Smile Junkies

Chapter 4

Saturn had been assigned to spy and keep track of Lex by Cyrus as he worked on the plan for the perfect world. Until Lex gave him the slip not too long into it by flying away somewhere and now he didn't know where to look. He passed by a pokemon training class in Eternia, "Come on, you can do it! Let's go, go, GO!" Saturn stopped, the door to the building open as well as the windows, the smell of sweat tinting the air lightly and he looked in, the instructor of the class had her back to him- and a familiar Rampardos in the class along with Arbok next to her, "Ok, ready? To the beat now, right, right, left, left, left kick, left kick, Right slide! That's great, keep it on up!" Saturn looked into the room, his hair down and he was ordered to wear normal clothes aside from his uniform since it was mostly an under cover mission. He entered the building.

Lex stood there, sweating but smiling at the same time in a black sports top and black spandex shorts with work out gloves on her hands. "Here's the next part!" she said and the other men and women and their pokemon in the group seemed a little tuckered out. "Take that last bit of effort and put it on the front lines!" She encouraged and the atmosphere changed from tired to excited. "That's more like it! Right foot, right foot, left stomp, left stomp, left elbow jab, right elbow job and we're done!" She went over and turned the music off, panting lightly and smiling. "Good work today, everyone! Towels are in the white bin, and next week don't forget your ankle weights, especially for your pokemon that are in the right weight class. If you don't know what weight class needs what size weights, I posted a chart over on the left wall on the bulletin board." She told them and her Arbok slithered over, grabbing a light blue towel, before slithering back over and giving it to Lex who wiped herself off before tending to her own pokemon that had also been exercising.

Saturn left the building, pulling out his cell phone, "Boss I found her!" Saturn said, "She's, uh, an exercise teacher in Eternia…Oh, um, yes, of course." Saturn hung up and went back into the building, "Uh, mi-miss." Saturn said, Lexia looking over. "My friend is really depressed, could you maybe let me take an encouraging picture of you?" Saturn asked and Lexia narrowed her eyes at him.

"Get lost, pipsqueak." She said darkly, "This isn't my class." Saturn stood there, dumb-founded. "You're looking for my sister, probably. She's busy so I took over her class for her." The woman said, drinking the water she had in her hand.

"Oh? I'm sorry but my friend said to specifically look for her pokemon…" Saturn said, shocked at this rude woman's words. Now that he looked at her, she had green eyes instead of the blue ones Lex had.

~O~ Veilstone Department Store ~O~

Lexia sneezed. "Oh, I hope Champagne is ok with handling my work out class…" Lexia said, looking down at the wedding dress she wore. "Oh, this dress is just perfect! It's tight on me but it will fit Champagne just wonderful." Lex said, the fitting ladies helping her take it off and they put it in a plastic bag for her and she carried it out of the store,

"Lex." She twitched at the sound of her name, being said by a familiar voice. She looked over, seeing Cyrus. Lex frowned and he eyed the white dress. "You're getting married?"

"No, my sister Champagne is soon. I'm just getting her wedding dress." Lex said shyly, "Excuse me." She hastily turned and left him there, Cyrus watching as she vanished somewhere other than that place with her flying pokemon. When she landed in Eternia her sister snapped, "What took you so long?" "So-Sorry, I was held up. Here." Lex said, handing the dress to her sister, as Lex's pokemon returned to her, happy to see her back from her trip.

"Oh wow, it's really pretty. I totally love it!" Champagne said and Lex smiled, blushing faintly, her finger tips touching together. "I'm so glad." She said, her pokemon willingly returning to their poke balls. "I actually broke a sweat with your work out regimen too." Champagne commented and looked Lex over. "You shouldn't do the work out training, you should be a gym leader." "Oh, I can't, I like to move around to much for that." Lex said and Champagne laughed, "Yeah, guess so." Lex sat down on the couch in their small apartment. "So, tell me about this Cyrus guy more." Lex blushed.

"There's nothing to say aside from an egotistical maniac about world conquest." Lex said defiantly and opened up the book she was reading. Champagne looked at her and began to smile, Lex looked over. "St-stop it!" Lex said, blushing more.

"You've always been the same, ever since we were kids, Lexia." Champagne said, Lex blinking and looking at her, "You obviously have some type of crush on him, huh? Yeah, I know you do! Go ahead confess, lil sis. Confess, confess, confess!" "Shut up!" Lex said and Champagne laughed, pointing to her sister, "You'll never have a white-dress ending like me unless you go and tell him that you like him, you know? At least try to see if he feels the same." Lex blushed darkly and stood up abruptly.

"He's as unfeeling as stone!" Lex yelled and Champagne yelled back, "Even stones have some range of feelings!" Champagne got up and grabbed her sister's hands, Lex blushing furiously as Champagne rested her forehead on her little sister's, "Tell me how you really feel." Lex blushed harder, holding her sister's hands tightly.

"H-he does nothing but picks on me! All the time! And he's insensitive and cold and just wants to reap the benefits without putting forth any effort at all!" Lex said harshly, "He's just completely impossible."

"But from what you told me, you stayed with him for a little bit. He couldn't have been that impossible, right?" Champagne said softly and Lex stood there as she pouted because Champagne was right. "He must have some good qualities about him. Can you think of any?"

"…He didn't treat me badly." Lex admitted, trying to think as Champagne smiled, "In Pastoria at the Great Marsh, I said I really wanted an Arbok but I couldn't find one and he found one for me…and an Azurill." Lex said, looking down, "He got all cut up because he got those two for me…" Champagne smirked. Her sister had always had a soft spot for wounded guys. "That guy never went any farther than kissing me either- aside from that one time I told you about but I think that was an accident."

"You see? He has good things about him." Champagne said, patting Lex's head. "Do you need your big sister to help you confess?"

"No, he'll be expecting that. I want him to do it first…" Lex said and Champagne withdrew in surprise. "This time too he'll need to make the first move. Sorry, Champagne." Champagne smiled charmingly at her sister who had always gone out of her way to chase the men she liked, and patted her head.

"Ok, ok, it's alright to be a girl sometimes, you know? Let's hope he figures it out soon, huh?" Champagne encouraged and Lex said, "Today- I saw him outside of the department store." "WHA!"

~O~ Team Galactic HQ, Veilstone City ~O~

Cyrus sat at a budget meeting, bored, "Blahblahblah budget blahblahblah this meeting." Cyrus's mind was elsewhere, lost partially in his imagination. What if that wedding dress hadn't been for Lex's sister? What if- an image of Lex in a long white wedding dress came to his mind and Cyrus had that strange feeling in his chest again and a part of him kept saying 'no'. Cyrus returned to reality, looking past the blank faces of his employees and the budget manager and saw Lex in the door way. She stared at him before turning and walking off.

Cyrus excused himself with the lie that he was going to the bathroom and went down the hall. Lex was at the end of it before she turned and walked off, Cyrus giving chase. Every time he'd go to one hall, she was already at the end of it but it was as if she was waiting before going down another hall. Eventually, she had led him out to the front of the building- where two 'Lex's were. The one he had been following slowly transformed into a Haunter that happily replied, "Han-han-haunter!" Lex smirked. "So- are you Cyrus?" Cyrus felt offended.

"How could you not know that?" He asked and Lex giggled, covering her mouth with her finger tips. She wasn't wearing thumb rings but she wore a ring on each pinkie and she had green eyes instead of blue. "You're not Lex." Cyrus said simply and she crossed her arms, grinning smugly.

"You're right. I'm not. I'm her twin sister, Champagne." She scowled. "Clever. How'd you figure it out?" Champagne said and Cyrus answered, "Your hands." Champagne blinked, caught off guard by his answer. "Lex wears a wring on each thumb and you wear one on each pinkie. Plus you have green eyes." Champagne scoffed.

"Do you know where Lex is?" Cyrus questioned and Champagne nodded. "Then bring her back here." Champagne chuckled.

"No." she said as she looked at him. "How do you feel about my sister? And tell me honestly or I won't bring her at all." Champagne said mischievously but seriously. If he didn't feel mutually about her sister than he wasn't worth having around.

"When…" Cyrus looked down. "When she smiled, when she blushed and when she's just near me- I get this strange feeling that spirals behind my sternum and rib cage," Cyrus said, "Though I don't know why…it feels weird."

Sounds like this guy's in love and he's too stupid to really realize it. Champagne told herself mentally, That…That sister of mine reeled in this fish without knowing it. I need to go home and yell at her but then what do I do about this doofus? Champagne thought, looking at Cyrus. "Where is Lex?" Champagne pulled out her cell phone.

"I'll show you a picture of her. Kay? so just calm down." Champagne said before holding out her cell phone to Cyrus. On the screen was a picture of Lex with long hair, smiling happily, wearing a white sun dress and a white sun hat with a blue ribbon that was speckled with white stars. Cyrus blushed.

"Send that to me-" "No way." Champagne said bluntly, closing her phone and putting it in her pocket, "Lay off, man, those pictures of my cute little sister are mine. You're going to have to make your own. Come on, Lucky, let's go back home." The Haunter laughed and she laughed too, "You're in a good mood too? Me too!" They laughed together and Cyrus stood there, wondering what type of person Champagne was.

~O~ Eternia City, Lex and Champ's apartment ~O~

"Hey, sis. Sis!" Champagne said, coming in through the door, Lex looking up, the smell of warm food wafting in the air. "OOOOOHHHH! Did you cook?" Lex blushed, standing in the kitchen with an apron on and looked away shyly.

"Uh, well, ye-yes. You didn't come home, so I thought I'd have dinner ready for when you did get home…" Lex said and Champagne happily hugged her sister.

"You're so cute! You're like the perfect housewife!" Champagne complimented and Lex blushed more, a small smile on her face. "I met that guy, you know, the 'Cyrus' one?" Lex twitched and Champagne rested her fore arms on her little sister's shoulders. "He's a little on the slow side but he and Lexia will make a good couple, you know? He's dumb and you're so cute everything else is kinda over-powered by your cuteness." Lex frowned. "He said he really wants too see you and I showed him a picture from when we did modeling for the department stores." Lex blushed harder. "He was funny too- said he wanted me to send the picture to him. Funny guy right? Funny, stupid guy."

"You met him?" Lex said and Champagne nodded. "Let-Let's just have dinner." Champagne smiled and sat down, Lex serving them up plates.

"I think he missed you." Champagne said and Lex almost dropped the plate, catching it and continued putting food on it. "I made Haunter look like you and he chased Haunter all the way to me. He wouldn't do that if he didn't have any interest. Men don't chase things without a reason." Champagne smiled, imagining her cute sister with their gloomy stranger- then she destroyed the thought. "On second thought, if Lex might end up moving in with him just from confessing then I think I'll keep you two apart. That way you can stay here forever." Champagne said but she was already concocting a plan for the two of them as she made small talk with her adorable sister.

~ Next Day ~

"No, Champagne, stop this is near-" "The Team Galactic HQ, I know, I know." Champagne said, dragging her sister behind her by the hand as she carried a bundle tied neatly in a checkered blanket. Lex wore a long black skirt and a short sleeved red top aside from her usual red plaid mini dress (a gift from Champagne) as Champagne wore a long-sleeved red shirt and a black mini skirt, the two going up to the secretary, "Hey, I have an appointment with the Boss. Call him down, ok?" Champagne said, grabbing her sister's skirt as Lex attempted to sneak off. The secretary made a call and not too long after, Cyrus himself came down and looked at Lex, who stood up with her sister.

Champagne pushed Lex forward and she stumbled forward, closer to Cyrus and the two made eye contact. After a long silence, the first to break the ice was Cyrus, "How is…the Arbok?" He asked and she blushed.

"It's very well and so is the Azurill, thank you very much. I named the Arbok, 'King' and the Azurill, 'Jackie'." Lex said and Cyrus nodded and stared at her. "I made too much food last night… enough for two lunch boxes, so my sister suggested that we eat together." "She tricked me yesterday." "I'm sorry for my sister, Champagne." Cyrus leaned down and pecked her on the lips and she blushed five shades of dark red. "That book you took an interest in, I have notes about it up in my office. Perhaps we could eat there?" Lex smiled gently, "Yeah, ok." Champagne smiled, before seeing Cyrus kiss her again. "That's enough pedo-bear." Champagne thundered and Cyrus pulled away, irritated by the intrusion, "I brought my own lunch too so let's all eat together so I can supervise- I mean, get to know you." Champagne said, smiling cheekily and Cyrus grumbled wordlessly, rubbing the back of his neck as Lex blushed faintly.