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Walking around Lumiose City is a really nice experience to have to anyone. There are so many shops, cafes, restaurants and don't forget about the Tower in the center. It just a nice big city in the Kalos region. Pokemon all around, people getting to work and back home from the taxis or even just walking, even rollerskating around!
But there is something deeper in this big city. Even with Team Flare disbanded, there is still problems in the city. Nothing is perfect. Even with mega evolution, it's sometimes a hard thing to handle. It can be too powerful for the normal person. At least there are people to help out and make sure Lumiose City is doing fine.
You do like it here, but at the same time it feels still odd being here even after 5 years later. You just work at one of the many cafés at this city. There is so many maybe too many, maybe there should be other stores or something. Having a themepark or something! Something fun while people still dread sometimes! But that's besides the point.
You are getting tired, working to stay alive, working sometimes crazy hours, but if it makes you live mostly comfortably then that's all that matters sometimes. Even with the degree that you got, you are trying to find a better job around here. Trying to apply to any job that is close to your field as much as possible. Maybe so you can really actually enjoy your working.
But a paycheck is a paycheck sometimes and it's better than nothing.
After you finished up closing the shop for the night. It was getting late. It was dark out, which you felt a bit uneasy with the trainer battles happening outside. You try to avoid as much as you can, if you actually feel like it you might do some but you are getting tired after a pretty long day of working.
But your partner was helping you out too. Your Meowstic. She loves when it's just yourself there so she can also help do some stuff with her psychic abilities. Your boss doesn't really mind her, but you still stay cautions and leave her in her pokeball for most of the shift. But you don't like that sometimes so you make sure she gets fed and taken care of.
Walking out of the building with your partner and locking the place up, you head out. It does look very beautiful here even after how long you have lived here. There has been some decorations around the city for some festival happening soon so it's nice seeing flowers being hung everywhere.
Your Meowstic saw you look at the flowers and used her ability to give you one.
"Aw, thank you! You are so nice." You smelled the flower, it does smell good of course.
Your partner purred back. You think she said that she feels the same. You are happy you have a good pokemon partner with you, you would be here without her.
Sadly you just cannot see the stars here, with all of the light pollution. Maybe if you went out of the country side again it would be nice. But it's been a long time since then, staying in this city is all you can do right now.
As you walk to your apartment, someone bumped in your shoulder. It was sudden because you were not looking and your partner was looking at some ghost types that were out and about. (You really didn't want to mess with them right now but she wanted to so bad)
You turned around to see the person. He had a really nice outfit on, you forget people here have really good style with all of the clothing, but you are just in your basic work clothes. But he was looking at you, with an expression you don't want to look at.
"Oh, I'm so so sorry! I wasn't looking!" You felt bad but wanted to apologize first before he could. You closed your eyes not looking at his face now, because he looked a little scary, you hope he isn't terribly mad.
"Hm, you are alright. It happens." You opened your eyes at him and blinked, so kind? He looked like someone that has a very mad expression all the time and wouldn't say many nice things. But you were mistaken.
You couldn't look at him long before you started getting embarrassed, so you nodded at him and turned around to walk back to your apartment. Hmm such a weird reaction. You couldn't get a good look at him, but you might have seen him before.
You shook your head to forget. Your Meowstic looked at you with a concerned expression. You looked down at her, saying it's okay. And made it to your apartment.
Got your keys and unlocked your door to the living space. It was a mess. You haven't had time to clean in a week. So some clothes and toys for your partner are on the ground and on the couch. You sighed and rubbed your face to get cleaned up for the night. You can clean it later. You'll have more time tomorrow.
As you were hopping into bed with Meowstic laying on the edge of your bed. (You don't mind her being there, but she really didn't want to sleep on the ground.) You heard your phone go off. You looked over confused, no one really texts you this late at night. But you picked it up. It was from a unknown number, odd.
Maybe it's a scam, but you looked closer at the message.
Hello. Do you need any help?
Ah probably wrong number. No one just texts you asking if you need help. Probably someone else that needs help.
oh sorry! this is the wrong number
You put your phone on your bedside table and tucked into bed. It felt so good after a long day. Thankfully you don't have to work tomorrow. It's of your only days off, so you are taking the time to treat your partner and cleaning up your apartment.
As you were about to fall asleep, you heard your phone going off again. What? Ugh, you are so tired. You blinked your eyes open to roll over to your phone.
Ah, no no this is the right number.
You squinted at your phone, who even is this? How did someone get your phone number to begin with? You don't usually like giving it out. You don't remember the last time gave it out too. Maybe this person is messing with you.
who is this?
Keeping this simple, you are worried a bit.
We met recently. And I wanted to ask if you need anything help.
i don't think i need any help? but when did we really meet?
Oh, a few hours ago.
oh you
WAIT HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER?
You were shocked.
Oh sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. I saw your name tag on your work clothes and your name is pretty unique so it was easy to find.
Oh shit, yeah you do have a kind of a unique name that you haven't met anyone with the same name in the city. But it was a bit odd that this guy is trying to be kind? You are just so confused.
i mean i guess it is easy to find, i uh why do you think i need help?
You did look kind of miserable when I saw you. You working a lot at that cafe?
uh yeah, the best way i can get money right now
Now it's taking a bit for him to respond. You don't really know his name, it was a bit hard to see him when it was dark out but he kind of looked familiar. Maybe you saw him somewhere.
Well if you want, we can meet at the cafe you work at and we can talk. I want to help people. I'm just not the best at communicating. So sorry for the worry.
Oh that's nice of him. Maybe he's not that great at talking it out and probably scaring a lot of people. It would be better on your soul to meet in a public area that you are always at. People you barely know meeting anywhere else would be scary as hell.
well i'm not working tomorrow, so you are going to have to wait a bit. do you wanna meet when i get back?
Yes. That would be nice.
That's all you saw after that because you put your phone back on your night table and passed out, it was getting pretty late now.
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As you were having a pretty peaceful dream, well you think it is, you just can't remember your dreams that well. They do drift away from you really quick. You felt some sort of soft patting on your head. It felt nice actually so you just want to sleep through it.
But you opened your eyes to your Meowstic sitting on you patting your face to wake up. Huh? She usually isn't like this, did you do something wrong?
You were blinking to wake up to see her pointing at the clock on your night table, you look over to see that is pretty late in the day already. Shit you usually don't sleep in because of work so you always wake up early, maybe you are just that tired.
You pick up your phone to look at your notifications. You saw some spam and some deals on some shops around town but you did get a message from that guy from last night. It was from the night, maybe you fell asleep too fast to even notice.
My name is Corbeau by the way.
Oh that's his name. You feel like you heard it before. But you just responded back.
that's a nice name :)
Well it's time for some cleaning. You look over at your partner and they look like they are begging for food. Oh yeah I have to fed her or she'll explode, you thought.
And that day was very simple. Get caught up with cleaning and work that you couldn't do when you were working almost all day. Your partner of course helped you, she makes things easier.
But you never got another text from that guy. You weren't really expecting it. But tomorrow is going to be interesting. All you hope it's not too awkward.