The next morning, Sakura awoke to the beeping of Edith's alarm clock. Edith jumped out of bed and got dressed then she went to help Sakura.
"Good morning, Sakura, its time to get up. Let me help you get dressed, sweetheart." Edith said.
"Okay that'll be fine." Sakura replied sleepily.
Edith helped Sakura crawl out from under her covers; then she helped Sakura change out of her nightgown and into her uniform. Once Sakura was dressed, Edith fastened her belt around her waist, before she took the sling and slid Sakura's arm into it and positioned the sling in the proper place. Now Sakura and Edith walked to breakfast and to Sakura's surprise she didn't see Thomas until she entered with Edith. However, Thomas was talking to another Admin about some strategy so Sakura was ignored temporarily. Sakura walked to the end of the table to where the rest of the grunts were and found that there wasn't a place for her. So Edith walked over to her and said sweetly, "You can sit next to me, sweetheart."
Sakura was very nervous since she didn't know many of the Admins, but she walked with Edith to the middle of the table. Thomas turned around and saw Sakura with Edith. "Thomas do you mind if Sakura sits next to you since there isn't a place for her at the foot of the table?" Edith asked Thomas.
"Of course not, a seat's a seat, you don't always have to sit with people of your same rank if you don't want to. Have a seat, Sakura." Thomas replied warmly.
Sakura sat down next to Thomas and Edith sat down next to Sakura. The Admin, named Andrew, on the other side of Thomas looked at Sakura, "So, Sakura your birthday's in two days, are you excited?"
"I guess you could say that." Sakura replied.
"Hang on……. Did you ever have a birthday party?" Andrew asked.
Sakura looked surprised that he asked as she replied, "No, my parents never would celebrate my birthday, the only presents I ever received on my birthday were hand-me-down items like old shirts, socks, skirts, ect."
"That's terrible….." Andrew replied.
"Yeah." Sakura replied.
"Well, you can be sure that I'll get you something." Andrew said.
"So will I." Edith added.
"As will I." Thomas piped in.
"Thanks, you guys." Sakura replied.
"No problem." Edith, Thomas, and Andrew said together.
Thomas leaned over and whispered something in Andrew's ear that Sakura couldn't hear. Andrew nodded and Sakura wondered what the heck was going on. Just then, Archie entered and he walked over to the head of the table, and when he didn't see Sakura at the end of the table, he looked around and finally found her next to Edith. "There you are, Sakura…… Dang, we really need a bigger table, this one's getting too small." Several other people nodded in agreement. "Okay, let's eat." Archie said.
Everyone served some food onto their plates, while Sakura struggled to hold the food dish still and spoon some food out of it at the same time. She wasn't having much luck, for every time she tried to move the food from the dish to her plate, it would fall back into the dish making her even more frustrated.
"Thomas, I think Sakura needs help." Andrew said after he had watched Sakura try to move some food to her plate without any success.
"Let me help you, Sakura." Thomas said.
Sakura let go of the spoon so that Thomas could help her. Thomas reached over once Sakura had let go of the spoon and spooned some of the food onto her plate. "Okay, anything else you want to eat?"
Sakura pointed to the sausage, and Thomas added three of them to her plate. "Want any toast or bacon?" Thomas asked.
"Sure." Sakura replied.
Thomas moved a slice of toast and three pieces of bacon onto Sakura's plate. Sakura now had sausage, scrambled eggs, toast, and bacon on her plate. "Want some milk or orange juice?" Thomas asked.
"Milk please." Sakura replied.
Thomas took the pitcher of milk and poured some of it into her glass.
"Thanks, Thomas." Sakura said.
"No problem, I was glad to help, and don't worry your arm should be better either by tomorrow or the next day. Now let's eat, you want to keep your strength up." Thomas replied.
"Okay." Sakura replied.
Thomas went back to eating his meal, and Sakura began eating hers. Twenty minutes passed before everyone including Sakura finished eating, and once everyone finished, Archie stood up and addressed the table, "Okay, I would like everyone to stay here since I have some things to go over with you. However, Sakura you may be excused as you really need to train your pokemon some more."
"Lucky girl." One grunt muttered.
Sakura stood up and left the room and walked to the training arena. Once she was gone, Archie stuck his head out the door and said, "Good, she went to train…… Now I can tell you what I need to tell you. Okay, as you probably know, Sakura's birthday's in two days. We want this birthday to be special for her since her life is starting over again. Hopefully all the paperwork will have fallen through and I can officially call her 'my daughter'. Okay, any ideas on what we should get her?" Archie asked.
Tanya spoke up, "Boss, I think it would be good if you gave her a backpack that was filled with trainer supplies, like potions, revives, full heals, a sleeping bag, and whatever else you see fit."
That's a good idea, Tanya, I'll do that; if she's going to be my little girl I'm going to make sure that she has everything she needs to be comfortable and feel safe. So of course she's going to get a backpack and trainer supplies. I might throw in something else as well."
"I'm sure she'd like that." Thomas added.
Archie nodded, "Okay, any other ideas?"
Now Tom, one of the grunts spoke up, "What if we gave her some more pokemon so that won't be ill prepared when she goes out with her group leader?"
"That would be me, and yes I think it would be a wise idea for her to have more than one pokemon before she goes out with me." Thomas said.
"Thomas is right, having more than one pokemon will benefit her immensely. We've mapped out her team already so here's what's available for you to give her. You can give her a Feebas, a Staryu, or a Spheal. Thomas, since you're her group leader would you like to pick out of those first?" Archie remarked.
"I would like to give her a Feebas." Thomas replied.
"Good choice, Thomas, I'm sure she'd like that. Okay, anyone else?"
Now Tom said, "I'll give her a Spheal, if that's okay."
"Anyone else?" Archie asked.
Rebecca spoke up, "I'll give her a Staryu."
"Okay, now can anyone think of anything else that might be good to give her?" Archie asked.
"Wait! I thought of something." Andrew said.
"Yeah, so did I." Edith said.
"What did you think of?" Archie asked.
"I could get her a light blue hair ribbon, so that she won't always have to wear it down." Andrew said.
"Good idea, and what about you Edith?" Archie asked.
"I can teach her to embroider." Edith replied.
"That's a good gift, embroidering is a forgotten art, she'll like that." Archie said.
"Anyone else have anything they can give her?" Archie questioned.
No one answered so Archie said, "Okay, I think we covered all her gifts. However, the rest of you who aren't getting her something, I want you to be extra nice to her and make her feel like she belongs here. That clear?"
"Yes sir!" The other grunts and Admins said together.
"Okay, now everyone who's getting her something should start looking right away because her birthday will be here before you know it." Archie turned to Thomas, "Thomas, why don't you go get your gift for Sakura and I'll help her." Archie suggested.
"Okay boss, I'll do that." Thomas said.
"Meeting adjourned." Archie said.
Everyone got up and left the room. The people, who were getting Sakura gifts went one way and the other members went the other. Now Archie went to see how his daughter-to-be was doing.