"My God, why the hell did he do that for?"
"Do NOT tell him!"
"Apparently he doesn't want us to tell you..."
"Alright then...well...is he still asleep?" They all turn around to see. He's still sleeping, not bothered in anyway.
"I guess so," said Alex. The sit in a silence for about a minute.
"Well I must be going, the sun is setting," said Manectric.
"Alright," responded Luke, "See you later. He's standing up for who knows how long.
"Ciao," Manectric walks out, and then sprints with magnificent speed, with a trail of electric bolts from where he started.
"Nice guy," says Luke, "never thought Ray could have a decent friend"
"Since when did you start calling Luxray 'Ray'?" asked Absol.
"I don't know," he answered, "around the time we were chatting with Manectric, Abbie."
"Shut up," said Absol, "how would it feel like if I called you..." she thinks for a minute.
"Luke?" said Luke, "you've been calling me that for some quite time now."
"Whatever."
"Well, I'll be right back."
"For what?"
"Taking Ray to his house, he'll probably forget most things that happened today."
"Sure, whatever." Luke walks over to Luxray, picks him up, as if he was rescuing a knocked out civilian, and leaves.
"What do you think about Manectric?" asked Absol.
"Alright," says Alex.
"Did he find out about the cast?"
"What do you think? It's right in front of me the whole time. 'Course he noticed."
"Ok, well I'll see you tomorrow," said Absol getting up and getting ready to leave.
"See you."
A few days later...
The two, Alex and Luke, are sitting inside the house while the other two, Absol and Luxray, were outside talking about things leaving Glaceon, in his corner or in the window, looking out beyond the horizon. Things didn't seem out of the ordinary, other than Glaceon still can't be trusted, Luxray with bandages and eye patch, and Alex's cast.
"Hey, need to ask you something," said Luke to Alex. Alex looks up to Luke.
"What?" Alex asked.
"Nothing personal," Luke started, "but have you ever been out with someone?"
"No..." answered Alex, "Why do you ask?"
"Well...you're basically the only human here..." Luke started. Alex nodded in question. "...and you humans...like what? Go out with other humans?"
"Yeah?" said Alex. He began to question Luke.
"Since you've been the only human here...have you been planning on being single?"
Alex responded with this: "I'm not gay."
"No, no, not that," said Luke, "besides, these guys would kill me, literally."
"Do they have something to do with gays?"
"No, they'll kill me for keeping that secret against their backs.
"Anyway, I never meant that; I meant are you going to not be single and go out with people that could ruin other people's lives?"
"I don't know man," answered Alex, "Besides, I'm human. Wouldn't it be weird to, you know? Go out with another Pokémon?"
"So?" said Luke, having a strict face, "it doesn't matter; it's not too late too...experiment..."
Alex looks at him as if he were crazy. "What?"
"If you can't find another human, you might as well go with another Pokémon; hold hands and forever hold your peace."
"Whatever, I'm goin' out." Alex said.
"Whatever," responded Luke, "You'll never know-"
"Ya callate!" Alex yelled out. He walks away, shutting the door out.
"What's his problem?" whispers Luxray, looking at Alex storm out of the house.
"Don't ask," responded Absol.
At the Plaza Resort, some level class Smoothie joint, was Alex, sitting at the outside part of the store. He ordered an Oran-Sitrus Blend, a common blend throughout the city. The drink had a green like substance in a large cup: 22 ounce.
He looked around to see the view: some outlet mall. Pokémon shopping for clothing, food, or to just look around.
Alex took a sip of the smoothie, and looked around again, until his something caught his attention... someone actually. He looks more to see who it is. She was sitting down in the outdoor portion of a shop. She seemed to wander around with her eyes, like if she were bored or something. She seemed familiar, yet so unknown. She seems like...a Lucario? Yes, she was; yet the color of her fur, where blue fur should be, is pink. How? Is she a shiny? But shinies for Lucario are yellow and a very dark greenish-yellow. So many questions, but too soon to answer.
He slightly waves at her, more like a raised high five. She looks, stares for a while, and then smiles. This is probably the first time Alex, other than the friends or guardians he knows already, met someone without question, or at least a fight. It's never too late to...experiment, he remembered Luke saying. It might be wrong thought Alex but...
She senses his aura, without warning. Heart-warming, relaxed...and in love? Possibly, Maybe on me, she thought, Although he is human...but he is cute... The cast is drawing back a little. Oh well... She gets out of the shop, and walks in the Plaza Resort, orders something and walks over to Alex. He seems to be speechless.
"Seems like you never talked to a girl before," said the Lucario, smiling to Alex.
"That is not true," responded Alex, "I just never talked to a girl...t-that was...uh..."
She giggled and said, "Okay, I get it."
"Yeah." He took a sip of his smoothie.
"There was a reason that you caught my attention." Alex looked away. "What was it?" He kept quiet until he heard, "Two thirty-three...two thirty-three." She giggled again and left. He kept looking at her, then away. She came back with a pink smoothie: a pecha smoothie. "No answer?" He just shook his head and barely moved his mouth in saying 'no.' "Oh well. Can we still talk?"
"Well yeah, sure," Alex responded, "sit down." She sat down in comfort, sipping her smoothie. "So...what are we gonna talk about?" He said Holy shit, I can't believe this is happening.
"I don't know," she said, "let's start out small; what's your name?"
"Alejandro," Alex answered, "but people call me Alex."
"Why?"
"It's easier and to the point. And your name is...?" I finally get to know her name. Wait, why am I excited?
"Tracey..."
"Okay...Tracey."
"Why are you surprised about that?" she asked.
"I'm not being surprised," he said. How did she know?
"I can sense your aura," Trisha said, "and sense you mind."
"But you're not..."
"It's complicated," she responded before taking another sip. Alex looks around for a minute. Then she asks, "How old are you?"
"Fourteen...about to be fifteen..." he responded, "You?"
"That's nice," she said, "sixteen."
"Alright," he said. A little older than me... "So you still live with your parents then?"
"Y-yeah, why wouldn't I?" Tracey said.
"Just asking." Alex responded.
"Do you live with your parents?" she asked.
"No..." he said, "Not entirely sure what happened to them. I think they abandoned me, not sure."
"Then how do you keep up with education?"
"I don't go to school, not sure why, though my intelligence is getting better, like earlier, not sure why."
"Oh really?"
"Yeah."
Tracey then starts to ask him many questions of education.
"What's two plus two?"
"Four."
"Five times six?"
"Thirty."
"Square root of one hundred plus 35 divided by nine?"
"Five."
"Wow, you seem really smart."
"Thanks," said Alex, "No one ever said that to me." He smiles.
"Probably because no one asked how smart you were." Tracey said.
"Probably...not sure why..."
"So do you live alone...?"
"No, I have guardians... they're Pokémon...since I'm an only human and...uh...yeah."
"Okay...and they don't encourage you to go to school?"
"No...not sure why..."
"Okay," she said, "well I gotta go, can't be late going home."
"Alright, see you later." Alex responded.
"Where are we going to meet?" she asked.
"I don't know," Alex said, "what do you think?"
"Well…" she started, "…can I have your number?"
"Sure," he said, giving his phone number to Tracey.
"Thanks."
"You're welcome, see you around."
"Bye." She left walking leaving Alex sitting around. Start of something new, he thought. He took a sip of his smoothie and started to look around again, thinking of what just happened.