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Part 1 of Adventures in Galar
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Published:
2020-02-01
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2021-02-12
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14/?
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Galar's Most Popular Couple

Summary:

Sarah Char and Leon Best are blackmailed by Oleana to be Galar's most popular "couple" in order to garner the Gym Challenge more attention. They barely know each other, but are still expected to be in "love." A snow storm and the events of the Gym Challenge though change the nature of their relationship as they get to know each other better.

Chapter 1: Prologue - Being a "Couple"

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Sarah sighed as she looked over the crowd from the balcony. She was at one of Chairman Rose’s dinner parties for international guests coming for the start of the Galar Gym Challenge. She felt weird being in such a formal dress, feeling more comfortable in slacks and a dress shirt which was her usual outfit when she worked at a newspaper company.

Someone tapped her shoulder and she turned around to find Leon, the current undefeated champion of Galar, who was giving her a drink.

“Thank you.” she said.

“Don’t mention it.” said Leon flatly, took a sip of his drink and turned away from her to face the crowd.

Sarah looked at the crowd again and found amongst the sea of people Oleana, Chairman Rose’s right hand woman, who glared at them.

That’s right they are supposed to be pretending to be Galar’s most popular couple.

Sarah leaned in and gave Leon a kiss on the check, and Leon turned to her with a smile that Sarah knew didn’t reflect how he actual felt about her.

“Oh, look at that, young love.” commented someone behind them while their companion agreed with them wholeheartedly.

More like a contract that we were forced into, thought Sarah.

But as long as she and Leon acted well enough to garner comments like that everything would be fine.

Notes:

Hello everyone! This is the start to Galar's Most Popular Couple! I know this "fake relationship" trope has been done a lot, but I am still writing this anyway. Some of you who use fanfiction.net might recognize this already. I decided that I wanted to post this fanfic both sites. I only have the prologue posted for now because I am editing for grammatical and spelling errors in all the chapters I have have so far. I have gotten a few comments on my errors and I realized I need to be better at correcting them. I will be posting the chapters I have so far soon and they will be free of the errors that plague the current version.

I would love to hear your thoughts about this as I go. This is my first attempt at a multi-chapter fanfic and I'm determined to see this to the end. I have a goal to post once a week, but I am a busy university student. I will try to keep that goal as best as I can, but school is a priority. I really love writing this fanfic so I want to write it and complete it so that you can enjoy it too.

Also, if any of you are from the UK, I'm curious to find out if I get the slang and the culture right. Galar is the region based on the UK and I am not from the UK, so help with slang and culture would be appreciated.