A/N; Hey guys, long time no see? hehe ^_^;; I'm really sorry! But to be fair, I did warn you to expect random updating from now on, so yeah...This chapter isn't much, just a little more of a look on Sapphire's life and her own POV again*gasp!* (another one! I know, I know) And yeah...well enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon, okay! TT_TT *grossly sobs*
Sapphire's POV
I massaged my temples, trying to relieve some of the pain from my oncoming headache as I made my way back home. I guess retiring early for the day wouldn't hurt anyone.
For such a small and apathetic boy, Ruby sure can lecture a person. If I hadn't left when I did I bet he'd still be lecturing me for hours upon hours. Just the thought of it makes me sigh.
"Well that is quite the sigh Sapphire. Long day?" a woman looked up from her gardening to greet me.
"Ah, yeah you could say that, just a lecturing is all," I smiled sheepishly.
"Ah, I see. A long lecturing can take quite a bit of energy out of you, can't it?" she replied kindly.
"Yeah, pretty exhausting if ya know what I mean. Well I was just going home now so I'll see ya later Granny!" I smiled and waved. As I walked next door to my house she smiled at my nickname I'd given her, her wrinkles showing happily on her aged face, and she waved in return as I approached my doorstep.
I looked up at my house. It was towering and its whole presence screamed uninviting. It was a nice house and all, but it was just sort of…empty I guess. "I'm home," I said monotonously while opening the door. I listened for a brief moment, hoping that by some miracle, someone would answer. No one did.
I don't know why I always do this, it's not like anyone is home anyways. I kicked off my shoes and walked down the long corridor that led to the bathroom. I opened the medicine cabinet and pulled out some Tylenol. As I closed the cabinet I couldn't help but look at the face that stared back at me. I swallowed the Tylenol and looked at my reflection again, took a good long look at myself. "No time to be down Sapphire. Turn that frown upside down!" I said and gave myself a few light slaps on the cheek to wake myself up a little and went to the one place in the house that I somewhat enjoyed, the kitchen.
I frowned at the note on the fridge, "Sapphire, I won't be home till late so feel free to order out or go grocery shopping. I left some money on the counter. –Dad" I frowned and crumpled up the note and threw it in the trash can along with all of the other notes that were once on the fridge.
I turned to the counter and picked up the money, "Hmmmm, what will twenty bucks get me?" I questioned myself before deciding to run to the shop that sold those candies that I was told about. "What were they called again?"
"Ah yes, poprocks!" I exclaimed and I slipped my shoes on then ran out the door on my quest of obtaining a new candy. I plastered my signature smile on my face because well, I don't have the time to be wasting by feeling down.
Ruby's POV
I rubbed at the back of my head. For sure there was a large bump there. I wouldn't be surprised if I'd gotten a mild concussion from the latest beating I've received from that girl. All I did was lecture her. She didn't have to beat me and then stomp away in a huff to god knows where! It's not like it's my fault. She's the one who startled me! I think it's normal for someone to not be impressed with your shoulder going numb from an annoying girl falling asleep on you, not to mention the fact that she also stole my headphones! How dare she take my precious baby!
I lifted a hand to my cheek. It was awful hot right now, whether it be from anger or something else, I don't know, but I do know that my head hurts like crazy. I checked my pockets for money and decided to go down to the convenience store and pick up some aspirin or something. Ten dollars was more than enough for some pain killers and I can maybe even grab a bite to eat! Just the thought of food makes me excited!
I made my way to the store while my head filled with all of the choices of food I could get along with something to take care of the pain in the back of my head. "Well, the average bottle of non-brand aspirin costs about two dollars with tax, so I would have about seven dollars left with a one dollar cushion. With seven dollars I could get some bread and butter, but that's only 3 days' worth of food, if I'm lucky. I could get some crackers, but they aren't that filling…" I kept whispering to myself all while receiving strange looks from people, but it's not like I cared all that much, so I continued listing my options. "Oh! I've got it! I can get 3-minute noodles. Let's see…each package is 25 cents so that's four packages for a dollar and I have seven dollars! So that means I can get 28 packages of noodles and that's about a nine days' worth of food. If I only get 21 packages I'll only be spending $5.25 so I can also get a candy bar as a treat! Oh the possibilities!" I laughed to myself with a huge grin on my face. A whole weeks' worth of food and a candy bar! And, some pain killers as well!
A cheery bell rang as I entered the quaint shop. It was just a run of the mill corner store, but it had a wide variety of food for a cheaper price than the convenience store. I picked up a basket by the door and browsed through the aisles finding the items I had put on the list I'd made inside my head.
I was standing in front of the soup and instant food section pondering over my choices of noodles I could get. There were so many flavors! Oh which should I get? I smiled as I grabbed three of each of the various flavors. The thought of living off of cup noodles didn't please me all that much, but it's better than not eating at all. And at least there's some variety.
Finally done, I walked over to the counter by the checkout, looking at the selection of candy. As I reached out to grab a candy that was soon to be mine someone bumped into me, knocking my basket out of my hands and sending my food flying and me to the ground. "Hey! Watch where you're going you barbarian!" I shouted angrily and wiped of my jacket and then began picking up my food supply that was now scattered across the floor.
"Why don't you watch where you're going ya pansy!" the rude person snapped. "Huh? Ruby?"
I looked up and saw it was that girl, again. Honestly, how many times are we going to run into each other! "Well don't just stand there!" I replied, "Aren't you going to help me pick this up. It's your fault anyways."
She didn't say anything as unexpected as it was and just started to help me pick everything up. "Hey Ruby?" she asked quietly.
I looked up in return, not wanting to reply, if I did I'd probably just yell at her, and yelling takes quite a lot of energy.
She took in a breath and smiled energetically, "Would you like to come over for dinner?"
A/N; MUAHAHAHA a cliff hanger! XD I'm not really sorry about it either just because I'm very excited to write the next chapter. I shall have lots of fun writing chapter 8 fufufu ^.^ Well now I'm going to reply to review so feel free to skip over it. I really am not forcing you to read them.
blazelight790: Ah yes poprocks * reminiscing* I loved those things :) And unfortunately Ruby chose the latter one and got angry hehe sorry about that (he secretly enjoyed it though!) And oh jeez! You flatter me so! It makes me so happy! *tears of joy*
Sum-a-dum-dum: Thanks for being super awesome and reviewing :) (seriously people have no idea how happy all the reviews make me!)
Kaith1: Yes! I hath graced you with another chapter! And my mood kinda differs with music as well, but sometimes all of the punk and rock and metal makes me feel better (because I'm obviously a tortured soul and enjoy that genre of music very much) but I like a variety of music. I can literally go from screamo to girly jpop to rock to classical I guess I'm just weird like that. Music in general just makes me feel better :) A grammar mistake! Ahhh so embarrassing! i shall fix that soon! And yes that boy was Emerald! I just love incorporating other characters in subtly XD
BlueRedRosa23: Yush another Sappy POV! hehe I'm actually enjoying writing in her POV a lot and I kinda feel like I'm betraying Ruby DX oh noes *pats ruby's head* tis okay Ruby no need to be upset. You shall be confronted with this thing called happiness in the upcoming chapters (whoops, spoiler alert!)
DCA123: IS THAT A NEW REVIEWER? O.O Welcome aboard my friend! Happy days happy days :)
Well now that that's done, I will tell you to go review now and happily wait for feedback and favorites from you wonderful people. Also, if you guys are actually reading all of my rants and replies and everything, then bless you you wonderful child! And bless you for putting up with all of it. Some times I get a little carried away with my rants XD lol well I'm done ranting now so bye byes! (^_^)/~~~ and have a wonderful day :)
