Thorn was happy with this friendship. "See?" she said to Charmeleon. He grunted but shook hands anyway. "while I have you attention I would like to introduce you to Evan, who you are all sitting on." Thorn said laughing.

Evan smiled at them "it is nice to met all of you" he said happly

They all became loud again and Thorn wondered if it was just because Charmeleon was a little grouchy or something else she couldn't sense. Charmeleon let go of his handshake and said he wanted to go inside.

Evan smiled at Charmeleon "why do you want to go in? why not have some fun." he said and growlith came up to Charmeleon and asked if it wanted to play with him

Charmeleon jumped when Evan and Charmander invited him to play. He quickly dashed inside. "ahh, don't bother going after him." Thorn said to Charmander. "Sometimes he just has to be alone."

Evan looked at her and nodded slowly "okay if you say so."

"He's had a hard past." she said, glad to have someone to tell about this. "Found him like how you found Growlith, only by a Team Rocket hideout. He was apparentally abused as a Charmander and was thrown out." she sighed. "He's been an outsider since."

Evan smerked "he sounds like me only a little bit worse." he said as he thought about all the times he had been whiped.

"Hmm. your right!" she realized. "Pikachu is ok with him, they'll work together if they have to, but Pikachu is the main pokemon here. If he doesn't like him that much, no one does." All of the pokemon were playing around the garden.

Evan smiled as he watched the pokemon "but I dont think it is right for them to keep away from him."

"Oh, I'm sure they will understand eventually." she said. "he's only been here a month. Sometimes it takes longer to adjust."

Evan nodded "yeah but I would like to talk to him since he we have been threw similar things."

"I'll see if I can get him to come back downstairs." she said, getting up. She went upstairs and saw Charmeleon going through her photo album. "Charmeleon, Evan wants to get to know you." Charmeleon didn't turn, just went and kept on looking. She looked over his shoulder. He was looking at her pictures of when she was first starting and having a lot of fun with her pokemon. "Come on now Charmeleon," she said encouragingly. " Evan wants to talk to you, he thinks you have similarities." He ignored her and crawled onto his bed. She sighed and turned off the light. "Night" she said.

Evan started to play with the pokemon again while he waited for Thorn

Thorn came downstairs and said, "Well, he didn't want to come down, so you'll have to wait unitil tomorrow." she had gotten some pokemon food and said, "Hey you guys! Food!"

Evan smiled then thougth about something. "I think it is about time I changed the bandages." he said and ran inside to go change his bandages.

"Um... ok." she sighed and went into her room. Charmeleon was still asleep and she rubbed his back.

Evan soon came back with a white button up shirt on that wasn't button up and you could see the bandages. He looked at the Charmeleon and smiled slightly.

She was still rubbing his back. "I think the other pokemon know they have to be nice, but it's just hared for them and him to adjust." She sighed. "I saw him on the news, he had been taken from his trainer. when I found him, I tried to contact him, but the trainer had already went and gotten another Charmander."

Evan looked at the pokemon "that is a horrable thing to do to a pokemon, I would have kept on looking for him." he said softly

"I told him that if he wants to, we can keep looking for him." Thorn said. "I even looked him up online. I've mailed him three times and he never replied. I thinking of visiting him" She sighed and looked at Evan. "I think that is the root of Charmeleon's probalems, he feels like he's unwanted because his trainer is regecting him."

Evan nodded slowly "Yeah I can see that as a problem."

She stretched. "Well, I am tired. Out of my room, I'm heading to bed." she ushered him out.

"well good night" he said as he went out of her room and outside. He needed to spend sometime outside since that was where he felt he belonged.

Thorn sat on her bed. Charmeleon looked up drowsily and she said, "Can you move over a little? I'm hitting the hay." He nodded and moved over. She crawled into bed beside him and fell asleep.