A gust of wind caught the cards and knocked off a few from the deck. I was about to use Shadow Sneak again when Mear stopped me.
"May I try something?" He asked, I being surprised by this. What could he use to get the cards?
He uttered the words Shadow Sneak. Woah, hang on a second, he can use Shadow Sneak? He used it the same exact why I used, flinging the cards back to him at the end of the move and setting the cards back on the deck.
"How did you..." I started but Mear stopped me.
"I’m a mimicker," Mear told me. "My move Sketch allows me to copy any move I see." He gave a shrug. "And I liked the move you used, so I copied it."
I just stared at him. I couldn't help it, especially since Shadow Sneak was an advanced move for ghosts.
I chuckled a little, and I didn't know why. It wasn't funny, but maybe it just the fact that he did the move like me.
I also didn't exactly know why I had been so good at speed. I guess I just kinda saw it like poker. And earlier, it seemed that he had gotten a little irratated from how I acted before. Perfect. First time I try making a friend and I almost ruin it. That's just exactly what I need.
“It's um... it's fine,” I told him, smiling slightly. I wasn't lying at all. It actually was fine. He seemed surprised this time.
“Are you sure that it is fine? It didn't seem like it before,” Mear told me simply which surprisingly didn't get me upset.
“Yeah... I'm sure,” I smirked as I saw a flower near the cards.
For some reason, I plucked it off the stem and looked at it. It had all the same colors as my eyes, so as I talked to Mear, I just twirled it around with my fingers curiously.
“I'm sorry if I... annoyed you earlier with how I responeded to the game. It seems I do that all the time with people I play with...” I left off as I kept my eyes on the flower.
“What do you mean?” He inquired and I looked up at him. He was giving me a small smile, trying to give me reassurence.
“Normally I just cause bad luck or something. I win a lot sometimes in games, and people get mad and stop the game. It's kind of why I don't have any friends...” He didn't respond immediately to that so he dodged my eyes to his sketchbook instead.
Things became a little awkward, but what I had said was true. Any time I played with someone, I would win over half the time, and it's how I didn't have any friends. My parents said it was because I was different from all the other kids, and that I was special. I never believed them one bit.
I suddenly felt a finger poke me on the arm. I looked up and saw a Gengar, smiling his weird smile.
“What is it?” I asked him and all he did was point at the flower. Did he want it or something?
“Do you want this?” I held up the flower to him and he nodded quickly so I handed it to him and he took it and ran off. I guess he really did want the flower...
I saw, out of the corner, that Mear was looking at me with a questioning look on him. I tilted my head in confusion.
“Could I be your... um...”
“My what?” I had a feeling he was going to say friend.
“Friend?” I was still shocked he said this, but I answered him anyways.
“Sure, if you don't mind my bad luck at times...”
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~Shupple and Anime-chan
