Morgan woke up the next morning in a queen size bed with no blankets and covered in Pokemon. She giggled as she got up and realized where all of the blankets had gone; Annie, her Growlithe, was curled up at her feet like a burrito, all wrapped in them. Annie looked up as she and the others crawled out of bed, then flopped her head back down and squeezed her eyes shut.
"Aw, come on, we already slept in as much as we can.'' She started unwrapping the Growlithe, who just laid limp. "You are such a turd, you're going to have to wake up at some point today! We have a battle to win!'' Growlithe finally slid out of bed and spent the next five minutes stretching, while Morgan got ready to head back to the tournament.
Morgan realized as they left the hotel that they barely had enough time to make it back before they began the first battles of the day. They rushed through the streets and flew through the front doors with the last of the mornings stragglers. Seeing as they weren't the last ones back, they slowed down a bit as they made their way to the lobby. Inside everyone was crowded around the back wall where they had a notice board set up.
She walked up to a young man at the back of the crowd who was trying to see around everyone else. "What's on the board?''
He turned to her, bright green eyes shining underneath his dark bangs, ''They just announced the match ups for today's battles. I thought you lost yesterday, why you back here?''
"Yea… well… something's happened. You might want to check who's on that board today.''
"You're back!? That's awesome. I didn't think you deserved to lose after that match yesterday. I hope whoever he's up against today beats him good. Kristian, by the way.'' He stuck his hand out to shake and she reluctantly took it.
"Thanks Kristian, hopefully everyone else is as thrilled that I'm still in.'' She nudged her way closer, noticing some people eyeballing her as they walked away from the board. Up on the board, one of the first names she noticed was Kristian's alongside Josh's, then found her name next to an unknown girl's name. "Well, looks like you get to see firsthand what happens to him today.''
"Wait, what?'' He stepped up beside her. "Damn, I just hope he doesn't pull that same stunt.''
"Good news,'' she turned around to show him Togepi stepped to her backpack,'' he doesn't have Togepi anymore.''
He burst out laughing, ''That's great! How did you end up with her?'' As they walked over to the coffee, she explained what happened the night before with Josh.
In the middle of the crowd still around the board, they suddenly heard a lot of cursing and whining.
"Oh, no. Speaking of the devil, I know that whining pretty well.''
"Josh?''
"Yup.'' At that moment, he came storming out of the crowd and saw her sitting not far away.
"YOU! What did you do? I beat you! I beat you! What are you doing back here? How?'' The more he talked the redder his face got and the louder his voice got.
"I'm here because I didn't cheat.'' She sat at the table with Kristian and sipped her coffee, trying not to laugh as Josh just kept getting redder.
"THERE'S NO RULES AGAINST WHAT I DID!''
"Toga… pi…'' Togepi peaked over her shoulder, concerned with all of the yelling. Some of the trainers were starting to look their way too.
"AND YOU! YOU STOLE MY POKEMON!'' He started to move towards their table and Kristian, Athena, and Annie all moved towards him at the same time and stood between him and Morgan.
"Deal with your problems on the battle field, Josh. If you can get through me today, you can have another go with her. If you're that lucky.'' Josh stood there for a moment, huffing and puffing, debating if he could get through all three of them, then stomped out of the room.
Morgan looked to the closest little girl that was still staring at their little scene, ''Yes? May I help you?'' The girl scurried away and everyone else went back to what they were doing, though she noticed a few people here and there that would glance her way.