Lady Gaga at the Cherrygrove City summer festival
Season 1 Episode 4
June 28th, 2011. This morning I wake up with the sun coming through the window. James is already standing with his iPad between his hands. I stretch, then in front of me I look Jolteon with the eyes widened.
«J-Jolteon…»
My Pokémon looks at me and smiles.
«Jaaaal!»
«It was a dream tonight… or was it real? I don't know, it was so realistic…»
Jolteon licks my hand. Then I feel someone climbing my legs: is Riolu, who gets to rub her nose on my cheeks. I give her a kiss, then I take my phone and turn it on.
«Guys, are you awake?»
I hear the voices of James, Julia, Ylenia and David saying yes.
«Love, give me your hand…»
I see my girlfriend's hand coming down from her bed, I grab it giving a kiss. I get up from the bed and I open the window, saying that it's incredibly hot. I wear the same clothes as yesterday, until them get dirty, I don't mind so much. While even those who were still asleep make note their presence, we hear a knock at the door. I open it and I find the nurse Joy:
«Hello, boys, did you sleep well?»
«Yeah, it wasn't bad. The beds are comfortable, we feel good» I reply.
«I'm glad to hear it. In ten minutes, if you want, I'm going to prepare the breakfast, at the ground floor»
«Ok, we're coming»
«Good, I'll wait for you all»
Nurse Joy is gone. I close for a moment Riolu and Jolteon in their Pokéballs.
«Guys, I'm going to the ground floor for a moment, I have to attend to one thing. I'll be right back»
I reach the ground floor and I grab immediately the location of the videophone; I call Volkner:
«Hello, Mirkho, tell me, do you need something?»
«O-Of course I need! It's about Jolteon!»
«What's happened? Something wrong?»
«Uff, Volkner… tonight is happened something crazy… at first I thought I had dreamed of, but when I found Jolteon's fur on my bedside table and in the bathroom, I realized that it was all true… Jolteon tonight has… has…»
«What did she do? Holy Arceus, Mirkho, you seem upset»
I look around quickly.
«Tonight she became humanoid and we had… "fun", we can say it this way, in the bathroom!» I whisper with my heart beating fast.
«What? I can't believe it… really?»
«Really! At first I could not focus on things, but as I told you, when I found fur, and tracks that now I don't explain, I understood everything! Tonight I was dazed, I was not myself, so I found it hard to remember everything! I swear, I woke up in a daze!»
«What the… Mirkho, you're telling me a mix between the plot of a horror movie and a porn one… are you okay?»
«Yes, I'm fine… the next time I'll send you the photos, ok?»
«It's not me you have to send them to, but to Professor Oak, I heard that is starting a research on this topic»
«All right, when I will have the honor of meeting him, I'll think about. Meanwhile, I greet you, bye Volkner»
«Hello, have a nice day, and don't worry»
«Same to you»
I hang up and go back with the others.
«Can we know what was so urgent?»
«Don't worry, Julia. Rather… I brought with me all Lady Gaga's albums, would you favor?»
«No, please, anything but Lady Gaga, please, with all the nice songs that there are…»
«My dear cousin, I was joking… I wanted to make you mad. However, guys, Lady Gaga reigns!»
«But Lady Gaga's songs are horrible like her hair styles… I like original stuff. Let's put the Bulgarian ones that Aksenia gave me?»
«I'd like to, Julia, but we have breakfast now»
«Oh, right… let's go, then»
On the ground floor someone drinks some coffee, others ones cappuccino (with Miltank's milk, to be precise), I drink two cups of Oran Berries juice, I can't resist.
«Excuse me, nurse Joy, what time does the party start?»
«At six o'clock»
After breakfast, while the others go back upstairs, I, Julia and Renamon go outside to smoke. Outside the sun is fucking bright, thank goodness I had on sunglasses.
«What are we going to do today, boys?»
«I don't know, Rena… the party begins at six o'clock, as you've heard… well, we'll find a way to get to the six o'clock!»
«I'm going to pick up my phone… I'll call Silvia, let's see if she found a day for our class dinner, ok?»
«Oh good. I think I'll go out for a walk out of the town, just to arrive at lunchtime»
«I'd like to go with you, Mirkho, but I donìt feel at 100%…»
«Are you ok?»
«Nothing bad, I only feel a little exhausted»
«I think it's because it's too hot… come on, get some rest»
We hug, we kiss, and then Renamon get back in the room. Then there goes Giulia, intentioned to do what she mentioned. I warn the rest of the group, I grab my Pokéballs, take my bike and I left the Pokémon Center. I leave the city by the same road by which we had entered there. Next to me, both right and left, trees and large lawns are alternating. To my right, in the distance, I could see the sea. Every now and then I sniff the air, you can feel a lot that is not the polluted air typical of our world. After a few minutes, my thoughts are interrupted by a powerful moan. I brake abruptly with my bike. After hearing it again, I assure that it comes from behind a large bush. I support the bike on the ground and I run as fast as I can. When I walk behind the bush, I don't believe my eyes: lying on the ground with a paw stuck in a trap, there was Suicune! For a moment, I put my hands in my hair.
«Oh my goodness, what happened to you, Suicune?!»
I pat him on the neck to calm him down.
«Hey, take it easy… I'll help you»
He looks at me with eyes full of tears. I try to lift off the trap, but it is very hard.
«There must have been those assholes of the poachers, sure. Who else, if not them…»
I try again to pull away to hand the trap, without success.
«Idea! Hang on!»
I take Riolu's Pokéball and I let her out.
«Riolu, quickly, use Iron Tail on this trap, we must liberate Suicune!»
Having said that, Riolu swings her tail and hits the support of the trap, breaking it in two parts.
«Very well, Riolu. Now, Suicune, it might hurt you, can you resist a little?»
Slowly I pull out the paw of the Legendary Pokémon, then, with two other Iron Tail, Riolu definitely destroys the trap. Suicune screams loud two times, but with my caresses he calms down soon. Now his blue leg is all sprinkled with blood; I do not think twice, I clean all and then I spray over the potion. As with the Sentret, it heals quickly.
«Do you feel better now?»
After a couple of minutes, Suicune gets up. I get up too, but I stay for a while, because he jumps on me happy.
«I'm glad I helped you»
I sit, and Suicune rubs licking my face. I hug him.
«You know, Suicune… I come from the real world»
Suicune looks at me and smiles, then sits down next to me.
«I came here… because I really love Pokémon, and I would like to become a trainer. It was the dream of my whole life, and now that it became real, I'm very happy. Were Dialga and Palkia, with a dimensional portal, to bring me here. Firstly I came I, then some of my childhood friends followed me. You, Suicune, you're one of my favorites Pokémon, and I'm not ashamed to tell you it. I just started my journey, we arrived just yesterday, but I am confident. You, yesterday, when you're passed suddenly in front of us, you gave me a great infarct, you know? But that's not what matters. Seeing you already on our first day here has made me very happy. I'm sure this adventure will teach me many things about life; surround myself with new friends and valuable allies can't do anything but making me feel calm and secure»
Suicune rests his head on my knee, and lets himself pamper. I'd like to lie down, but my phone rings. Suicune watches me while I take the phone to my ear.
«Tell me… oh, already? I'm coming, then… I'm a little off Cherrygrove City, give me two minutes»
I put my phone in the pocket.
«That was my cousin. Dude, it's lunchtime, and I'm really hungry. I must return to the city. Thank you so much for being with me, and let me say once again that I'm happy to have solved your problem. Hope to see you soon, bye!»
He hands me a paw, I pat him and then he goes away quickly. I reach my bike and go back to the Pokémon Center, when I find my cousin.
«Come on, just 10 minutes and we'll eat, I just asked the nurse Joy»
«Are the others here?»
«Yeah, we're waiting for you»
«Ok, let's wait for the lunch. By the way, did Silvia tell you one day for our class dinner?»
«Yes, she proposed July 21st»
«The 21st? I would be available, but why so late?»
«Please, you're boring me with this fucking Pokémon Day at Mirabilandia*…»
«No, no, it's not that… it's already gone, I wasn't able to go»
«Why?»
«That day I had the first of three days of the recovery course»
«Ah… but didn't you decide to stop the school?»
«I changed my mind, I never sent that letter, I miss two years, and I don't think it makes much sense to stop all after years and years of school from elementary school until now, when I'm missing 2 years… I will be patient and I'll continue. But once finished the school, I'll move here permanently, it's clear»
«Really?»
«Really. And I have more than one reason. Not because I hate Rimini, for Arceus' sake, quite the contrary»
«As for me, I don't think that my mother would let me go to live alone, especially in another world, every day is behind my ass telling me that I'd not be able to do nothing… and in what city would you like to live?»
«I'd like Sunyshore City, in the Sinnoh region. I have been in that city on my first day in this world, even when I didn't understand what was happening to me… in less than half a day, I passed from the news of the 2:20 pm to Ash's battle in the gym… ah, what a day!»
«Oh wow, interesting… anyway, back to the dinner, she told me that there are the other Mirco, the two Ariannas and Alby, and is asking for Marco and Michelle. Not my sister eh… your former classmate»
«Julia, I'm 17, I'm not stupid yet! I know she is not your sister, I wouldn't invite her to a dinner even if she were the last human in the real world»
«And you are right… come on, let's go to eat»
I go up to our room to check the health state of my beloved girlfriend:
«Honey, are you better?»
«A little… but is acceptable»
«Do you want to eat something?»
«Yes, I'm a little hunger. Hey, love… do you have a razor? I've got a warm… I wanna shave all the "woods" on my chest, so maybe I feel lighter»
«Sure. Here it is»
«Thank you. I take this opportunity also to smooth a little my fur, at least on an aesthetic level I'm ok»
I offer her my 3-head electric shaver razor, we kiss and then she closes in the bathroom.
«Love, nurse Joy has just called»
«Don't worry, no problem, I'm at a good point. I'll reach in five minutes»
Oh well… I go down and sit at the table with my friends.
«Where is Renamon?» asks Ylenia.
«She's shaving the fur on her chest, and perhaps I think it is better, otherwise she could die from the heat, just a couple of minutes»
While the waiters bring the exquisite dishes of pasta on the table, Renamon arrives and sits down.
«Wow, you're beautiful!»
«Thanks, honey» she smiles.
«Enjoy your meal, friends»
«Thank you, Lucy, just» we all reply.
After five minutes Ylenia, seeing James always bowed head, asks him:
«James, are you okay? Hey!»
A couple of seconds later he raises a fist in the air and screams "goals!", and his sister understands everything:
«Turn off this fucking thing while we're eating!»
Here, he was playing with the iPad!
«Shut up… you're not my mother» he replies.
Ylenia gets up and takes it away.
«No, Ylenia… I have to beat a penalty!»
«I've paused it, you'll continue later» and she puts it in her purse.
We eat and occasionally we talk about something. Giulia announces to the others what she said to me on the classmates' dinner, and they all agree: dinner will be July 21st at 20:30 pm at "The Barge", a pub near the harbor, on the Tintori seafront. We eat handsomely in the end I admit that I've never felt so good… eating here isn't like eating in our world, here is a completely different effect, really. To digest, I go out and I sit on a bench overlooking the square, of course after I got my notebook. I power on it with the intention to write something with Microsoft Word.
«But… that operating system… do you come from the real world?»
I spin around, and look who I find in front of me…
«B-But you're… Kuro?»
«Yes, I am. Do you know me?»
Yes, that's him, Kuro Umbreon! Amazing…
«I saw the match yesterday on TV… wow what goals you've scored! Congratulations!»
He smiles at me and says:
«Thank you, you're nice, eh eh…»
«Anyway, I come from the real world»
«I guessed. I reveal you a secret… prof. Oak uses that operating system in his lab in the Kanto region»
«What ? Seriously?»
«I swear, I saw it with my own eyes»
«Wow… and how he got it?»
«I have no idea… he just said it's the best way to manage his searches»
«Well, I'm glad someone in this world knows it»
«How long are you here, in our world?»
«Steady since yesterday. We have just started our journey»
«"We have"? You are not alone?»
«No, there's also my cousin, my girlfriend and some of my childhood friends»
«Good luck, then»
He sits next to me and puts a hand on my shoulder.
«My name is Mirkho. It's a pleasure to meet you, Kuro»
«The pleasure is all mine, Mirkho»
«Tell me, Kuro… how long have you assumed the human form?»
«They are several years now… I assumed it because I wanted to learn how to play soccer, is a sport that I love a lot, it was my desire»
«And you did great, seeing your match»
«Hey, now you're exaggerating, eh eh»
I pull out a sheet of paper and I hand it to him:
«Can you make me an autograph, Kuro? Please»
«Very willingly. Here it is»
We also take a picture together.
«Will you go to Violet City, then?»
«Of course, there we will challenge the first gym»
«Once again, good luck to you and your friends»
«Thank you very much. And you? Against who you will play the next match?»
«We are at our stadium with Azalea Town FC, second in the standings. We have the midweek turn Thursday»
«I hope you win. I'll watch the game cheering for you»
«You put me in an embarrassment, Mirkho… we are only a little team, we don't have international ambitions»
«I don't mind. Now I'm your fan and friend and then I will support you»
«Again, thank you. Now I have to go, I have an appointment with the club. I hope to meet you again one of these days»
«Me too. Bye, Kuro»
«Goodbye, Mirkho»
Kuro is gone, and I return to the Pokémon Center.
«Ylenia ... what do we do now?»
«Mine and your cousin's idea would be to see some shops, just to pass the time»
«Imagine… I wouldn't have expected anything else from you two»
«Come on, maybe you can find something interesting too»
«Maybe… I'm going over to pick up the phone, just wait a second»
While entering my room, I hear an electronic voice:
«Vulpix, the Fox Pokémon. If it is attacked by an enemy that is stronger than itself, it feigns injury to fool the enemy and escapes» I find my girl, in fact, who was checking on the Pokédex more details of her Vulpix.
«Honey, are you interested in a shopping tour?»
«What time is it?»
«It has just passed the two o'clock»
«Yes, I'm coming»
She puts her Pokédex in her pocket and closes Vulpix into the Pokéball.
«Like all the girls…» I comment.
Renamon gives me a kiss on the cheek and then, hand in hand, we go down. We go out together from the Pokémon Center, next to each other. We take a lot of photos of the square and palaces, some antique. In the bottom of the square we see now all the tents and the stage fully assembled. As in our world, even here there are restaurants that arrange the benches and tents for dining there.
We visit shops on shops. The women of the group are starting to buy clothes, shoes, Renamon also takes a new handbag and a wallet. I only buy a hat, I hate buying clothes. I, James and David stop at a sporting goods store. I buy Kuro's jersey of Mahogany Town FC, left over from yesterday's game. David, however, buy a lot of stuff: two soccer balls (he says he wants to give to his little brother Ricky), soccer shoes, two or three caps, and it's better if I finish the list because otherwise I end up here tonight.
«David, but how much money do you have? Now that I think about it… yesterday how much Misty paid you?»
«Oh, quite a lot… 650 ₱»
«What? 650 ₱?! But who is she, Bill Gates disguised?»
«In fact, she paid me a lot… well, after all you said that the gym leaders give many moneys»
«But she is no longer gym leader since years, admitted that the situation was like in the anime»
«Oh, don't tell me it»
«Anyway, don't be a spendthrift like my cousin, keep the money for the care of your Pokémon! There are also antidotes, the parlyz heals, the burn heals and similar, you have to think even those»
«You're right, I know. Now I'm done, I'll buy them when we move on to the Poké Mart»
We continue our tour to take a peek behind the stage. I see some people with mixers and approach:
«Hello, what music will you give tonight?»
«Eh… we're undecided… if you have something we can put in more, what do you think?»
«Of course, very willingly»
I turn and see the others intent to observe other. I take this opportunity to pull out of the backpack two albums of Lady Gaga.
«Here you go. These are very nice songs. Try to put these first»
«Thank you. Where can we find you for give you them back?»
«Here, at the Pokémon Center»
«It's okay. Thank you very much»
I reach my group. I want to see the face of my cousin when she will hear echoing throughout the country all the songs of Lady Gaga!
At half past six my cousin and Ylenia have the classic big bags. The party is starting, it starts with a magic show of the local Casanova (with all the respect to the dear Antonio, the tricks of this one always works). I help the girls to arrange their stuff in their backpack, then we go out and we sit down to watch the show. I enjoy the moment when it takes an Oddish from the hat! He does everything and more, even with the help of some of his Pokémon. After half an hour, it all ends. As people slowly sits down around the tables of the restaurants, we re-enter in the Pokémon Center, and we ask the nurse Joy if we can place the big table on the terrace of our room (it is long like the building, as a result is shared with the other rooms) with views over the square. After a short time we get the food: pasta and jams of various berries.
"But usually give the soup here?" Says Ylenia.
«I do not think so, – I replied – and thank goodness. I'm tired to eat soup in the evening»
«Me too» adds James.
After a few minutes, I hear the speaker who talks from the stage:
«Hello, folks, while you eat, we will be happy to entertain you with good music»
«Heh heh… and what a music! I think, giggling.
And here it is : Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oooohh oh-oh-oh caught in a bad romance.. oh-oh-oh-oh-oh oooohh-oh-oh-oh caught in a bad romance Rah-rah… ah-ah-ah Roma-roma-mah gaga uh-la la-la want your bad romance…
I look at my cousin immediately: as soon as she recognizes the music, she looks the stage horrified!
«B-But how the hell did they get this music?»
«Simple: I gave it to them this afternoon»
«Oh my God, Mirkho… so am I forced to listen it?»
«As long as we eat yes, then you can do what you want»
James and I laugh like crazy, then I see some boys, and some children, who begin to dance fun in
front of the stage.
«Look, Julia. It seems like everyone here loves the music»
Finished eating I, Ylenia, David and James begin to dance, sometimes with the boys of the other rooms. Giulia immediately locked herself in the room with her headphones, of course. Some minutes later the waiters bring us something to eat, just in case we get hungry during the evening. Wow, it seems to be in a nightclub, and all that fun makes me very happy.
Begins to blow a breeze that makes me relax; the sun is gone and the night becomes more and more impressive. The parade of the Lady Gaga's songs continues, the square is teeming with people dancing, plus some very good break dancer. Then I laugh happy when I see that some Pokémon begin to dance: a Typhlosion dancing with his trainer who has a strange hairstyle (a lock of hair from a hole in the hat comes in front of his face), a Hitmontop that does the bay-blade as usual.
«Guys, let's go downstairs?» I propose.
«To do what?» replies my cousin from the room.
«Just to drink a bit… I hope they have some cocktails here»
«All right, let's go down in the square, then» intervenes Lucia clapping her hands.
All together we reach the ground floor and go out, we stop at the first bar we meet.
«Excuse me, do you have alcoholic cocktails?»
«Of course, we have many as you want, tell me»
When I read "Vodka sour" I feel like in heaven… I take that. Only David doesn't drink anything, justifying that he is not a fan of alcohol, he doesn't know what he loses! And here the cocktails are much cheaper: I paid mine 2.90₱, which are more or less 3.60€, in Italy they all cost between 4 and 10€! We sit at a table; I see my girl coming toward me with a "Blue Angel" in her hand.
«Love… what do you say, let's heat the evening?»
Renamon sits on my knees.
«Of course!»
We start kissing again and again, we stop only after I asked her to stop because thanks to the contact with her fur I was dying from the heat. Meanwhile it begins "Marry the night".
«Ah, just the right song for this evening»
«Yeah ... this just reflects great night»
«Don't make me talk…»
I turn around and I find my cousin leaning against a pole.
«What do you want? My beloved cousin, go to drink with Ylenia, ha ha»
Julia shakes her head, it makes me a gesture to say "you're outta your mind" and goes away. I let out Riolu and Jolteon, to let them enjoy a little festive atmosphere. We spend the next two hours to dance in the middle of the square. James makes strange movements, he acts as if he were trying to fly, he begins to jump and make strange sounds.
«This is already totally drunk… Riolu, Jolteon, these aren't things to do»
Riolu was watching that guy with his head tilted. I finish my drink and I go to throw the glass in the bin. Around midnight I come back to the Pokémon Center to look at my stuff, checking that everything is in place, because my intention, as I have already explained to the others, would be to get in the way, tomorrow morning, right after breakfast, for Violet City willing more than ever to win the first medal (hoping of course to have sobered up for when we get there, because I daren't imagine what would happen if I challenge Valerio totally drunk…). After a few minutes I reach all others.
«Ah, you've come, finally…»
«We saw you enter the Pokémon Center and we thought we'd join you, after all we are also a bit tired» says Ylenia.
«Yeah… I just can't stand up» says my girlfriend between two yawns.
«Okay, let's go to bed»
A little later we still hear the announcer:
«People! We arrived at the end of another fantastic celebration of the summer beginning! So, did you like the music of this new artist named Lady Gaga?»
And the whole audience shouts of joy and applause.
«I knew that you'd have loved! Thank you so much to all of you, be on time next year! See you
people!»
And again another broadside of applause. Then I remember one thing:
«Oh fuck! Guys I have to go back, they have to give me back the CDs… just a moment, you go to sleep if you want»
In my haste I almost stumbled, and my cousin takes the opportunity for another of her inappropriate comments:
«Drink less vodka, drunkard, luckily you don't have a driver license»
«Julia, why you always lose the opportunity to shut the fuck up? I'm not drunk!»
«Yes, yes…»
I ignore her and I run out of the Pokémon Center, and when I reach the workers, I ask them the discs.
«Of course, here they are, you're great, these CDs with this strange music were a huge success, thank you, if the evening was beautiful was thanks to you! We didn't even need to put our own!»
«It was a pleasure. Lady Gaga is one of the best artists of all time, guaranteed»
«Oh, we have no doubt… also the Pokémon danced! Ah ah, hello and thank you again»
I greet them, and I go back to the Pokémon Center.
«B-But you're… Mirkho! I can't believe it… are you?»
But I know this voice…! I have a hunch… when I turn, my mouth opens so much that it touches the ground…!
«I… it can't be… this is my teacher of Meteorology! What is she doing here? Holy crap…» I think, upset.
She stops in front of me. Yes, that's my teacher in high school!
«Hello, Mirkho! What are you doing here? I swear I didn't expect to find you here!»
Ah, me neither!
«P-Prof… it is she or is her look-alike…?!»
«It is me! Come on, tell me what you're doing here in the Pokémon world»
«W-Well, I… ehm… it's a long story, I have always wanted to become a trainer… I think that Dialga and Palkia have somehow managed to know it, I don't know if you know them, through a portal they led me here»
«Wow… but yes, I know them, I too have made use of their help to come into your world»
«Well, and I felt a great joy because I can finally realize the dream of my life… but wait a minute, because I'm drunk and I don't know if I understand you correctly… you said "to come into my world"?»
«Yeah, uh… I reveal you a secret, but keep this between you and me… I actually am a native of this world, to be precise Ecruteak City»
In a moment I feel petrified, I cannot believe my ears.
«It's… it's… unbelievable… I don't…»
«I know it's hard to believe it, I hope this doesn't ruin our relationships»
«No, no, don't worry… it's just alcohol that is making effect… why did you come in our world?»
«I wanted to see how is your world, and for "disguise me" I decided to do the teacher of meteorology, being an expert on this subject. And you're one of my best pupils»
«I figure… I never had bad marks with you»
«Do you have any Pokémon?»
«Yeah, here they are»
I let Riolu and Jolteon out.
«Wow, nice, not bad»
«And do you have any too?»
«Now I don't have them with me, but I have a Growlithe, a Beautyfly and a Ditto»
«A Ditto? I don't like that Pokémon so much… Growlithe is cute»
«Yeah. Come on, now I let you go to sleep»
«It's okay. What will I find? The principal as a gym leader?»
«Ah, ah no! Not yet, don't worry, eh eh… bye, Mirkho, take care of yourself»
«You too, goodbye»
Throughout the year I had a teacher who comes from the Pokémon world… why it all happens to me only?
And to say that I will have her at least for another two years… it's the teacher with which I am more in agreement among all the ones I have, but I wouldn't have even remotely imagined that she came from the Pokémon world… if I had been told there I would never have believed it.
I return to the Pokémon Center staggering and I find the others, who ask me the reason for the delay. I don't say anything about it, on the one hand I don't think anyone would believe me, the other I'm afraid that they would have obliged me to make her known to them. Therefore shot straight by saying that I talked a bit with someone.
«Come on, it's past midnight and you stop to talk to the first passing on the street?»
«Julia, do you have a middle ground? You always complain that I never speak with anyone»
«But not at this time»
«Is something wrong with that?»
«You had all day»
«What the fuck, you always have some argument to be controversy!»
«I'd not be controversy if you were a good boy»
«Go to f… you know it!» and Julia laughs.
«Rather, are your Pokémon ok?»
«They are more ok than me, at least they haven't drank»
«I asked to be secure. Come to bed»
All in pajamas, my girlfriend gets on the top bed, I give her a kiss, and I settle under the covers. This time my Pokémon are reversed: Riolu near me that laying her head on my left arm, Jolteon balled up in the bottom of the bed. But I still have to wait: Ylenia and David are taking a shower.
«James, can I play Fruit Ninja with your tablet?»
«Sure, here it is»
He hands me the iPad. I beat the previous record (which was always mine), then I play Temple Run, where I don't resist so much, it's difficult as a game.
«Look, Riolu»
I open a drawing program.
«Do you want to draw something? Try it»
Happy, Riolu plays with colors using her paw, then when I "reset" the sheet, this time draws a kind of heart (a little wrong, but that's okay, it's a Pokémon, not Giotto) and looks at me.
«Thank you my puppy. I love you too» I whisper in her ear.
I start to play by the auto races. Finally, the two girls go out of the shower.
«Did you open the window?»
«Yes, don't worry»
«I don't want to find myself into an incredible humidity, it's already hot»
«I said it's open!»
In a short time she wears the pajama. Meanwhile, Renamon's Vulpix jumps on my bed.
«Hello, darling. How are you?»
Vulpix rubs herself under my hand. Then I touch her six tails, which are very soft. At the end, she licks me on my cheeks.
«You're very cute, Vulpix. Come on back to Renamon now. The heat is killing me»
With the Ylenia's help, Vulpix gets on the bed with my girlfriend, with the tails dangling. It's almost one o'clock in the night, I give back the iPad to James and I put my head on the pillow, happy after a nice evening. Giulia turns on the fan. Really, both inside and outside, humidity is incredible.
«Good night, boys» I greet.
«Good night» respond one by one the others.
We turn off the light and within a few minutes all we fall asleep happy.
END
*=Mirabilandia is an Italian fun park, where takes place the most important Italian Pokémon party.
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