A/N:
sorry for the wait my laptop died and took $40 to fix - a mild case of appendicitis was the reason for my fever lately as well as the nausea and side pains I had been blaming on my meds. Anyway please do enjoy this chapter and review. My flower name book is still missing the world is going to come to an end at this rate - the store I bought it from doesn't carry it anymore v.v (it was a discount book store)
And yes Nurse Joy's speech is typed the way it is ON PURPOSE
Meika
Chapter 11
Tulip Deep
The trio managed to enter the town, Rakuto leading the way tightly grasping Kari's hand and Ginyuu walking far behind admiring her surroundings in the dark silently. Old fashion buildings of only two or three stories created from red brick towered against the soft light radiating from the street lights. Cars quietly passed on narrow, winding, concert roads. A strong beat of music pulsed off in a not to far distance.
Together they passed an intersection with a large road, Ginyuu paused looking down the large road, "Hey where are you going?"
Both Kari and Rakuto turned around to face her, Rakuto spoke up, "We're headed to the PokeCenter?" he answered questioningly.
"Wouldn't the PokeCenter follow a large road such as this one?" She pointed to the major road, keeping one arm close to her doll.
"Um, yes but, it's on a different road, they look similar but it's on a different road." Rakuto curled his eye brows moving his free hand to the back of his head.
"I see.," Ginyuu retracted her arm to her doll and slowly walked towards the pair who in turn turned and again lead the way.
Sure enough only five blocks down the concrete path there was a large intersection with a busy street and the Pokemon Center took the form of a large old brick building. Inside, the PokeCenter was brightly lite with soft cream walls and carpeting, straight back from the door against the opposing wall rested a large desk where a nurse with bright pink hair and a white uniform.
"Hello?" Kari questioned.
"Ah, Good Evening!" she shouted smiling intensely.
"Didn't I leave you in Queen Anne's Lace?"
"Oh Silly, Of Course Not!" she shouted sill smiling, "The Nurse Joy in Queen Anne's Lace is my Cousin's Aunt's Daughter Removed Twice."
Kari paused attempting to understand the genealogy math, after failing to figure what the nurse meant by 'removed' Kari sighed, "I need a room for two tonight."
"We Do Not Allow Co-Gendered Room Sharing," she promptly replied.
"Oh I already have a room," Rakuto spoke up, again rubbing the back of his head.
"Then Your Roommate Is?"
Kari pointed behind her to Ginyuu who was currently starring intently at a map on the wall.
"Oh I See, Then All's Good." she sat down by her computer and typed rapidly, "I Will Need Both Your PokeKey and Your License."
"Huh, sure." Kari pulled out her license and her PokeKey, gently placing them on the desk top.
Nurse Joy quickly took both and typed rapidly on her computer and then she inserted Kari's PokeKey in a small black device beside her computer monitor before handing both back to Kari, "You Room Is 278 On The Next Floor, The Pass In Your PokeKey Is Non-Transferable And Will Be Removed During Check Out."
"Sure." Kari Muttered stuffing her pass inside of her bag and her PokeKey in her jean pocket.
"The Buffet Is Off To Your Right Down The Hall. Do You Need Any Healing Services?"
"Uh sure, both Igglybuff and Tangela have been fighting all day so their just a little tired." Kari utter pulling out their Pokeballs.
"Okay, Please Pick Them Up In Twenty Minutes Time. "
"Okay Ladies! I'll show you to your room!" Rakuto shouted leading towards the stairs. Kari smirked and shrugged following his lead again as Ginyuu sighed and slowly trod behind, glancing once more at the map.
Up stairs the walls became blue and the floor was covered in black tiles with white painted doors. Walking up to room 278 Kari pulled out her PokeKey, she hovered it towards the special look above the handle, a tiny light beside the device changed from red to green and a small click could be heard as the door unlocked. Opening the door two queen side beds sat next to each other with a walk way between them, large enough for the wooden night stand, beside the window rested a tiny round table with two chairs. Beside the front door was a painfully bleached white bathroom complete with a Japanese style bath and shower.
"Not bad," Kari shrugged flinging her bag on the bed towards the window. Glancing outside the night city warmed by yellow street lights reveled a festival like gathering of city folk. "Oh that looks like fun!" Kari shouted looking out the window.
Rakuto walked beside her from the front door and leaned closely, "Ah," he whispered, "I had heard that there was a festival or something going on, you guys want to go?"
"No thank you," Ginyuu spoke up from the background. The couple turned to look at Ginyuu who politely sat on the bed away from the window.
"Why?" Kari questioned leaning away from the window and Rakuto.
"That information is unnecessary, you two go and enjoy your selves, I will prepare for bed."
Kari stared blankly for a moment, opening her mouth to question before giving it a better thought to just do as Ginyuu says, "Lets take her up on that offer."
"Have a nice date," Ginyuu muttered, gently placing her Beautifly doll on the night stand.
"I'll leave my PokeKey with you, make sure to check if anyone tries to knock on the door," Kari then tossed her PokeKey on Ginyuu's bed and existed the room with Rakuto close behind.
A couple blocks away from the PokeCenter a large park littered with young adults and tulip gardens of many colors, all the flowers had tightly closed their buds for the night. Music pulsed through the air with a heavy and fast beat. The park was riddled with thin cobble stone paths all leading to the center of the park where a fountain with a statue dominated.
The highly polished statue of a young woman in her mid to late teens appeared as tough she was frozen dancing. Elegant angel wings spread from her back pushing elongated strands of hair in a pretend wind. The womans dress had been elaborately detailed with several creases and frills at the end of her gown. In her hand rested a small bunch of tulips, surrounding her was the base for the fountain which shout five streams of water into the air and back into the water surrounding her from all sides.
"This statue is amazing!" Kari shouted over the thick beat of music, dashing to the polished stone base.
Leaning towards the water fountain soft lights of rainbow color turned on and lite the water elaborately alternating which ons lit and turned off creating a dramatic show of light and water. A plague resting on the fountain's side was lit by a soft yellow light, reading "In memory of Haine."
"Someone must have really loved this 'Haine' person, this fountain is spectacular!" Kari spoke just barely audible through the loud music.
"Hey do you recognize this song?" Rakuto spoke up. Kari in return closed her eyes and concentrated on the music lyrics.
Theres no need to be alone when you find that someone
I'm gonna get while I got you in sight
I'm gonna get you even if it takes all night
You can betcha by the time I say "go"
You'll never say "no"
"Oh this song! Geeze ummm, umm, ah! It was on that night we had our first date at the school dance!"
"Wrong answer, good try." Rakuto smirked.
"Really? Shoot... ummmm, why are you being so nit picky over stuff like this anyway? It's supposed to be the girls job to freak out over stuff like this!" Kari blushed holding her hand over her chin thinking.
"Do you even remember the title of this song?" Rakuto smirked more.
"Probably..." Kari glanced off to the side.
Rakuto raised his hand over his mouth and laughed. The steady beat of the previous song had changed to strange tribal calling with a faster beat.
"Shut up!" Kari shouted blushing and half smiling, "At least it's not that stupid dancing song, Macorn or something like that."
Rakuto laughed louder, "You mean the Macarena, with the dance right?"
"Yeah that one! Someone always ends up getting soaked when that song comes on!" Kari pulled her arms and stuck them in front of her body, she turn her palms upward, slapped them to her head, then crossed them over her chest and moved them down to her side. "I think the dance went like that"
"The Cupid Shuffle is way more fun anyway," he paced to the right four steps and then back. The song in the background continued with it's fast pace sing in another language, possibly Spanish.
"If your going to be like that then the true classic should be best," in a slightly off tone Kari recited the lyrics "It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A!" and followed the motions as well.
"If your going to be like that how about the Hamster Dance!" Rakuto cheered.
"Oh god, I'm not sure about that one, let see, I think you have to hop on one foot right?" Kari raised one leg and hopped slightly, at this point her ankle made a slight 'pop' and her balance was broken, "Gah!" Kari shouted un-gracefully, reaching and grabbing Rakuto's arm for support, instead she pulled him down with her.
A loud splash followed as the two tumbled into the fountain. Kari stuck her head above the shoulder deep water only to clash her forehead against Rakuto's he had landed just above her sprawled over her, just barely above the water line.
Over the muttering of people the background music called HEEEEEY MACARENA! AHHHHA!
Both Rakuto and Kari staring at each others eyes snickered before breaking into full blow laughter. Together the tumbled out of the fountain, soaping wet. Rakuto quickly pulled off his black sweater and offered it to Kari, she smiled and waved her hands no.
"Did The Macarena came on because we were going to fall into the water or did we fall into the water because The Macarena came on?" Kari sighed.
"I have not a clue, but at least this time you were the one getting the most wet." Rakuto smirked wringing out his shirt.
"What do you mean by that?" Kari almost growled as she pulled out her hair tie and started to gently wring out her hair, attempting to dry her hair slightly.
"Well during the pool party when this song came on you pushed me into the pool fully dressed."
"Ah, that was 'cus at the time Shana-chan liked you and she was so mad that you were talking to other girls but she didn't wan to ruin your opinion of her so she didn't want to do anything about it. There was that other party though, birthday I think for someone and you spilled lemonade over my head." Kari took the hair tie off her wrist and tied her hair back in a ponytail.
"Well there was the time you got me with the garden hose as this song came on!" Rakuto laughed.
"You mean turning the water balloon fight with the whole elementary school? The one where I couldn't get wet because I had a cast on my arm that time," Kari smirked.
"Yeah that one. You always had a cast on for something," Rakuto and Kari began walking back towards to PokeCenter, leaving a trail of water.
"Hmmm, lets see I feel out of a tree and broke my ankle, I played foot ball with you and feel breaking my collar bone, I was biking on my old bike through town and I crashed into a tree breaking my arm, a year later I broke my other one because I raced Shana-chan through town and when we jumped over the fence I ran into it."
"You also broke your hip during a class baseball game!" Rakuto smiled.
Kari sighed, "Yeah Shana threw a wild ball while she was still mad that you liked me, not her."
The color slightly let Rakuto's face, "Ummmmm, yeah, You eventually made up with Shana-san though..."
"Yeah as she moved away to what was it... Starwort?" the two approached the PokeCenter.
"So did you figure out that answer to the song about GonnaGetCha Good?" Rakuto smirked and Kari's face froze. "I'll take that as a no," he laughed.
Kari sighed and slouched slightly. Together they retrieved Kari's Pokemon from Nurse Joy and sloughed towards Kari's room and as she stepped towards her room he leaned close to her and softly kissed. As the parted he turned and said, "The answer was, that was the first song I finally got you to dance with me at the school dance."
"So I was right!" Kari shouted as he walked off towards the stairs, sighed she turned towards her door and knocked.
As Ginyuu opened the door, in her white under gown, she glanced at Kari's wet appearance, "When a couple gets 'wet' I don't think that's what they generally have in mind."
Kari walked in as her mouth gapping.
"If you two wanted you could have gone and spent the night in his room I wouldn't have cared."
Kari's mouth still open as she came to her senses, "If I were your mom I would have washed your mouth out with soap by now."
Ginyuu tightened her grasp on her Beautifly doll and stared downward. Without retorting she continued on to her bed.
A/N:
Wow doing Nurse Joy's Speech was actually hard for me to type, I would snap into normal mode and not capitalize anything more then normal then I would realize I had to fix it all V.V the sad thing is is her speech looks a lot like how I write with the first letter always capitalized in almost every word...
I wanted to put even more into the chapter bu my computer is saying that this is already at 6 pages so I figure this would be an okay spot to leave it off. I just really wanted to disclose some of Kari's non-tramatic past and play with the relation ship between Kari and Rakuto.
okay does anyone actually know what the term "removed" when speaking about families means? I didn't so I figured it would be a nice way to confuse people just like poor Kari, a family member being "removed" is referring to past generations, for example your mother's first cousin would be your first cousin "once" removed.
Todays flower language session!~~Tulip in general means "Perfect lover, Fame, Love, Passion" as for the colors Variegated tulips are for "beautiful eyes." Red tulips indicate an irresistible love, and yellow tulips indicate hopeless love that has no chance of reconciliation. Tulips that are combined in color express other messages, Red and yellow roses together are an expression of congratulations, while yellow and orange roses together imply passionate thoughts. Red and white roses signify unity. Then for the history: The tulip originated as a wildflower in Persia. In the 1500s, tulips were extensively cultivated in Turkey. Based on their resemblance to the "tulbend," a turban worn by Turkish men, they were called tulipan. In 1562, tulip bulbs from Constantinople reached Antwerp by ship. Before the turn of the century, tulips had been so rare that only the wealthiest that in Holland could afford them. It was for this reason that tulips became an obvious status symbol for the rich.
