A/N: I am so sorry again guys. I have a legitimate excuse this time, though! I was busy preparing for a convention and I totally ran out of time. And then I got back yesterday and crashed. Anyways, I apologize if the last couple chapters have seemed like filler, next chapter things are gonna start getting interesting~ Yeeeeee I am so excited you have no idea XD. The feels! I'll let you guys read now ^.^
Disclaimer: I do not own the Pokemon adventures manga or any of its characters. I own Aurora Herz and the cover.
I yawned as I walked into the empty first hour. The weekend had already came and went way too fast. Despite all of the embarrassment, I actually enjoyed my time at Blue's, believe it or not. I found that I was getting more and more comfortable around Silver the more time I spend with him. I just wish that Blue would stop interfering with us, and I think Silver does too. Unfortunately, I don't think she ever will until we get together. 'Until? What am I thinking, until!? I'm getting my hopes up way too high! Why would a guy like him ever be interested in me. I'm just a shy girl.' A familiar feeling snapped me out of my thoughts. 'Speak of the devil.' Silver noticed my head turn and nodded at me. My eyes widened a bit and I smiled nervously. 'He nodded at me… Hehehehehe. No! Aurora, get a hold of yourself! It was just a casual nod, nothing else. No need to get excited.' I breathed out and sat up more straight in my seat. Still jittery, I fumbled around, straightening up my materials on my desk. Mrs. Lynch stepped up in front of the class.
"Good morning class. I graded your projects over the weekend, well, those of you who turned them in on time of course. You can come see me for your grade after our lecture today. Now, get out some paper to take notes."
"Any questions?" Silence. "Ok, then your homework is page 359, 37-45. You have the rest of the hour. Don't forget to see me about your projects." The woman sat at her desk and started typing. I opened my planner and wrote down the assignment on the line for 1st hour, so I wouldn't forget. After closing my planner and organizing my notes, I opened my book and started on the assignment. The room began to fill with small murmurs and footsteps as people moved around to sit by their friends to either talk or work on the assignment. I always opted to work by myself because of obvious reasons. All of the sudden I felt a presence, like the feeling you get when someone is staring at you. My head perked up and sure enough, Silver was standing next to my desk. My cheeks tinted pink and I smiled at him.
"Hi Silver." I said quietly. My heart did a flip when I said his name. It just then occurred to me that I had never addressed him by his name. My eyes darted back up to his face and I found that he too had the tiniest dusting of pink on his fair skin. His head was slightly turned away from me, as if he was embarrassed too. I giggled to myself at the thought of an embarrassed Silver. It was... cute.
"Hey." He muttered, playing it cool. Then he paused. "Can I sit here?" He gestured to the empty seat next to me.
"Oh, yeah, of course!" I nodded and smiled brightly. 'This is odd behavior for him. I wonder why he wants to sit by me. Maybe Gold was being annoying back there or something.' I ignored the thought, savoring the moment with Silver. Both of us opened our books and started to work on the homework. Every once and awhile, I would glance over at Silver (hopefully without him noticing). 'Dang, he works fast. He must be a lot smarter than he tries to appear.' That reminded me of something,
"Silver." His head perked up. 'I love saying that!' "We need to go see what we got on that project." I stated.
"Okay." With that we walked up to Mrs. Lynch's desk.
"Mrs. Lynch?" The teacher turned to my tiny polite voice.
"Oh, Aurora and Silver! Here for your grade, I'm assuming?" She asked happily.
"Yeah." I smiled politely.
"Okay, let me just find it…" She bent over to shuffle through some papers. "Here it is. You guys did excellent work! You earned the highest score so far." The woman beamed and handed me the paper.
My smile grew wider and I took the paper gently. "Thank you!"
"Since you two work so well together, do you want to work together from now on?" Mrs. Lynch asked innocently. My eyes grew a little and my cheeks heated up. I looked towards Silver for an opinion. 'Please say yes!' He shrugged.
"Sure, I don't care." He said nonchalantly.
I turned back to face her and said, "Okay, sure then!"
"Great!" She smiled and went back to work on her computer. I looked at the grade on the paper, which was a 58/60 with the comment: Excellent work :). My eyes traveled off of the paper and looked forward as I made my to my seat once more. During my walk back, it felt as though I was being watched. I glanced around the room quickly, but I couldn't see anyone, not even Blue in the window, watching me. 'That's creepy.' I sat down in my seat and started working on the homework, as did Silver.
Without thinking about it, my eyes darted to Silver. Our eyes met in an intense fraction of a second. Before this, I had never made eye contact with him, and it was better than I ever could have imagined. Whoever said the eyes are the window to the soul wasn't kidding. On the surface, his eyes were a beautiful, almost unreal deep silver etched with deep platinum lines. His irises looked as though they were made of precious metal, carefully brushed and sculpted like a fine work of art. Looking closer though, you could see that they didn't have the luster you would expect a glorious polished silver to have, but they were dull, like there was something beneath eating away at the shimmer and lightness. The way he looked at you was untrusting, eyelids never fully relaxed. The moment felt like an hour, but in reality it was less than a second and ended as soon as it began. It was crazy how something could feel like it lasted forever but not long enough. My heart longed to stare into his eyes longer and read their story. My body apparently had other plans, I realized, as I blushed and looked down at my paper. I wish I could've seen how Silver reacted, but I was to embarrassed to look back up.
In an attempt to cover up, my shaking fingers reached for my pencil to act like I was going to continue to work. This only added to the awkwardness, though, as I struggled to grip the squirmy device in my hand.
BRRIIIINNNGG
The sound of the bell made me jump a considerable amount in my chair. I saw Silver jerk a bit too out of the corner of my eye. 'Saved by the bell, literally.' I thanked Arceus for getting my out of that situation. Somehow, I managed to gather up all of my stuff without being clumsy and dropping everything (that's a first). The adrenaline in my system gave me an edge and helped me speed walk as fast I could into the hall and the rest of the day.
"Don't forget, your essay about the civil rights movement is due on Friday." My history teacher droned as the students made a dash for the door. With my lunch held tightly in my hand, I disappeared down the empty side hall once more.
I set my lunch down on the table with a clunk. Blue showed up shortly.
"Aurora?" She said, probably leading into a question.
"Yeah?"
"Do you mind if Silver sits with us today?" She asked. 'Wow, I'm surprised she didn't just bring him here. Good for her!'
"No, that's fine!" I smiled. "Thanks for asking me first, too. That was very thoughtful of you."
"Well, I was gonna bring him here anyways even if you said no." She then ran off to grab said boy. 'This is gonna be interesting.' I watched my friend venture off to wherever Silver may be at the moment.
After a good five minutes, my eyes caught sight of Blue almost dragging a squinty eyed, slightly blushing Silver by the wrist through the lunchroom. I could see the evil smirk on her face.
I sweatdropped. "Oh goodness…"
Blue came around to my side of the table and led Silver to the spot next to me, which he plopped down in.
"Okay, we're all here!" She exclaimed as she sat in the seat opposite of me. The brunette had a huge smile on her face as she gazed at us. Both Silver and I sweatdropped.
"Blue, cut it out." Silver hissed. The girl just sighed.
"You two are so cute!" I blushed hard at her comment. By the way she giggled, I'm guessing Silver did the same. "Okay, okay, I'll stop." At that we all began to dig into our lunches. It was silent between the three of us as we all were eating. Blue apparently didn't like that.
"You guys need to talk more." She said through a bite of food.
"Maybe you shouldn't talk with a mouthful of food." Silver mumbled quietly. I giggled a little. Blue rolled her eyes.
"Whatever. So what are you guys doing over winter break?" She asked. Silver shrugged.
"Nothing."
"Me either." I added.
"You guys are boring." Blue pouted. She checked her phone out of boredom, I'm guessing. Then I noticed her background. It was the picture of Silver and I sleeping with a black and white filter on it.
"Blue?" I spoke up.
"Yes?"
"May I ask about the background?" I said, my voice in a high irritated pitch. She looked confused for a second before checking her phone again.
"Oh, this!" She laughed a bit. "I just thought it was cute." The girl referred to it as if it were some sort of cute Pokemon or something.
"Take it off." Silver stated flatly. His eyes looked unimpressed with a hint of creeped out.
"Aww, do I have to?" The way we both looked at her answered the question right away. "Okay, jeez, I'll take it off!" She clicked a few things and returned her phone the table where it sat. The rest of the lunch was spent in silence for all of us. Every once and awhile I would notice Blue glare off into the distance, but I wasn't sure what she was directing it at.
Once I had finished my food, I glanced up at the clock to find that we only had five minutes left. I pulled my phone out and casually checked my notifications. Over the period of lunch, I failed to realize that I had slowly made my way closer to Silver. Because of this, our arms were hovering next to each other, so close that I could feel the heat radiating off of him. My cheeks heated up slightly, but I decided that I liked being this close. While adjusting in my seat, I accidentally grazed Silver's arm. He jumped a little and tensed at the contact. The second after it felt as though someone had poured a bucket of ice water down my back, and a chill ran down my entire body. I was instantly covered in goosebumps and my body convulsed. The strangest part was, it only lasted for a second or two. 'What was that?'
"Sorry…" I said quietly.
"You're fine." Silver mumbled.
"Aurora are you okay? You looked really cold for a second." Blue looked at me with concern.
"Yeah… I think I'm okay…" I responded, not really sure if I was myself.
"Okay…" She said, looking at me worriedly. The bell gave out a screech, signaling the end of the lunch period. All three of us packed up our stuff and stood up. "Where are you guys headed?" Blue asked.
"English, you're going to science, right?" I asked.
"Yep! Speaking of that, there goes Greenie! Gotta go, see ya!" The girl flew down the hall, chasing after Green. I laughed to myself then turned to Silver.
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"German." He replied.
"Cool, those are in the same hall then." I smiled. We both started in the direction of the language hall. On the way there, I spotted Gold. He started to walk towards Silver and saw me. He gave Silver a strange look, but proceeded to walk over to us. I internally groaned.
"Who do we have here?" Gold asked, a smirk painted on his face. I wanted to slap that look right off of him.
"Watch it, Gold." Silver said with an edge.
"Oh, feeling sassy today, are we?" Gold cocked an eyebrow. Silver sighed and rolled his eyes. We arrived at my classroom first shortly (thank Arceus).
"Bye!" I said to Silver, averting my eyes from his friend.
"See ya." Silver replied. Gold waved and looked at me creepily. I shivered and proceeded into my classroom.
A/N: There you have it. I'll try my hardest to get the next one out on time, but life happens sometimes. Thanks for reading and sticking with me though late updates!
Next update: April 28th, 2016 (ish lol)
Stay fabulous, my little Torchics!
∞Blaziken
