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Jessie was soon a respected
member of the Bridge Bike gang in Sunny Town. She was called 'Big Jess', to be
the opposite of Lil' Jim. Jessie had become the complete opposite of James,
while she was away. Or maybe on the way to Sunny Town. Or maybe both. All
maybes, all possibilities. Jessie didn't like to choose. She wanted the world
to be shaped at what she wanted, instead of letting the world shape her.
'James?' Jessie began, as
soon as she crawled in his tent. It was convenient that they had tents now, so
that they didn't get rained wet. 'I...I have to tell you something.' She said
simply, matter of factly. She still hadn't told him about everything,
everything she had been hiding and lying about. Maybe James would forgive her
if she told him now. It had to be done now, she thought, or else it will be too
late. It's like in weddings. 'Everyone who objects to this marriage, let them
speak now, or forever be silent. I don't want to be silent forever...
But then she saw James
sleeping, his lips slightly parted and the stroke of lavender hair that was
always in his face, moved slowly with the rhythm of his breathing. Her
heartbeat got faster, as she watched him sleep.
Suddenly she couldn't stand
the idea of James hating her, despising her because of her lies. She sighed in
defeat, she had a change of heart in the last minutes at the final moment.
Then I have to be silent
forever... Jessie thought, as she sadly zipped up the tent when she had crawled
out.
She trained her Pokemon
secretly, not letting the members of the gang see them.
In one battle, she nearly
cried of joy when her Dratini, Surfy, evolved after a long time training. She
stopped at the last second. Quiet Jessie! She thought to herself. You can't let
them know of your secrets! She then hugged
it, softly whispering 'You are you beautiful now! Even more then before. I love
you very much, Surfy. Please keep quiet, okay?' She had told all of her Pokemon
she had of her secrets. They where the one she could talk to, her secrets where
safe with them. They couldn't object because she couldn't understand them, but
as time and training passed, Jessie began to understand their body language,
and later some of their words, and their intonation. She felt safe, as long as
she had her Pokemon with her on her belt under her skirt.
To keep her 'though'
appearance in the gang, she swayed a long iron chain above her head, while she
rode on her given bike. Jessie was sure the bike she got was stolen, but she
didn't object. A bike stolen wasn't that bad, she figured.
She was so happy that James
was with her, that she had found him. James didn't seem too bothered about she
leaving him at Pokemon Tech, but Jessie was afraid to bring it up. She made
some new friends too, Tara, Chopper's boyfriend was her closest friend. Tara
always wanted to talk about guys, and why Jessie didn't have a boyfriend.
Jessie quickly brushed it off by telling her she just had a tough break-up
after her. In a way, that was the case, but Rino hadn't been her boyfriend. Not
exactly.
Jessie went back to her own
tent. She picked up the Pokeballs of Flammie, Surfy, Seedy and Jiggly and
covered them in a thick blanket. Thunder, who still refused to go in a
Pokeball, lay in her sleeping bag, at the back end. She snuggled into the
sleeping bag and tickled Thunder with her toes. Feeling safe now that Thunder
was there, she tried to sleep. But then her thoughts drifted away to Rino,
James and everything else again, as it always did.
Waking up, she didn't feel
very refreshed. 'Oh my...' She sighed as she stretched her arms while she
crawled out of her tent. James was already making breakfast for the entire
gang. He always did that, and he was very good at making breakfast too. Jessie
often ate too much of it, after which she slept in again. That was her actual
sleep, not the sweaty nightmares who left her more tired than which she slept
in. James often waited until she awoke then, Jessie waking up with James' face
in her vision, his hair strangely matching the sky in which his face was
portrayed in.
She always smiled. 'Thanks
for waiting for me', and they where off to another day of bike riding, coming
back late at night. Then the nightmares came again. Jessie was glad to be away
the whole day, to keep her mind of her thoughts that came hunting her in a
moment of nothing to do.
'James!' She yelled, as the
police with their Growlithes and Spinaraks came after him, after he tried to
steal a bike for another new member. She looked at him riding away fast on his
bike with the cute training wheels. Jessie had grown to think that it was cute,
but they slowed him down in all the races they had. The little wheels just
couldn't keep up with the big ones. Now it was the same story, but this time,
it was real. Besides, the Jennies all had motorcycles, and their Growlithes
were trained to run as fast as they could and keep that up for a long time,
while James didn't like to train on his bike. He preferred cooking and talking
with everyone.
Jessie was too afraid to do
more, like help James get away. What if they catch me? Jessie thought worried.
What if they find out that my mother was a part of team Rocket, and that I was
one for a brief moment too? I can't let them catch me...
Then an image of James
flooded to her thoughts again.
But James! What would happen
to James if I don't do anything! Oh, please, don't let them catch him. He's the
only one I have left....
She didn't look at what
happened to James, she just ran off. Ran off, like she had always done. Always
on the run, always hiding for the world, for her thoughts and for her past.
Jessie sighed.
I can't take anymore of
this, she thought, as she heard that the sirenes of the agents had stopped.
That must mean that they
have caught James. Oh, James, what will I do? Please help me with these decisions...
