"Also, good luck in the contest. I hear the competition is pretty fierce for this one.”

I added someone on skype and immediately they got excited upon seeing what my name was set to. We ended up screaming more about AA than pokemon.

He seemed to have been caught off guard- almost fighting to breathe instead of listening to the girl in front of him. That changed though when she mentioned the term champion, his eyes blinking before looking at her with a fond look. “Ah? So you became champion? Then congratulations!” He smiled- although it was a little bit of a struggle since he could hardly breathe. “Uh...do you mind l-letting me go so I can talk p-properly to you?” The struggle was indeed real- but she seemed super friendly so Steven gave her a couple pats on the shoulder. “I kind of need a-air.” 

“Look--if you want to fight, come to my gym during my work hours, not when I’m not on business!” Green snapped before the girl could talk to him, having assumed that she would ask him to fight her like all of the other people who would approach him during his days off.

“Good to see you agree. I suppose not all Unovans are famously ignorant.”

... Meanwhile, all he’d been doing was staring at Hilda, expression blank. Great going, N.