C'EST VRAI! TELL YOUR FRIENDS!
THAT SYLVEON
Alright, alright. I suppose I owe you guys a bit of an explanation. What started off as a joke in the server turned out to be a real idea with a lot of weight. I made a joke, saying that one day I'm just going to make a chapter which is just Julley on a toilet.
Evidently, those plans came to pass. I have nothing to apologise for, though. I hope you guys enjoyed Julley's Flush Time Escapade.
The chapter before the last received a lot of praise. It makes me wonder, what sort of things do you guys like to see when I write these things? I'm sure it's humor and romance of course, but isn't there anything in specific? I'll have to find out one day.
Can you believe that I've probably written this disclaimer like, a hundred times by now? How many chapters have I written in total? How much time have I dedicated to writing? I'm having an existential crisis. Ahem, Luan owns nothing.
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Julley looked in the mirror, having a go at the underside of his chin. His stay at the Bursyamo's had been nearly a week old, and like all good things, was soon to come to an end, but the exact time was yet to be decided. At the very least, it provided him and his family time to possibly recuperate. Emotionally, of course. In bed already was his wife, laying in the satin sheets of the guest room, silently reading a book.
"Are you gonna come to bed soon, Julley?" questioned Cassidy, flipping through another page. What was she reading exactly? "I might sleep soon. I've been reading 'Not So Extraordinary' for hours now."
"Ah. H-How is it?" replied the dark type, lost in his own gaze.
"Ugh! I hate that damned Nidoking. Oh, um, it's going great honey! I better save this page though…"
The Umbreon made from the reflected light in the mirror gazed right back at the adult. "Ahaha, okay.I think I'll sleep soon, b-but probably not now."
The novel was set aside, not before Cassidy had dog-eared the last page she was reading (Yeah, she's one of those assholes). "Well, alright. I'm gonna schleep-schleep soon though, Jull, so if you wanna catch me awake for some cuddles, you better hurry up-" she sang, turning over in the covers and getting her phone out.
"A-Alright, Cass. I'll be there soon."
Still got a soft spot for the kisses 'n' cuddles, eh?
It's called being in love, Arceus.
Ooo, look at you, being in "love" and all. It wasn't long ago that you were denying feelings for her, you know.
W-What? Come on, that was-
During highschool?
...I was gonna say that it was years ago.
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.
Good one. Anyways, goodnight, Arceus.
Hey, one second. I wanna show you something.
How about you show me tomorrow?
Lame. I bet Anais thinks you're lame too.
...Very mature.
Julley turned around, facing the bed with his wife in it. There was a definite change in environment. The Glaceon was on the phone, chatting away. He hadn't even realised how loud she was being relative to the previous silence, let alone the fact that she was on the phone in the first place.
"-not doing very well, but I'm gonna call him tomorrow anyway." Cassidy said, fiddling around with her droopy ears. Julley smiled, fighting the urge to go and playfully tug on the floppiness. "Cody? I dunno, Mom, Cody and I don't really… Uh… Ugh, alright. You can put him on the line…"
The ice type gave the Umbreon a look of despair, as she waited for her mother to hand the line over to her sibling. Julley walked over to his significant other, coming up close and personal.
"O-Oh. You're close, honey." giggled the Glaceon, checking that the call was muted.
Inspecting the icy Pokemon's perfect imperfections, Julley leaned on the bed to caress her fur with his left paw. His grasp eventually found itself at the tip of her floppy ears.
Cassidy merely laughed. "Ahaha! If you wanted to touch my ears so bad, you could've just asked!"
"I know, but I think I l prefer s-surprising you instead." replied cheekily, the Umbreon did, discovering new colours in the kaleidoscope of his wife's irises.
The moment didn't last long, which was a shame because Cassidy was more than ready to give her husband a smooch on the lips. A familiar voice ruptured the speakers of the phone.
"Hello? Hello? Hello-hello-hello? Is anyone there?"
Rolling her eyes, Cassidy unmuted the call, and placed it on speaker. "Yeah, I can hear you, Cody! You don't need to shout..."
Some things were worth more than ethereal affection, and one of those things was family. Julley mouthed to his wife, that he was going to head downstairs for a beverage. Hopefully it'd let the hours pass by quicker while brother and sister chatted away. Cassidy waved her husband off as he took off. Hopefully her torture wouldn't last long.
The door was opened. Julley stepped out into the hallway of the second floor. The door was closed. Carefully, he trotted down the stairs, leading to the first floor that showcased the closed entrances to the other members of the house.
Swinging open was the bathroom door. Julley performed an involuntary jumping jack as a harmless Eevee emerged from the darkness of the lavatories.
"Geez, Julius! W-What were you doing i-in the bathroom without the lights!?" wailed the dark type at his son, whom he admittedly hadn't seen for the better half of the day.
The normal type nearly smiled at his father. "Hi, Daddy!"
Julley squinted. "Uhh… Hi, Julius. Well, are you going to sleep with us today?"
Julius shook his head, raising a paw in the direction of the door that had a battling poster on it.
"Oh. Well, don't keep your sister up for too long, I-I suppose." told the predecessor to the young Eeveelution. As with most kids these days, the instruction probably entered one ear and came out the back end. Julius nonchalantly skipped into Barry's room.
The kitchen was only one floor away. Julley let his son scamper off into the teenage wonderland, and trotted downstairs to see who else he'd find at this hour of the evening.
There seemed to be no one in the lounge, using the massive, wall-mounted flatscreen television that the quadrupedal would probably never own in his lifetime. Sad. Weirdly, though, the kitchen light was on. Julley peered past the slightly ajar door, and found a Pokemon, gently resting - snoring away their troubles - on the dining table.
It wasn't unlike the Blaziken to be found asleep watching TV in the lounge, but the Umbreon imagined that it wouldn't be very comfortable sustaining an arched position like that for long.
"Umm… B-Brendan?" Julley quietly whispered, trying to get the taller Pokemon awake.
Thankfully, it worked without any need for physical contact. Brendan stirred about, before eventually noticing the bright kitchen light and coming to.
"Man… Wha…?" he yawned, making out a black figure while his eyes adjusted to the sudden increase in intensity. "Julley? Golly, what time is it?"
Julley looked at the nearby wall clock. "Uh, half past nine?"
His friend as of high school stood up from the chair, stretching his limbs. "Geez Louise. Well, thanks for waking me up. I know, I know, I shouldn't be sleepin' in these chairs."
"I-It's alright. I get that you'd be tired after work, b-battling and all…" dismissed the dark type, nodding his head as he spoke.
"Whew, yeah. I haven't gotten a nice wink in a while now that I think about it. Anyways, how have you been, man?"
Julley responded with a light shrug. He had a lot to say, but wasn't quite sure how to go about saying it in the first place.
Brendan yawned again. Now it was getting contagious. "Fairs. I know it's been rough, buddy, so you guys are free to stay here as long as you want. That, or until Jasmine gets cranky enough to make a move."
Snorting, barely, the Umbreon raised a paw. "T-Thanks, Brendan, but I think we've overstayed our welcome a bit…"
"What? You guys are always welcome, so don't think like that dude. It's pretty nice having you around, too." told the Blaziken. It certainly made the Umbreon feel more at home, but there was no such home like that home he already had.
"Aha, well thanks, Brendan. I really appreciate it."
"No worries 'bout it."
Julley had taken a seat across from the fire type, who had grown in spirit, but not so much when it came to physical appearance. His cerulean irises reminded him of Cassidy. The more he had focused on them, the deeper he became lost in his own imagination.
"So, what 'cha thinkin' about?"
"...You."
"...What?"
"...What? N-No! I wasn't… Erm, I didn't-"
Brendan brought up his talons defensively. "Uhm, listen dude, I get it. I'm not judging or anything, but you've got a wife, man."
"...I meant to say that I was thinking about Cassidy…" murmured the embarrassed Umbreon, unable to face the Blaziken now.
"Ohh… Well you can't blame me for being confused, right?" laughed the Blaze Pokemon, who was thankfully able to make a joke out of the worst things.
"Aha, t-that's true." Julley said, scratching his head. At least now he could make eye contact with the Blaziken. "Hey, um, Brendan? Would you mind if I could have a drink?"
The fire and fighting type leaned back in his chair. "Sure. Help yourself. But uh, I might hit the hay early today. I took a Draco Meteor to the face and I wanna sleep it off. I think it's messing with my spatial awareness."
The very thought of Brendan being slammed with an asteroid right to the mop did make Julley snicker on the inside. AITA?
"That's fine. Battling must be hard, I imagine."
Brendan stood up, clicking his neck a few times. "Hah, maybe, but probably not for you - I remember you whoopin' a Marowak's ass during our school nationals once!"
"N-No way! I swear, it was a complete accident!"
"Accident, schmaccident. A win is a win. Plus, that guy got creamed right outta the can." joked the father of the house, preparing himself to bid adieu to the ringed Pokemon. "But anyways, I'm outta here, Julley."
"Alright. G-Goodnight, Thanks for everything."
"No sweat, dude." cooly replied Brendan, clicking his digits as he sashayed toward the door.
He immediately bumped beak first into the fridge on the way out.
"Golly, fuck! Which idiot put that there!?" he exclaimed, sidestepping the large appliance and heading into the hallway.
Julley chuckled quietly. Must've been the meteor to the face. He then looked into the fridge for the beverage he so sought out to appease his thirst tonight. Ew, no, not that kind of thirst. I mean the one you feel in your throat. There was a bottle of soda that he didn't mind having too much. Pecha berry flavoured, even. As he walked back to his seat, he found that the door leading to the garden was just barely ajar. Unlocked, even.
Wait, did I do that?
Creeping toward the door, he slowly pushed it open just to see if there was anyone in the garden. Down beyond the flourishing rose petals, a lone Lucario lounged in the pool. The Umbreon could breathe a sigh of relief knowing that there wasn't a ghost following him or anything.
It wouldn't hurt to say hello. Julley crept out into the dry grass, advancing toward the steel and fighting type. She seemed to be reading a novel while peacefully lingering on the edge of the pool. Wait, how'd she float with all that metal in her?
"Been expecting you, Goofball…" she purred, flicking another page of the book. "Ya really kept me waiting, babe. I even wore your favourite bikini for you…" Within one paw, the novel was shut, pushed aside onto the perimeter of the pool. The moonlight illuminated her upper torso, but Julley could only see her toned back and the wavering appendages that swayed from side to side.
S-Should I say something?
Probably, yea-
WAIT. I wanna see where this goes! There hasn't been any sort of sexual tension for months! I NEED THIS.
"I finally put the kids to sleep. What a chore. Barry's doing his homework with Anais, and I believe Julley 'n' Cass called it a night awhile ago. That just leaves me, and the stud that I'm about to devou-" Jasmine had turned around. Her face dropped upon seeing her step brother awkwardly standing on the lawn. "Julley what the FUCK."
"I swear I didn't get turned on!" Julley bellowed in embarrassing defense. Poor choice of words, as told by the Lucario's open mouthed frown.
"I mean, I hope so!" barked back the Aura Pokemon, turning to show the Umbreon her back, as well as the knot that held the top piece of her bathing suit together. "Well… I suppose it wasn't the first time you walked in on me up to something…"
"J-Jasmine!"
"What?" she scoffed, flicking her paw without care, droplets of moonlit water following her arch of motion. "I know you saw Brendan and I having our first time together."
"J-J-Jasmine!"
"Don't worry! Only I saw you. It'd be weird if I told Brendan that you saw him ploughing my damn lights out, am I right? Arceus, he's huge."
"JASMINE!"
"Ahaha, alright, I'm done messing with you. You look like a Groudon with all that red on your face." After profusely giggling at the misfortune of her step-brother, Jasmine rotated around again to face the Umbreon. "Come sit by the pool. I wanna chat."
Julley wiped his brow full of sweat. He didn't think he could take much more of the teasing.
Neither could I…
G-Giratina!
What!?
...I-It's poking me…
Oh. My bad.
Trotting to the concrete poolside, Julley sat his backside down next to his step-sister, who was partially submerged in the gently waving waters.
"So how's it all been, bro?" questioned Jasmine, folding her arms on the stone walls. "I feel like it's been ages since you 'n' I sat down and just talked."
"I-It's been fine, Jasmine." replied the dark type, looking to the clear skies and stars above. "And y-yeah, we never really talked much…"
Feigning a choking noise, the Lucario playfully poked the Umbreon. "Nuh-Uh. You never really talked much. I remember you always used to keep to your room. Y'know, if you weren't sleeping out at Cass' house."
A subject to teasing is one that Julley never really aspired to be. Yet, the more he dove into his memories, the greater the smile was apparent on his face.
"Aha, I remember that."
"I know right." Jasmine looked up at her lawful sibling. "Hey, Julley?"
"Y-Yeah?"
"Remember when our parents would go out on those-" Jasmine raised two of her fingers to mimic quotation marks. "Business trips?"
"Y-Yeah, what about it?"
"They were probably fuckin'."
If Julley had a drink, he would've spit it out right now. Otherwise, all he could do was silently wretch. "J-Jasmine! That's gross!"
Jasmine only coyly smiled and shrugged her shoulders. "They all hated her because she spoke the truth." Once again, the Lucario chuckled at her brother's misfortune.
By the time she was done making a tool out of the dark type she once shared a house with, Jasmine looked to her left, revealing a small metal flap on the poolside floor. The flap humbly opened with a bit of persuasion from the mother of three's oil black paw, showing a couple of buttons. A red one was pressed, and following it was sudden illumination from the very bottom of the swimming pool.
"Wow. This is a really nifty pool." Julley confessed, finding inner peace with the warm lights that shone from below.
"You're telling me. Sometimes, after a long day of work, I come here with a Cheri berry float, put my legs up and just sit on this edge right here." Jasmine slapped the concrete edge as if it was made of sponge. "Definitely beats the ol' house, huh?"
"Y-Yeah…" Julley's gaze returned to the moon. "But I miss my old room, sometimes."
"Huh? You do?"
"Yeah, don't you?"
Jasmine shook her head. "Well, maybe it's because you had the bigger room, but I kinda didn't like being in that house. All I did was sit around, eat chips and maybe rub- uh, lie flat on the couch with my hands to myself."
"Oh. That's really s-specific."
"I'm a very specific person."
Moments of silence soon came after a brief chuckle between siblings. Julley's smile widened, his shoulders dropped, and arching back became less tense. He felt comfortable around his sister, and felt proud because of it.
"Hey, Julley?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I ask you somethin'?"
"Sure."
Jasmine turned to look her brother in the eye, now. Julley's smile ceased.
"What happened to your old man?"
The Umbreon's eyebrow flew up in confusion. "Huh? A-Are you calling me old?"
"W-What? No, dude - I'm talking about your old man. Your Dad, I mean."
"M-My Dad?"
"Yeah, I never really heard anything about him." continued Jasmine, waving her paw back and forth. "I mean, I get if it's a bit of a personal thing, 'n' all…"
"N-No, it's fine! I just…" Julley took a deep sigh. "I haven't really thought about him in awhile."
"Oh. Didn't mean to make it awks, Julley."
"It's alright, you didn't make it uhh, "awks". But uhh… From what I remember, years ago, like before we met, he went to go see his family, and I think do a bit of work abroad?" Julley explained, squinting as the cogs in his brain got working. "But, he never came back. I think my Mom's marriage with him just fizzled away after that."
Jasmine shook her head along to the metronome of melancholy. "Man… It's a real bummer to hear that come outta you, bro."
"I-It's alright. It happened a long while ago, a-and I think Mom's happier now than she was then."
"For sure, I remember your Mom 'n' my Dad being like glue the moment they laid eyes on each other!"
"Ahaha, yeah…"
That silence came back again. Julley's eyes darted back and forth between the Lucario (who he definitely had made awkward eye contact with once or twice) and the rhythmic jive of the calm waters. An idea passed by one of the duo.
"W-Would you mind if I asked you a question, Jasmine?"
"Go ahead."
The Umbreon swallowed any potential anxieties he had prior to asking. "Um, so, what happened to your Mom? Y-Y-You don't have to answer, I mean, I just thought…"
Contrary to the status quo of answering sensitive questions, Jasmine reeled back in laughter. She laughed at the Umbreon. In his face. Again.
"Hey, don't worry about it! I don't have much of a sob story." the smiling female told assuringly. "To be honest, My Dad got with a bunch of women, but things just never worked out for him. It'd either be "too fast", or "too soon", or "I didn't know you had a child" and other nonsense like that."
"Oh. Wow, I-I kinda hadn't expected that." admitted the Umbreon, making him wonder why he hadn't asked his step-sister this sometime before.
"No one ever does, to be honest. Now, uh, where were we? Oh yeah. Anyways, my actual Mom couldn't make it past my birth."
"O-Oh. I'm really sorry, Jasmine."
The Lucario snorted. "Hey, it's no big deal to me. I never really knew her much. Plus, your Mom made my Dad a happy man, so what more could I ask for?"
That was a heart-warming way of looking at it. Still, it hadn't relieved Julley of the weight that he carried on his shoulders as a result of the weight of the conversation. He noticed a glint in his sisters eye as she climbed out of the pool to actually sit next to him now.
"...Do you still miss home, Julley?"
The quadrupedal sighed, seeking for an answer in his mind. "I mean, not home, specifically. I-I just miss being young, and Mom taking care of me, and going to see Cassidy at her house." His focused gaze dropped to the arbitrary patterns in the concrete below. "Life really moves fast, a-and I feel like it's all too much for me."
"I… I hear you, Julley."
The voice didn't sound like the Lucario's. It was much too real. It was the voice of a woman who had seen, heard and felt too much to cope. What was a bumbling conversation had eroded into a forlorn evening. The rings scattered evenly on Julley's body had began to dim.
"Hey…" spoke up Jasmine. Her brother's ears stood up on end. "You said you missed home, right?"
"Uhh… Yeah?"
"Give me one second!"
From a squat, the Lucario hopped to her feet, and took off toward the garden's entrance into the garage. Noises of fierce rummaging lit the entire neighbourhood up like a really awful rave party.
Huh? Did she just run inside without drying herself off?
Pfft. Mortals.
Hey! It's okay to be forgetful.
Yeah, but let's not forget everything else about you normies.
Uh, Arceus? You probably want to come and see this…
Huh? Mewtwo? What do you want? This is my 'me' time, you know.
…
An undefinable distance away, Mewtwo and Arceus took the time away from communicating telepathically to have a glance over their shoulders.
Giratina, Cobalion and Zapdos all sat on bean bags tailored to their shape and size, surrounding a table full of lit paper cylinders that they claimed was "flavoured incense". Sure didn't smell that way. Giratina spoke up.
"Hey guys…? Isn't it weird that Arceus hasn't made any bug type legendaries yet?"
Zapdos, eyes as red as a Gengar's, turned to the totally sober ghost dragon. "Isn't… Isn't Genesect a bug type…?"
"Dude…" Giratina leaned forward. "What the fuck is a Genesect?"
Arceus looked at Mewtwo.
"Okay, this is getting too real. Stop."
…
Alright Julley, after some thought, I'd like to rescind my comment. You mortals are aight.
Oh. Uh, thanks?
Pitter patter of wet footsteps brought Julley back to the real world. Jasmine came bouncing over from the garage holding something behind her back.
"Alright, phew, I'm back. Took awhile to finally find what I was looking for, but here you go!"
Jasmine brought one of her paws around to display in surprising intact form, a familiar sparkling blue bowtie that the Umbreon needed not any time to get acquainted to.
"W-What!?" Julley cried, borderline speechless. "W-Wait, how'd you even get this?"
The Lucario tapped the very tip of her nose as she winked mysteriously. "A girl has her ways. Oh, plus, I found it on the floor outside the playground ages ago. Weird how it got there, huh?"
Julley blinked as he took the slightly damp bowtie from his sister's grasp. "Aha, yeah, uh, weird." Nonetheless, he tried it on. He had only just barely remembered how to tie it around his neck without much struggle, and even though it made little to no difference to his physical appearance, the Umbreon felt like an entirely new man. "Wow, I just… I just don't believe that you kept it for this long!"
Jasmine sat back down, dipping her toes in the pool. "Don't sweat it, bro! I kept meaning to give it back to you, but it always slipped my mind somehow. Guess that's how it ended up in the garage, aha."
"T-This is really cool." There were no tears flowing from the Umbreon's eyes. However, his crimson sclera brimmed under the moon's bright suggestion. "I really appreciate it, Jasmine. Thanks."
"Hey, as I said, don't sweat it, bro." shrugged the Lucario, before placing a hand on the hips that always seemed to tell the truth. "You know what? I bet Cass would love to see it on you again."
Beaming, the father of an angsty teen and a boisterous Eevee stood up on all four of his proud paws. "I think so too. I won't forget this, Jasmine."
"I mean, If you wanna do me a favour, Julley…" the Aura warrior mused, looking to the constellations in thought. "There's this really cool tracklist that's gonna be released soon by this guy called uhh… Savage-Something, I don't remember, but anyways, Brendan said he really wanted it for his… Huh? Julley? Julley?"
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"-nine thousand subs by January. Anyway, could you send me some more money? Broke again. L-A-M-O. There's this new game I wanna stream called CyberPumpkaboo, though, and tons of my viewers want me to stream it too. I wanna see if it's worth all the hype that it's been for the past decade or something, so if you could get it for me in the next couple of days, that'd be sweet sis. Cash only. Oh yeah! How's what-his-name 'n' the kids, by the way? Ooo! Wait, before you answer that, could you fork some money over for rent too? Cooper's been all yanky-cranky lately so I don't wanna bother 'em, and I'm already using Mom's card to pay for my setup. Built the pc myself, you know. So anyways, what's his name? Oh yeah, how's Julley 'n' the kids?!"
Cassidy's eyelids felt like their weight had tripled since the call with her younger sibling had started. Her eardrums were worn out, and she felt like she was going to fall asleep and let tomorrow's Cassidy deal with the problem instead.
"...That's great, Cody. I'll call you tomorrow, m'kay?"
"No worries sis. Hey, don't forget! Cash onl-"
The Glaceon cut the line prematurely, and gently placed her phone on the nearby bedside table. Just being off that call made her feel a million times younger.
The door creaked open, grasping the ice type's attention. In walked an Umbreon who had a new flair to his appearance.
"Hey, Julley! You were gone for a- Hey! Is that? Is that…?"
Julley shut the door, spinning around like a dancer in the midst of thousands, Cassidy being his judge. He hadn't realised how hard it was to spin with four legs, so what it actually looked like was a Poochyena chasing its own tail before face planting into the carpet.
He had played it off not so well, but he still had enough dignity to stand with his chest out, showing off his bowtie to the ice type in bed.
"That's right, Cassidy! It's the same bowtie I wore on our prom night!"
The ice type ogled the dark type's completely average frame, albeit enhanced slightly by the addition of the bowtie. "I don't believe it, Julley! Is that the exact same one? Come closer so I can see!"
Julley took a step toward his wife, beaming as the Eeveelution inspected his collarbone. "Yeah, Jasmine kept it all these years, Isn't that crazy?"
"Definitely! I need to go and thank her sometime. Aww, you look just as cute as you did on our night of prom!" Cassidy squealed, leaning back and clapping her paws together like a malfunctioning robot. "Maybe even cuter… Please wear bowties more, Julley."
Julley blushed a little, sourly looking to the floor while rubbing his bruised nose. "I'm uh, I'm glad you think I should wear them more often, but I wasn't really going for the cute look…"
It wasn't easy to feign sadness for long. Cassidy's lips found their way onto his cheek though, and his mood was lifted a thousandfold.
"Aha, I mean, I used to like bowties and all, but now I think about it, wearing a bowtie while you're essentially naked is kind of silly. It's cute, though, that's for sure!"
"Oh…" mumbled the Umbreon. "
The Glaceon bit her lip cheekily. "Weeell, if you wanted to look Motto-Motto, maybe you should try taking off the bowtie and I don't know… Maybe come into bed with me!"
The quip was witty, the Umbreon had to give it to her. "Aha, okay- Wait… Motto-Motto? What does that mean?"
"Oh, Jasmine taught it to me! It means 'Hawt-Hawt'. So hawt that you need to say it twice!"
"W-What? What are you saying?"
"I'm saying come and kiss me, Julley!"
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Alrighty, it's time that this chapter came to an end. As you can see, the upload times have been incredibly slow. That's because I've been so jammed to the brim with work, but I'm sure you've all heard that story before lol. Anyways, I'll continue to be active in the That Universe discord. If you'd like to be included, friend me on Discord Luanastar#5525. Hope to see you all there!
-LuanOTP
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"How about this?"
Brendan displayed proudly, his tender avian frame in a fully tailored suit. His wife, who crossly laid in bed with slightly damp fur, stared at his get up with ill-amusement.
"No chance, Goofball. If you wanna make up for the fact that you left me for hours in the garden after agreeing to spend time together in the pool, you're gonna have to try better than that." rebuffed the displeased Lucario, folding her arms.
The Blaziken's shoulders dropped despondently. "C'mon, Jasmine! What am I gonna have to do so you can get that I'm sorry? Battling was super tiring and all…"
Jasmine remained resilient. She half closed her eyes, and slowly grinned. "Well… Maybe you can lose the suit jacket."
Brendan removed the suit jacket.
"...And the tie."
Brendan removed the black tie that came with the outfit.
"...And maybe the rest of the outfit."
The Blaziken pulled a deflated expression. "Okay Jasmine, so you just want me to be naked? You know, I'd be naked all the time if I didn't have to wear my kit."
"No, no, of course not babe. Umm, could you try on that bowtie over there?"
Jasmine pointed to a bowtie that sat lonesomely on a pile of folded clothes. Brendan followed the instruction reluctantly, and pinned it onto his chest tuft.
"Alright, so how do I look?"
The Lucario shivered uncontrollably.
"M-Muh… Muh…"
"Huh? Jasmine?"
"...Motto-Motto…"