January 2nd, 2001 – Celadon City

Ned woke early and got out of the house as soon as he could, he could
hear his mother snoring in her room and snuck out quietly as not to
wake her. As it was way to early to go to Kelly's place, he decided
to go to the department store to stock up on supplies. He wanted to
get some carbo's for his fighting/ground type pokemon and some
potions and heals. Starting at the food section, he passed two
noisy, hugging females and looked for his pokemon's favourite brand.
Once he had his shopping done, he sighed with relief as he left the
noisy crowded store. He always hated crowds and the Celadon
department store was the worst when it was busy. Luckily it was
early, but he could still feel a headache coming on. Looking at his
watch he decided that it was time to wake Kelly. Of course she
wouldn't be happy about it, but they had to leave soon and who knows
how long it would take her to get ready.
"Yo, Ned! What's up?" a boy from the tech department was sitting out
the front of HQ smoking.
"Hi, not much. You working today?" Ned recognised the boy as a
friend of Kelly's.
"Yeah, at least I'm supposed to be!" he offered a cigarette to
Ned, "Here, want one?" Ned shook his head. "Ah, whatever." The boy
said. "Hey I heard your leavin today, man that must be great getting
to spend all that time with Kelly. She's a total babe!"
What's this guy on about? Thought Ned. He obviously hadn't seen the
state of her room.
"Yeah, well." Said Ned, "I guess I just have luck." Yeah, bad luck,
he thought as he waved goodbye and went inside. Heading up the
stairs he wasn't surprised to hear a familiar voice chattering away.
"What are you complaining about? Its your favourite food so damm
well eat it." He rounded the corner to find Kelly in the hallway
dragging a bag of garbage. She looked up and grinned at him.
"Hi! Bet you thought you'd be waking me up didn't you? Sparky woke
me up early because he was hungry and now won't even eat anything."
She shook her fist in the direction of her pokemon, who was sitting
in the doorway of her room watching her. "I swear, he gives me so
much trouble, but I love him anyway, don't I Sparky-warky! Yes I do,
mummy loves you!" Sparky licked himself. Kelly dragged her garbage
bag across to the rubbish shoot and pushed it in.
"There! That outta do it!" she said proudly.
You'd need another twelve of those just to see the floor, Ned thought
but said nothing.
"Okay, I'm ready to go! Sparky, return!" her Jolteon returned to its
ball. "Lets get out of this dump, onto the road, out in the
elements, braving the dangers!"
Seeing that his partner was getting carried away, Ned decided that it
was time they left. Kelly skipped the whole way out of town, Ned's
headache grew worse.
"What kind of pokemon are you," Kelly sang as she skipped, "How do
you do the things you do..."
They headed east down route 7 for Saffron City.