The Thing With Hajimes
Me: Hehehe! This will be the final chapter I'll come up out with before my vacation!
Keith: um yay?
Me: I also have some what of an idea of what Pueltown looks like thanks to a picture from Bulbapedia!
Kate: there was no maps?
Me: no maps =(
Karrie: We'll improvise!
Me: Besides, its going to look different anyways since there's a festival going on
Keith: Dang, today's going to be Saturday?
Me: yep! ^.^
Keith: why me?
Me: Hey, your the one who asked her to go with you not me!
Keith: don't you dare tell them!
Me: it was my idea but you gladly went along with it, strangely enough
Keith: I told you no to tell them!
Me: Tough luck kiddo!
Keith: kiddo?
Me: Ranger, student, ranger-in-training, Keithy, Keith, Keith dear, and kiddo, any other names you want to add?
Keith: don't call me Keithy!
Karrie: i'm out of ideas for nicknames for him
Me: darn it...
Kate: pokelover0ash does not own Pokemon
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Chapter 24: Pueltown Festival
"Karrie! Put the dress on now!" shouted Rhythmi.
"NO!" screamed Karrie as Rhythmi chased her around with a dress in one hand.
"Why don't you like dresses?" asked Kate.
"They're too girly!" replied Karrie.
"Do you secretly like wearing them?" asked Rhythmi.
"NO!" replied Karrie.
"Oi! What's all the screaming and yelling about?" asked Keith.
"Rhythmi's trying to get Karrie to put on a dress," Kate replied. Keith looked at the light blue sun dress Rhythmi was holding. He tried to picture Karrie wearing in it. He immediately started to blush.
"Come on! You'll look really cute in it!" said Rhythmi.
"I'M NOT WEARING A DRESS!" replied Karrie.
"Rhythmi, she doesn't have to wear a dress!" said Keith. He was dress in casual clothes for going off of school grounds. A basic white t-shirt and jeans.
"Yes she does!" replied Rhythmi. "She's going on a date, she needs to look nice!"
"She always looks nice," said Keith. The girls stopped and looked at him. "Arceus, did I just say that?" The girls nodded. "Crud."
"Rhythmi, can't I just wear a t-shirt and shorts?" asked Karrie.
"No, you will wear the dress," replied Rhythmi. "Besides, I had ALL of your clothes put out to be washed except for your school uniform and pajamas. So unless you want to go out of school in your pajamas or your school uniform, you'll wear that." Karrie glared at her and then took the dress.
"Fine." said Karrie. "But only because I have no choice." Keith stared at Rhythmi. The blonde was purposely making this harder on him. It was bad enough Kate, Rhythmi, and Isaac found out. He had to plead with them to stop them from telling everyone else.
"You'll be thanking me later Keith," said Rhythmi.
"I doubt it," replied Keith. Karrie came out twenty minutes later with the light blue sun dress on and it looked as though she had found a light sweater. It was white. She had on white dress shoes that strapped on. They were kind of like those dress shoes you could find in the kids part of a shoe store. She looked beautiful.
"Are you going to stare at her all day or are you going to head out to Pueltown with her?" asked Kate. Keith snapped out of it. Karrie even had a small white purse with her which probably had her Styler in it among other things.
"Um, yeah," replied Keith as he turned bright red. "Let's go." He took Karrie's hand and led her to the School Road. They walked silently through School Road and to Veintown.
"This is where the only base in Almia is stationed." said Karrie.
"Yeah," replied Keith. "Come on, we need to get through Vein Forest to get to Pueltown."
"Okay," said Karrie.
"Hey its Keith," said a skinny man. He walked over to them. "I see you finally got yourself a girlfriend. Going to Pueltown for the festival?"
"She's not my girlfriend. Yes, we're going to Pueltown," replied Keith while turning bright red.
"You could have fooled me." said the man. "You two were holding hands and the little miss in a beautiful sun dress." Karrie and Keith let go of each others' hands while blushing.
"Little Tim! Don't be ridiculous!" replied Keith.
"Well, aren't you going to introduce me to your lady friend?" asked Little Tim.
"Oh,yeah," replied Keith. "Little Tim, this is Karrrie. Karrie, this is Little Tim." Karrie nodded.
"Not much of a talker are you?" asked Little Tim.
"She's just really shy around most people," replied Keith. Little Tim noticed how Karrie started to shrink back and to the safety of being behind Keith.
"I take you're one of ones she's not shy around?" asked Little Tim. Keith blushed slightly.
"Yeah," replied Keith.
"Well, you two got to get to Pueltown before its too late," said Little Tim. "You kids have fun, but not too much fun!" Little Tim left Keith and Karrie there to blush at his last comment.
"Um, let's hurry to Vein Forest before someone else talks to us," said Keith and Karrie nodded.
"Now do you know why I'm not a big fan of socializing?" asked Karrie.
"Not really," replied Keith. He shook his head. "It's just part of who you are." Karrie and Keith made their way quickly to Vein Forest.
"Its so beautiful!" said Karrie as she looked at the forest. Keith chuckled. This was probably where she was most comfortable, the forest, the outdoors. "Come on! I want to see the inside!" So much for Karrie being silent and shy. She skipped over happily to every single Pokemon she saw. Keith just watched in amusement as she played a little with every single Pokemon in the forest. Karrie eventually handed him her sweater. "Hold this. It's too hot." Keith nodded as he took the sweater. That was when he noticed that the sweater had hid the fact that the sun dress had thick tank top straps. Her shoulders were showing. They were elegant. Keith felt blush creep up on his face. "What?"
"N-N-Nothing!" replied Keith. "Let's go, Pueltown's not too far from here."
"Okay," said Karrie. "Hey, you think we could ride a Doduo back to school?"
"Why not?" asked Keith in reply. Karrie smiled a big grin full of joy. "Come on, before it gets too late."
"Alright," replied Karrie and she ran to his side. She held onto his arm and temporarily put her face into his arm as well. "Thank you Keith." She lifted her head and smiled at him. Keith was bright bright bright red, but he had this warm tingling feeling in his stomach when she smiled at him. They went to the forest exit and Karrie let go of his arm. "Sorry." she mumbled.
No, it's alright," replied Keith. Then the two of them enter Pueltown.
Pueltown was covered in decorations and was filled with couples. Karrie's jaw dropped. Pueltown was huge! Keith took her hand an led her further into Pueltown.
"Big, isn't it?" asked Keith.
"It's huge!" replied Karrie. Keith smiled. Karrie native to Summerland. Summerland wasn't exactly big, neither was Ringtown.
"Hey, psst! You two! Over here!" said a man behind a wooden crate. Karrie and Keith pointed to themselves.
"You talking to us?" asked Keith.
"Yes," replied the man. "Now come over here." Keith and Karrie looked at each other. They walked over to the man. "Now here." The man gave them a long red piece of string. "Take that and tie one end on the girl's pinkie, and the other on the boy's pinkie."
"What's it for?" asked Karrie.
"I'll explain later," replied the man. Karrie was struggling to tie her end to her pinkie.
"Here, let me help," said Keith and then he tied it to her pinkie.
"Okay, now spend the whole day like that and try to break the string!" said the man. "Come back to me at the end of the day and I'll tell you what it means!" Keith and Karrie looked at each other, then the man, and then their pinkies.
"Okay," replied Keith. Unfortunately, neither of them actually knew what the string tied onto the pinkies meant, nor did they quite realize that the man was Japanese. This amused the man very much. Keith and Karrie left to go look at the different shops and games.
Karrie begged Keith to let them play ring toss. Keith easily gave in to her oceanic blue eyes. Karrie couldn't exactly get the ring on the bottle. Keith gave it a try and did it. He won a huge stuffed Pokemon (Pokemon instead of animal). He picked the one that Karrie was staring at. The big Teddiursa. He gave to Karrie who immediately squeezed the stuffed Teddiursa in a huge hug.
"Thank you Keith," said Karrie and then she hugged him causing him to turn bright red. Then she skipped merrily to the next game like nothing had ever happened. Keith quickly followed in complete awe and to make sure the string didn't break. Soon it was lunch time and Keith was thankful that he had gotten a bonus on top of his allowance for beating Seniors in his event in the competition and his parents had given him a little extra to spend on Karrie. His parents have never met her but for some reason, Keith felt as though they would call her his girlfriend as well. Both of them ate a hearty meal at a nice restaurant. Keith payed and then the two were on their way. Soon after it was near the time to leave so they went and visited the man who gave them the string.
"Did it break?" asked the man.
"No," replied Karrie.
"Good, that means you'll be together forever and were meant to be," replied the man with a smile. Keith and Karrie turned bright red. It meant what? "Let me guess, you didn't know that." Keith and Karrie nodded.
"We're not a couple though," said Keith.
"You could have fooled me and the string," replied the man. "But I never said you were a couple, now did I?"
"No," replied Karrie.
"Alright, you can take the string off." said the man. Karrie quickly undid Keith's tying only to realize that it was a miracle that it didn't come off during the day. Keith handed the man the string. "It was nice talking to you kids!" Keith and Karrie left for Vein Forest. They went in search of a Doduo. Keith captured it since Karrie found it. They then realized that the School Stylers did not allow them to use Field Moves.
"Just great, we'll have to walk," said Keith.
"Not necessarily," replied Karrie and then she walked over to the Doduo and started to talk quietly to it while scratch its two heads. "Doduo, you think you could give us a ride to the School Road?" The Doduo nodded. "Thank you." She turned to Keith. "Its willing to give us a ride to School Road." Keith nodded though he wasn't so sure how she just did that. Karrie climbed on to the back of the Doduo.
"You're in a dress, you have to sit lady like," said Keith. Karrie scowled but she complied.
"How am I supposed to hold on then?" asked Karrie.
"Hold on to me," replied Keith. Karrie slid off and waited for Keith to get on before getting on herself. She wrapped her arms around his waist and held on tight. "How do I make it go?"
"Doduo, take us to School Road," said Karrie and then Doduo started to take off.
"How does it know where School Road is?" asked Keith.
"It just does," replied Karrie. Doduo soon brought the two to the School Road and they got off. They said their farewells to the Doduo and Keith released it and it ran off to Vein Forest.
"It's getting late," said Keith. "We better get you to Kate and Rhythmi before they think of the worst." Karrie chuckled.
"I had lots of fun Keith, thank you," said Karrie. Then she hugged him and gave him a slight kiss on the cheek.
"Aw," said two female voices. Karrie blushed as Keith turned bright bright red.
"I got to go now," mumbled Karrie and she went off into the school building. Keith stared and watched her leave. Then he touched the cheek she had just kissed him on.
"I take it that it went well," said one voice who was Kate.
"It had to have gone well if she gave him a peck on the cheek!" said the other voice who was Rhythmi. Then Keith remember that he still had her sweater.
"Kate, Rhythmi, I'll talk to you later," said Keith as he went inside to go after Karrie. Keith couldn't find her in the lounge so he knocked on the girls' dorm. Laurie answered.
"Keith?" asked Laurie.
"Um, Karrie forgot her sweater," replied Keith.
"I'll take it," said Laurie. "You won't be able to give it to her right now, she's changing." Keith blushed at the information Laurie just gave him. He handed the sweater to Laurie and left for the boys' dorm.
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Rhythmi: Now that was so sweet!
Me: *finishing packing* yep, it was
Keith: You're taking the almighty computer with you?
Me: Yep, just in case I get to use it! Plus I wouldn't trust you guys with it, especially you Keith.
Kate: How was that peck on the cheek Keith?
Keith: O/O
Kellyn: Where's Karrie?
Me: Changing out that dress of hers...I think she might be having a bit of trouble though *sweat drops*
Rhythmi: I'll go help her
Me: Thanks, um, Kate, when I'm gone, you're in charge
Keith: Why her?
Me: Because I trust her the most out of all of you!
Kate: YAY! I'm in charge!
Me: yeah, um, WHO LOVED THIS CHAPTER?
Kate & Rhythmi: I DID!
Kellyn: ...not really...
Keith: O/O I'm not telling anyone!
Karrie: It was, uh, nice
Keith: Karrie! You're here!
Karrie: That I am
Kellyn: someone's happy to see my sister.
Keith: You know what Kellyn? Shut it.
Me: Well anyways, I hope to come back to a lot of reviews waiting for me!