Chapter 3: Blue
Red went up the stairs and soon reached his room. It was typical of what you would expect from a teenager around his age. He had a TV connected with some gaming stations that he had gotten adept at playing. Bookshelves on either side were filled with books on different topics but mostly covered Pokemon-related subjects. His bed was situated near the window of his modest-sized room that had a minimalistic design to attend to his aesthetic.
He put up the curtains to let the now high-up sun enter his abode. He moved away from the window and headed to his bathroom to take a shower. He put his sweatshirt and pants on a rack and left them outside of the shower. The mirror in front of him showed his well-built body that was free of any defects.
He moved towards the shower and turned it on as the cold water hit his face first before sliding down the rest of his body. He thought about his earlier interaction with Green and his mom and chuckled a bit, he had always been good at cooking as he had developed a habit of only eating food that he himself cooked, so he was glad that they liked his food to such a degree.
With these passing thoughts, he finished his shower and turned it off, he took off the towel hanging on the side of the wall on a rack and dried himself before tying it to his waist and headed out of his bathroom, and saw that Green was in his room, and seemed to not have noticed his presence yet, so he decided to head back to the bathroom and ask her to leave his room, but as he was turning back, he heard the sound of Green chuckling a bit as she addressed his actions.
"What, cat got your tongue?"
Red could only reply with a humph whilst turning around to face Green who was slightly surprised at his almost naked appearance that showed off his well-built body.
"Hmmm~", she seemed to be a bit embarrassed as she turned down her head.
"Well, what are you doing here?", Red asked with curiosity.
"Umm, you were taking your time so your mom asked me to check up on you.", she replied whilst she still had her head down facing the ground where she could see Red's feet.
'Even his feet look toned', thoughts like these passed by her head, before she quickly shook her head to get rid of them.
"Okay, you can wait outside, I'll change up.", Red said, not minding her actions.
"Umm...umm...", Green nodded fervently before heading out his door and closing it with a 'clack' sound.
"Haaaa..", Red exhaled a bit after she left and went to his closet that stood snugly next to his bookshelves, as he opened his closest, the simple yet stylistic clothing appeared in front of him as he took a slick black t-shirt out and put it on whilst also grabbing trousers that stuck comfortably to his legs. He took off a jacket from his closet and put it on, after catching a glimpse of the mirror next to his door, he was satisfied with how he looked and opened the door, but not before grabbing a stylized cap that hung aloof on the side of the wall.
He put his cap on and headed downstairs and saw that Green was now acting normal again and was talking casually with his mom, both of who noticed his presence and cut their conversation short as Red walked towards Green and spoke out to her.
"Let's go."
"Umm~Sure.", Green replied with her usual calm countenance that couldn't hide the slight blush that formed on her face, causing her to quickly look towards the ground.
Red didn't mind and nodded towards his mom who seemed to be pleased about something.
He was more than certain that the previous incident's perpetrator was his mom, and the proud smile on her face gave her away.
*sigh*
He only sighed slightly at this as he turned towards Green who now seemed to regain her composure.
They made eye contact and unanimously started heading towards the front door with Red in the lead. As he opened the door, he was greeted with a cool breeze that soothed his body, he could hear Vileplume squeal with joy from behind the house.
He headed outside with Green following closely behind, who soon initiated a conversation with him.
"Hey, Red, decided on your first Pokemon yet?"
"Ummm", Red nodded at her question, which caused her to be a bit surprised.
"Really? I haven't decided on which one to choose yet though..", she was sulking when she said this, so Red decided to follow up on it.
"Does it matter though, you can choose when we get there."
"You're right, I shouldn't be so worried about this, thanks Red, but on another note, which Pokemon have you decided on?", Green asked with a bit of anticipation hidden in her eyes.
"Charmander.", Red replied without hesitation.
"Oh, that's a cute one for sure, care to explain why you chose it?", she was even more curious now, so she asked him, but she was a little worried that she would get on his nerves by asking him so much.
Red didn't seem to think too much about it though, "My father had a Charizard on his team."
Green was a bit surprised at this, but nodded with a smile and thought to leave Red in his thoughts as she knew that the topic of his father was a hard one for him.
Red appreciated Green's worry for him and decided to stop the conversation there as he started to reminiscence the times when his father's Charizard played with him when he was still a kid, and he couldn't forget how his father smiled whenever he would see them playing together. That was a long time ago, and for the last 10 years, he had never heard of his father nor his favorite Charizard. He wanted to recreate the fun times he had with his father as a remembrance, so he decided to pick Charmander out of the three choices the Professor's lab had which consisted of the Water-type, Squirtle, and the Grass-type, Bulbasaur, and the Fire-type, Charmander.
These were rare Pokemon that couldn't be so easily found in the wild and were instead hatched from eggs at the breeding centers that the Professor had developed after several kinds of research with his team of assistants.
He still thought that it was amazing that they could pull something off like this as he considered how undeveloped their knowledge about Pokemon was 20 years ago, and now, they were pulling off miracles after miracles in regards to developing healthy Pokemon in lab environments.
He had visited the Professor's lab when he was a child and was awed by the scenery around him. He thought that the Professor's compound would be filled with research labs and that the Pokemon would be stored in glass tubes of sorts as he had seen in movies, but it was completely out of his expectations as he saw open fields full of Pokemon and their caretakers playing about.
That visit had been organized by his school as an excursion for the children to get educated on matters relating to how to treat Pokemon. That had been the spark to his fanatism with Pokemon and pushed him to be a Pokemon trainer.
"Heyyy Redddd!!!"
His thoughts were interrupted by a boy around his age who seemed to be thrilled about his encounter with Red.
Red gazed to where the voice had called out to him and saw his childhood friend, Blue standing on the front gates of the Professor's lab.
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