It was around the time of Pokemon Crystal's release and I finally had made a good friend at my new school. I was usually reluctant to confide in people how much I loved Pokemon. We were finishing elementary school, and while that's the perfect age for a beginning Pokemon trainer about 10, being silly I thought I was getting old for Pokemon, and figured that I would get teased for watching a baby show. But I felt I could open up to this one person, who had confessed pokemania to me. She was also nice and mature and happened to be from the state I had just moved from.
I was the awkward girl so it was unusual for me to invite anyone over, but Jenna was special. My mum was so relieved that I was making friends that she went out of her way to make it a nice weekend. She picked us up from school then took us to a bakery in town and let us pick deserts for our pokemon-athon. Me and my friend left with all kinds of scrumptious cookies, then got ourselves some cheese burgers, fries, shakes from a diner next door. The third stop was a local video rental store-- and of course we searched for anything related to pokemon. There weren't many titles, most of them were older but I remember renting The Power of One dvd and a tape with some different episodes on it I think Pokemon Shipwreck, Island of the Giant Pokemon and the ep Tentacool and Tentacruel.
When we got home I showed off the jewels of my collection, my Dragonites, my Espeon, my legendaries. Then I demonstrated all kinds of glitches you could do with the gameboy color, parts parts of GSC that she didn't even know existed. We traded witch eachother and completed both of our Pokedexes. I was really happy to have a Gengar from her. Then I presented my Pikachu plushie
Over the course of the weekend we went swimming and played tag with my German Shepherd-- the woods were behind my house and the beach was close by and the weather was cool. We played old N64 games, not all of them were Pokemon, but of course some were like Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Stadium 2, and even the Supersmash brithers series since I usually played as Pikachu (when I wasn't Kirby or Ness.) We eventually ordered pizza, watched all the pokemon episodes and movies, and when it was finally time to go home mum woke us to a delicious breakfast of bacon, scrambled eggs sausages, orange juice and waffles. Oh, that was a good weekend.
