He hasn't spoken to me for two days. I see him when I wave, yet he never mirrors my happiness. Something is not right, and I'm not gonna give up finding out what. I head over to his apartment and ask the drunken Goodras at the front which room he lives in. "*BLEEEEEEERRRRRG!* Ugh, I dunno, just fuckin room twenty or some shit." They mutter out before collapsing to the floor. Seems they'll be counting sheep for the afternoon.
Up the stairs I go, walking down the hallway looking at the door numbers as I go by. "13, 15, 17, 19, must be this one." I knock on the door thrice. "Who is it?" Marvin's voice says from the other side. "Um, Housekeeping." I say in my best maid accent. "This hotel has no gas, so I doubt it has housekeeping. Who is is really?" "Marvin, please just open up." "What do you want Emily?" "I just want to talk. You've been too quiet this whole week, I need to know what happened." "I, just can't tell you." "If you don't open the door I'm gonna break it down. If they don't pay for gas, I doubt they're gonna fix a broken door." Instant karma Marvin
The door opens slightly and his face peeks through the crack. "What do you need to talk about?" "About two days ago. What happened to you?" "Are you sure you want to know?" "Yes, I care about you...buddy." I say, with a little tense in my voice. He opens the door fully and we both sit down on his bed.
He gets up and pulls a peice of black clothing out of his drawer. I take my dress back and thank him. "I was rushing off to Lucy's apartment to check that the message got through, but it only things crazy." "How crazy? She gets dead mad about drug use, but how did it go crazy?" I made it to her apartment and peeked through the hole, nobody seemed to be there so I went inside. Instead of her shouting at him angrily, I found them smoking the weed happily."
"That lying bitch."
"I...was so confused, and they were so high, they just dragged me into the mix." "You smoked the weed too? Okay, you're more of a bitch than her." "We smoked pot, talked about sex, then...did it." "Wait what?" We had...a threesome."
MARVIN'S POV
"I didn't do in in her private parts, I just had my...thing sucked." I say trying to make it sound better, but after saying it, I just felt worse. "Well, um, I guess that's great. But why are you so isolated? I still don't get it." "Meaningless sex, makes me feel even more meaningless. I don't love her like I did. I was just ashamed that I guess that's forgot about the people around me." "It's okay, I forgive you." "You're really that okay with me...doing it with your sister?" "Hey, it's really her problem, not mine. But, if you don't love her, what are you gonna do?" "I don't know, just live life I suppose."
Another night spent laying in bed thinking about my future, boring myself with thoughts of nonsense. I wake up, go to work, serve a few customers, then leave. The next few days went by like this, always stuck in a circuit of work. I needed something interesting to happen. When I was in love with that Blaziken, I had a purpose. I had a reason to live onwards.
But now, it's just all gone to shit.
"What the fuck happened to ya Marvin?" My boss sneers at me. "Excuse me!?" I say in shock. "You used to be somebody who cared. Now yer just a whiny peice of garbage." "Shut up, it's best to keep your thoughts for yerself." "No, not anymore. You've spent your time here helping us, but now I think we need to help you." "What?" "Come on, screw working today, let's go somewhere fun." "We can't just leave! What if someone wants to order something later?" Everyone can read a 'closed' sign on a door buddy. Also, if ya don't come, yer fired." "You can't do that!" "Yes I can, I'm your boss."
"Ugh, where are we going then?" "I hear that they're running a ball in the Espurr estate tower (Pokemon rip-off of Empire State Building), let's see if ye can get lucky." "Please don't say that, bad memories. I don't have anything to wear to the ball anyway. Then let's get ya a tuxedo!"
We both try on various different clothes. He finds many that fit and suit him, but I fell like I'm just wearing a bunch of coloured trash bags. "Come on! How can he hate all of them? They're the best quality in the store!" "They're just not my thing okay?" "Okay then, look around ya, what is your 'thing'?" I look around, before settling on not a tuxedo, but a suit that fits to my liking.
EMILY'S POV
"Where's the point in going here?" "We could all use a little freshening up, and I think this is a great time to do it." "I don't see why I had to come along. I can't even dance." "Everyone can dance Emily, even you." "Yeah, but I dance shitty." "Besides, we're not going there yet, we're just going to pick out clothes for it."
"How about this?" Tom says holding out a dress. "Honey, you don't know the difference between a Krookodile and a Feraligatr. Dresses won't be your area of expertise either. How about this one?" "Y-yes I suppose." I say sounding both to me and her: not convincing. "Okay Tom, you just go and look for a suit for yourself now." "Really? Sweet!" Tom first pumps the air and leaves us alone.
"What's wrong?" "Nothing's wrong." "Something is wrong, don't lie to me." "Why do you give a damn?" "Just going to this ball isn't enough to piss someone like you off. I don't want this to be a bad memory. I want to know what's going on so we can all be happy." I stay silent. Not everyone deserves happiness.
"Fine, if I can't get to you, then your best friend can." "Ow, ow, ow, ow! Hey Lucy, what the hell!?" "Marvin, you sort this out."
"H-hi Emily." "What are you doing here?" "My boss dragged me along to go to this stupid ball. You?" "Same reason almost." "So, what's the problem with you?" I'm emotionally depressed, heartbroken and going mildy insane I think in my mind. "I'm just having trouble picking a dress." I say instead. "How about we go for a different approach." "What do you have in mind?" "I assume the Lucy has been trying to make you stand out?" "Kinda." "Well, not saying this in a bad way, but how about we make you look like you are only for yourself. Something that welcomes people, but at the same time tells them your boundaries." "Something like what?" "Like this." He says holding up a black dress. Although simple, it still looked allright to me.
MARVIN'S POV
As she changes into her dress, I go put on the one I chose. I come out wearing a red suit with a black tie, pants and trimmings. It's not the bright type on red, but it's the red like the red of roses. I wait outside the girl's dressing room for Emily to come out. Time passes, so much time that It's almost time for the ball to commence. Lucy asks me what's taking so long but I just tell her that she hasn't come out yet. She goes in in an attempt to talk to her.
I wait a little while, ten or so minutes as I predict, before Lucy comes out of the curtains. "She said we'll meet you at the ball." "Okay."
I head off with my boss to the ball. We chat with a couple of the locals and help ourselves to the food and drinks. My boss loses himself in the alcoholic punch, so I just head off to the bathroom. I see a couple of Tyranitars rushing around the place, looking like they've lost the mayor. I treat it as non of my business and walk into the bathroom. I slump against one of the stall doors, but as the sound of my back hitting the wall echoes through the room, I hear a faint scream come from inside the door. The scream of a woman.
"Um, miss?" I say in confusion to the person inside. "P-p-please, d-don't tell anyone I'm h-here." "I...won't, but who are you?" "Cross your heart." The voice says agin with an eye peeping through the door. "Okay, cross my heart I won't blabber your whereabouts." I say doing the action as well. Out of the stall door steps a Meowstic. And not just any Meowstic, it was the princess.
I was about to gasp, but I don't. "I...I just want to hide." "From who?" I say kneeling down to see her from her height. "My guards, they plan to make me marry a prince, but I don't want to." "Are they the Tyranitars?" "Y-yeah." I didn't think they'd look for a girl like me in the boy's toilets, so I'm hiding here." "Isn't there any way you can get out of this?" "They said that if I could find a husband by the end of the month, they would let me free, bu..." "That shouldn't be hard, right?" "It's just, I don't like...men."
It comes as a tiny shock to me, but it shouldn't. Love is equal, and it should not ever be judged. "Come on, let's get you outta here." "R...really? Thank you kind s-sir."
I take her hand and lead her out of the restroom. I then take her right over to the Tyranitar guards. "Wait, what? What are you doing!? Let go of me!" "Trust me." I walk right up to one of the Tyranitars and Tao them on the shoulder. They reach out to grab the princess, but I block their hand. "Sorry, but she has a husband now, you have no right to come near her." "In that quick amount of time? Ugh, whatever, where is the fella?" I then pick up the princess to my face, and kiss her. Not on the mouth, but on the cheek. As I pull her away her face is as ripe as a bluk berry.
"I am the husband." "W-wha? Eh, nevermind, let's go guys!" He says leading the rest of them out of the ballroom and down the stairs.
"Sorry about that, I ju- *SLAP!* "Don't do that ever again!" "Sorry your highness, but I think you should be thanking me as well." "Th-thanks." "Now go." "Go where?" "Anywhere! If you're free, then you shouldn't let anyone tell you what to do anymore! Just go out and live your life the way you want." "Thank you sir!" She says hugging me and rushing off.
"My my my, you sure know your way with the ladies." Lucy says coming up to me, with another following behind her. I look around and see Emily, looking like an angel. She wears a dress of black, but it has many steams of orange flowing down it, with red trimming on the edges of it. Her hair is tied neatly back, her hands wear Crimson gloves, and she just tops it off with her wonderful face.
"How do I look?" "Absolutely beautiful."
"Well, I guess I'll leave you to to dance, I'm going to go get some drinks." Lucy smirks walking off.
"Your suit is very charming as well Marvin." "Thanks. So, shall we dance?" "Ha ha, sure why not?" I place my hand on her waist and my other in-between her fingers and we waltz around the ballroom along with the other pairs. My boss was right for bringing me here, I am loving this. Spending time with my friends, dancing, drinking and having a good time.
"Emily, thank you." "Huh? For what?" "Just, for being with me. You've been so nice to me, helping me with my problems and being my shoulder to lean on. You've done so much for me and I feel like I've done nothing. I apologise for that." "No, no no, don't apologise, you have lifted me out of my curse. I was help back by my mother's debt, but you made me break free of my chains. You have saved me.
After that last sentence, the song playing ends, and I am just left standing still, looking into her eyes. Her...deep, glowing, blooming, beautiful eyes. Only now realising it, I have fallen in love again.
"No...n-no." "Huh?" "No, no no no no no no no no no!" Emily covers her face and runs off, crying. I now stand here in confusion, with almost every face staring at me. Not one of them was happy, they all just seemed sad. In panic, I rush off desperately after Emily.
She runs inside the ladies toilets and locks the door before I can get to her. I unlock it with my blades, but I still can't push it open. She shouts: "G-go away! Just go away!" Repeatedly, crying as she wails her words of sorrow. "Emily, please why?" "Just go! Just go be with her!" "With who?" "Lucy! Just go to her and marry her!" "No! No, I can't. "Go away!"
"Emily, I told you allready, I don't love her anymore. Now coming to my senses, I...I LOVE YOU! Without either of us realising it, you've just captured my heart. You're funny, cheerful and your so smart. I may be exaggerating this and it may be the wine talking, but I want to spend my life with you! You and me, because my heart only longs for you. Nothing from you, just your pure and utter love."
*Click, Creeeeaaaak* The door opens. "You...mean that?"
I only needed to do one more thing. I put the knob of my blade on her neck, pull her head close, and lock my lips with hers. People say that your first kiss isn't usually the best, but I say go to hell all of you, because I was in heaven kissing her. I swear to her and myself that I will never cheat, never lie, and never make her cry. From now on, only wish to make her happy.