Chapter 7

Hey guys! Sorry for not updating for so long, school just started from where I am, and I'm already buried in knee-deep homework, by the end of the month it would be head-deep.

STOP TIME!

DAWN'S POV

Sigh. I wonder if Boss Cynthia will be happy about our report. The only thing we could report to her is how our first day went. And there was nothing out of the ordinary. Well, except for the time in the locker room, we all felt like someone was watching us, that would mean someone is on to us.

And what was up with that plumhead Paul, calling me Troublesome. I'm SO not Troublesome, right?

Finally, we reached home, we decided to walk home so we could stop at the icecream shop because she was hungry (no surprise there, she's always hungry) and because Misty said we needed the exercise (which I complained about because I thought she was calling us fat, and I AM rather self-conscious). So when we came home I immediately went to the bathroom I really needed a bath right now, I was so sweaty, I'm sure I looked horrific.

After a really refreshing bath and a nice change of fresh clothes, I noticed that the others weren't in their rooms so I decided to go down stairs to look.

The first thing I saw was the three of them sitting on the couch facing the TV looking very serious, even May, and normally she is always smiling like me. When I looked at the direction they were looking at I almost slipped of the stairs.

Sitting at a chair in front of the TV, drinking tea, was our boss, the Champion of Sinnoh, Cynthia Shirona herself. In her usual clothes and fashion. Now I know why they're so serious.

Usually we're the ones who come to her, so getting visited by her must mean something's up.

She placed her cup of tea on the coffee table next to her gently and looked at me with a smile, a small one but a smile nonetheless, so this must be good news.

"Hello Dawn. How nice for you to join us." She said as soon as she saw me.

I said nothing and just sat down next to my friends.

"You're probably wondering why I'm here?"she questioned, though I'm sure she already knows the answer, judging by our quiet reaction (and we were rarely quiet), "Don't worry, I just came here to tell you that I would be living with you guys until the mission is over. And since you girls are busy at school it would be better if I am here."

We stared at her wide-mouthed. Then it looks like she remembered something, "Oh, and I would also be posting as your aunt, you guys are still 16 and 17,so you girls would need a guardian."

Right now, our jaws are on the floor, is she freakin' serious, we got worried over nothing.

"And before I forget," she added, "I would like to hear about your first day on the mission, is everything going well?"

Leaf apparently was the first to recover from the shocking and unusual news (I mean, our boss, an expert spy, the Sinnoh League Champion, posing as our aunt, wow) "Well," she started, this got Cynthia's (or maybe Auntie Cynthia's) attention, usually when you start with well, there's also bad news so Leaf told her everything, with Misty helping from time to time, May got over her shock and was now munching on a bag of chips. I was just listening intently.

They told her about the tour, the schedules, everything. But what really got her attention was the locker room incident. We were trained to trust our instincts and to sharpen them, so if we all sensed it that means there is someone on us. But who?

After a long time ever of thinking, May yawned. It was obvious she was already tired, so are we. So Auntie Cynthia made us all go to bed soon we could rest.

And I had a really peaceful sleep.

Zzzzzzzz.

PAUL'S POV

This has got to be the most annoying day of my life. First we have to tour those annoying girls, second, we found out we them in all of our classes, this is that Drew's mom invited the new neighbors over for dinner on Saturday, and last and definitely the most annoying, the troublesome blunette keeps on annoying me and it really possess me off.

And here I am in my room, listening to my Ipod with my headphones on maximum volume. Music makes it easier for me to concentrate.

I signed, this is gonna be a long night and I'm not even tired. I stood up from my bed and walked over to my black study table. My room only has one bed and I placed it far from the window so I won't have to wake with me being blinded by sunlight, and I just so happen to place my guitar next to the study table. My walls were painted black and I had posters of the bands I listen to posted on it.

Anyway, I picked up my guitar and started to play. Good thing our walls are soundproof so they won't hear me, they're already asleep and I wouldn't wanna wake them. They're my friends after all, annoying as they are they're my closest friends.

When I was new at the LRHT, people steered clear of me, girls follow me around but they kept their distance. I didn't mind it much, I actually like people avoiding me. But thanks to Ash I somehow managed to become friends with those three. I actually like having them around, they were the first real friends I have had in years.

But know thanks to Drew's dad I'm stuck with the new girls because apparently our other friends like them, Ash does to, and Drew seems to like annoying the bandanna girl, I think it was May, and Gary seems to like that Leaf girl.

And because of that, I have no choice but to try and ignore the troublesome girl that they call Dawn.

Though she is strange, at the football field I thought she was going to join those under dressed cheerleaders. She looked look like that type of girl, with her makeup and her obsession for fashion. But she said she didn't.

Maybe she just doesn't like to be a cheerleader. Maybe she's just a spoiled brat. All this thinking is making me sleepy.

I carefully put my guitar away (it was really important to me, but I'm not saying why), and started to drift of to sleep.

The next day...

This time, we used our flying pokemon to fly to the school, I'm riding my Honchkrow, Ash is on his Charizard, Drew is on his Flygon and Gary is on his Pidgeot.

It was pretty quiet, and the only song we heard were the wind, flying pokemon passing by and Ash noisily munching on a bag of potato chips. It was a pretty boring flight. Good thing it only lasted for five minutes, if I listened to any more of Ash's munching noises, I would've jumped off Honchkrow without a second thought.

We were about to enter the gates when we heard someone shout to us, I bet it was those pesky girls from yesterday. What did I do to be surrounded by annoying people.

We turned around they were just landing, Bookworm from her Tropius, Red from a Mantine, Bandanna from an Altaria and Troublesome from a Togekiss.

They returned their pokemon and started towards us. Inside I was silently praying for one of them to trip or at least distract them, and while they're not looking, I'll make a run for it. But no, it didn't happen.

"Hey guys!" Troublesome greeted, with a huge smile on her face. She has to be the only person I, unfortunately, know who is that happy in the morning. And it was really annoying. Maybe I should start calling her Annoying instead of Troublesome. I'll just call her both, it's a pretty accurate description of her.

Drew and Gary just nodded at her, Ash on the other hand was as cheerful as she was. I noticed her friends behind her did not have the same energy level as those two did. Bandanna was rubbing her eyes and yawning, occasionally slapping herself to stay awake, Red had eyebugs and was trying hard not to yawn and Bookworm was reading a book with drooping eyes.

My guess is they stayed up all night while doing something, and in the middle of it Troublesome fell asleep and they didn't notice.

I sighed, oh well. I started walking towards the school thinking, Another boring day at LRHT with seven equally annoying people. Oh joy.

Homeroom...

Grrr. This is troublesome. Here I am stuck in a noisy classroom when I could train my pokemon to be stronger. And if that wasn't enough, I have to endure a whole hour surrounded by noisy classmates, Drew and May arguing, Gray's annoying pick-up lines that he was using to get Leaf's attention (a total waste of time for him cause she wasn't even listening) and the worse of them all, Troublesome's constant nagging.

Now I regret not jumping off Honchkrow's back on the way here.

Finally, the freakin' bell ringed, I grabbed my bag and quickly got away from our little group and started heading to the next room, which is in the gym. The basketball gym serves as the court, a battle arena and a contest stadium.

I think Battle Class was the only reason the guys managed to persuade me into coming here. They said that gym leaders occasionally visit here and you can battle them, sometimes, if we're lucky, a member of the Elite Four comes, even the champions. Though it's pretty annoying that we get really few visitors this time around.

Whatever. I'm gonna keep on training u til I become the strongest, even stronger than Ash. So when one of the champions visit, I'll be ready to mop the floor with him/her.

While I was thinking, I heard a girl's voice call my name. I turned around and saw that it was just Red. Behind her were Gary, Ash and Bookworm. They were waving me over, I just ignored them and went back to thinking about strategies I could use when I felt two pairs of arms grab my own pair of hands. "What the-?!" I wasn't able to finish because Ash and Gary (so they were the ones who grabbed me, they'll regret that later) started to drag me to the place where the two girls are waiting.

"C'mon, Paul. You need to talk to the girls at least once." Gary said.

I scoffed, "Why in the name of Arceus do you think I would do that?"

Ash rolled his eyes, "Fine, don't talk to them. But at least stick close to us."

I sighed, "Whatever." not like I have a choice anyway.

A little while later...

LEAF'S POV

"Use Iron Tail Espeon!" I am currently battling Gary, and boy is he strong. Not only that but he also has a type advantage over me with his Umbreon.

"Dodge it and use Shadow Ball!" he commanded his pokemon with a hint of panic in his voice, I maybe at a type disadvantage, but Espeon is pretty strong.

If that Shadow Ball hits it's game over. I thought to myself, Time to counter it. "Use Shadow Ball as well!"

But Espeon was to tired and got hit to the side by a super effective Shadow Ball. Espeon tried to stand up but collapsed from sheer exhaustion. "Espeon!" I cried and ran over to check on her wounds. I picked her up and looked at her apologetically, "You did great Espeon," I said as I took out her pokeball, "now take a good long rest." and returned her.

I was about to walk over to Gary to thank him for an awesome battle, but I saw I didn't need too.

He was currently surrounded by fangirls, and he stood there with a smug smirk planted on his face, no doubt bragging at how easy it was. I sighed.

I felt a hand on my shoulder, I turned around and saw it was Violet. She was smiling at me, "That was amazing Leaf." She told me.

I smiled in return, "Yeah, Gary's pretty strong."

She nodded in agreement and looked at him, all dreamy like. I put two and two together and gasped, she snapped out of her dreamy phase and looked at me, "What?"

"Do you by any chance have a, I don't know, crush on, let's say, Gary?" I asked her, with an innocent yet knowing look on my face.

She blushed a deep red and shook her head vigorously, "W-what are you t-talking about? I don't like Gary, and even if I did, which I don't, he'll never notice me."

"So you do like him?" I asked as she dodged it a while ago. She blushed even darker (which I thought was impossible) and slightly nodded.

"Don't worry,"I assured her, "your secret's safe with me."

And she smiled at me gratefully. Then she noticed something behind me and her eyes widened and pink tinted her cheeks.

I raised my eyebrow at her sudden reaction and looked behind me, it was Gary. And he was coming towards us. He noticed me looking and winked.

I shuddered, what a weirdo.

Then I looked at Violet, and a plan formed on my mind. I might not be a matchmaker like Dawn, but I might as well try with Violet.

"Hey Violet? How would you like to talk to Gary?"

When I asked her that she looked at me like I was some sort of hero, who just defeated some sort of ten-headed monster, with the biggest smile on her face. And nodded.

As soon as Gary reached us, I introduced Violet to him, he flirted with her for a while until it was time for next period, but not before shaking her hand.

After Gary was gone, Violet stared at her hand, muttering that she actually shook hands with Gary, and promptly fainted Sigh. Looks like I'll have to carry her to the clinic.

Boring isn't it. Don't worry! Next chap we'll have some action!

R&D guys!