Chapter XLIII- Shopping!!(My fav. pass time besides pokemon)
We arrived the next morning in New Bark Town, near the festival grounds, where
everything was being set up for that night. Erika took out her map and looked at it for a
while. It seemed like we had landed near the out-skirts of town.
"The bridal shop should be down that road to the left," she said and pointed to a paved
road, "the kimono store is also somewhere along that farther down," She put her arm
down then lifted it again to point to the dirt road off to the right, "And the hotel should be
down this one near the Thojo Falls." Thojo Falls was a massive waterfall that seperated
Jhoto from Kanto. It was beautiful in the morning with the sun rising over it, my uncle
once said.
"Well, why don't we go shopping first, and then sign into the hotel later? What'dya say?" I
asked.
"Sounds like fun!! I can use some new jewelry!" Hinokoai said, calling back her
Charizard.
"I second that! I've got a tux to find^_^" Jarod said and called back Pegesedon.
"All right. It's settled. Jarod, you find a tux, then head to the bridal shop to find me and
Erika, while Noki is at the jewelry place. Then, we'll all meet you up later outside the
Kimono shop Noki." I said then called back Raichu, and me and Erika sat down to put on
our roller blades. Erika called back Ryu.
"Right!" Noki said, and started walking. We got up, and roller bladed ahead,
"I'll see you later sweetie!" I yelled to Jarod, as he walked slowly behind us. He turned a
little red and just waved smiling. We skated to the bridal shop, with Noki and Jarod far
behind us. We stopped and took off our skates then went into the store.
"You lady's looking for someone?" An older woman came up to us and asked.
"No miss. Actually I'm here to buy a dress." I said and she looked shocked.
"How old are you?" She asked.
"....17...." I said and began to ignore her. I looked around with Erika, stopping at a rack
with a beautiful white dress on it. Erika was looking through a glass case with garter belts
in it. I pushed back the other dresses carefully, and the lady came over to me.
"Those are rather expensive I think for you dear. Those are 300 dollars. Why not this rack
over here? They're just as nice, but a lot le...." I stopped her.
"Oh I can afford it. My mom is paying for it." The woman looked around puzzled. "She
gave me the money for it^_^" I said and she asked,
"Where does your mom live?"
"She lives in Goldenrod." I said, and she finished,
"Do you mind if I call her up?"
"No, not at all. I have to call her to show her the dresses that I'm thinking about anyway."
I said, sensing that she thought I may have taken the money.
"All right. What's the phone number?" She asked and walked to the back of the store
where the dressing room and phone was.
"750-743-1256" I said calmly. "Hey Erika, what do you think of this one?" I asked and
she turned around with a veil in her hand. It was the one that matched the dress I had
pulled out.
"Wow, that's weird." She said and put it on my head. "We'll have to do something with
your hair. It just doesn't look right the way it is with the veil." She said and I heard the
shop keeper talking to my mom.
"Maybe if we curled it?" I asked.
"No. Your hair is too short to curl. It would puff out like a marshmellow." She said.
"Miss. Your mom is on." The lady said, and turned the phone around.
"Oh darling, that looks nice! I like that one!" She said. "Go try it on!"
"K." I said and went in the dressing room. When I came out, Erika handed me a pair of
shoes that I put on that made me look a little taller, and re-put the vail on my hair.
"You look really nice in that Marcy." Erika said, and I twirled around to show mom. It
was a long white dress with Cinderella puffy shoulder things, that had embroidery all
over them. It had a corset like fit around the waist that also had embroidery, which looked
really nice, and a long solid skirt with an embroidered skirt on top that drapped down the
back and most of the front, leaving the part where my legs were under the solid skirt
opened. The skirt bunched up in the back to make it look like it was hanging, and formed
a bow with long twisted tails.
"I really like this one^_^" I said and twirled again in the opposite direction of before.
"Well hunny if that's the one you want you should get it, you have to find Jarod and Noki
and then buy Kimonos for the festival." Mom said.
"Yeah! want this one!" I said and went back to the changing room to get it off and into a
plastic bag. By the time we had payed for the dress, the veil, and the shoes, it was 400
dollars and 9:00. We put our rollerblades on and I carefully carried the dress down the
street in the bag when Erika stopped.
"I thought the Kimono store was around here?" She looked up and down the busy
sidewalks, but didn't see anyone we recognized.
"Where are they?" I asked and we began to roller blade farther down, when Jarod yelled
from not to far behind us,
"Over here Angel!" He was standing outside a small store that we had passed and didn't
really notice before because it looked like a house. There was only one small sign outside
on the side walk that we could see as we skated over to him. "Come on you guys! Noki's
almost ready!" He grabbed my hand and roller bladed me into the store. Once inside, I
took them off and started to look around. I found Noki who was paying for an Orange
Kimono decorated with Rapidash and pokeballs. I looked around and found a really pretty
blue-green color one with Vaporeon and Dragonair on it, but it was more than I could
afford after buying the wedding dress and accessories. After all, I still had to have some
money to buy a nice neaklace to wear with the gown. For 100 dollars, I found a beautiful
red kimono with orange trim, a yellow bow and decorative fire on the sleaves. I payed for
it and was ready to go, when I finally found Erika.
"It took me three tries to find the perfect one, and this is it^_^!" She declared as she
moved about, twisting and turning in the mirror. It was a deep sky blue color with algae
green trim, a big yellow bow, the same color as mine, decorated with leaves and vines on
the sleaves. She took it off and payed for it, then we all went outside. We sat on benches
infront of another store to take a load off our feet then Noki said,
"You know, you guys still have to pick out your wedding ring."
"Oh! That's right! And I have to get a neacklace!" I said.
"How about, me and Erika take your bags to the hotel and eat some breakfast while we
wait for you, it's already 9:30." She finished, and picked up my bags.
"Actually, I was hoping you would come with us." I said and tried to hold on to them.
"Can't. I might accidentally change the future. Even though it's a different dimesion, it's
still important that I don't disturb the temperal rift. Or else I may never exsist."
"She's got a point." Jarod said sadly. I guess he wanted her to come to. So, Erika and Noki
brought our bags back to the hotel while me and Jarod walked down the street looking for
the jewelry store. We finally found it, and went inside. It was full of sparkling crystal,
silver, and gold. We looked around, and I found a beautiful silver neaklace with and
elegant and complex design, surrounding a ruby red heart crystal. I bought it with the rest
of my money, and we looked around for a ring. I tried a few on just to see what size my
finger was, then I found a beautiful silver one with an elegant geometrical design that left
a space to put a crystal or stone.
"Um, excuse me, what kind of stone can you put in there?" Jarod asked.
"We can put anything you like sir. Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald...the posibilitys are
endless." The cleark said.
"Do you think you could put a peice of this in it?" Jarod asked and pulled out the Mist
stone from his back pack handing it to the cleark who put on his glasses and examined it.
"It looks rather fragile, but maybe. What is it?" He asked.
"It's a Mist Stone. It's a Rare stone used to evolve certin types of pokemon. It's extreamly
hard to find." Jarod expalined.
"And how may I ask, did you aquire it?" The cleark asked, still examining it, poking it
every other place. Jarod took a little while to think then I quickly said,
"It was passed down from his great grandparents...who were archiologists."
"............." Jarod stared at me for a moment.
"All right then. We might be able to. There doesn't seem to be any major flaws that would
cause it to crack while we're cutting it. What shape would you like it?"
"um...what about a heart with wings?" Jarod asked.
"The wings might get caught on something though. That's the only problem with that. We
could make them out of silver, round off the edges, and attach it to the stone?"
"That sounds fine. How much will it cost?" Jarod asked and pulled out his wallet with the
envalope mom had given us each.
"Well, 50 for the custom cut and wings, and 200 for the ring, diamonds included." He
said.
"All right..." He said and counted out 250. It was all he had left. The tux couldn't have
cost him 250, could it? I thought. He payed for the ring, and we were on our way back to
the hotel, when he said,
"Why don't we stop here a while?"
"Why?" I asked and looked around. It was actually quite beautiful. I could see the hotel
down the road in the distance, and there was a large space of grass between the dirt road
we were walking on and some water with a cave off in the distance.
"....I had time to buy some lunch....and I thought you and me could....talk." He said.
"Ok." I said and we walked off the road and chose a spot in the middle of the grass close
to the water. He sat down on the grass, took out his pack, and handed me a sandwich
from it. It was ham and cheese, just the way I liked it; two thick slices of ham, and one
thick slice of cheese between them. "So...what did you want to talk about? Anything in
particular?" I asked as I broke off a peice of my sadnwich and threw it into the water for a
passing by Magikarp to eat.
"...Well...it's about...the wedding." He said shyly.
"What's on your mind?" I asked and forgot about the Magikarp I had been feeding.
"Well....I just think....maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves."
"You....don't want to get married?" I asked suddenly struck by his announcement.
"No! Of course I do! I just think that...maybe it should wait..."
"Are you nervous?" I asked calmly.
".............." He paused, "a little."
"Oooh..." I moved over, closer to him without standing up and held his hand. "Well. It's
natural to be nervous. It's a big commitment. But, if you're really that worried or nervous
about it.......it would be all right if we waited I suppose. It's not like you're going any
where...........And it's not like your going to dump me or anything^_^!" I finished and gave
him an evil look.
"Of course not^_^" He smiled back and said, "No, you know, it was silly of me to bring it
up. Just forget about it." He said and ate his sandwich. Most of mine I had given to the
Magikarp, so I ate what was left. I layed down on the grass, my arms above me, using
them to rest my head on. He layed down next to me on his side. ".........what are you
thinking about?...." He asked quietly.
"I'm thinking about the wedding day, and how happy I'm going to be..." I said quietly
back.
"........." He was silent.
"and...." I rolled over on my side to face him. "...and how happy we'll be....together...
...You're so good to me. It's not fair sometimes..." I took my right hand and played with
his long blue hair that fell out of his ponytail. "How did I ever end up with such great a
guy as you?"
"Just lucky I guess..." He said, and put his head on the ground while I continued to play
with his hair.
"It wasn't just luck I think....I think it was something that defies luck..."
"....like what?"
"....like destiny." I said and finally stopped playing with his hair, sitting up.
"............." He sat up and just starred at me as I watched the clouds move slowly by.
".....beautiful day....." I said and closed my eyes, soaking up the sun that shined briliantly
through the thin clouds. I opened my eyes and turned to Jarod, he had been staring at me
the entire time.
"....but....not nearly as beautiful as you..." He said, and kissed me. After what seemed like
eternity I finally asked,
"...what time is it?"
"....about 10:30..." He said.
"Well I guess we had better get going. The girls are probobly wondering where we are." I
said and stood up. We walked back to the dirt road and continued until we arrived at the
check in at the hotel.
We arrived the next morning in New Bark Town, near the festival grounds, where
everything was being set up for that night. Erika took out her map and looked at it for a
while. It seemed like we had landed near the out-skirts of town.
"The bridal shop should be down that road to the left," she said and pointed to a paved
road, "the kimono store is also somewhere along that farther down," She put her arm
down then lifted it again to point to the dirt road off to the right, "And the hotel should be
down this one near the Thojo Falls." Thojo Falls was a massive waterfall that seperated
Jhoto from Kanto. It was beautiful in the morning with the sun rising over it, my uncle
once said.
"Well, why don't we go shopping first, and then sign into the hotel later? What'dya say?" I
asked.
"Sounds like fun!! I can use some new jewelry!" Hinokoai said, calling back her
Charizard.
"I second that! I've got a tux to find^_^" Jarod said and called back Pegesedon.
"All right. It's settled. Jarod, you find a tux, then head to the bridal shop to find me and
Erika, while Noki is at the jewelry place. Then, we'll all meet you up later outside the
Kimono shop Noki." I said then called back Raichu, and me and Erika sat down to put on
our roller blades. Erika called back Ryu.
"Right!" Noki said, and started walking. We got up, and roller bladed ahead,
"I'll see you later sweetie!" I yelled to Jarod, as he walked slowly behind us. He turned a
little red and just waved smiling. We skated to the bridal shop, with Noki and Jarod far
behind us. We stopped and took off our skates then went into the store.
"You lady's looking for someone?" An older woman came up to us and asked.
"No miss. Actually I'm here to buy a dress." I said and she looked shocked.
"How old are you?" She asked.
"....17...." I said and began to ignore her. I looked around with Erika, stopping at a rack
with a beautiful white dress on it. Erika was looking through a glass case with garter belts
in it. I pushed back the other dresses carefully, and the lady came over to me.
"Those are rather expensive I think for you dear. Those are 300 dollars. Why not this rack
over here? They're just as nice, but a lot le...." I stopped her.
"Oh I can afford it. My mom is paying for it." The woman looked around puzzled. "She
gave me the money for it^_^" I said and she asked,
"Where does your mom live?"
"She lives in Goldenrod." I said, and she finished,
"Do you mind if I call her up?"
"No, not at all. I have to call her to show her the dresses that I'm thinking about anyway."
I said, sensing that she thought I may have taken the money.
"All right. What's the phone number?" She asked and walked to the back of the store
where the dressing room and phone was.
"750-743-1256" I said calmly. "Hey Erika, what do you think of this one?" I asked and
she turned around with a veil in her hand. It was the one that matched the dress I had
pulled out.
"Wow, that's weird." She said and put it on my head. "We'll have to do something with
your hair. It just doesn't look right the way it is with the veil." She said and I heard the
shop keeper talking to my mom.
"Maybe if we curled it?" I asked.
"No. Your hair is too short to curl. It would puff out like a marshmellow." She said.
"Miss. Your mom is on." The lady said, and turned the phone around.
"Oh darling, that looks nice! I like that one!" She said. "Go try it on!"
"K." I said and went in the dressing room. When I came out, Erika handed me a pair of
shoes that I put on that made me look a little taller, and re-put the vail on my hair.
"You look really nice in that Marcy." Erika said, and I twirled around to show mom. It
was a long white dress with Cinderella puffy shoulder things, that had embroidery all
over them. It had a corset like fit around the waist that also had embroidery, which looked
really nice, and a long solid skirt with an embroidered skirt on top that drapped down the
back and most of the front, leaving the part where my legs were under the solid skirt
opened. The skirt bunched up in the back to make it look like it was hanging, and formed
a bow with long twisted tails.
"I really like this one^_^" I said and twirled again in the opposite direction of before.
"Well hunny if that's the one you want you should get it, you have to find Jarod and Noki
and then buy Kimonos for the festival." Mom said.
"Yeah! want this one!" I said and went back to the changing room to get it off and into a
plastic bag. By the time we had payed for the dress, the veil, and the shoes, it was 400
dollars and 9:00. We put our rollerblades on and I carefully carried the dress down the
street in the bag when Erika stopped.
"I thought the Kimono store was around here?" She looked up and down the busy
sidewalks, but didn't see anyone we recognized.
"Where are they?" I asked and we began to roller blade farther down, when Jarod yelled
from not to far behind us,
"Over here Angel!" He was standing outside a small store that we had passed and didn't
really notice before because it looked like a house. There was only one small sign outside
on the side walk that we could see as we skated over to him. "Come on you guys! Noki's
almost ready!" He grabbed my hand and roller bladed me into the store. Once inside, I
took them off and started to look around. I found Noki who was paying for an Orange
Kimono decorated with Rapidash and pokeballs. I looked around and found a really pretty
blue-green color one with Vaporeon and Dragonair on it, but it was more than I could
afford after buying the wedding dress and accessories. After all, I still had to have some
money to buy a nice neaklace to wear with the gown. For 100 dollars, I found a beautiful
red kimono with orange trim, a yellow bow and decorative fire on the sleaves. I payed for
it and was ready to go, when I finally found Erika.
"It took me three tries to find the perfect one, and this is it^_^!" She declared as she
moved about, twisting and turning in the mirror. It was a deep sky blue color with algae
green trim, a big yellow bow, the same color as mine, decorated with leaves and vines on
the sleaves. She took it off and payed for it, then we all went outside. We sat on benches
infront of another store to take a load off our feet then Noki said,
"You know, you guys still have to pick out your wedding ring."
"Oh! That's right! And I have to get a neacklace!" I said.
"How about, me and Erika take your bags to the hotel and eat some breakfast while we
wait for you, it's already 9:30." She finished, and picked up my bags.
"Actually, I was hoping you would come with us." I said and tried to hold on to them.
"Can't. I might accidentally change the future. Even though it's a different dimesion, it's
still important that I don't disturb the temperal rift. Or else I may never exsist."
"She's got a point." Jarod said sadly. I guess he wanted her to come to. So, Erika and Noki
brought our bags back to the hotel while me and Jarod walked down the street looking for
the jewelry store. We finally found it, and went inside. It was full of sparkling crystal,
silver, and gold. We looked around, and I found a beautiful silver neaklace with and
elegant and complex design, surrounding a ruby red heart crystal. I bought it with the rest
of my money, and we looked around for a ring. I tried a few on just to see what size my
finger was, then I found a beautiful silver one with an elegant geometrical design that left
a space to put a crystal or stone.
"Um, excuse me, what kind of stone can you put in there?" Jarod asked.
"We can put anything you like sir. Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald...the posibilitys are
endless." The cleark said.
"Do you think you could put a peice of this in it?" Jarod asked and pulled out the Mist
stone from his back pack handing it to the cleark who put on his glasses and examined it.
"It looks rather fragile, but maybe. What is it?" He asked.
"It's a Mist Stone. It's a Rare stone used to evolve certin types of pokemon. It's extreamly
hard to find." Jarod expalined.
"And how may I ask, did you aquire it?" The cleark asked, still examining it, poking it
every other place. Jarod took a little while to think then I quickly said,
"It was passed down from his great grandparents...who were archiologists."
"............." Jarod stared at me for a moment.
"All right then. We might be able to. There doesn't seem to be any major flaws that would
cause it to crack while we're cutting it. What shape would you like it?"
"um...what about a heart with wings?" Jarod asked.
"The wings might get caught on something though. That's the only problem with that. We
could make them out of silver, round off the edges, and attach it to the stone?"
"That sounds fine. How much will it cost?" Jarod asked and pulled out his wallet with the
envalope mom had given us each.
"Well, 50 for the custom cut and wings, and 200 for the ring, diamonds included." He
said.
"All right..." He said and counted out 250. It was all he had left. The tux couldn't have
cost him 250, could it? I thought. He payed for the ring, and we were on our way back to
the hotel, when he said,
"Why don't we stop here a while?"
"Why?" I asked and looked around. It was actually quite beautiful. I could see the hotel
down the road in the distance, and there was a large space of grass between the dirt road
we were walking on and some water with a cave off in the distance.
"....I had time to buy some lunch....and I thought you and me could....talk." He said.
"Ok." I said and we walked off the road and chose a spot in the middle of the grass close
to the water. He sat down on the grass, took out his pack, and handed me a sandwich
from it. It was ham and cheese, just the way I liked it; two thick slices of ham, and one
thick slice of cheese between them. "So...what did you want to talk about? Anything in
particular?" I asked as I broke off a peice of my sadnwich and threw it into the water for a
passing by Magikarp to eat.
"...Well...it's about...the wedding." He said shyly.
"What's on your mind?" I asked and forgot about the Magikarp I had been feeding.
"Well....I just think....maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves."
"You....don't want to get married?" I asked suddenly struck by his announcement.
"No! Of course I do! I just think that...maybe it should wait..."
"Are you nervous?" I asked calmly.
".............." He paused, "a little."
"Oooh..." I moved over, closer to him without standing up and held his hand. "Well. It's
natural to be nervous. It's a big commitment. But, if you're really that worried or nervous
about it.......it would be all right if we waited I suppose. It's not like you're going any
where...........And it's not like your going to dump me or anything^_^!" I finished and gave
him an evil look.
"Of course not^_^" He smiled back and said, "No, you know, it was silly of me to bring it
up. Just forget about it." He said and ate his sandwich. Most of mine I had given to the
Magikarp, so I ate what was left. I layed down on the grass, my arms above me, using
them to rest my head on. He layed down next to me on his side. ".........what are you
thinking about?...." He asked quietly.
"I'm thinking about the wedding day, and how happy I'm going to be..." I said quietly
back.
"........." He was silent.
"and...." I rolled over on my side to face him. "...and how happy we'll be....together...
...You're so good to me. It's not fair sometimes..." I took my right hand and played with
his long blue hair that fell out of his ponytail. "How did I ever end up with such great a
guy as you?"
"Just lucky I guess..." He said, and put his head on the ground while I continued to play
with his hair.
"It wasn't just luck I think....I think it was something that defies luck..."
"....like what?"
"....like destiny." I said and finally stopped playing with his hair, sitting up.
"............." He sat up and just starred at me as I watched the clouds move slowly by.
".....beautiful day....." I said and closed my eyes, soaking up the sun that shined briliantly
through the thin clouds. I opened my eyes and turned to Jarod, he had been staring at me
the entire time.
"....but....not nearly as beautiful as you..." He said, and kissed me. After what seemed like
eternity I finally asked,
"...what time is it?"
"....about 10:30..." He said.
"Well I guess we had better get going. The girls are probobly wondering where we are." I
said and stood up. We walked back to the dirt road and continued until we arrived at the
check in at the hotel.