I woke up feeling very warm, noticing that I didn't have a blanket. I looked up lightly and saw that Matt was looking at me.
"Morning sleepy head," Matt chuckled lightly as I groaned lightly and got up.
"Yeay she's up, can we get a move on already. I'm tired of all this sand," Bacon complained, looking out the window.
"Yea, let's go," I said through a yawn.
We all got up and stretched then waved good bye to the men and headed out to the Desert Resort. We got to the Desert Resort entrance and Blaire just grabbed a ball from my pocket and caught a pokemon on me. We walked into the check point and I looked down at her.
"What did you catch without asking first?" I asked, giving her a small glare.
"I caught us a Darumaka and named the guy Devin. I thought you'd be 'appy?" Blaire said, noticing the glare fade.
"That's fine," I sighed, looking over and saw Matt just walk in.
"I hate sand, did I ever mention that before?" Matt said, brushing himself off.
"No, but that's good to know, cuz we're about to see a lot more," I laughed lightly at his upset expression.
"Aw, damn it, fine," Matt groaned as we headed out to the Desert Resort. Once we got out there, I just stood and waited with my fingers crossed. Matt looked at me weird, he wanted to ask what I was doing, but didn't because of all the sand. I stood there, hushing to myself then Shuno grabbed a ball from my pocket and rushed off. When he came back I looked down at the ball before it disappeared to my PC and I hearted over it.
We fought all the trainers there, and walked into the Relic Castle, where there was no sand storm.
"What did your pokemon catch that was so good?" Matt asked, he did notice the heart I had.
"I caught a Maractus and named him Melvin," Shuno replied, happy of himself that he did something I liked.
"I want to train him...but the next gym..." I muttered, thinking about it.
"Well, we can catch something here too, right?" Matt said, looking around.
"I suppose," I said, then I noticed that Antoinette wasn't there, "Um..Antoinette?"
'Je suis ici with this new team mate,' Antoinette said, showing me the blushing Yamask.
"Oh, I see. What did you name..." I started, not knowing it's gender.
'Her name is Colleen,' Antoinette replied as the ball went to my PC.
"Awesome," I said, then we went off to train a bit then saw a backpacker. I walked over to her and she smiled at me.
"Do you want a fossil? I have far too many," she told me showing me the ones she had.
"Oh..um this one?" I said pointing to the cover fossil.
"Oh, here you go then," she told me, handing me the fossil.
"Thanks," I muttered putting it away in my bag and walked off. Matt walked over to the backpacker and got his fossil from her. We then left the Relic Castle and headed out to Nimbasa. Once in Nimbasa we saw an old man being hassled by Plasma grunts, so I walked over and glared them down, they just looked over at me and dashed away to the amusement park.
"Thank you young lady, here you and your friend can have these," the old man said handing us bikes.
"Thanks," I said, looking at it, shrugging and shoved it in my bag.
"Off to the pokemon center then," Matt said, looking for it.
"You go on ahead, I have business to take care of," I said seeing a certain blonde head to the pokemon musical theater.
"Ok then," Matt replied, heading off to the pokemon center.
I followed Bianca into the musical and saw a man giving her a prop case. Then the man spotted me.
"Oh my, are you here to enjoy the musical as well?" he asked me, looking at my pokemon.
"Eh, I don't think I want to..." I started.
"She sure is!" Bianca rushed out, jogging to my side. The man smiled and handed me the prop case.
"Then you can have this as a gift from me," he said, then he turned and left.
"The hell?" I growled at Bianca, then saw that my team were looking through the case and dressing up.
"They wanted it more than you did," Bianca told me, I just sighed.
"Let's just go to the gym," I muttered, my team getting the hint and put everything away and followed me when...
"Young lady!" a man growled out as Bianca flinched lightly.
"Daddy," Bianca whispered as the man took a step forward.
"Who said you were allowed to leave the house! You haven't done any of your chores, nor did you ask to leave at all!" Bianca's dad growled at her.
"But Daddy! I've gotten stronger! I'm going to be a great trainer!" Bianca explained, still looking scared.
"Not on my watch! You're a coward and you can never focus! So what makes you think you have what it takes to be a trainer!" her dad yelled at her.
"Because she has the support of her partners with her," a female voice chimed in.
"Excuse me, but this is a family matter," Bianca's dad stated glaring down the woman.
"And I don't care. This young lady has the right to go on her own pokemon journey and you have no right to but in," the woman stated to him, not liking his attitude at all.
"You think so? You have no right to tell me how to raise my child nor do you know what is best for her!" Bianca's dad snapped at her.
"I'm not telling you how to do either, I'm just saying that she could use without all the abuse you give her," the woman said, glaring him down.
"Why you...Who are you?" Bianca's dad asked, infuriated.
"I'm Elesa, the gym leader of this town, and a very famous model," Elesa stated, glaring at him even more now.
"...hmph," Bianca's dad growled, then left.
"He needs to be taught a lesson about manners and self-control," Elesa stated, glaring at him as he left.
"You could do something right?" Bianca asked, scared still.
"I can, don't you worry," Elesa said, being helpful to Bianca.
"Hm," I muttered, walking off.
"I suppose I'll see you at my gym soon then?" Elesa asked, watching me wave at her leaving to the pokemon center.
"You will, Roshish is a strong trainer. She'll be at your gym sooner than you think," Bianca said, praising me.
"I look forward to it," Elesa said with a small smile.
Once I got in the pokemon center, I stretched and walked over to a couch and laid down. I tilted my hat when...
"Hey Roshish, about before...in the desert," Matt started.
"Later," I muttered, waving it off. I knew what he wanted to talk about, but I didn't want to in front of my team. I knew they would get all trying to get us together.
"I think we should talk about it now," Matt stated, pointing towards my team and his Pignite over near the mart playing cards.
"What about earlier do you want to discuss?" I asked, looking up a bit.
"When we were at the house with the guys..." Matt started, looking away a bit.
"We had no choice, they only had 4 beds and..." I started to explain.
"The cuddling and the nickname," Matt said, cutting me off and he noticed my light blush.
"Oh...that..." was all I said, then looked away.
"Yeah, that. Was that your way of asking me out or just a one-time thing?" Matt asked, being totally serious.
"I don't know! I don't know what it was! I didn't have the greatest childhood in the world you know! It was painful and brutal then pitiful and sympathetic. I have never felt love before! So how am I supposed to know what it feels like!?" I roared at him. I didn't mean for that all to spill out. I've never meant to even start opening up to him. But I did and there was no taking it back.
"You never felt love or kindness as a child?" Matt asked, looking a bit sad. He never knew, but it did explain my reactions to certain situations.
"No. I haven't. Don't even try to give me sympathy, I'll kick you in the nuts if you do," I growled out, turning over on to my left side.
"I didn't plan to. I'm here if you need a friend to talk to," Matt said, getting up and walking to the pokemon, still playing cards.
"Damn it...why did I say all that...why did I...I've trained myself not to...grr..." I growled, fuming at myself for my slip up. I've always closed myself from everyone. I never let anyone close after my father and mother tried. My mom tried so hard after my father's outburst. She didn't have much luck, so she decided to invent things to make me a little bit happy. After she noticed that it wasn't working to well she thought it was best I get out in the world and find my own happiness. That's why I'm on this pokemon journey, to find my own 'happiness'.
"I'll sleep now, to calm down," I muttered to myself, starting to fall asleep. I then felt my pokemon climb on top of me and I smiled lightly. I suppose I did find it, I found it in my pokemon...and in Matt.