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At The Restaurant

Grade Two

Drew (7), Burgundy (7)

Grade Seven

Cilan (12), Cress (12), Chili (12)

Drew Hayden often enjoyed going to fancy restaurants for dinner. He usually had his chefs make him a gourmet meal at his mansion, but on some of the days when his parents were too busy with work to join him for a meal, his butler would take him to a restaurant instead. Today just happened to be one of those days.

"This is the Striaton Restaurant," Drew's butler told him as the two walked into the building. "It is a quite popular place which offers the finest Unovean gourmet meals, and it is very high ranking."

When the two entered, they were immediately met with a waiter who led them to a table for two and got them seated. The two customers read over the menu (though Drew had to continuously ask his butler what a food item was) and placed their orders. When the waiter left to retrieve their dinners, Drew began to curiously observe his surroundings.

It was all very interesting to him! The building was filled with delicious aromas of unfamiliar foods, the walls were adorned with traditional Unovean decorations, and the people all seemed to be dressed differently as well. Probably wearing Unova-style clothing.

As he was looking around from his seat, something caught Drew's attention. There were three older boys talking together about something. Drew recognized all three of them! He got up from his seat and walked over in a well-mannered way to say hi. As he came closer, he could start hearing bits of their conversation.

"Come on, Cilan," the red-haired boy said to the green-haired one. "It was just a Purrloin."

"Chili, you know how I don't like Purrloin at all," Cilan shuddered.

"But it didn't even do anything to you."

"Chili, just leave Cilan alone," the final boy, the one with blue hair, spoke up. "He doesn't like Purrloin, and you know it."

"But really, Cress, it's kind of silly to be afraid of that Pokemon, just because of that time—"

"Hello!" Drew greeted brightly, smiling at the three. They were triplets Cilan, Chili, and Cress, who went to the same school as Drew, but were in higher grades. However, they met often, as their classes got together once a week when the grade seven students would act as reading buddies for the second graders. Cilan was Drew and Drew's friend May's reading buddy.

"Oh, Drew," Cilan said in surprise. "I didn't expect to see you here. What a pleasure!" Drew proudly flipped his hair.

"Hey, aren't you my brother's reading buddy from school?" Cress noted. "Nice of you to come! You eating here today?"

"Wait!" Chili threw a quick glance around. "Your two friends aren't around around are they? The spiky-haired boy and the purple-head?"

"Um, you mean Gary and Paul?" Drew clarified. "No, they're not here."

"Good." Even though Chili was Gary and Paul's reading buddy, he didn't really like them very much. Their mischief always got on his nerves.

"Are you guys here to eat too?" the seven-year-old boy asked.

"Actually, Drew, our family runs the Striaton Restaurant," Cilan informed him. "You see, we're actually from Unova, so when we moved here, we decided to open this restaurant here as well. It's just like our restaurant back in Striaton City."

"Except it's a bit smaller," Chili pointed out. "The original one was much bigger than this. It even had the Striaton Gym in it, since our family owns that too."

"Really?" Drew listened to them interestedly.

"Why yes! In fact, the three of us are planning to become its gym leaders in the future," Cilan announced.

"Wow!" Drew was impressed.

"Master Andrew!" Drew turned when he heard his butler call him. "Our orders have arrived."

"Okay, I'm coming."

"I hope you enjoy our chef's cooking," Cilan said, waving after him as he returned to his table. Drew waved back, and gave his hair a little flip as he did.

Soon, the young boy was seated, his plate in front of him. He was about to take a bite when he heard a voice.

"Bonn-jur! Mais non! What are you eating?!" Drew looked up to see a girl about his age standing beside his chair. She had short, curly purple hair, and purple eyes which she used to glare at the green-haired boy. And, for some reason, she was saying some badly-pronounced Kalosian words as she spoke.

"I'm eating… this," Drew answered, not really being able to remember the name of the meal he had ordered. The food on the menus of fancy restaurants always seemed to have such complicated names.

"Tres horr-eeble! You can't eat that!"

"Why not?"

"It doesn't taste good at all!"

"Really?"

"Yes! I can tell by the way it smells."

Drew knew it was bad manners to sniff his food, but he was curious to see if what the girl was saying was true or not. He didn't lean down to look obvious, but he tried to catch a scent of what he was eating by sitting in his normal position. It didn't smell bad, though. It actually smelled quite nice.

"It doesn't smell bad."

"Of course you wouldn't know. I do, though, because I have much more experience with this kind of stuff. You should leave this restaurant, and come to mine."

"What restaurant is yours?"

"It's called Burgundy's Restaurant That Is Better Than The Striaton Restaurant."

"That's a long name. Where is it? I never heard of it."

"Oh, um... it hasn't opened yet, but it's gonna!"

"Okay. I'll come to it when it opens. But right now, I have to eat my food here." He was about to lift his spoon to his mouth when he was interrupted once again.

"Stop! Didn't I tell you you can't eat that?"

"But I want to!" Though he acted calm, Drew was growing irritated. He was hungry! He wanted to eat his dinner!

"Master Andrew, if you wish to eat, you may," his butler said suddenly. "You can try it, and if you do not like it, we can order something else."

The girl jumped, as she hadn't noticed the man sitting at the same table as the boy.

"Burgundy, what are you doing?" A new voice joined in. It appeared Cilan had come over to see what was going on.

"Eep!" The girl, now known as 'Burgundy', was startled by his sudden appearance. "C-cilan! What are you doing here?"

"You already know my family works here."

"Hmph! Well, to answer your question, I was just informing this little boy that he shouldn't eat at this terrible restaurant."

"Burgundy, he's about the same age as you, so you can't exactly call him a 'little boy'. And besides, this isn't a terrible restaurant."

"Yes it is! Because you work here. When get my own restaurant, it'll be much better than yours, and people will go there instead of coming here, and I'll be famous and you won't."

"Um, I'm not even old enough to work here yet…" Before Cilan could say anything else, Burgundy had stomped off furiously.

"Who was she?" Drew inquired.

"Oh, her? Her name is Burgundy. Our parents are close friends, but I think she sees me as a rival. Once, when we went to her house, I made some comment about the dinner. It was a good comment, but while her parents knew what I was saying, she misunderstood and got angry, and began thinking that I look down on food other people make because my family owns Striaton Restaurant. So… she gets a bit upset at me."

"Oh."

"Anyways, Drew, there is nothing wrong with your meal. Don't mind what Burgundy said; she gets like that sometimes. So enjoy!"

When Cilan left, Drew began eating his dinner. It was delicious! After he finished, he began thinking of Burgundy and Cilan and the rivalry between the two (although it was mostly one-sided).

I wonder if I will get a rival when I grow up...

And thus ends a day at the restaurant!

One thing that I could never get over was the fact that they never explained Cilan's fear for Purrloin in the anime. They kept making it seem like something terrible happened, but they never explained what! I'll admit, I was a bit annoyed when the series ended without revealing the reason. Actually, in one episode, he does tell Ash and Iris, but we never find out what he told them. -_-"

So this chapter was meant to focus on the triplets, because when I think of restaurants and Pokemon, I think of them. And I thought Burgundy deserved a little focus too, since she seems to have this one-sided rivalry with Cilan. And Drew? Well, I just imagine him going to fancy restaurants!

Hey, just wondering, does anyone think I should give Drew's butler a name? He seems to come up a lot. I like to think of him as 'Drew's butler', but it would make sense to give him a name, since he is a recurring character. So what do you guys think? If yes, do you have any ideas for a name for him?

Please review, and thanks for reading!

Bye bye for now! Have a great day, and smile all the way! :)