not your average basic

softgrass:

when i was in elementary school i was told by my teacher to stop using exclamation marks for every sentence and that they should only be used for exciting things and i remember feeling confused because i thought everything was exciting 

“Then I’ll dye my hair,” Maylene joked in return as she gave Whitney a friendly jab. “I’ve heard Alola has a lot of cool Fighting-types. Bewear, Crabominable… hell, Incineroar isn’t a Fighting-type, but I want one anyway.”

it was quite the opposite actually. it was typical for whit to have several challengers daily, but that was to be expected in goldenrod. the city was considerably larger than olivine, which meant more people, and with the magnet train there, her gym was easily accessible to trainers from all over. she tapped away on her phone, ignoring the bustle of the others around her.