XashXdawnX- Time for another chapter!
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Chapter 13: Shocking News
Time was ticking away as Alice and Dawn only had a week left until their departure from Kanto. Well technically, if think about it, they have less then a week since they are leaving Saturday.
Alice walked pass the bathroom when the door opened and smacked her in the face.
Alice cried in pain and sat on the floor. Johanna came from the other side of the white wooden door to see her purple head niece on the floor holding her nose.
"Did I hit you?" the woman asked kneeling down.
"No I'm just sitting on the floor and holding my nose." Alice said sarcastically.
Johanna looked at the teen and pried Alice's hand off her face. Johanna looked at Alice's nose momentarily and got up.
"Nothing is wrong with it. It'll just hurt for a little while," the woman said.
Alice got up and walked back to her room to get dress. Dawn emerged from her room wearing a yellow skirt, a black shirt, and yellow and black sneakers.
After a short while, Alice too walked out of her room. Alice wore a pair of blue jean shorts, a purple shirt, and purple sneakers.
"Morning Dawn." Alice said skipping over to her cousin.
"Morning." Dawn said heading down the stairs with Alice following.
The two teens walked into the kitchen to see two plates with two oran berry pancakes, two eggs, and toast on each. They sat down at the table and proceeded to eat their breakfast.
"So what are we going to do today?" Alice asked after swallowing some food and wiping her mouth with a napkin.
"Well I don't feel like doing anything in the studio today," responded Alice's blue-haired cousin while wiping hers.
"Maybe we'll just go out and find something." Alice said, considering what to do, in addition to considering that they have but one week (or almost) left until they return home.
After a short time of thinking, she just decided to finish eating then they'll find something to do.
Eventually, they finished their breakfast and headed to the front door.
"We're going out!" Alice yelled so Johanna would hear.
"Alright have fun!" Johanna called from another room.
Dawn opened the door and walked out and Alice followed after her.
"We have less than a week." Dawn said wretchedly.
"Yeah..." Alice said looking at the ground.
Dawn sighed and continued walking toward where ever her feet took her.
"Hey Dawn, do you wanna go to that ice cream parlor?" Alice asked trying to lift the mood.
"Sure Alice." Dawn said giving a slight smile.
They took a left and arrived at a pink building with windows decorating the sides and four tables, two having umbrellas, in front. They walked into the parlor and were greeted by a blast of cold air hitting their bare legs.
"Hello and welcome to Scoops," a lady at the counter with shocking pink hair and brown eyes said with a monotonous voice.
"One chocolate milkshake and one strawberry milkshake please." Dawn said.
"Alright that'll be two PokeDollars," said the woman after typing their orders in on the register.
Dawn handed the lady the money and they waited for their milkshakes. The lady slid two milkshakes over to Dawn after a few minutes.
"Let's sit outside. I'm about to freeze." Alice said.
They walked out of the shop and sat at one of the two tables without an umbrella. Dawn looked at the sky and watched the white clouds float along in the wind.
"Today is so peaceful." Dawn said serenely.
"Yeah it is." Alice said as she sipped her strawberry milkshake.
Dawn looked at the street and saw two people walking toward where Alice and her were sitting. One was a lady who looked about twenty something, pale skin, with black hair and light blue eyes. She wore a black jacket over a red shirt, with a black pencil skirt, and little red heels. The other person was a guy who looked in his thirties, he was tanned and had brown hair and gold eyes, he wore a pair of jeans with a button up green shirt, and sneakers.
"Hello, are you Dawn Berlitz and Alice Wisher?" the lady asked stopping at their table.
"Umm yeah," responded the girls.
"Well good we found you," said the guy.
The girls had puzzled looks their faces.
"Oh they're confused. I'm Kelly and this is Matt. We're from Kanto Studios." Kelly said.
"Oh nice to meet you." the girls said with smiles.
"So what are you two doing here?" Dawn asked.
"Well your mother sent us a CD full of you singing. We also had one song with Alice playing the keyboard. We want to make you, Dawn, a new star. Alice can be in your band." Kelly explained.
Dawn was shocked and Alice slapped her lightly to make her come back to reality.
"Umm I don't know." Dawn said while rubbing her cheek, still a bit shocked.
"Dawn this is what you need. You need to be heard, your voice is amazing. Take the offer." Alice said, encouraging Dawn to take this opportunity.
Dawn took a breath and faced Kelly.
"I'll do it. Just as long as Alice is in my band." Dawn said enthusiastically.
"Wonderful!" Kelly exclaimed, clasping her hands together.
"Can we go to your house and talk to your mother?" Matt asked.
Dawn nodded and her and Alice got up and tossed their cups in the trash. The four walked to the house where Dawn and her family were staying which was only a short distance from the ice cream parlor.
"Here we are." Dawn said opening the door.
"Aunt Johanna we're back. Some people need to talk to you." Alice shouted.
The four walked to the living room where Johanna was sitting watching some television.
"Oh hello." Johanna said, turning off the TV.
"Hi. I'm Kelly and this is Matt." Kelly said holding out her hand.
"Nice to meet you." Johanna said shaking Kelly's hand then doing the same with Matt's.
"Likewise." the two younger people said.
"We're here because we asked Dawn to become the next star." Kelly said with a smile.
"Oh. Did she say yes?" Johanna asked curiously.
"Yes she did. You sent us the CD and asked to ask her ourselves, so we did." Matt said.
"Oh. Well Dawn is this what you want?" Johanna asked, turning to her daughter.
"Yeah. It'll be great for me." Dawn said, still enthusiastic about it all.
"Oh one thing I forgot to mention. Dawn will have to live in Kanto I'm afraid." Kelly spoke up, pointing out a major detail they'd missed previously.
"What!" Dawn exclaimed with her voice becoming panicky.
"Well it is Kanto Studios. You'll be known in Kanto mostly. You will tour Sinnoh, Hoenn, and Johto. I know the perfect rival already too."
Dawn looked at her mom for advice.
"Well if I let Dawn and Alice live in Kanto alone... will the manager and whole band live here too?" Johanna asked as her hands shook a bit.
"Of course Johanna. Dawn and Alice along with the other members of the band will live here if that is what you want."
Johanna nodded her head.
"Well we just need you to sign some papers. Dawn and Alice, you sign these. Johanna you will sign this for Dawn as you are her legal guardian. Alice's guardian will need to sign these." Matt said handing four stacks of papers to the trio.
"That's a mighty lot of paper." Alice said looking at the stack.
Dawn nodded her head agreeing with Alice. They started filling out the papers and Kelly and Matt were talking to each other about Arceus knows what.
"Sign here... and I'm done." Alice said.
Dawn muttered to herself as she signed a spot on the paper. She flipped over the last sheet and scribbled something on it.
"Done." Dawn said placing her pen down and rubbing her hand.
Johanna finished all of her signing and set her pen down.
"I'll have Alice's mother sign these." Johanna said picking up the papers for Alice's mother.
"Alright. Well we will come and get you Dawn and Alice tomorrow at say... three? We will take you to your new house, introduce you to your manager, and then you two will pick out your band mates." Kelly said whipping out her phone and dialing a phone number.
"So we will see you two at three tomorrow. Johanna, Dawn, Alice, thank you for your time and good day." Matt said waving as he and Kelly walked out of the house.
Dawn turned and looked at her mom who was on the verge of tears.
"Mom please don't cry." Dawn said walking up to her mom.
"I won't. My little girl is growing up so fast. I'll withdraw you two from school. Alice I'll contact your mother and let her know. Well you two need to go and pack your things." Johanna said looking at them, wiping a few tears away.
"Yes mom." Dawn said.
"Alright." Alice said.
The two teens walked upstairs and started packing their things. They finished in a short time since some things were already packed up. They walked downstairs and saw Johanna sitting on the couch looking at the TV which was still off.
"Mom are you gonna be okay?" Dawn asked sitting down next to Johanna.
"Yes sweetie. I'll come and visit your concerts whenever I can," she said giving her daughter's hand a light squeeze.
Dawn smiled and hugged her mom, Dawn motioned for Alice to join and soon the two teens plus Johanna were in a group hug.
They broke apart and the girls headed up to the mini-studio.
"Well Dawn tomorrow we become famous." Alice said sitting on a stool in the mini-studio after entering.
"Yeah. I'm kinda scared. Are you scared?" Dawn asked picking up the notebooks full of songs.
"I am a little... you know what though?" Alice said hopping off the stool and standing in front of Dawn.
"What?" Dawn asked placing a notebook in a bag.
"We'll be scared together. Live together. Be famous together. Who knows we might even die together... just kidding about that one." Alice said with a giggle.
Alice slung her arm over her cousin's neck.
"Aliceee I gotta get these in the bags." Dawn whined getting somewhat loose from the grip.
"No no cousin." Alice said and grabbed the notebook from Dawn's hand.
Alice placed it in the bags and they finished packing the notebooks.
"Now the fun part. Packing the equipment." Dawn said with fake happiness.
Alice sighed and glared at the drums annoyed.
"The drums are gonna be the hardest," she said, still glaring at the drums.
"Alice the drums aren't gonna run away." Dawn said.
Alice looked at her cousin and grabbed the bass case. Dawn packed the guitar and microphones while Alice packed the bass and keyboard. They then worked on packing the drums and finally got them packed after maybe five minutes at the most.
"Well that's everything." Dawn said looking at empty mini-studio.
"Yeah it is." Alice said going to sit where the stool used to be.
Alice fell on her butt and groaned. She got up and muttered something inane under her breath.
"You have short term memory loss." Dawn said.
"No I just forgot the stool was packed." Alice said glaring at her cousin.
Dawn pretended to shake where she was and mouthed "I'm so scared."
They walked into the living room to find Johanna wasn't there.
"Mom?" Dawn called.
"My room," came a faint voice.
The two teens walked to the room Johanna slept in and found her packing her things into a black suitcase.
The day drew near an end and the trio went to sleep, awaiting the life-changing events tomorrow would hold.
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