? transfer successful ?

? what happened? ?

     "What's wrong? You aren't really acting... normal." He narrows his eyes, only further increasing your anxiety.

     "What? W-What do you mean?" you ask nervously, attempting (and failing) to convince him that you're fine. Darn it, Y/N! You're just making it worse!

He sighs impatiently and pushes his red glasses further up his nose with two fingers. "Never mind. I don't have time for this." He sticks his hand out, which you gratefully take and use to lift yourself back up onto your feet. "Professor Juniper told me. We can have a Pokémon?"

You blink in surprise, your mind still a bit muddled. "Don't you already have, like, 3?"

This only serves to confuse Cheren more. "Um... no? I don't even have one. I'm here to get my first Pokémon - my starter."

You nod. Okay, so this is probably the first games. I didn't know Cheren was your rival, though. Wait... Isn't there two rivals?

As if on cue, Cheren looks around the room. "What's keeping Bianca?" You tilt your head in surprise.

      "Bianca?"

      Cheren tenses. "Yes, Bianca," he nearly growls, clearly fed up. "Of course she's coming! Did you hit your head when you got out of bed or something?" Suddenly, his eyes widen, only to narrow even further. He strides over to the Wii and crouches down next to it, pressing the eject button.

       "Hey!" You protest weakly. "What are you doing?" Technically, this is your Wii, and he knows that.

      "I knew it!" Cheren nearly shoves the disc he ejected from the console into your face. "You stayed up and played this all night again, didn't you?"

      "...Kricketune Heaven Fever?" You read, confused.

      "Ugh. I've told you, today is an important day! We've been excited about this for weeks! You shouldn't stay up playing games any night, much less the night before the day we're supposed to be receiving our first Pokémon!"

Suddenly, Bianca appears on the stairs, breathing heavily. "Am I a little late again? Soooooooorry!"

Cheren groans. "First Y/N acts like an idiot, and now you? I thought you two were smarter than this..."

       "Hey!" Bianca puffs out her cheeks. "I'm not an idiot, and neither is Y/N! What did we do to be called stupid?"

      "Well, in Y/N's case, she stayed up playing Kricketune Heaven Fever again to the point where she was scared of her own best friend." Cheren flashes the game disc at the blonde, walking over to the bookcase and pulling out what looked like the game's case.

      Bianca gives you a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. "Aww, again? It's okay, I understand. That last remix is really hard to perfect."

      You just nod, trying not to seem weird. "Y-Yeah, that one is really tricky..."

      "But as for you, Bianca..." Cheren walks back over to us, glaring. "Seriously... I've known for ten years that you have no sense of time, but today's the day we can get a Pokémon from Professor Juniper! Don't you think that that deserves being on time?"

Bianca grins sheepishly, hanging her head. "I know. Sorry, Y/N. Sorry, Cheren."

"Well, if it helps, I don't mind that you were late, Bianca!" You smile at her.

She smiles back. "Thanks, Y/N. At least some people aren't nagging me to always be on time." She looks at Cheren pointedly, who crosses his arms and rolls his eyes.