UUGH keeping track of dates is really annoying but im crossing my fingers and hoping i didnt mess up even though im just about 90% sure i did

i dont own a cat but i want one and i just figured out cats are lactose intolerant (mind blown)

btw expired milk is totes fine if its pasteurized so stop throwing it out and make like idk tibetan cuisine with it or something guys

361. lacerate: to rip, cut, or tear; to cause deep emotional pain

Leaf answered the call after the third ring. "Hello?"

Green only caught some high pitch and high speed chatter from the other side. But after about five seconds, Leaf gasped and looked as if she'd been lacerated right in the feels. And then she suddenly brightened.

"Oh my gosh Yellow, of course!" Leaf covered the microphone with her hand and yelled at Daisy. "Hey Daisy, is it ok if my girlfriend comes over?" Daisy gave her a soapy thumbs up. "Thanks so much for understanding. You know what, I'll text you the address and we can meet and talk about it all in person. It...it really means a ton to me." She choked back a sniffle. "Bye. And... I love you."

362. convoluted: intricate; complicated

Leaf hung up with a huge smile, and looked at Green. "You told her to call, right?" Green sweat dropped. How did Leaf figure it out so fast? Not like he could really lie though, so, he nodded. "Our relationship gets so convoluted sometimes, like I just like my space sometimes and she doesn't get it and sometimes it's hard to understand that guys and girls can be just friends." She sighed. "It must be nice with Red. You like him and he likes you, and that's it. You both get it, each other."

Green scratched his head. "I don't know if it's that simple sometimes. I mean, besides the obvious, the mountain, I'm not sure if the whole thing is that obstacle free."

363. tedious: boring; tiresome; monotonous (tedium: state of being tedious)

Leaf nodded thoughtfully, and the two stood up to part their ways. Green picked off a couple crumbs from his shirt, and said, "I'm going to the lab to check how all the pokemon are doing. I'll probably spend the whole day there, before I leave for Viridian. Text me if things with Yellow go wrong."

Green wandered the homely paths of Pallet, this one specifically which ran between houses and the fenced off ranch. Although traveling was exciting and interesting and all, somehow the tedium of rural society was equally, if not more pleasing. No, Green was definitely not a country bumpkin, but he certainly did enjoy towns and open sky and grassy smells.

364. epicure: one with refined tastes; especially in food and wine

The lab was drastically different in the light as opposed to how it looked in the dark - almost ominous night winds and phantoms now were pleasant warm breezes and fairies. He unlocked the door, and found Umbreon curled up in the kitchenette, mewling. Next to her was a half emptied plate of milk and a note.

Green picked up the note and deciphered the squished up, narrow handwriting - it was one of the assistants. He'd spotted Umbreon playing last night, thought it was wild, and let it in to have a plate of milk. Green had to applaud the guy for being smart enough to realize that you can't just lock out dark type pokemon (dark types could do short distance teleportation, used for feint attacks), but the milk seemed spoiled. Green was no epicure but he could tell the milk was probably expired just by picking up the plate and sniffing it. Umbreon gurgled and made weird noises as Green patted her, and he was about 200% certain she was regretting everything.

365. temper: to bring down in tone; to moderate; to soften

Green dug through Gramps' mighty collection of medicines and searched through the cabinets for lactase pills and stomach settlers to temper her stomach ache. The milk was probably not dangerous, because pasteurization killed pretty much anything remotely harmful, but he was worried about Umbreon's lactose intolerance.

366. counter: to offer in response

He found and grabbed a container of stomach settlers, but when he offered them to Umbreon, she countered by weakly standing and walking over to sniff the medicines herself, and picked out the lactase pills that Green had overlooked. He rubbed his forehead before sighing and taking them out and handing them to her.

367. gourmet: a connoisseur of food and drink

Umbreon was normally quite a decent (not excellent, because she liked Kalosian fries way too much) pokemon gourmet, and almost never got herself into food problems, so this assistant must have been something mighty distracting to make her commit such a common error. He tried to conjure up faces and names, but couldn't recall anybody that Eevee had ever liked. Or seemed to like.

368. dissemble: to deceive or conceal; to hide one's motive; to simulate

Feeding pokemon bad milk wasn't something people normally did to dissemble some evil plan. Green eventually put off his suspicions, patted Umbreon, and then walked around the lab, listening carefully and trying to locate the assistant. He walked through all the rooms, and heard nothing, so went outside to the ranch to browse around.

369. sodden: thoroughly wet, drenched

Green walked out the back door, and released all of the pokemon to have some fun. Somehow, he ended up getting caught up in quiet a raucous water fight (everybody against Blastoise, goal was to soak the turtle without getting soaked), and there was still no sign of the assistant. Green, now sodden and a little itchy, walked over, past the flower bushes to the fence to dry his shirt.

370. grapple: to struggle with something; to grip and hold

Somebody leaped from behind the bushes and threw a jacket around his eyes, blindfolding him. Green grappled and wrestled the person, trying to throw the him or her to the ground. After some yelling and arguing and shouting, Green realized that no pokemon had come to aid him, which probably meant that this person was probably innocent - the assistant. But why was he being attacked?

He eventually pinned the person, a boy, and removed the blindfold. A familiar face indeed.