Day One – T-Minus Eight days. You're retarded if you're thinking this is a bomb.

Saturday

At the early night of Christmas, it was been decided for all to come, whether it will make someone mad or excited. "No exceptions," said Luke over the phone. This wasn't a call; it was a message to those who were like family to him, maybe friends. Alex was the first to receive this message. He wasn't surprised from this message.

"What if he'll get mad?" asked Tracey.

"No it'll be alright," answered Alex," it'll be better for him to be mad for being at least present than for him to get pissed off more later on." Tracey thought about it for a moment.

"What?" she asked.

"Never mind," he said," let's just go."

Back in the house…the snow reaching 7 inches in the town, the highest point of the state…

Most have come from Luke's message. In the long couch, a manila-white leather couch fit for three, are Glaceon, Leaf, and Ivan, looking around the house seeing what there is to see. "So…" started Ivan," who lives here?"

"I do," answered Glaceon," and I got a few roommates. Do not make fun of me."

"Ok," responded Ivan. 'Wonder who the roommates are… he thought probably not any party animals, drinkers, or smokers.

Luke comes in from the front door, smoking, leaving the door open for a Gardevoir. Never mind about the smokers thought Ivan.

"Who's this?" asked Glaceon.

"Uh, what, who?" Luke took out the cigarette, dropped it, smashed it up, and said," Oh, this is Jessica."

"Hi," she said to the three.

"Glaceon," in order from left to right from Luke's view," Leaf, and…I don't him."

"Ivan," Ivan said.

"Hey Ivan," said Luke. He looked to Jessica," Ivan."

"Ok."

"Ivan," said Glaceon.

"What?" asked Ivan.

"Were you gonna ask me something?"

"Yeah," answered Ivan," how did you know?"

"I just know." He pointed at Luke. "Luke…Roommate. Does that answer your question?"

"Uh…yes."

"Ok." Luke stops for Gardevoir to sit down on the shorter couch, same color but fit for two, and also opposite to the 25 inch plasma screen television, and then he sits down on the couch.

"Seems like half of us are here," said Luke.

"Half?" asked Ivan.

"Yeah, more or less. It's a good estimate." A few minutes later, Luxray and Absol come in.

"Hey," Luxray said," How's it goin'?"

"Good," most responded. Luxray looked at Ivan, then to Tracey.

"You're Leaf's friend?" asked Luxray to Ivan.

"Uh, yeah, sort of…" said Ivan," I'm Ivan."

"Ray," he looked over to Jessica," and you're Luke's friend?"

"Yes," responded Jessica, sort of blushing," sort of… I'm Jessica. Ray, right?"

"Yeah."

"Ok." Luxray and Absol decided to take the floor beside the short couch.

"We're just missing one more..." said Luke.

"And...Who would that be?" asked Ivan.

"Alex," answered Luke.

"And...What's he?"

"You'll find out..." said Luke with no expression in his face. Ivan sees this, wondering if something had happened to him and this 'Alex'. "Oh yeah..." said Luke, still with the non-expressional face," we'll be inviting a few friends and relatives...keep that in mind..."

A few minutes later, Alex came from the front door. "Hey," he said. Some said 'Hi' and 'Hey'. Some raised a hand in favor of greeting. Ivan widened his eyes while staring him. He's a human? He thought. "You're human?" he exclaimed.

"Somehow, I'm not surprised..." said Alex," Yes, I'm human; you got a problem with that?" Ivan stays silent, but keeps staring at him.

Everyone sees that he keeps the door open, maybe for someone. A few seconds later, the one he's holding the door for comes in. I can't believe this is actually true... thought Luke it would've been better if he was just pulling my leg, crossing the line.

A pink Lucario came in, all but Luke look with surprise. She looks around, giggles a little bit, waves slowly then says," Hi..."

Everyone waves back slowly can't believing on what they are seeing...or most people. So that's a Lucario... Ivan thought I thought they were supposed to be blue, or in a chance, golden yellow.

Alex grabs a chair from the table for Tracey; he decides to stand beside her. Everyone in the room looks at them, Luke the only one who doesn't. The silence is broke when a certain smart guy asked one question.

"So...uh..." started Glaceon," have you guys been dating?" Leafeon stares at Glaceon, he looks back. "What?" he asked. She shook her head sideways, in a way of saying 'you should have never said that.'

Alex looks at Tracey, she looks back. He shrugs and says," Eh, yeah. Officially today."

Everyone seems surprised, everyone but Luke. He closes his eyes and moves his head down. I can't believe this is happening Luke thought.

"Random question," said Glaceon. Oh my god... thought Leaf. "Been under the mistletoe?"

I swear t' God, if he says yes... thought Luke. Alex waits for a second then says," Yeah..." Glaceon and Absol gets surprised at him answer; Tracey smiles. Oh my fucking-

"Alright, that's enough!" yelled Luke, standing up in fury. Everyone in the room looked at Luke, Luke looking at everyone else. Both Alex and Tracey seemed to be expecting this because it will get in his nerves; they don't show that they know. "Ok," started Luke, his hand over his face, his head lowered down," now is not the time to argue about this." No one responds. "Not until next year."

"That's like in seven days," Alex said.

"Exactly," responded Luke. Alex swallowed in. "But in eight days," started Luke," is where it is my problem.

"The reason why I brought all of you here," started Luke," is because of New Year's." Most got the point, some didn't care. "Most people celebrate New Year's for a new beginning, a new lifestyle... after getting drunk and get a hangover and not remember what happen during the night. Some celebrate it to meet new people, or to mess around the fireworks that could possibly be illegal in this state." Silence. "We will be hosting a New Year's party that could be lasting until late morning. There might be cops, but don't let that stop you. Some of you will get some of the things for the whole party.
"Here's the list." No paper is shown; Luke is holding nothing. "Ray and Absol, you get the food."

"And…the list?" asked Absol.

"I'll give it you later," said Luke," it's just a general list; you can get more, it would be best if you do that, again, for those who last longer than others. Get plenty of alcohol, don't ask."

"Uh…ok…" said Absol.

"The three of you: Glaceon, Leaf, and Ivan."

"Hmm?"(Glaceon)
"Yeah?"(Leaf)
"What?"(Ivan)

"You get the tables, chairs, all of that other crap to hold up the food and stuff."

"Ok," said Glaceon.

"Alright," Luke looked toward Alex and Tracey," You, the couple that I never wanted,"

"Jealous," said Alex.

"No I'm not," said Luke," you get the fireworks."

"Ok," said Alex.

"I'd suggest getting them early tomorrow, it will sell by quick."

"Alright," said Alex," Then what are you and she doin'?"

"We are gonna tell everyone that we will be hosting the party," answered Luke. We never decided on that Jessica thought to Luke using telepathy.

Oh well Luke thought back and we might as well get some stuff to clean up the mess afterwards.

Alright Jessica thought back.

"And we'll be getting some stuff to clean up the mess…" said Luke.

"Ok…" Glaceon said.

"Oh yeah," said Alex," what do I get?"

"Anything good, including those…uh…launcher cracker things that shoot up the sky. You know what I mean?"

"Yeah, yeah, I got that."

"Ok, then yeah, that's it." He sits down, in slight stress. "Oh yeah, you two," he pointed at Alex and Tracey," no making out; slightly pissed off at the moment."

"Are we gonna get the stuff tomorrow?" asked Leaf.

"Yeah, some of it," said Glaceon. He looked at Ivan," Ivan, you better be there."

"Alright," responded Ivan.

"Do get them tomorrow?" asked Alex.

"Yeah, we should get them now before they only have the sucky ones," answered Tracey.

"Alright."

Day Two – T-Minus Seven Days.

Sunday

The two stare at a sign for about two minutes. They can't believe what they are reading in the sign: "Closed for Sunday. Come back tomorrow at 9 A.M.!"

"Come back tomorrow?" asked Alex.

"Yeah," answered Tracey.

Day Three – T-Minus Six Days.

Monday

"Illegal Firework Stand." Nothing but fireworks: big and small, tall and short, colorful and colorless. The store is about 20 meters wide, 25 meters long and 20 meters high. Not in a decent place to put in all in the fireworks, but it'll have to do: a wooden store.

"Alright," started Alex," what do we need?"

"For a start," started Tracey," let's get stuff that can pop."

They grabbed about 30 Missile Rockets, small firecrackers that shoot up in the sky and blow up.

"What else do we need?" asked Alex.

"I don't know…" said Tracey," let's ask the people who work here."

"Sure."

A few minutes later…

"Try these, won't technically blow up, but still fun to use," said a worker, a Zangoose. He was holding Roman Candles, a firecracker shaped like a tube, fireball come out in a diversity of colors. The worker was holding a thin tube, so these fireballs won't blow up.

"Ok…we'll take, like, twenty of those. Are there any of those things bigger?" Alex said as he was putting 20 thin Roman Candles in a cart he took a minute earlier.

"Yeah," He jumped up to the highest part of the rack, grabbing one tube before dropping down. He came down, rose up, revealing the tube. It was 4 times as thick as the other tube shown. "This is a Roman Candle, almost the same as the other one."

"What's the difference?" asked Tracey.

"These candles actually blow up when the fireball is high enough in the sky and when the powder stuff is low. Since this is four times the size of the other candles I showed you, the explosion is louder and bigger than the ones that are twice the size of the thinner candles."

"Alright…" said Alex. He thought about it for a minute, and said," ten of those, twenty of the slightly smaller ones."

They spend about an hour more in the store, finishing that day of buying. They leave with about 2 large boxes of fireworks in it. One day wasted on closing day, the other days cannot be spent carelessly, as said by Alex when still in the store.

The Missile Rockets are fiction, the Roman Candles are not. The candles may not be titled as 'Roman Candles' but as something else, good luck finding those. The 4x size may be fictional but the 2x are for sure real.

Confused about the list and people? The next chapter should help out a little bit…