A Heart's Passion
Me: no reviews yet for the story -_-
Karrie: next time don't put me in the center of attention =P
Me: doubt that's the reason why, but okay
Keith: you okay?
Me: finals week next week...a lot of studying and stuff to do...but I just wanna go home already
Karrie: there, there
Me: why are you two comforting me anyways?
Keith: *shrugs* I dunno, because the rest of the characters decided to skip out on the opening commentary?
Me: why are you always trying to be in the commentaries in all my stories?
Keith: cause it's fun and I get the opportunity to raid the kitchen more often
Me: gee thanks
Karrie: well, pokelover0ash does not own Pokemon or anything other than her OCs.
Chapter 3
Karrie's P.O.V.
My styler would not stop being and of course the set up looks different from the other styler I have been using! I kept on whacking the darn thing to make it stop. Oh how I wish I took the time to ask Hastings or Erma how to freaking use this thing. Sending the capture styler out was easy, but other than that, I'm at a lost.
"Stupid styler, shut up would you?" I talked to my styler before growling at it. I hate technology and sometimes it hates me too. All of a sudden I heard laughter and it was surprised me. I looked over to see that Keith was LAUGHING at me, now this is embarrassing! I could feel heat rise to my cheeks quickly.
"You're the first Ranger I've met who hasn't been able to figure out how to answer a Voicemail!" Keith exclaimed and I turned red.
"H-Hey! I just got this thing! Okay?" I protested. Keith walked over and he got close. Seeing as the many close encounters that have sent my heart racing, I'm not sure if him being so close is such a great idea. He took hold of my arm, the one the fine styler was attached to.
"Would you like me to teach you a few things so you don't have to beat it up?" Keith asked and I turned red as my heart fluttered a bit from the act of kindness and how his brown eyes seemed to have lit up a bit when he asked. He was also smiling a bit again. Darn it, I'm going to have a heart attack the day he actually smiles smiles. Why is he does this to me? I just met the guy and I'm not the type of girl who has ever been interested in romantic things anyways. What am I thinking? Bad Karrie, bad! He rose his eyebrows as if he was concern at how long I was taking to answer him. I nodded quickly.
"Y-yes, please," I replied and I felt like I was a ten year old schoolgirl. This sucks. He chuckled a bit before going through the different functions of the styler. After his quick tutorial, I don't think I'll run into anymore troubles with it. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Keith said before looking at Buizel. "Now come on Buizel, we're leaving." Buizel hid behind my legs and shook its head. "Come on, partner." Buizel ran up to Keith and nuzzle it's head in the crook of Keith's neck. Keith didn't look like a bad or lazy person when he held Buizel gently like he did.
"Wait! You're going back to the Union?" I exclaimed. I was having so much fun climbing and exploring with him, even if he was a grouchy butt for most of it. He glanced back at me and his eyes and expression portrayed the dull annoyed Keith I had first met, the Keith that made me want to throw him in the middle of the ocean.
"Yeah shorty, you got a problem with that?" Keith asked and I almost blew up in his face. I HATE BEING CALLED SHORT!
"Don't call me shorty!" I replied. "Go do what you want, you depressing freak!" I stuck my tongue out at him. "Can't believe you're the same Keith that got all that high praise from my brother, the newspaper, and from all the Fiore base leaders." I started to storm away from him. Part of me wanted him to stop me or come after me, but part of me just wanted him to leave if he was going to be the dull annoying insufferable Keith majority of the time. It's a part of him so I won't ask him to never show a side, because it's a part of him and we all have parts and sides of us that we tend to keep from others that still show up from time to time. Like I try to hide the side of my that tends to blow things up that technology related...which kinda just showed up a little while ago, but that's alright, I think. He got a good laugh out of it and I got to hear what his laugh sounds like.
"High praise?" Keith asked and I just barely heard him, but I stopped stomping away.
"Yeah, high praise, the Great Keith, the Ranger with the most fiery passion," I replied in a matter-of-fact kind of tone. "What? You just thought you were the Mushu of the Union?" I didn't have to look back to know I was right. First of all, I'm right almost all the time. Second of all, if Kate dating Kellyn wasn't the cause of his depression then feeling pretty darn useless and thinking he was just the sidekick probably was. "Dude, wake up and smell the roses, you're not Mushu. You are one of the best Top Rangers that ever was with an infamous fiery passion. Think about it, Keith, especially if you're going back to try to wallow in your misery in that cave of yours." I then just continued walking. I figure that if he really wants to follow he will.
He didn't end up following me, but that's alright. I picked up some pizza for dinner to bring into the room anyways from Pueltown. I kicked the door open as I held ten boxes of pizza.
"I'm back," I announced.
"Aw man, I was hoping you'd get lost," Keith replied. I placed the pizza down on the new coffee table we had gotten. The room looked much better now and smelled better too. The hole in the wall was no longer there and now there were two beds and two dressers as well as two night stands. I guess I got him out of the room just long enough for them to fix this place up. "Is that pizza?" He warily started to slowly approach me and the food as if he was afraid of me or something. "What did you get?" He curiously looked and sniffed by the boxes with Buizel. He had changed back into a t-shirt and boxers while I was gone, but this time they looked clean. They must have done his laundry too.
"One cheese, two pepperoni, two mushroom with sausage and peppers, two bacon and cheese pizzas, pineapple, spinach and ground beef pizza, and two with garlic, spinach, onion, ham, and feta cheese!" I exclaimed. "Now I suppose you would like me to share?"
"You plan on eating this all yourself?" Keith asked, surprised. I looked at him smugly as I crossed my arms.
"I so could," I replied before pulling out a whole bottle of Coca cola and a whole bottle of Mountain Dew. "But, I figured I'd be nice and let you eat this delicious pizza with me." Buizel made noises as if trying to figure out what I got it. "Don't worry Buizel, I got you some Soda pop imported all the way from Slateport City!" I then looked at the redhead. "I hope you don't mind, but since we're not planning on taking any quests or missions for a while, I figured I would try cooking and baking as well as some more exploring so I ordered a few things that will get here tomorrow while I was in town." The redhead blinked and I shrugged. "Well, let's dig in!"
~the next day~
Keith's P.O.V.
I woke up to find that Karrie and her Emolga were gone. Funny, maybe yesterday was a dream. I burped and could still taste a bit of the pizza I had last night. If it was real, then it has been a while since I last had a pizza eating competition with someone. Karrie sure can eat. I smiled, but then frowned. I hope she doesn't get any ideas. It's not like I want to be smiling and laughing around her.
All of a sudden I heard a knock on the door.a
"Open up Keith, I know you're in there! Some packages arrived for this room!" Rhythmi yelled. Crap, it's the blonde puffball. "Open the door before I get the master key! You better be decent."
"You better not try to pull one like you did to my sister!" Kellyn exclaimed. Crap, Kellyn's here too. I opened the door and Kellyn brought in some boxes while this two other guys helped out. I think they're Top Rangers or something, but I can't seem to quite remember their names, like ever. Dude, did I just talk like a girl? I need to stop watching dramas and whatever happens to be on t.v. They left me with a bunch of boxes in the room. That's when I remembered Karrie mentioning that she ordered stuff. However, I didn't think she would order so much stuff. She doesn't strike me as a girl who likes shopping or shops a lot. Seeing as it's my room too, I started going through some of the boxes. There were stuff to make poffins and apricon juice as well as plenty of ingredients. They were also so nifty cookware that seemed to be kind of cute and nerdy at the same time, like the Torchic oven mitts. There was also a book about cooking and some recipe books. Is she planning on becoming the next top chef while she's here?
I looked through some more boxes and found an explorer's kit that had mining and digging stuff in it as well as a survival kit and backpack. I also found quite a number of things I recognized as possible pranking materials. Is she a prankster? Is that why my pranks had to be at least somewhat decent to work on Kellyn?
The door opened and Karrie came in, slightly out of breath. So it wasn't a dream. Darn it, a guy can hope, right?
She smiled at me. She was just wearing shorts and a t-shirt along with socks and a pair of running shoes. She must have gone running. She noticed the boxes and got excited. But then she noticed that I had gone through them already and I thought I was going to die.
"AW! You took the best part!" Karrie exclaimed and I blinked in confusion.
"What?" I asked.
"You already went through everything!" Karrie replied and then she sat down by me. "So glad they got here already, Kate told me that there's a kitchen that both this room and her room are attached to, but apparently she's never seen you use it, that and you always lock your side of the kitchen anyways." I blushed slightly. What Kate didn't know was that I could cook and bake, I just never told anyone because well, it never came up and it didn't seem as though they would appreciate much. Or believe me.
"Have you tried cooking or baking before?" I asked.
"Nope!" Karrie replied with a big smile on her face. Great, she's going to burn the place down, knowing my luck. "Have you?" She looked so innocent when she asked that I couldn't bring myself to lie to her.
"Yeah, a bit," I replied. "Why don't we get everything put away."
"Wow, and here I thought you would just lie in bed and a take a nap while I did whatever," Karrie commented and I glared at her.
"You know what? That sounds like a wonderful idea," I replied. "Except for the fact that it seems as if you cause trouble every time you step foot into this room." She grinned and had the look of a wild child to her.
"I know I'm trouble, I've been causing trouble since I was a little kid especially for Kellyn," Karrie said.
"So you are a prankster," I commented and she nodded. "So who do you plan on pranking?" I pointed to some of the materials I've used in the past for pranks that she had gotten. She put her index finger to her lips.
"A true master of pranking does not give away secrets or master plans lightly," Karrie replied. "It's a secret, if I tell you then you're an accomplice." I sighed and shook my head. Of course, I was the same way. She then pinched my cheeks and pulled.
"OW! What was that for?" I exclaimed.
"Come on, you lazy bum, this stuff isn't going to move by itself," Karrie replied and I scowled before getting up to help put away things. She could be an insufferable she-demon who was thorn in my thigh, but she was starting to grow on me. Just don't tell her that, or Kellyn either. We finished putting everything away in an hour or so before going back to the room and watching t.v. together. It's weird how she doesn't seem to be trying to force me out or in any place today so far, but it's nice. She's different, that's for sure. Maybe that's one of the reasons they assigned her to be my partner.
The next day I woke up to smell of something burning. I rolled over to see that Karrie, Emolga, and Buizel were gone. I rolled my eyes. Why couldn't they have at least tried giving me someone who was responsible? I got out of bed and went into the kitchen where I saw Buizel putting out a fire that caused a chair to be partially burnt.
"Oh man, oh man! I just wanted to reach something! I didn't mean for that to catch on fire," Karrie said to herself. Emolga made quick gestured and a lot of noise to alert Karrie that she needed to focus on stirring the pot. The microwave went off and I got tired of watching her try to do acrobatics in the kitchen. I walked over and fixed the pot with on hand while reaching up to get whatever she put in the microwave out as she was about to climb the counter. I glanced over to see that she had a recipe out for a kind of poffin. I put down the apricorn heated mixture on the counter and grabbed something to stir with. Out of the corner of my eye, I could tell Karrie was a bit startled and curious, but I was too caught up in cooking that I didn't bother dwelling much on it. The mixture was done so I turned off the heat and took the pot off of the burner so it could cool down a bit.
"Molds? Trays?" I asked and Karrie ducked under my arm with ease and grabbed the poffin trays and Torchic oven mitts. I poured the stuff into the molds and then glanced at the recipe before putting some of the apricorn mixture on top. I put it into the oven and took off the gloves to set the time. I then turned to look at what had brought me into the room in the first place: Karrie. She was in awe of how I was able to take control of the situation and save her baking from turning out to be a disaster. "Do I want to know how you burned part of a chair, shorty?"
"Don't call me shorty!" Karrie exclaimed before turning pink from embarrassment. "I was trying to reach something and needed the boost and I guess I originally had the flame on too high. Glad Buizel was here!" I looked around the kitchen to see that she managed to make a bit of a mess. She was definitely not the neatest person in the world. She then walked over to pull out more ingredients for something else. I sighed before walking over and stopping her from trying to climb the counters to reach something again. "What? I'm not that tall!"
"What are you making now?" I asked and she blushed.
"Um, I was going to try to make something with eggs, toast, and pancakes," Karrie replied. I took the ingredients and helped her gather together whatever else she needed to make breakfast. The poffins finished just in time and they actually turned out halfway decent. I cleaned up her mess before looking over her shoulder as she tried to figure out what to do next.
"The chocolate chip pancakes I know how to make, if you want me to help," I commented. "Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Scramble is pretty simple too." She looked up at me with her big blue eyes before blinking.
"Can you teach me?" Karrie replied and I nodded. I then went through step by step with her how to cook breakfast and next thing I know Kate is walking in on me flipping the pancakes like a pro.
"K-Kate!" I exclaimed as I turned red and accidentally hit Karrie in the face with a pancake.
"You're so lucky that I love food so much," Karrie commented before eating the pancake.
"You're cooking? Since when do you cook?" Kate asked and I shrugged.
"I've been able to cook for a long time now." I replied.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Kate asked and I nodded quickly. I then looked at Karrie and sighed.
"Why do you sigh so much?" Karrie asked. "Especially when you look at me? I'm not that bad." I shook my head.
"Just need to do one thing first," I said before going over and picking Karrie up with ease and sitting her on the counter. "Now stay and be a good little girl. Oh, and keep an eye on the Pokemon." Karrie puffed out her cheeks and turned red from anger. I then turned to Kate and she smiled.
"She's only been here three days now and already is she managing to get you to show sides of you that you never let the rest of us see before and you've been out more." Kate said before helping me finish cooking.
We all ate and chatted together before Kellyn came in. He seemed surprised to see me out of my room again. He looked at the burnt chair and it seemed as though he didn't have to ask who did it, because his eyes went straight to Karrie who waved at him.
"You let her burn a chair?" Kellyn asked me and I scowled.
"I was asleep at the time and she's not my responsibility," I replied.
"She's your partner," Kellyn countered.
"So what? I was asleep, teach your sister to try not to set things on fire when she's trying to cook and we'll be set with that," I replied and Kellyn sighed in defeat.
Maybe things are really getting better for me, thanks to Karrie.
~end of chapter~
Keith: You burned a chair T.T
Karrie: you can cook =D
Kellyn: and Karrie cannot
Karrie: hey! I'm learning, okay?!
Kate: so glad Keith is improving and you two aren't getting into fights.
Me: oh we can arrange for a few arguments if you want
Rhythmi: wonder if people enjoy this story or not
Me: me too
Kate: well, it is a bit slow moving...
Me: hey! it's going, it's going!
Keith: knowing you, you're going to throw in a major plot twist eventually
Me:hehehehe, maybe, we'll see what happens. I also plan on making this story so that sequels/stories that sort of start during this one that focus on pairings such as KalebxAshleigh, JustinxErica, and JackiexZenya...
Karrie: ha! I won't be the only one!
Kaleb: T.T seriously?!
Justin: but you rarely use me
Me: eventually I want to write the fanfiction story that will star Moon and friends, but I need to think of some kind of plot twist or a better plot for it, other than Moon getting lost and stumbling upon things she shouldn't...
Zenya: T.T I liked it better when you had me throw a rock at Jackie for being a sexist in "If I Were A Boy"
Jackie: I didn't! That hurt!
Zenya: Good, that was the point
Me: ahem, anyways, you guys should review, I love hearing from readers =) Even though sometimes, like in "The Wild One" I can get kind of frustrated at times when I get people pointing out all, or almost all, the mistakes I made and telling me where and when I broke rules of the universe the story is taking place, I still appreciate the reviews and am glad to hear from you, honestly.