woman has heard of him at least once in her lifetime. Every second woman has already gone out with him due to his handsomeness. They call him "Devilish Lover" because he has the famous "devilish smile" who let's every girl fall for him every time they meet it." Bianca held her fingers together and made a heart shape with them. Cheren looked at her suspiciously. "You aren't interested in him are you? " Bianca looked at him and poked his cheek. "Of course not! You're the only one!"

"And of they are to their love-love world." Touko sighed. "But still the "Devilish smile?" Touko laughed quietly. "Impossible, the devilish smile he gives me is a whole different one right? Euhm right…?"

Suddenly Touya called her and showed her the tickets from the distance. "Sorry guys, I have to go." Touko was starting to leave when Bianca grasped her arm. "Hey bring him with you at the shopping mall tomorrow. You're still going right?" "Of course I am but why should I bring that devil with me?" Touko asked irritated. "Just bring him and you'll see." Bianca winked at her before returning with Cheren to their date. "This is really weird. What is she planning?" Touko ran towards Touya who was still waiting for her at the entrance of the attraction.

Touko finally reached him out of breath. "Finally you're here. Who were those guys anyway?" Touko noticed a little irritation in his voice. "Well you know, I do have friends if you haven't noticed." She crossed her arms but Touya just laughed and turned his back. "I never said the opposite." These were those kinds of conversations who didn't go anywhere and just let Touko more confused. We could say that it was one of Touya's strategies to let her get irritated.

They walked in and complete darkness surrounded them. There were still dim light glows from the spotlights but Touko felt uneasy. "Whoa it's really dark in here." Her voice trembled a little but Touya still noticed it. "I didn't know you were afraid of the dark." Even though Touko couldn't see him she knew that he had put on his "famous" devilish grin.

"I'm more afraid of what you might do than the darkness in here!" She thought fearfully.

They were moving on slowly when suddenly something grabbed at Touya's shirt and he was the one who let out a scream. "What the hell is tugging at my shirt?" "Calm down it's me!" Touko exclaimed and at the same time tried to muffle her laughter. He looked at her quietly. "Why are you tugging at my shirt?" "Because I don't want to be lost in here. By the way, I thought you were the brave on here."

Touko laughed harder unable to muffle her laughter any longer. Touya let out a "whatever" and continued walking but it was clear that Touko won this time. As they walked a little further a paper ghost suddenly appeared. Touko screamed and ran away scarred by the sudden emergence of the fake ghost. "Touko wait!" Touya shouted after her but his voice didn't reach her. "Who's the coward now? Anyways I'll deal with that after I find her."

Touko wandered around trying to avoid the more "ghosts" possible and finally reached the end of the attraction. Arrived into the fresh air she let her fall to her knees and sighed. "Finally I got out. Oh, that's right where's Touya's dad? He said he'll wait at the end." She looked around trying to spot someone she recognized and ignored the fact that a searching Touya was still in there. "Green hair?" She saw a man with green hair in the distance and without thinking any longer ran towards it.

"N-"She was about to grab his arm when the person turned. "Could I help you?" The person was indeed a man but not the one she thought it would be. She apologized and returned to the attraction feeling slightly disappointed. "Of course, it just couldn't be him."

After a few minutes Touya's father came and after another few minutes came a pissed Touya out of the attraction. He scolded loudly at Touko who ignored him. Touya's father tried to calm the quarrel suggesting that it would be a great idea to eat something.

They sat at a table on a balcony of the "Poké Café". Touko and Touya both ordered ice cream and Touya's father a simple coffee.

Touya suddenly got up. "I have to go to the restroom. I'll come back." "I'll appreciate it if you would never came back." Touko said without looking at him. Touya smiled at the statement and counterattacked. "Just be careful not to gain any more weight with all that ice cream. That's your second one right?" He shot her a mean glance. Touko opened her mouth to answer to his provocation but Touya's father stopped her by touching her arm gently.

After Touya was out of sight his father began to speak. "Touko could I ask two little favors of you?" Touko looked up at him and nodded. "First one, could you call me daddy?" Touko choked on her ice cream. "No way." She answered him coldly and he just laughed. "Haha, a little joke before we become serious." Upon hearing the word serious she looked up at him again and noticed the serious expression on his face.

"What do you think of Touya?" "Can I be honest?" "Yes go on." Touko hesitated a little while then blurted out. "I don't like him one bit. He's like the devil in person!" Touko looked the other way and waited for Touya's father to persuade her that Touya isn't so bad like her mother said to her before. Touya's father smiled and put a hand on her shoulder.

"I know why you might think that way but he wasn't always like that. He was a very kind and calm kid. One day his mother left us to pursue her own desires. After that Touya completely changed. He didn't want to see his mother again and threw all her photographs away.

"Photographs? Now I remember I didn't even see one of his mother hanging on the walls." Touko thought.

"What he thinks and says aren't always the same. Sometimes he says things he didn't even thought of saying. The truth is always hidden behind his words. Therefore you have to be able to read between his lines to understand what he really meant to say." Touya's father continued.

"When I asked him about his mother, he looked like he didn't want to answer. Do you know why?"

"Well, every time I asked him about his mother he would always ignore the question or change the topic. It seems like he doesn't like her and not only because she left us. That's why I'd like you to find out why he hates his mother so much." He sighed and looked at her with puppy eyes. "But I don't know why he would tell me the reason why he hates his mother. And anyway I don't like him so I don't think I'm the right person." Touko looked at the melting ice cream in her plate. It's true that he'd avoided the question about his mother back in the mansion when she first moved in and now the feeling of curiosity was making its way to her head.

"Touko, I wouldn't ask you if I wasn't sure you could do it. You experienced a similar pain as him at an equal age when you lost your father and I think you're the only one who could understand him right now. I tried so many times and didn't succeed. Please would you do me this favor?" Touko closed her eyes and remembered the day her father died in an accident. She was still young and didn't quite understand it back there and over the years she came to understand these feelings of losing someone. She was never alone but Touya… Were there even people who stood beside him and comforted him? Was this why he's different? Because he's all alone?

Touko slowly opened her eyes and nodded confidently to herself. "Ok, I'll do it but I don't know what the outcome will be and therefore I won't promise anything." "It'll be like a little challenge!" She smiled at Touya's father. He hugged her joyfully. "Ah, wait-. Can't breathe!" Soon after Touya came and they got out of the café.

"We've got time for one last ride kids! Where would you like to go?" Touya's father felt that the teens wouldn't respond this time either so he continued. "What about the Ferris wheel?"

Touko looked up and saw the Ferris wheel not too far from the place they stood. They walked towards it and when they arrived they were surprised that there was no queue in front of the ticket booth.

"Touya could you go and get the tickets? Just two would be enough." Touko looked at him with a disbelieving look while Touya went to get the tickets. Touya's father noticed it and leaned closer to whisper in her ear. "This will be a great occasion to ask him about his mother. I'm counting on you." Before she could object Touya returned with the tickets. He looked at Touko. "I'm going in." He turned and went to sit in the gondola.

Touko stopped and hesitated a moment. Touya's father sighed and then took Touko by the shoulders, catching her off guard, and pushed her into the gondola. "Wait-. What-. I-." She didn't have the time to finish her sentences as the door closed. "Have a nice ride!" He waved at them as they moved higher.

Touko sat down quietly and looked at Touya who was sitting across from her. "Do I really have to ask him now? No, he would probably just avoid it like last time." She kept thinking about what to do and Touya looked at her panicking face. "Are you so attracted to me that you start panicking?" His devilish grin appeared on his lips. She glared at him. "Who would like to be attracted to you?"

"You know there are a lot of girls who would love to be in your place."

"Yeah I heard of that they call you the Devilish Lover." Touya looked at her amazed that she now knew about his nickname.

"Hmm, I suppose that your friends told you about me? What was the girl's name?" "Bianca, why do you ask?" He placed a finger on his lips and looked up thinking. "No, she's not on my date-and-leave list."

"Date-and-leave list? You're really a jerk do you know that." Touko said angrily. "Oh, I wouldn't call myself a jerk. I'm more like a King to all women."

Touko froze at the word "King". Long ago she felt exactly the same way about it. Yes, that one time when she rode the Ferris wheel with N. He told her he was the King of Team Plasma and she felt hurt because she knew that one day she would have to fight against him. She never wanted to do it. One day she felt like giving all the Pokémon training up but the faces of her sad Pokémon gave her the courage to continue. She really believed that after she had won against him, they could get together and forget all that rivalry but he left without telling her to wait.

"Right he probably has someone else with him. He's never coming back again and I was so happy to see him again today and it wasn't even him. I'm pathetic. That's exactly what I am. He's…never…coming…back." She closed her eyes and felt a burning sensation in her eyes and the next thing she knew, she was crying.

Touya heard sobbing noises and looked at Touko who had buried her head in her hands and was crying softly. He could barely hear her whispering the words "I'm pathetic". "Whoa hey! Stop crying. Did I say something wrong? Wait what did I say exactly? Hey come on, I'm not good with these things. I always run away when a girl is crying." Touko continued crying.

Suddenly she felt someone tapping gently on her back. She let her hands fall and looked at Touya who was now sitting beside her, their knees touching and he tapping on her back, looking out the window. She wiped her tears and stared closer at Touya's face who still didn't notice that she stopped crying. His cheeks were painted with a faint blush "Is he actually embarrassed?"

She decided to speak first. "Why are you comforting me?" He looked at her and noticed that she stopped crying. "Wh-What? You stopped? I-I was just trying to keep the noise down and anyway don't think that what I did means anything." He carelessly walked to the opposite bench. "He's lying. He really meant to comfort me. So this is what's called reading between the lines?" She giggled to her thought. It's true he made her feel better all of a sudden. Maybe it's not too bad after all.

Touya slightly embarrassed felt like he was being mocked by the girl across from him. "Aside from having a big head you have quite a large back. Not very cute for a girl right?" He rose up his most beautiful devilish grin. Touko froze for a second then stood up abruptly and pointing a finger at Touya shouted: "You are the most conceited jerk I have ever seen!" At that moment the door opened for them to get out and Touko trampled away furiously.

"I take back everything good that ever crossed my mind about him!" Once more she failed to read between the lines. Will they ever get along?


Haha okay I agree that "Summers" is really a random family name but hey it suits him! Stay tuned for the next chapter!