Embarrassing Encounter

"Wake up Jane!"

Jane felt a slight sting on her left cheek as she opened her eyes slightly to see her mother frantically trying to wake her up.

"Thank goodness! You were having quite a nightmare! I tried everything to wake you up but you wouldn't open your eyes. I'm sorry I had to resort to slapping you.." She gave Jane a truly apologetic look.

Jane wiped her eyes and looked her mother in the face, "Mom! What a terrible nightmare I had! There was a boy named Ash Ketchum and...and he had some type of creatures with him and he even attacked me with them!"

"Creatures? You sure they weren't Mathemon?"

"No! He called them...Pokemon! Yeah! Pokemon! They were truly frightening... I'm so glad you woke me up from that nightmare.."

"Ah, its no problem dear. But enough of that! Hurry off to Professor Derivate's place or you'll be late! You don't want all the Mathemon to be taken do you?"

Jane looked at the time, a feeling of panic overcoming her causing her to forget the nightmare she had just gone through. She let out a cry of frustration, "I've got to hurry! Get out mom! I have to get changed first!"

"Ha Ha.. Okay, make sure you grab a piece of toast as you leave, okay? I wouldn't want you to collapse as soon as you got out of the house from starvation!" Jane's mother said as she left the room.

Jane quickly assembled her belongings and ran out the door not caring who or what was in her way. All that mattered to her was getting to the centre and getting her very first Mathemon. She sped through the streets and was welcomed with the site of an already large crowd of trainers who were just as anxious as her to get their Mathemons. "There's nothing worse than angering a bunch of desperate Mathemon trainers," Jane said to herself. She did not want any confrontations but screw it she wanted her damn Mathemon. So she pushed and elbowed her way to the front of the crowd.

For every nudge and elbow she gave, ten flung right back at her. "What is with this crowd?" She wondered. Jane reached out between the inkling of space between two random spectators and squished herself through and tripped on another set of feet. After this usually came a string of pain, but weirdly someone broke her fall.

A girl in a flashy, gimmicky outfit pinned her forearm to the cement. Moving made it burn. The initials 'JD' were imprinted on the front of her hat. Jane assumed this was Jenny, Bigshot Jenny. Jenny finally got up and sneered. "Well, well. You must be that little Solvem girl from downtown. Janey, is it?"

Jane felt her face burn red and her brow began to furrow. "It's just JANE."

"Well, Jane, too bad you couldn't catch the rare sighting of what will soon be the greatest Mathemon in the world. I would show you but I just finished shining it's Mathecube, it would be a shame to take it out again." She nasally snickers. Everything she says seems to be a sneer as she gazes infantly into her fingernails. If she looked hard enough, she probably could see her own reflection.

"For the last time, my name is JANE!!! and I'm not here to see you, I'm here to get my own Mathemon!"

Jenny crossed her arms and scrunched her face. "Good luck with that, there's barely any left!"

"There weren't many to begin with! I'm not illiterate. That's why I came--" She hesitated. Out of all this frustration, she had forgotten that she was late! No more Mathemon? Is it true??!?!

"Be careful not to trip on the stairs." Jenny smirked.

"What stairs? There's no stairs!"

"Oh, my mistake. Just don't trip on your own feet running your way up. You'll probably run into disappointment anyway."

Jane ignored her, but her face slowly realized the shock. But she tried not to reveal it in front of so many of the town's faces. She slowly began to walk faster into the building.