(6)-MISTY AND FRIENDS.

Earlier...

CERULEAN CITY, KANTO

15-Year old Misty Water-flower sat outside the ice-cream parlor at a white round table with her three friends, 16-year old Gigi Hudson and her 9-year old brother, Aiden, and 17-year old Amber Bling, with the chairs they sat in being white, and a yellow umbrella in the center of the table, covering it and the four friends from the sun. There were also four bowls of ice-cream resting on the table that the gang had ordered and were eating.

Misty's ice-cream was white with strawberry glaze, Gigi's ice-cream was strawberry, Aiden's ice-cream was chocolate and Amber's ice-cream was vanilla.

Gigi had short brown hair and blue eyes, Aiden had long neck-length brown hair and brown eyes, and Amber had long curly blond hair that went past her shoulders and stopped at her lower back and her eyes were brown.

After high school had let out for the day, Misty, Gigi and Amber picked Aiden up from middle school and came here to the ice-cream parlor for some ice-cream. When Misty's sisters returned home from their trip around the world on New Year's Eve-1999, they took back their positions as leaders of the Cerulean Gym, which Misty gladly accepted. The whole reason she had stopped traveling with Ash and Brock in 1998 was because her sisters were going on a trip around the world and needed someone to look after the gym as it's leader while they were away. And since Misty was the youngest out of all of them, they asked her to accept the position, which she did. She was sad to leave Ash and Brock, but she was able to get over it after a while.

Now that her sisters had returned and taken back their positions as gym leaders, Misty was thrilled, because it meant that she could go back to pursuing her own dreams and figure out what she wanted to be. She couldn't go back to traveling with Ash and Brock, as Ash was now traveling in the Unova region with knew friends, according to Miss Ketchum when she called her on her poke-gear, and Brock had returned home to study medicine to become a Pokemon doctor. Not wanting to feel like a free-loader or a fourth wheel-and with nothing else to do-Misty decided to go back to school and finish getting an education and figure out what she wanted to be in life. She went back in 2000 when she was 13. It felt strange in the beginning, but with some help from Gigi and Amber-who she met on the first day-Misty was able to re-adjust to school life and was able to adjust to the life of a high school girl. And really, what more could she ask for? She was a normal girl, she was back in school, had more friends. Life was good.

Misty's poke-gear then rang and she stuck her spoon in her ice-cream, reached inside her pink messenger-bag, which hung on the left side of her chair by it's strap, and got out her poke-gear and answered it. "Hello?"

"Hello, Misty? This is Mrs. Daily." Said a female voice on the poke-gear.

"Oh, hi, Mrs. Daily." Misty greeted.

"I have a huge favor to ask you. I was wondering if you could babysit tonight, 'cause Mr. Daily and i both have a business meeting to go to and our babysitter bailed at the last minute." Said Mrs. Daily.

Aiden then started poking Gigi in the right shoulder with his spoon.

"Would you stop poking me with that spoon?" Gigi said.

"No." Aiden said.

"Yeah, sure, no problem." Misty said. She had no issue babysitting for the Dailys, as she had done it so many times before since 2000 when she was 13.

"Great, thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, and Tommy's gonna have a friend sleep over tonight. Are you down with watching two kids?" Mrs. Daily said.

"Absolutely." Misty said. The 15-year old red-haired girl then noticed a black car parked on the other side of the street. It was strange because that car hadn't moved at all since she and the others had got here. Why hadn't it left. Did the owner work around here or something? Was he or she working in one of the places in this part of town?

"Stop it. That's annoying." The voice of Gigi said. Obviously she was still getting poked in the right shoulder by Aiden with his spoon.

Aiden then poked Gigi in the right shoulder with his spoon again.

"Stop poking me with that spoon." Gigi said.

"Shut up." Aiden said.

"I'm glad my little brother is a Pokemon trainer and is traveling around the Orange Islands." Amber said.

"You guys, shut up, i'm talking to Mrs. Daily." Misty said, looking at the trio. "Alright, well, i'll be there around 7:00." She said to Mrs. Daily.

"It's a deal. We'll see you tonight." Mrs. Daily said.

"Okay, bye." Misty said before hanging up. She then turned her attention back to the black car, only to find that it was now gone. Wow. Whoever the owner was had to be a really light driver, 'cause she didn't hear them start the car or drive off. The 15-year old turned her attention back to her three friends. "So anyway, maybe i could call up one of my other friends."

"Yeah." Gigi agreed.


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