Three Days

Eeveeboi.pngber 25, Christmas, 1999
I got the one thing on my wishlist this Christmas. I got Pokemon Blue! My brother, Steven, got Pokemon Red. We also got a link cable, so we can play together. I chose Charmander as my starter, and Steven chose Bulbasaur. Everything was normal until I got an Eevee from Celadon. My game started to bug out. My Charmander - now a Charizard, flashed between a bunch of pixels and a normal sprite. The Eevee I had gotten had moved to the front of my team, and was unable to be moved out...

December 26, 1999
I went back to Pallet Town and tried to talk to my mother. She said I was a horrible trainer for letting my Eevee suffer. I was really confused, so I looked in my party. My Eevee was paralysed, had 1 HP, and her sprite wasn't as bright as usual! I hurried to a Pokemon Center, but Nurse Joy said my Eevee couldn't be healed! I showed Steven and he thought I was tricking him! I gave Eevee every potion, rare candy, and paralyz heal I had. Nothing worked. I'm going to bed early tonight.

December 27, 1999
I evolved my Eevee into a Jolteon. It seems to be healed, and I'm so happy! I went and challenged the Elite Four, and I won! Steven still doesn't have an Eevee, so I traded him Jolteon. When I got her back, she was an Eevee again! I decided to evolve her into a Flareon this time. When I tried to use a fire stone, I was greeted with a message. "Eevee refuses to evolve!" I was so confused that I tried to abandon her. She came back. Again. And again. And again. I threw the cartridge against the wall. When I put it back into my Gameboy, I was greeted with Eevee.

"You thought you could get rid of me."

"You thought I was just a sprite in a game."

"You thought that I couldn't do anything."

I woke up to Steven jumping on my bed.

It was Christmas.