This is so late, I am so sorry. Really. Please accept my deepest apologies, it took me so long to brain storm for this.

DISCLAIMER: ButterflyWave DOES NOT OWN POKEMON!


"Welcome back girls!" Arista fake-grinned as she opened the door for the six girls who ditched her. "Thanks for leaving me behind." she said sarcastically with venom dripping down from every word.

Jean smiled innocently, walking past the redhead to sit on the kitchen counter. "It was our pleasure, princess." the younger girl said as she twirled a stand off her curls.

"Anyway, when you guys were out, a Pidgey dropped by and gave me a letter from the RPG." she held out a white letter between her middle finger and her pointer. The elegant white letter had an orange daisy as a seal, showing that the letter was from Roxanne, the woman who had saved and mentored them for so many years.

"Well? What are you waiting for?" Dawn squealed, trying to get the letter from the older girl.

"Well, I was waiting for you." she opened the letter gently and read it out to the other girls. "Dear girls, I have received word from the Draryuco kingdom and it turns out that everything has been straightened out. The dragon-type gym leaders have agreed peacefully with the kingdom so everything there has gotten beautifully, Princess Irises Von Haydreek, you may return home anytime."

Iris squealed in delight and grabbed on to the daisy-scented letter and took over from there. "Not only that," the youngest girl's voice became super preppy and cheerful. "Prince Maximus Masato Von Capugo will transfer to Pokemon Trainers Academy very soon."

Now May and Leaf squealed and fought to grab a hold of the letter, Leaf ended up being victorious. "I expect you girls to visit the RPG soon and come help the new royals in trouble. I bid you farewell for now. Sign, Roxanne Alevander." Leaf's younger sister looked over form her shoulder and read the bottom part.

"P.S." May read. "Burn this letter and take off the band on Pidgey's right leg when you're through."

Jean smirked as she took the delicate letter from Leaf's grip and tossed it over to her—already released—blue-flamed Ponyta. Arista had ripped the band open and tossed it to the direction of Jean's Ponyta so he could stomp it.

Arista's Umbreon purred against the golden-eyed girl's leg, wanting attention. "Come here, you spoilt one." Arista took the dark-type eeveelution in her arms, hugging him affectionately. "Sorry Arista, Dawn, Misty. Nothing for you guys." Jean looked sadly at the three other girls.

"It's fine." Dawn nodded slowly. "Yeah," Misty agreed with a careless yet stiff shrug. "No biggie." Arista flashed an obviously fake grin in agreement to the two other girls. "But I'm glad for you guys!"

"Should we make room for Maximus?" Dawn asked, dropping the subject just so they could escape the tense and sad atmosphere. "Well, Roxanne didn't say anything about a new room." Jean shrugged.

"Do we even have room left?" Iris giggled. "Nope." Arista replied, popping the 'p' sound.

"I guess we'll have to leave it to Roxanne for a place for Maximus." Leaf shrugged.

"I don't know about you guys, but I had a long day and I'm pretty damn tired." Misty yawned and stretched out her hands to prove her point. "Ditto. I'm going to bed." May agreed. "Good night girls." Leaf said before going to her room, the others following in suite.


Alex looked up to his pale yellow ceiling. He isn't much of a fan of the bright color but if Arista could handle it, he could too. He couldn't help but care less about skipping dinner, all he could think about was his confession. 'Too bold?' He thought. 'Argh, this is so hard!'

He sighed loudly and ended up being in front of his turquoise laptop, chatting with his best friends.

Al-ness2512: alo, my brothers, my buddies, my pals!
GreenRose: what.
Paul1: what.
Ketchup-Trainer09: hi guys!
King_Gary: sup?
Clearly_Kenny: heyyo!
Al-ness2512: I did it.
King_Gary: did what?
Al-ness2512: I confessed.
Clearly_Kenny: hats off to you, bro.
GreenRose: what did she say?
Al-ness2512: she said 'give me some time to think'
Al-ness2512: ARGH! Why is it so hard?
Paul1: patience.
Ketchup-Trainer09: hang in there Al.
Clearly_Kenny: she'll say yes. I'm sure.
King_Gary: yea, what Kenny said.
King_Gary: thanks for stealing my advice, Kenny.
Clearly_Kenny: anytime Gary.
Al-ness2512: thanks bros. I'm gonna go sleep now.
GreenRose: sure, and don't think about it too much.
Al-ness2512: thanks Drew.
Al-ness2512: night bros.
[Al-ness2512 has signed off]

Alex walked to his desk to put his laptop in place, stopping just to see a picture of him and Arista when they were in the start of middle school. Arista was giving him a kiss on the cheek.

"I love you, Arista." He said before falling asleep on his soft king sized bed.


Drew smirked at his best friends. He knew this was going to happen sooner or later. He knew that Arista will accept too. Putting the thought of her 20 rejects aside, the redhead always had a soft spot for Alex.

"Rose?" Drew's faithful Roserade called to its master. "Oh, hey Roserade. You should go get some rest." Drew said to his grass-type. "Rade." Roserade nodded her head and went over to the entrance beside Drew's bed to be with Drew's other pokemon.


May laid her chin on the palm of her hand. She couldn't sleep so she decided to look out the window, for once. Though she got bored not long after that.

"May, are you awake?" A knock on the door interrupted her trail of thoughts. "May?" Faintly but surely, Arista's voice sounded a little troubled from the other side of the door. May opened the door for the older girl and let her in. "What's wrong, Arista?"

Arista sat on May's red bed and proceeded to hug on of May's white pillows. "You see, Maybelle," May knew this wasn't going to be easy; whenever the girls used each others' real name it was never easy. "Alex confessed and I don't know what to do."

"Well, Roxanne always said that if you can't choose, close your eyes and imagine it. The answer will come to you." May replied, recalling the advice that their guardian had told her.

Arista smiled a bit at her and proceeded to close her eyes.

Like

That was all Arista could think about. Alex had told her he loves her but all she could think of was like is it enough though?

"Like." She said out loud. "I like him." Arista concluded with a proud gleam in her eyes. That's one thing solved. 'Just a little time. A little time and I might fall in love with him' Arista thought as she hugged May. "Can I sleep here?" May grinned then nodded in approval. "Sure."

"Thanks May." Arista grinned before the two coordinators went to sleep.


"What's cooking?" Misty grinned a crocked grinned as she walked in the kitchen, sitting on the tall chair in the kitchen counter. "Since I'm really just that lazy, eggs and bacon." Arista replied not turning her head away from the stove. "Oh, what an amazing choice! Way better than yesterday's omelette rice!" Misty rolled her cerulean eyes.

Finally, after a good five minutes, Arista placed one egg and two strips of bacon on six plates; one plate has three eggs and five strips of bacon.

"I'm gonna go get the girls, care to help?" Arista draped her yellow apron on one of the hangers next to the other girls' aprons before extending a hand to Misty for her to take, which she did. "Of course. Rock-paper-scisors?" Misty asked. Arista nodded in response and let go of Misty's hand to play the game to seal their fate.

In the count of three, Misty had her hand in a fist meanwhile Arista's fingers were spread apart. "HAH! TAKE THAT MISTY!" Arista exclaimed in triumph, happy that she won't be the one waking up May, one of the two girls—including herself—that are impossible to wake up. "DAMN IT!" Misty exclaimed back in frustration, her hand still balled up in a fist.

Arista skipped up the stairs to wake up Leaf, Dawn, and probably Jean and Iris meanwhile Misty dragged her feet up the stairs to face her dreaded fate; waking May up. Somehow.

Misty turned left on the second floor to the corridor that led the way to May, Jean, Iris, and her own room. Misty pushed the door hard, making it hit the wall with a loud 'thump' and walked over to the red bed in the center of the room. "Up." She kicked the side of the brunette's bed, making the bed shake but it didn't wake the brunette up.

She jumped in the bed and started to tickle her sides. A few minutes passed and all she got was a giggle and a groan.

Her next trick, she grabbed hold of one of her pokeballs that contained her Azuril and released her. "Use water gun on May!" She ordered.

It was successful. Oh, how successful it was. May woke up, soaked to the bone, and a little pissed off. "MISTY!" She yelled out, trying to catch the older girl with no such luck, Misty had ran away to wake Jean up.

Misty knocked on the door that had a small bored with pictures of Jean and her pokemon, Jean and the girls, and many other memories they shared together however, not including ones from the RPG.

"I'm up! I'll be out in a second!" Jean's voice was heard from the other side of the door. Misty shrugged it off then walked again to Iris' room; Misty didn't bother knocking on the youngest girl's room so she just barged in and headed for the balcony to find Iris on a tree, relaxing. "Iris, let's go." Misty beckoned Iris to follow her downstairs to eat breakfast to which Iris happily followed.

The seven girls finished their breakfast and preparations before walking to school—well, Dawn skipped—peacefully while humming a song in harmony, Iris' being the most cheerful.

When they got to school, they went to their respective lockers and homerooms to start the sunny day. When lunch came along Arista went looking for Alex meanwhile the other girls ate.

"What do you think Arista will say?" Dawn asked the other girls in a low voice so none of the others were able to hear except the girls. The remaining five girls looked thoughtful at first but smiled knowingly at the end. "She will say whatever comes to mind." Leaf concluded, which the other girls nodded to. "Besides, that's what our Arista is like." Jean shrugged and took a bite of her lasagna.

Dawn giggled and nodded. "That's too true!" the blunette exclaimed.


"So, what's up, 'Rista?" Alex leaned at the lockers, acting all cool even though he's freaking out on the inside. Arista mentally scoffed at the nickname but kept a serious facade. The two stayed silent, Alex was just waiting for the reason why Arista called him out and Arista was hesitating on whether of not do what she intended to. She did anyway; she walked up to him and hugged him.

"I... accept." Arista murmured at his chest, Alex instantly felt light hearted. He became so giddy. Alex let out the breath he didn't even realize he was holding in. "Thank you." Alex hugged back and kissed the top of her head gently.

Arista smiled and Alex happily mirrored her actions before walking hand-in-hand to the cafeteria to tell the others about the good news. When the two announced it to their friends—the girls first—they squealed with joy, at least Dawn did, the others congratulated the two and so did the boys. One of Alex's friends, namely the playboy Gary Oak couldn't believe it at first, considering that the most straight-forward guy in the group of friends who didn't seem to care about females got a girl friend before he did but congratulated the new couple anyways.

"All's well, it ends well, huh, Drew?" May said to the emerald eyed boy beside her who smirked and nodded in return. "Yeah." He agreed.


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