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POOL PARTY BABY IT WAS A COOL PARTY

Who: YOU
What: IT WAS A POOL PARTY FOR THE COOL KIDS AT MY SCHOOL
When: ALL DAY SATURDAY, AUGUST 10th
Where: THE POOL
Warnings: HOLY GUACAMOLE, WE'VE GOT CHIPS

The posters have been up all week, and today

is the day.

title or description

The outdoor pool has been filled with all manner of pool-related recreational materials, including but not limited to pool noodles and as many floaties as one could possibly want. Everything is perfect for an afternoon of food, music, and water-based recreation.

Just don't run on the concrete, or the lifeguard might revoke your pool privileges.

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Often times Mondo was off doing his own thing, usually hanging around a small "girl" with flippy brown hair and a cute face. But sooner or later, he noticed the Vaporeon tucked away from the action, hidden among tables and chairs that weren't seeing any use. He wondered why she seemed so... scared? Downtrodden? Whatever her body language indicated, it wasn't anything anyone should be happy about.

When he got the chance, he slipped away from the party to approach her. Once close enough, he bent down and tried talking with her.

"Hey. You okay over there?" he asked in a hushed voice. "You look kinda... lonely over here."

Chiyo's heart started to race and she took a careful step back, sticking close to whatever piece of furniture she could and looked down.

It was such an embarrassment for Mondo to see her like this. If it had been any other human that approached her just now, she might've been tempted to just walk away but she couldn't do that to Mondo. Because like Red, Mondo held a very special place inside Chiyo's heart.

In spite of that, there wasn't any answer she could give him. Obviously, she didn't feel well and she surely felt deeply lonely, but like a pouting, spoiled child, she stubbornly didn't want to do anything about it. Instead of solving problems herself, she just wanted someone else to take notice and fix her problems for her; to get her out of the rut she placed herself in. In essence, she had already given up on making things better for herself.

So... Instead of giving a proper response, she simply whined. Whined like a baby would cry when something was wrong but couldn't tell you exactly what.

The strained noise of hers made his heart ache. He didn't get any answers, but at least he could be sure something was wrong. She didn't look just lonely or shy anymore. She looked fearful.

"What's the matter? Somethin' scarin' you over there?" He turned his head to survey the area, trying to pinpoint something 'scary'. "It's not the crowd, is it? Or is it the loud music? If it is, I'll make 'em turn it down!"

She looked at him quietly and had to wonder why he seemed to care so much for her. She also wondered if.... Mondo wasn't going to turn against her like Red did. She couldn't imagine it. Then again, she wasn't able to imagine it with Red either and look at where it got her. Somehow though, she hoped Mondo would be a little more different.

She didn't change her demeanor, but at the very least, she lightly shook her head 'no.'

"No? Then what's eating you?" He slid his hands down between his legs rather than atop his knees. He didn't think twice about asking her to become human for him to make explaining herself easier- besides, she seemed more comfortable like this. Finding out her problem was just a guessing game. "Did someone hurt you?"

She stiffened. Mondo was amazingly spot on and if he was any keener, he'd realize that her reaction was a dead giveaway to the truth. She had indeed been hurt and, though it was a month ago, the wounds ran deep into her heart and wasn't something easy to admit. Recalling the incident only caused her to be at the brink of tears and she could only stare at the ground, troubled and forlorn.

He could read her body language and tensed up along with her. "Serious? What kinda asshole would even think about pullin' shit like that?!" he spat, feeling his composure slowly start to slip away. "I'll beat some goddamn humanity into 'em! They'll never lay a finger on you again!"

Never having expected him to react in such a way, Chiyo was rather surprised by the curse words and threats he suddenly spat out, and quite passionately, too. She took a step back out of pure reflex and stared at him perplexed. Sure, Jon and Ellistree always spoke of promises to protect her, but never like this. And somehow, she strangely felt touched by his compassion towards her. It was weird, really. Why did he even care so much?

But still, she worried. Despite how Red treated her, she didn't want to rat him out just so Mondo could pound on him. She'd actually feel terrible about that if she caused a fight, especially between people she cared for. She had no idea what to do, though. Changing into her human form would make communicating easier, but she really didn't want to rely on that form if she could help it right now. Also... Recalling how Mondo tended to react around her when she was human.... Well, things could just get awkward for the both of them.

But then again.... The way he reacts when she's in human form.... Chiyo didn't think it would be possible again, but she nearly found herself smiling. He really was adorable with his shyness towards girls. It was that shyness of his that made her feel normal with her shyness towards people in general, like she wasn't alone in being a such a shy person and that it was okay to be so.

Now she was just torn wondering which form to be in, which was very strange considering how she was determined to avoid using her human form for a while, but wow. Surprisingly, this human named Mondo seemed to have some unknown effects on her. And, well.... Screw it. Let's just change because there were questions swimming in her mind that were just dying to submerge.

"Why... would you go so far for me?" she asked quietly, sticking close to the legs of the chairs and table. She was clad in her school uniform and the only new feature about her was her now very short hair.

The transformation startled him out of his growing rage, even though he knew she could do it at any time. The short hair stuck out like a sore thumb, so much so that he almost blurted a comment about how it changed. But her question took precedence.

"I... Well, why else? It's unforgivable... I just can't stand back and allow them to get away with this kind of crap. It just ain't right."

"You're a... good person." was what she concluded after hearing his reasons. They were reasons she could understand when she thought back to how she first met Voile, whom was being attacked at the city months prior. She had never wanted to be aggressive towards someone until that day, and it was all for the sake of another.

"Thank you for being angry for me...." she said softly as she looked him in the eyes. Perhaps somewhere down the line, Chiyo wanted someone to get angry for her because with her personality, she couldn't find it in herself to get angry at the people she loves and cares for.

Not knowing how to handle her gratitude with grace, he simply mumbled an, "Aw, come on. You don't gotta thank me for it," unable to look her straight on when she locked her eyes on him. "'S nothin' special. More importantly, I wanna know what happened."

That was a very difficult topic to discuss without the spillage of tears. Her hand automatically went up to touch her hair and she avoided looking at Mondo. The longer she tried to think of something to say, the more pain she felt from the memories of what happened to her.

"My friend..." Wait, were they still even friends? No. Friends didn't hurt each other like that, and the revelation of that just made her cry. Her voice cracked terribly underneath her stress and hurt. "Uh, I mean. S-Someone." She took a deep shaky breath. She could do this. It was just a few words. "H-Hurt me. Some... someone dear."

Watching girls cry was one of the worst things to deal with- for one, it's heartbreaking to watch and two, you're not sure what to do or say to make it stop. She wasn't spilling tears just yet, but the telltale signs of crying were clear as crystal. He listened to what she had to say and couldn't help but soften in sympathy. He wanted to fix her problems so they would stop hurting her like this, but he didn't know where to begin. After all, he didn't even know her friend or what he... she was like, so he didn't know if he could intervene like he'd wanted when he jumped to his first conclusions.

"Ahh, that's the worst," he said. "Having someone you're supposed to trust cause you pain... How'd you get hurt?"

She brought up her knees to hug and rest her head on and tried to hide the tears she was currently crying. She didn't think she would ever stop crying about the incident whenever she thought of it.

"P-Pushing and pulling... and just... h-horrible truths...." Hooray for ambiguity, but she couldn't bring herself to go into great detail about it. Thinking back to what Red said to her, Chiyo grew quiet before hesitantly asking, "Am I... really someone no one would want?"

"Now who the fuck in their right mind wouldn't want someone like you around?" snapped Mondo, appalled that such a confrontation was even possible with someone as sweet as Chiyo. "They had to have been heartless to say that! They said that, didn't they?! Don't listen to 'em. It ain't nothin' but bullshit."

"But then why say it if it's not true?" she asked tearfully. His cursing had brought her eyes back on him and she wasn't sure what to believe anymore. She searched his face, his eyes, for truth.

"I don't know what to think, Mondo. He... I-If I had never met him, I... I don't think I could've trusted humans again and now... h-he says not to trust anyone or I'll get hurt like he hurt me. But I... I want to trust. And I want to trust in you, too."

She hiccuped and quietly added, "...Can't I?"

Edited (let's have a sadder icon :P) 2013-08-24 19:24 (UTC)

Shit. He knew how untrustworthy he'd been in the past. He'd let people down and caused them tremendous pain. What right did he have to earn someone's trust? That kind of self-doubt reared up and showed its face to him now, at a time when he desperately wanted to be trusted. For that, he tore his eyes away from her and screwed his face up a little when her eyes searched his for the truth she wanted.

"I gotta admit... I've let a lotta people down before. I've done stupid things, reckless things, selfish things that put others in danger. I can't be the one to decide whether you do or don't put your trust in me, but... here's what I can guarantee. I'd never, ever want to hurt you. You can trust me on that much."

"...Is that a promise?" She knew that it was but had to hear it again rephrased. The fact that he was being honest with her and sharing details of his past doings gave her the sense that he thought well enough of her to do so, and that she was worthy enough to know. It gave her a glimmer of hope that she wasn't a useless or unwanted friend and it was a glimmer she was willing to hold onto for life.

"Will you promise me?" she asked with a wavering voice. "I would never hurt you either, so... so please promise me."

Even after just breaking an important promise he made with Chihiro in the same day at the same place, how was he supposed to say no to her? He couldn't.

"I promise."

The moment those austere words left his lips, he felt an inner resolve to do whatever it took to make sure his promise stood strong, even against all his failures. Kind of like it always did when he made a serious vow, but this type of resolve was different in the sense that it rose out of the rubble of all the shattered covenants he'd been leaving behind- a final chance to prove himself to himself. It was a very big deal to him, and if he couldn't withhold something so important between them, then he truly deserved to die. Even if it hadn't been a spoken promise to begin with, hurting her would still be unforgivable either way.

"By the way... who's the guy that pushed you around? Point him out to me. I wanna set that bastard straight."

Edited 2013-08-24 21:41 (UTC)

Those two words put her at ease and calmed down her crying to light sniffles. However, she did panic a little when being asked for the culprit of her tears.

"Red...?" She paused. Oops. Maybe she shouldn't have said that. She didn't know how exactly Mondo was going to "set him straight" but she hoped it wouldn't involve violence. Then she gasped. Was Red actually there are the pool party? She felt incredibly silly for not having thought of that sooner and cowered slightly as she tried to see if he was anywhere nearby. "I don't... I don't know where he is."

She wondered if she should tell Mondo about him, but after Mondo's spoken promise, she felt like she could trust and confide in him more.

"He... usually wears a red cap and has black hair. Um. He might have other Pokemon around him? Since he's a Pokemon trainer."

Mondo squinted at the constantly shifting crowd out there, finding many people with black hair. He thought he might have picked out a red cap, but it turned out to be nothing but a red speedo. I guess that's what you could call an asshat, but it wasn't the asshat he was looking for.

But THEN. Out of the corner of his eye, Mondo spotted a dude with a red hat and black hair, minding his own business, strolling over to the isolated spot where ice cream was peddled. Just looking at him pissed him off. It had to be him. The delinquent stood abruptly and began to stalk over there with malicious purpose. The dark look on his face didn't suggest he had any nice intentions to spare.

"Be right back! I'm gonna teach him a lesson in how to treat people..."

~~And then he beat up the wrong guy, the end~~

And then, he was gone.

Edited (link injection) 2013-08-27 06:42 (UTC)

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POOL PARTY BABY IT WAS A COOL PARTY

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I suck. Mondo tempts me to do a lot of things that may seem out of place. |D;;

I'M SORRY I COULDN'T GET AROUND MONDO'S IMPULSE TO GET AGGRO

DON'T BE SORRY. YOU AND MONDO ARE JUST MAGIC. ILU BOTH.

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