Seeds of Hope
By: Ice Phoenix-chan
Credit to: Final Prayer for topic/setting
She stared at the withered plant in her hands, its few remaining leaves brown, dry, with no sign of life. The flowers that originally perched on the summit of the plant lost its playful pink and now were yellowing from the lack of nutrients.
"This is our plant," his voice echoing through her mind. "I have planted it ever since the day we meet," his gentle voice reiterated those words again. "If the plant is alive, we are alive."
No. She can't think of him. She didn't need him anymore. He was the one that left her first... He-
She stopped herself. Brushing her thoughts away, she decided to go down to the recycling plant to help out to keep her busy. No. She can't. Recycling, the environment… they were linked together. She can't do anything that has to do with the environment. Her memories will haunt her even more if she did go. She asked herself: Why did she even start in the first place? To have anything to do with the environment, she meant. If she didn't start caring about the environment, she wouldn't have met him, if she didn't meet him, she wouldn't be like this right now…
-Flashback-
"Hey you! Don't litter!" A white haired man yelled, pointing to a brunette woman that had just casually dropped her Popsicle wrapper on the floor.
"Why does it even matter to you?" She rolled her sapphire blue orbs at him, with a Junoesque attitude.
"Do you know that people like you are the ones that are killing the Earth?" He asked, narrowing his eyes.
"By the time the Earth dies, I wouldn't be around to see it, like I would care." She stated with a malicious tone.
"But your descendants will," he reasoned with her. "Come with me," he grabbed her wrist and jerked him back from the direction where she came from.
"Hey-!" She stuttered. "You-! Let go! I-I'll call the police! Hey! Ow! That hurts! Stop-…" He remained silent and ignored the rest of her complaints.
The white haired man continued to haul her by her wrist until they arrived in front of a white many storied building.
"What the hell was that!" She yelled.
"Here we are," he disregarded her complaint and finally let go of her wrist. "This is the National Cancer Research Institute."
She rubbed her wrist allowing blood to be flowing back into her hand. "So? You didn't have to drag me all the way to this stupid laboratory,"
"You know what the suspected cause of cancer?" He asked.
"Don't know, don't care," she answered, turning away.
He sighed, "Pollution." He answered. "And you know what one of the greatest factors in pollution is?"
"Again, I don't care." She answered coldly.
Ignoring her comment once again, he answered his own question, "Littering. You know the fine for littering can be up to $5 000?"
This time, she ignored him and turned to the other direction.
He sighed once again. "Come to the University of Hoenn tomorrow at two o'clock." He avowed. "We're having seminars on protecting the environment."
Who does he think he is! Ordering her, a completely random stranger that he pulled off the road, to tell her to go to the U of H(oenn) tomorrow!
"It's free. And people like you need it." He said coldly and turned away to the right and left. (A/N: XDD Hehe…. He turned right and left… Not the direction left, left as in to leave.)
"Hmph! We'll see about that! I have a seminar that I have to go to for class tomorrow at two anyway, we'll see if I'll be there!" She glared and triumphantly said to his disappearing figure.
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"He said to go to his seminar but I won't be showing up, I'll be here at this seminar." She said to herself as she jubilantly carried her books to the seminar room in the U of H.
Her friend, Crystal, walking beside her giggled, "I heard the Professor teaching the seminar is Professor Birch's son, he's only as a year older than we are and he's already a professor! I heard that he's really, really hot and one of the top ten bachelors in Hoenn!" She squealed
"So?" Haruka answered. "I don't care, I'm only here for the marks. If it wasn't mandatory for us to be here, I wouldn't even be here right now." She gave her friend a sympathetic look. "So, what's this seminar on anyway?"
"Protecting the Environment."
The brunette twitched and halted. "Did you just say 'Protecting the Environment' was the topic?"
Her friend turned to give her a nod. "Now hurry up, before all the front seats are taken! I want to sit right in front of Birch!" Haruka's heart stopped beating. Her friend grabbed her wrist in a similar manner as the man did yesterday afternoon and dragged her right in the center front. Right. In. Front. Of. The. Man. That. She. Meet Yesterday.
No. Freakin'. Way.
She had a feeling that this was going to be the longest two hours of her life.
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Next and final chapter will be uploaded tomorrow.