Guzma pulled out a pen, scribbling something on a napkin "Here, if ya need anything, and I mean anything, call this number right here." He handed the napkin to Grant, who looked at it and smiled widely. "Thank you sir!"

"Just call me Guzma, boy. Ya don't needa be so formal with me." Guzma replied, grabbing his stuff off the plane storage above him. It was around 1am currently, and he was extremely exhausted.

Honestly, he planned on sleeping during the flight, but then this little boy cameuo and he just couldn't ignore it.

The bags under his eyes were already horrible naturally, and the appearance he had right now looked as if he belonged in a horror movie. He felt his feet drag against the ground as he started shuffling off the plane.

His eyes noticed the recognizable man to be Grant's father. He glared, then "accidentally" pushing past him.

"Hey, watch it buddy!" The man said, spinning around to face Guzma, who was currently right now only half a head taller than him. "You bett'r watch yo self, saltine cracker." Guzma breathed in and straightened his back, suddenly becoming at least a foot taller than the man. The man's eyes grew large, taking a small step backwards while clinging to his suitcase.

"Ya bett'r take care of this boy, Grant too, or else ya won't know what's coming for ya." Guzma said, smirking and continuing to exit the plane, not even waiting for another reaction. That man better learn something.

Guzma yawned, covering his mouth with his free arm. He checked the time on his phone. "5am?! Oh geez, I forgot it's a completely different region." He walked through the unknown airport, looking up at a sign to remember that he was now in Hearthome City, one of the biggest cities to exist actually. Guzma read that it was the fifth largest city in the world currently, so obviously it was going to be crowned with people.

There was already a great number of people coming inside to attend the early flights, so luckily there wasn't a whole lot of traffic exiting. He exited the finals doors and stood outside for a moment, examining everything.

It was really different. It wasn't as crazy as Lumiose City, with all the neon flashing lights, but it was a gorgeous location for thousands of tourists to visit. He could see city towers from the airport.

The climate felt different too. Guzma felt goosebumps start to prickle on his arms, obviously not used to the chilled air. A couple shivers ran down his body from the drastic change of temperature in the air, more used to the hot, breathy air that made him sweat just by standing.

After about ten minutes, he finally caught a ride in a taxi. "Where you wanna go, man? I gotchu." The man was probably about the same age as he was. "Take me to the Pokémon Center."

"Okay, I'm on it." The driver replied, then took off towards the destination. Guzma could only stare outside to look at how drastically different Sinnoh was compared to Alola. It has much more land, it wasn't beach-like everywhere.

It took about half an hour, but luckily the streets in the middle of Hearthome City weren't crowded at this hour. There were some people already up for work, but nothing too dramatic. Guzma paid the man, then stepped out of the taxi and awed, looking everywhere.

The buildings were huge! He's never seen anything like it, Alola was more relaxing and laid back, having a lot more space.

Was he actually really here?

There were tons of buildings with different heights, but still went to the sky. There were lots of shops around, and he was o MY at the Pokémon Center. He could buy everything he actually needed just in these couple of streets. There were a few large tv screens, displaying information about battles, contests, wait, what the hell were contests?

"Top Coordinator Dawn Berlitz has once again, impressed many judges by her somewhat different performance earlier today! More news on TheDailySinnoh!"

"Guess whatever these fuckin' contests are, they're sure popular." Guzma muttered to himself, then finally decided to go into the Pokémon Center to get a room and rest.

*With Plumeria*

"C'mon, there's no reason to get all mad! Just a few more minutes, Plumes, that's all I need." Draze pouted, grabbing her oversized t-shirt when she started getting out of the bed. Plumeria gave him a face as he started wrapping his arm around her slim, petite figure for a moment. He started to ill her back, but she untangled herself from him.

"You're such a party pooper, can you at least hand me a beer, babe?" He propped up on one of his elbows, looking at her figure. Plumeria rolled her eyes and checked the time on her phone. "Draze, it's only eight a.m, normal humans don't drink fucking beer at this hour." She flipped her hair to the other side, cascading down and over her right shoulder as she strolled to the kitchen, grabbing the usual capsule for her coffee maker. With a few buttons, her coffee maker was already working its magic, brewing a delicious chocolate-coffee drink, the aromas scent filling the room.

Plumeria set her hands on the counter, staring at it. After a few moments, Draze came strolling in, then hugging her from behind. He rested his chin on her slumped shoulder, leaving a few light kisses on the side of her neck. "You know, you can take a day off work, y'know, maybe Netflix and chill-" His lips grazed her ear, while trailing a finger down her side, sending a jolt down her spine from his lingering touch. "-we just haven't been..alone enough." He left a trail of butterfly kisses from her jaw down to her shoulder blade, trying to make her distracted.

Plumeria finished making her coffee, setting it aside and turning around in Draze's arms "We've had enough time, besides, work is actually fun." She looked up to see Draze making his sad attempt at puppy eyes, but sighed knowing that he'd complain later. "Well...maybe later tonight-" She paused and stroked a couple fingertips against his chest down to his torso, looking up to see his mischievous smirk appear, the puppy eyes long gone with his crimson eyes glistening instead. "-If you treat me good."

"I'm all yours." He mumbled, tilting his head slightly and pushed his lips onto hers hungrily. He hugged her closer to his body, feeling her hands run through his red locks of morning bedhead.

Plumeria felt herself automatically close her eyes and savor the kiss shared between them.

It just wasn't like she wanted it to be.

It felt like she was just forcing it.

But this was her life now, and there wasn't going back.

After a few moments, Plumeria pulled back, but giving him another quick kiss before spinning around to grab her coffee mug. "I'm getting ready for work, later." Draze winked at her, then proceeded to go rummage through the fridge for some beer while she collected her necessities for work.

After that, she showered, put on her favorite purple sweats, air Jordan's, crop top, and put her hair into a fish-tail braid down the right side, letting it show in the front. Fixing up her face makeup, she'd ditched the white eyeshadow a long time ago. Her eyeliner wasn't so scary anymore, it was more of an actual wing.

Bless Arceus she realized how overly dramatic she'd been wearing her makeup in the old days.

She quickly tied her bandanna around her head, grabbed her phone and proceeded to leave for work, grabbing her Nike backpack on the way. "See ya babe." Draze said over his shoulder, sitting on the couch watching previous football highlights.

"I guess you don't have any work, or else you'd be cleaning the wheels on your tires." Plumeria replied, noticing how more relaxed he was. Her boyfriend nodded in response. "Yeah, I don't have anyone tryna challenge me right now, but I've got one scheduled next Friday, FYI."

"Make sure you vacuum and pick up, our room is disgusting because you don't pick the fuck up." Plumeria added, slipping on her bag. She crossed her arms to see him give her a look, then roll his eyes. "Look, can't I have any fuckin' time off without you up in my space? God damn." He shook his head annoyed, not looking back at her.

Plumeria smacked her lips. "Well you've already given up for tonight." Saying over her shoulder, then proceeded to walk out the door. Before she closed it behind her, Draze caught it with one of his hands. "Look, ah-h I didn't mean it babe, I'll clean up, I promise."

Plumeria scoffed, shrugging her shoulders "Whatever you say." He quickly kissed her cheek, then closed the door as she started heading to work.

Even though she did have her drivers license, it was nice because she could walk to work if she felt like it. It was a good morning stretch, and it's not like she had to dress up everyday in the week. Of course she went on daily mileage runs, so it was an easy fifteen minute walk.

After she got there, pushing the two glass doors open to see some of her work-friends already working. "Hey Plumsy!" Plumeria shook her head and smiled to see one of her best friends. "You ain't lookin' so bad yourself, you plum."

The man shook his head, cracking up. "That's not me, that's my younger brother you're talking about now." Plumeria playfully rolled her eyes as she started setting up her station, organizing the different hair scissors, products, dyes, etc.

"I guess you've got all the Pokémon under control?" Plumeria asked, starting up a conversation with the twenty-four year old man. "Yeah, Maylene's currently looking after them at our house in Veilstone city along with Paul. She hasn't gotten very many challengers because of how she's improved her battling style. Heck, I heard she almost beat our Sinnoh champion in a one-on-one battle the other day."

Her eyebrows shifted up in surprise. "I swear your wife is going to actually kick your brother off of being champion. Paul's already been the champion since he was sixteen, it's been around three years, he can pass up the title." Plumeria joked, seeing the professional breeder chuckle. "I don't think he plans on giving up that title for a long time. Besides, it's good money." Reggie replied, fixing his low ponytail.

Plumeria checked her planner for today's date, remembering that she had a haircut appointment in about half an hour. "I've seen that Dawn's been doing really well in contests. Apparently her performance in the battle rounds are even better than she was last year." Plumeria commented, setting her planner back onto her counter.

"Paul's actually been training with her. She's good for him, he's recently just been annoyed with me because I keep telling him he's softened up." Reggie replied, crossing his arms. "They're two-year anniversary is just coming up on the 1st of January, and he's actually thinking about taking her to the restaurant in Lumiose City in Kalos. The one where only champions, celebrities can basically go inside? Lucky for them, they're both the two largest celebrities in Sinnoh."

"That's pretty much my dream to go there if I ever become famous one day, I swear." Plumeria laughed, glad that the stubborn young Sinnoh champion finally has some good tastes.

"Maybe one day. For now, I've got to pick up a few Pokémon from the Pokémon Center, so I'll see you later!"

"See ya Reggie." He waved a goodbye before exiting the Hair Salon, leaving Plumeria to talk with her other friends.

*~With Guzma~*

Guzma forced his eyes open and checked the time on his phone, seeing it was late morning. After a few minutes of laying in silence, he grudgingly got out of bed to shower and eat breakfast, already knowing he had some work to do today.

After getting ready, he dragged his feet through the Pokémon Center, and as he walked to the doors, he didn't realize someone was coming around from the side.

Guzma and the other man accidentally bumped shoulders, but were perfectly fine. "I'm so sorry sir, I should've been looking where I was walking!" He looked up to see a man around his age with dark purple hair, and he could already feel the "too-positive vibes" radiating off the man. "Yeah, you don't wanna mess with this boy so watch it." Guzma spat back, slipping his hands into his pockets and looked at the mans face.

"Okay then.." The man replied, which left Guzma smirking while leaving the Center to explore the city, even if he absolutely would rather stay inside all day and sleep.