~Pachi

*April 29th, 2575

"The square root of x depends on the y in the equation. And- guys are you even listening?"

I lowered the ruler pointing to the written equation on the board to find the students I was tutoring weren't even listening. Because of their ignorance most of the students in this room flunked a lot and eventually ended up with me.

They were all part of some gang and thought they were too cool to listen to my 'poop', as they like to curse a lot. I have never given up on the students I tutored before but I was starting to think they just came to willingly ignore me. Sometimes the Gabite of the group might listen every once in a while but today even he was ignoring me.

I was getting tired of this so I slammed the ruler on top of the desk I was standing on to catch their attention. The five of them flinched for a fraction of a second before rolling their eyes because I annoyed them.

"PAY ATTENTION! DON'T YOU WANT TO GRADUATE AND NOT BE SOME KIND OF DELINQUENT?!"

Their leader Charizard, yeah he's that old and he still hasn't graduated senior year, let out a low chuckle and walked over to the desk where I stood.

"Look sweetheart-"

"I'm not your sweetheart! And don't touch me!"

I swatted his claw away before he could lightly touch the side of my face with it and glared firmly up at him.

"Hehe alright, as much as I like to piss you off cupcake I don't have to listen to all this 'delinquent' bullshit. I don't give a shit about graduating either. I just like to see you."

"Back off! Either pay attention to the lecture or get out and we'll try this again tomorrow!"

"Seeya tomorrow then hun."

He leaned over to poke the tip of my nose with his finger and I gave him a little zap making him jerk his hand away. As much as I rarely disliked anyone he kind of deserved it.

"Feisty little one are ya? Just how I like-"

"Boss. Leave her alone and let's go."

"Alright alright. Seeya then darling."

I nearly gagged in my throat as Charizard and his lackeys wearing matching leather jackets and red bandannas strutted out of the tutoring room like they were hot stuff or something. One of them even erased the equation on the board with their hand, laughing at seeing my appalled reaction before running out after them.

"Arceus I really hate him. At least Gabite said something. I guess I better head out then. No point in tutoring when all the class has left."

I erased the rest of the board and straightened my things before heading out of the class, having to jump to lock the door shut behind me. I headed to the school courtyard and was about to walk down the steps when I failed to see a foot and before I knew it fell down the steps and my bag was taken away. Ah great not her again.

"Owww.."

"Well if it isn't the little wh*e Pachi. Can't have all the boys in school and mine too now can't we you s*t?"

"Let me guess you two are fighting again Bonnie?"

Bonnie was a Buneary and she always picked on me because her boyfriend always flirted with me no matter how many times I rejected him publicly. She thought I was stealing him when in reality it's just his unfortunate pandering to catch my affections.

"What's going on with me and Pikachu is none of your fuc*ng business you man-wh*e!"

"Well you can't attract flies with vinegar you use honey silly."

"Funny you mention honey. Girls."

Her lackeys Purrloin and Alolan Meowth pulled some condiments out of their bags with mischievous looks on their faces.

"Squirt the b*ch."

They took jars of ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and Arceus knows what else and squirted it all over me, laughing as I could only cover my arms to keep it off my face.

"Aww you need help cleaning that off? Here have some WATER!"

Bonnie tossed a bucket of water on me that smelled like sewer water. I sat up and gagged at how awful I smelled.

"Good now you look like what you deserve. So much as look at my mon again and you'll get hurt far worse than this. Let's go girls so the trash can take herself out."

Her lackeys laughed as they emptied my backpack and tossed the empty bag at my face. I sat on the floor with a sigh as I wrung my arms of all the gunk on me now.

"Well at least I can wash this off. I hope."

I never stood up for myself and this is where it gets me. Instead of going home I headed to a nearby girls bathroom to wash my body off in the sink. Yuna warned me about them and I just thought what's the worse they can do. They kept proving me wrong but it's not like I really cared what they did to me. I just saw cowards and bullies who I was never afraid of. I left my uniform to soak in the sink while I rinsed in the sink and lathered myself with soap.

"God this reeks. It's really hard to get this stuff off but I don't want mom and dad to see me covered in this. Better to come home soaking wet than like a grocery store wreck. I'll just say I fell in a lake or a puddle or something on the way back home."

It took about 15 minutes to wash it all off and another 5 minutes to wring the water out my drenched uniform. I slipped my clothes back on and slipped out of the bathroom with a sigh. I turned and nearly shrieked in surprise when I saw the Gabite from earlier standing outside the boys bathroom. He turned and looked surprised to see me still at the school this late in the afternoon.

"Umm I umm-"

"Why are you all wet?"

"Accident. No big deal."

Wait why was I making excuses? What was he doing here? But I didn't have to question it much longer when I heard an all too familiar voice speaking from inside the boys bathroom.

"Gabite! Who the fu*k you talking to?! Nobody else is out there right?!"

"No one is here! Probably heard a ghost or something!"

"Whatever! KEEP WATCH OUTSIDE THAT F*KING DOOR!"

"Yes sir! youshouldprobablygo."

They were probably talking about something shady in there if they need someone to stand guard outside. I didn't want to find out what, so following Gabite's advice I quietly started walking away.

"hey squirrel?"

I hated when I was called that but feeling a little curious I decided to whisper back to him.

"what?"

"I'll be at the next lesson Monday."

"what for? so you all can ignore me again?"

"you know what whatever! I don't know why I even bother!"

"fine you can come. But you better pay attention!"

"whatever."

The nerve of him. I swear I hated this group. They were all so uncouth and rude.

"Hey!"

"Ugggh what?"

Gabite took off his bandanna and tossed it to me. I caught it and stood there in surprise and confusion as he awkwardly looked down at the floor.

"don't make a big deal out of this. but you have ketchup on your face."

"I- I- wha- Urgh!"

I hastily wiped my face in embarrassment and tossed the bandanna to the floor before storming off down the rest of the stairs.

"Uggghhh I hate that guy so much!"