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“Penny…” Nemona's voice breathed. One hand on Penny's waist, holding her close.
while her other was loosely intertwined together with Penny's, having her cornered against the wall.
Penny could feel how her heart was hammering in her chest and it wouldn't be a surprise if The girl in front of her could hear it as well.
It was embarrassing…
But even if Nemona did hear it, she didn't comment on it and instead pulled the girl closer to herself so their bodies would fully connect and Penny felt like she was going to pass out right there and then.
How was this happening?
Penny's gaze met Nemona's and she felt her heart hammer in her chest even further.
Their fingers interwined fully and Nemona moved her hand from her waist to her face. Cupping it gently as she leaned in closer and then- and then… !!
A loud ringtone echoed through the Eevee trainer's room and the image of Nemona almost kissing her vanished and Penny's eyes lazily opened.
With a sigh, Penny quickly grabbed her phone. Shutting off the noise from it, and slumped back on her bed, staring up at the ceiling.
The Dream was still fresh in her mind and her heart was still racing like crazy.
She sat up, making a few of her adorable veevees jump down from the bed as Penny ran a hand through her face, pushing her red bangs back and letting her hand rest against her forehead for a bit to process everything she had witnessed in her dream but it only made her heart beat even harder.
She needed a moment to quiet her heart. She had dreamed of Nemona kissing her, again.
Penny closed her eyes and sighed heavily, how many times has it been at this point? Or just her dreaming of Nemona in general?
She had lost count. Ever since the trip to Area 0, she had found herself staring at the champion-ranked trainer more and more. And then...the dreams started.
She had thought initially it had just been an attraction thing but no. Of course, her heart would race as soon Nemona would be approximately 3 meters away from her.
Penny wanted to deny it so badly- and she had, at least at first and found any excuse in the book to do so.
But who was she fooling? She knew she was crushing hard on the girl, and with how things were going, it didn't seem to go away any time soon either and neither would the thoughts of the Paldean girl.
Her heart slowed down but then she thought of Nemona again and her stupid beautiful, warm smile and how cute her freckles were.
How frustrating.
Penny grabbed the pillow under her and burrowed her burning face into it.
Maybe she could choke the feeling out… Nah, not going to work.
Penny removed the pillow and once she did.
Her flareon jumped up right next to her head to nudge at her with its snout to check if his trainer was alright.
“Hey buddy…” Penny mumbled and gave a scratch behind its ear, gently stroking its warm furr, it calmed her and soon enough the rest of her veevees had jumped up as well to either lay down next to her or to paw at her to get pats as well.
“Let's get you guys your breakfast” Penny mumbled after about 30 minutes of lazily scrolling her phone and patting her Pokemon, she shuffled over to her kitchen area to grab the Pokemon food that was already half prepared on the messy counter so she could fill all her veevees bowls.
She had no appetite herself so instead of having breakfast she grabbed her everyday clothes to go get changed whilst her Pokemon ate.
Praying that Jolteon wouldn't leave a mess or take leafeons share while she didn't watch them for a few seconds.
When she had returned, however. All seemed to be in order and she would recall her Pokemon to their Pokeballs so she could start her school day.
Penny then unlocked her phone to check her schedule for the day and when she saw her first class, she felt dread fall on her.
“Damn it…” Penny mumbled, maybe she should just skip today and play World of Pokecraft…
(“I don't want to see her…”)
Her first class of the day was battle studies and then straight after was Gym Class with 1-A students, aka Nemona and Juliana's class.
Another sigh, followed by her face redding from remembering the dream she had.
How close Nemona had been, how soft her lips had looked an- penny halted her thoughts again.
( So annoying..!!) Penny huffed and glared into the floor, She was acting like some love-sick fool And it was getting on her nerves.
And why Nemona of all people?? (She knows exactly why)
But Penny refused to think of it further and left her dorm room to get the day over with.
A short while later she sat seated on the grass with some other students from her class alongside class 1-A.
Listening to Miss Dendra teach and talk about evolution and how some Pokemon such as Primeape and Galarian Farfetch require certain things in a battle to happen, for them to grow and eventually evolve. To then start teaching about certain Pokemon moves and abilities and other stuff that can cause Pokemon to evolve, however. Penny did not bother to pay attention any further as she had started to zone out.
But 10 minutes later she noticed it had gone quiet and snapped back into reality, noticing not only Miss Dendra staring at her but the whole class and the feeling of unease crawled up her spine. “W-what? Did I do something?”
“Welcome back to the living Miss Penny, glad you returned to us” Miss Dendra chuckled and continued.
“We were just discussing other regions' battle phenomena such as z-moves and Dynamaxing, you’re from Galar, yes? Are you familiar with it?”
“O-oh. uhmm.. yeah.. I am.“
“Great! Then care to tell me what is the difference between a Dynamaxed and Gigantamaxed Pokemon?”
All eyes were on Penny and she felt like hiding away, she hated being in the focus like this.
“Th-They have different forms and special moves…” Penny kept it short and safe but it seemed to have satisfied Miss Dendra since she nodded in agreement with a smile.
“You know your stuff! but that's right! Gigantamaxed Pokemon take on an alternative form then their usual form and this comes with their Max moves to become G-max moves that can really level the battlefield, so keep that in mind and study up on it! Of course, this is inclusive to the Galar region and you need a Dynamax band to get your Pokemon to Dynamax or Gigantamaxed if you are lucky enough to find one that can take this alternative form!”
“Does anyone know of any Pokemon who can take this giantamax form?” Miss Dendra asked but when no one spoke up and most people seemed clueless, Penny mumbled
“vee- eevee..”
“Right again! I guess you will ace this when it comes to the test, huh?” Miss Dendra chuckled and several groans from students could be heard from learning that they would have a test about other regions' battle phenonomials, as if Paldea’s own wasn't enough to get a hang off.
“Let's take your skill to the test, do you happen to know what Eevee’s g-max move is?” Miss Dendra asked Penny and Penny perked right up.
“It’s called G-Max cuddle.. it uhm, makes all who is caught in it lose their will to battle and get Infatuated with it instead, Eevee also tend to become even more playful and rambunctious, that they tend to accidentally crush their opponent under its huge size because they just want to play when it’s dynamaxed so they can be a bit hard to control but it’s worth it if you take your time to properly train it- and all that extra fluff is to die for and it’s really soft.
if I could, and if Eevee would be calm it be nice to take a nap in its fur collar and-”
Penny’s face grew warm when she realized she had rambled on and felt her throat sting from suddenly talking so much, her eyes scanned all the students who all seemed shocked by this sudden change in attitude from the usual quiet girl and snickered about it and whispered among themself.
All but Nemona who instead smiled fondly seeing how her friend had rambled on about Eevee, and Penny’s face grew hotter seeing that smile and now her brain slowly started to get fried instead.
“a-and uhm… it can’t evolve from what is known, which is interesting and uh yeah…” Penny finished and a few more students snickered while Miss Dendra chuckled amused and impressed with her knowledge.
“You must really like Eevee” Dendra grinned and Penny nodded shyly mumbling a low
“Yeah..”
“Right! Thank you Miss Penny for the extra lesson about Eevee, it really is a remarkable Pokemon that I am sure you will learn more about in your biology class with Mr Jacq” Miss Dendra said and then moved on to explain Z-moves.
Penny however pulled her hoodie over her head, embarrassed from having talked so much about Eevee in front of everyone- more so in front of Nemona.
At the very least Juliana wasn't there, to see her embarrass herself. Most likely out finishing her Pokedex and running late for her to have seen Penny make a fool out of herself, but that wasn’t going to stop Penny from feeling like she ever wanted to show her face to class ever again.
Battle studies came to an end and instead, the class hurried off to get changed into gym clothes, all but Penny.
Who, frankly refused to get changed, it caused way too much discomfort, and she rathered not be witnessed changing or see anyone change for the matter of fact.
and was still firm on not wearing any form of the school uniform. no. bloody. way.
She could just relax and sit this out, to just get her presence credit, and then get her break between classes.
Or that’s what she thought she could…
Penny had been sitting on the grass, just scrolling through her phone to entertain herself to get time moving while everyone got ready, when Nemona suddenly appeared before her.
“Yo! Penny~ got a partner yet?” She called her name, causing Penny to fumble her phone, almost dropping it from how one second she had been alone and the next Nemona was in front of her.
“H-huh? N-no! I’m single- I uhm…”
Nemona blinked but then chuckled amused with the strange answer.
“haha, What are you talking about? I’m asking if you want to team up with me for today’s exercise!” She grinned and Penny wanted to dig a hole and never come back, she can pass on now. Thank you very much, Now she REALLY never wanted to show her face ever again.
“Oh r-right… of course and uh…” Penny looked at the students coming back and then at Nemona.
How was she supposed to say yes after embarrassing herself like that?
“I rather not take part…”
(“ Especially not after that Giga fumble”) she thought.
“aw, c’mon it be fun! Jog with me or, oh! we can do some situps, maybe practice our throws, and do some awesome training!” Nemona beamed. Her smile was brighter than a solarbeam and Penny started to consider it, but eventually decided against it after all. shaking her head, no.
“Sorry… not today”
“Hmm… well, okay then! Another time yeah?” Nemona smiled and Penny nodded slowly, avoiding eye contact. “sure”
Nemona waved goodbye and then went over to chat with some of her other friends that Penny did not know the names of.
Her eyes followed Nemona’s movements and how she was stretching her arms as she laughed, getting ready for the exercise while talking to her friends about who knows what.
She was attractive and probably the most pretty girl there. If not the whole school- no scratch that whole Paldea.
Seeing her muscles flex, Penny thought (“damn. despite her low stamina she must still work out quite a lot to get those muscles, huh”) but then… caught herself staring and had only noticed it when Nemona had met her gaze and gave a direct smile to her, giving her a light wave. causing the Stem student to blush and quickly avert her gaze as if she hadn’t just been staring and checking out her friend.
(“ damn it…”)
Meanwhile… Nemona curiously kept looking at Penny and her flustered state, finding it-, her interesting but her attention would soon fall back on her friends who had called her name and if she was ready to start.