Chap. 4
It was midnight. The nighttime sky had fallen over the city making it utter darkness. The owls were chirping as normal and the slowpokes that had been returned to the town were asleep. Well all except one. It decided to go venturing off and found a tent nearby. It walked around it shaking it somewhat not knowing there was people inside.
"Huh what was that?"
Heart was rubbing her eyes when she saw a figure poking its head in the tent.
"Poke? Slow-Slowpoke?"
The slowpoke had made its way to there tent and was now staring at Heart. Heart seemed frightened and woke up Soul.
"Soul wake up wake up! There's something out there!"
Soul jumped up at first then angrily shouted,
"What on earth are you doing! I am trying to sleep!"
"Sorry Soul but there's something out there."
He was irritated that he had been woken up. He thought there was about to be 2 things out there if he got woke up again and poked his head out the tent.
"Poke? Slowpoke?"
The slowpoke met his face staring at him. He closed the flaps of the tent sealing it shut.
"Your mean scary monster is a slowpoke."
He mumbled then fell back asleep irritated that he had been woken up in the first place. Heart released a breath and gazed down at Soul who was turned away from her. His body was lying plank style and Heart could see how long his legs were and how tight his muscled were when he slept.
"Even when he is mad he is just sooo dreamy."
She thought then went back to sleep to imagine a dream of them two. It was now morning and the start of a new day. The birds were singing and the sounds of slowpoke yawning filled the town. Heart woke up with only a small amount of drool on her mouth this time. She had had another fantastic dream she thought. This time it was Soul and her making out in the rain underneath a tree as it kept storming just holding onto each other.
"Man why do I wake up?"
She thought then rolled over to greet Soul and like the day before he wasn't in the tent when she woke.
"He must've already left like before."
She said and got out the tent to leave herself. After checking the pokemon center to make sure Soul wasn't there she walked up to kurts house to see him and the little girl before she left. Kurt welcomed her in and pulled up a seat for her to sit down on.
"Ah, miss Heart. Hello what can I do for you?"
Kurt spoke looking at Heart. Heart replied with,
"Well since I beat the gym leader here do you know where is the next one at?"
Kurt laughed thinking she's the trainer not me then told her that the next one was in Goldenrod City. Heart thanked the man and after waving to his granddaughter left his house headed towards Goldenrod.
"Lets see the poke gear thingy points that way to go to Goldenrod and that way is-"
Her thought trailed off as she saw it was a forest.
"Well great. lets go chikorita."
Chikorita followed behind and they entered the forest. A boy and his father stopped her talking about how there farfetch'd had wondered off and they needed help getting them back. Heart agreed to help and spotted the pokemon. After a few failed attempts that ended with her landing on her butt(and once when she just fell over her own two feet) she managed to catch it in a bear like hug and bring it back to them. As thanks they handed her the hm for cut.
"Use that to cut down trees blocking your path."
Heart accepted the hm and used it to cut the tree near her so she could finish passing threw the forest. After finally making it threw she wondered onto the route that lead to Goldenrod. She defeated a few trainers there and made her way into the city. The city was massive in size. Probably the biggest city in Johto. The buildings were painted yellow on the outside with brown and green roofs.
There was a mall, a game corner, a train station, a bike shop, a gym and much more. Heart didn't know where to start first. She finally made up her mind and went into the mall. After about 3 hours in the mall and then a hour looking threw the stuff she had purchased she decided to leave.
"Who knew the mall would have this glossy lipstick?"
she said rubbing it on her lips.
"I bet Soul will wanna kiss me now huh chikorita?"
She smirked at chikorita who just looked away pretending it didn't hear what she said. She wasn't much a gambler so she just decided to go ahead and fight the gym leader. The gym leader was Whitney who used normal type pokemon and she was no pushover. Her miltank knocked out Hearts geodude and wooper but luckily chikorita was fresh and got the victory over the miltank. Whitney stunned that she was defeated handed Heart the badge and left the gym crying.
After leaving a gym she ran into a man who told her that there was a bug catching contest going on in the next route. She decided to enter and walked into the entrance hall. After signing up she noticed one of the participants was Soul.
"Soul what are you doing here? I thought you hated cute things?"
She remarked smiling at him. He just ignored what she said and replied with,
"I am here to catch a strong pokemon and win this contest against these weak individuals."
"Oh soulie your always so aggressive."
Heart said rubbing her fingers down his shirt feeling of his abs. Soul lightly blushed watching what she was doing. What did she call him? Should he stop her? Should he let her continue and see where it went? No what was he thinking. This girl was annoying and always getting in the way. Plus he wasn't attracted to her he kept saying in his head. He pushed her off of him and after seeing her pout a moment turned his head. The bug catching contest started and it was off to the races. Soul quickly found what he wanted to catch and exited the contest waiting for the results. Heart on the other hand struggled to catch anything and down to her last ball she managed to capture a pretty butterfree.
The judges tallied the results and looked each pokemon over.
"Coming in third place is Whitney."
Apparently Whitney had entered the contest in hopes of winning something today but was cut short in third place.
"Second place goes to Soul."
What! Second? He thought. Who on earth could of caught a better pokemon then the one he captured looking at his new pokemon it was a scyther and it didn't look very friendly.
"First place goes to Heart."
Soul became even more furious when he heard those words. Beaten by a girl. Beaten by her. Heart walked up to him and winked saying,
"Guess I beat ya. Hehe. Don't worry you are my winner."
He walked off annoyed and Heart followed behind him.
"Soul wait! Where are you going?"
Soul had taken the day to train his croconaw but didn't take the time to challenge the gym leader after hearing about the contest. Heart grabbed a firm grasp around his hand blushing wildly as he walked to the gym. He was to annoyed that he had lost to yell at her or to tell her to just go jump off of a cliff for winning that contest. He had wanted to win. He was determined to win something and approached the gym leader. Whitney saw them enter together and saw Heart had her hand grasped tight around Souls not wanting to let go. She thought Heart was crazy but she was wrong on the level of crazy she thought. Soul finally realized that Heart had grabbed his hand and jerked it away.
"Let go of me!"
Heart just stood there blushing and watched as he battled Whitney. Souls croconaw was incredible and knocked the miltank out easily while she had struggled with all of her pokemon fighting it. Heart seemed happy Soul had won even though she knew he would. After all he was big and strong. And hot, and- She continued in her thoughts till she was finally interrupted with someone shouting at her. When she finally came to reality she saw it was Soul yelling and she thought,
"man is he hot when he works up a sweat or is he just happy to see me?"
She said giggling to herself. Soul had been screaming at her about how weak Whitney was and that she had better not get herself into trouble for him to come rescue cause he was not her keeper when he noticed she was giggling.
"What are you laughing at?"
He asked her. She stopped and just smiled.
"Congrats on the victory Soul. I knew you could do it."
"Uh thanks."
He muttered completely forgetting why he had been yelling in the first place. They left the gym and it was around night time. Before Heart could speak up he said,
"Let me guess, you need a place to stay?"
Heart smiled and wrapped her arms around him then nodded. He shook his head and walked with her to a spot where they could pitch the tent.
"He likes having me in his bed."
Heart thought in her head then giggled again. After Soul pitched the tent they got inside. It was now nighttime again and the sky had turned dark.
"Heart you can lay next to me so your not terrified and wake me up in the morning."
She almost fainted hearing that. He actually wanted her near him. Was she dreaming? DId he get knocked in the head or something? She had no idea but she graciously accepted his offer and laid her head down on his shoulder and cuddled up against him with her arms wrapped around his muscular body. Soul looked into her eyes and it made him blush slightly.
"Don't think this is an everyday thing now. I am just being nice for once cause you won the contest is all. I am not attracted to you."
He said in a tone. Heart was sure he was lying.
"He is such a sweet heart. And sooo hot. Soo sexy"
And here she was wrapped around her crushs arms and cuddled up next to him. It felt to her like she was having a dream. She couldn't stop blushing. She thought about the two of them together in her head romantically and then fell asleep wrapped around him. Soul just stared at her for a moment then spoke in thought to himself,
"Why do I allow myself to put up with her? Why don't I just tell you to go fall off the earth and die?"
After thinking about it for a few moments he came to the conclusion that he was a nice guy and that made him angry. He wasn't nice. He was aggressive. Nice guys were weak and he hated the weak.
"I am not a nice guy. She is just lucky she won that contest is all."
He mumbled to himself. He was too tired to remove her arms from around his waist so he just laid there. Then he fell asleep reassuring himself he wasn't a weakling.
