Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any of the characters
My last two were a little more serious than the first so I'm going to try to make this one a little funnier for comic relief.
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Reason 5: How cute they are when they eat
(Franticshipping)
Now that things had calmed down a little after the tournament between the pokedex holders were over, Ruby decided to take Sapphire on a proper date. It was going to be perfect and Ruby spent the past week making sure of it. He was going to take her to the Pokéritz, the fanciest seafood restaurant around. He just hopes she could be proper for one night.
"Are you sure about this?" Red looked over his shoulder and eyed the blue cloth in his hands. The other guys were there to, to help Ruby plan his date. Green actually thought the 2 looked alike; both had dark hair and crimson eyes. Though Red's hair was spiky and Ruby wore a white hat.
"I wanted to make a dress like the one she had when we first met but this one's better. Blue is more her colour. A nice dark blue would match her eyes perfectly."
"No, not that, this is Sapphire you're taking out. Can you imagine Sapphire in a dress, eating at the fanciest restaurant in town? It's like me taking Yellow to wrestling match or Blue not meddling on your date."
Blue jumped out from behind the couch making everyone jump except for Green. "I do not meddle, I help discreetly."
"How did you get in here?" Gold started twitching.
"The back door was unlocked." She smiled innocently.
"And why were you hiding?"
"Well, if you knew I was here then you wouldn't talk as much as you had." She made it sound so natural and normal to be eavesdropping in other people's conversation. "So Red, when and where exactly is your picnic with Yellow?"
"Pesky Girl." Green muttered, taking her hand. "I'll take you out for some ice cream, save these guys from you."
"I want blueberry!" Blue cheered, forgetting about her plan to 'help' with Ruby's date.
When Red was sure Blue was gone, he turned back to the issue at hand. "I really think you should rethink taking Sapphire to the fish place. How will you get Sapphire into that dress?"
He grinned, "I have my ways."
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Sapphire didn't know how Ruby convinced her to wear the stupid dress. He had chased her around town until he caught her and charmed her into the dress. She stood in front in the mirror. At least he didn't go overboard with the bows and ribbons like she feared. The dress flowed to her ankle and had a modest neckline. A thick slash was tied around her waist. She twirled and it flared to life.
She didn't want to go to no fancy pants restaurant with fancy table cloth and too many spoons and forks. Maybe she should ask Platinum how to be all fancy and what not. Didn't Rub know her well enough now to know that this was a bad idea? He was always saying how she didn't understand his love for contest, but she wonder if he knew he didn't want to be the weakling she was.
What she did for love.
All doubt left her when Ruby picked her up later that evening. He handed her a blue rose and smiled at her. Maybe it wouldn't be as bad as she feared.
It was worst.
The first thing sapphire did was laughed. The waiter had the funniest moustache, that twitch when she asked if he's shoes were too tight. It was a serious question; he looked as if in pain, she wasn't trying to be rude. Everyone there was so touchy and judgementally, they stared at her when she passed.
She almost laughed out loud when Ruby pulled out a chair for her. She took one look at the menu and screamed.
"Sapphire, what's wrong?" Ruby jumped to his feet.
She threw the menu at him. "You brought me to a place that serves Horsea tails!"
She glared at every in the room, "You people are all sick! Eating your friends! CANNIBALS!"
"No, wait," Ruby grabbed her arms, trying to calm him. "They don't serve pokemon here. It's just a catchy name, that's all."
She let out a frustrated breath and sat down. "Better be."
"Is there a problem, here?" A waiter asked.
"No," Ruby said, "it was just a little…misunderstanding."
"Okay, but one more scene like that and i will have to ask you to leave."
Ruby nodded and the waiter placed the soup on the table. Sapphire stared at the collection of spoons and forks in front of her. Which one was for soup and did it really matter? There was only one thing to do in a situation like this. Ennie meenie minie moe, this one. She picked up the biggest spoon hoping it was the right one. Ruby didn't comment that it was the wrong one.
When the lobster came, Sapphire forgot her objective to maintain her manners. She picked it up with both hands and bit into, not bothering to chew before swallowing. The waiter came when they were just about to order dessert.
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave," He said politely.
"But we didn't do anything." Sapphire protested, with her mouth full. She spitted some crumbs in his face as he talked. She wiped her mouth on her arm. "And we didn't have dessert yet."
Within five minutes they were on their butts outside.
"Great, you got us kicked out, and worst my clothes dirty!" He got up, trying to shake off as much dirt as possible.
He didn't know why Sapphire looked so happy. "So let's have a picnic instead!"
The idea was so simple, so down to earth, so like Sapphire to think of. He was taken aback by his own stupidity. He arranged the kind of date he liked, not hers, the person that really matter to him. Before he could say anything, Sapphire was halfway down the street, heading towards the forest.
"Saph, a date means together!" When he finally caught up with her she was perched in a tree, picking apples.
"Catch!" She threw down an apple.
"Get down from there before you hurt yourself." He positioned himself under her to catch her if she fell.
"Just one more apple." She pointed to large shinny apple at the edge of a branch. She shimmies as far out as the branch would let her and went on her tippy toes to get the apple. Swearing, she jumped out and grabbed the apple. She let out a cry of triumph, and then realize she was falling.
Ruby rushed over to catch like he had seen others do in the movies. But when she fell into his arms the momentum sent him back. They laid sprawl on the hard ground. Ruby groaned and sat up, taking Sapphire with him. He ran his hand over her hair that is now cover in leaves, and her dress was ruin, and Ruby thought he never saw her more beautiful.
Sapphire sat on his lap as she took large bites of the apple and talking about everything and nothing at the same time. Ruby kissed the top of her head thining, Please don't ever change, Sapphire.
Wow that took a while, mostly because of school.
