I have 24 OCs AND it's equal on guys and girls! What do you say about that, huh? Isn't it just awesome?

For those who like to listen to music while reading, I recommend Megpoid GUMI, Your Love will Surely Skyrocket, with English & Romaji Lyrics on Youtube! The lyrics go well with the beginning on the story! Plus, it's just so dang catchy! ;D

I had to rush this chapter because school is starting tomorrow and that I tend to concentrate less when most of my hours are busy with something else. Also, we have exams in, like, a week? So expect maybe less great stories or rushed ones, or not even an update at all! Sorry in advance for that!

Also, I just realized that it's not Altamar but Alto Mare. Gosh darnit, I should've done my research better D:

I think that's about all I wanted to rant about today.

Happy reading!

WARNING THIS CHAPTER MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO THE GUYS WHO READ THIS! BEWARE!

-KIERA'S CHAPTER-

I couldn't help myself. I think I like like him. I'm not even kidding.

He's seated a few meters in front of me, talking with some other guy who's hair was red (except his was blond and a little longer), and he was smiling softly. Oh my gosh, he looked like an angel with those deep blue eyes of his. I can just melt!

"Psst." Kayla, my best friend and roommate whispered to me with a nudge, nodding her head at the boy I was obviously ogling, "So that's the boy you're crushing on?"

"Shuddup!" I shushed her and we somehow started giggling like a bunch of idiots, attracting the attention of a couple of people who wanted us to be silent. We eventually calmed ourselves, and Kayla nudged me again.

"He's looking at you."

My baby blues widened and snapped to my eye candy in an instant, breath halting when he was doing just what Kayla just warned me about. I gave a hesitant, slightly embarrassed smile and nearly died when he grinned back.

"Hey."

"H-hey." I managed to squeak to him, hating myself for stuttering like a fool.

"How's it going?"

"G-good."

"That's good." He smiled one last time at me before turning back in his seat and going back to talking to the boy next to him.

My heart pulsed incredibly hast in my chest and I placed a hand on it, willing it to calm the heck down. It was just a guy... Just a guy... Just a guy that I happen to like... Eep!

"Oh my gosh!" Kayla squealed in my ear, "I can't believe he just talked to you!"

"All he did was asked how I was doing..." I defended the best that I could, holding my hands to my cheeks to cool them down.

"Well duh. But if a guy bothers to talk to you, doesn't that mean he's interested?"

"Maybe..."

"You should totally confess!"

Even though she was whispering, I couldn't help but shush her again, "Let's not talk about this right now!"

She raised an eyebrow at me, making me feel a bit more immature seeing as she had lots more experience with guys than I do, "Why? It's just a guy."

"Not just a guy." I whispered back harshly, "Not just a guy!"

"Then you tell him that."

"H-how?" I looked around to make sure no one was listening, "When? Why?"

"Jeez. Don't you like him? Don't you want to be more than friends?"

I slunk back into my seat, "I guess..."

"So tell him you like him. Who knows, maybe he'll like you back."

I glanced back at Jace, only to have my heart stop when he suddenly turned and caught my gaze.

"Yeah..." I finally agreed with my love assistant, "I think I'll do it after classes."

"Atta girl. Want me to be there for support?"

I smiled, confidence growing, "You know what? I think I can do it all by myself."

She scoffed encouragingly, "You better."

I will confess. Just you watch.

-LINEBIATCH-

I mustered up all my courage and finally walked up to him with that very important goal in mind. He agreed to meet up with me, but he said that he had something to do at the moment, so we agreed to meet in the museum's central hall at 4:30 (which is only thirty minutes after training ended). I wasn't so sure about a public place at first, but once I arrived in the large room with exquisite blue and gold designs and less-than-a-lot of people, I didn't quite mind so much anymore.

I quickly glanced at my watch. 4:20. I still had some time to make sure I looked okay.

My straight black hair was let down this time, brushed more than usually and shiny as ever, ready to impress. Since school was over, I changed out of my uniform and into my usual attire; a form fitting dark red sleeve-less shirt with some jeans and sneakers, along with a black scarf around my hips as a belt.

"First impressions always count!" I remembered Kayla telling me in our room as she helped me get ready, "So don't mess up, okay?"

I won't mess up! I willed myself as I clenched a fist in determination. I wasn't going to ruin my chance with my dream guy! I won't!

"Hey Kiera," I heard the ever so angelic voice of my crush greet from behind me, "You're early."

I quickly turned around in surprise, noting that he too decided to change out of his uniform. He had entered from the doors of the museum, so that must mean he was out in the town doing something. Not that it worries me or anything, but I hope he didn't do anything to bring attention to himself.

I smiled to chase away the worry that probably showed on my features, "So are you."

He chuckled and coolly walked closer, "So what was it you wanted to talk to me about?"

I sucked in my breath. Now or never!

"I like you!" I practically belted at him, his eyebrows shot up in surprise, "Please be my boyfriend!"

-LINEBIATCH-

I plopped down into my bed—which happened to be the lower bunk in our room, thank god—and pulled Scath onto my stomach, petting him to calm down when he furiously starting cuddling me and checking to make sure I was okay. Reoite joined her eeveelution on the bed and sniffed my face to my sure it was me before giving my forehead an affectionate lick and settling down near my head.

After lots of consideration, I had left my Umbreon and Glacion in my room—and having some hard time to separate myself from the former—so that neither of them could spontaneously growl at Jace if he got too close. Scath had never left my side once and can be very protective when he wants to be.

"Where have you been?"

I turned my head slightly to the electric blue accusing eyes of my roommate. She looked annoyed. My Pokémon must've brought her trouble.

"How long were you there?" I raised my eyebrows in mock surprise.

She scoffed, "Don't change the subject! You better have a good reason for being gone the whole afternoon and ditching me with those beasts of yours!" But then she grinned and hopped next to me on my bed, "So why were you gone the whole time and missed supper?"

"I was on a date." I mumbled into Scath, who happily enjoyed the hug, hopping the girl wouldn't hear. But alas, she did and squealed happily for me, doing a small happy dance.

"Congrats on your first boyfriend!" She pulled me to my feet and forced me to drop Scath and join her happy dance, "I knew you could do it!"

"Thanks." Wait a second. Was that supposed to be an insult? "I think..."

"Now tell me everything!" She urged, taking both of my hands in hers and staring intently into my eyes, "How did it go? Where did he take you? Was he nice? Did you guys kiss?"

"Sh-shuddup." I mumbled, looking away. I could feel my cheeks burn as her observant eyes scrutinized me.

"You DID! You did kiss!" She suddenly exclaimed, making me choke on my own spit.

"Shush!" I wrapped my hand on the lower part of her face to silence her, "Not so loud!"

She pulled my fingers down and grinned slyly, "What's this? Was it too hot and steamy to describe?"

"Kayla!" I yelped in surprise and she cackled before escaping my wrath by taking the nearest exit—the door. I growled angrily before chasing her, Scath following me like glue (like I said, he never keeps me away from his sight).

She unleashed her Honchkrow and grabbed onto his claws, hanging on as he flew down the hall at a near impossible speed to follow. I ran to sprinting point, that alone keeping the bird Pokémon and its master a mere speck in my vision.

I growled in irritation before pointing to her, "Scath, use Faint Attack to get close and then Psychic!"

"Breeoon!" Scath growled before it vanished from my side. I ran faster, and the small speck that was Honchkrow grew until I could see it squawk and flail in shock as Scath magically appeared in the midst of their getaway.

Kayla let go of her Pokémon at the exact moment my Umbreon used its psychic attack to hold the bird in place, landing on the ground in a crouch. I wasn't slowing down though and easily grabbed her forearm before she could escape from me again.

"Aw, you caught me!" She laughed and ceased all form of running away.

Before I could let go of her though, a familiar cried out behind me, "Hey, break it up!"

I let go of Kayla as if she suddenly burned me, and then turned around to the Hall Monitor to plead my case, "We weren't fighting!" But then did a double take, "Jace? You're the Hall Monitor?"

He rubbed the back of his blond hair in slight embarrassment, the flashy orange vest oddly suiting him well, "Not really. But she cornered me into taking her job for the moment being. Apparently she was in a hurry to go somewhere."

"Oh, okay." I chirped, feeling a slightly bit awkward. I failed to register the suspicious face Kayla was making at him and shot Scath a look to let go of the Honchkrow. Once he did, my roomie linked her arm in mine and started dragging me off, both creatures following our heels.

"Well if was nice meeting you and all," She said, not bothering to hide her dislike, "But we have to go."

Not to sound rude to my now-Boyfriend, I didn't bother snap at her that I didn't want to go back and that I wanted to stay with him. So instead I gave him a small wave before it was too late, "I'll see you later, okay?"

He nodded and waved back at my forcibly retreating self, "Sure."

-LINEBIATCH-

"What's your problem?" I snapped the second Kayla locked the door behind us and pressed herself to the door to stare out of the peephole. "What's so important that we had to leave?"

"There's something weird about him."

"What do you mean, weird?" I narrowed my eyes accusingly at her. She had no right! "You told me to confess and I did! He likes me back so we went out!"

"That's not what's weird!" She yelled back, shutting me up efficiently as I waited for her to explain what the hell she was thinking that was weird, "Think about this! We're in the girls' dorms!"

I distracted myself by petting Scath, who had just jumped on my lap. What was she getting at? "So?"

"So? Don't you see? That Jace guy has no reason to be the Hall Monitor!"

"No." I defended, frowning at she was putting all the blame on this one guy. Why does she hate him so much? "He just said that she went to him in a hurry and asked him to take his place. No big deal."

"No! You don't get it!" Kayla threw her hands around with a huff, and ended up pointing accusingly at my nose, "This is a girl's dorm. No guys are allowed here. No matter what."

"But he said—"

"Screw what he said!" She turned back to the peephole and looked out, "The Hall Monitor is supposed to pass on the job to another girl, not a guy!"

I could feel my liking of him starting to weaken with my shaking insides. What was he doing here? "What are you saying?"

"I may not know guys all that well," She turned to me and slammed her hands on her hips, her defiance and bravado going straight through me. "But I do know a liar when I see one."

"He is not a liar!"

"Then why was he with the Hall monitor before she supposedly left?"

"He...he... Oh—I don't know! But he wasn't doing whatever you were thinking he was doing!"

"And what was I thinking?"

"That they were –CENSORED—!"

"Maybe they were."

I couldn't believe it. Did Kyala seriously believe that the boyfriend I had just gotten because of her pestering about my crush was cheating on me? There's no way! No way in hell that she believes this as much as I do!

"You're just saying that because you're jealous!"

Her eyes narrowed dangerously in my direction, "Why, pray tell, would I be jealous of you?"

"Because I have a boyfriend!" I screeched.

She went silent, eyes wide and disbelieving, before they narrowed dangerously and made me regret what I just said. "Just so you know, I can have any guy I want!"

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah!"

My mind blanked for a second. "...What are we talking about again?"

She smiled, and it felt as if we never had an argument in the first place, "...I'm not exactly sure."

"So..." I started hesitantly, knowing that we were still both plagued with bad thoughts about a certain someone, "...What do we do about Jace?"

She smirked evilly and held up two fingers, "There's two ways to go about this. One, we get him to confess to whatever he was doing—but that's highly unlikely—or two, we catch him in the act."

In turn, my own wicked smile slid onto my lips, "Let's go with the later."

"Let's."

-LINEBIATCH-

"Headset?"

"Check."

"Duck tape?"

"Why duck tape?"

"Don't question the genius!"

"Okay, fine. Check."

"Video camera with memory space?"

"Double check."

"Pokégear?"

"Check."

"Scath?"

"Check."

"Ready?"

"Duh." I grinned and tossed my Pokégear in the air so that I can catch it with my other hand, "Let's do this."

Kayla grinned in agreement and waited patiently as I called Jace, the small object on speaker phone to make sure we both clearly understood what he was saying. It was morning and classes haven't started yet, so we hoped to get him right before he left his room.

"...Hello?" His groggy voice resounded in our room.

I stifled a giggle at how sleepy he sounded, "Hey Jace!"

It took a moment, but he finally realized who I was, "Oh! Hey Kiera!"

"How's it going?" I said lightly, dragging on the conversation.

"Good..." He sounded a bit confused, but mostly like he just wanted me to get on with it.

Kayla made a face and pointed at her watch for me to hurry.

I did so. "Good, so I was wondering if you wanted to hang out after class today."

"Uh..." I believe he was checking for something, "Can we hang out at five? Meet you at the museum?"

"Perfect." I purred, grin stretching into a sly smirk as I hung up on him.

He won't know what hit him.

Literally.

-LINEBIATCH-

Classes were over, and now all that's left to do is execute the plan. All during the day, I've kept an eye on Jace, and he never once came close to me or another girl. The only person he talked too was that guy with short red hair that Kayla told me was also his roommate.

"I've had a fair share of cheaters in my time," Kayla said as we rushed down the hall, one single objective in mind, "I hate them to the bone."

"That explains a lot."

"It does, doesn't it?" We shared a fleeting grin before checking down the hall to make sure no one saw us, "Cheaters always tell their closest friend what they're doing. No doubt about it."

"So all we have to do is talk to his roommate—" I guessed as the idea struck me, and she cut me off with a firm nod.

"Exactly. He'll spill everything."

"What if he doesn't?"

"You'll see."

With a quick check to make sure that the halls were empty and that we were at the right dorm, we knocked on the door labelled in gold lettering 206. Each door had a gold number and small white board to write whatever we wanted on it. Theirs had their names at the top with scribbles of random Pokémons all over the rest.

"Jace man? That you? Are you already done?" Someone asked on the other side of the door before shuffling could be heard and something thudded on the floor. A few seconds later, the door swung open and the redhead roommate appeared, shirtless with dishevelled hair. He looked as if he just woke up from a nap.

"Done what?" Kayla hissed, crossing her arms and leaning against the doorframe to block the passage of escape.

I copied her, but instead chose to smile and wave friendlily, "Yeah hi! Jace's soon-to-never-be-again-girlfriend! Mind telling me where he might be?"

"Uh..." The boy's shell-shocked eyes flew everywhere but refused to meet our eyes. A simple fleeting action that meant that he did indeed know where his friend was and that he knew that he was in deep turd once this was over. "I have no idea..."

"Liar!" Kayla hissed and motioned for me to enter the room. I did so and she slammed the door behind us. She asked again calmly, yet her eyes were demonic, "Tell me! Where is he?"

"I don't know! I swear!" The boy fell to his knees and pleaded for his dear life, "Don't eat me!"

"There there," She petted his head sweetly, "Just tell us where he is and we won't harm you."

She mentioned to me, just as I chose that exact moment to take out the duck tape from my bag. The boy's eyes widened considerably.

"Okay! I'll tell you!"

Kayla grinned and gave me an I told you so look. I grinned dumbly back, unable to believe that her plan was actually working. Now that I think about it, she did say that she had boyfriends before. Maybe she'd done this before to one of them. She sure did speak with experience.

Girl power all the way.

-LINEBIATCH-

The city of Alto Mare is an isolated island between the south-western coast of Johto, near Azalea Town, and the south eastern portion of Hoenn. It is accessible via ferries near Cherrygrove City, and is a city of canals; its major mode of transport be it the gondolas. This grand and ancient city has its greatly amusing and exhilarating water chariot race once a year—every July before school starts—, which is usually won by either Xavier or Maikee. Now that school was in session, there was no sign of celebration—even if the citizens happen to act as if every day was a party—and the waters were clear with the gondolas as the only source of conveyance.

"So?" I tilted my head to look at Kayla, who also looked as confused as I was, "Where is this garden he was talking about?"

"I'm not exactly sure..." Kayla murmured as she looked down the hall, "Maybe the Pokémon center over there can help us!"

I glanced at what she pointing at and nodded my consent. The Pokémon center and the museum were fairly close, maybe only a five minute walk across a couple of canals and even shorter by gondola. Of course, we jogged there and went straight up to Nurse Joy.

"Oh hello!" The pink-haired woman chirped as she noticed us standing at her desk after carrying Pokéballs to the back room to heal, "What can I help you with?"

"Yeah, do you have a map of the city?"

She blinked at us in confusion, "A map? Whatever for?"

"You see, we're new here," Kayla lied flawlessly. Good thinking too, it can save us some time. "And we have no idea where we're headed. The only recognizable place is this here Pokémon center and the Pokémart."

"Oh poor dears!" The woman gushed, quickly taking out pamphlets from under her desk and giving it to me, "Here are the maps! And if you need any more help, feel free to come in and ask me, okay?"

"Yes ma'm!" We answered together as we waved and left the area. I opened the paper the second I breathed in the soothing slightly salty air and pointed to the familiar areas. It showed the entire Alto Mare area with great detail, but only smaller, and it felt as if I was an amusement park rather than looking for a secret garden.

"Jace said he found a secret garden and was going to bring a girl there! He never told or showed me where it was though! I'm sorry! Please don't hurt me!"

"That's where we are right now. The Pokémart's right there... and there's the museum!"

Kayla leaned closer to me to get a better look, "Judging by those trees over here..." She pointed to the forest area near the museum. I quickly pointed to the wall blocking it.

"There's no way we can enter there. It's blocked."

"Maybe we can jump over the wall?" But then she brightened up, "Yeah! Nyx (she's talking about her Honchkrow) can fly us over!"

"You sure he can carry too girls?"

She puffed up her chest proudly, "Positive!"

But there was no need to even have this conversation, because going down the canal in a white and light blue gondola was the very person we were trying to find. He hadn't seen us. In fact, of course he wouldn't seeing as he was making out with the girl seated next to them.

"Oh..." Kayla finally noticed what I was staring at. "Well that makes things a lot easier..."

Even though I had only really known Jace for a few couple of days, and that I knew this would happen and I thought I wouldn't mind, I still felt the small pang of hurt and betrayal deep in my chest. My face was sullen, my body was solid as a statue, and I felt nothing other than pure hatred.

I curled my fingers around Scath's Pokéball comfortingly for a few seconds before unleashing him.

"Wait a second, Kiera! Think about what you're going to do before you do it!"

"I know what I'm going to do." I turned to her, eyes murderous. "I'm going to smash his face into a pole and break his nose."

She raised an eyebrow in amused approval, "How are you gonna do that?"

"Easy." I grinned and looked down at Scath who seemed to pick up my angry emotions, for he was glaring at the very gondola that had just past, "Scath, use Psychic."

Let's just say that pretty face of his won't be able to smell anything for the next couple of days.

Sorry if it's shorter than the usual. Like I said, it was rushed ;D

Also, sorry that almost zero to none characters were introduced other than Kayla, Kiera, and Jace.

But hey, Jace and Red-Haired Neighbor won't ever be mentioned ever again (expect maybe once or twice). So there's more places to introduce others now that they're out of the way!

ALRIGHT ALL OC OWNERS (even if your OC didn't make it's appearance today), TIME FOR YOUR SOMEWHAT DAILY QUESTIONS!

1. What would your OC dress up for Halloween? And what Pokemon would they be bringing along to Trick or Treat and with what costume?

2. Favorite legendary? Or which one would you prefer to appear in this story?

Now all that's left is...

FIND THAT MUFFIN MAN!

P.S. I don't think I need anymore OCs, but they're are still accepted if sent!

~MARLUNA!