After my hysterics ended, Vicky told me that she and her brother were actually visiting. “Visiting…your home?” I asked.
    She nodded. We were sitting in her living room, the 电视 on. “Surely 你 know of the 神奇宝贝 journey?”
    I nodded. See? Watching 日本动漫 does have good points. Especially when 你 are sent to one of the 日本动漫 worlds and they don’t think that they’re fictional at all. “Sure I do,” I answered. “When 你 turn ten, 你 head off to get a starter 神奇宝贝 and all that.”
    Vicky grimaced. “They changed the age minimum to thirteen when I was nine. So yeah. Mom forced Matt to go with me last year. So as 你 can see, we haven’t improved in the least.
    “Pokémon trainers don’t have to go to school, but in exchange they have to take care of their 神奇宝贝 and defend themselves from danger. So lots of kids decide to just stay at 首页 and go to school. Since Matt and I came back 首页 to see Mom and Dad, we visited the school, too, so that’s why it’s okay to say that 你 were a new student.”
    I pointed at the monkey, which was perching on her shoulder. “That’s your starter?”
    She nodded proudly. “Aipom. I caught it myself with a practice 神奇宝贝 from the lab. That was also a new policy. 你 have to catch your starter; they don’t give it to 你 anymore. My other 神奇宝贝 are in the care of Professor Oak.”
    “What about Matt?”
    She glared at me. “Why would 你 want to know about that slob?” I was going to take it back, but then she said, “His starter was a Caterpie that’s now a Butterfree.”
    I couldn’t help but laugh. “He’s taking care of a Butterfree?” I tried to picture Matt with a butterfly. Um…
    Vicky said, “It’s not fair! Aipom just refuses to evolve!” She turned to her Pokémon. “You! What’s the matter with you?”
    Aipom must have known that his trainer wasn’t serious, because he just kept watching the television.
    “Ah!” she exclaimed. “Cari, 你 have to get your own Pokémon.”
    “Huh!? Why!?” Even though I told Matt that I could be a better trainer, that didn’t mean I intended on living up to it.
    “Matt and I have to leave again soon,” she said. “And I can’t just leave 你 here 由 yourself. 你 have to come with us, and to do that, 你 need a Pokémon!”
    Wow. I feel like she’s totally putting my opinion into consideration, even though I DON’T want to be a trainer. But then again, she was kind of right. If I was stuck here alone, her parents could practically ship me off the police station. 或者 whatever their law enforcement was. I think it was police.
    “Fine,” I said. “What do I have to do?”
    “MOM!” she shouted, making my ear buzz. “I’M GOING WITH CARI TO PROFESSOR OAK’S!!!!!”
    Without a response, she dragged me out the door and across town. Due to the fact that I have absolutely no stamina, I felt like I was going to pass out 由 the time we arrived. “Here’s the lab,” she told me while I was recovering (in other words, panting like a dog and sweating like one, too). “Let’s go.”
    Well…Vicky did most of the talking. I just stood there while she blabbed away. “This is my friend Cari and she just came here and she really wants to become a 神奇宝贝 trainer but she doesn’t have a 神奇宝贝 yet and so I told her that 你 would help her catch a 神奇宝贝 so that when Matt and I leave 下一个 week she can come with us on our 神奇宝贝 journey but she first needs a starter doesn’t she?”
    Professor Oak peered over the rim of his glasses. “I…guess?”
    “Thank 你 so much Professor Oak 你 don’t know how much this means to –”
    “Eh…you’re welcome,” he said. I guess that this had happened so many times that he already knew that Vicky would go on if no one shut her up. I should follow in his steps.
    “Well then.” He stood up and reached into his lab coat, bringing out a Pokéball. He…carries those around in his lab coat. What if he accidentally throws it in the washing machine without taking them out? “Let us find a 神奇宝贝 for your friend…”
    “Cari,” I said.
    He raised an eyebrow. “Cari?” He fell into silence, a faraway look coming over his face.
    Oh God…if he was going to start spouting nonsense about how I was the chosen one to defeat some huge enemy of evil, I was seriously going to just hide in a corner for the rest of my horrible life.
    “What?” I asked, kind of scared after he was quiet for so long. “What’s wrong?”
    “Nothing,” he said, smiling. “It’s just that Cari is what my grandmother named her first Magikarp.”
    …WHY NOT JUST DROP A 100 TON BLOCK ON MY HEAD!?!?!?
    
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