Divine Diva
Chapter 17
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Major Quest shipping chapter! I skipped Valentine ironically when it's close to Valentine's Day.
It is almost March in the story, time flies, literally.
One duet down and 4 more to go
I planned out the duets for every main shippings, which means that there's one for Ikari and Contest as well
IE: Now I will need to work on perfect duet songs for all of them, I only couldn't find Pokeshipping.
Eve: That's because you are too idiotic to find one.
IE: Oh yeah? Then how can you explain that I found 4 of them?
Eve: Those kids were easy to find.
IE: I'm sure Misty and Ash are easier.
Eve: Whatever.
I got this chapter loosely based off on a Webtoon I read.
It was a boring Saturday and Jimmy was lying on the sofa, looking through his phone. He blushed at the thought of Marina. She was really beautiful in the kimono although she complained all the time how uncomfortable the thing was. But to his eyes she was the most beautiful girl in the world. This is very subjective point of view but he didn't care at all. He thought up of an idea and his heart started to pound really fast as he did it.
Marina was having a lunch, it was Sunday so no cafeteria open, so the girls had to go somewhere else and today they chose to got to Mountain Hut Maid Café. Everyone in the café recognized the girls and asked for autograph and things like that. Especially Marina who recently released an album one of the most popular boys in Sinnoh. The girls had hard time before they could actually sit down and order.
"I would like to have curry with MooMoo Milk." Leaf ordered.
"Same for me but make mine extra-large." May said with a smile.
"Pork cutlet with water please." Misty ordered.
"Chicken salad with green tea." Dawn ordered
"Omelet and milk please." Zoey said as she handed the menu back to the waitress.
"Rice porridge with water." Marina finally ordered and the waitress, Autumn went to the kitchen to tell her sisters.
"Phew, we can finally relax and eat." Marina exclaimed.
"I don't think we can do the 'relax' part. There are our fans everywhere." Misty said with a sweatdrop, pointing at the boys almost drooling at them.
May shifted closer to Dawn for protection. Not for May herself but for Dawn.
"Um, can we get your autograph please?" A guy came closer to May and asked with a sheet of paper and a pen.
"Sure." May shrugged and scribbled something on the paper and handed it back to the boy. He smiled, thanked her and walked away.
"It's tired to be popular, isn't it?" Zoey asked, she was the only one that wasn't bothered.
"Yeah, it is." Dawn said with a small laugh.
Something buzzed and the girls took out the phone and it was Marina's that was ringing.
"Look, it's from Jimmy." She said and read the text. The other girls leaned close to read the message but Marina did good to hide it even from her cousin.
Jimmy: Hey Marina, what cha doing?
Marina smiled a little and texted back. The other girls watched her amused, setting their target.
Marina: Oh, I was about to eat lunch. That is, if it comes up.
She waited for the answer to come back, her heart was pounding a little. She never felt this way since that bastard-, let's not talk about it.
Jimmy: So you are out of school now?
Marina: Yes
Jimmy: Then I will pick you up soon. Let's go somewhere, we can do that, right?
Marina felt her face being red, she quickly checked her outfit, brown winter coat, jeans, ugg boots, ocean blue sweater.
"How does my hair look?" Marina asked Dawn, who was sitting across her.
"Fine, did he ask you out on a date?" Dawn asked with an amused smirk.
"Yes!" Marina said, shifting around nervously. That was when the meal came out but Marina suddenly didn't feel like eating.
She texted back 'okay' and he replied he will go to Solaceon as soon as possible.
"Eat. You can't possibly hungry when you go out on a date." Misty said and Marina shoved in the food into her mouth.
The girls watched her, she was worse than even Dawn. And this was not her first crush or boyfriend-if he becomes one- and she was acting like a girl who was asked out by a boy she had a crush on since forever. Well her first boyfriend was hardly a manly man anyway.
"I look fine, right?" Marina asked after she quickly finished her porridge.
"You look fine." Misty said as she handed her cousin a mint gum so her breath won't smell like the porridge.
"Besides it is about an hour drive from Veilstone. You have like an hour to get really ready so let's get back to the dorm-" Dawn was cut off by Marina
"No. I will just go to Solaceon and stay there. I can go to bookstore and wait there." She said.
The girls looked at her, "Are you sure? It will be really boring there and we were going to go back to the dorm." May said.
"Yes! I'm sure. I will wait for Jimmy in Solaceon Bookstore." Marina said as she picked her things up. "I will be going now, see you at the dorm later!" Marina said as she exited the café, after paying for the meal.
"Okay…?" Zoey said and the other girls returned to eating.
"So Dawn, how's your romance life going?" Misty asked and the girls now started to target poor Dawn.
Marina
Marina quickly walked down the road. She felt her heart beating fast, she smiled to herself as she imagined herself with Jimmy. She checked her watch and realized it was about an half an hour later after they texted. She couldn't help but to smile to herself.
Jimmy 30 minutes before
Right after Jimmy finished texting he walked up to Gary.
"Um, Gary?" He asked and Gary looked up.
"What?" He asked.
"What kind of presents would a girl like?" He asked. Everyone turned to him, some smirked and some rolled their eyes, cough, cough, Paul, cough.
"Who are you asking out?" Gary asked with a smirk. Jimmy frowned at the smirk, "Marina."
"I knew it!" Gary said with a happy grin.
"What should I get her?" Jimmy repeated the question, annoyed.
"Chocolate!" Ash suggested.
"That's what you want you dork." Paul said.
"Rose." Drew said, as he pulled out a rose out of nowhere.
"Give that to Dawn." Gary said making Drew frown.
"What would Marina like…." Jimmy bit his lips, worrying a little.
"Get her something like a book or something. She loves reading." Drew said.
"That's so unromantic Drew! No girl would want a gift from their boyfriends a book! Is that something you should say? You have a girlfriend!" Gary scolded the green haired boy and everyone else sweatdropped.
"Yeah, whatever." Drew said as he returned to his book.
"What about um-"
30 minutes later
Jimmy drove to Solaceon Town, he texted her when he got close. She texted back that she was in the bookstore. He smirked, she really was a bookworm. Maybe it was not a bad idea to buy her a book but he didn't want the first gift given by him to her to be a book.
He parked his, I mean, Reggie's van on the sidewalk and walked into the shop. It was quiet empty so it wasn't that hard to find his date. He saw her reading books on marine biology and walked to her.
"Hey." Marina looked up and beamed.
"Hi Jimmy!" She put the book down.
"Ready to go?" He asked and she nodded. Jimmy grabbed Marina's hand and walked out to the car, Marina recognized it.
"Isn't that Reggie's?" She asked as she sat on the passenger's seat.
"Yeah, it is….." Jimmy answered.
"Did he let you borrow it?" She asked, fastening the seatbelt.
"Well…."
Flashback
"Reggie, I'm borrowing your car!" Jimmy shouted as he grabbed the car key hanging on the hanger.
"What? No! I am going to grocery this afternoon!" Reggie shouted from the kitchen.
"Well, sorry but it's only 10mintues walk from here to grocery store so just walk!" Jimmy said.
"I have lots of things to buy." Reggie said walking over to Jimmy.
"Well, sorry!" Jimmy quickly walked out of the house and got to the van.
"NO!" Reggie shouted but it was too late.
-end of flashback-
"Well, sorta." Jimmy said, scratching back of his neck.
"So, where are we going?" Marina asked as Jimmy started to drive.
"Movies, you don't mind, right?" Jimmy asked and Marina shook her head.
"No, I don't."
When they arrived to the Veilstone Mall, there were lots of people recognizing the couple but not many to come over and ask for an autograph.
"This is unusual." Marina said.
"They are used to seeing us. That's why." Jimmy said, indicating BLACK ROCK SHOOTER.
"Oh, right." Marina said as they sat on the seats to wait for the time to watch the movies. They chatted about the singing career and learned that Drew and Gary were going to be in this sitcom drama soon.
"Are they good at acting?" Marina asked.
"They are better than us. I mean Gary pretty much acted all the time." Marina raised an eyebrow.
"Acted to like the girls he flirted with." Jimmy smirked and Marina laughed.
"Oh I see. Wonder if Leaf would like it if she hears it." Marina said.
"Of course not. I don't even know how Gary managed to flirt with one girl this long. Almost 5 months, right?" Marina nodded, not believing that it had been that long.
"Time flies." She said, sighing.
"Yeah I know. Oh, it's almost time. Let's go." Jimmy said as he helped Marina get up and hey walked.
As the movie was over Jimmy guided her to a small restaurant.
"Wow, it's really cozy here." Marina said as she sat down on a seat.
"Yeah, I like this place. Pastas are wonderful here too." Jimmy said and the waiter waked over.
"Ready to order?" He asked.
"Olive spaghetti please." Marina ordered and Jimmy ordered meatball spaghetti.
As they ate they chatted and Marina brought up a topic, "So, who's Leah?" Jimmy almost spat out his food when she asked it.
"What?" He asked.
"Um, when we first officially met each other Paul called me Leah. Who is she?" Marina asked, looking at Jimmy weirdly.
"She's my ex-girlfriend." Jimmy answered, giving up in his mind.
"Oh, do I resemble her?" Marina asked. Jimmy looked at her blinking and tilting her head to the side so cutely.
"Yes. A lot." Jimmy answered.
"Oh. Is that why you like me?" Marina asked, looking disappointed.
"Huh? No! Of course not. I like you because I like the way you talk and, um" He dug into his pocket to pull out the gift.
"Marina." They looked up and Jimmy quickly put the box into his pocket.
"Oh, hi Henry." Marina said. Jimmy saw a boy who was as tall as Paul-he was the tallest member in BLACK ROCK SHOOTER- with brown eyes and blonde hair. He was really handsome, even to Jimmy he was.
"It's been a long time since we saw each other right?" He asked and Marina bit her lips.
"Well, it was fine not to see you. What are you doing here? Such a coincidence?" She asked.
"Possibly. See you have a boyfriend." Henry glanced at Jimmy.
"He's not. He's just a good friend of mine." Marina said and Henry smirked at Jimmy. Jimmy put his hand away from the pocket and mentally wailed.
"I saw you at TV, you were as beautiful as always." Henry said with a gentlest smile he can do and put a hand on Marina's shoulder. Marina quickly slapped it.
"Anyway, have fun on your date and we will see you someday again." Henry waved and walked away.
"Bye." Marina said and looked at Jimmy who looked very uneasy.
"Jimmy, is something wrong?" She asked as she continued to eat the spaghetti.
"No. Who's he?" Jimmy asked.
"My ex-boyfriend. You think Gary's a bastard?" Marina asked.
Jimmy shook his head, "He may be a playboy but he's not a bastard."
"Well Henry is bastard and a playboy." Marina said, violently slamming the fork into the olive. Jimmy flinched at her action but continued to eat.
When they walked out of the restaurant it was getting dark.
"I can drive you there." Jimmy offered.
"No, no thanks. I can just take a bus and it will be too tired for you to drive and come back. It's too late." Marina said although she was grateful.
"Then I will wait with you, that's fine, right?" Jimmy said and she nodded with warm smile.
They sat on the bus station's bench and waited for the bus to come. About 10 minutes later the bus came into the view and Marina stood up.
"I will be going then, it was great to spend time with you." Marina said and was about to go closer to the side of the road when Jimmy grabbed her wrist.
"Um, here." Jimmy said as he handed her a small box.
"Huh?" Marina said, looking down at the box on her hand.
"I bought it for Adel but I think it is too girly for her so, you can have it." Jimmy said with hisf ace as red a ripe tomato.
Marina blinked and smiled, "Thanks." She said and stepped on to the bus, waving. Jimmy waved back until the bus disappeared. He got into the car and drove to the house.
Marina opened the box and found a bracelet in it. She picked it up, it had silver heart linked with pink golden heart. They were small and it was also connected by two chains. She smiled and put it on her wrist then she looked at the box and saw the brand. She smirked, 'Definitely not for Adel.'
Jimmy went to home and lied down. Reggie was complaining to him how heavy the things were but Jimmy ignored him.
"So, did you give it to her?" Gary asked pushing poor Reggie away.
"Yes. Oh, and I saw her ex-boyfriend today." Jimmy said sitting up.
"Oh, how was he?" Gary asked and except for Paul who was at the studio, everyone paid attention.
"He was like you." Jimmy said to Gary who raised a brow.
"He was as handsome as me?" Gary asked, posing. Drew and Ash threw cushions at him.
"OW!" Gary complained.
"I meant he was a playboy. He started to flirt with Marina as soon as he saw her." The guys frowned instantly.
Gary put a hand on Jimmy's shoulder, "Then you should have her as fast as possible." He said and Jimmy nodded.
Next morning, Jimmy woke up and saw a text from Marina.
Marina: Do you like cake?
Jimmy smirked and texted back.
Jimmy: Yeah, why?
Marina: Just wondering.
Jimmy tilted his head and saw another text.
Marina: Which one do you like the best?
Tiramisu
Cream cake
Cheese cake
Chocolate cake
Jimmy texted back Tiramisu and then the reply was 'okay'. Jimmy raised a brow, confused.
In the school cafeteria that she borrowed, Marina tied her hair into ponytail then started to cook.
"Really touching, you know that?" Leaf asked as she watched her friend, sitting on a counter.
"I learned yesterday that Gary stopped flirting with other girls ever since he met you."
Leaf blushed and frowned, "I don't care whether that playboy is going out with thousands of girls a day." She said.
Marina smirked, "Liar." She said as she continued to cook.
"Whatever." Leaf said and gave Marina some advice about making the Tiramisu.
3 hours later Jimmy got a text from Marina to meet him in front of the mall.
"Wonder why." Jimmy said as he got ready, changing from his old wrinkled T-shirt to clean polo shirt. He went out to the mall and saw Marina and Leaf far away.
"Hi." Jimmy said and Marina shoved in a box.
"What is it?" He asked.
"Tiramisu. I baked it. I hope you like it." She said with a smile.
"Aww, you didn't have to." Jimmy said but Marina smiled, "You gave me such a pretty bracelet. It's like a token of gratitude." Marina said and with a wave walked off to Leaf.
Jimmy smiled to himself and walked back to house. Without anyone noticing it he went to his bedroom and opened the box. Inside there was fresh Tiramisu. He took it out and inhaled the scent of it.
"Mm, mm." He smiled and saw two notes in the box. There was numbers written on it, 1 and 2. He opened up the one with 1 and saw something written on it.
'The reason you gave Marina the bracelet was ( )' He blinked and scribbled down, 'Adelheit wouldn't like it.' He then opened up 2 and inside was written, 'The reason why Marina gave you the cake is for the same reason.'
Jimmy raised a brow in annoyance.
"Seriously? She came all the way to Veilstone for this? Really…?" He then looked at the note again. He crossed out what he wrote and scribbled down,
Because I love you.
Marina was with Leaf in the Veilstone Mall.
"Are you worried?" Leaf asked. Marina nodded with a glum face.
"Don't worry he will call or text you." Leaf assured her friend and picked out a gift for Leaf's mother. Leaf had brought Marina so she could give him the cake and help her find nice gift for her mother's birthday.
"What if he just gave it to me because of the excuse he used? What if he was serious about it?" Marina asked, eyes almost in tears. Leaf sweatdropped and hugged her friend, "Don't worry. He will answer you so calm down sweetheart and don't worry." Leaf said as she patted her friend's back.
Soon the phone began to ring. Marina pulled it out from her pocket and while almost dropping it she picked it up.
"Hello?" She asked, her voice shaking a little.
"Hey, Marina? Are you there?" Jimmy said and Marina sighed in relief.
"Yes. What's up?" She asked.
"Are you still in Veilstone?" Jimmy asked and Marina answered, 'yes'.
"Good. I will go to the park so you come to. I want to eat this with you." Marina blinked.
"Um, okay." She answered.
"What did he say?" Leaf asked.
"He said to come to the park so we can eat it together." Marina said with a face that looked like she can cry from happiness.
"Go Marina! Good for you! Then should I wait until you are done with your business?" Leaf asked and Marina shook her head.
"No, you can go alone. I will go to the dorm by," She checked her watch, "7." Leaf nodded and Marina left.
Jimmy was waiting at the park. He smiled when he saw familiar blunette running toward him.
"Did you wait long?" She asked and he shook his head.
"No. I haven't eat it, so we can eat together, we can, right?" Jimmy asked and Marina nodded.
They sat together on a bench and with a small plastic spoons Marina brought they started to eat the cake.
"It's good!" Jimmy said with a bright smile.
"Really? It was my first time making it. Well, Leaf helped me a little." Marina said.
"Really? Your first time? Wow, you are good! Maybe you are even better than Reggie!" Jimmy said with a smile and Marina giggled.
"How's it?" Marina asked.
"Um, it's light, sweet, tasty, and…" Jimmy thought of word to describe.
"Then, what about this?" She asked and kissed Jimmy's cheek.
Jimmy's face turned pink as he looked at Marina who was smiling up at him.
"How is it?" She asked. Jimmy looked down, holding Marina's hand, "Um…"
Jimmy, with his friends
"So, what happened?" Gary asked, amused.
"Well, I told her that Tiramisu is nothing compared to that." Jimmy said.
"So, continue?" Ash said, waving his hand gesturing to continue
"She told me she likes sweet things too so I was about to kiss her cheek as well, that's when she turned her face."
"So you kissed her lips?" Drew asked.
"Um, no."
"What? You blew the chance? Are you an idiot?" Gary asked, standing up.
"Well, I got scared! I seriously got scared. This was different than Leah." Jimmy said with a sigh.
Gary sat back down, "God, you are an idiot." They all sighed, except for Paul.
"Ask her out for a date later, tell her how you really feel about her, you got that?" Drew said.
"Yeah, I guess…." Jimmy sighed and walked upstairs.
Monday, after school Veilstone City
Jimmy called her to meet at the front of Veilstone Mall and for some reason she was already there. So Jimmy went there as fast as possible.
"I thought you would be in dorm now. Have a business here?" Jimmy asked. Marina was in her school uniform, white blouse, green ribbon, green skirt with black stockings and blue sneakers. Her school uniform jacket was replaced with a warm winter jacket.
"Yeah, Henry asked me to meet me here." Marina said and Jimmy's smile faded away.
"Why?" He asked.
Marina frowned, "Why should I tell you? You are not my boyfriend." Marina said and frowned.
Jimmy grabbed her shoulders, "Then will you be my girlfriend Marina?" Jimmy heard himself blurting out. Marina frowned.
"No." Jimmy blinked.
"Do you really think I will say yes when you ask me out like that?" Marina asked, pushing his chest a little.
Jimmy apologized as Marina walked away. Marina walked to the bus station and called Henry that she won't be able to meet him today.
Marina entered the dorm room with a huge scowl on him.
"What happened?" Misty asked.
"Jimmy asked me to meet him and he was like why Henry asked me to meet me here, I told him I shouldn't tell him because it wasn't his business. Also added that he wasn't my boyfriend."
"So?" Dawn asked, hugging her pillow.
"Then he asked me to be his girlfriend."
The girls shrieked, "So you said yes?" May asked.
"No." The shrieking died.
"Why?" Zoey asked.
"That means that he only asked me to be one so he could know what Henry wanted with me. To ask that in the situation like that? Was he serious?" Marina said, her arms crossed and her eyes almost in tears. Leaf thought for a moment and grabbed Marina's hand.
"Come on, I want to show you something."
Leaf guided her down to the cafeteria and after a moment she returned with two cups of coffee.
"Here." Marina, who's a coffee maniac grabbed it and sipped then frowned.
"What happened to it?" She asked, "Was the beans really bad one?"
Leaf smiled and pointed at coffee bean bag. Blue Mountain.
"Oh, then what happened?" She asked.
"I roasted it too long." Leaf said with a smile. Marina blinked, looked down at the coffee then put it down.
"I think I know what you mean by now. Can you help me tomorrow?" Marina asked and Leaf nodded with a smile.
Marina called Jimmy to come to the dorm cafeteria tomorrow and also added to bring Drew.
The next day, after school, Drew and Jimmy arrived at St. Agnes' Academy and walked to the cafeteria. The girls squealed as they saw them walking down the hallway. Drew smirked at the girls who sighed and fell down, fainting.
"You should stop doing that. Dawn's here you know." Jimmy said and Drew nodded.
Leaf, Dawn and Marina were waiting at the cafeteria, which was empty.
Marina walked up to Jimmy, holding a bowl of coffee beans.
"Coffee?" She asked with a warm smile. "Huh?" Jimmy asked.
"Let's make one together." She said as she nodded toward the kitchen. Jimmy nodded and walked to the kitchen. The kitchen had a small section for café so you can act like a barista if you want to. Leaf helped them and then helped with Drew and Dawn.
When they were all done, Marina and Jimmy sat on the window seat, which showed a nice view of the wood. The long table was attached to the window so they had to seat next each other.
Jimmy sipped the coffee and smiled, so did Marina. On the other side of the pillar, which was separating the table, Drew had put his arm around Dawn's shoulders. She leaned into her boyfriend and smiled. Leaf was watching her friends with amused smile.
Jimmy sipped and looked at Marina, "Marina." Jimmy said and the girl looked up.
"I really like you. I'm sorry about yesterday, I'm really sorry. I want to ask you officially now, will you be my girlfriend?" He asked.
Marina looked down at the coffee cup, smiled, and leaned into Jimmy.
"Do you love me?" She asked.
"Yes." Jimmy answered as he stroked her hair.
"I love you." He said and she smiled.
She hugged him and smiled.
Chapter 17 all over! Questshipping Woohoo!
The chapter plot doesn't really belong to me, it belongs to someone else. As I said on the top, I got it from a webtoon called Twenties.
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