Smile Junkies

Chapter 5

Cyrus hungrily ate the lunch Lex had made for him and, despite how grossed out Champagne was, Lex was happy he at least liked it and ate so whole-heartedly. "Ew." Champagne said as he finished and handed the lunch box back to Lex who took it and put it with her finished lunch box, tying the hand kerchief together quietly. "So, since you've already done dirty things with my sister, you going to marry her, Mr. Gloom?" Champagne asked as Cyrus drank from a glass of water, choking upon it when the questioned was asked before regaining his composure.

"I have no interest in marriage." Cyrus said but looked at Champagne when he said it, then looking at Lex. "Thank you for the food." Lex nodded and he stared at her and she stared back before they both looked down at the table awkwardly. "I'll…go pull up that file." He said as he got up from the table and went to the computer in his office where they all sat. Champagne opened her mouth but Lex put her hand on her sister's, shaking her head. Champagne closed her mouth and they sat there quietly. "Here." Cyrus said and Lex got up as he moved out of his desk chair to let her sit down, and he sat with Champagne. After a while, Lex finished it, noticing on the tab panel at the bottom of the screen something titled 'World Plan'. She clicked it and read it in silence holding back any emotion about it.

The entire file was a collection of ideas and planning about making another world by destroying their current world with the help of something called a 'Red Chain' and Dialga. Lex flipped over to the notes file Cyrus had opened for her, "Sorry." Lex said, the two looking over. "Champagne and I were really rude by intruding without a word before hand. I think we should go before we over stay our welcome." Lex said and Champagne was surprised, "Right, Champagne?" Lex added and Champagne nodded, "Uh, yeah you're right." Cyrus stood up.

"It was a…uh…not intruding." Cyrus said, the look in Lex's eyes was dull and empty. "It should be fine if you stay a little longer."

"No, we really shouldn't." Champagne said, laughing as Lex stood next to her, grabbing the lunches. "Like she said, it's rude. We'll leave now. Later, Mr. Gloom." Champagne said and the two left. "Lex?" Lex stood there, quiet before she summoned her Notctowl and had the two of them transported back to Eternia City. "Lex." Champagne said and Lex got into the house where she fell to her knees and cried.

-Next Day-

Cyrus stood in a flower shop with Jupiter and Mars, staring at a bouquet of roses. "The rose colors mean different things, Boss." Mars informed him, "Yellow is friendship and red is love." Cyrus looked at the yellow roses then the red.

The red is prettier… but the yellow is a nice color. Maybe there are different colors? Cyrus thought, staring at them. He sighed, These flowers seem very insufficient. Perhaps another pokemon? She liked the Arbok and the Azurill… Tomorrow… I'll be summoning Dialga to destroy this world so… He reached for the yellow ones then pulled his hand away. 'Hi, I'm Cyrus, you're about to be dead but let's be friends' these yellow roses say or… He looked at the red ones again, 'Hi, I'm Cyrus, you're about to be dead but I love you.' Hm. Seems better than the yellow ones…

"Sir, you seem to be having trouble," the Clerk said, drawing Cyrus's attention. "Can you not find a color to say what you want?" the Clerk asked, hitting the head on the nail and he nodded. "I have a pamphlet here that tells you the meaning of the colors of roses. Do you think it will help?" Cyrus nodded again and took it, reading it and looked at the roses, grabbing a yellow one with a red tips and took the thorns off,.

"I'll get this." He said, grabbing two more roses. "These too." Cyrus added and the Clerk smiled, Jupiter and Mars looking over in curiosity.

~O~ Eterna City, later that day ~O~

Lex and Champagne watched TV in the living room, "That guy is really dumb." Champagne said as she popped a piece of chocolate into her mouth, Lex looking over. "He should have said 'I'm really interested in marriage' and asked you to marry him right then and there. Idiot. I hope he knows what he'll be losing." Champagne concluded sourly as she watched the TV drama that the TV offered. There was a soft knock on the door, drawing Lex's Arbok's attention and it raised it's head before flicking it's tongue. Lex stood up and looked at it.

"Sssshh." she said and it looked at her and she put her hand up and lowered it, the Arbok lying back down as almost completely synchronized with the hand movement and purred happily as Lex went to the door. She opened it, looking around into the hall before looking down. Three roses were on the ground and she picked them up.

One was yellow with red tips and the other two were yellow and they had a small book about roses color meanings. She opened it up and looked at it, seeing circled words.

'Yellow with Red Tips: Friendship, (Falling in Love)'

'Yellow: Joy, gladness, friendship, Delight, Promise of a new beginning, Welcome Back, (Remember me), Jealousy and ("I Care").'

Lex smiled as she read it and at the bottom of the card was scribbled '-Cyrus'. "I think…" Lex said, smelling the roses. "I think he knows what he means, Champagne."