Where's My Dolly?
Another chapter already! That was unusually fast thanks to my inspiration and the free time I have manage to make.
Okay, I would just like to say that the 'k' on my keypad if quite stiff so some words that should have a 'k' in it might be lacking them. However, I did try to fix them but do tell me if I missed any.
"Speaking"
'Thinking'
Notes
Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon.
Chapter 3: Bad Day
Gary stopped his car, parking it perfectly in the school car park. He unbuckled his seatbelt and exited the car. Leaf, who was sitting in the passengers seat with her doll on her lap also unfastened her seatbelt. They had arrived at school earlier than usual today, although that did not mean that they were early. Leaf sat the doll in the in an upright postion on the vacnt seat and shut the door gently, making sure that the doll was still sitting up when the door was shut and locked.
"I hope the professor gets to the bottom of what happened to my house." Leaf said to Gary for the umpteenth time since Professor Oak promised Leaf to look into this.
Gary's grandpa suspected that the person who robbed his lab was the same culprit who turned the Green household inside-out. However, the professor did not say how he derived his hypothesis; he only claimed it with his signature 'I know I'm right' look.
"I have a feeling he will." Gary said as he opened the front door for him and Leaf to walk through it before following and letting the door thud shut.
They crossed the large and almost completely empty of people atrium to get to the other side, where they entered a set of double doors that lead them to a set of stairs. They walked up and headed into their registration class and took their seats at the back of the classroom.
"Morning Leaf!" Shouted Dawn as she turned round in her seat to talk to her friend. She was all cheery like almost every other day. That was what Leaf loved about her the most.
"Morning!" Leaf shouted back, imitating her friend's upbeat tone of voice.
Just then May walked in. Leaf and Dawn looked at each others when they noticed May walk in with her hair which looked like someone had ruffled it vigorously and her outfit, which consisted of a long red top and a pair of plain black leggins, looked slightly askew.
"What happened to you?" Asked Dawn and Leaf in unison. They found it odd for May to look like such a state.
May yanked her chair away from the table and angrily sat on it. "I hate that Drew Hayden!" May practically yelled across the class. Har two friends gave her a look telling her to elaborate on what she had just said. "I had perfect hair today and my outfit was crease free but when I entered the front door today, a certain grasshead decided that it would be fun to ruffle my hair and use hair spray to make this," May pointed at her messy brown hair, "Stay in place."
Leaf and Dawn could hear Gary snicker at May's day so far and for his sake, they were thankful that May didn't hear him.
"Wait till you hear my day yesterday." Dawn started, reliving the horrible end to her school day yesterday in a bid to cheer May up. "I was leaving school a bit later yesterday because of the caoching course I'm doing and well, when I was getting changed..." Dawn stopped and signalled her friends closer. "When I was in the shower, some of the guys walked in to the girls' changing room!" She loud whispered.
May and Leaf's jaw dropped and their eyes widened in shock. "OMG!" They mouthed.
Gary shook his head. Maybe leaning forward didn't stop him from over hearing. "I'm so sure the showers have doors." He commented casually, earning him a kick in the leg followed by a stern look from Leaf. "But I'm sure Leaf can top that." Gary added, which earned him yet another stern look and a kick that missed this time.
"What happened to you, Leaf?" Dawn asked, leaning forward as if she was conducting an interrogation session with the brunette.
"Nothing much. I think my house was robbed yesterday during school." Leaf replied as she inspected her shoes for any scratches on them caused by kicking the table when her foot missed Gary.
May and Dawn looked wide eyed at her.
"You call that nothing?" May asked as she tried to run her fingers through her usually silky smooth hair only to get it stuck half way.
"I did say I think." Leaf pointed out. "But it is being handled with so it should be safe for me to go home tonight." Leaf said as she rose from her seat when the bell went.
"Wait." May tried to stop Leaf from walking any further as she picked up her pace and tried to flatten her hair. "If you said it 'should be safe for me to go home tonight', where were you last night?" May asked as she headed along to her locker with Leaf while Dawn was trailing behind.
"I stayed at Gary's." Leaf said casually. For anyone that was not Leaf who said that, it would raise suspicion. However, everyone at school knew that Gary and Leaf are childhood friends so it seemed perfectly normal.
"If anyone else said that, it would raise suspicion about Gary being 'off the market.'" May said, quoting many people at the end of the sentence. She opened her locker and dug out her books for her periods one and two classes which were maths and art- her least favourite followed by her favourite subject.
Leaf shrugged and opened her locker. Gary stood there waiting for her to walk to their first period advanced physics class.
"I love how you girls love to talk about me when I'm standing right here." Gary casually said.
Leaf nudged him before opening her locker. She tried to reach out for her first and second period books but she froze when she saw what was in her locker. Gary and May noticed her expression and looked in her locker.
"A doll?" May said as she picked it up and inspected it. "Why do you have a doll in your locker?"
Just then Dawn reappeared. "That's such a pretty doll!" Dawn exclaimed as she grabbed it out of May's hands and started to admire it.
"I thought you left that in my car." Gary stated as he looked at Leaf, who was reaching for her doll. She returned it to her locker.
Leaf shut her locker door and turned to face Gary. "I did." She said seriously.
"Can I borrow that for art sometime?" Dawn asked as she popped up between Gary and Leaf, breaking the slight tension as she did so.
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For Leaf and Gary, they felt that first period ended it too quickly. They walked out of their class and headed down the hall to their next class which just so happens to be another science; chemistry. It was both Gary and Leaf's least favourite science, though, that is not to say that they do not like it.
Leaf and Gary were the first ones there and soon after they had settled in, class was starting.
"Okay class." Blaine said, "Today we will learn about super and semiconductors." He told the class to open their text books before he started to go on and on.
Leaf pulled out her notepad and started to write.
Let's play hang man! I'll go first.
_ _ _ _/ _ _/ _/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ !
Gary looked to see what the teacher was doing first before he took Leaf's notepad and started to write a note back.
I never agreed to play.
He passed the notepad back to Leaf and she read it. She scored out what he had wrote on and shoved him the notepad. Gary took the hint and guessed a letter.
A.
Leaf read his guess then proceeded to write the letters in and passed it back to Gary.
_ A _ _/ _ _/ A/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ !
Gary guessed yet another letter.
S.
And Leaf filled in more of the spaces.
_ A _ _/ _ S/ A/ S_ _ _ _ _ _ A S _ _ !
Gary read the the letters that had been filled in so far and suspected something.
It's about me, isn't it?
He looked at Leaf after she had read the message. She shrugged in response which greatly annoyed him.
G.
Leaf smiled at the letter he was guessing.
G A _ _ _ S A S _ _ _ _ _ _ A S _ _ !
Leaf passed the notepad towards him just when the teacher looked over but luckily for them, the phone rang. Leaf and Gary looked at each other as if to say that was close. The teacher hung up almost as soon as he answered the phone.
"Green, you've been ordered down to the reception and you have to bring your bag." Blaine said as he picked up the textbook that he was reading from and continued to do so.
Leaf looked at Gary. "I wonder what's happening." She whispered to him as she paced up her belongings and tucked in her chair.
"Maybe it's something to do with your house." Gary suggested logically. "But I could be wrong. Text me about it."
Leaf nodded and left the class. She shut the door behind her and wandered down the science open area and across the balcony. Leaf eventually made it to the reception and she was not all that surprised to see Professor Oak standing there. But she was not too sure if seeing Officer Jenny standing beside him was a good sign or not.
"Hi, gramps." Leaf greeted. She nodded her head towards Officer Jenny's direction to acknowledge her. "Did something happen?" Leaf asked. She could not help but feel slightly worried about the answer to the question she just asked.
Professor Oak's expression changed to express a lot more concern than before she asked. "Leaf, we've found your parents." He told her monotonously.
"Really!" Leaf said happily, however, she knew that things were about to change rapidly.
"I'm not sure if you should be so excited about it." The professor said in the same way, causing Leaf's happy-go-lucy smile to drop off her face. "Just come with me."
Leaf signed out of the school- without her happy-go-lucky attitude and followed the professor and Officer Jenny into the slick, black car.
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Meanwhile...
It was almost the end of the school day. Most of the girls had finished using the showers, however, there was one cubicle that was still occupied. Over the sound of the water splashing against the tiled flooring, a faint humming of some hit song could be heard. Not too long after, the shower was switched off and the humming became more distinct. The click from the unlocking of the cubicle made a loud noise in the empty changing room followed by the sounds of the girls wet foot steps.
The humming never stopped the whole time. The girl opened the changing room locker.
And the humming came to an abrupt end...
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Another chapter down. I hope you liked this chapter. And about the ending, it will tie in later. But for now, review! Also feel free to guess the message in the game of hang man. And by the way, / in the hang man bit was because I wasn't allowed to leave spaces to indicate the end of a word.
Hope this chapter was better than the last!