#well there was the one time i accidentally ate a bunch of edibles

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

listening to afroman's "because i got high" but i've never gotten high in my life

[imdoingsortagay]

Rocky Mountain High

Summary: Wanda accidentally gets a tray of brownies that were left by Sam in the kitchen and chaos ensues

Warnings: mentions of edibles and weed, Wanda being a dummy while high, Sam and Tony are mentioned, Nat is too. A lot of talk about soup overall funny and fluff filled

A/N: shoutout to @maximotts for the title 🥺, this idea came up when in the discord and I was talking with her and @hey-its-liz about high Wanda and then bam I wrote it before going to sleep. I have never gotten high in my life but I have experience dealing with high people so that’s it.

again thanks @hey-its-liz and @maximotts <3

Word count: 1.8k

Comments, reblogs, and likes are very much appreciated besties, enjoy.

In your many years of living, you’ve dealt with many people close to you who have either been drunk or high, sometimes even both. Depending on their tolerance it would be very fun to see or just very bad to deal with.

What you didn’t know how to deal with is someone high who also had superpowers, like your girlfriend Wanda. And there isn’t really a quick wikipedia article you can google to help you with that.

You were having a pretty normal day, just trying to do chores at your apartment when you got a text from Nat asking you to come to the tower. It’s not uncommon for her to invite you over to hang out or to help with her training but when you saw the text, you immediately got worried.

Widow 🕷: Hey come to the compound it’s Wanda

Y/N: What happened?

Widow 🕷: you’ll want to see for yourself

30 minutes and over 20 texts to Wanda and you safely get to the compound to be greeted by Natasha with her arms crossed and you start to wonder what’s happening to Wanda that she’s in her serious pose.

“ Can you please tell me what’s wrong with my girlfriend? I’ve been texting her for the past 30 minutes nat “ you tell her as you both make your way into the compound, wondering all kinds of reasons she texted you.

“ Let’s go to the kitchen and you’ll see what happened to your sweet and innocent girlfriend honey,” she says to calm you down and 2 minutes later you find yourself in the kitchen of the compound to see your girlfriend sitting on the counter eating what looks to be brownies and a bunch of pots and pans flying in the air.

Oh fucking hell, you know by the look of the brownie that there’s only one reason as to why Natasha had called you.

Wanda ate edibles.

“ So you called me because my girlfriend ate edibles? “

“ Yes, I did y/n, who else am I supposed to call, ghostbusters ?”

“ First of all, that joke wasn’t funny, second of all you could have told me that in the first place so I wouldn’t have had thought of the worst thing ever dummy,” you say as you get closer to Wanda and try to avoid the flying pots and pans from hitting you.

“ OMG NAT IT’S MY BABY HIIIIIIII Y/N,” She says in an excited tone as she gets off the counter and gives you a big hug, causing all of the kitchen items to call but luckily to you none of them hit you or Wanda.

“ Wanda baby, how are you doing? “ you ask cautiously and you could tell that taking care of her in this state is gonna be an interesting experience to say

“ so I found these brownies on the counter and I didn’t know who’s they were and nobody in the avenger's group chat wasn’t answering me so i ate one, liked it a lot and had another, then ended up having 4 and now I’m on the 5th ones and I feel all floaty baby like a place and- “ you cover your girlfriend's mouth to prevent her from speaking anymore.

“ Nat, do you know who made those brownies ?” you ask the widow from where she’s sitting and it takes her a couple to second to find the answer to the question.

“ It was Sam”

“ Remind me to kick his ass next time I see him,” You say as you sit Wanda down at the kitchen island and do your best to clean up her mess.

“ Noted, well if you don’t need my help with anything else, I will be in my room trying to get some sleep��� she announces and both of you wave at her as she leaves the room.

“ Baby?”

“ Yes, Wanda?”

“ Why do woodchucks chuck wood, “ She asks as you continue the task at hand and you fight the urge not to laugh at her. You assume that Wanda has never had an edible in her life so this experience is gonna turn out to be funny. You get done cleaning up all the pots and pans around the kitchen in 15 minutes while Wanda is going on about soup.

“ Hey baby cakes ?”

“ yeah Wanda?”

“ I want some soup, like a warm soup in my belly, can we order soup y/n/n? “ she says and gives you her pouty eyes to seal the deal.

Oh no ! Not the puppy eyes.

“ sure we can baby, give me 10 minutes to order it and then we can head to your room to relax and cuddle” you tell her and you get out your phone to look for soup from restaurant nearby the compound. While you put your attention on ordering soup, you don’t notice when Wanda walks away from the kitchen and starts to wander around the compound looking for something to look at.

“ Okay that look me less than 10 minutes to order so let’s get ready to go and chill” you say as you make your way to where you assume Wanda is and you are met with an empty chair and start to freakout. How the fuck did she even sneak away from you so quietly ?

While your in the kitchen and the living room area of the compound searching for Wanda like lost keys, your girlfriend is in tony’s lab having the time of her life arguing with who she assumes is tony in the iron man suit which is empty.

“ Soup with bread is so good tony, you don’t even know, do you eat soup ? What do rich people eve eat ? those fancy people foods ? the small ones ? “ She questions to the empty suit only to be greeted by the man himself , questioning why the hell the avenger is in his lab or why she’s having a full blown conversation with his empty suit. This isn’t the weirdest thing that he’s walked in on.

“ I might be a rich person but i don’t eat like one witchy, also why are you even in my lab in the first place ? “ Tony asks her and Wanda take a while to think of the answer.

‘ soup’ she thinks.

“ Well y/n was ordering me soup because i’m hungry but i also ate like 5 of the brownies too but i really want more food so she's ordering me soup, she’s so good tony i like her a lot” Wanda says to the man and he just nods at her.

“ Were they brownies left in the kitchen ? “

“ Yeah “

“ You ate pot brownies Wanda, Sams pot brownies to be exact “ and the way Wanda’s face changes in an instant makes tony want to laugh.

“ TONY HAVE YOU SEEN MY GIRLFRIEND SHE WALKED AWAY WHEN I WAS -” you scream as you get into the lab and you see your girlfriend with a surprise as the realization that she ate a couple of pot brownies.

“ Tony did you tell her ? “

“ Yes i did”

“ Baby, those were pot brownies and nobody told me “ she says in a sad tone. Wanda has never done drugs in her life. She had no interest in them and wanted to keep it that way but now she messed that up by eating those brownies.

“ i know honey, i know now let’s go back to your room before you do anything else “ you say as you grab your girlfriends hand and lead her to her room.

On your way to her room you pass by an exhausted Natasha, who looks tired from training and she smiles as she sees you and Wanda.

“ she good ?”

“ she was in tony’s lab and tony found her talking to his empty suit, i also ordered her more food to eat “ you tell her while Wanda is clinging to you like a koala.

“ Hurry up i wanna cuddle and eat soup and watch sitcoms” she says quietly to you, nat understanding and you both says your goodbyes so that you could go with Wanda to have a fun time.

Both of you make it to her room without seeing another member of the team, Sam seeing you from a distance and turning the other way to prevent you from kicking his ass.

As you look around in her closet , Wanda decides that she wants to have a bit of fun and make you float because she thinks it’s going to be funny. As you are looking for some clothes for Wanda to change into, you don’t notice her powers making you slowly float and your girlfriends giggling like an idiot.

“ Wanda ?”

“ You’re floating like a ballon “

“ If you don't put me down gently i’m eating your soup “ you say sternly and she slowly places you on the group not being hearing a knock on the door and she drops you down hard on the floor to go to her door and you groan in pain at the impact on your back. This is becoming to be the weirdest experience of being with someone high ever.

“ Baby i think they brought our soup “ she exclaims as she’s holding a bag with the food you had ordered earlier, wondering who even brought up the soup to you. Remembering the last time you had ordered food at the compound and one of the team members later had eaten it and finding out it was Sam who got your food.

You get a text a couple second later which gives you the answer as to who left the food at Wanda’s room door.

Widow 🕷: left the food at the door for both of you, Sam almost got it again

y/n: Did you punch him ?

Widow 🕷 : of course <3

y/n: thank you , this is why your my second favorite person

Widow 🕷: i’ll take that.

“ Soup is so good i could eat it up all day, and they indeed bread too ! y/n come and eat some soup with me while we watch “ she says to you and you go over to where she’s sitting so you can eat some food with her.

“ Did you have a fun day Wanda ? “ you ask to Wanda who seems to be having the time of her life eating some soup with some bread, eating it like it’s the first time that she’s even having this type of food.

“ Yeah, remind me to never eat brownies again “ she says .

“ Will do”

“ and to punch Sam in the face ? “

“ Natasha already did Wanda”

“ Cool, can we cuddle now “ she says, putting her bowl on nightstand on the side of her bed and moving closer to you. After the ending of what could be considered a pretty chaotic day in your experiences, a normal one for someone like Wanda, you are happy to be able to be cuddled up in bed with her and watching some of her favorite sitcoms.

An hour later, Wanda looks up at you with big puppy eyes, thinking of asking you an important question that she hopes you’ll answer.

“ Hey baby ? “

“ Yeah Wanda?”

“ Will you still love me even if i was a worm? “

“ yes Wanda, i will still love you even if you were a worm “ you say to her with a smile on your face and snuggle up with her loving the ending to this day.

[charming-2d-boys]

How to you think the trio would react to accidentally eating a bunch of edibles that thier s/o left out in accident

Hey, anon! Thanks for the request and I hope you'll like it! 🙇

I changed the request a bit since I couldn’t really make it fit with the situations exactly, hope that’s okay!

Oh God, at least one of them is dead, guess who 😂

Chrollo

you left the last cup of pudding on the kitchen table, unopened, because your phone rang and you had been expecting that important call

Chrollo was still reading when you had picked up the phone, so you went into your bedroom so you wouldn’t disturb him

your boyfriend went into the kitchen to get himself a drink when he took a break from reading

only to see the pudding cup

you’d told him earlier that day that there was no pudding left and now that he saw it on the table, he huffed

accident? maybe

intentional? also maybe

thing is, Chrollo had wanted pudding for quite a few days and none of you had had the time to go shopping

so right now, he was a bit desperate to feel the pleasant taste on his tongue again

he could still hear you in the bedroom, so he quickly grabbed a spoon and ate it, trying not to hurry because he wanted to enjoy the taste

but also knowing that he’d have to face it in case you would’ve caught him red-handed if he didn’t eat faster

he was gonna get in trouble anyway

might as well die with the knowledge of having eaten that pudding

Chrollo quickly finished the pudding and threw away the cup in the trash while the spoon was washed and put away

and just a few seconds later, you came out with a beaming smile on your face

you had just managed to get a job and told Chrollo immediately

he only smiled before coming to you and giving you a big hug

How about we go out and celebrate then?

with a quick nod from you, he ushered you into the bedroom to get dressed up, happy that he’d gotten your mind off the pudding

Oh, I forgot about the pudding on the table! I’ll put it back in the fridge really quick.

or maybe not

Hisoka

as soon as you came back with the groceries, you took them to the kitchen to sort through them and put everything in its rightful place

what you didn’t know was that you had dropped a bar of chocolate on the couch when you bent over a bit so your bag slipped off your shoulder and onto it before going to the kitchen

Hisoka had been showering and came out of the bathroom in a pair of briefs and with a towel in his hands, drying his hair with it

he came into the living room and heard the rustling of packs and bags and the opening of the fridge and the cupboard doors

knowing that it was you, he sat down on the couch, close to your bag, and reached for the remote, only to touch the chocolate instead

well, it wouldn’t hurt to eat a piece or two, right?

as he opened it and got the remote to look for something interesting, Hisoka’s motion of eating the sweet treat became almost subconscious

he hadn’t found anything that interesting, just some rerun to an episode from a show he liked, but before he knew it, the chocolate was completely gone

you had finally finished putting the groceries to their places before entering the living room, ready to greet your boyfriend

when you saw the candy wrapper on the couch next to Hisoka, who glanced at you before going back to watching TV

Did you eat all that chocolate just now?

you asked almost incredulously

Hisoka shrugged nonchalantly

you only sighed before kissing his cheek and going towards the bathroom to take a bath

Okay, but because of this, you’re making dinner tonight. That was my chocolate.

Yes, lovely~ ♠️

Illumi

for the past few months, you and Illumi had found something you both liked

a box of 10 little cakes that looked like cats and tasted like heaven

you’d both usually share

but there were times when one of you got a bit greedy and would buy a box without really planning on sharing that day

thing is, those boxes were pretty hard to find since a lot of people bought them at an insanely fast rate

but today, you’d managed to buy one of the last ones and were now heading home

Illumi was out on a mission and wouldn’t be back until later or even the next morning, so it was perfect

and that’s how you ate half of them and put the rest in the fridge so you could eat them later

stuffed and alone in the house, you could barely keep your eyes open and decided to go and take a nap for a few hours

and a few hours later, Illumi silently entered your shared home

all your things were in their place and the bedroom door was closed, so he knew you were asleep

knowing this, he went into the kitchen to rummage through the fridge for something quick to eat since he hadn’t had time to

only to be pleasantly surprised at the sight of the cake box

only 5 left

...

forget food

he hadn’t managed to find a box that day either and he was craving some

Illumi took the cakes one by one and finished them in a matter of a few minutes

they were too good to resist

he’d buy you another box as soon as he could

hopefully, he could take your mind off them

he planned on going and buying a full box at dawn, when he knew you’d still be asleep and surprise you with it

hopefully, he’d be forgiven easily

Lumi, is that you?

oh boy

[pokeexehasstoppedworking]

Love Doesn’t Do Encores Ch10 Battle Gym Leader Nessa

(Will have a reference to Pokemon Twilight Wings Series.)

You slept well that night. The hotel wasn't too far from the Hulbury stadium so it wasn't a very long walk from where you four left the light house and stationed yourselves for the night. Not before dishing out the rations between the four of you. You were a lot lower on food than you thought and surprised you hadn't noticed earlier. A month's walk drained almost all of the food you had aside from a few packets of dried fruits. Thank goodness for restocking. The next morning wasn't anything too different. Gloria and Hop of course wanted to stop by the stadium and get one of them that spot to battle Nessa before another trainer took it. Huh. You wonder how the battle between her and Bede went the other day? Victor mentioned wanting to go back towards the Hulbury Aquarium and offered for you to come with them but you had other plans for the day.

"Hey, Y/n. Since Glory and Hop's going to be busy all day considering would you like to come with me to the aquarium?, Victor offered after the two of you had dug through your rations for breakfast. Your Sobble tiredly yawning on your shoulder rubbing at his eyes.

You shook your head. "No thanks. I actually wanted to check out that market down by the docks. I heard they sell all kinds of trinkets and stuff and it's been a while since I was able to go somewhere by myself and have some me time."

He nodded in understanding before smiling. "Alright then. You guys know where I'll be if you change your minds."

The two of you parted ways outside the hotel before you headed back up the road towards the docks. Already in the morning the place was all a buzz with ship horns blaring off in the distance and a few people walking around. It was a nice day with the salty smell of the ocean, the gently breeze, not being too hot but nice and warm, etc. It was a very nice day that filled your tired body with a happy feeling as you inhaled deeply. The small market place was past the restaurant and just across the docks past the convenience store you had visited the other day for supplies. It wasn't really big. There was only about five stalls set up alongside a concrete wall with one or two picnic tables a little bit a ways from them. A few people were already there looking at the stalls or sitting at the tables to eat or just to sit. Walking over you strolled up to the first stall that sold a few random things like flowers, dishes, and a couple clothes hanging up. The man handling it was talking up some of the flower pots but you weren't too interested in those so shortly after moved on. The other four were a fruit stand, someone selling records, another one selling random objects, but the last one had you notice something. Sweet smells of perfumes and spices wafted from it the closer you gotten to it. And it didn't take too long for you to find out why. A young lady was there surrounded by a bunch of incense. She smiled as you stopped to admire all the sweet smells and gave a greeting.

"Get a whiff of that fragrance! Doesn't it smell sweet?," she asked holding out some sweet smelling sticks that smelt of lilacs, "How about some incense for you, Girl? Good for meditation, yoga, relaxing, or just making a room smell nice. And it all natural so it's safe for pokemon too and helps them destress....As long as they don't eat it. Non edible."

"Destress huh?,'' you pondered looking at your sobble who seemed more interested in staring at the food stand with hungry eyes despite just eating breakfast a while ago. Considering how spooked this lil guy could be, it might be a good idea. "....What scents to you have exactly?"

You ended up using the twenty dollar bill you had saved forever now to buy some of the sea and rose scented incense and then later one or two apples at the fruit stand since your sobble kept jumping on your shoulder and chirping in it's directed until you finally did so. All of it costing almost half your money leaving you from twenty dollars to twelve dollars and some change. You found yourself wondering over until you sat down at one of the picnic tables so your sobble could sit and eat and give your poor shoulders a break from carrying it all the time. Granted Sobble wasn't really that heavy, about half the weight of a small cat, but it was nice to be able to stretch your shoulders and neck out without worrying about accidentally knocking him off. Lazily you watched it make happy noises as it greedily ate as if you didn't already give it a big breakfast about an hour ago. It was still pretty early in the morning so it you really hadn't anything to do other than just sit here and watch your sobble. But it was refreshing. With a sigh you closed your eyes and slowly put your head down on the table. The only problem with having a bunch of free time is that your brain slowly fills itself with thoughts you might not want. Like now. You had been gone for what must've been a little over a month now. How worried was your mom? She must've been worrying herself sick if you were gone for this long without any notice or clues or anything. And(tho you were HIGHLY doubtful now-) if this all IS some kind of dream universe it was certainly the longest one you ever experienced. Not only that, but you were SURELY not going to be able to start college just like you wanted. You'd have to wait another year just to start it and that's only if considering you'd be able to go home after this whole journey has finished. It was the only way you could think of that you could go back, once this is over. If it'll ever be-

"I can NOT believe this!," an angry woman's voice piped up. Startled you jumped up and blinked light rushing back into your vision.

"Calm down, Ness. Don't make a big scene in public." ....That voice sounded familiar.

"I AM calm. I'm just restocking my incense before I head back!" Now that you think about it, that angry voice sounded familiar too.

Blinking you turned around to look behind you, and your eyes widened at what you saw. Two ladies were at the incense stand with their backs towards you, one with bright orange hair and a coat you recognized and the other wore a black cap and shirt.

"First he said I should stop modeling and now he's breathing down my neck because I just happened to lose to his endorsed challenger!,'' Cap Lady growled out as she waved her hand. "I mean yeah, usually I'm busy so I cut back to one challenger a day! That doesn't mean I lost my touch as a gym leader!" She paused as the lady manning the stall held out a small paper bag of incense to her similar to the one you had. "Oh..Thank you. It just drives me up a wall just thinking about it!"

"Then don't think about it," Orange hair replied patting her friend on the back, "It'll only stress you out before your other gym match today."

Cap Lady sighed. "You're right, Sonia...As usual. It just ticks me off knowing he's in town just to see you too no less and buddy up with the crowd!! It makes me angry!"

"Sonia?"

The orange haired woman turned to you immediately as you stared back, her friend turning too and that's when you recognized the other woman too. She smiled. "Hey, Y/n! Fancy meeting you here! Haven't seen you in a while." She fully turned to you now and walked over her friend following.

You casually waved where you sat and gave a tired smile. "Yeah. Honestly wasn't expecting to see you here either. What are you doing here?"

She gestured to none other than Nessa next to her. "I was chatting with an old friend before she needed to go. Since you're here I assume Gloria can only be here as well."

You nodded. "Yeah. I'm pretty sure she's at the stadium right now." Your gaze slowly shifted over to nessa as you spoke and you waved again. "Hello again. Nice weather you guys have here."

Nessa smiled. "Yeah. It's usually warm and sunny here all year round being the coast and all. You should visit the beach if you ever get the chance."

You shrugged. "I might. I mean I guess my sobble could use the chance to swim."

"Well, that all depends. Is your sobble a freshwater or saltwater sobble?"

"There's a difference?"

"Hey wait a minute!" Both of you turned to Sonia who was looking between the two of you with a confused look on her face. "You two know each other?"

"Sort of. She helped me out with some stuff yesterday, I didn't even know she was the gym leader until someone told me," you explained with a shrug, "I just appreciate anyone who helps carry groceries."

"Oh. I see. What are you doing here if Gloria is I assume at the stadium?," she asked.

You gestured to your sobble as it spat out an apple seed. "Someone wanted more food. I'm telling you he's worse than a kid hyped up on sugar once he sees the stuff." Both of you jumped at a ....snort? Blinking you looked at Nessa and noticed her holding her mouth and chuckling.

"I-I'm so sorry," she giggled out, "That's just the funniest thing that I've heard all day while stressing out. U-U-Usually people don't say that about s-s-sobble care."

You blinked. "Oh yeah?"

Sonia nodded as Nessa's giggles slowly fizzled out. "Usually sobbles are....how do you say it?...Massive cry babies that'll cry at the tiniest things like a baby would. It happened ALL the time with my Granny gave a trainer their first pokemon." She groaned closing her eyes as if the memory gave her instant annoyance and headaches. "They don't get an extra snack? BOOM! Crying! They trip the littlest, I mean tiniest bit. Crying! You're too busy to pet them? Crying! Forget playtime? CRYING! And don't get me started on the amount of times I had to buy Sobble Eye Drops for all the stinging and headaches. It's like walking on eggshells until they evolve into a drizzile! It's why a bunch of trainers rather chose scorbunny or grookey than a sobble." She pointed towards yours who had finished eating and began crawling it's way over to you. "In fact, the sobble Granny gave Leon for the trainers he endorsed was the pokemon who stayed in our care the longest. She must've had it for at least since it hatched and was given to her. It was such a little wimp clinging to her all the time...I never really had mush patience for them."

You jolted when something tugged on your arm, calming yourself once you noticed it was just your pokemon. "...Really?"

With a frown Nessa sighed. "She's right. Sobbles are much better suited for older more patient people. They aren't exactly really popular pokemon among starting trainers who are eager to start their journey. Most end up for adoption to pokemon centers or abandoned to the wild because the person decides it's not worth it to have their eyes burning after every battle or basically raise what could essentially be a child in their eyes." Her eyes suddenly narrowed. "I remember once Raihan came all the way to Hulbury just to give me a sobble someone carelessly discarded at his gym after they lost. The poor thing was so confused and scared. It was a miracle I found someone who loved it. Much more than the thoughtless trainer who never gave it a second thought. Pokemon aren't just toys you can give away or leave lying around after you decided you outgrew them."

"THAT'S AWFUL!!,'' you shouted feeling an anger grow in you as one hand instinctly came up to grab your sobble who chirped in confusion at your actions, both women giving you looks of surprise at your shout. How could anyone DO such a horrible thing!? That's like the equivilant of someone getting a brand new puppy and then not wanting to deal with the work and attention that goes into it and then straight up abandoning it to the streets in your world!! "How could anyone do such a thing?! That's like...So not ok!"

"Well....That is very true. Its not ok. But it seems to be you and your sobble have a very special connection," Nessa said gesturing towards your sobble making Sonia take a double take at you as well.

"Huh. Now that you mention it he does looked rather relaxed. He usually never looked so comfortable before Granny gave him to Leon."

"Really?,'' you asked, "He seemed pretty ok so far. Cried like...only one time but that might be cuz he was pushed over by these rockstar wannabes."

To that the ladies seemed lightly surprised. "Really now? Well then you must have lots of patience then. Sobbles usually tend to work better with people who have lots of patience or a motherly personality."

"And considering you mentioned never having a pokemon before I'm kinda impressed too. You must be a natural babysitter!," Sonia joked. You huffed and rolled your eyes at her joke. Yeah. You sure felt like one sometimes during your journey so far.

"Oh, Scales!" You blinked backed towards Nessa as she now held up her phone to her face with a frown before looking back towards you and Sonia. "Hey. Sorry but I have to bounce. I have to stop by home then head to the gym really quick if I'm going to make it to that match on time." Turning with a smile she waved. "I'll see you later Sonia. It was nice seeing you again too, Miss. good luck with that sobble of yours."

As she walked away, the both of you waved as you watched her go before Sonia turned back to you. "Hey. If you're not really busy, would you like to come to the docks with me?" She held up a small clear plastic bag with, what looked like to you at least, dog kibble with a smile. "There's always a small school of chinchou everyone likes to feed there. I always like to visit whenever I come to Hulbury."

You paused considering her words for a moment. It would be nice to have more time with another person around your age before you had to go back for a bit and they wouldn't be expecting you for a while. So it should be fine. With a shrug you stood up. "Sure! I don't think I've ever seen a chinchou anyways."

Smiling she gestured for you to follow. "C'mon. We're pretty close anyways. I think you'd really like them."

She was right. The small market area was right across from the docks anyways, so it took less than five minutes to reach the docks. You followed her onto the pathways on the water and looked over the edge. The crystal blue water acting like a mirror letting you see your reflection and your sobble's as it blinked big innocent eyes at the water. You nearly bumped into her when she stopped and already had the bag open with her hand inside rummaging around until she pulled out a small handful of the kibble. With a toss they all went into the clear water sending small ripples as they floated and bobbed on the mirror water. That was until almost instantly bubbles appeared from under them and in a flurry of lightbulb antennas and blue skin tons of tiny little creatures swam to the surface and the floating kibble was devoured by the pokemon. You blinked as you watched them swim around. There must've been around ten of them all swimming about here. You blinked as the bag was suddenly held out to you with a smile from Sonia.

"Do you wanna feed them a little? This pokemon food is specifically made for water type pokemons' tastes," she offered.

"Yeah! Thanks!" You happily took some from her and a small blue hand tried to reach out for it too as you pulled away and gave your sobble a look. It stared at you for a moment before chirping and grabbing your nose. "*sigh* Fine." With a sigh and roll of your eyes, you silently held one piece of the kibble up to him and watched as he grabbed it from you and popped it into his mouth. Before tossing more kibble at the peeping lanturn fish like pokemon still swimming around. As before they began devouring it. "They sure are hungry huh?"

"Always are," Sonia replied tossing some more kibble to them. "It's a really popular thing to do around here if you aren't visiting the stadium or Aquarium or eating at the famous cafe up the road. Since there's a battle later today with Nessa I suspect that's why it's so vacant."

You smiled. "Yeah. I just hope everything goes well for them later today. Hop and her seemed pretty excited to go battling Nessa."

Sonia nodded. "I can't blame them. When Leon and I were they're age we were excited over battling the gym leaders too." She smiled at some distant long memory. "In fact, it seemed like it was just yesterday I was right here feeding some Chinchou and then Leon came out of no where and fell in the water! S-Said he d-d-didn't even know how he got there looking for the stadium." She giggled and you couldn't help but smile back.

"Oh. Is that anything like the time I heard he somehow ended up on top of a barn?" Sonia snorted. "Or the time he went out to catch a train and somehow ended up back in front of his house?"

"That happened?"

You nodded. "Oh yeah. He ended up waiting for me to thank me for the two's Slumbering Weild field trip after it happened. I have no idea how."

She chuckled. "Neither do I. Lee's always had a bad sense of direction just like his Da-" She froze. The once smile and cheery attitude replaced by a look of mild panic before she coughed and tossed some more kibble towards the chinchou. "Hey. Look at how cute they are today. They look like such healthy wild chinchou. Don't you think?"

It was her attempting to deflect away from what she already said. You knew that and personally you wouldn't really bother looking into it as 1. It was really none of your business and you hated budding into someone else's business and 2. you didn't feel up to making Sonia more uncomfortable than she already looked...But you couldn't help yourself since this was the second time this has happened. ...That's right. She did a similar thing at the Opening Ceremony when she asked you not to mention what she said to anyone. By now you had completely forgotten about that moment with everything that's been going on and at the time just brushed it off having more important things to worry about. But now....You looked at her and by the look in her eyes she knew what you were about to ask.

"That's right. I spent a few days between their houses and I saw their families. And I met their mothers. And Hop's grandparents." You fully turned to her with a raised brow. "And Hop's older brother. And Gloria's brother. But not have I ever once seen any of their dads nor had they even mentioned them. So that's begging the question of where's the missing link then isn't it?"

There was a pregnant silence between the two of you as you stared at her expectantly and Sonia stared back down at the water, seemingly trying to process the situation she found herself in. The only sounds was the boat horns from the docks, and the splashing around and noises of the chinchou as they still begged for more of the kibble Sonia held. And after more silence your expression softened and a guilty feeling bubbled up. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to ask. Even if you were traveling with them it was none of your business really. So you went to apologize.

With a sigh, Sonia finally seemed to find her words and turned to you with a sad but serious look. "I...understand if you're concerned or curious. I'd be too all things considering. But I really CANT tell you anything since it's not my place to say....By now you obviously noticed they just..aren't there and let's leave it as that."

You nodded. "Hey. I'm..I-I'm sorry. I know it's none of my business. I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable."

She shook her head. "No. To be honest you wouldn't be the first one to ask that question to Leon or anyone else and you probably won't be the last. But if you could do us both a solid and not tell anyone about this it'd be great."

"Believe me, I was about to ask you the same thing." You smiled. "Trust me. I won't tell us a soul."

"Thank you, Y/n. I'm glad you understand."

"Hey. Of course!"

So.....No fathers in the picture huh? A strange feeling settled into your guts that was something akin to feeling extremely guilty. And a....strange feeling of familiarity of it all for your own reasons...Then the reality hit you. In a memory of what happened back at the inn back in Motostoke. In the very slip up Sonia had made before that you had passed off until now-

"And thanks for taggin' along with the kids this far. I know we're practically strangers but there's just....I don't know....really good aura about you. I'm sure Lee appreciates it too. He's always so worried about Hop. He practically raised him after all-" All of a sudden it was like a switch flipped off in her mind and her happy smile went to a sudden shocked face. "Oh no. I didn't mean to mention that. Please forget I even said that."

You had pretty much pieced it together right after remembering that. For some reason, in one way or another, Hop and the twins had no fathers and Leon as Sonia said must've practically filled the role in which a father figure would fill. This would sum up a lot of the things you've bared witness too. Hop and Gloria's infatuation with Leon(especially on Hop's end), they're desire to climb their way up the ranks and make him proud-..Heck. Leon's behavior know that you think about it could've been summed up as brotherly...or fatherly. Sponsoring two (although it was VERY clear he was full on ready to just endorse Victor as well no questions asked if he hadn't made the choice of not competing in the Gym Challenge) kids for the challenge which as you came to know wasn't typical of a Galar Champion, buying you and them all those supplies and stuff, and with what Sonia said just set that fact in concrete. And....While that did make you feel guilty and sad for them...At the end of the day it really was none of your business. Any moment or day now you could wake up back home and none of this would have mattered, and you shouldn't really butt in between their business. Especially since you weren't planning on staying in the long run. Plus...you were trying NOT to uproot the game's progress as much as possible or no more than you might've already had done if at all with your actions. You might've not remembered how the game went entirely but you knew you were on the right track. For now at least. You continued to make small talk with Sonia about how her research was going and your trip over before deciding it was best to part ways there and bid her farewell before heading back towards the stadium. Nessa mentioned leaving to make sure she arrived on time. You wondered if Gloria was battling her right now?...Well you soon found out the answer to that question.

when you were just making your way up to the resturaunt your stomach grumbled. Making you wince a bit. Huh. Guess you were out for longer than you thought if you got hungry. Glancing up to the cafe you wondered how much a simple meal would cost? It was supposed to be famous for their food after all. With a shrug you decided on entering and seeing if they had anything your measly twelve dollars could buy. Fancy was the first word that came to mind when you entered through the double doors and a bell rung off. A woman at a front desk was the first thing to greet you along with some kind of pokemon you didn't recognize. It seemed the theme of the whole place was blue and white, giant tables lined the area with table setting and napkins fancily folded into boat like shapes, a MASSIVE window looking over the stadium, and a bar like area near the far right walls with another pair of double doors you assumed lead to the kitchen. The only other people there besides you and the lady was a man behind the bar counter who was talking on the phone with someone.

The woman smiled at you. "Greetings and welcome to the Hulbury Seafood Restaurant!" She greeted with a bow. "Do you happen to have a reservation or would like to make one?"

"Uh-..." You shook your head. Oh man. Was this one of those places where you HAD to make a reservation in order to eat? "Not exactly. I just heard your food was pretty good."

The woman still smiled. "Oh. Well then I'd be more than happy to seat you by the-"

"AHH!" Both of you jumped when a thud rang out which turned out to be the man in the chef hat slamming down the phone he was previously talking to.

"Chef, what on earth is the matter?," the woman asked.

The chef pointed to the phone scowl on his face. "My delivery boy just called. Apparently he's caught a cold and can't make it today! Out of all the days I need him most." The old man grabbed at his grey hair. "I have all these orders and no one to take them. The Chairman could show up any minute for his reservation but instead he's going to be present with angry customers calling for their orders and our reputation as Hulbury's greatest restaurant will be tarnished!!"

"Well...I could run out and deliver a few," the woman suggested.

"And leave your post!? OH no no no! That'd look even more bad if no one was here to greet them in while I cook!" He slumped forward. "This is an utter disaster! What am I to do?"

You looked between the two of them before slowly holding up your hand. "Um...If you'd like, I'd like to help."

Immediately the chef snapped his head up and blinked at you. Before a suspicious look came over his face as he looked you over. "You, Young Lady? You would please help us deliver some food?"

You nodded. "I mean..Yeah. It looks like you guys are pretty.." You gave a glance at the empty place. "-busy at the moment and I'd like to help."

After looking you up and down a few more moments the chef sighed before shrugging. "Why not? I have nothing else to lose in this moment anyhow." He reached under a counter and beckoned you to come over to which you complied before placing a small take out box onto the counter. "Thank you. I truly appreciate it. Tell you what. If you manage to deliver all the take out orders then I'll prepare you my famous 'Lucky Egg' dish as thanks. How does that sound?"

You mouth watered just thinking about free food. This just might be your lucky day after all. You nodded with a smile and took the box from him. "Sure! Sounds fair enough. Where do I deliver this one?"

He paused for a moment...before he rubbed the back of his neck. "Oh uh. Well as for where to deliver the food.....Sorry. We've been so stressed out for the Chairman's visit I forgot to ask for an address." You stared at him. .....WHAT!? "B-But I heard a clickity clack sound from the phone when I took the first order. Maybe that's a clue as to where to go?"

..........You sighed. "Yeah..Don't worry about it. I'll figure it out somehow."

"That's the spirit! Come back as soon as you're done delivering that one! And hurry please. Oh! And here. Take this notepad with you. They'll have to sign off on it so I can send the bill."

You had no idea what you had gotten yourself into this time. With a groan you exited the restaurant and spotted a peculiar sight to behold. There was Gloria standing just outside the restaurant as you approuched with her back to you and you soon saw what she was staring at. A little ways from her standing in the middle of the road was HIM. Mareep Head-..Er. I mean Bede who looked bored and in front of him was....It was her. The same woman from your dream and the Opening Ceremony as well. And in front of her was...No. It COULDN'T be!! In front of them was a group of about six to eight people, but with that group was none other than the CHAIRMAN himself!!...Tho he looked a little different than the other times you've seen him. You didn't expect to see Nessa outside of her gym leader suit, but you hadn't been caught too much off guard. The chairman however was a different story. Instead of that professional slim fitting suit he wore a baseball cap, slip on white shoes, sunglasses, .....a sweater that showed how chubby he was actually under his suit, and blue shorts with white polka dots to top it all off. You could only star at the man...Was this-....This COULDN'T have been the same professional high standing man that ran the whole Galar Region! He looked like someone's Dad on a lazy day. ...You chuckled which startled Gloria into giving a yelp and whipping around to see you and the box you held.

"Holy Magikarp, Y/n! You nearly gave me a heart attack!"

"Sorry....Hey. What are you doing all the way over here? I thought you were having a battle today."

She sighed. "We got hungry just waiting for Nessa so Hop suggested I go grab us something while he holds our place. What are you doing?" She noticed the box you held and pointed at it. "And what's that?"

"Long story short is that I agreed to be the fill in delivery boy for a bit." You nodded past her towards the group. "Hey uh...Gloria, is that who I think it is?"

She turned around and with a huff she crossed her arms and frowned. "Yeah. The Cottonee so full of himself he needs a garden hose to wash the ego from his brain!"

".....Uh..Actually I was talking about the chairman over there, but I guess Bede's here too yes."

"Oh...Well yeah. It's weird just walking around the corner and seeing him right that. Like..what the bloody heck are those shorts?"

"Y'know I was thinking the same thing." You two continued to watch in bewilderment as the chairman smiled and spoke with the small group of people, before the woman suddenly stepped in front of him as he was about to shake another person's hand.

She held up a hand. "Our sincerest apologies," she spoke with a calm and professional tone, "The chairman is quite busy at the moment. Everyone please disperse. Please leave now."

The crowd murmered but eventually slowly parted ways, one woman saying. "Ok. See you later, Chairman."

"Oh h-hey! No need to rush off! I can still do autographs!," the chairman called after them raising a hand, "I'll even give you my pokemon league card!" To your surprise no one really paid attention and kept walking besides you and Gloria...And you rose a brow. With a sigh he turned back to the woman. "we need the support of our fans to keep doing what we're doing. Chasing them off like that. Aren't you being a little too harsh, Oleana?"

"Fans are very important of course," the woman, who must've been Oleana explained, "That's why you need to keep doing your work for their sake."

"I promise to do everything in my power to assist you too, Chairman!," Bede butted in proud of himself. Huh. Maybe Gloria had a point.

The chairman gave him a look for a moment before raising a brow. "Oh. And you were?"

Maybe it was just your imagination most likely, but you could've sworn you saw Bede frown for a moment before he answered, "Bede, Sir."

"AH! That's right! Bede! I daresay I'm impressed how fair you've come since I gave you that pokemon all those years ago. Will you be the one to win the Gym Challenge? Or perhaps it will be one of the Trainers endorsed by the Champion."

"I will prove your faith in me was well placed, Chairman," Bede assured, "I won't lose to anyone. Anyway speaking of which, I'll be on my way now." He turned and began walking away, but completely froze upon seeing you and Gloria..Well more Gloria than you as the two of them made eye contact...And he suddenly pointed. "YOU!?"

"Hey Mareep Head. How's your Hatenna?"

"WHY YOU-....YOU- ..LITTLE-"

"AH! You!" Bede practically jumped out of his skin as the chairman was quick to push past him and walk up to Gloria with a smile, Oleana right behind him. Gloria practically just stood and stared as he approuched and you rose an eye brow. "Your name was...." He thought for a moment before pointing to her. "Gloria right? We were just talking about you!" Your brow rose more. That was a complete and utter lie. They were standing right there entire time in front of you but you shrugged it off as an awkward ice breaker.

.....Gloria exchanged a look with you before pointing at herself. "....Me?"

he nodded. "Yes! I admit I'm curious about Leon's reasons for endorsing you. Ah! I just had a good idea, as I tend to do!" Brag much? "You're going to face Gym Leader Nessa soon, yes?"

"Um...Y-Yeah. I was on my way back to the stadium actually-"

"Well if you get a gym badge from her I'll hold a celebration! I'd like to get to know you a little better after all." He smiled and you felt ....odd about it all.

"Um..Y-Yeah..I guess so??"

"Chairman, we should really be going if you want to keep that dinner reservation," Oleana stated.

The chairman nodded to her before turning back to Gloria. "Alright. Please do your best, for the sake of Galar's future."

"I Uh...Y-YES SIR!!" Gloria gave her best smile under the situation.

With a smile and nod he turned and walked past her and you not sparing you a glance and you followed him with your gaze brow raised...You weren't sure, but you had a funny feeling about him and it wasn't a good funny. When you turned back around you nearly jumped the box in surprise. The woman-!! Oleana was standing right in front of Gloria so close her shadow was literally blocking the sunlight from her. The poor girl frozen under the woman's studying gaze.

"The Chairman will be heading to this town's seafood restaurant." She stated monotonely, "Win the gym badge and join him there at once. Do not keep him waiting. Am I clear, Young Lady?" Gloria didn't say anything..and you looked at her. Eyes shooting to the size of plates. She was more frozen than a glacier. ...All that came out of her was a small squeak noise making the woman's eyes narrow. "Perhaps I wasn't clear. Do not keep the chairman waiting. Head to the seafood restaurant. The Captain's Table. Do you need me to repeat myself once more, Child? Or do you understand-"

"Too skinny."

Gloria jumped having probably completely forgotten you were there for a moment as she snapped to you and Oleana followed her piercing gaze to meet your glare. ....She slowly blinked. "I beg your pardon, Miss?"

"I said you're too skinny for that," you explained as they both stared at her.

Her brow flicked up as she studied you. "And I happen to be too thin for what purpose, Ma'am?"

"Well you're certainly not fat enough to be throwing your weight around not to notice you're being a jerk," you explained raising a brow back, "Obviously she heard you with how close you are. Maybe she'd answer if you weren't so close making her feel uncomfortable like that."

They both stared at you stunned. Gloria jaw dropped and Oleana had the same face but her eyes much more widened as she stared at you. It was so quiet you could've heard a pin drop as you joined this little three way stare down. HECK. It felt like an entire hour just staring at her before her face slowly contorted back to her original bored/professional looking one and she took a step back, spooking Gloria in process as the poor girl blinked.

"Do you happen to know who I am, Miss?," she asked like you should already know this.

"Somebody who's heels makes them so tall their head's in the clouds obviously."

This time her brows furrowed, her mouth frowned, and you noticed the way her hands gripped each other. As if she was physically holding back her anger. But before she could reply a chuckle seemed to interrupt you. Blinking you turned around only to find that the Chairman guy was looking right at you. Raising a brow and humming. You rose a brow and frowned right back.

....He waved a hand off. "Oleana, you're right. We'll be late for that reservation. Give the young trainer my League card and let's be on our way."

It's amazing how fast her aura and face changed at a moment's dime. "Of course. So you will not forget the Chairman's face, I will give you one of his League Cards." She suddenly held something out to Gloria who blinked but after a moment took it. "Chairman Rose is the kind of man who gets downhearted if he doesn't take care of things he needs to right away. Go to the seafood restaurant as soon as possible so as to not keep the chairman waiting." She glanced back to you and your eyes narrowed more. "...Good luck in your battle." With that she stepped around Gloria who followed her as she went and so did you with your frown. And after the Chairman gave another look to you, also turned and walked away.

....You sighed and turned back to Gloria, only to blink when she was staring right back at you. "....Uh...H-Hey. Are you ok there? You looked spooked." Shaking. Your eyes widened noticing her hands shaking. "WHOA! Hey! Are you ok!? She didn't scare you too bad did she?"

"Y-Y-Y/n..," She stuttered. Her hands slowly clenched into fists. "T-T-That..was..." Her face snapped up to you in a smile. "AWESOME!! SERIOUSLY!! Like! Yeah she gave off major scare vibes I swear she's worse than a gengar in the darkest room! My heart was pounding so fast! Then you were all well slayin' 'ere like a beast!!...Omg." She looked down for a moment realization settling in. "....My traveling partner talked BACK to the Chairman's right hand!! What's he going to think when I show up!? I mean it was amazing to watch don't get me wrong. But STILL!!''

"Hey, hey, hey!!" You caught her attention by grabbing her shoulder making her blink at your face. "Hey. Look at me." Once you knew you had her full attention you smiled. "That woman was making you feel scared, and that's not ok. So I did what I had to do. If anything I'll get in trouble. Besides, Im a girl standing on the sidewalk holding a delivery box. They'd probably think I was just a stranger going to delivery a pizza or something. Right now you should just worry about your gym battle."

It was like a record scratch went off in her mind as she suddenly paused, face going blank for a moment before her hands suddenly snatched the top of her head. "AH!! MY GYM BATTLE!! I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THAT!! BUT THE CHAIRMAN SAID IF I WIN TO SEE HIM!! IF!! IF!! WHAT IF I DON'T WIN!? OMG!! CAN I STILL MEET WITH HIM IF I DON'T-"

You shook her with the hand still on her shoulder. "Gloria! Get a grip on yourself! Of course you're going to win!'' You smiled. "If you could beat Milo you can beat Nessa too! And if you lose it's fine. I'm sure he'll understand, you can't let all of that overthinking stop you ok? Be more confident in yourself, and if you lose..." You shrugged. "Then it's ok. You can always try again tomorrow or any other day. You are going to be ok....Ok?"

She stared at you for a long moment before taking a deep breath and sighing. A determined look now plastered on her face. "You're right! I'm just overthinking this! I just need to remain calm and everything's going to be fine!"

You smiled. "That's the spirit...Hey. Isn't it gonna start like..right now?"

"GAH! Y-You're right! I gotta go!" With a wave she quickly turned on her heel and ran off towards the stadium. "Thanks, Y/n! You're the best!"

You sighed before shaking your head watching her go. Well...glad that went well at least, she was a brave girl so she should be ok..But then why did you still feel eyes on you? As you turned your f/c eyes met purple ones and Bede jumped having noticed you spotted him. With a jerk of his head the other way, he quickly sped walked away from you in the opposite direction leaving you lightly confused. But you shrugged it off. Right now you had bigger fish to fry like getting this fish you were currently holding to the person who ordered it. Who ever it was. That was the thing you had to figure out as you stood there in the middle of the sidewalk staring at the box in your hands like someone staring off into space. Good gosh the guy couldn't think to ask for an address? What were you supposed to do with a click clack sound? That could mean anything....Well what kind of click clack sounds were loud enough to be heard over a phone. ....Your head turned towards the train station back towards the stadium. Didn't trains usually make a noise like that? A train would certainly be loud enough to hear over a phone. With a shrug you started off down towards the train station and right up to the first house right by it since there was two. Knocked and waited patiently as footsteps approuched.

The first one was answered by a middle aged looking man and you smiled. "Hey! Uh...Did you order seafood?"

"No. I don't like fish."

"Oh..Sorry about tha-" You flinched as the door was slammed back shut in front of your face..before you frowned. "Well he was pretty rude wasn't he?" Your sobble chirped in agreement. "Couldn't have said it better myself," you mumbled as you turned away from the door and away from the first house to go to the second. The Stadium not too far away roaring alive now with cheers. Must be Hop or Gloria having a battle with Nessa. Shame you couldn't attend but you were a bit busy right now. Walking up to the second home, you knocked on the door and waited. After a moment footsteps approuched and a sweet elderly woman answered. You smiled. "Hey! Good afternoon! Did someone here order some seafood?"

To your delight, she smiled. "Oh, are you the one delivering my food?" She happily reached out and took the box from you. "Thank you for your trouble! This restaurant's dishes are full of seafood and it's so delicious if I say so myself. They are pretty well known after all."

"Your welcome! ..Oh wait!" You reached into your pocket to quickly pull out your notebook. "I need you to-''

"Oh of course! Your tip. "

"Actually I-" You blinked when a small bag of what looked like small jaw breakers was placed into your hand tied off by a cute little red ribbon.

"I've already paid the restaurant over the phone, so I'll give you candy as a tip. There's nothing like sweets to go along with a beautiful day. You have a nice day now."

You blinked looking at the small bag. "Hey wait! I need you-" The door closed leaving you staring at it. "..to sign this. *sigh*" You held up the overly cute bag and your sobble gave it a curious look over. "Well, it's not money but it's better than nothing I guess. Wouldn't you say?"

Your trip back to the restaurant wasn't anything unusual, still faintly hearing the cheers from the gym on your way there. The only thing that was a little strange was a small group of three or four people standing outside the place trying to peep into the windows. Your brow rose but you shrugged it off and just stepped inside seeing the same woman as before.

"Sorry. We're closed at the mome-..OH! It's you young lady,'' she greeted.

"Back again?!" You looked over towards the chef and he smiled seeing you. "Excellent! I wanted to ask you to deliver some food again. Is that ok? I suspect that the package was delivered?"

....You held up the bag of candy. "Yeah. Sorry I couldn't get her to sign it. But she tipped me in candy."

"Oh. That must've been Mrs. Wesley. Don't worry about her, she has a habit of doing that." Again he reached under the counter and brought up another box. "But right now I need you to deliver this next one as soon as possible!'' You walked over and he held it out to you before slightly nodding over towards the right. You glanced over and your eyes widened seeing the chairman and Oleana looking out of the window over the stadium, not seeming to notice you thankfully. "Since the Chairman's here we're doing our best to try and not upset the atmosphere. Since you're taking care of this for us it's really taking one less thing off our shoulders to worry about."

You sighed with a smile before taking the second box from him. The fresh smell of fish and chips wafting from it making your mouth water. "Hey. It's no problem. Where do I take this one?"

He paused. "Well....I uh...Haha. D-Didn't quite get the address for this one either?" You stared. "...B-but I don't know if this helps, but I think I heard a pokemon cry over the phone this time. Like....Swiirl...Or something like that."

"....I'll...figure it out I'm sure."

Figure it out indeed! How in the HECK were you just supposed to deliver a dang food order based off a pokemon's cry?? Whelp! There was only one way to solve this! ...Visit all the houses here until you came across the right one. So that's exactly what you did. You already delivered to the lady up by the train station and the guy next to her rudely stated he didn't so that was two houses you could cross off your list. So there you went starting from one end of the long, LONG street of houses one after another smiling and asking if they ordered a take out. Every. Single. One. Said. No. Or just didn't answer at all, and to be honest you were feeling justifiably annoyed at this point. What was the POINT of having someone deliver food if you didn't know where to send them!? It must've taken you at least fifthteen minutes of walking and asking until you FINALLY caught a break coming to the very last house on the block before the road split off between the train station and stadium. You knocked and waited patiently as footsteps approuched, and you smiled when a blonde man who looked to be in his early thirties opened the door.

"Hey. Sorry to bother you, but did you order some seafood takeout?"

"Oh, I can smell the ocean. You're from the restaurant aren't you?" You nodded and held the box up to him as he took it with a hum. "Ah! I'm starving! I've been drooling while waiting for the food! Than you for delivering the food!"

"Oh hey. Before you go." You held up the notepad. "Could you please sign for this?"

"Oh sure thing. Wait right here." He turned and walked back inside leaving you standing there able to see the inside of the home as the man handed off the food to two little girls who looked so much alike that they must've been twins. A pink pokemon looking like cotton candy swirling around them. "Stacy, Lacy. Food's here. And this time don't let Pinkie eat my share of it." You stood there awkwardly until he finally came back grabbing the note pad. "Sorry about that. You know how kids can be."

"Heh. Yeah. Sorry if it took so long. Had to go the long way around to get here."

"Well you get energy from food. If you need energy you should eat balanced meals." He handed you back the notepad with a smile. "Thanks again!''

With a sigh you turned on your heel and began trudging off back towards the restaurant. Your stomach rumbled again and by this point you were seriously wondering if this was even worth any free food for? If you had half a mind you would've just quite, returned the notepad, and then just go back to the hotel to just eat some of your rations or order the cheapest thing on the room service menu. But then again, you already promised to help and free food does sound better than spending your remanding money. Plus their food was supposed to be really good. So..You made the choice to go back to the very cafe you came from and waltzed back through the doors and up to the counter this time. The chef seemed very pleased to have you back as he had already placed the last box on the counter he explained. Only one more? Oh THANK goodness. You weren't sure how much of this mumbo jumbo you could handle. You took the last box from him not sparing a glance over your shoulder in the chairman's way.

"As for the address-"

"Let me guess. You forgot?"

"Actually. No. I remembered to ask." Your eyes widened. Was this finally gonna be easy? "Unfortunately I have no idea where it is.".....WHAT?! "The customer told me to look for a green roof, but I wonder if there is such a house in Hulbury. I've certainly never seen a house like this before but Im sure you're smart enough to figure it out like the other two!"

".......Right."

Of course it wasn't going to be that easy. It never was going to be easy for you was it? It seemed simple enough tho. Just look for a house with a green roof and that should be it right? Except..none of the houses you had asked previously had ordered anything and the ones that did couldn't have possibly ordered a second time in such short notice right after getting the first. Oh well. Green roof. That's all you had to go on......and the amount of time you had spent walking up and down these streets looking for any building with a green roof was exhausting. NONE of the homes here had green roofs and when you checked the few buildings around here that weren't homes (like the light house and pokemon center-) discovered surprise, surprise. No green roof either. Oh you hoped whoever ordered this didn't live outside Hulbury. Not having any luck where you currently were, you decided to go ahead and go back down to the docks where you first went that morning. You didn't remember seeing any buildings there but it wouldn't hurt to cover all bases before giving up. Your body ended up wondering back to the market place you were once in...And you were about ready to give up. There wasn't anything around here with a green-

"HEY! Young Lady with the sobble on your shoulder!," a male voice shouted. Blinking, you turned around to one of the stalls. the one with the green and white top. A man with brown hair waved at you. "You're delivering food?" You nodded. "Well hey! I'm the one who ordered it!" He was!?...You glanced towards the striped roof of his stall.....Oh. A green roof. Whelp! Might as well get this over with. he smiled wider as you approuched. "You got here earlier than I expected! It was easy to spot the green roof wasn't it?"

No. Not really. In fact it would've been a LOT easier if he just said he was in a stall in this marketplace but instead you forced a smile and handed him the box and notepad. "Please sign here."

He gladly signed it. "The tail curry of this restaurant has a unique flavor. I love it! Say hi to the manager for me!"

You quickly grabbed the notebook. "Have a nice day!" And then you quickly retreated. A groan leaving your tired body as you dragged yourself back the way you came for a second time that day. By the time you had gotten back close to the restaurant you were sore, tired, but most of all you were hungry! OH! The food had better be worth it or else you were going straight back to the hotel to-

"Y/N!!" Hey. You knew that voice! Sure enough Gloria was waving her arm at you with a smile as you proceeded to walk towards her. Despite wanting time to yourself today you were absolutely glad to see her. "What are you doing by the docks?"

"Finishing my role as a replacement delivery boy," you answered when you got close enough and pointed at her white uniform. "Why are you still wearing your gym challenge uniform?"

"Oh uh.." She sheepishly smiled with a chuckle. "It's a long story. On the bright side I managed to defeat Nessa! LOOK!" A flash of bronze went in your face and you blinked before leaning back. A badge with some kind of blue water pattern shown before you. No doubt the water gum badge. "Feast yer eyes! I thought I was a gonna when I lost the second round, but I managed to pull a turn around and win enough rounds to pass! Ain't it great?!"

You smiled. "Hey! That is great! I'm so happy for you! But where's Hop? I thought he was with you."

"He stayed behind to set up his own battle with Nessa tomorrow. Don't worry. He already knows where I am. Said he'll meet back up with us when we're done having dinner with the Chairman."

"...We?"

"Oh.." She slowly lowered her had back down to her side. "I just...thought you'd be coming too since you were there with me when he invited me.I-...I just thought since y'know...B-But that's fine! I won't force ya to come with me. Yer probably tired from running around all day anyways."

You paused. Yes, you were tired but you were heading back inside the restaurant anyways. And if Oleana was there...You smiled. "Hey! I'd love to come!"

Her eyes lit up. "REALLY!?"

"Yeah. I gotta go in to let 'em know I'm done delivering all these confusing orders anyways." You turned and nodded towards the doors. "C'mon. Let's go eat and see what he wants. Ok?"

With a smile of relief she nodded and the two of you went up towards the doors and went inside. The woman from before was there and upon seeing the both of you greeted you both with a smile. "Welcome to the Hulbury Seafood Resturaunt. Unfortunately we're not accepting any reservations or walk ins today but if you'd like to schedule one for a later or order take out you're more than welcome-....Oh! It's you again, Young Lady."

"Uh. Yeah." You held out the notepad. "Actually I was promised free food if I delivered everything and we were both invited to eat with the Chairman over there."

"Oh." She glanced to Gloria who looked nervous, seeming to realize she was a trainer. "Yes. I recall he said something about an extra guest trainer with his party today. Chairman Rose comes here incognito, but the word always gets out when he's here." She grabbed the notepad from you. "You both may go ahead to the Captain's Table in the back. I'll notify the chef you completed your tasks."

With a thanks you both took off towards the back where you saw the Chairman, Oleana, and..HEY! It was Sonia. Relief flooding in seeing another familiar face. This might be more tolerable then...Maybe you should take this time to apologize? You glanced to Gloria who still looked nervous. If this was someone very high up and important it wouldn't hurt to swallow your pride and just apologize, if nothing else but to keep the peace and show you're willing to be the bigger person. After all you don't want to cause trouble. The first to notice you two was the chairman himself as he turned his head from Sonia to you two and smiled.

"Ah! If it isn't the young trainer I met earlier today," he greeted with a smile and raised brow, "If you're here then I suppose it's safe to say you won against Nessa?"

You didn't miss her gulp before forcing a smile. "Uh..Y-Yeah. Piece of cake!"

He nodded. "I'm so glad! Gloria, come. Let's celebrate your recent victory! On me!" ...You felt eyes on you and you turned from the Chairman's face to Oleana's who was staring right at you. ...You frowned back at her- "And I believe I've seen you before as well, Young Lady." You blinked back to the Chairman's face as he was looking at you too now with a raised brow. ...AH CRAP!! "You were the lady back there who gave my assistant quite a 'roasting' as the young kinds call it nowadays."

...You blinked. Forcing up a smile. Here we go. "Uh. hehe. Yeah. Actually I wanted to apologize to you.." You gave Oleana a glance. "-and her for that. I just thought things were getting a bit scary back there."

To your surprise he chuckled it off with a wave. "Not at all. In all honestly Oleana can be quite intimidating to others. It's one of the reasons she's so good at her job. But there's no hard feelings. Right Oleana?"

The woman next to him inhaled before breathing it back out. "Of course, Sir. Apologies accepted and all's forgiven."

"Excellent! I don't suppose you know Sonia here? She's a wonderful person to have on the research team."

"Yeah. We do actually. Hi, Sonia."

"Oh. Were you invited too?," she asked surprised.

Before you could reply the chairman interrupted you. "You two know each other? That's great! Come now." He gestured to the table directly behind him. "Please be seated." And the three of you followed him and did so after you and Gloria exchanged a glance. She still looked nervous. The order of which you sat was Gloria sat across from the Chairman, Sonia next to Gloria, and you next to the Chairman. Naturally you would've preferred to sit next to either one of the other girls but you weren't about to let Gloria sit right next to a guy you had a funny feeling over. Strangely enough Oleana didn't seem like she was eating with you four and instead opted to stand silently next to the Chairman. How odd. You watched as he oh so casually picked the napkin off his own plate. Hmm...Guess he's been here more than once. "Now that we're all together. Gloria was it? Tell us how did your battle go?"

She shrugged. "Oh. Um. I-It was pretty good. Very thrilling. It was really nice to get ta meet Nessa. She's very nice." Sonia smiled at her.

"That's all very good. If you're as talented as Leon mentioned you then you should have no problem defeating the other gym leaders."

"Well I wouldn't say that. I-It was really hard to beat her. She's a tough gym leader."

"Hey. What were you talking about with Sonia?," you asked successfully steering the topic off Gloria for the moment as the Chairman smiled.

"Oh nothing really worth talking about. How her trip was so far studying around with the legends and the Geoglph in Turffield. The theory is that the two are somehow connected but I digress. AH! Our food has arrived." You looked over to what he was gesturing at and perked up at the lady from before who greeted you carrying two plates. One obviously being some kind of fish as it was placed before the chairman who happily accepted. "Ah! My usual. You always remember." And you were surprised when the other plate was sat in front of you. It was curry, smelt sweet, and had an egg smack dab in the middle of it. "Oh. It looks like you're a regular here too I presume."

"The chef asked me to give you his 'Lucky Egg' dish as a token of his appreciation, Miss," she explained, "I hope you're ok with sweet boiled egg curry. Are the rest of you ready to order?"

"Go ahead ladies. It's on me today."

"Mm. Just a salad. I'm not very hungry today."

"...I mean. The tropical curry sounds good," Gloria guessed.

You were too busy studying the dish in front of you to notice the lady leave. Instead staring at the massive egg just sitting in the middle of the darn plate. ...You weren't up to eating something that might've been a pokemon egg no matter how much your stomach rumbled at the sight and your mouth watered at the smell. Luckily it seemed like you had a back up plan because your sobble was crawling down your arm already on his way towards your food. You extended your hand to allow the small pokemon to sit on the table next to you and without really thinking grabbed the egg off your plate and held it out to it. He smiled and happily accepted your gift with a loud chirp before grabbing it and you watched as it bit it nearly in half with one bite. Goodness. Guess you weren't the only one hungry.

"Hulbury is a seafood town. Naturally if one is going to eat here the obvious choice is the local cuisine," the chairman said already digging in, "Everything on the menu is delicious. Oh, Sonia. By the way how is Professor Magnolia getting on? I'm quite indebted to her you know. She was the one who figured out how to unleash the power of Wishing Stars and use that power to dynamax pokemon. We would never have been able to create dynamax bands without her."

Sonia sighed. "*sigh* She was saying that there's still so much we don't know about dynamaxing. It's causing her some worry. She even made me take a power spot detector with me when I started traveling."

"A power spot detector?," he asked interested, "That's the device that allowed me to discover power spots. Locations that emit galar particles and allow pokemon to dynamax. I don't like hearing that Professor Magnolia is worried though. If only there was something I could do." You glanced at him again out the corner of your eye and rose a brow. Why were you getting a weird feeling in your gut from this guy?

Sonia shrugged. "Unless you can suddenly provide more intel on the phenominon then I'm afraid there isn't much, Sir."

He hummed.".....Sonia. It may be good for you to visit the vault in Hammerlocke. I believe the key to unlocking the secrets of the dynamax phenomenon lies in the history preserved there."

Sonia blinked. "Oh. You really think so?"

"We usually study history based on what was left on it from the past. Although mostly legends at this point you know they always say that every legend has truth to it. Who knows? It might even help tie in with the lengend you've been studying currently. Oleana can arrange a meeting I'm sure. Can't you?"

"Understood, Sir," Oleana replied monotonly, "I will arrange a meeting with Ms. Sonia."

"Very good. See? Nothing to worry yourself over about. Now shall we dig in?"

The rest of that dinner get together was a blur. Honestly you were too busy stuffing your face to talk but you didn't mind. You only watched and listened to the small talk. Gloria and Sonia's food arrived a short while after and by this point they were mostly done eating as well. His other questions didn't seem too out of the ordinary. Asking how their day was? How they were enjoying the challenge so far? Talking about some of his recent appointments involving some kind of arrangement with a Prince from the Pasio Region?? You weren't sure. But the sun was starting to set soon.

"So then I figured the best way to solve the matter was to set up individual warnings for the two of them and move one to a different department under Oleana. *sigh* Both are hard workers so it'd be a shame to just fire one or both. Don't you agree Oleana?"

"Yes, Sir. However I believe it is about time we get going, Chairman."

"Hm?" He looked at her. "But I've hardly had a chance to speak with Gloria." You rose a brow. You had literally been sitting her an entire hour.

"With all do respect, Sir. It's getting rather late. I'm sure the young lady is quite tired from her day."

...He sighed. "It's regrettable but I guess it can't be helped. If something needs to get done there's no time like the present after all!" He slowly stood from his seat as the three of you watched and smiled. "Truly though I'm glad to have had a chance to speak with you ladies today. So sorry if we couldn't have spent more time together. In any case I bid you farewell."

"OH! Uh..G-Good bye, M-Mr. Chairman. Sir."

You remained silent as the two left. Narrowed eyes watching as they went...Something about those two just felt...Off. Like it didn't sit right in your gut, but you had no idea why? Was there some kind of plot in the game with those two you couldn't remember?...Hm. In any case you were glad they were gone now so you and Gloria could rela- Your head perked up with at a sigh as Sonia rubbed her face.

"Hey. You good there?"

"Does he think he's doing me a favor? He's right that the vault would be a good place to look for the legends but..." She paused suddenly looking up and noticing the two of you staring at her confused. "UH!...Nevermind! You got the water badge right? Defeating Nessa is no easy feat!"

"Uh..Yeah. What are-"

"Nessa's a good friend! Perhaps I should drop in on her!," her chair screeched as she stood up all of a sudden giving a nervous smile, "Ahaha! Yes! She'll be so happy to see me! Until next time, Gym Challenger! Nice seeing you again, Y/n!"

Both of you stared as Sonia quickly sped walked away from you two and then out of the restaurant as if she was escaping something...

Gloria blinked. "What the world just happened?"

"Believe me I have learnt in this point of my life to just go with things. C'mon. It's free food. Let's finish eating and meet the others back at the hotel."

[grumpygreenwitch]

Summer Gardening.

So it’s been a while, and for that I apologize to the... 200+ people who follow me. I’m sure y’all are here for the cat pics and the nekked men, but TOO BAD. Today you get to suffer through pics of my green children. Also, I do share seed. My seed list link will be up later in the year. To begin with, the summer flowers are out en force:

Echinacea Purpurea, the original echinacea. I do save yearly seed from these guys, although it’s an incredibly pointy, stabby and bleed-y job. 

Mountain Phlox. Unfortunately, all of it around the house is afflicted with powdery mildew, so I will not share seed. But it’s still pretty to look at, and the clearwings (hummingbird moths) love it. Not pictured is the white variant, who grows on the other side of the house. Look, it was hot and I was already melting.

Peppermint Balsam. This thing is basically indestructible, for an annual. It will reseed freely (to truly Lovecraftian levels) and blooms continuously from late spring until mid-fall, when the seed-pods set. There is a dormant genetic in it for double flowers, but when it pops up it’s always been sterile. It just pops up occasionally from the peppermint seed.

I may give the roommate hell over the hostas (I hate them. They’re so useful to protect toads and control weeds, but I hate them), but they do put out pretty flowers. There are several variants around the house - white-edged, blue and green, but hostas in general are very, very hard to start from seed. I will save it on request, only. We were also incredibly lucky to have a Moth Mullein sprout in our porch bed, along with some Variegated Solomon’s Seal.The SS doesn’t put out seeds, and I don’t have enough to share bulbs (yet), but the mullein has been exceptionally generous with seed pods, and it repels bugs. It repels ROACHES. It’s going everywhere. And I may be convinced to part with some seed.

Onward!

A view from a hill. Can you see the garden? That’s OK, I can’t either. Those are peach trees, on the side of the orchard closest to the house. Unfortunately a freak storm during early spring killed all the blossoms. Also, don’t mistake ‘orchard’ for ‘organized’. There’s a pear, some apples, a plum, some nectarines? And front and center are two walnuts. I’ll probably be plunking my laurel there to see if it survives winter. And someday when I have a job and money again, I would like to drop a few Chicago Hardy figs, and maybe a kiwi trellis.

This is the big garden (and fortunately not my responsibility, or I would cry). The guys are ‘handling’ it. The weeds say otherwise.

The jasmine tree and the roommate’s garden. Because of a bad back injury that refuses to heal, I’ve been helping them on and off with it. And if you thought jasmine was supposed to stay a delightful little bush, AHAHAHAHAH. Yes, that’s a light-post next to it. For size comparison.

MY CHILDREN. Please ignore the dead soccer ball. That’d be a dog toy.

Lemon balm, amaranth, and a new bed that I’ll be finishing off during fall, for use next year. The lemon balm is a permanent row - it will overwinter just fine, and it will even keep growing through the mildest part of December. Mine didn’t die back until a few solid days of sleet in January. Unfortunately the weed fabric under the amaranth turned out to be an old roll, and fell apart on me (no big, the whole point is for it to fall apart eventually), so the weeds have kinda eaten it alive.

Unfortunately, both cucumber beetles and blister beetles love the amaranth. Fortunately, it does not seem to give a damn. It’s an incredibly resilient plant, not minding weeds, bugs, flood or drought. We’ll see what the grain actually tastes like, but so far it’s looking like a good candidate for continuous growing.

The lemon balm is lemon-balming. Planted on a lark, it’s proven to be a fantastic wind-breaker - because it grows so early and so quick, it keeps the colder winds that come down through the hollow from my more fragile seedlings, like the lettuce, dill and cilantro. You can see here where the spent flower-heads are dying but there’s new growth underneath; I really have to get in there and behead it. It makes nice hot tea, meh cold tea, and hanging fresh bunches of it around the balcony keeps the skeeters off. It also seems to be a decoy for cabbage moths.

Canary Zinnia. The seed was sent to me as a gift with one of my seed orders, and this is my first year growing it. -If- I can save some, I’ll definitely be sharing and growing again. It’s a lovely plant, very sturdy, and the bees love it.

Dwarf Castor Oil. I don’t think there’s anything dwarf about it, but then I’m a short green witch myself, so maybe it’s all about perspective. Don’t let the pods lie to you, until they dry the spikes are relatively soft. However, it being castor oil, I don’t recommend it to anyone with ducks, chickens, goats, or anything that might accidentally try talking a nibble or pecking at the beans. I do, however, recommend them from jewelry if you know how to pierce things and so on. They are a gorgeous tiger-stripe pattern.

Say hello to the chard! Say goodbye to the chard! Nothing else, absolutely nothing else since the limas, has given me so much trouble. The deer love getting into my chard bed and destroying it (ergo all the forks). And once I managed to chase those off, the blister beetles showed up in force. This will be the last year I grow it - we just don’t eat enough of it to make it worth my while, and it only occasionally sold at the Farmers’ Market.

Red lettuce - Merlot and Lollo Vino, a combination of bought and saved seed. I planted a red romaine of some sort, too, but unsurprisingly it bolted in the heat. The darker reds of my favorites, though, keep bugs off them, keep deer from noticing them, and keep them from bolting. It’s just now threatening to, and at this point its kind of allowed. I need more seed for next year. Seed for this will likely be shared by the teaspoon-ful.

Calendula! I searched for a long time to find the plain ol’ calendula officinalis ancestor, rather than a cultivar where I would have no way of knowing if the medicinal principles would have been sacrificed for looks. It’s supposed to work well as poor man’s saffron (color, no taste), and I’m going to be soaking the heck outta my feet on it during winter. The plant is... not pretty. It gets leggy and the leaves get grotty very quickly. But it’s very sturdy and as long as you cut the flowerheads off as fast as you can, it’ll keep blooming until well into winter. I usually leave it to go to seed around late September.

Green cilantro seeds. You pick ‘em when they’re brown, but before they drop off the plant. Or you pick ‘em when they’re brown-ing, and put them in a paper bag so they’ll finish ripening there and you don’t end up with fifty wild cilantro plants in your garden >_> Most of the row is already gone, and I’ll be putting in a late dill crop in its place. No such thing as too  much dill!

Don’t let lemongrass lie to you. Unless you tie it up, it will not grow up neat and tidy, as most grass does. Instead it will sprawl like a dramatic wilting Elizabethan lady and do its best to end up under your feet so you’ll feel bad about it. I just tie it up with a half-blade of grass; it dries up and withers away before it can hurt the plant.

I ordered pennyroyal seed because... Well, because it’s something one should have on hand, considering the way the world is going. What I got was Creeping Pennyroyal, which doesn’t care if you step on it (mint family), smells absolutely delightful, and has the most adorable, tiny purple flowers. I plan on harvesting, drying and sprinkling it everywhere in the crawlspace under the house. Making war on cave crickets, wood roaches, and other such sundries, me.

The thyme and Spicy Oregano took a beating in the heat, but they’re slowly bouncing back. The bed behind them is more pennyroyal, desperately in need of weeding, but there’s only one of me, y’know.

SIGH. Just. You absolute, ill-mannered monster of a creature. That would be horseradish, gloriously happy to be alive, as horseradish should be. Also, NOT IN ITS BASKET. Because never mind the rules, I guess.

I don’t even know how I’m gonna dig that up come winter. With some construction equipment, I GUESS. 

Decorative gourd! It’s the only one producing so far, but being the seed was 10+ years old, I’m very pleased.

And an apple gourd (I think?), from a mixture of drying gourds that was only slightly less ancient. Snake, apple and birdhouse gourds. There’s a bunch of them competing in the basket at this point, we’ll see what we will see.

And this, I think, is a great use of a dead canopy frame (the dogs ate the canopy. No, I’m not making it up.) I hope to coax the gourds to grow me a lil’ roof so I can sit in shade, surrounded by pennyroyal anti-skeeter barriers, eating my maters.

My Peter Peppers (nrehehehehe) aren’t producing yet - it takes them a while. But my Chinese 5-Color are getting started. It’s a lovely pepper, both edible and ornamental, with (so I’m told) about four times the heat of a Jalapeno. They’re tiny, with deep purple undertones to the plant. They’ll go purple-white-yellow-orange-red.

The bullhorns, on the other hand, are fairly sizable SWEET peppers on very tiny plants, and I honestly suggest staking them while they’re young so they grow a sturdy trunk, else you might end up with all of them growing at a slant.They’re just now beginning to turn colors. Keeping in mind I’m virulently allergic to peppers (less so sweet than hot, but allergic to all of them), the roommate loves ‘em.

It’s a small pepper bed - mainly to refresh my seed on the hots, and to grow sweets for the roommate. Pardon the nekked bed, the autumn lettuce hasn’t sprouted yet. And yes, that’s a mixed basil/dill bed next to it. My basil grew in patchy holes (NEVER buying from those seed people again), so I filled the holes with dill. Unfortunately, dill seed heads are so fine that they’re hard to photograph well.

The tomato row. After arguing with them for this long, I went the extra mile. Every plant has a metal stake. There’s also a double line growing at the top supporting the stakes so they don’t fall over. And they still fell over. Because why not, you unruly children, why not.

Green, white, pink and brown cherry tomatoes. Delicious!

Two kinds of cucumbers, some of the only decent shots of the dill seed-heads, and a special guest hiding in the shade. I usually plant dill as soon as the cucumber sprouts, to keep cucumber beetles off it. Otherwise I’d have no cucumbers and a lot of fat beetles.

The Muncher is a small cucumber, somewhat delicate. It’s very sensitive to temperature changes, and it’s candy to cucumber beetles - basically, it’s impossible to grow it without a heavy curtain of dill, or a heavy duty decoy. This year I got lucky enough to have both. It’s also delicious pickled, keeping its crunch and getting a good ooomph in flavor.

The Japanese Long is, as the name implies, long. It’s also incredibly bitey, and absolutely scrumptious. It’s sweet! And unlike the average cucumber, it does not go metallic when salted.

And now for the SPECIAL CHILD OF MY HEART. Seriously. I have been lusting after Blue Tea Peas since I first saw them offered, and every single time they’d be sold out pretty much the day of. This year I finally got some and... remember me mentioning that freak freeze that killed the peach blossoms? Yeah. Guess what it also killed. But two plants soldiered on. I have them heavily shielded by the cucumbers, dill and chamomile, and really I have no words for the blue. Pics don’t do it justice. I won’t have the tea this year, I’m saving as much seed as I can, but I am so pleased to have it at all!

 Last, but not least, and it’s a poor shot of it, the chamomile. I cannot drink chamomile to sleep - it does put me to sleep, but it also gives me bad dreams. I plan on using it as a skin wash for all the bug bites, along with the calendula, and to give me some respite from dry skin during winter.

Stay green! See you in fall! Now back to our normal schedule of frogs, cats and nekked men!

[maswartz]

Fun facts about myself (aka how did I live this long)

These are as I remember them or how I’ve heard them. Mostly chronological order 1. I was born looking like an old man 2. My sister once had to tear my diaper off because it got full of bees. 3. Once when I was still a baby I fell down the stairs and the babysitter did nothing, she just put me back in my crib and let me cry. When my grandmother got home she was pissed. She fired the sitter on the spot and got me to the hospital. 4. When I had surgery (to deal with something about my belly button) I literally ripped the IVs out of my arms, the doctors said I could go home that night. 5. I got pneumonia in kindergarten 6. Another student bit my butt in kindergarten (on the playground) 7. Either in preschool or kindergarten my mom arrived to pick me up to find I had escaped and was running around the parking lot being chased by teachers. 8. I once dropped a drill on my toe and only started to scream when my dad and sister got in the  room (this one may not be 100% true) 9. Once during a party at our house the gate was left open and I walked right out until a complete and total stranger found me (at the corner of our street) and brought me home. 10. I once walked out of the yard and went to a neighbors house (the same neighbor my sisters did the same thing with) 11. One time at a theme park my mom had to drop me. It was because when we were getting on an airplane ride (think the flying dumbo ride) the idiot started it before we got in and she had to drop me to avoid it hitting me. 12. Once I literally karate chopped a glass into tons of pieces (I actually remember this one) (It either split in half or shattered) 13. One time in elementary school during a summer program I got lost in the woods for an hour, I eventually found my way out and two joggers kept me company until my sister and one of the councilors found me. The best part of this one is when I go for a walk now I walk right past the street I came out of the woods at. 14. One time at Boy Scout camp I had a bad feeling about the weather but everyone else said it was fine. Sure enough it started thundering and lighting (and of course we were on top of a mountain at the time) Thus a bunch of preteen boy scouts ran for their lives and ended up hiding in the latrine until our scout master started to sing “always look on the sunny side of life”. As I was running I noticed my all metal mess kit and kept thinking it was going to get me struck. 15. Also at that same camp there were a bunch of sheep (i still have a piece of wool from one of them) and one of the scouts in my patrol wanted to get a picture of one of them he dubbed “harry ball” (after a baseball park near us as well as the obvious). Next thing we know he’s running from a sheep stampede. He got out of the way and the sheep ran out of the camp. Last we heard they were eating someone’s garden. 16. At that same camp we were taking our swimming test in a light drizzle (rain was clearing up). I got hypothermia in the middle of the summer in that lake. 17. Once in high school my sister was driving me to school (we went to the same high school) when I was complaining we were going to be late because she was getting coffee at starbucks. As we were pulling out a car hits her car. Glass everywhere! We were fine but literally the last thing I said before it was “we’re going to be late”. 18. Another time in high school my grandmother was driving me to school when I was messing around with her car and picked up the cigarette lighter (older car). I accidentally turned it on and put my thumb right on it. I took it off and shoved my thumb right into a water bottle. My mom was the sub nurse that day so I went right to the nurses office and my exact words were “Mom, I did something stupid.” She put some second skin band aid thingy on it and you can’t even notice it now. 19. It turns out I have Raynaud’s disease which basically means when I get cold it hits me harder and my fingers and toes turn blue faster. So yay… 20. My sister and I once fell by our pool getting the same scar on the same knee. 21. Despite everything on this list I have never broken a bone in my life *knock on wood* 22. I didn’t speak until I was five years old (I was taught sign language but I sadly can’t remember much of it). My first word was “Mommy” and it was on my mother’s birthday 23. My father is a firefighter and when I used to visit him at the fire house I would actually climb up the fire pole. 24. I can open doors with my foot (not by kicking but turning the door knob with my toes, I have big toes) 25. When I was younger I had a condition known as Pica. Basically I ate non-edible things. I would eat string, towels, paper, tissues, my clothes, chairs (some of the chairs in the house still have my bite marks in them), and plastic. It got to the point where I had to go to the doctors because I had a horrible pain in my stomach. We think it was a blockage caused by all the stuff I ate. But the best part is my dad came in (right from work) and he poked my stomach and he must have dislodged it because the pain went away. 26. I once blew up a light bulb by spitting on it when it was on. 27. On a class trip a friend of mine literally had to step on my foot to keep me from running off and befriending a squirrel. This was in high school. 28. One time we were removing a bush from the garden and we managed to get most of it up except the main root/body itself. After a lot of work I just sat down, put my feet against it, and PUSHED. Over and over and over until with one great big push it came out. So I pretty much bench pressed a tree. 29. Another time we were digging a hole in the backyard and it was about 4 feet deep when I had to get out of the hole to get something. So I crouched and jumped right out of the hole. Four feet straight up in the air. 30. I am an Eagle Scout and an Assistant Scout Master (haven’t renewed that though) 31. For years I’ve been having chronic nosebleeds (once I even got one because I was laughing too hard at an Achievement Hunter video). It has gotten to the point where I’ve had the inside of my nostrils cauterized (basically a “burning” stick of metal is shoved up my nose to burn the blood vessel causing the nosebleeds so the new tissue heals over it) 32. When I was younger I was so skinny you could see my ribs almost all the time, some people even said they could see my heart beating. 33. When I was in elementary school in the bathroom I saw a spider crawling up from the urinal (I believe this led to my fear/dislike of spiders) 34. One time I sat on my grandmother’s couch and my back landed on a bee/wasp which stung me, not fun. 35. One time after I got home from Boy Scout camp I was showering when I discovered a Ladybug was crawling on my butt. I didn’t kill it but I let it go. 36. I have Asperger Syndrome (as in officially diagnosed) 37. One time a few winters ago I left my glasses in the window as I was taking a shower and when I got out they had literally frozen over. 38. When I was little I once went through a training course for children on how to get out of a burning building, it was neat. 39. I dropped out of community college and have no job and no social life, when I remember these I can’t help but feel like a failure and waste of space. 40. When I was 10 my family went on a cruise in Alaska, it was amazing. But the fun fact is on the cruise one of the entertainers was a ventriloquist named Jeff Dunham. This was before he hit it big time. 41. Once at Boy Scout camp it was the final night before we all went home and they had these giant inflatable balls (bigger than the kids) and we were bouncing them around when it bounced off another kid right into me breaking my glasses right down the middle, fortunately my parents came up that night anyways so we went to get new ones. 42. My sister measured my morning walks with the dog a few days ago, turns out I walk him 2.2 miles (in total).

[randomredneck]

What’s In Store

Some time ago, I asked the very nice @corvusiel if I could write a fic based on their grocery store Mabifica pics. I thought they just never answered. Turns out this hellsite ate the goddamn answer notification and I just found out they said yes. Anyway, here it is. I hope you enjoy.

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“Farewell happy fields, where joy forever dwells: Hail horrors, hail infernal world...”

That quote was a bit of an exaggeration given the situation it was being mentioned in. An average grocery store. But the blonde girl standing behind the counter wasn’t average. No, she was rich...or, she used to be.

“I’ve never even been to one of these places, and now I’m working here. Why me?”

This was Pacifica Northwest. Daughter of the formerly prestigious Northwest family. Formerly, because as of a few weeks ago, they were flat broke.

“Me, working in a grocery store. I could have bought this place if I wanted to. Now I’m working for...what is that thing regular people make...minimum wage? Yeah, that’s it.”

She sighed, trying not to dwell on her previous life of luxury. That just made the monotonous boredom of her new situation all the more maddening.

“How people don’t go insane from the dullness is beyond me. I wish something would liven this place up a little...”

She was about to get her wish and then some. She was broken from her moping when two hands slapped down on her counter.

“I need your glitteriest paint!”

She jumped near a foot at this. Though the surprise quickly changed from startling to intriguing. Cause her newest customer was cute.  Short brown hair, a cheesy shirt reading ‘You make my heart meowlt’ and a general air of peppyness to her.

“I’m sorry, but we only sell food here.”

That did not seem to put a dent in her attitude.

“Do you have edible glitter?”

Pacifica suddenly realized this girl may have been a little...off.

“I am fairly certain that’s not a thing, miss.”

That caused the other girl to giggle. Said giggle strangely made Pacifica feel a lot less bored.

“Kind of weird to call someone the same age ‘Miss’, isn’t it? Let’s fix that. I’m Mabel.”

She extended her hand, Pacifica giving the expected shake.

“I’m Pacifica.”

Mabel’s ears perked up at that name.

“Pacifica, Pacifica...Northwest? Oh, I know you! I saw your family on the news. You were super duper rich and went totally broke when your dad invested in a bunch of startups that went belly up and also got sued to heck and back cause he embezzled from them, right?”

The annoyed glare Pacifica was giving her indicated yes, that was them.

“Yes. Thank you for reminding me of my situation. I’d almost forgotten...”

Mabel didn’t quite seem to grasp the sarcasm there.

“You’re welcome. Anyway, I have to go find that paint. You never know when you’re gonna need glittery paint. Ta-ta!”

She bounded out of the store, Pacifica shrugging.

“Weird girl.”

Well, the weirdness wasn’t over. As she found out the next day at work. When a walking pile of snack foods and 2 liter soda bottles waddled over to her register. Setting her veritable buffet down on the counter, the face of Mabel was revealed.

“Oh, hey! I forgot you worked here.”

Pacifica looked from her, to the mountain of snacks and whatnot before her, and back again.

“Are you stocking up for doomsday or something?”

She shook her head.

“No. Me and my brother prevented that last week...well, he did. I was on a date with this super cute girl...til it turned out she was working with that horde of 9th dimensional ghost Sasquatches my brother was dealing with...”

Pacifica rung up her items in a flash, lest this story get even weirder.

“Anyway, I’m stocking up for a party. I’m not sure who it’s for or what it’s celebrating, but my party sense has been tingling lately. I have a party sense you know. Ever since this time with a gnome and...”

Pacifica cleared her throat, motioning to the other customers waiting behind her.

“Oh, my bad. I’ll tell you some other time. Bye!”

She hauled her party supplies out the door, Pacifica taking one specific thing from that conversation.

“...She likes girls. Huh.”

Lo and behold, she was back the next day. Her booty this time was a 6 foot party sub.

“Where are you getting the cash to afford all this food? I was rich and even I think this is crazy.”

She set the sub down on the counter.

“Oh, I got struck by magical lightning from a Centaur wizard. Fun side effect is I know every sports score for the next 10 years. So when I need a little capital, I make a tiny bet. Piece of advice: American Samoa is gonna shock you at the next Olympics. Don’t tell anyone else.”

As she prepared to leave, she stopped for a second.

“Say, are you free this weekend? Cause this party I’ve been planning is this Saturday. You look like you could use a little fun.”

A party with a super weird, super cute girl she’d known for 3 minutes intervals for the past 3 days. Any sane person would say no.

“Sure. I guess it’s better than staying at that cheap rental house we’re living in right now.”

Mabel’s eyes lit up.

“Sweet. I’ll pick you up this weekend.”

She ran out with the sub in tow, Pacifica feeling a small blush filling her cheeks.

“...Huh. There it is again.”

The weekend approached way too slowly for Pacifica’s tastes. Standing outside the store, she waited for her chariot of fun to arrive. 

“Hey, perspective pal of mine!”

Yet again, she jumped near a foot at the sound of her voice.

“Mabel, jeez. I didn’t even know you were here. Where’s your car?”

Mabel giggled.

“Who needs a car? I get here with this.”

She pulled a little slip of paper out of her pocket.

“Let’s go. Tropelet .em eus .Yrots acifibam tsal ym morf ekoj lleps sdrawkcab eht gnisuer m'I!”

In a flash, the two vanished from the store. And reappeared in the party area of some run down shack.

“Man, that’s never not fun. How was your first teleport spell?”

Her response was to run to the nearest trashcan and paint it with the last thing she ate.

“Oh, right. First time is always a little rough on the old tummy. But hey, now there’s room for all the party food. Happy birthday, Pacifica!”

Pacifica lifted her head from the trashcan.

“Wait, what?”

She glanced around the shack, laying eyes on the banner. And there in glittery paint was ‘Happy late birthday Pacifica!’

“Wait, how did you know when my birthday was?”

She laughed.

“Wikipedia. I saw that story about your family going broke. Then I Googled you cause the picture of you was super pretty. And I noticed you went poor a day before your birthday. That couldn’t have been a fun day. That’s when my party sense kicked in. And here we are!”

This almost complete stranger, who was also magic somehow, had just teleported her across who knows how far a distance to throw her a late birthday party based off an internet article. Pacifica should have been pissed off/weirded out/a little scared that magic existed. Instead, she actually started crying.

“This has been the worst few weeks of my life! I lost all my stuff, my house, my friends ditched me when the money,left and I had-”

Mabel quickly silenced her with a hug.

“Come on, now. A lady shouldn't cry at her party. Everyone is here for you. Now let’s party!”

Pacifica looked around, wiping her eyes.

“Uh...we’re the only ones here.”

Mabel looked around too, reading the paper again.

“Whoops. Threw a little time travel in there. We’re a few hours early. Hang on.”

One backwards incantation later, and the two popped into the right time frame, the room now full of people.

“There we go. Let’s party!”

And party they did. Mabel broke away from the crowd, covered in silly string and having a good time.

“Woo, I throw a good party.”

Pushing through the celebration, her brother leaned against the wall next to her.

“So that’s her, huh?”

Mabel nodded.

“Yup. The girl I saw myself married too when I accidentally jumped into the future by accident.”

Dipper scratched his cheek in worry.

“...Seriously though, Grenda? Would it be wrong to try and change the future.”

Mabel chuckled.

“I’m not changing mine for the world.”

[ismokeitsite]

The time I accidentally ate 800mg

The time I accidentally ate 800mg

My room mate left out a bunch of cake looking things so I decided too have two, they don’t taste or smell like weed some how, so I just thought they were normal little cake things (I don’t know how to describe them, they had the texture of a weirdly dense cake, but it tasted like he flavoured them with shitty protein powder). After I ate them I told my roommate he did a shit job making them cause they taste like shit, his eyes widen and he asks me how many I had, I told him two. He started laughing his ass off and said “well someone’s gonna have a fun weekend, you better tell work your sick or something”.

Not even 20 minutes later they kick in and i am absolutely blitzed out of my mind. I go over too my roommate and asked just how potent they were, he responded 400mg+ per cake. My jaw dropping and I started laughing my ass off, the highest dose I had taken before this was 80mg and I was absolutely fucked off that (I have a surprisingly low tolerance for how much I smoke so 60mg will get me very high). So I started chilling watching the office... I ended up not being able too watch anything cause I just kept getting caught in my own head and couldn’t focus on what was on the tv, it had gotten to the point were I was in a very psychedelic headspace, at one point I forgot how to breathe so I had to breath manually for an hour, then I couldn’t blink, so I had too blink manually for an hour. It was so bad that I had forgotten how to walk, it’s not that I couldn’t walk, I quite literally forgot how to walk. I tried walking too the bathroom and while I was doing that I had to say out loud while walking “right foot”, “left foot”, “right foot”, and so on. A few times I even messed up and stepped with the same foot twice, eventually I got too the toilet, I used the washroom, washed my hands and then tried too walk back too bed... then I ate it on the bathroom floor, I couldn’t move.

I was in the floor for about 5 minutes before I gave up trying too get up myself and called my room mate too help, he opened the door for me, laughed at me and asked if he could help, I said no and literately crawled like a toddler back into my room, and pulled myself back into my bed, fell asleep and woke up 36 hours later still high out of my god damned skull. I was fortunately able too walk, breathe and blink perfectly fine that day, but I still was unable too work, drive, etc.

And that is my first time ever having a stupidly large dose on edibles, although it was a crazy experience, I had a really fun time and after that 36 hours of sleep I felt amazing, overall I’d recommend, however clear your calendar if you decide too take that much, you may be high for 3-4 days like I was. If you read this far I appreciate the hell out of you, even if you didn’t enjoy the story. Hope you all have a great day, stay high.

Submitted August 18, 2019 at 01:27PM by GraphicPhoenix via reddit

[maswartz]

Fun facts about myself (AKA: How the hell am I alive?)

These are as I remember them or how I’ve heard them. Mostly chronological order 1. I was born looking like an old man 2. My sister once had to tear my diaper off because it got full of bees. 3. Once when I was still a baby I fell down the stairs and the babysitter did nothing, she just put me back in my crib and let me cry. When my grandmother got home she was pissed. She fired the sitter on the spot and got me to the hospital. 4. When I had surgery (to deal with something about my belly button) I literally ripped the IVs out of my arms, the doctors said I could go home that night. 5. I got pneumonia in kindergarten 6. Another student bit my butt in kindergarten (on the playground) 7. Either in preschool or kindergarten my mom arrived to pick me up to find I had escaped and was running around the parking lot being chased by teachers. 8. I once dropped a drill on my toe and only started to scream when my dad and sister got in the  room (this one may not be 100% true) 9. Once during a party at our house the gate was left open and I walked right out until a complete and total stranger found me (at the corner of our street) and brought me home. 10. I once walked out of the yard and went to a neighbors house (the same neighbor my sisters did the same thing with) 11. One time at a theme park my mom had to drop me. It was because when we were getting on an airplane ride (think the flying dumbo ride) the idiot started it before we got in and she had to drop me to avoid it hitting me. 12. Once I literally karate chopped a glass into tons of pieces (I actually remember this one) (It either split in half or shattered) 13. One time in elementary school during a summer program I got lost in the woods for an hour, I eventually found my way out and two joggers kept me company until my sister and one of the councilors found me. The best part of this one is when I go for a walk now I walk right past the street I came out of the woods at. 14. One time at Boy Scout camp I had a bad feeling about the weather but everyone else said it was fine. Sure enough it started thundering and lighting (and of course we were on top of a mountain at the time) Thus a bunch of preteen boy scouts ran for their lives and ended up hiding in the latrine until our scout master started to sing “always look on the sunny side of life”. As I was running I noticed my all metal mess kit and kept thinking it was going to get me struck. 15. Also at that same camp there were a bunch of sheep (i still have a piece of wool from one of them) and one of the scouts in my patrol wanted to get a picture of one of them he dubbed “harry ball” (after a baseball park near us as well as the obvious). Next thing we know he’s running from a sheep stampede. He got out of the way and the sheep ran out of the camp. Last we heard they were eating someone’s garden. 16. At that same camp we were taking our swimming test in a light drizzle (rain was clearing up). I got hypothermia in the middle of the summer in that lake. 17. Once in high school my sister was driving me to school (we went to the same high school) when I was complaining we were going to be late because she was getting coffee at starbucks. As we were pulling out a car hits her car. Glass everywhere! We were fine but literally the last thing I said before it was “we’re going to be late”. 18. Another time in high school my grandmother was driving me to school when I was messing around with her car and picked up the cigarette lighter (older car). I accidentally turned it on and put my thumb right on it. I took it off and shoved my thumb right into a water bottle. My mom was the sub nurse that day so I went right to the nurses office and my exact words were “Mom, I did something stupid.” She put some second skin band aid thingy on it and you can’t even notice it now. 19. It turns out I have Raynaud’s disease which basically means when I get cold it hits me harder and my fingers and toes turn blue faster. So yay… 20. My sister and I once fell by our pool getting the same scar on the same knee. 21. Despite everything on this list I have never broken a bone in my life *knock on wood* 22. I didn’t speak until I was five years old (I was taught sign language but I sadly can’t remember much of it). My first word was “Mommy” and it was on my mother’s birthday 23. My father is a firefighter and when I used to visit him at the fire house I would actually climb up the fire pole. 24. I can open doors with my foot (not by kicking but turning the door knob with my toes, I have big toes) 25. When I was younger I had a condition known as Pica. Basically I ate non-edible things. I would eat string, towels, paper, tissues, my clothes, chairs (some of the chairs in the house still have my bite marks in them), and plastic. It got to the point where I had to go to the doctors because I had a horrible pain in my stomach. We think it was a blockage caused by all the stuff I ate. But the best part is my dad came in (right from work) and he poked my stomach and he must have dislodged it because the pain went away. 26. I once blew up a light bulb by spitting on it when it was on. 27. On a class trip a friend of mine literally had to step on my foot to keep me from running off and befriending a squirrel. This was in high school. 28. One time we were removing a bush from the garden and we managed to get most of it up except the main root/body itself. After a lot of work I just sat down, put my feet against it, and PUSHED. Over and over and over until with one great big push it came out. So I pretty much bench pressed a tree. 29. Another time we were digging a hole in the backyard and it was about 4 feet deep when I had to get out of the hole to get something. So I crouched and jumped right out of the hole. Four feet straight up in the air. 30. I am an Eagle Scout and an Assistant Scout Master (haven’t renewed that though) 31. For years I’ve been having chronic nosebleeds (once I even got one because I was laughing too hard at an Achievement Hunter video). It has gotten to the point where I’ve had the inside of my nostrils cauterized (basically a “burning” stick of metal is shoved up my nose to burn the blood vessel causing the nosebleeds so the new tissue heals over it) 32. When I was younger I was so skinny you could see my ribs almost all the time, some people even said they could see my heart beating. 33. When I was in elementary school in the bathroom I saw a spider crawling up from the urinal (I believe this led to my fear/dislike of spiders) 34. One time I sat on my grandmother’s couch and my back landed on a bee/wasp which stung me, not fun. 35. One time after I got home from Boy Scout camp I was showering when I discovered a Ladybug was crawling on my butt. I didn’t kill it but I let it go. 36. I have Asperger Syndrome (as in officially diagnosed) 37. One time a few winters ago I left my glasses in the window as I was taking a shower and when I got out they had literally frozen over. 38. When I was little I once went through a training course for children on how to get out of a burning building, it was neat. 39. I dropped out of community college and have no job and no social life, when I remember these I can’t help but feel like a failure and waste of space. 40. When I was 10 my family went on a cruise in Alaska, it was amazing. But the fun fact is on the cruise one of the entertainers was a ventriloquist named Jeff Dunham. This was before he hit it big time. 41. Once at Boy Scout camp it was the final night before we all went home and they had these giant inflatable balls (bigger than the kids) and we were bouncing them around when it bounced off another kid right into me breaking my glasses right down the middle, fortunately my parents came up that night anyways so we went to get new ones. 42. My sister measured my morning walks with the dog a few days ago, turns out I walk him 2.2 miles (in total).