A/N WOW!! Sorry about the confusion! This is the REAL chapter 20 that was accidentally missed when I was fixing th numbers of the chapters! Sorry about that! Enjoy!
Chapter XX- Welcome Home Party
We walked outside along the beach until we got to my house. I always loved the way my house looked from the shore, with all the glass windows and red roofs and doors. It was a large house, almost as big as Erika's! It was two floors with a big yard and lots of little prunned trees. It even had a sauna and a front gate. That house was and is my dream house. Mom and Dad both worked hard to get it the way it is, and they deserve a vacation as much as I do. I went up to the front gate and rang the bell.
"Yes? Who is it?" I heard Jeffery say.
"Guess who's home!" I said and the gates instantly opened.
"Marcy!!" I heard my mom call, and she opened the front door, running out, "Marcy!! Erika!! And??!!" She ran up to me and hugged me tight.
"This is Jarod mom!" I said and he took her hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Blaze." He said and kissed it.
"My! Such a polite young man! Marcy is he your boyfriend?"
"MOM!!!" I said and turned a radish colored shade of red. "No. He's the boy I met when you sent me to pokemon tech, remember?
"Oh! So you are the Jarod! Please come in everyone! Erika! It's so nice to see you! How have you been sweet heart? You have to tell me all about how your pokemon are! Oh, your parents went on vacation and asked if you would like to stay with us! I said it would be wonderful, so after the party, you can go over there and get the stuff you need. And who are these adorable pokemon??!!!" She said and practicly had a heart attack when she saw Raichu and Charizard. She picked Raichu up and pet his head.
"This is Raichu mom. He's a pikablu." I said and watched him carefully. Party? "Raichu, this is my mom."
"Raichu! Rai chu chu Rai!" *Hello! Nice to met you!^_^* We all followed my mom into the house as she held Raichu in her arms and admired his adorable blue eyes. I walked into the house and got a full force welcome home. Every where I looked, my friends and my family were all saying how happy they were to see me and how proud of me they all were. There was a big banner hung across the stair case that said, 'Welcome home Marcy and Erika!'
"You did all this for us? But, how did you know we were coming?" I asked as Aunt Marcia came down the stairs and gave me, Erika, and Jarod a peice of cake.
"Blaine asked Koga if he could call him after your battle with him so we could get everyone here and ready! And I got your favorite ice cream cake for the beginning of your vacation!" She said and Jeffery started up some party music.
"Thanks mom! But you know what I would really love?" I said putting down the cake.
"What's that hunny, anything." She said begining to dance to the music.
"To take a nice hot sauna bath!" I said and ran down stairs, but dogged behind the banister.
"Yeah! All right!" Erika yelled and ran after me and dogged behind the other one.
"Hurry hunny! I'll bring your new clothes down for you! Jarod, I'm sorry! Would you like one too? A bath I mean?"
"That would be great!" He said eagerly.
"Wonderful! There's the men's private bath upstairs! You can have it all to yourself! By the way, what size T-Shirt are you?"
"Oh! That's not nessesary, but thanks..."
"Non-sense! You have to look good if you're going to impress my little girl!"
"Well, size large...but only if you insist!"
"Then in that case I do! Go ahead! I'll leave it at the door for you!"
"Thank you very much Mrs.Blaze!" He began to run up the stairs and mom said,
"It's nothing hunny, a friend of Marcy, is a friend of mine!" She said and continued the party.
Me and Erika both ran down the stairs that led to the bath and took a left to get all of our clothes and stuff organized. I put all my stuff away and grabbed a towel, after I had taken the peice of T-shirt out of my hair. Raichu closed his eyes while I put my towl on, and Erika put Charizard back into his pokeball. Erika put her watch infront of her stuff so that she could see what time it was when we got out. We walked back to the right part of the downstairs that had slidding glass doors that led to a magnifficantly huge sauna. It had huge decorated pillars that held the ceiling up and a small fountian in the middle. I took off my towl and slipped in, it was nice to take a hot bath. Erika didn't take off her towl though, but I guess she was just a little shy.
"Ahh! It's nice to have such a hot bath after such a long time of only cold showers!" I said as I watched Raichu swim back and forth in the water. "Raichu you're a natural!" I said and watched as he began to sink. I swam over to him and held him up so he could regain his balance.
"How come you didn't send Raichu upstairs with Jarod?" Erika asked and I let go of him.
"Well.....Raichu doesn't know Jarod too well...and I thought he would be more comfortable with me." I said thinking of a quick excuse, because in reality, that was a very good question. Anyway, I didn't really care. He was a pokemon after all. I sat back and relaxed for a while, while Erika swam over to one of the small waterfalls and washed her self for a while. I felt Raichu swim past my feet every so often, and I tickled him a little with my toes.
"Oh girls! I have your new clothes all ready for you! I'll put them it the cubbies next to your stuff!" I heard my mother yell.
"Thanks mom! How's the party going?"
"Everyone's expecting you, and Jarod said he would be out in a minute, so hurry along!" She walked over to the glass door and opened it. "It's so steamy in here! Marcy, how can you stand it?"
"When you take cold showers for a week or so straight, ya need the heat!" I said and grabbed Raichu.
"How is it Erika?" Mom asked.
"Just fine thanks!^_^()" She continued to wash her hair facing the wall.
"Mom, can you do me a favor?" I asked and picked Raichu up out of the bath. "Can you take him and start drying him off? I still have to wash my hair."
"Sure honey! Oh! You're so cute!" She reached for his cheaks to pull, but I warned her,
"Mom, this is a high voltage Raichu, you don't want to do that. Especially when he's wet."
"Right honey. Of course. What was I thinking!!??" She exagerated. She picked him up under the arms, took the towel she was holding, and rubbed his back. "We'll be upstairs waiting."
"K Thanks!" After mom walked out I swam to the other little waterfall and began to wash my hair. Erika finally finished washing her hair and went to go get dressed while I was washing my back.
Once I did decide to get out however, I put on my dry towel and dried off. Erika by this time was already dressed and drying her hair in the seperate room off of the changing one. The door was closed so, I asumed she wanted something to be a surprise. I got dressed, and put on my new shoes, which were a little big. But mom said that if they were a little big they were the perfect size because I would grow into them. Mom gave me a red shirt(my favorite color), with sleaves that kind of puffed out to reveal more of my shoulders. Along that it had a green band. She also left a pair of clean underwear (MOM!) and a new pair of boy fit shorts that were yellow with black stripes down the sides. They were longer and loser than the girls shorts, which I like best, and with that she also left a black belt(Implying that I should tuck the shirt in!!). I looked through some more and I found a yellow and black cap with a new backpack. Erika probobly got the same one as me. I looked through the back pack and discovered a note from my mom...
Marcy,
Hope you like the new gear, I got you.(I found it in a store in New Bark Town, Jhoto.) I'm really proud of you and Erika for taking on such a major task. But if you dream big dreams, your adventures are going to be too. That's why I also left you in there, (side pocket), a cell phone and mini-radio. In case you get home sick or need something. (Prefferably not money) However, if that time does come, you know I'll be here. I also left you a little something for your favorite pokemon. Dad got some new type of balls to study called Master Balls. He got three of them and thought you girls would like the other two. (He only needs one to examine, and anyway, he found a way to clone them.) If you drop them off with dad, he can alter them for you to fit your pokemon's needs. (There's also a chain to carry it on. I gave Erika something different.^_^) There's also a ticket for the S.S. Aqua and the Magnet Train in there, that lets you travel back and fourth between Jhoto and Kento easily. And never forget, you're always my little girl, no matter how old you are.
Best of Luck and all of Love,
Mom
I finished reading the letter then put my hair behind my ears, and the cap on backwards. I tucked in the shirt, then pulled it out a little,which actually looked really good, and put the chain with the pokeball holder around my neck. I rummeged through the back pack some more and found the Master Ball. I pressed the button on it to make it larger so I could see the design of it. It was a dark purple color with pink sides that sort of popped out. I also found a pair of bikers gloves, the ones with the cut off fingers. I really liked those. They were black with a red wrist thing. I went to go ask Erika if she was done yet, but just as I went to knock on the door, she opened it.
"uhh...." I said and held back a loud laugh. She had put her hair up in two meatballs, and the rest of it just kind of hung down(Like Sailor Moon's hair). On the right side she had a pink bow that had her Master ball sitting in it. She was wearing a green T-shirt that was about half way up her tummy and had the same shoulder things mine did, but they had a yellow stripe.
"What do you think?" She asked and brushed her hair with her hand.
"It's cute!" I said and burst out laughing. "No....really it is!" I said and touched her hair. "How, how did you get it to stay like that?" I said. But I soon realized that she was giggling too.
"What?"
"You look like a guy!" She burst out and buckled over.
"Do you think so? Well...I kind of like it...."I said and blushed somewhat. We both walked up the stairs with our back packs after I had dried my hair.
"Marcy!" Jarod ran over to me and grabbed my hand. "Come on lets all dance!"
He grabbed hold of Erika's too and we danced in the middle of the floor to the music.
"Jarod! You look great!" I said. He was wearing a red jacket that my mom had given him and a pair of shorts like mine, but they were dark blue with a black stripe.
"You guys look cool too! Your mom is the greatest Marc!" He said as he spun me and Erika with his opposite arms.
"What did she give you?" Erika asked as she twisted around again.
"She gave me a ticket for the S.S. Aqua and the Magnet Train! No more flying home for me!" He said and twisted me around. "The S.S Aqua leaves for Olivine tommorrow! And you can both come with me back to Jhoto!" He said and began a Tango, even though the music hadn't changed.
"We can't go to Jhoto." I said and broke off the dance.
"What?" He said and let go of Erika.
"That's right. We aren't qualified. We both only have 6 badges." Erika said and put her hand on his shoulder.
"That's all right! You guys are going to spend your vacation here, right? So, I'll leave for Jhoto tommorrow, and I can be back two days before Vacation ends! I'll miss you terribly, but I think I can live with a broken heart..." He said an made a cute dramatic pose.
"All right! It sounds like a plan. Give me your cell phone." I said and took mine out while he got his. "We'll exchange numbers. If you get lonley, you can call me. And if I need to ask you something, I'll call you." I said and set the #1 speed dial on his phone to my number, and he set the #1 Speed dial on mine to his. Mom suddenly ran over and plopped Raichu on the floor next to me.
"There! See how cute he is!?" She said and scratched his ear.
"MOM!!" I yelled as I realized he was a compleate fur ball. "You used the hair drier on high, and the curling iron didn't you!?"
Chapter XX- Welcome Home Party
We walked outside along the beach until we got to my house. I always loved the way my house looked from the shore, with all the glass windows and red roofs and doors. It was a large house, almost as big as Erika's! It was two floors with a big yard and lots of little prunned trees. It even had a sauna and a front gate. That house was and is my dream house. Mom and Dad both worked hard to get it the way it is, and they deserve a vacation as much as I do. I went up to the front gate and rang the bell.
"Yes? Who is it?" I heard Jeffery say.
"Guess who's home!" I said and the gates instantly opened.
"Marcy!!" I heard my mom call, and she opened the front door, running out, "Marcy!! Erika!! And??!!" She ran up to me and hugged me tight.
"This is Jarod mom!" I said and he took her hand.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Blaze." He said and kissed it.
"My! Such a polite young man! Marcy is he your boyfriend?"
"MOM!!!" I said and turned a radish colored shade of red. "No. He's the boy I met when you sent me to pokemon tech, remember?
"Oh! So you are the Jarod! Please come in everyone! Erika! It's so nice to see you! How have you been sweet heart? You have to tell me all about how your pokemon are! Oh, your parents went on vacation and asked if you would like to stay with us! I said it would be wonderful, so after the party, you can go over there and get the stuff you need. And who are these adorable pokemon??!!!" She said and practicly had a heart attack when she saw Raichu and Charizard. She picked Raichu up and pet his head.
"This is Raichu mom. He's a pikablu." I said and watched him carefully. Party? "Raichu, this is my mom."
"Raichu! Rai chu chu Rai!" *Hello! Nice to met you!^_^* We all followed my mom into the house as she held Raichu in her arms and admired his adorable blue eyes. I walked into the house and got a full force welcome home. Every where I looked, my friends and my family were all saying how happy they were to see me and how proud of me they all were. There was a big banner hung across the stair case that said, 'Welcome home Marcy and Erika!'
"You did all this for us? But, how did you know we were coming?" I asked as Aunt Marcia came down the stairs and gave me, Erika, and Jarod a peice of cake.
"Blaine asked Koga if he could call him after your battle with him so we could get everyone here and ready! And I got your favorite ice cream cake for the beginning of your vacation!" She said and Jeffery started up some party music.
"Thanks mom! But you know what I would really love?" I said putting down the cake.
"What's that hunny, anything." She said begining to dance to the music.
"To take a nice hot sauna bath!" I said and ran down stairs, but dogged behind the banister.
"Yeah! All right!" Erika yelled and ran after me and dogged behind the other one.
"Hurry hunny! I'll bring your new clothes down for you! Jarod, I'm sorry! Would you like one too? A bath I mean?"
"That would be great!" He said eagerly.
"Wonderful! There's the men's private bath upstairs! You can have it all to yourself! By the way, what size T-Shirt are you?"
"Oh! That's not nessesary, but thanks..."
"Non-sense! You have to look good if you're going to impress my little girl!"
"Well, size large...but only if you insist!"
"Then in that case I do! Go ahead! I'll leave it at the door for you!"
"Thank you very much Mrs.Blaze!" He began to run up the stairs and mom said,
"It's nothing hunny, a friend of Marcy, is a friend of mine!" She said and continued the party.
Me and Erika both ran down the stairs that led to the bath and took a left to get all of our clothes and stuff organized. I put all my stuff away and grabbed a towel, after I had taken the peice of T-shirt out of my hair. Raichu closed his eyes while I put my towl on, and Erika put Charizard back into his pokeball. Erika put her watch infront of her stuff so that she could see what time it was when we got out. We walked back to the right part of the downstairs that had slidding glass doors that led to a magnifficantly huge sauna. It had huge decorated pillars that held the ceiling up and a small fountian in the middle. I took off my towl and slipped in, it was nice to take a hot bath. Erika didn't take off her towl though, but I guess she was just a little shy.
"Ahh! It's nice to have such a hot bath after such a long time of only cold showers!" I said as I watched Raichu swim back and forth in the water. "Raichu you're a natural!" I said and watched as he began to sink. I swam over to him and held him up so he could regain his balance.
"How come you didn't send Raichu upstairs with Jarod?" Erika asked and I let go of him.
"Well.....Raichu doesn't know Jarod too well...and I thought he would be more comfortable with me." I said thinking of a quick excuse, because in reality, that was a very good question. Anyway, I didn't really care. He was a pokemon after all. I sat back and relaxed for a while, while Erika swam over to one of the small waterfalls and washed her self for a while. I felt Raichu swim past my feet every so often, and I tickled him a little with my toes.
"Oh girls! I have your new clothes all ready for you! I'll put them it the cubbies next to your stuff!" I heard my mother yell.
"Thanks mom! How's the party going?"
"Everyone's expecting you, and Jarod said he would be out in a minute, so hurry along!" She walked over to the glass door and opened it. "It's so steamy in here! Marcy, how can you stand it?"
"When you take cold showers for a week or so straight, ya need the heat!" I said and grabbed Raichu.
"How is it Erika?" Mom asked.
"Just fine thanks!^_^()" She continued to wash her hair facing the wall.
"Mom, can you do me a favor?" I asked and picked Raichu up out of the bath. "Can you take him and start drying him off? I still have to wash my hair."
"Sure honey! Oh! You're so cute!" She reached for his cheaks to pull, but I warned her,
"Mom, this is a high voltage Raichu, you don't want to do that. Especially when he's wet."
"Right honey. Of course. What was I thinking!!??" She exagerated. She picked him up under the arms, took the towel she was holding, and rubbed his back. "We'll be upstairs waiting."
"K Thanks!" After mom walked out I swam to the other little waterfall and began to wash my hair. Erika finally finished washing her hair and went to go get dressed while I was washing my back.
Once I did decide to get out however, I put on my dry towel and dried off. Erika by this time was already dressed and drying her hair in the seperate room off of the changing one. The door was closed so, I asumed she wanted something to be a surprise. I got dressed, and put on my new shoes, which were a little big. But mom said that if they were a little big they were the perfect size because I would grow into them. Mom gave me a red shirt(my favorite color), with sleaves that kind of puffed out to reveal more of my shoulders. Along that it had a green band. She also left a pair of clean underwear (MOM!) and a new pair of boy fit shorts that were yellow with black stripes down the sides. They were longer and loser than the girls shorts, which I like best, and with that she also left a black belt(Implying that I should tuck the shirt in!!). I looked through some more and I found a yellow and black cap with a new backpack. Erika probobly got the same one as me. I looked through the back pack and discovered a note from my mom...
Marcy,
Hope you like the new gear, I got you.(I found it in a store in New Bark Town, Jhoto.) I'm really proud of you and Erika for taking on such a major task. But if you dream big dreams, your adventures are going to be too. That's why I also left you in there, (side pocket), a cell phone and mini-radio. In case you get home sick or need something. (Prefferably not money) However, if that time does come, you know I'll be here. I also left you a little something for your favorite pokemon. Dad got some new type of balls to study called Master Balls. He got three of them and thought you girls would like the other two. (He only needs one to examine, and anyway, he found a way to clone them.) If you drop them off with dad, he can alter them for you to fit your pokemon's needs. (There's also a chain to carry it on. I gave Erika something different.^_^) There's also a ticket for the S.S. Aqua and the Magnet Train in there, that lets you travel back and fourth between Jhoto and Kento easily. And never forget, you're always my little girl, no matter how old you are.
Best of Luck and all of Love,
Mom
I finished reading the letter then put my hair behind my ears, and the cap on backwards. I tucked in the shirt, then pulled it out a little,which actually looked really good, and put the chain with the pokeball holder around my neck. I rummeged through the back pack some more and found the Master Ball. I pressed the button on it to make it larger so I could see the design of it. It was a dark purple color with pink sides that sort of popped out. I also found a pair of bikers gloves, the ones with the cut off fingers. I really liked those. They were black with a red wrist thing. I went to go ask Erika if she was done yet, but just as I went to knock on the door, she opened it.
"uhh...." I said and held back a loud laugh. She had put her hair up in two meatballs, and the rest of it just kind of hung down(Like Sailor Moon's hair). On the right side she had a pink bow that had her Master ball sitting in it. She was wearing a green T-shirt that was about half way up her tummy and had the same shoulder things mine did, but they had a yellow stripe.
"What do you think?" She asked and brushed her hair with her hand.
"It's cute!" I said and burst out laughing. "No....really it is!" I said and touched her hair. "How, how did you get it to stay like that?" I said. But I soon realized that she was giggling too.
"What?"
"You look like a guy!" She burst out and buckled over.
"Do you think so? Well...I kind of like it...."I said and blushed somewhat. We both walked up the stairs with our back packs after I had dried my hair.
"Marcy!" Jarod ran over to me and grabbed my hand. "Come on lets all dance!"
He grabbed hold of Erika's too and we danced in the middle of the floor to the music.
"Jarod! You look great!" I said. He was wearing a red jacket that my mom had given him and a pair of shorts like mine, but they were dark blue with a black stripe.
"You guys look cool too! Your mom is the greatest Marc!" He said as he spun me and Erika with his opposite arms.
"What did she give you?" Erika asked as she twisted around again.
"She gave me a ticket for the S.S. Aqua and the Magnet Train! No more flying home for me!" He said and twisted me around. "The S.S Aqua leaves for Olivine tommorrow! And you can both come with me back to Jhoto!" He said and began a Tango, even though the music hadn't changed.
"We can't go to Jhoto." I said and broke off the dance.
"What?" He said and let go of Erika.
"That's right. We aren't qualified. We both only have 6 badges." Erika said and put her hand on his shoulder.
"That's all right! You guys are going to spend your vacation here, right? So, I'll leave for Jhoto tommorrow, and I can be back two days before Vacation ends! I'll miss you terribly, but I think I can live with a broken heart..." He said an made a cute dramatic pose.
"All right! It sounds like a plan. Give me your cell phone." I said and took mine out while he got his. "We'll exchange numbers. If you get lonley, you can call me. And if I need to ask you something, I'll call you." I said and set the #1 speed dial on his phone to my number, and he set the #1 Speed dial on mine to his. Mom suddenly ran over and plopped Raichu on the floor next to me.
"There! See how cute he is!?" She said and scratched his ear.
"MOM!!" I yelled as I realized he was a compleate fur ball. "You used the hair drier on high, and the curling iron didn't you!?"