Chapter 4: The first day
I might have made some confusion from the last chapter when Leaf said that she ran away when she was thirteen and how in the first chapter Dawn said that they had mentioned they had graduated middle school. I wanted to make it clear that the school starts at gr 9 and goes to gr. 13. The grades are different than the ones we have, gr 9 for this school is grade 10 for real school and so on. I also wanted to take this time to say all the ages. Everyone is 15 but Cilan is 16.
Also, if you have any ideas that you think will be good send them to me and I will consider adding them if they fit the story. I will make sure to mention you if I do add them.
Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon or the characters. I only own the story line.
Ash's POV
I woke up around noon to hear the blender on. I got out of bed wearing my red and black plaid pajama bottoms and no shirt. Pikachu heard me and jumped up on my head. I opened the door and went to the kitchen. I noticed no one was here because it was so silent, well other than whoever was in the kitchen.
"Oh did I wake you?" Misty turned to me. She was wearing a pair of black running shorts and a light blue t-shirt. She looked like she was sweating. "I just got back from a run and was making a smoothie before going to change and heading to the skate park. I heard that it is one of the best in the region!"
I was shocked I didn't know she was into skateboarding. "It's no problem usually I get water dumped on me," I told her because it was true, ice water dumped on me whenever I slept in. "I didn't know you skateboarded. That's so cool! The guys and I do to."
"Cool!" she finished making her smoothie and was pouring it into a cup. "Me and Leaf board, May has some awesome rollerblading skills and Dawn I swear could go pro in BMX." I couldn't believe that. They didn't seem like the kind of girls that would do that. "I was the one who skated in the first place but leaf wanted to start to. May and dawn weren't that into it, then May saw rollerblading and loved It." she took a sip of her smoothie. "A few months later, she was doing tricks on her bike and someone mentioned BMX to her. She loved it right away. Hey there's some smoothie left, do you want it?"
She poured the smoothie into another glass and handed it to me. "Thanks. Can I come with you to the park ive been meaning to check it out?" she nodded. "Sweet; we should leave a note for the others to meet up with us. Where'd they go anyways?" I took a sip of the smoothie.
Misty thought for a second, "I'm pretty sure they went to find the table in the cafe we would sit at for lunch, you know because we have different schedules. I shaped an o with my mouth. I found some paper and a pen and wrote on it for the others. Misty went to go change; I quickly finished my smoothie throwing the cup in the dishwasher and did the same.
I reached my room and Pikachu jumped off my head onto the bed. I got changed so I was wearing my light blue jeans and blue skate shoes. I threw on my plain white t shirt and a red plaid button up shirt that was unbuttoned. I threw on my red and white hat and grabbed my skateboard and pads.
I went to the living room to see Misty already there. She was wearing a yellow thick strapped tank top that showed he stomach and blue skinny jeans. She had red converse that had an orange line on the side of them; she also had red suspenders on. (A/N: the same outfit she wore in Kanto, only with skinny jeans instead of shorts). Her hair was down, this was the first time I saw her hair like this. She had a skateboard that looked like it was really worn down; well mine looked brand new because I just got it before coming to the school.
"Are we going?" she asked me getting up from the couch and walked over to me.
"Yup, I already wrote the note so we could get going once we were ready." I told her, as I threw my pads on.
We walked out of the school then rode on our boards to the skate park. I realized Misty is a good skater before we even got there because she would do a trick whenever she could.
Once we reached the park we went right to the quarter pipe to get warmed up and show off some tricks. Once we were ready we went to the half pipe and began to show our stuff. I could hear cheering so I got onto the platform to see a bunch of people screaming and watching us. It felt nice to know people appreciated our talent.
Paul's POV
According to the girls we had found the perfect table. It was at the back of the cafe near the exit to the back of the school which had a forest. The girls were talking the Gary, Drew and Cilan about something I was listening to Three Days Grace on my iPod. Why was I here again? Oh right I didn't have anything better to do.
Everyone started walking back to the room, so I went with them. Once we got there I noticed that Ash and that red head weren't there. There was someone shouting from the kitchen, "They went to the skate park and want us to go to!" I think it was the May girl.
Drew shouted back, "how could you possibly know that?" she had run into the living room to hand him a piece of paper.
"This note kind of says it." she put her hands on her hips.
"Why do they want you to go, you guys don't skate?" I asked the girls. They seemed way to girly to skate at all.
Dawn walked over to me, "well for your information; Misty and Leaf skateboard, May rollerblades and I do BMX." I wasn't expecting that.
"Can't be all that good, I mean come on, you're too girly." She was annoyed by this. She pushed me out of the way.
"You'll see. I need to go put my bike together." She strutted off to her room.
"Let's go get our boards." Gary and Drew turned me around and pushed me down the hall.
After every got all their things we met in the living room; there was someone missing. Dawn, that troublesome girl she should be ready by now.
"Yo Paul, we're going to head out. Wait for Dawn." Gary said as he patted me on the back as they all left. Great; I need to wait for her, no one else could. Instead of waiting here I went to go see what was taking her so long.
I got to her door which was across the hall from mine. I knocked as I opened it. "Everyone headed out I was told to wait for you. So hurry up would you." I really didn't want to wait for this girl.
"I'm almost done. Could you make sure this stays balanced so I can get the pegs on? I'll be faster if you do." I signed and went to go hold her bike up; I just wanted to get out of this room. There was pink; everywhere. It was way to girly for my liking.
"Troublesome girl" she glared at me for a second before she went back to getting the pegs attached to her bike. I have to admit it was a good bike though; top of the line and was cobalt grey with purple rims and blue pegs.
"Alright it's ready." She grabbed her black helmet that had some BMX stickers on it. She wheeled her bike through the door with me close behind. We walked to the front door and I grabbed my skateboard on the way out.
Troublesome actually looked like a professional BMX rider the way she was dress. She was wearing a pair of black jeans that looked like they had just enough room so she could do tricks. She had a loose light blue t-shirt on and had a pair of blue DC high-tops.
After a long ride we finally arrived at the skate park we found everyone over at the half pipe.
"Oh hey you finally made it! Cilan and Iris went to the café because they don't skate or anything. You missed the girls show us what they have in them. Holy shit they're good!" drew was telling me. Then he pointed at Troublesome. "Now, you need to show us what you can do. Misty said that you could be a pro. I need to see this."
"Alright follow me." She rode over to the track there was for bikes. There were numerous ramps so people could do tricks. "Stay here. And watch," she rode off to where she could get her speed before the first ramp.
She started to peddle and got some good speed before the first ramp. She did a flip and landed perfectly before going to the next ramp which was higher than the first. She got amazing air and did a trick only some pros can do. We stood in ah, except the girls who I guess were used to this by now. Again, she landed perfectly. She went to the bowl and did a few laps around the edges before popping up a few meters in front of us. She did a few more tricks and then rode over to us. That was probably the best I have ever seen, the guys all were giving her complements, and I just gave her a smirk. She noticed and walked over to be dropping her bike at our feet. "So you think you can do better? Let's see it." I shrugged. I was the best boarder in my band. I've been doing it since I was about eight.
I walked over to the half pipe and everyone followed me. I climbed to the platform and placed my board on the edge. I hopped on and was now heading for the other side. I went up the side of the half pipe and did a few tricks once I was off the ramp. I came back and kept repeating it. As I was doing some tricks on the side I started on, I noticed a kid glaring at me. I hadn't seen him before but he had brown hair and a stupid looking shirt on. I returned back to the side the kid was on and did some more tricks but before I could land them the little runt pushed me. I fell towards the ground.
"Ah, Fuck! What the hell!" I tried to get up but I was told to lie back down by Ash. I wasn't going to argue at this point.
"Paul, are you okay? Does anything hurt" Troublesome was holding was grabbing my hoodie by the sleeve.
I shrugged her are off, "I'm fine." I didn't mean to snarl but I did. She backed off. "I need to go speak to that kid. If you see him and he's broken; Not my problem." I was getting up but felt a pain in my foot. "AH!" Gary rushed over to grab me before I fell back down.
"You're not alright! Let me look at it." the red head girl told me, I think her name is Misty.
"Hell no; you don't know what you're doing!" I snapped at her. I jerked my leg back as she was about to take me shoe off.
She stood up and looked at me; we it was more like the glare I give everybody. "Look you, I'm have my lifeguarding degree I know how to tell if something is broken or not!" she snapped back I me. But Drew and Gary were supporting me now. The sat me on the ground and I allowed Misty to check my foot.
She took both of my shoes and socks off, I guess for comparing them. She looked at my right foot, because it was the one that I had hurt. I could see that it was super swollen. Oh this isn't good. "Can you move your foot forward and backward without any pain?" Misty asked my well examining my left foot now. I did just that, there was a bit of pain not a lot though.
I shook my head. "There's a bit but not a lot."
"What about your toes?" I tried to move my toes. I couldn't move them much without pain.
"That's the best I can do." I placed my hands behind me and leaned back on them. I looked at all my roommates. They all looked worried, especially Troublesome. I wonder why.
"Well it's not broken because you can move your ankle and it only hurts a bit. I think you might have pulled something, or sprained it. We'll get you to the Nurse Joy as soon as we get back. You can ride back on Dawn's handle bars, because walking you back will take too long." Misty told me. Troublesome went to go get her bike and May grabbed my skateboard.
"I'll take your board back to the room for you." May told me as Gary helped me back up after I put my shoes back. I was hard to put the right shoe on but I didn't want to have to hold it the entire way back.
Troublesome rode her bike up and planted her feet on the ground so that I could get on the handle bars. "We'll see you guys after, I'll take him right to Nurse Joy." She started to peddle out of the skate park. "I guess you're happy I put the pegs on after all you can keep balance a bit better."
I looked at her, "are you serious? I just got my foot messed up from some douchebag kid; Who I will never get to pound the living crap out of. There is nothing to be happy about." I felt guilty for snapping at her. I was angry so I couldn't help it.
Her face dropped, "sorry." She mumbled to the ground.
I calmed down so I could talk to her without making her upset. "No I'm sorry. I'm just pissed that's all. I have a hard time controlling my anger." I guess this brought a smile to her face because she looked up with a very faint smile.
"Let's focus on getting you to Nurse Joy, we start school tomorrow and you don't want to miss it do you?" I smirked a bit laughing my head. Of course I want to miss it, its school for crying out loud.
Leaf's POV
Once things finally get back to the way things were, ever since I told Gary what happened to me as a kid. There goes some random kid throw more chaos into our lives.
I was walking behind everyone holding my board instead of riding it like everyone else. I noticed Gary wasn't with them. Damnit, he's going to do something. He hasn't left me alone since I kissed him in my room. I don't like him. I told him that. I told him it was just a way of thanking him for being there. I mean he could be sweet but, he's a player. I'm not going to date someone if they are a player; even if I did like him.
"You know, if you get on your skateboard you can keep up with the rest of us right?" there was the Gary I wanted to punch out.
"I just want to walk...alone." I gave him a glare.
"Now, now Leaf. Why would I let my girlfriend walk alone?" that's it. He's been flirting with me like crazy lately! Does he seriously think that we are together! I've told him it was just a misunderstanding like a million times!
"I've told you already, get it through you thick skull! We! Are! Not! A! Couple! I kissed you by mistake! I wouldn't actually do that! You comforted me when I was upset! I would've kissed Paul if he had done that! So stop calling me your girlfriend!" I snapped. I couldn't take this anymore. I don't care if I hurt him.
Gary seemed unaffected. He just crossed his arms, "you'll come around. They always do." he skated off to the others and I decided to catch up with them to.
Dawn's POV
We were quick to see Nurse Joy. She said that Paul only had sprained something in his foot. He would be on crutches for the next few weeks until he could walk on it.
We were sitting in the living room watching TV, waiting for the others to get back. I had propped his foot up on the coffee table with some of the couch pillows and a folded blanket. I got him some ice so the swelling would go down.
Someone had come by with our class schedules. Paul and I had every class together. Misty, Ash and Gary had classes together. May, and Iris had Classes together. And finally, Leaf and Drew had classes together. Cilan didn't have class with any of us due to being in the tenth grade. Everyone that was in a band had last period music together. And we all had lunch at the same time.
I heard the door open. I peered over to see that it was Iris and Cilan coming back from the café. I was about to great them when, "that the hell happened to you!?" Iris rushed over to see Paul.
"Was at the skate park and some kid pushed me down the half pipe." Paul didn't look away from the TV.
I continued his brief explanation, "Nurse Joy said he sprained it. Oh the others should be here any minute now."
"Alright, how about I make us dinner, since Paul should keep his leg up for now?" Cilan's suggestion was a great idea. Everyone loved when he cooked.
"Sounds good to me." I smiled at him; it was my way of saying thanks without actually saying anything.
"I'll help you in the kitchen. Dinner for ten seems a little too much for just one person." Iris told Cilan as they walked off to the kitchen.
I turned to Paul, "do you need anything else right now?"
Without looking away from the TV he said, "I'm fine. Stop worrying so much."
Those words upset me. I was raised to care for things by my mom. "Well excuse me for actually caring." I crossed my arms and leaned against the back of the coach.
The door opened to reveal my friends chatting away as they walked in to check on Paul.
"So, what did Nurse Joy say?" Gary asked Paul as he sat on the arm of the couch and patted Paul's head.
Paul just pushed Gary of the couch. "It's sprained, can't walk for a few weeks."
"Ow, why does everyone hurt me?" Gary mumbled to himself as he got up and sat on the chair closest to me.
"Alright, Paul where do you want me to put your skateboard?" May asked Paul as she lifted up the board that was in her hand.
"My room, just throw it on the bed." He still hadn't looked away from the TV. Leaf noticed this and walked in front of the TV to talk to him. May walked off to put it in his room like he said.
"Why are you so grumpy?" she asked him as she crossed her arms. "Just because you fell and sprained your foot doesn't give you a reason to talk or treat us rude like you are."
"Well now you are blocking the TV, before you did that I was still annoyed by this. So why don't you leave me alone about it." he barked at her.
"Asshole," was the only thing she said before heading room. This annoyed Paul even more.
"You know what Paul. You are being a lot ruder then when we were at the skate park and you were in pain." Misty now told him.
"Ya, you are never like this even when you brother pissed you off or you mo-" Ash was backing up Misty and Leaf, but his mouth was covered by Drew. Drew was whispering something in Ash's ear when Ash nodded and face -palmed. I think drew reminded him of something that we weren't supposed to know. Misty left towards her room with Ash and Drew not far behind.
May came back with her Skitty in arms. "Where did everyone go, there's only four of you here?"
"They all went to their rooms." Leaf said as she sat between me and Paul. May nodded and went over to the chair Gary wasn't in. Skitty curled up in Mays lap and fell asleep.
We watched some TV until Cilan called us to get our food for dinner. Since we didn't have a dining table we just ate in the living room. Everyone came out of their rooms to eat as well.
By the time we finished dinner and had a nice conversation it was 10:30. We figured we should go went to bed because of school the next day. I went to my room and threw my pajamas on and crawled into bed.
I woke up the next morning to hear a scream. It was Paul. I rushed out of bed and ran across the room to my door. I opened it then went another few steps to Paul's door I opened it in a rush. I saw on his bed grabbing his ankle. "Paul are you okay!" I ran over to him to make sure.
Paul was biting his lip to hold back swearing and to create other pain to get his mind off his ankle. "I'm okay," he managed to get out. "I just forgot I had it and stepped on It." he sat up so the pain must have subsided a little. "Um, why are you dressed like that?" it seemed there was a little blush on his face, but knowing how he is, I was probably wrong.
I looked down at my pajamas. It was a lavender colored, spaghetti strap night gown that reached just above my mid-thigh. It was my favourite night gown. "My pajamas, I get hot at night so I don't wear a lot. Is that a problem?" I was curious to know why he wondered why I was wearing this.
"It's kind of short, but whatever. Can you leave so I could get dressed?" Paul asked in a polite tone for once. So I did as he asked and went to get dressed myself.
I had a shower yesterday so I just needed to brush my hair. I threw on a little bit of lip gloss and mascara; I'm not all that into wearing a lot of makeup. I put on my black long sleeve and a pair of short shorts. I grabbed a pink belt that would lie just under my rib cage, to brighten the shirt a bit. And finally my shoes; I decided to wear my pink ballet flats to match the belt. I was walking out the door of my room when I remembered I needed my white beanie and school bag. I grabbed them of my desk and went to the kitchen.
I looked at the clock and noticed how I only had fifteen minutes until class. I realized everyone was gone except Paul and me. I grabbed an apple to eat on the way. Paul just came into the kitchen on his crutches. "Do you want anything to eat; we need to be in class in fifteen minutes?"
"Not hungry." He turned around and began to walk away. "Are you coming or what?" I nodded my head and quickly caught up to him. We walked out the door and I locked it because Paul couldn't do it.
We were walking down the hall. I had to walk slower so that he didn't have to rush. I began eating my apple. It was good. "Are you sure you don't want anything to eat Paul?" I was a little worried that if he didn't eat enough that he wouldn't heal as fast; damn my mom for doing this type thing to me when I got hurt.
We arrived to class. It was math first I took a seat in front of Paul; the second row from the back. We still had five minutes so I put my head on the table.
"Hey there, I'm Barry." I looked up to see a boy with blonde hair. "Is anyone sitting here?" I shook my head and he sat next to me. Another boy came to the other side of me and took a seat. This boy wore glasses and had tealish-green hair.
"Hey, I'm Conway. I'm guessing your name is gorgeous." He said to me. I was disgusted. Come on who says that before they even know how you are.
"Actually, my name is Dawn. How about you not flirt with me because by what you just said I wouldn't even consider dating you.
"Oh feisty." He put his arm around me then whispered in my ear trying to sound seductive, "I like feisty, usually great in bed." I shoved him off me, threw him to the ground and put my foot on his chest so he couldn't get up.
"You jack-ass! You say anything like that to me again and I will murder you!" I took my foot away and sat back down. Conway got up and sat down next to me again.
"Extra feisty, I like." I looked at him. I just said not to. That's it.
I got up from my seat. "I thought I made it clear. I. will. Not. Date. You. Why you ask; because you are a creep!" I punched him. He wasn't expecting that, and fell off his chair. He mumbled something to himself. I heard a chuckle come from behind. I turned around to see Paul holding in his laughter. I sat back down and waited for class to start.
The teacher finally came in. "hello everyone, I will be your math teacher for this semester. My name is Jasmine. I think today we will get to know each other."
I checked my Blackberry to see if I had got any texts from the girls. I only had one but not from my best friends, it was Paul. Ash put his number in my phone yesterday along with the other boys' phone numbers.
From: Paul
I like this class already.
I don't see why he would all that's happened is the teacher came in. I decided to text him back because people were just saying who they were and what they were accepted here for.
To: Paul
Why? Nothings happened yet
Soon after sending this I received another.
From: Paul
Easy
You are going to kill a kid and this teacher seems easy
I noticed that Barry stood up and was about to announce himself, so I didn't reply.
"I'm Barry Jun. I was accepted here because of my amazing acting skills." He said this with a lot of enthusiasm. He was proud I guess, although he could've been acting.
I was up next. After Barry sat down I stood up. "I'm Dawn Berlitz; I was accepted here with my band for our musical talent." I sat back down. Next was Conway; ugh.
Conway stood up. "Conway Kohei; I am not here for acting or cooking or dance, but my superior knowledge. I am helping with all shows and performances."
Since Paul was the only one sitting at his table he was next, actually he was last because of being at the back of the class room.
"Paul Shinji, here with my band." He didn't stand because he couldn't Jasmine did not mind because she saw the crutches.
I think she had an idea by the way her eyes lit up. "Dawn, Paul could you preform something for us; since you are both musicians and we don't have anything to do?" there it was. Thankfully we didn't have our guitars so we couldn't preform anything.
"I would love to, but you see neither me nor Paul brought our guitars." I told her.
"Well I have one in my office, I don't remember why but I do. I'll get it for you." She went into the office located at the front of the classroom to fetch the guitar.
"Great job troublesome, what are we supposed to play?" Paul asked me after he threw a piece of crumpled paper at me.
"I don't know I didn't think she would have a guitar!" I snapped at him annoyed he threw the paper at me.
Jasmine came back empty handed. Whew. "I couldn't find it. Oh well maybe some other time you have your guitars with you."
My and Paul looked at each other in relief. Jasmine said we could do whatever we wanted for the rest of class. I talked to Barry whom I learned is really, really, hyper. We played hangman for a bit then I just listened to my iPod.
The bell rang and I waited for Paul so we could walk to our next class together. As he got up he told me, "didn't think you would be the type to take a swing at someone like that." He started to walk away on his crutches. He seemed to be getting better at it because he could keep up with me at my normal walking pace.
"There's a lot you don't know about me." I told him as we walked through the halls.
As we were walking to our next class I could hear people whispering, and looking at me and Paul. I couldn't make out a lot but I heard a few.
"Do you think that they're dating?"
"They make such a cute couple."
I leaned over to Paul and whispered, "Why do they think that we are dating?"
He stopped and looked at me with a strange look on his face. "Why would I ever date you?" I heard people gasp. I was relieved though. I didn't want to date Paul; he was an emotionless jerk, except when he got mad, then he was an angry jerk.
"Oh thank god. We are on the same page." I told him. There were more gasps. There were more whispers." We walked to our next class in silence.
Misty's POV
Oh my Arceus. I'm surrounded by a bunch of idiots. Ash and Gary are going to get us blown up I just know it. We are in science and they keep mixing chemicals. I'm going to die.
"Excuse me boys. But we would rather live because if you mix those you will blow the whole school up." I looked to the door to see our teacher. "Now what are you names?"
"Ash Ketchum"
"And I'm Gary Oak."
"Well Ash, Gary I will see you later for detention. 4 o'clock sharp in room 258. Now sit."
I like this teacher just for the fact that she saved my life. "Alright class, I'm Ms. Suzuna, you may call me Candice if you want. I will be your science teacher. You will receive your textbooks tomorrow. For now here are worksheets I want you to do as much as you can." She started to hand out a stack of worksheets to work on. Once Gary ash and I received them we were all stumped. I had never learned any of this; apparently neither had they. I looked through the sheets of work and found a few things I knew.
After an hour of working the bell rang. Next class was art. We had to go across the school. As we were walking there I saw some people waving at Gary and Ash and giving them gazes. I saw a few of them just glare at me. I hadn't done anything to them so why were they acting like they hated me.
"Hey Gary, hi ash." A girl waved like she was flirts.
"Hey call me sometimes" I heard another girl say.
Gary seemed to love the attention and having girls want to go out with him. That's when I realized those girls hate me because I'm with Ash and Gary. We weren't together we just were walking together. Well this day got interesting, I think I will be the most hated girl in school just for dorming and having classes with these guys. Damn.
We finally arrived in art; I swear Gary got like twenty girls phone numbers on the way. Our teacher was already there and introduced herself. She seemed to be quite young. "Hello, I'm your teacher, Roxanne Stone. We may begin class early because everyone is here."
"But there's only us and that kid." Ash said pointing to a kid with green hair and an orange headband across his forehead.
The kid stood up. "That kid has a name you know. I'm Tracy Sketchit. And this is a small class only four people have it this semester." he told Ash. I faintly saw he was drawing a pokémon, it was a good drawing.
We sat down and Roxanne began to tell us different art techniques. I got out a piece of paper to write them down; I felt I would need them in the future.
Ash and Gary began fooling around again. Roxanne had left the class to do something so these two took advantage of it. I banged my forehead on the desk repeatedly. This was going to be a long semester surrounded by these idiots.
Finally done. I got through like half of this and go stuck at what I was going to do after Paul sprained his foot so it took me longer. Sorry. I'm going to be in the states next weekend so I will try to upload 2 chapters before Friday of next week. I was going to make this chapter longer but I feel what I was going to wright would fit better in the next chapter so I cut it short.
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