Kates' P.O.V
I sat in Ms Aprils' class as she began talking about Outdoor Class; I wasn't really listening, considering Glaceon was jumpy, more so than usual, I wanted to know what was wrong with her.
"Keep your little pokemon under control, for Arceus' sake," Keith said as Glaceon began bouncing near his chair, I only shrugged as I turned back to Ms April.
"Keith told me he has 38 questions to ask the Ranger," Rythmi said, Ms April smiled, Keith only shrugged.
"That's very enthusiastic Keith," she said, she then ordered us down to Ascension Square, everyone filed out of the class, leaving me with Rythmi and Keith, Seren and Kellyn had already ran down, and Isaac wasn't in our class.
"Gla," Glaceon said as she began dragging me, I rolled my eyes.
"Ok, ok I'm coming," I said as I began walking behind her, Rythmi and Keith on my tail.
"What's with her, she seems very jumpy," Rythmi said, I shrugged.
"I've got no idea," I answered, we walked down the steps that led to Ascension Square, once I the bottom I saw a boy with an afro petting Glaceon, "That explains so much," I said as we walked over.
"Ok now, everyone this is Crawford, he's a Pokemon Ranger," Ms April introduced, the class all said hi or hey as he looked at us all, he smiled once he saw me, his Bedew jumped off his shoulder and ran over to me, I picked it up, it jumped on my head before jumping off onto Glaceons' back, who then ran around in a circle.
"QUIT MESSING AROUND!" I yelled with Crawford in sync, I rolled my eyes.
"Do you have to do that?" I asked, he frowned.
"Hey you said it with me, I didn't mean to do it," he said, I rolled my eyes.
"'Course ya didn't," I said, he glared at me.
"What's that mean?" he asked, I turned to him.
"It means you always do it," I said to him, he pouted before looking away.
"And you're meant to be the older sibling," I muttered as I shook my head, Crawford glanced at me.
"I heard that," he said, I looked at him.
"No, really?" I asked, sarcasm dripped in my voice, he stuck his tongue out at me, "Swear to Arceus, I am not related to you," I said as I turned back to watching Glaceon, Crawford laughing at me as he placed his hand on my head.
"Ah, you know you love me," he said, I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, kinda don't have a choice, you are family," I said, I realised everyone was staring at us, Crawford did too as he turned to everyone.
"So, how many of you have been nice to my baby sister?" he asked in a baby voice as he pinched my cheeks, I smacked his hands away.
"You are suck a dick head," I said as I walked next to Rythmi, who was giggling along with Seren, Kellyn and Isaac, while Keith was just rolling his eyes, Crawford grabbed my hand and pulled my back to him.
"Isn't that Keith Dazzle?" he asked, I nodded my head.
"Yeah, what about him?" I asked, Crawford looked at me in fear.
"If he finds out he'll turn you into his dad," he whispered to me, then looked at Keith, who raised an eye brow, I rolled my eyes.
"Chillax, he's not gonna find out, plus if he did know, he still wouldn't turn me in, he's nothing like his dad," I answered, Crawford gave me a sceptical look, I rolled my eyes, "I solemnly swear if he does do it, I will personally curse him to death, or kill him myself," I said as I placed my hand over my heart, Crawford nodded his head.
"Ok, let's move onto the main events of the day shall we?" he asked, Ms April nodded, we all walked until we were circling Crawford.
"the Questions and answers," Ms April said, I called Glaceon back over as Crawford let his friend pokemon come out around him, Glaceon sat in front of me, we were all sat on the ground, we couldn't be bothered to stand.
"Ok first question, yes you," Crawford said as he began pointing to people from Kincaids' class then our class.
"Crawford why did you become a ranger?" asked a male student.
"Well that's because I love pokemon. I wanted to befriend them, plus it's a cool job," Crawford said, I rolled my eyes at the amount of pride and at the size of his ego, which had shown when he said it.
"What kinds of pokemon are hard to capture?" asked a female student.
"Well speaking for myself psychic and ghost type because they just have a habit of going poof during a capture then reappearing anywhere" he answered, I nodded my head, I knew that, but they were also quite easy.
"Me next, me next. Do you think I will become a good operator?" Rythmi asked Crawford I looked at her, what was he? A fortune teller now?
"Well I'm only seeing you for the first time ever, but sure if you work hard at it you could become a great operator," he answered a warm smile on his face and amusement in his eyes; I knew what he was thinking.
"Hey Ryth aren't you confusing him with a fortune teller?" Keith asked. "Anyway what about me will I become a good pokemon ranger?" Keith asked, his voice calm and cool as he tried to actually look cool, I rolled my eyes, the gesture didn't go unnoticed by Crawford either, he looked at me, then smirked, oh no, he's not thinking that, I need a barf bag.
"Aren't you confusing him/me with a fortune teller?" me and Crawford asked at the same time, I sent a glare towards him.
"You really need to stop doing that," I said, he glared back.
"Me it's you who's doing it," he countered, we spent the next five minutes glaring, while everyone else sweat dropped.
"Anyway," Crawford said as he looked back at Keith with knowing eyes, "I can tell you this your strong will shines through loud and proud, I'm sure you'll make it. Why you might even have the fixings to make a better ranger then me," Crawford said, I gave him an 'are-you-kidding-me?' look, he only shrugged his shoulders, I sighed as I began listening to the questions again.
"Well Katherine, you got any questions?" he asked, my mouth fell open as I looked at him, I looked at Glaceon and nodded my head, she quickly froze him in place, I snickered as Ms April scolded me and her.
"Shouldn't have called me Katherine," was my only excuse, Ms April frowned, "Fine, fine, I'll in freeze him," I said as I tapped the ice three times, Crawford started shivering from head to toe.
"N-now I k-know why I was h-happy to l-leave," he said, I frowned at him.
"Aw love you too," I said as I hugged him, he didn't pull away, he needed the warmth.
"I hate you," he said as he stood up, I followed after him.
"Love you too," I said as I sat back down next to Keith.
"Let's carry on," he said as he glared at me, an indication of 'I'll-get-you-when-you-graduate', I snickered at him.
"Have you ever made any mistakes?" asked a female student, I was trying as hard as I could to stop myself from smirking but I couldn't.
"Yeah I have there was the time I dumped juice all over my styler, or the time I tried to capture a stuffed doll, or the time I put my ranger uniform on over my pajamas…..hang on don't make me say those things!" he raised his voice his face red, the rest of us just laughed at him.
"Don't forget the time you tried to capture dad because he was dressed as a Slowpoke," I added, Crawford chuckled a little.
"Yeah, but that was his fault," he said, I raised a brow.
"How was it? You're the one who tried to catch him," I said, Crawford sweat dropped at me.
"Yeah, but, uh, erm, um, next question please?" he asked, I smirked.
"I rest my case," I said, he just glared at me, I rolled my eyes as I did, I saw Keith looking at me out of the corner of my eye, I turned my head towards him, "Something wrong?" I asked, he just shrugged his shoulders; I raised a brow at him.
"Nothing," he answered, though I could see an emotion in his eyes, what was it? It looked like jealousy, but that's impossible, right?
"What makes you glad that you became a ranger?" asked a male student.
"Well I'd have to say the big smiles we get from everyone after helping the people and pokemon," he answered, we smiled at him, that would be a nice reward.
"Crawford has Ms April ever been angry with you?" asked a female student.
"I'll say she has she used to blow up at me once a day," he answered, I gave him a doubtful look.
"You know that isn't true" she retorted. "It wasn't once a day. It had to be at least three times a day. But that not the whole story. Crawford was a wonderful student. He kept everyone's spirits up with his kindness and sense of humour," that sounds more like Crawford, I laughed a little, Serens' hand then went up.
"Where are you from?" she asked him, Crawford smiled.
"I'm from Summerland," he answered, I looked at him, knowing what was coming next.
"Have you ever seen Summerlands' Gift?" Kellyn asked, Crawfords' eyes darted straight to me, Keith raised a brow as he also looked at me, I wasn't looking at any of them.
"Honestly, no, no one's ever seen Summerlands' gift, and if people have, they've never said anything about it," Crawford answered, I would have let out a sigh of relief but I couldn't, Keith was still looking at me, I looked at him.
"What?" I asked him, he shook his head.
"Nothing," was all he said before turning his attention back on Crawford.
"Voicemail, Voicemail," came a voice from his styler, "Crawford do you hear me? There's a mantine hurt off the eastern shore of school Island. The mantine apparently ran into a cargo ship. Luana's headed to the school by boat for you. Join her Crawford and head to the sight immediately. We're going to need your help on this one," his base leader, Barlow, explained, I looked at Crawford, who smiled at the styler, he was only happy because his girlfriend would be there.
"Roger leader," Crawford answered, he looked at me to see me smirking, he glared at me as he ended the transmission.
"So cool," the class chorused.
"She is not my girlfriend Katherine," Crawford said, my smirk fell.
"I can freeze your ass and give you to Luana like that," I said, he glared at me, I only smirked again.
"Please save the mantine," Rythmi begged.
"Hold on mantine we're going to save you. Since the students are so worried about the mantine ill check back to say how the mission went. Sorry I have cut the outdoor class short," he said to Mr Lamont.
"There's no need to apologize. Beside isn't that your boat?" Mr Lamont asked, I looked at the boat then smiled as Luana came out.
"COME ON CRAWFORD!" she yelled, Crawford put two fingers up to her, not the swearing way, she then saw me, "HEY KATE!" she yelled, I waved to her, as I smiled at her, Crawford glanced at me.
"I'll see ya soon Katie," Crawford said as he petted my head, I nodded as I gave him a hug.
"Sure thing, don't do anything I wouldn't do," I said with a wink, he glared at me again before running towards the boat, he jumped in as the boat took off, I waved as I watched the boat fade in the distance.
"Alright everyone that was the shortest outdoor class ever let's head back in," Ms April ushered everyone back inside, this time Serena, Kellyn and Isaac stayed behind with us, we all smiled.
"That was so cool, I can't believe that he's your brother," Seren said, I shrugged.
"I sure can," I muttered as I began walking, Glaceon following behind me, with Keith, Kellyn and Seren, Isaac stood with Rythmi, who was looking at the Pledge Stone.
"Hey," Rythmi said to us, we turned to look at her, "Let's make a pledge at the pledge stone," she suggested, she put her hand in the middle of us, Isaac placed his on top of hers, Kellyn then placed his on top of Isaacs' as Seren placed hers on top of Kellyns', I shrugged as I placed mine on top of Serens', we all looked at Keith.
"Well?" Kellyn asked, Keith scoffed, I looked at him.
"Come on Keith," Isaac and Seren pleaded, he looked at me, I only smiled at him, he sighed as he put his on top of mine, it was weird, it felt like he was holding it, looking down, I saw he was squeezing it.
"I pledge to be the greatest operator of all Almia," Ryth said.
"I pledge to be the greatest ranger in all of Almia," Keith said.
"I pledge to always smile to make others smile," Seren said, we smiled at her.
"I pledge to always keep things fresh around the Ranger Base," Kellyn said.
"I pledge to become one of the greatest scientists of all time," Isaac said.
"I pledge to always help people and pokemon in need and that we'll always be together," I said, everyone smiled at me as we raised our hands with a laugh.
We then began to run back towards the school as we laughed along the way, even Keith was running, which was a shock from his usual state, we actually had him laughing as well, I thought I was dreaming.
Once we got to the place we all hang out we slumped onto the sofas, a laugh came from us all still, people around us were looking in shock as Keith laughed and smiled, in my pocket I felt something vibrate, I pulled my phone out.
"You got Kate," I said, I knew it was my sister.
"Hiya Kate," Remis' voice came on the other line.
"Heya Remi, what's going on?" I asked as I sat up, everyone looked at me.
"Mama and Papa are letting us move out to Almia, we're looking for a place now. We'll be able to see you on your job and we'll be able to play a lot more," she said, I smiled at her.
"That's great, but remember what I said, don't move out here because I don't know where I'm gonna be stationed yet," I answered, Remi laughed on the other line.
"Put that condom away," Kellyn called, my mouth fell open.
"Kate, is this a bad time?" Remi asked on the other line, "And Mama says you better not have a condom," she added.
"WHO'S GIVEN MY KATIE A CONDOM? I WILL KILL WHOEVER HAS DONE IT! SHE BETTER STILL BE INNOCENT WHEN WE SEE HER!" my dad began yelling.
"D-DAD!" I yelled into the phone, "It's a joke," I said, my face bright red, Rythmi snickered as she looked at me.
"Well, we can't wait to meet your friends Kate, let's hope you haven't found a boyfriend," Remi said, my dad went into another frenzy on the phone, I sighed.
"There's a shoe box at the bottom of the stairs, hit dad over the head with that for me, and no I haven't got a boyfriend and when you come over you can meet my friends," I said as I rolled my eyes, there was a thud on the other line, I snickered a little.
"Anyway, mama says we're moving to Chicole Village, we should be there for your graduation," Remi said, I rolled my eyes.
"Did what I just say go over her head?" I asked, I heard Remi sigh.
"Probably, well we gotta go, bye, bye Katie," she said, I smiled.
"Bite me Remi," I said as she hung the phone up with a giggle, I sighed as I shook my head, "Swear to Arceus," I muttered as I laid back on the sofa, only to lay on Keiths' arm, he was stretched out of the sofa, I quickly sat up, while the others snickered.
"Your sister sounds sweet," Rythmi said, I nodded my head.
"She is," I answered.
"But your dad seems a little weird," Kellyn said, I glared at him.
"He wouldn't have gone into a frenzy if you hadn't have brought up the condom," I retorted, Kellyn just snickered, Seren hit him on the arm, Keith looked at them and rolled his eyes.
"Oh boy, he's back into his moody self," Isaac said, Keith glared at him, Isaac only smiled, just then Keiths' phone went off, I looked at him as he went to answer it.
"Hello?" he asked, "Yeah, hey," he began to listen, "Sure thing, alright, bye mom," he said, we all looked at him.
"Checking in?" Seren asked, Keith nodded his head, Janice then came up behind us.
"Now kids, time for bed," she said, we groaned but nodded as we all stood up; we said good night to the boys and walked towards our rooms.
Once I opened the door to mine and Rythmis' room, Glaceon jumped straight on the bed, I walked over to my bed, as Rythmi walked over to her, we changed and climbed into bed, Rythmi clapped to turn the lights out.
"Night Kate," she said, I closed my eyes.
"Night Ryth," I answered as I let the darkness swallow me.
Chapter four done, hope you all liked it, please REIVEW :D