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Beyond the Shadows – It's You I See
She watched them leave through a gap in the trees outside the Hazelton Pokemon Centre. They were undoubtedly heading towards the Pokemon gym on the other side of town. Where else was there to go, Hazelton was pretty empty once you looked beyond the gym.
She sighed as she realized she would have to find something else to do with her day.
Sure she loved to see him, no matter what he was doing, but she had better things to do with her time than to watch him watch the younger boy with the black hair and brown eyes battle his Pokemon against the Hazelton gym leader; no matter how cute it was to watch the boy and the girl interact.
(A/N: Amazing how even stalker chick thinks they make a cute couple)
She decided to head to the library. She'd sat and watched him through one of the battles once before, they could take hours which meant for at least an hour she would have to find something else to take her away from reality.
She hated reality. Reality hurt. Reality is just a big, nasty, vicious dragon and she did her best not to believe in dragons. They were one of the many things that helped her escape.
It was on her way back from the library that things really started to get interesting.
Knowing she had an unlimited amount of time to burn before she got the chance to see him again she took the scenic route back to the Pokemon Centre. This was the route that took her through the wandering paths of the Hazelton reserve.
She walked silently through the park, subconsciously walking through the shadows from instinct and reading her book as she walked preferring the tales of princes and princesses and happily ever afters to her lonesome reality. It was then that she suddenly felt herself walk into something solid jarring her from her book and her fantasy world and causing her to drop all her books.
She sighed inwardly as she bent down to grab her books from the ground.
She felt a warm gaze upon her and saw an extra pair of hands collecting the books around her. They reached out for the same book and she felt a spark flow through her body.
It was amazing, the hairs on the back of her neck stood up straight and her stomach filled with thousands of tiny Butterfree. She felt something there that she had never even known existed, but it seemed that it did because she felt it.
She looked up to find the identity of her mysterious stranger. She suppressed a gasp as she recognized his dark brown hair, tanned features and black eyes.
She reminded herself to breathe, not to go all crazy on him and to just stay calm. She didn't think this day would ever happen, but here it was unplanned as if fate had meant it to happen.
She suddenly realized that it hadn't just been a trick for her mind, the way she was feeling now proved that. She was honestly in love with Brock Slate as she had been for about as long as she could remember.
'Say something,' she told herself.
"Sorry," she said biting down nervously on her lip. She hoped she wouldn't draw blood; she was biting it so hard as she waited for his response.
"N-no, i-it's ok," he stuttered nervously.
He blushed and looked away but she didn't notice this, she had looked away first. Her cheeks felt warm and she knew she was blushing, something she hadn't done in a long time.
"So you like fantasy books?" he asked.
She looked up to meet his gaze then shyly looked back down.
"I guess so," she replied.
She held back the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes. He felt nothing for her, she wasn't pretty enough, she wasn't smart enough, and she just wasn't enough. She wasn't like Nurse Joy, or Officer Jenny. He could never look at her the way he looked at them, and the thought just made her sad.
She looked down, not because she was shy or embarrassed. She looked down because she didn't want him to see the sadness and tears welling in her eyes as she came to a realization.
'But what about that spark?' her mind asked. 'He felt it to you can't deny that. What about fate? It was destiny that both of you be walking through here the same day and that you should meet like this. There's something there.'
She thought it over, she just wasn't sure anymore. She had spent so long just watching, just praying that he could love her. She never thought she would ever see him face to face, she always just thought she would spend her life watching.
"Sometimes you just need to get away from reality," she sighed sadly.
"I get that," Brock replied. "I'm Brock Slate," he said moving the books slightly so he could hold them with one hand before offering her his freehand.
She adjusted her own books and gladly took his hand in hers. She felt the spark flow through her again as their hands connected. She knew he felt it to, she just knew that it wasn't her mind playing tricks on her. His grip was warm and strong; she didn't ever want to let him go.
"I'm Garnet Pebble," she told him.
"That's a beautiful name," Brock commented.
Garnet blushed. "Thank you Brock," she smiled looking up to meet his eyes as she said his name.
He held her gaze and she felt the chemistry between them. This was just her imagination; at least she hoped it wasn't. She saw something in his eyes she didn't recognize. It was different from what she was use to seeing – hate, loathing and any other negative feelings you wanted to throw into the mix – this was so completely different from those. This was love.
"It's my favourite stone," she added playing with a silver chain with a pendant hanging around her neck. This was something she often did when she was nervous and just the thought of herself standing near the thing she had admired from a distance for so long made her nervous.
The two began to walk together back in the direction she had come from. She was surprised to find that it wasn't at all awkward like she had expected it to be. It seemed perfect; it was comfortable as if they had known each other forever.
"Where are you . . ." they both started at the same time. They both laughed.
"You go first," Brock insisted.
"No you," she replied.
Brock smiled. "I was just going to ask you where you are from," he said slightly shyly.
Garnet smiled too. "I was actually going to ask you the same thing," she told him. "I'm from a place in Kanto called Pewter."
She was glad that she could be completely honest with Brock. She didn't have to use false names or any of those other things that she usually used. She could finally just be herself with someone, someone that seemed to like plain old ordinary Garnet Pebble
"Really?" Brock asked. "That's where I'm from, I'm actually the gym leader."
"No way?" she asked. "I though you looked familiar. Me and my friend Rochelle used to have the biggest crush on you in Grade school." She giggled at the thought but blushed as she realized what she had said.
"I remember now," Brock smiled. "Rochelle Thompson, right?" Garnet nodded. "Yes, you always wore your hair in braids."
"You have a very good memory," Garnet told him. "It all seems like a lifetime ago."
"So what are you doing in Hazelton?" Brock asked.
"I'm performing with this group," she told him.
She sighed inwardly. It was the first time she had lied to him and she hated it already. She felt extremely guilty and she just wanted to tell him the truth. But then she couldn't tell him that she was here because he was. Things were going too perfect and she didn't want to ruin that.
As they walked together until it got dark they reminisced of their days in grade school and of their homeland, Pewter City.
They watched the sunset in the distance, and Garnet found that for the first time in her life she felt whole and complete and she never wanted to let that feeling go.
She sighed as they had to part ways. She watched him go in and she watched him ignore Nurse Joy.
And for the first time in a long time she smiled, genuinely, as that little bit of hope left in her found a reason to shine.
~ to be continued ~
So now you all know stalker chicks target and name I no longer have to refer to them as stalker chick and stalker chicks target.
She's not really a stalker chick anymore but I promise that things will get interesting. I had this whole like dark plot planned out but then I started to like Garnet and I felt sorry for her so that kind of ruined that trail which means I have to come up with something else to get to that ending so the chapters might get further and further apart not like I update regularly anyway.
Please review especially if you have any idea's of where I can go from here.
