I still don't understand her problem with me. I mean, she doesn't expect me to play a parent part does she? I mean, I'm me! She should try it out on Morty or something. At least he actually cares about what the others do. I certainly don't. Unless Rudy's buggin' the hell outta me or something, I'd rather sit out. Or maybe if it's Whitney or Flannery. They're the most annoying people I've ever met! Falkner's more like a shadow of Morty, who's afraid of getting stepped on and crap like that. I probably wouldn't even know Jasmine if she wasn't Winona's best friend. Speaking of Winona, I have no idea, but it's so much fun to wind her up. To see her reaction to each insult I throw at her. It's almost always different.

I caught the key Winona had flung at me easily. She was probably hoping I would drop it or something. She's been really uptight lately. Oh well. Not my problem.

"Hey you guys, what are we doing tomorrow?" Rudy asked, mainly implied to me.

"I dunno" Winona pulled out a pokenav. "why don't we take this route. From New Bark, to Cherry Grove, to Violet, to Azalea, to Goldenrod, and we'll figure things out from there?" She suggested.

"Okay, it's fine with me!" Jasmine piped.

Naturally.

"I'm going to bed, I'm tired, and I don't really care where we're going. I'll find out tomorrow." Whitney whined as she turned around, and bumped into the locked door.

"Wiinona!" Whitney complained.

"Alright alright, I'm coming." Winona said, unlocking the door.

"I call top bunk!" Flannery called behind Whitney, running in behind her.

"Night guys." Morty said.

"Good night." Falkner walked in after Morty.

"Whatever" Rudy said slouching in after Falkner.

I just grunted to day good night to an undignified Winona who probably thought she deserved more than that.

"Good Night Falkner! Don't let the bed bugs bite!" Flannery giggled.

"Nice try Flannery, I'm too tired to be worried about that." Falkner called from inside the room.

"Come on Jasmine" Winona said.

I closed the door behind me. Obviously, everyone was already sleeping. I sighed as I took off my vest, and shoes. I hung my vest on the bedside post, and sat down on the bed. I knew that tonight would not be a sleeping night. That had to be the third fight I'd had with Winona. "I wonder why she hates me so much." I mumbled too myself, throwing my feet onto the bed and pulling the covers over myself to try and force myself to sleep.

"Rise and Shine!"

I heard a lot of groaning. Probably from Falkner and Rudy.

"Come on Rudy wake up!"

Flannery.

"Morty?"

Whitney.

"What?" I groaned.

"It's ten o' clock!" She said shaking my shoulder.

I sat up, and blinked to a lot of light.

"I've never seen your hair so messy before!" She giggled.

I sighed. Everyone including myself knew she had the biggest crush on me. You could tell. How many days has it been since we met?

"Whatever, I got to get down Whitney."

"Oh sorry, Flannery told me to come wake you up that's all." Whitney said apologetically and climbing down the ladder.

I climbed down to see all 4 girls in the room.

"How'd you guys get in here?" Rudy demanded.

"Easy!" Flannery said. "Nurse Joy had a spare key!"

Rudy groaned.

"Falkner?" Jasmine asked. "Are you awake?"

"How could I not be with all this noise?"

"Wake up Drake!"

There came a sharp cry after that.

"That hurt! I was awake anyway Winona!"

Apparently Winona hadn't the decency to wake Drake up like every other girl did.

Apparently, she kicked him off the bed.

"Well, you certainly weren't off your bed so get up and get movin!" She snapped.

Drake mumbled something under his breath.

"Don't make me wash your mouth out with soap! You know I'd do it!" Winona slapped Drake on the back of the head.

"Ow! You wouldn't be able to do it if you tried!" Drake said, holding the back of head in pain.

"Oh? Try me!" Winona snapped.

"Stop acting like our mom." Rudy snapped back.

"At least I have common sense now get up!" She yelled.

"Calm down Winona, nobody's going to wake up if you force them to." I said calmly.

"You should've seen what she did to wake us up." Whitney grumbled.

"What did she do?" I asked intrigued.

Whitney opened her mouth happily, probably because it was a question from me, but Flannery cut in.

"She hit the gong decoration in our room!" Flannery whined.

"Jeez Winona, why'd you want us all to wake up so fast?" Rudy asked.

"Because, she wants to get to Cherry grove by tomorrow." Jasmine said for her.

"Exactly, now come on!" Winona said yanking a stubborn Drake off to floor. "I didn't get any sleep last night now let go!" He retorted.

"You should've gotten some sleep last night so it's your fault!"

I put my hand to my forehead. I had such a bad headache from all the commotion so early in the morning.

We were all quiet for a second when we all heard light snoring.

"Falkner?" Jasmine asked looking back over the ladder.

"Winona you know Falkner's not a morning person." I said.

"Oh, alright, let's set the goal date to get to cherry grove in a week, since that's probably the minimum at this rate." Winona snapped.

"There IS no rate at this point Winona!" Rudy practically cried.

"Fine! Go back to sleep, I'm going to go stock up supplies." Winona grumbled.

"Sounds like we're not the only one's who need sleep Winona." Jasmine said. "You should get some sleep too. I'll go get the supplies."

She crawled down the ladder.

"Thank you Winona, you're a life saver!" Whitney cried hugging her.

"Yeah Yeah, only because you all teamed up and trampled all over me." She grumbled turning back to the girl's room.

Rudy groaned and got back into bed. Drake did the same, and fell asleep instantly.

I sighed.

"You okay Morty?" Whitney asked.

"I woke up for nothing." I said climbing back up the ladder.

"Oh, sorry." Whitney said walking over to the blinds and shutting out the light.

Sometimes, having Whitney have the biggest crush on you had it's moments.

"Thanks Whit." I said turning over.

Just great. Now I can't get back to sleep. What with Rudy's snoring, and Falkner randomly saying something, which was actually really funny. It must've been terrible for Whitney and Flannery to have to be woken up with a gong. But then again, I don't think Flannery likes me very much. Due to the fact that Whitney probably never shuts up about me when they're together. I don't think Rudy likes me either. But, he doesn't really like anyone. If they weren't both from the orange islands, Rudy probably wouldn't even like Drake. I don't understand, why you should have to come, if you don't even like it. I could bet you without even using tarot cards that Rudy's going to get too much one day, get up and leave. At least Falkner's always going to be here, as long as I'm here. And maybe Jasmine. I don't get why he likes Jasmine so much. Maybe because she's more like his mom than Winona is. Just, not a timid and freaked out. She's really nice, but she only pays attention to the girls and Falkner. Not that I'm complaining. There's not really anything interesting about her. I can't say there's anything interesting about any of the girls. Whitney blabbed it all out already, and Flannery's just obviously smitten with Rudy…at some points…and Winona, is obviously milking Drake's interest in her for all it's worth.

I turned back over.

The snoring had stopped, thank goodness.

'Oh my god. He gave me a pet name!'I thought trying to hold in my anticipation.

I walked out of the boys room, and back over to the girls, where Winona sat on her bed, her helmet off, and brushing her hair out. I sighed and laid on my bed. Flannery was already asleep.

'I wish I was better at keeping my feelings to myself, like Drake, or Morty himself. I bet Morty's really creeped out about me practically hero-worshipping him more than Rudy to Drake.' I closed my eyes once again, and let myself drift.

I opened my eyes and looked over to the blinding red neon lights.

12:30 PM.

I groaned and sat up. Winona was sleeping for once in her life, and so was Flannery. There was a shopping bag on the dresser, which I assumed was from Jasmine, who was also sleeping.

I got up and walked into the hallway. The boy's door was closed. 'I guess everyone's asleep' I thought walking into the nearly empty lounge.

Nearly.

"Hey Whitney."

I jumped and spun around.

There he was. Staring at me as though I was crazy. Again.

He really didn't think very high of me did he? And neither does Rudy, but he's a bully, and Drake…I probably wouldn't even know his name if Winona didn't yell it so much. I probably would be a bully to Falkner too if he wasn't Morty's best friend, although sometimes I just can't help but snap at him. At least Flannery knows how to laugh. The most I've heard Jasmine laugh is a reeally small giggle. Maybe she had problems with her family or something.

"Oh hi Morty, I didn't see you there." I said. If there was one thing I liked about myself, it was that I could keep my calm.

"Obviously" He said taking a sip from his cup.

"Is anyone else awake?" I asked.

"Umm, yeah, Falkner woke up a few minutes ago, but went back to sleep, but otherwise, I'm the only one up besides you." Morty said leaning back in his chair.

"Oh…" I couldn't think of anything better to say than 'oh!' so much for keeping calm.

I guess we were only quiet for a few minutes, but it felt like an hour or so.

"You gonna sit down?" Morty finally asked.

"You never asked me to sit." I replied.

"Well I just did." He said.

"Honestly." I said sitting down.

It was quiet again. I sighed and looked at my watch.

"It's already 12:45, and everyone's still asleep." I said "Winona was right!"

"I think we should go wake everybody up, just so our sleep schedule doesn't get all screwed up." Morty said standing up.

"Yeah I agree." I said following him down the hall.

I opened the door to the girl's room, while Morty went into the boys.