Sorry I'm a little late this week! thought, i updated last week so that must count for something, right?
Anyways, I'm really busy and I have to make this short. As you can see, I'm trying my best to update as much as I can, but I haven't had time to write lately.
I'm getting my wisdom teeth out next week, so fun. Sarcasm included. So I probably won't have a surprise update then.
And the reviews!
.18: Maybe we will. You never know. Umm, he's already going through a lot so that might be pushing it a bit too far. For now. And of course you can! Anyone is welcomed to PM me!
keaton-furman-prower: Some people just don't know what they're doing when their mad. And Oak? Of course. I like twists. I have seen the movie. Loved the music in there and Ash too.
Redstar: I wrote this a long time ago so the writing may seem elementary. I just wrote some random stuff down, trying to get to my word quota while Calem is going to have a slow turn around. Red? There's a lot of things wrong with him.
Long story short, enjoy the chap!
Discalimer: I don't own Pokemon or anything I refer to.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Blue's POV
"How's that logo coming?" I asked White as I came out of the kitchen.
"Almost done!" she exclaimed as she peeled off the paper from the glass door. She stood back as she stared proudly at her work. The words, Café d'Aventure, were stylized in black bold cursive-like font with a fully colored pokéball next to it. We had Scarlett's help with the Kalosian. I insisted on it since it would sound fancier. From our point of view, it looked backwards, but if you were standing outside the café, than it would look like what I described it. We had the hours of operations under it in white frosted bold letters and numbers.
"What about you guys?" I turned to Whi-Two and Lack-Two who were hanging up the pictures on the wall.
"Just a few more pictures." Lack-Two responded he handed a frame to his sister. The pictures we were hanging up were of us in our school uniforms, our normal attire, and our different sets of clothes. We took them yesterday, when the sun was just right. We separated into different groups so we were always all in the pictures. We split according to different categories. A big picture of all of us and our pokémon was hanging on the wall behind the counter.
"I'm going to see how's the boys are doing with the sign out front." I said as I pushed open the glass door.
"Hey! Watch it!" Emerald complained as he stood on a ladder near the door.
"Sorry, Em!" I called out to him. "Is the bell done yet?"
"Done." he said as he screwed in one last screw into the bell hanging over the door. "The open sign is done too. It's on a timer so we don't have to turn it on and off every time."
"Perfect!" I exclaimed as I slid carefully through the door. I walked out and turned towards the front of the café. The door and windows looked perfect with the new details added. When you looked inside, the place was busy with Whi-Two and Lack-Two hanging up those pictures. Yellow and Crystal were busy getting the kitchen ready. We're getting a food delivery tomorrow so we need to prep the kitchen. Satoshi said that we'll have a food drop every Sunday. I sent Scarlett off to complete a survey on what the student body would like from this place.
I looked up and saw X, Black, and Gold putting up the café sign and canopy. The sign logo looked like the one on the door, but bigger and the letters were in gold with a white metallic outline. The canopy that hung over the door and windows was a striped brown, tan, and red. We planted several flowers, bushes, and little shrubs in small planters outside so it would look nicer! And we also held some plants inside too.
"Blue, is this menu alright?" Crystal asked me as she came out the café. She showed me a sheet in her hand.
I looked it over and it was perfect. "It's fine. Go with White to the Lounge. Copy and laminate about fifty of these in the school newspaper room. While you're in there, don't forget to tell the editor to put in an advertisement for this place." I told her.
"Okay." she nodded before she grabbed White and flew off.
"I got the sign, Nee-san." Silver walked up to me with a 'Grand Opening' sign folded up in his hands. "I don't see the point of this sign though. We were open yesterday."
"We had a preview yesterday. We're officially opening on Tuesday" I corrected him. "We're just lucky we started school on a Friday. This way, we have the weekend to prepare."
"But we're not open on Monday." Silver pointed out.
"I know. But the teachers will always start giving out homework on the second day of school." I replied.
"What homework? The only homework they can give us to take care of our pokémon." Scarlett told me as she walked towards us with a notebook in her hands. "Here's the survey. This school will accept any trainer applying. I swear, I felt like some of those fangirls are planning to murder me."
"Probably are." I muttered as I looked over the surveys. Looks like most of this kids wants the dexholders to work here. Figures.
"Um, Blue? We got some people wondering what we're doing." Yellow said as she walked out of the kitchen through the side door.
"What does it look like we're doing? We're setting up our own business!" I exclaimed.
"Well, it's them." Yellow said as she stepped aside. Ash and his friends were standing behind her.
"Oh. What do you guys want?" I asked.
"What's this?" Ash asked. Just to earn a facepalm from Gary.
"Ash, it's a café. We've been in here yesterday." Gary glared at his friend.
"Why are you guys setting up a café?" Dawn asked.
"Our foster father brought this place hoping to give us a sense of responsibility of running our own business so we decided to take his offer and make some extra money with this place." I explained.
"That's cool. Is it okay if we can work here?" May asked.
"I don't know." I said as I looked towards X, Scarlett, and Yellow. We were the seniors here so we have to make the choices.
"Blue, the survey says that these kids will pay anything to be near a dexholder. That's a valid point you might want to think of." Scarlett whispered in my ear. "But of course, the fangirls might also kill us out of jealousy for working with them."
"And your point is?" I asked her.
"I don't know. I'm just pointing out the pros and cons." she shrugged.
"Sorry guys, but we can handle it ourselves." X spoke up. "But it's nice of you to offer."
"Oh, okay. We'll be sure to come by sometimes though." Ash said as he and the other boys walked away. The girls stayed.
"Can we at least help a little? We don't even have to pay us!" Lyra exclaimed.
"We can make those treats for the pokémon we guys had in your display! We're good at that!" Serena added.
"Okay. But you guys don't have to come it every day. Just one of you per day so we can have a special for the day would be nice." I told them.
"Thanks!" they chorused before walking away.
"It seems like you got everything covered here, Blue." Scarlett said. "So is it okay if I leave for the Lounge for a while? I want to check out that place more."
"Go right ahead." I nodded. "We're almost done here."
"Thanks!" she said as she flew off on Char.
"Where did X go?" Yellow asked.
"What? He was just-"I looked around to see another figure chasing after Scarlett. "Do you think Crystal and White will be up to some spying?"
"Ack! Blue! Some help here?" Gold gagged. I looked up and saw that Gold was being crushed by the sign. Black was trying to get it off of him.
Oh, spying would just have to wait. I have a circus to lead.
Scarlett's POV
What do you want to do first? Rio asked from inside her pokéball. There's a training gym on the third floor.
"No, I want to check something else out." I answered out loud as I walked to the music wing. There were barely any students in here since they were either in their housing or in town. What the magic of what a weekend can do to you.
Since school was out, we were all in our casual outfits. We could've worn our usual outfits, but that would be very boring. Blue thought up of the idea of us wearing different outfits for once. We all gave in so we picked something out of our limited closet. I don't know why she wanted us to do it, but whatever. Today, I chose a red tank top with a black jacket draped over it with a black skirt reaching mid thigh with black heeled combat boots.
As a matter of fact, everyone was basically wearing something different than they usually do. Blue was in her little black dress with her white gloves and black ankle boots. She also uses that outfit for spying on occasions. Yellow wore brown riding boots with a pale yellow long shirt with off the shoulder long sleeves and a thin brown belt wrapped around her waist. Under the shirt, she had denim leggings on.
Unlike her usual red, white, and yellow tank top, jacket, and shorts outfit, Crystal traded it in for a pink, white, and blue tank top, jacket, and shorts outfit. Silver wore a grey version of his usual black jacket and purple jeans with no gloves. Gold wore a different yellow and black hat, a different red hoodie, and yellow cargo shorts instead of his black ones.
White wore a denim skirt with brown sandals and a black tank top. She wore a white jacket over it while her hair was down, but was tied with a pink and white pokéball headband. Black wore brown capris with a red and white baseball tee along with a blue jacket over it. On his feet were red converses. Whi-Two wore a red plaid skirt with a white blouse top dress combo with navy bows over her buns and black Mary Janes on. Nate wore a white and grey striped shirt with an open black with green around the edges short sleeve jacket along with jeans with a red belt around it and green sneakers.
Emerald got rid of his gadgets and was wearing a green polo shirt with the sleeves rolled up with blue cargo pants while his Green Orb core which was usually on his forehead was on a belt around his waist with straps filled with his Bullets of Serenity with green sneakers on. X was wearing a checkered fedora on his head with an olive hoodie and damaged jeans with brown short boots.
I paused outside of one of the music rooms. I turned the double doors to it and walked in. Music Room #3 had elegant white walls with a light pink tiled floor. Several instruments were either on stands or packed up neatly in their cases. An ebony baby grand piano was sitting in the middle of the room.
I slowly made my way towards the piano. When I was little, my dad insisted on making me take music lessons. Though I didn't really understand them much, I did learn how to play several instruments. When I went on my journey, I never really had time to practice, but I still remember how to play.
I sat down on the bench and moved it closer to the piano. I uncovered the keys and ran my fingers over the ebony and ivory keys. I closed my eyes and started to play a song that I somehow remembered. I don't know where the lost words came from. I could only remember a part of it before, but it just flowed out.
As my hands flew over the keys, I unconsciously opened my mouth and started to sing.
I remember tears streaming down your face
When I said, "I'll never let you go"
When all those shadows almost killed your light
I remember you said, "Don't leave me here alone"
But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight
Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alright
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe and sound
Don't you dare look out your window darling
Everything's on fire
The war outside our door keeps raging on
Hold onto this lullaby
Even when the music's gone
Gone
Just close your eyes
The sun is going down
You'll be alright
No one can hurt you now
Come morning light
You and I'll be safe a-
I stopped in the middle of the chorus when I heard clapping from behind me. I snapped opened my eyes and whipped my head towards the door. My eyes widen when I saw who was standing there.
"D-Dan?!" I was shocked.
"Wow. I never thought you could sing like that." he smirked.
"Oh! Um." I quickly stood up and away from the piano. "I thought no one else was here, wait. Why are you here?" I asked.
"I'm a student here." he answered.
"But the first day was yesterday and I didn't see you there." I pointed out.
"That's because I thought yesterday was moving day." Dan answered as he walked closer to me.
"That was stupid." I giggled. "Of course, all of we made stu-"I stopped when I realized what I did the last time I met him. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
Oh, now you remember. Rio commented from her pokéball.
"Shut up." I growled to her quietly.
"What?" Dan asked.
"Nothing!" I said quickly. "Maybe we should- Ah!" I tripped over the piano bench. I was about to faceplant in the floor, when someone caught me. I saw my vision go black as they did.
"No! Go away!"
"She can't handle it!"
"Aero! Ancient Power!"
"No! Sissy!"
"It hurts! Ahhhhh!"
I gasped as I was back on my feet. The voices were gone. I looked up towards Dan who had a worried look on his face.
"You okay?" he asked.
"I'm fine." I nodded. I took a deep breath. What was that? Those voices sounded familiar and Aero's name was one of them. Does Dad have anything to do about this? Should I ask him? No. It's probably nothing to worry about.
"Maybe we should get some fresh air." Dan suggested. "Let's go." he grabbed my hand and dragged me out the door.
"Ouch!" I pulled my hand back as his hand shocked mines when he touched it.
"Sorry." he said.
"It's fine." I waved it off. "Where do you want to go?" I asked as we walked down the hall.
"The town?" he suggested.
"Sure." I nodded. We decided to walk over there. It wasn't that far, and we could catch up on our way there.
"So what have you've been doing for the last year ever since you ran away from me?" Dan asked.
"Way to put it bluntly." I joked. He shrugged. "And I have just been travelling. Training. Even catching a new pokémon." I answered.
"Can I see it?" he asked.
"Not now." I shook my head. "She needs some rest in her pokéball. What about you? What have you been doing?"
"Me? About the same as you. I even convinced the staff to give me an application to enroll me in this school." Dan answered.
"Well, they basically accept anyone." I mumbled.
Especially crazy people. Rio added.
"There she is! Get her!" Speaking of crazy, I turned around to see a mad mob of girls rushing towards me.
"We have to move!" I grabbed Dan's hand and started to run.
"Why?" he asked as he ran behind me.
"Crazy fangirls!" I answered as we turned a corner. The path led to a part of the town. I ducked under a store sign as we ran through one of the alleyways.
"Ow!" Clearly, Dan didn't duck.
I turned to another corner where it led to a smaller alley. I ducked into there and pulled Dan in. Discreetly, I created an invisible barrier so the fangirls won't be able to see us. They passed and I let it down.
"Good." I sighed. "They're gone."
"And why were they after you?" Dan asked when I looked back up at him.
"I came to this school with some of my friends and we were friends with some boys who came here the year earlier and became popular for some reason." I muttered the last part. "And the fangirls have been jealous since we always hang out with them."
"Have you ever tried battling them? You know, to show them that you're not someone to mess with?" Dan suggested.
"Already did that before school even started." I countered. "And now, it seems like every one of my friends has a rival from that crazy fan club."
"Sounds like a good year for you." Dan joked.
"It really does." I rolled my eyes. I blushed when I realized how close our bodies are to each other. By close, I mean really close. By really close, I mean that the only thing separating our bodies from touching each other were our clothes. "M-maybe we should get out of this alley. I don't even know why I chose this place to in hide in."
"Yeah. Just let me-." Dan scooted out first, but our legs were tangled up and when he got out, I landed on top of him.
"I'm so sorry!" I blushed as I pushed myself off of his chest.
"It's fine." he said as he sat up. I crawled off of him and sat to the concrete as he stood up. When he offered me a hand, I took it.
"Sorry for dragging you into this mess." I looked down at my feet.
"It's fine. Actually, that was the most fun I had in awhile!" he grinned.
"Your sense of fun is different than mines." I smiled as I walked back to the main street of the town.
"Come on. When was the last time you were in a moment that awkward?" Dan asked as he walked beside me.
I blushed as I thought back to when X and I were handcuffed together. That was embarrassing since we were stuck like that for three months! Or maybe was it the time where he saw me naked? That was pretty weird. and if he ever does it again, I'll pummel him!
"My friends and I do a lot of crazy stuff so that's a long list." I answered him. "Actually, they're more like my family since they're all my foster siblings."
"You're in foster care?" Dan asked me.
"Yeah." I nodded. "My parents died when I was little and I lost all memories of them. A guy named Satoshi took me in a little over a year ago where I met my friends, who were also in foster care. We had a lot of fun together. And we also like to prank each other. Though a certain someone takes things a bit too far." I thought of Blue. And maybe Gold. But mainly Blue. "Nonetheless, we're close. Satoshi enrolled our foster brothers in this school last year and now, all of us are enrolled."
"Satoshi? I feel like I heard of that name before." Dan scratched his head.
"He's a teacher here." I told him. "He's a homeroom teacher and a battling teacher."
"That's where I heard that name! He's my battling teacher." Dan exclaimed.
"Yeah. But he only teaches the highest class, Rise to a Master. And he's really tough." I told him. "My entire class got wiped out by just his Pikachu, even me. I lasted longer than everyone else by some miracle." I lied. It really pains me, but I kept a fake smile on my face.
"Last hour?" he asked.
I nodded. "That's the only class for the entire day."
"Then it looks like I'm in your class." Dan said.
"Hopefully we get to battle then." I smiled
Suddenly, I felt a blast of cold wind hit me. I shivered as I was surrounded by it.
"Are you cold?" Dan asked.
"A little bit." I answered as I wrapped my hand around my arms to warm myself up. It's still the beginning of August, but why is it suddenly so cold on a sunny day?!
"Scarlett! We need your help!" I saw Blue run up the street.
Now? Really? "Sorry, but I got to go." I said to Dan as I ran towards Blue. "Bye!" I shouted to him.
I don't know why, but I have a bad feeling about that guy. Rio said.
What kind of bad feeling? I asked.
I don't know. Some kind of dark aura though. Rio answered. It's like he's up to something.
X's POV
Perfect timing as always Blue. Thank Arceus.
"Gen. Gengar." Lasma faded into view in front of me as I looked from behind a building.
"Great job Lasma." I told him before returning him to his pokéball. Now, should follow Blue and Scarlett or that guy she was with?
"X! Why are you hiding behind a building like a creep?!"
I jumped and turned around. I saw that Crystal and White were glaring at me with stacks of paper in their arms.
"Oh. Well-" I need to think up of an excuse.
"Blue told us that you followed Scarlett when she headed towards the Lounge, really? Spying on her?" White raised a brow.
"This is a new low." Crystal shook her head. Heh, if only she knew of all the things that happened between Scarlett and I. She would probably kick me out of this world. Literally.
"I didn't mean it. I was going to talk to her about something when I saw her walk out of the Lounge with that guy." I pointed to the brunet who was walking away. "Than they were chased by the fangirls so I had Lasma follow them. I spotted them here and when Lasma told me what happened, I told him to chase him away." I said quietly.
White whacked my on the head with a piece of rolled paper. "You don't go snooping in a girl's life! Next time, just leave her be!" she scolded me.
"Fine." I pouted as I rubbed the spot where she hit me.
"Now, can you help us with these? They're heavy." Crystal asked as she passed me the stack of paper in her arms. White did the same.
Struggling, I had to carry them all the way back to the café, which luckily wasn't that far. We walked in and a bell chimed over the door. I placed the stacks of paper down on the counter and took a deep breath.
"Wow! These menus look great!" Blue commented as she picked one up.
"But what took you so long?" Gold asked.
"We had to stop when we caught X spying on Scarlett." Crystal glared at me.
"I wasn't spying!" I exclaimed.
"By the way you described it to us, it sounded like spying." White countered.
"Oh! So you finally decided to spy on Scarlett than?" Blue raised a brow. "Why? Was it because of that guy she was with?" When I said nothing, she grinned widely. "I knew it! Do you know anything about him?"
"No." I shook my head. "But Scarlett certainly does. I think she called him Dan or something? He must go this school if he's here."
"Silver?" Blue looked at him.
"Already on it." Silver said as he typed away on a laptop. "Dan Kuso. 17 years old. Fourth year. Just transferred this year. Preferred type, fire. Born in Orre, raised in Mauville, Hoenn. No information on any family, but it says that he never returned home ever since starting on his journey." Silver reported.
"Did you hack into the school system?" Crystal asked.
"It's really easy. You would think a school this high up would have better security." Silver shrugged. "By the way, Gold has been installing security cameras in your house."
"I told you not to tell anyone!" Gold exclaimed.
Silver simply shrugged. "They would've figured it out."
"That is a major invasion of privacy!" Crystal shouted at him. "You pervert!" she kicked him out through the door.
"Did he see anything?" Blue asked.
"He hasn't gotten a chance to connect them up yet." Silver answered.
"White, Whi-Two, when we get back to our house, check for cameras anywhere." Blue told them. They nodded.
"Blue, I know that I saw Scarlett walk with you so where is she?" I asked, getting back on task.
"I sent her out to hang up posters for this place." Blue said as she held one up.
"Since when did you have time to design and copy those?" Yellow asked.
"Late last night. I designed this while we were designing the other stuff and snuck out to copy these!" Blue answered as she held up a poster with the café logo on it.
I'm getting tired of just being here. We're finished everything for getting this place set up so maybe I should go bail.
"Well, I'm off." I said as I headed towards the door.
"Hold up!" Blue stopped me. Damn, does that woman ever leave us be? "We still need some work on my campaign!"
Oh joy. This is going to be fun. By the way, that was sarcasm.
Yellow's POV
"Something wrong Blue?" I asked her as I walked towards the table she was sitting at. We finished with the café so everyone was hanging around town. Blue and I were still inside.
"It's nothing. Just something that has been bothering me since last year and that just sparked in me when we got here." she answered.
"What is it?" I sat across from her.
"Ash and Gary. The names and faces both sound and look familiar, but I don't know where." she replied.
"They do live in Pallet Town. Maybe they're from your childhood or something." I suggested.
"That's it!" she exclaimed. "That's where! They used to be my best friends when I was little! We played together all the time until-" her face dropped as she stopped.
"It's fine." I told her. "That's behind us. We can forget about it."
"But what about them? What if they remembered me?" Blue asked.
"Blue, if they haven't recognized you now, they would. You even go by a different name so it's very unlikely." I told her. "If Ash wasn't about to recognize his own twin sister, than I doubt the two boys would be able to remember you."
"Actually, I do remember Ashley." Blue said quietly.
"What?" I was surprised.
"I was just acting when I first met her. I knew that she was one of my best friends when I was little. When I saw her again, it seemed like she didn't remember me. If she didn't remember me, then I didn't want to bring it back up." she said quietly. "When we went to Pallet Town to check her past, I was determined to find out what really happened to her."
"But shouldn't you have?" I asked her.
"No. At the same time I was kidnapped, she was in that accident." Blue shook her head. "Everyone heard about me, but no one heard about Ashley. Ever. They all acted like she didn't exist."
"Just like her mother." I muttered.
"Exactly. Something must have happened for an entire town to cover it up. Even though she doesn't remember me, I am determined to figure out what happened. She was my best friend back then, and she is still one of them." a tear slid down Blue's cheek.
"You're not alone then." I placed a hand on her shoulder. "All of us will figure out what happened."
"But what if she suddenly remembers?" Blue realized. "Family Day is next week and I'm sure that everyone's parents will come. Delia included. If she sees her long lost daughter and her husband-"
"I'm sure she won't realize that it's them." I pointed out.
"Trust me Yellow, a mother will be able to see who is her child. When I ran into my mother after ten years on one of our missions, I saw tears in her eyes. She knew it was me. And Delia will know that Scarlett is her Ashley." Blue countered.
"Than we'll keep them away from each other. We can't let them even see each other." I suggested.
"Now that we're here, we have to be extra careful." Blue said. "Ash will wise up and see his sister who he had no memories of. Gary will be the hardest since he hung out with us all the time too. He will see that Scarlett is Ashley and tell Ash."
Ding!
We turned around towards the door to see Gary standing there. He had a shocked expression on his face. Oh no! He must have heard our conversation!
"Aw shit!" Blue groaned.
"She's- she's - Scarlett is actually- " Gary stuttered.
"Should just knock him out or take of him for good?" Blue asked me.
"Blue!" I scolded her. "We are not killing him!"
"So we're knocking him out then?" she looked at me. "Okay!"
Thud!
I looked back towards Gary who were unconscious on the floor with a hovering flying pan behind him.
"Good job Ditty!" Blue smiled.
I facepalmed. She just made this a lot worse.
We had to carry the unconscious boy behind the counter so no one will be able to see him. Geez, he is heavy! Or am I just weak? Eh, it may be both.
"Ah!" Gary gasped as Blue threw a bucket, or Ditty, I can't tell at this point, filled with cold water at his face.
"Blue!" I scolded her.
"What? What happened?!" he asked frantically.
"You just fainted in front of our business! And we don't need stray bodies when we're opening up a place!" Blue lied.
"No. No, that's not it. It was-" he sat up with his eyes wide. "Ashley!"
"And you would think hitting him would make him forget." Blue mumbled to herself.
"But that's impossible! She was- she was-" Gary muttered.
"She was what?!" Blue shook him.
"Wait a minute." he stopped her. "How do you know her?"
"Blue, you should really tell him." I told her. "Plus he will figure it out sooner or later."
"Tell me what?" he glared at us.
"Fine." she huffed. She took off her gloves and showed us the inside of her wrists. On her right wrist, there was a burn shaped like a leaf. On her left, there was three burns in total, two flames and one drop of water.
"Leaf?" Gary looked up at her.
"Who else do you know have burns like these? I know that you, Ash, and-" she choked back a sob "Ashley have them. Each of them different. It was our secret markings to show that we were all best friends."
I saw that Gary frantically moved his watch and the wristband on his other hand and showed us his wrist. His right wrist had a drop of water while his left had a leaf and two flames.
"Greenie?" Blue whispered.
"There's only person who calls me that." Gary said.
Blue just broke out sobbing in front of us. Gary slowly moved her to his chest.
I feel like I'm really intruding on this moment so I decided to exit through the kitchen. They need this little moment.
Gary's POV
Is this real? Is this really real? A girl who was one of my best friends just told me that she was in front of me the entire time.
When Blue, Leaf, I don't know what to call her, stopped crying, she sat in front of me.
"Le-"I started, but she cut me off.
"Please, just call me Blue. It's easier." she said.
"Okay. Blue." I nodded. "Where have you been? Last time I heard, you were kidnapped."
"By a bird pokémon." she finished. "I was taken to a shady facility where I was tortured and worked under a dictator who called herself the Shadow Lady. I escaped along with my faux little brother and Satoshi found us and took us in."
I knew that she was still lying. "Blue, tell me the truth."
"But that is the truth! Don't you trust me, Greenie?" she pouted.
"I forgot how annoying that nickname was." I muttered. "The last part you told me was a lie."
"Geez, after all these years and you can still see when I'm lying." she rolled her eyes. "Fine. It's true about Satoshi taking us in, but that's not his real name."
"Shocker." I rolled my eyes.
"He's Red." she said quietly.
"Red as in-"I widen my eyes.
"Missing Kanto Champion as well as the father of Ashton and Allison Ketchum." she nodded.
"So that was why you were sneaking around the Hall!" I exclaimed.
"Really? Was that what you got from that?" she scowled at me. "I just told you that your best friend's missing, nearly forgotten, long lost twin sister was still alive and her father showed up out of nowhere!"
Right! Ashley! "How did you meet her?" I asked Blue.
"I didn't. She met us." Blue said. "I'm surprised you didn't recognize her when her face and name were all over the media when she won all of the Pokémon Leagues!"
Oh! So that was where I knew her from! Wow. Ash's stupidity was really rubbing off on me. "But didn't the media said that she disappeared mysteriously?"
"That's what they always say." Blue shook her head. "In reality, she joined us and met her father again. She changed everything about herself and we dived deeper into her past. But we only gotten so far, and she knows that we were finding out her past that she doesn't even know."
"What about Ash than? And me? Does she remember us?" I asked.
"She doesn't remember anything. When I met her, she didn't remember me. You saw how she didn't recognize you or Ash. How were you able to forget her?" Blue asked me.
"When that accident happened, we were young. Gramps convinced us that nothing happened. Somehow, he convinced Ash that he didn't have a sister since he was caught up in it. I forgot about her. I forgot about you." I replied.
"It's fine. It's doesn't matter. Ash doesn't know about Ashley nor does she him. Their own mother refuses to talk about her own daughter or her husband."
"Something must've happened to make that happen. I have to talk to Gramps about this." I stood up.
"No!" Blue grabbed my hand. "Please don't tell anyone. Especially, Ash, Ashley, or Red. They would hate all of us just because we knew. We hid it from Ashley for the longest of time and I don't want her to know. Please, don't tell anyone." she pleaded with me.
I feel conflicted. I want to tell my best friend that his sister and best friends were still alive and existed, but Blue's look. I have never seen her to vulnerable. I think that it was those moments when we were kids, but I conceited.
"Fine. I won't tell anyone about what we said about you or Ashley." I sighed.
"Thank you." Blue sighed. "By the way, Greenie, you should really watch your back. Best friends or not, I'm determined to take that president seat from you." she smirked as she stood up.
I smiled. That's the Leaf I remember.
Don't kill me. Please. I had too. It would make more sense.
And the outfit ideas I got mainly from the anime, manga and games. Blue's is obvious, Yellow is my own creation, X's is from the game with the different clothes they have, Crystal's is Marina's, Gold's is his GSC outfit, Silver's is his HGSS beta, Emerald is his ORAS outfit, Black's and White's are also original while Whi's and Lack's are their 'school' outfits in the Pokestar Studios.
And my laptop is acting up so much lately that updating or publishing one chapter would take two hours. Yeah. It sucks.
So see you all next time. Don't forget to review!
-AKCC, signing out!