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  { text | 11 : 33 | hue jones | subject : mia? }              I’ve just been in lacunosa   { text | 11 : 34 | hue jones | subject : mia? }              so no, and how come?              what’s so important you              have to tell me in person???   { text | 11 : 35 | hue jones | subject : mia? }              …is it important???

            And so she stared at the cards, now in despair over what to do now. It was only common logic that despite the rather obvious cuteness of the pink Pokemon, its typing would obviously beat the Dark-type with any move chosen. Drawing a rather overdramatic gasp, the Trainer gave herself a facepalm before letting her head hit the table in frustration. How foolish. She had completely forgotten about the possibility of a Fairy-type delivering a curbstomp to her ace, and face still on the table Mei only grumbled the following words.

      “Kyou… I thought we were friends.”            In her mind, Mei mulled over more strategies she had, thinking of any other cards that possibly had a type advantage. There was one, of course, though using it meant possibly losing a turn completely. Rolling her eyes briefly before going to her deck once more, the girl pulled out another card.       “I send out Steelix! If I flip a coin and get        heads, that means your Sylveon takes a        total of eighty HP damage!”            The announcement could have been less dramatic than most, but of course, that was the point of even doing such a thing. Hand taking hold of the small, bronze coin in the middle of the table (placed for gaming purposes, of course), Mei tossed it into the air, landing on the ‘heads’ as she had hoped. Once again, doing a victory ‘whoop’ the girl pumped her fist in the air before pointing at her friend with a usual smug smile.      “Now your Sylveon only has ten HP!         Take that!”

While, he was rather unhappy about the other eeveelution card reveal, he was also happy that now Mei was going to suffer. ...Except she completely forgot about him! His entire turn was skipped! And, though he was embarrassed to even be playing this game, he would definitely not let anything slip. He was too far gone. He could nearly make out the Distortion World from here. He was so into the game that he slammed his fists on the table as he jumped up. It was even worse since the three were in public in Aspertia. But he was extremely into it. He was so into it he didn't even have time to pull a mirrored smug smile to Mei, and was instead flipping through the small rulebook they had with them. Even though Mei was the one who suggested playing pokemon cards, she clearly did not read the rules! Now he had something to laugh in her face about.

       In the small town of Aspertia, three Trainers could be seen at a table, each with a deck of cards held in each hand, all with faces drawn with uncertainty of their opponents next move. It had been a suggestion brought up by the current player, Mei, who had made a comment about doing something intellectual once in a while that didn’t involve nearly getting killed thanks to a certain Qwilfish Head’s idea to spend their day doing daring stunts, all of which resulted in either all of them nearly getting torn to pieces or with Mei having to (repeatedly) use Teleport.        Of course, this activity didn’t seem dangerous at all, although the stakes had been just as high when the three agreed that the loser of the game had to agree to do whatever stunt or dare the other two had said that they would have to perform (with a certain brunette arguing that this sort of thing was the reason why they were here in the first place. A hand delicately running over one before drawing it in one swift move, the Trainer slammed her hand on to the table as if to make the move all the more dramatic.

     “Hue Jones I hope you’re prepared to weep        in my victory as I pull a…”                 Wait for it.       “…Level X Darkrai card!”               And in the end, she chose for them to               play a game of Pokemon Cards. Nerd.

Seriously, out of all the humiliating things he had to do, this was probably one of his top ten. Why on EARTH did he even agree to this? It was worse than when he had to dress up in, well, a dress back in his childhood for his sister. There were a surprising amount of things he could live with. The amount of frustration he saw himself having with this was incredible. He was pretty sure he wanted to rip the cards in half most of the time, but realized that Mei had spent an unusual amount of cash on them. Honestly, if she wanted to actually battle him, she should've just taken out her pokemon. He easily got excited for that. But...pokemon cards? Only weaklings and preschoolers played with the cards. Why did he even think it was a good idea? The punishment game was not worth the frustration, and it only got worse the second he saw Mei's card flip over.                    What.                                    The.                                                Fuck.

"……I’m sorry, que?” {/Why? Why was he doing this to her? Mei had done naught to him to warrant this. In fact, before they both got Pokémon, she’s been protecting him. From bullies, wild Pokémon that would startle either him, her, or Kyou. And he had the audacity, to turn his back to her?}

"So…..what you’re telling me is, whatever you have, is more important than being grateful you’re able to wake up each day and place both feet on the ground? That you’re able to wake up and see the Pokémon who’d give up everything for you. To not stop for a minute, and hug your old friends? Who did nothing to warrant this cold treatment? And I’m the one thats ‘not right’?”

{/What was this? She was shocked, hurt, sad, desperate for answers now, but all this mixing together, formed pure anger. She was angry. And if he bothered to turn and look at his friend, he’d see just how much this was bothering her.}

He wanted to remove her from himself right now. He had more important things to do than to play house and hug Mei. Why couldn't she just understand that he didn't do that sort of thing anymore? He wasn't the same kid as he was back then. Loads of stuff came back to bite him in the ass, and he'd rather get to bite back than to stay here hugging his friend.

'I never said I wasn't grateful. I just said I didn't have time for this anymore. I have things to do now.' He turned once more for her, his red eyes lowering their lids as he felt the exhaustion take over him. Another brick piled up onto his wall, making his actions colder than before. He didn't know why, nor when, but lately he'd been letting his real personality out.

“What?! What overly affectionate person hugged you? Thats my job, no no no!” {/Oh look, he’s gone and upset her. She’s actually shaking from it. Why couldn’t she hug him? She’s always gotten her ‘Hyuu hugs’. Same with Kuroni. Both boys were avoiding her, avoiding affection and everything. What’s wrong with them?}

“—Did some other star hug you?”

"Hyuu, the fact you’re not over here giving me love and adoring me is breaking my heart. Come on and gimme a hug already!"

Wipes his easily angered friend’s nose. ‘They’re obviously talking about you! You’re such a great person, Hue!'