Bridging The Gap; The Final Records In Unova: An Autobiography

Busting Pipes

Courtney squinted at me in disbelief from behind her pink, thick-framed glasses. "G-Gary?!" she gasped.

I closed my eyes and shook my head hard before staring at her again, wide-eyed. Her hair is blonde, now, I noted. And she has glasses?

Courtney looked cuter than ever in glasses, somehow. She was wearing a bright yellow jacket, zipped up, a thin hood at her back, and a long, baby blue skirt that ended at her ankles, her feet in a pair of matching blue shoes. She looked me up and down a couple of times, her eyes blinking repeatedly.

No one spoke a word.

My heart was beating hard out of some level of fear of seeing Courtney again after all this time.

Courtney turned to June and looked her over, a sneer coming over her face, and then she glanced at Trixa, cocking her head in confusion for a second before she looked back to me and straightened up with a serious look. "What do you think you're doing here?"

"Me? ME?! What am I doing here?" I exclaimed. "What do you mean??"
"I can't say that any clearer to you." Courtney crossed her arms and frowned.

"No! What are you doing here?" I shot back frantically. "In Unova!! Why??"

"I'm here to compete in the Unova League," Courtney said snottily. "Now, answer my question."

"I'm here to compete in the Unova League, too!" I said in shock.

Her eyes tightened. "I can't believe this! This is so unbelievable! You can't be here! You just can't!"

"It's been so long..." I said in a low voice, staring at her, confused by all of this. "I can't believe you're here, in Unova of all places."

She swallowed hard, sitting on her next words. "I heard about you."

Confused by her statement, I just stared but didn't say anything.

"At the Pokemon League in Kanto. Back then..." Courtney continued. "I read about it, and I saw your pic-"

"Please," I interrupted, raising my hand. "I don't want to talk about that."

"But," Courtney said, a hint of desperation in her voice, "they say you ran into those terrorists before! They said you saw them in Cloud City! They mentioned something about that Team S-"

"Shut up!!" I shouted at her furiously, startling her. "I said I don't want to talk about it!"

Courtney lowered her eyes sadly. "Sorry." She looked up at me. "I'm glad to see you're okay."

"Thanks," I nodded solemnly. "You're okay, too."

"Well, I left after my loss at the League, and went back to Hoenn to be with my family. Things were really bad during that time. Even though those terrorists had been stopped, the world was completely shaken up by it, so I stayed home to be with my mom and dad. When things started to get bad at home with my parents, I had decided to run away. Far, far away from the arguing and stress. That's why I left to be a Pokemon Trainer in the first place; my parents and their constant fighting. So, I fly all the way out here to Unova, to put the past behind me and move forward in my life, only to find one of my previous headaches." A disgusted look came over her face as she spoke, and she turned to June. "And not only are you accompanied by the red head..." Her face fixed itself into a smirk as she turned to Trixa. "...but you also have a new girlfriend?"

Trixa smiled at Courtney. "Hi! I'm Trixa. Who are you?"

"She isn't my girlfriend! NEITHER OF THEM ARE!!!" I barked.