Okay, guys you're seriously not making this any easier for me because the stories are tied for the count! I can't do both stories due to something called school! Maybe if I finish this before school I could do both, so I don't have to make a decision. Anyway, on with the chapter!
Chapter 22
Leaf's POV
I was helping my dad, Walter wash the dishes.
'I can't believe Paul asked Dawn out! I'm so happy for her!'
My dad must've noticed I was acting unusually happy because he started moving his legs around crazily. I rolled my eyes at my dad's dancing, but I danced with him anyway.
"Dad, you're so weird." I said laughing.
"You know it!" He said laughing deeply.
"Hey, dad, I've been meaning to ask you. How did you meet mom?" I said curiously. He immediately frowned.
"That's not something you should ask." He said sternly.
"Sorry, I asked." I said feeling bad for dad. I know I wouldn't want my husband abandoning me.
"No, it's understandable that you want to know about your mother." He said apologetically.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." I said.
"No, no, it's not fair to you if I don't tell you. I was visiting an art museum one day and for some reason I wanted to see the Greek artwork. I was observing a painting of Aphrodite when someone asked me if I could move. I turned around and saw the most gorgeous woman in my life. She had long dark hair that went to her mid-back and she wore simple clothes.
You could tell she was smart just by looking at her. I smiled at her and moved aside. For some reason I had an urge to follow her wherever she went, so I did just that." He said proudly. I thought it was little creepy. I didn't say anything in case it would offend him.
"She didn't seem to mind that I was following her. In fact she was beckoning me closer. I walked up to her and we started talking. I found out a lot of stuff about her and soon enough we were dating. Then when she had you, she left me." He said glumly. I felt bad. 'The only reason she left him was because of me."
I felt guilt consume me. My dad didn't even blame me once, though. Poor guy.
"Hey, dad, I'm sorry." I said biting my lip.
"Why, it wasn't your fault?" He said putting up and obvious fake smile. 'Yeah, it is.'
Gary's POV
I was walking through the park when I saw Paul. He was sitting in front of a Cupid statue? My eyes widened when I walked up to see it was really Paul.
"Paul?" I said. He turned around and his eyes widened in return.
"Gary?" He went back to his monotone self.
"Yeah, why are you sitting here? There are other benches that don't have giant Cupid statues in front of them you know? Unless you're thinking of your friend that's related to Cupid." My lips curled into the usual smirk I was known for.
"Why would I be thinking about Dawn? He said with a slight red tint on his face.
"Well, if you must know, I never even said it was Dawn." I said with knowing eyes.
"Whatever." He said walking off.
"I know that you love her, man!" I said yelling at him from a distance. He gave no response and kept walking. I rolled my eyes at him.
"He so likes her." I said thinking how weird it is that Paul for once was being more childish than me. I walked around the rest of the park. I saw a stand selling flowers. I walked up and bought a rose.
"Drew must be rubbing off on me." I said twirling the rose in my hand.
"You know it's not sane to talk to yourself." I practically growled hearing this voice. It was like poison. I turned around putting up the cheesiest & fake smile. Standing there was my greatest rival.
He had blonde hair that was sort of like Justin Bieber's- Don't even ask me how gay that is-, he wore a blue jacket over a light blue shirt, his jeans were a darker shade of blue, and with him was his posse that didn't really seem to ever talk. His gang was dressed similarly, but red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, and yes, violet -yes, a gay little rainbow group were my rivals- forming their colorful group.
"Hey, Matthew, what brings you here?" I said grinding my teeth.
"Now, Gary, we both know that this park is public. Well, I know that. I'm not so sure about what goes through your mind." He sneered.
"Tsk, tsk, Henderson. Should you really be talking? Don't you remember that incident at camp when we were 9?" I scorned.
"Talking about the past are we? Then shall I bring up what happened at school when we were 8?" He retorted.
"Well, since we're talking my only flaw of my perfection, shall we talk about how many things are wrong with yours?" I said narrowing my eyes.
"We both know that I am far more superior than you shall ever be, Oak." His cool disappearing and replaced with anger.
"Let's list my awesomeness shall we? I'm more popular, I've beat you at every sport, my grades are better than yours, and what was that last thing? Oh, yeah, I'm better at slaying monsters than you & your posse combined." I bragged off all of my achievements I could think of. His gang glared at me.
"That's not so great." He said looking away.
"Oh, yeah, name one thing you're better than me at?" I said smirking.
"One! I could list a million. I'm better looking than you, I've dated more girls, I'm richer, my Pokémon are all better than yours, and if you want to mention monsters, I am so much better than you!" He said smirking. His group nodded with him.
"At least I don't need to have a group of rainbow nerds with me. My friends are all better than yours, I mean my best friend is the most popular; I also have something that you could never get. A girlfriend." I said jeering.
"How do you know I don't have a girlfriend?" He said arching a brow.
"Well, most girls I know look for good looking guys and you Henderson are not." I said feeling triumphant.
"Well, for your information I have a girlfriend! Her name is um, Leaf, yeah, Leaf!" He said nervously.
"Well, if you must know she is my girlfriend and I can tell you're lying." I said knowing he was going to throw a tantrum soon.
"You, argh! You are an ARGH!" He threw a hissy fit of stomping and pounding the ground like a 5 year-old. I snickered and left him there to tantrum. 'So much for Paul being childish, that had him beat by far.'
Leaf's POV
My thoughts drifted off to May. 'Are you awake yet?'
I really hope so. My dad had retreated to his bed, so I was pretty much by myself. I took a shower and hopped into my bed.
I woke up to my alarm. I drowsily hit the snooze button.
"Leaf, you better not be sleeping still!" I heard a voice boom outside my room. My eyes popped open and shot out of my bed. Thing is my dad doesn't like it if I oversleep. He'll come into my room with a bucket of water and ice and pour it on me. You can only make that mistake once.
"Nope, I'm completely awake, dad!" I said brushing my teeth in supersonic speed. Soon enough I was dressed and ready.
"Breakfast time!" My dad called.
"Coming!" I ran down the stair and into the kitchen. Pancakes, bacon, and eggs filled my nose. I sat down sipping my OJ. My dad handed me a plate of pancakes, bacon, and eggs.
He grabbed a plate for himself and sat across me. I gobbled my breakfast and chugged my OJ. I thanked my dad and headed for school trying to not get a cramp. Misty picked me up and sure enough May was there.
"May, why didn't you tell me you were awake?" I said giving her a death hug.
"Heh, I kind of got carried away talking to Misty about pranks." May said rubbing the back of her head nervously. I rolled my eyes at her, but smiled nonetheless.
At school I noticed that A LOT of people smiled at May. I guess we were earning ourselves more of a reputation than I thought. I headed off to class.
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When I was almost out the door of the cooking room I remembered I needed to go ask Brock something. When I turned around I shrieked. My cooking teacher's legs were goat legs.
"B-brock?" I said staring at him.
"Oh my god! Leaf, it's not what you think!" He said covering his goat legs.
"Are you a satyr?" I said preparing myself to run away.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" He said uncovering his legs.
"Well, if you must know I'm a daughter of Athena." I said trying not to stare at his legs, but failing horribly.
"Yeah, I guessed that much, so why are you still here?" He said getting up and closing the door.
"I needed to ask you something." I said chuckling nervously.
"What was that?" He said raising a brow.
"I don't remember, but are there anymore of you?" I questioned.
"You? Meaning satyrs or other creatures?" He said stroking his goat beard.
"There are others? Who are they?" I said surprised that there were creatures other than satyrs here.
"Well, you Soledad? She's a nymph. There's Harley, he's an ipotane." He said referring to 2 of my teachers.
"No way, they're also creatures!" I said excitedly.
"Yeah, pretty much, but if you mention this to anyone I'm going to give you something worse than an 'F!'" He said sternly shoving me out the door.
"So much for info." I said walking to my next class.
Gary's POV
I was talking to none other than Paul this morning. Well, I was teasing him.
"C'mon, you know you love her!" I said poking him in the face.
"Touch me again and some parts of you are going to be dislocated." He growled.
"Whoa, no need to be touchy. If it makes you feel any better then I'll go bother Drew." I said retreating to the grasshead I saw in the distance.
"Hey." Drew said turning around to greet me.
"Hey? That's all I get! No, I love you, bro or you're my life?" I said jokingly.
"I'll say that the day you think rainbow boy is more stylish than you." He replied calmly.
"That's impossible. No one is more stylish than me. I mean take a look at me! I'm gorgeous; I was probably born posing like a model." I said teasingly.
"Then why aren't you a model, Oak?" He smirked.
"They just haven't found me yet. I am kind of hard to find, you know?" I smirked back.
"Yeah, because it was so hard finding me." He said bragging about the one summer people hired him to be a professional model.
"They couldn't hire me because if I was on magazines or TV, people would kill to see me. I'm just too hot." I said.
"C'mon, Oak, let's go before you decide you should be the king of the world." Drew said walking off.
"Well, I should!" I said going with him.
Okay, guys I know today's Sunday, but to be honest my dad's restaurant was busier on Saturday than I thought and so I had to finish this today! I'm really sorry. From now on updates are going to be on Saturday or Sunday. I'll try to update on Saturday if it's possible, so REVIEW!
