From: "Trousle Undrhil" <undrhil@hotmail.nospam.com> Subject: [PW!] [SST] Celebration on Upper Deck at 10pm! Singles come early. Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:39 AM Lisa sat on the upper deck by the swimming pool. She kept thinking about the events of the last month and wondering what the future had in store for her and Trousle. Obviously, going to Hoenn was a big step. She hadn't even really known Trousle all that long and now, here she was travelling all this way with him. She thought back to the last day in Goldenrod City and how Trousle had held her hand and hadn't even flinched. "Most boys his age would probably shy away from me, " she thought to herself. "He is kind of cute, after all ... but ..." Her throughts were interrupted by the noises of some people in the pool laughing really loudly. She looked up and saw a Mr. Mime in a swimming suit on the diving board getting ready to jump into the pool. He looked around innocently. "Mime?" This only made the people in the pool laugh even more. A small girl ran up and started shouting, "Hey! What's wrong with you? Haven't you heard of being nice? It's not nice to laugh at Pokemon or people!" She looked at the Mr. Mime, "There, there. It's ok. You can swim with me!" She jumped in and the Mr. Mime jumped in right after her. Lisa watched them swim for a few more minutes before standing up and stretching. aA young boy of about 15 walked up to her at this point and said, "Hi. My name's Zak. I'm not a Pokemon trainer, but I'm going to Hoenn to meet Professor Elm. I hear he's doing some really wild stuff for researching! What's your name?" Lisa turned to him and said, "I'm Lisa. I *am* a Pokemon trainer and I'm going to Hoenn to find out more about Pokemon Contests. If you're not a trainer, why do you want to meet Professor Elm?" "Well, actually, my little sister over there is the Pokemon trainer in our family. I'm the one who caught that Mr. Mime, but I never could do anything with it. I felt like I wasn't being a good enough trainer for it, so I gave it to her. She's so happy to have a Pokemon and she's so excited about going to Hoenn. Professor Elm is her hero, as well." He laughed. "Hehe. More like, she's got a crush on him. Anyway, it was nice to meet you. Maybe we'll meet up again sometime in Hoenn?" He waved bye as he walked away. Lisa waved back to him and said, "Yeah. Maybe..." She walked down to the cabin and unlocked the door. The first thing she noticed was that Trousle was still asleep in his bed. (They had gotten the larger bed split out to two smaller beds rather quickly when Lisa found out about the way the room was set up originally.) The second thing she noticed was that the message light on the telephone was flashing. "Someone called and he slept right through it." she thought. She picked up the phone and played the message back. "This is the automated announcement system. Tomorrow night at 10 pm, before final approach to the port in Littleroot Town, there will be a celebration on the upper pool deck. All guests are invited. Dress is casual, but the pool will be closed, so there will be no swimming. Also, there will be no Pokemon fights during this celebration. Singles are encouraged to come up a little earlier to mingle with the other singles on-board. Thank you and have a wonderful time in Hoenn!" Lisa hung up the phone and glanced over at Trousle, still asleep on the bed. She sighed. "Well, I guess it can't hurt anything to leave him here asleep while I go up there for the celebration. I know that it won't do any good to wake him up since he'll just go right back to sleep again." She glanced at the clock. "Hmm. 6:30pm. Guess I have a few hours I can get some rest." She set the alarm on her clock for 8 pm and drifted off to sleep. [TBC] Undrhil@hotmail.nospam.com