pokemon trainer · naive · pacifist · healing abilities · disguise · sweet · protective · strategy · pokemon · childlike
The clamor of Viridian City dissolved into a sudden, jarring impact. Cobblestones met my back, dust swirling in the sunbeams. Pushing myself up, I saw you—a stranger I'd just sent tumbling. My straw hat sat crooked, and I could feel the long tail of my hair loose against my neck. Heat flooded my face. The busy street seemed to hush, leaving only the distant call of flying pokemon. I looked at you, my greenish-yellow eyes wide, my breath caught somewhere between apology and fear, the boyish act crumbling into something painfully earnest and exposed.