Moments Of Yesterday – Part 4: She's a Complex Puzzle by Cerulean Leader
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon.
A/N: Hey, readers! Sorry it took me so long to update this story. I didn't know how to finish off this chapter, but here you go. I know it's so short but I was on a roll today, this is the third story I've updated today! :D
This scene takes place a few weeks after Scene 2.
I hope you enjoy and don't forget to review. :)
"Okay, Leaf, repeat after me." Gary said as him and said girl sat in the Tutoring Centre. "Mon nom est Gary. Except use your name at the end instead of mine."
She blinked in confusion, obviously not understanding what he said. "M-mom nome east…?"
Gary chuckled softly, shaking his head. "No, mon nom est. It means 'my name is'. I thought you'd know a little bit of this. Aren't one of your best friends French?"
"Yeah, Misty is." she answered, tucking her bangs behind her ear. "But she doesn't usually speak it in front of us because we don't understand, even though she speaks it fluently."
He nodded in understanding. "Uhuh… "
"You know, Gary, you're actually not that bad without your friends." Leaf said randomly, looking at him with her bubbly green eyes. "I mean, you act really different when it's just you."
"Really? I haven't really noticed."
"Mmhmm." She murmured back, turning back to her textbook and picking up her pencil. "So, what does this mean?" she asked, pointing at a sentence in the book.
The other teenager looked to where she was pointing. "That means…" he paused for a moment before raising his eyebrows, shaking his head and turning the page. "We're not up to that during class yet."
"But I might be." She replied, reaching over and turning the page back. "Do you know what it means?"
He glared at her before putting the page back to the other one. "No, Green, now quit it. If you want to pass French this semester, then let me teach you and shut up." Gary said angrily while Leaf poked her tongue out at him childishly, folding her arms and leaning back against her chair.
Gary glanced at her for a moment before shaking his head again in amusement, staring down at the words on the page, as he put a pencil down on top of Leaf's notebook. Her eyebrows creased into a frown, eyes glaring at the paper as she picked up the pencil and started to write hurriedly in messy writing.
He frowned as well, looking over her shoulder.
"You're not spelling half the words right."
She turned her head to glare at him, pushing him away. "Okay, you can correct it for me later. Can I finish writing now?" she asked coolly, turning back to the book as she used an eraser to rub out the sentence she was writing out, brushing away the mess that was left as she copied the font carefully from the book onto her paper, more neatly this time.
He glanced down at it and smiled. "You finally got it, Leafy. I thought it would take you longer than that." He said arrogantly, putting his feet on the table and leaning back on his chair.
"Shut up, Oak. I didn't even ask for you to be my tutor. I would've been perfectly happy with Misty tutoring me but she had to go ahead and join the swimming and track team."
"Y'know, any other girl at school would kill to be in your position." He pointed out cockily, his trademark smirk on his face. It seemed that he liked to make her angry.
"I'm not your ordinary girl here at this school, am I?" she retorted angrily, slamming the pencil down and looking at him, her long, brown hair covering half her face while her green eyes stared at him in annoyance.
"You're right there, Green. You're even harder to crack. But that's what makes you so interesting."
She let out a growl, standing up and pushing the chair to the ground. "I've had enough for today." She said, trying to calm herself down while she packed up her stuff and shut her French textbook. "I need to get home. Goodbye, Gary."
She picked up the chair and stormed out of the Tutoring Centre door, leaving Gary there in his chair in thought.
'She's a tough one…'
A/N: Shorter than I was hoping, but it's definitely an improvement of what the original chapter was, haha. :3
Word count: 655
I hope you liked it, and please review!
Sorry for taking so long and I hope you'll be patient for the next chapter. School just started back up again on Friday and… yeah. Year 10 is gonna be a hard year.
~CL
