The sound of laughter filled the yard. Children were running around, playing and talking with their friends in the preschool playground. There were all smiles all around them, all except one. A young Stellar just sat at the swings, slowly moving swinging herself in a depressing manner. The happiness that radiated from the other children bothered her. It was something she wished she had, but she could never can if it weren't for her hesitation to talk to them. Whenever there was that opportunity, it was hindered because of her.
"That looks like fun." The girl looked up and saw a girl her age, look at her with curious eyes.
"Huh?"
"The swing I mean. It must be fun to play on." She smiled.
Just as Stellar was about to leave, the girl stopped her. "Don't you want to go higher?"
She looked at the girl with curiosity. Why would someone out of nowhere want to waste time with a shy girl like her. "Umm…." Stellar looked away nervously. She wasn't sure how to respond to this person. Trying to talk to people always felt so alien to her, this was her first time trying to talk to someone. The girl just smiled and went behind her.
"Hey, hold on tight!" Just before Stellar could say anything, the girl pushed Stellar from behind. Soon her feet were not touching the ground. Stellar felt like she was flying, but not just that but she also felt another feeling. It was hard for her to describe it but it was almost as if her head and everything was a floating feather when the girl started to push her. After a while, the kids were asked to come back inside, and Stellar followed with the girl next to her.
"Hey, what's your name?" The girl asked.
"S-Stellar…" She stuttered.
The girl smiled. "What a cool name! My name is Briana, but you can call me Bri! Let's be friends, yeah?"
Stellar blushed a bit, but soon she started to smile. "Y-yeah, sure!"
From there, their friendship started to bloom throughout their time in preschool, playing and going to eachothers house.
Stellars eyes shot open. She looked around and slowly got up. She rubbed her eyes and yawned. 'These dreams again…' She thought. She looked at the time which said twelve o'clock.
'Great…work.' She got up and got dressed before saying her greetings to Stars and heading off to the Pokemart.
As always, the day was mundane. Customers coming and going, buying their everyday things for home or pokemon battles. All except one customer.
"For the last time, its expired." Stellar growled.
"How can you be sure? I just got this cupon last week!" The customer argued.
"Look!" She pointed at the cupons date. "It expired a day ago!"
"You criminal scum, trying to rip me off here?!"
"Just do what they want Stellar!" Tim shouted from the back.
"Tim, just come out and explain why its expired!"
"Can't, I'm busy with things."
'Yeah, sure you are.' Stellar thought. She then looked at the woman. "I am not giving you a damn discount from an expired coupon!"
The woman finally just let go of her bags. "You know what? I am not shopping here with this Galactic scum working here!" She burst open the glass doors, storming out of the store.
Stellar sighed in relief, finally having to deal with that nuisance. Her break was unfortunatly short when Tim came in, glaring at Stellar whe her glaring back at him.
"You made a customer upset." He growled.
"The coupon has expired, what the hell was I supposed to do?"
"I don't know, maybe help her out? Give her a discount?!" Tim retorted.
"So what, we just pander out to people and let them try to screw me over?"
"Just keep them happy Stellar, I already got enough trouble keeping someone like you around." Soon, he left, leaving Stellar to go back to her duty.
"Lazy ass." She muttered. Thankfully no customers were around this day, so she took out a magazine about space and continued where she left off. She had a fascination with space as a kid, learning the planets and the world outside the solar system. It was like solving a mystery that to this day still remains a mystery. As she flipped her page to the recent planet studies, a basket of groceries was dropped onto her magazine, obstructing her view on it. She looked up and saw a guy with orange hair combed back with a bunch sticking out from the top left side of his head.
"Seriously?" She sneered, glaring at his eyes behind those orange shades.
"Hey, I had to get your attention somehow." He said.
She looked at the basket that covered the magazine and began to scan his items. As she was typing in codes, the guy looked at her hair and snickered. She stopped and looked at him
In confusion. "What?"
"That hairstyle, are you from Galactic?" He asked with a smirk. Stellar paused for a moment before scanning his bread.
"Yeah." She said and then looked at his hair and shades. She picked up one of the fruits and began to type in the code. "Your not from Shinnoh, are you?"
"Yup, out from Kalos."
"And I'm guessing by your hairstyle you're from team Flare."
"Right again."
Stellar then stopped what she was doing and then looked at him. "Didn't you're team try to blow up the entire world?"
He shrugged. "Didn't yours terrorize the entirety Shinnoh, extorting people of artifacts to go to this so called "new world"?"
"Hey, at least with my team, we weren't going to wipe out millions of innocent people just because we didn't like them."
"W-Well I mean…" He stuttered. "I mean we were going to make the world a better place!"
"That doesn't justify you trying to commit genocide."
"Well it shouldn't justify you making threats on Shinnoh for not giving you what you want!"
Soon there was silence. 'This guys insufferable, justifying his actions of trying to kill people. And I thought we were worse.' She stared at him for a couple of seconds before going back to what she was doing. He looked at her, feeling his pride getting stomped on by a grunt of another team. After finishing his scanning his stuff, he payed up and began to walk off. This gave her room to breathe, finally making quick work of that murderer. The rest of the day went quite and she went back to reading her crunched up magazine until her shift was over.
She walked through the I shoveled sidewalk and stared at her phone.
8:00AM Stellar: "Hey Briana, you up for hanging out today?"
No response has been returned, causing her to sigh. 'Probably hanging out with that idiot Jayce. What does she even see in him other than having muscles for brains?" She looked at the time which was eleven o'clock. She rolled her eyes and began to walk back towards home. Her eyelids were heavy, and her shoulders feel stiff. Perhaps she should go home and sleep? She soon made it to her house. As she walked up the steps, she heard a door open to her left, she turned around and saw the last person she wanted to see. The red haired man then turned around and saw Stellar. 'You gotta be kidding me!'
"Oh it's you…." He said uneasily, "What a coincidence, we're neighbors….."
"You live here?!" She asked.
"Well I saw this house that was up for sale and I bought, I wasn't aware that I was going to be next to you!"
Stellar was about to retort, but gibberish came out before going silent. He was right, how could he have known that she lived next to the house. She should at least cut him some slack.
"It's fine." She said, and she paused for a second. "Why are you in Shinnoh anyways?"
"Trying to start fresh. I thought if I moved out and get citizenship here, I could maybe make a difference."
"I see." She said. 'As if it could be easy to do.'
She then went up to her house and began to go back inside. "By the way, what's your name?" He asked her.
She unlocked the door and stopped when he asked. If they were going to be neighbors, they should at least know he others name, even if they are off to a rocky start. "It's Stellar."
He chuckled. "Ah Stellar, interstellar space, I get it." She rolled her eyes and opened the door. "I'm Cole by the way!"
She closed the door behind her, leaving him
with mixed feelings about what her response is. "Nice to meet you?" He asked, confused.