Post by swiftnight on Sept 17, 2008 16:23:24 GMT -8
"Lets camp here!", Alex Ketchum, aspiring pokemon trainer said to her traveling companions as she stood in the middle of a circle of trees at about mid-day. Her companions, most too tired to talk, simply spread out around her. She gave a grin that showed she wasn't tired at all,made sure her navy cap was still on straight backwards, looked at Flash, and nodded.
"I'm going to go look for pokemon!", she said determinedly. Her bestfriend, Kaden Rose nodded
"I'm going with you!", he stated. Alex nodded
"Great!Lets go!". The only reply the two eager trainers got from their companions was a slight chuckle from Sarah and Jamie and silence from the sleeping crew, tired after six hours of marching to get to the next gym, but Alex had noticed they were almost asleep on their feet and decided to stop, a kind act in her eyes.
Alex and Kaden had been walking for about 15 minutes when they came to a beautiful sparkling lake surrounded by trees. Kaden layed down with his back on the trunk of one of the trees and smiled
"I'm going to take a nap Alex, OK?". Alex looked discouraged but didn't protest, instead she said
"If your not going to have any fun, why didn't you stay back at camp and sleep?", but by this time, Kaden was already there. Alex shrugged and climbed the tree he was laying on, wanting to find a pokemon, like a Mankey.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!", Kaden heard the scream three seconds before he felt his own weight fall on him. His eyes shot open to see who, or what, had fallen on him, and what he saw was enough to make his face go red and his heart almost burst, which he couldn't understand, she was only his friend, right?
Staring back at Kaden were the chocolate brown eyes of Alex Ketchum, their faces barely two inches apart. Kaden saw her face go as red as his, as she was now on top of him. There was a long moment of very awkward silence between the two that almost killed them before Kaden managed to say
"Find any pokemon?". Alex nodded, her eyes going wider
"The bug kind!", she said, eyes looking very horrified. Kaden looked confused then asked
"Would you mind getting off of me, then telling me why you were laying on me?". Alex, finally unfroze, jumped off of Kaden and helped him up as she said
"Well, I was up in that tree and I saw a bug and I lost my balance.". Kaden knew about her fear of bugs, but he didn't know it was this bad! The rest of the walk home was filled with the same awkward silence and red faces.
The same 15 minute walk the two had taken earlier now felt like a 30 minute one on the return trip, both ten year-olds thinking about how close they had come to kissing. When they had reached the camp, everyone was awake and eating. Kyle looked at his sister
"Hey Alex! Catch any pokemon?". Alex shook her head, her face still a bright tomato, as was Kaden's.
"Something wrong?", Kyle asked in confusion. Alex and Kaden shook their heads
"I'LL BET THEY KISSED!", Jamie squealed from beside Tevin, her big brother.
"WE DID NOT!", Alex and Kaden said in the same angry tone of voice, this being both of their natural reactions after someone accuses them of something that almost did happen. Everyone was taken aback.
"Cool it, Alex,Kaden, she was just teasing", Kyle said. Alex and Kaden nodded slowly, and went and sat on separate sides of the clearing, and refused to talk to anyone, especially eachother. Everytime they saw eachother, they blushed and wouldn't look at the other, and after this had gone on for awhile, Stella walked up to her brother and said
"Kyle, I never thought that this would happen, but I think something's going on with Alex and Kaden.". Her brother sweatdropped
"Ya think?". Stella nodded seriously
"I do!", Kyle sighed, his sister could come up with the best plans for rescuing people, but when it came to noticing the most obvious thing, she could be so..so..so oblivious! Stella shook her head
"For real,Kyle! I know how to get them together!", Kyle waited patiently as his sister told him the plan
"You are a brilliant matchmaker!", he said with a smile, then quickly said
"Even though I'm not into that sorta thing!". His sister, who had apparently not heard the last part nodded
"I know! This is only my most recent project, after this, I'm going to get you and Brooke together!". Kyle's face turned red
"WHAT! YOU M-MUST BE CRAZY! Me and Brooke together, n-never!", he stuttered. Stella was smiling evily, not listening to her brother.
"Kaden! Alex! Lets go swimming!", Stella called from the girls tent as she stood in her pink bikini, waiting as the two kids slowly walked into their tents, coming out 2 minutes later, Kaden with navy swim trunks and Alex with a navy one piece swimsuit. They took one look at eachother and blushed. Stella rolled her eyes, the quicker those two confessed, the better! She lead the way to a sparkling lake about 15 minutes away. When Alex saw the beautiful lake, her eyes widened, as did Kaden's, and the two could only stare, they didn't wanna relive that day again! They stopped dead in their tracks and had to be pushed by their friends to the edge, where they refused to go into the water
"Oh C'Mon you two! I haven't seen you two so unwilling to do something together since..since...I can't remember!", Stella shouted, annoyed. Alex and Kaden grumbled as they got in the water, the first sound they had made since "that day".
Alex rolled her eyes in annoyance as she watched her sister look at the water eagerly. She was annoyed now, so she broke her vow of silence, deciding it was time
"Stella! What are you looking at the water for!You've seen water about a zillion times!". Stella smiled
"I dunno Alex, there's always somethings that aren't in other bodies of water like this one" ,she said. Alex stared at her sister strangely, then shrugged
"Coming in?", she asked. Stella gave a grin
"Nope, better let you and Kaden have your alone time!", Alex's eyes widened, for two reasons, one because of what her sister said, and two, there was something pink and heartshaped at her feet, swimming around and inbetween her and Kaden.
"STELLA! WHAT ARE THESE THINGS!", Alex yelled. Stella threw her sister her pokedex with a smirk.The mechanical device gave the trainer her answer
"Luvdisc. The Rendezvous Pokemon. Luvdisc live in shallow seas in the tropics. This heart-shaped Pokémon earned its name by swimming after loving couples it spotted in the ocean's waves.", the mechanical device read. Alex's face turned red as she struggled to understand the message. Stella gave a smirk
"I must have forgotten to mention this is Luvdisc lake, wouldn't of mattered, they still come after couples, and right now, they're swarming around you and Kaden, I wonder,Alex, what could that mean?". Alex crossed her arms and was still a cherry. Kaden, who had noticed the pokemon and the entry, was frozen solid, much like "that day". Alex glared at her sister, got out of the lake and marched to the edge of the forest
"Stella come here.....no I'm not going to hurt you!", Alex said dangerously, Stella walked over, not really fully believing her sister. Alex grabbed her sisters hand and walked her farther into the forest, where no one could hear them.
"YOU SET US UP DIDN'T YOU!!YOU KNEW ABOUT THE LUVDISC!", Alex screamed in her sister's face. Stella smirked
"Seems you've caught me", the coordinator said, then her face turned into a dreamy one as she said
"But you two were so cute and so in love, I HAD to!". Alex felt her face go darker.
"Whatever", Alex mumbled, unable to do anything else. She walked behind her sister the whole way back to the lake. As she approached the lake, she noticed Kyle and Brooke playing in the water together, and Tevin looking very tense. When Stella came into view, he visibly relaxed, and Alex couldn't help but laugh silently to herself. Stella soon went to join him and the two some joined Kyle and Brooke, who were laughing and splashing farther out in the water. Jamie and Sarah were already with them. Alex sat about 20 feet away from Kaden. She wasn't going to get in that water, again, ever! She was reclining, talking to her trusted friend,Flash.
"Flash, I'm so confused, Kaden and I used to be bestfriends, and now, we act so different around eachother, I don't know what's going on!". She sighed frustratingly. Flash sighed in the same manner
"Pika!", (Translation: Oh..My..Gosh!"). Alex looked at her pokemon.
"What?", she asked in confusion. Flash just shook her and patted Alex's navy hat, as if sympathetic. Alex wasn't paying too much attention, Flash could tell Alex liked Kaden, and now that something had happened, she was STILL to shy to admit it, didn't she get these feelings were love? Flash decided her trainer was way too simple-minded for love, so she didn't try to explain everything. According to Alex's dad's Pikachu, Ash was the same way with Misty. One difference, both of them were clueless this time!
Later that night, everyone was still playing in the water, even Alex, who had went in, trying to clear her mind. All, that is, except Kaden. He was still sitting by the edge of the lake, doing something the past Alex would've teased him about not doing, thinking. He was confused about his feelings, surely him and Alex were only friends! They had known eachother since they were a year old, and probably before that! How could these feelings come up now! He didn't know, he didn't want to admit that he deeply cared for his annoying, bossy, crazy, reckless,..... smart, talented, amazing bestfriend as well...more than a bestfriend. He was so deep in thought that he didn't notice the orange-haired girl he was so deep in thought about sit down next to him.
"Hey Kaden", Alex said softly. Kaden gave a sideways glance
"Hey Alex, what's up?", she asked in the same shy manner. Alex thought for a moment, then blew up at him
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU'RE ACTING FUNNY, SO I'M FEELING WEIRD!". Everyone stared at her, which was something that never made her blush. Then Kaden did the oddest thing, consitering he had his greatest rival/crush yelling at him for something that was her fault, after all SHE fell out of the tree, not him, he started to laugh. Alex, who was now standing up, stared at him curiously.
"What's so funny!", she demanded harshly. Kaden gave a smile that showed things were back to normal,
"You yelled at me! Just like good times!", she said, still laughing. Alex now joined in the laughter.
"You're right!", she laughed, not a trace of blush on her cheeks. Everyone else looked at eachother
"When did the good times end?", Stella asked.
"Yea, what happened?", Kyle said suspiciously. Alex and Kaden looked at eachother with wide grins.
"Well, it all started after that six hour march Alex had us on", Kaden explained, and with Alex's help told the whole story.
"So, THAT'S why you guys wouldn't talk to anyone?", Kyle said. Alex nodded. Kyle rolled his eyes
"If anything you just proved to us how much you like eachother!", Stella used a matter-of-fact tone to explain this fact
"STELLA!", her sister said harshly, Stella shrugged. Everyone else laughed.
So ends this embarrasing moment between Alex and Kaden, see ya next time!
"I'm going to go look for pokemon!", she said determinedly. Her bestfriend, Kaden Rose nodded
"I'm going with you!", he stated. Alex nodded
"Great!Lets go!". The only reply the two eager trainers got from their companions was a slight chuckle from Sarah and Jamie and silence from the sleeping crew, tired after six hours of marching to get to the next gym, but Alex had noticed they were almost asleep on their feet and decided to stop, a kind act in her eyes.
Alex and Kaden had been walking for about 15 minutes when they came to a beautiful sparkling lake surrounded by trees. Kaden layed down with his back on the trunk of one of the trees and smiled
"I'm going to take a nap Alex, OK?". Alex looked discouraged but didn't protest, instead she said
"If your not going to have any fun, why didn't you stay back at camp and sleep?", but by this time, Kaden was already there. Alex shrugged and climbed the tree he was laying on, wanting to find a pokemon, like a Mankey.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!", Kaden heard the scream three seconds before he felt his own weight fall on him. His eyes shot open to see who, or what, had fallen on him, and what he saw was enough to make his face go red and his heart almost burst, which he couldn't understand, she was only his friend, right?
Staring back at Kaden were the chocolate brown eyes of Alex Ketchum, their faces barely two inches apart. Kaden saw her face go as red as his, as she was now on top of him. There was a long moment of very awkward silence between the two that almost killed them before Kaden managed to say
"Find any pokemon?". Alex nodded, her eyes going wider
"The bug kind!", she said, eyes looking very horrified. Kaden looked confused then asked
"Would you mind getting off of me, then telling me why you were laying on me?". Alex, finally unfroze, jumped off of Kaden and helped him up as she said
"Well, I was up in that tree and I saw a bug and I lost my balance.". Kaden knew about her fear of bugs, but he didn't know it was this bad! The rest of the walk home was filled with the same awkward silence and red faces.
The same 15 minute walk the two had taken earlier now felt like a 30 minute one on the return trip, both ten year-olds thinking about how close they had come to kissing. When they had reached the camp, everyone was awake and eating. Kyle looked at his sister
"Hey Alex! Catch any pokemon?". Alex shook her head, her face still a bright tomato, as was Kaden's.
"Something wrong?", Kyle asked in confusion. Alex and Kaden shook their heads
"I'LL BET THEY KISSED!", Jamie squealed from beside Tevin, her big brother.
"WE DID NOT!", Alex and Kaden said in the same angry tone of voice, this being both of their natural reactions after someone accuses them of something that almost did happen. Everyone was taken aback.
"Cool it, Alex,Kaden, she was just teasing", Kyle said. Alex and Kaden nodded slowly, and went and sat on separate sides of the clearing, and refused to talk to anyone, especially eachother. Everytime they saw eachother, they blushed and wouldn't look at the other, and after this had gone on for awhile, Stella walked up to her brother and said
"Kyle, I never thought that this would happen, but I think something's going on with Alex and Kaden.". Her brother sweatdropped
"Ya think?". Stella nodded seriously
"I do!", Kyle sighed, his sister could come up with the best plans for rescuing people, but when it came to noticing the most obvious thing, she could be so..so..so oblivious! Stella shook her head
"For real,Kyle! I know how to get them together!", Kyle waited patiently as his sister told him the plan
"You are a brilliant matchmaker!", he said with a smile, then quickly said
"Even though I'm not into that sorta thing!". His sister, who had apparently not heard the last part nodded
"I know! This is only my most recent project, after this, I'm going to get you and Brooke together!". Kyle's face turned red
"WHAT! YOU M-MUST BE CRAZY! Me and Brooke together, n-never!", he stuttered. Stella was smiling evily, not listening to her brother.
"Kaden! Alex! Lets go swimming!", Stella called from the girls tent as she stood in her pink bikini, waiting as the two kids slowly walked into their tents, coming out 2 minutes later, Kaden with navy swim trunks and Alex with a navy one piece swimsuit. They took one look at eachother and blushed. Stella rolled her eyes, the quicker those two confessed, the better! She lead the way to a sparkling lake about 15 minutes away. When Alex saw the beautiful lake, her eyes widened, as did Kaden's, and the two could only stare, they didn't wanna relive that day again! They stopped dead in their tracks and had to be pushed by their friends to the edge, where they refused to go into the water
"Oh C'Mon you two! I haven't seen you two so unwilling to do something together since..since...I can't remember!", Stella shouted, annoyed. Alex and Kaden grumbled as they got in the water, the first sound they had made since "that day".
Alex rolled her eyes in annoyance as she watched her sister look at the water eagerly. She was annoyed now, so she broke her vow of silence, deciding it was time
"Stella! What are you looking at the water for!You've seen water about a zillion times!". Stella smiled
"I dunno Alex, there's always somethings that aren't in other bodies of water like this one" ,she said. Alex stared at her sister strangely, then shrugged
"Coming in?", she asked. Stella gave a grin
"Nope, better let you and Kaden have your alone time!", Alex's eyes widened, for two reasons, one because of what her sister said, and two, there was something pink and heartshaped at her feet, swimming around and inbetween her and Kaden.
"STELLA! WHAT ARE THESE THINGS!", Alex yelled. Stella threw her sister her pokedex with a smirk.The mechanical device gave the trainer her answer
"Luvdisc. The Rendezvous Pokemon. Luvdisc live in shallow seas in the tropics. This heart-shaped Pokémon earned its name by swimming after loving couples it spotted in the ocean's waves.", the mechanical device read. Alex's face turned red as she struggled to understand the message. Stella gave a smirk
"I must have forgotten to mention this is Luvdisc lake, wouldn't of mattered, they still come after couples, and right now, they're swarming around you and Kaden, I wonder,Alex, what could that mean?". Alex crossed her arms and was still a cherry. Kaden, who had noticed the pokemon and the entry, was frozen solid, much like "that day". Alex glared at her sister, got out of the lake and marched to the edge of the forest
"Stella come here.....no I'm not going to hurt you!", Alex said dangerously, Stella walked over, not really fully believing her sister. Alex grabbed her sisters hand and walked her farther into the forest, where no one could hear them.
"YOU SET US UP DIDN'T YOU!!YOU KNEW ABOUT THE LUVDISC!", Alex screamed in her sister's face. Stella smirked
"Seems you've caught me", the coordinator said, then her face turned into a dreamy one as she said
"But you two were so cute and so in love, I HAD to!". Alex felt her face go darker.
"Whatever", Alex mumbled, unable to do anything else. She walked behind her sister the whole way back to the lake. As she approached the lake, she noticed Kyle and Brooke playing in the water together, and Tevin looking very tense. When Stella came into view, he visibly relaxed, and Alex couldn't help but laugh silently to herself. Stella soon went to join him and the two some joined Kyle and Brooke, who were laughing and splashing farther out in the water. Jamie and Sarah were already with them. Alex sat about 20 feet away from Kaden. She wasn't going to get in that water, again, ever! She was reclining, talking to her trusted friend,Flash.
"Flash, I'm so confused, Kaden and I used to be bestfriends, and now, we act so different around eachother, I don't know what's going on!". She sighed frustratingly. Flash sighed in the same manner
"Pika!", (Translation: Oh..My..Gosh!"). Alex looked at her pokemon.
"What?", she asked in confusion. Flash just shook her and patted Alex's navy hat, as if sympathetic. Alex wasn't paying too much attention, Flash could tell Alex liked Kaden, and now that something had happened, she was STILL to shy to admit it, didn't she get these feelings were love? Flash decided her trainer was way too simple-minded for love, so she didn't try to explain everything. According to Alex's dad's Pikachu, Ash was the same way with Misty. One difference, both of them were clueless this time!
Later that night, everyone was still playing in the water, even Alex, who had went in, trying to clear her mind. All, that is, except Kaden. He was still sitting by the edge of the lake, doing something the past Alex would've teased him about not doing, thinking. He was confused about his feelings, surely him and Alex were only friends! They had known eachother since they were a year old, and probably before that! How could these feelings come up now! He didn't know, he didn't want to admit that he deeply cared for his annoying, bossy, crazy, reckless,..... smart, talented, amazing bestfriend as well...more than a bestfriend. He was so deep in thought that he didn't notice the orange-haired girl he was so deep in thought about sit down next to him.
"Hey Kaden", Alex said softly. Kaden gave a sideways glance
"Hey Alex, what's up?", she asked in the same shy manner. Alex thought for a moment, then blew up at him
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU'RE ACTING FUNNY, SO I'M FEELING WEIRD!". Everyone stared at her, which was something that never made her blush. Then Kaden did the oddest thing, consitering he had his greatest rival/crush yelling at him for something that was her fault, after all SHE fell out of the tree, not him, he started to laugh. Alex, who was now standing up, stared at him curiously.
"What's so funny!", she demanded harshly. Kaden gave a smile that showed things were back to normal,
"You yelled at me! Just like good times!", she said, still laughing. Alex now joined in the laughter.
"You're right!", she laughed, not a trace of blush on her cheeks. Everyone else looked at eachother
"When did the good times end?", Stella asked.
"Yea, what happened?", Kyle said suspiciously. Alex and Kaden looked at eachother with wide grins.
"Well, it all started after that six hour march Alex had us on", Kaden explained, and with Alex's help told the whole story.
"So, THAT'S why you guys wouldn't talk to anyone?", Kyle said. Alex nodded. Kyle rolled his eyes
"If anything you just proved to us how much you like eachother!", Stella used a matter-of-fact tone to explain this fact
"STELLA!", her sister said harshly, Stella shrugged. Everyone else laughed.
So ends this embarrasing moment between Alex and Kaden, see ya next time!
The End