Kumo's Diary Entry 1

Dear Diary,
Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve written in you! I looked back and the last entries were from when I first left home. I think that’s because people use diaries to write down interesting things about their lives and then there’s me who completely forgets to do that! Well I guess I kind of own it to you to catch you up. I know you’re not real but I feel like I owe it to you to do this. So, let’s begin!
When I first moved to Rapture Retreat, Maximus and I settled in a nice home close to the lake. The first level I decided to use for the shop while we lived on the second level. It was a huge culture shock to go into town for groceries and see so many different people wearing so many different things, but I loved it! I made some new designs from the people I saw and began to put them for sale in my store, of course I still sold clothes from home. I made some money and made the house a little bigger to live in, Maximus enjoyed the extra room.
It wasn’t long after I moved in I was commissioned to fix something for a sableye miner, his name was Roland. We talked and he bought a suicune sash. We saw each other a lot after that and I guess you could say he was my first real friend on the island. He was always good to talk to and never minded my rambling, sometimes he’d ramble too! He was shy but sometimes I could get him to come of his shell and he’d open up to me. I always liked those days.
Strange things happened on the island and one day our totems changed. Mine wasn’t too bad, but Roland’s….Roland’s was pretty bad. He had been turned into a glalie and his powers were out of control. He was scared; he didn’t know what to do so he started pushing people away, even me. The thought of him not being in my life was unbearable to me; soon I was just as scared as he was. Finally I put my foot down, I told him I wasn’t going to lose him. The cold exterior seemed to melt when I hugged him and good old Roland was back. He was so apologetic for how he acted, but there was nothing to forgive. I guess you could say it was then I realized how crazy I was about him. We started dating soon after that day, it was really nice.
Life really picked up after that. Homika finished her studies in Nimbasa and came to live with me! It was so nice to be with my baby sister again….but Roland and her really didn’t get along for a good while. Homika has always been really protective so I tried to brush it off and Roland handled it as best he could, she calmed down after awhile. She was there when I bought Flax; unaware of what a drilbur was at the time I bought this egg thinking it was something else and boy did she let me have it when he hatched! She seemed to forgive me when I got her Gaga for her birthday, for a bug/grass type she really likes flying types.
Roland’s house suffered a lot of water damage from the glalie incident so I offered to let him stay with me until repairs were finished. Homika wasn’t too thrilled and neither was Maximus, but they both got used to him and his pets after a while. It was a little odd with him staying at my home so early in the relationship, but I felt that made our bond stronger.
As if life couldn’t get better from there I found out I had a new neighbor. I went over to introduce myself while Homika watched the shop later that day. When the door opened I could have cried tears of joy. There she stood with all her ‘womanly muscle’, my best friend Elis Numair. I don’t know why she hadn’t told me in our letters she was moving to Raccolto, although I had forgotten to mention where I had moved so I guess we were both in the wrong there.
We spent all day catching up on our lives and talking about nothing important afterwards. I hadn’t realized how much I missed her company until we were talking about home. We had both evolved since we last saw each other, I liked her with green hair but she said I wasn’t suited to be a red head. That all changed after Christmas though.
Roland’s mother was over when a strange circus came to town. I really wanted to go because I’d never been to one, but as soon as we went I got lost. I can’t really explain how it happened but all I remember is one minute I was an ariados, then after singing on this karaoke machine I was an altaria. Roland wasn’t too happy to see me change at first, but he got better about it in a short amount of time, he’s really good like that. It was really weird going from being a bug/poison type to a flying/dragon type. Dragon types were always revered in the Johto region, but I didn’t really feel like I needed revering.
It was hard to control my powers afterwards. Whenever I sneezed it seemed like I’d burn a hole in something with Dragon breath. Elis thought it was funny, Roland and Homika not so much. Flying was a lot of fun! It was so much easier to go back and forth from the shop to Roland’s house when all you had to do was fly over all the obstacles. My hair got really fluffy and it made it harder to put it in a bun so I started wearing it in a braid from time to time.
Homika and I decided to add a delivery option to the shop since our uncle from Virbank got her a bike for her birthday and I am now able to fly. With my sister and I being so inventive, Roland thought it would be a good idea to take Flax with him to the mines to help with his work. Sadly, Flax ran off the first chance he got and we spent three hours looking for him. Elis finally found him in some poor couple’s picnic basket. He felt so awful he kept apologizing for weeks. Poor Roland.
I moved in with Roland in the spring leaving the second floor for Homika. Of course it sometimes felt like three people living at Roland’s house with how often she visited. I like that we all became so close. Homika got better with Roland and the two started to act like siblings around each other. It was just like a family.
Wow I can’t believe how much time has past since I started writing. I need to go visit Elis soon! I’ll write in you later, diary. Until then, bye bye!