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Lily nearly jumped in place when a person suddenly approached her from behind, but before the Alolan native could make a response, the woman had disappeared into the lines of people and past the grand doors. She had just barely glanced at her face, but she could remember her blonde hair and midnight blue dress.[break][break]
She stood there for a moment, wondering how to process the woman's hushed words. It seemed like a friendly invitation, but Lily was the slightest hesitant to accept a stranger's request, particularly from one that fades into the enigma of people after a short and unexpected whisper. Still, she kept it in mind and proceeded forward.[break][break]
Immediately, Lily desired a dance, but with who? She picked up her dress so that it wouldn't drag as she made a quick few steps toward the wall. She didn't want to be in the way while she observed from afar. It certainly wasn't like her to be a wallflower, but the atmosphere was much different from what she was used to back home. Maybe she needed air. So she began to explore the vicinity with interest, eventually finding her way in the dining room of the second floor.[break][break]
As she entered, something rustled beneath her dress. Lily's hand instinctively hovered over where her belt would have been if she were wearing it. There was a click, and then the familiar sound of a pokeball opening. And then there was her whimsicott, hidden beneath her dress.[break][break]
"Nougat!" she hissed, but not from anger. She nudged him with her leg and shook her dress to ease the cotton-ball pokemon out. Nougat's shape took form within a few seconds.
"What are you doing? Did you want to dance, too?"[break][break]
Nougat nodded happily.
"Unfortunately, you're a little short to be my partner," Lily laughed. Nougat knew that, but he couldn't help but keep his lonesome trainer company and performed a small spin for her.
"Well, lets just enjoy ourselves, okay? Are you hungry?"[break][break]
Lily eyed the room for snacks. She wandered to a nearby table of food, leaving Nougat to his own thoughts. He was complacent, simply enjoying the music and the well-dressed people. At the sound of purring, Nougat recoiled. To his right was a glameow, snuggling into his notoriously fluffy body. Nougat pushed the pokemon aside, quite uncomfortable with the cat's presence. She retaliated, latching claws onto his cotton like a toy. It received an immediate response from Nougat.[break][break]
The whimsicott first let out a screech before dashing into the dance floor, away from the glameow. He dodged people's legs and feet and began to feel scattered the more they surrounded him. Where was Lily?[break][break]
That was when he saw a mountain of delicious creampuffs, just waiting to be picked off one by one. And who else but him? At least
one. A low growl from behind alerted him, and Nougat was back to scrambling to escape the no-name glameow's paws. In his efforts, he made a wild leap — up onto the table that
Chu-e Choi had sat himself down at, and ran straight through the creampuff stack. The whimsicott tripped on his descent from the table, but he didn't stick around for long, feet scuttling and leaving creampuffs in his trail, although one creampuff did manage to stick to his cotton.[break][break]
"Nougat?"[break][break]
Lily could have sworn she left her pokemon
there, and now he was
nowhere. A sinking feeling hit the pit of her stomach. With her snack plate in hand, Lily searched the room for the whimsicott, calling out his name softly so as to not create a disturbance.[break][break]
Her footsteps quickened when she realized he wasn't in the room anymore.
"Oh no, Nougat." Lily was worried.
"Excuse me, pardon me," she began as she made way for the exit.[break][break]
A scared and lonely whimsicott now ran through the halls of the lobby. With no direction of where to go and fear of a glameow tackling it from behind, he could only continue forward, but everywhere he went, he seemed to be bombarded with trouble. Some lady spilled her drink when he accidentally bumped into her ankle, leaving him wet in red wine. Some kid started to chase after him (who the heck brings their kid?). All in all, it was turning into a rough night for Nougat the Whimsicott.[break][break]
Once more, he took flight to flee yet another predator at his toes, begging to grab handfuls of his cotton. Then, a sharp whistle from @elinda roused him to pick up speed. His body slipped in between a group of chatting people —
FERNANDO SILPH,
Stormy Silph, and
kim cole-essam — toward the rose gardens outside.[break][break]
"Nougat!" Lily called out when she finally caught sight of the creature leaving the building. She rushed after him, but her eyes had not seen the puddles of wine he had left in his wake. Her high heel responded appropriately, slipping perfectly in place of the three people Nougat had passed. The snack plate she had in one hand flew forward, landing on a very pretty girl (
Stormy Silph), and the side that she fell on conveniently offered a person (
FERNANDO SILPH) to catch her — or rather her catch onto him. The plate chipped after it slid and fell, but at least Lily had managed to keep herself from hitting rock bottom by yoinking at the gentleman's clothes with both hands.[break][break]
"Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry," she started with the girl.
"I'm so sorry." Then to blue-haired gentleman she had used for safety.
"Sorry." Finally to the important-looking man, just for the sake of it.[break][break]
She grabbed her dress and moved forward, feeling an intense scarlet red take over her features.[break][break]
In the peace of the rose garden, Nougat finally felt he had found a space to relax. His tired body collapased near a group of free-running poochyena (
kyle lopez).[break][break]
...i got really ambitious. i'm sorry if i'm abruptly interrupting anyone's fun skdjh[break]
tags are in the post. tl;dr:[break]
- lily moves into the dining room and her whimsicott joins the fun[break]
- whimsicott runs into chu-e's plate of creampuffs[break]
- whimsicott runs past silph siblings and mr. purple[break]
- lily accidentally slips, throws her food on stormy, uses fernando to catch herself[break]
- apologizes to everyone and runs[break]
- kyle pls save whimsicott?