Part 2
“Another Team member? Aren’t we losers enough already?” laughed Meowth.
“I wonder who that'll be." Said James.
Jessie was the only one who didn't say anything about the new team member.
They didn't have to wait long. The door was opened and a girl in the Team Rocket’s uniform stepped in. She was tall and had short blonde hair and blue eyes. Jessie felt her heart breaking inside. The girl was so pretty, and Jessie couldn’t protect James from her.
“Hello! I’m Amy, your new team-mate!” She said cheerfully, smiling at James. She gave Jessie a strange look.
“Hey, I’m James, and this is Jessie, and this one here is Meowth."
“Howdy!” Even the Cat-Pokemon seemed to like her.
“James... what a pretty name. Suits you just right!"
Amy came closer to James and took his hand, ignoring Jessie and Meowth, and the fact that he can talk. James blushed, surprised by the way Amy behaved, but he surly enjoyed her flirting. Jessie was so angry but she couldn't say a word. It made her really frustrated. The girl continued talking with James but Jessie didn’t listen. She heard them laughing and almost started crying.
When they finished their talk they decided to go back to where they were staying and take the evening off. Before walking out of the room Jessie grasped Amy’s hand and Amy gave her a cold look.
“The boss didn’t send you here to flirt with James.” Jessie said with cold and serious voice.
“I’ll do whatever I want to. Don’t you forget for a minute- I can have you killed. So you just keep out of this and let me play a little with that cute soon-to-be-dead boy.”
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James and Amy sat next to the fire. They haven’t stopped talking and laughing all evening long. Meowth was asleep and Jessie laid in her sleeping bed, wide awake. She heard James and Amy talking and in the corner of her eye she saw Amy’s fingers running through James’ hair, and she felt like someone was sticking little knives through her skin. She was sad but also jealous, and that feeling surprised her. She heard Amy saying that she is going to fix herself and James some midnight snacks and when Jessie raised her head, she saw James sitting next to the fire alone, and decided to come sit next to him.
“Jess, I thought you were asleep.”
“I wasn’t. I heard you and Amy talk.”
“I’m sorry”, he smiled at her. “We didn’t mean to disturb you.”
“It’s Ok.” She smiled sadly back, “I see that you like her a lot.”
“Yes, I do, she is *so* cute. And I think she likes me too, can you believe it?” He sounded so happy.
Jessie just smiled at him and didn’t say a thing. She was afraid that if she’ll open her mouth, she will say something that she must not say and get them both killed. Amy didn’t look like she was playing any games.
Suddenly Jessie felt a hand on her shoulder. It was that damn girl, Amy, giving her a fake smile. “Jessie, I didn’t know you were up. I didn’t fix you anything to eat.”
“That’s ok,” Jessie gave her a look full of hate, “I was just about to take a walk anyway.”
“Good, you do that.” Amy smiled a bigger smile and Jessie felt like kicking her skinny ass straight to hell. She got up and started walking slowly, heading to the a river near by.
Jessie finally got to the river and looked at her reflection in the water. “It’s all your fault, Jessie” She said to herself. “You should have protected him, and teach him how to be a good Team Rocket member. You brought him here and now he’s going to die because of it. It’s your fault, you stupid, stupid girl.” She threw a little rock angrily into the water. The tears ran down her face.
“I have to do something, I have to!”
“I don’t think that’s possible.” Jessie heard the voice from behind her and turned around. That was Amy. What, now she’s following her too?
“What do you want?” Jessie was still with her back to the girl, so she won't see her crying.
“I’m just reminding you of your mission. The fact that I'm friendly to James does not mean that I’m going to let you do what ever you want.” She sounded so evil, and Jessie just hated her more and more.
“Yeah, yeah, I know, the mission.”
“You got damn right. You have until after this weekend, or I'm telling the boss you're not doing your job.” Amy got close to her and almost whispered in her ear. “Let me just say, it will be really unpleasant if the boss will do it himself. *Really* unpleasant.” And then she walked away.
Jessie sat alone near the river, looking at the water and crying.
“God”, she looked up to the sky, “Help me. I can’t do this. I can’t do this! Please, help me!"
