Pokemon trading cards

“Bora, you do not need to be spending thirty pokedollars on those.” Yoohyeon said with a critical eye towards the shiny packets in Bora’s hands. The older girl sat down in Minji’s house like she owned the place and spread her purchase on top of the coffee table.

“Uh, yes, I do need to spend thirty bucks for these.” Bora tore through one packet with her teeth. On the front of the packet was Siyeon’s shiny entei standing dramatically on a cliff with lightning in the background. Yoohyeon raised an eyebrow.

Apparently, Bora was now a fervent pokemon card collector.

“Raaaaaaggggh! It’s not in here either!” The shorter woman exclaimed as she threw a set of ten cards on the ground.

“What’s not here?” Yoohyeon sat down cross-legged and picked up the discarded cards. These pokemon trading cards were created by the Pokemon Charity Foundation to raise funds for various causes such as Ultra Beasts’ Rights, Let Porygon On TV, Adopt Magikarp, and many more. The cards featured tons of pokemon and well-known pokemon trainers/owners. Champion Siyeon, Trainer Bora, and Actress Minji were some of the few that took part.

Yoohyeon herself actually took part in the photoshoot for these cards with Pie almost a year ago. She had no idea that they were already on the market. So that’s what those kids at the pokemon center were talking about…

“Hey look, here’s Sua’s card.” Yoohyeon held up the card with the salamence’s mega evolution picture printed on it. She tilted it back and forth to see the shiny layer on top of the regular card. “What are you looking for anyways? Not that I’m complaining, since these are for good causes…”

Bora grabbed another booster pack with Yoo featured on the cover and tore it open. She sifted through the cards and tossed it in Yoohyeon’s hands when she didn't find what she was looking for. “I’m looking for the ultra mega platinum rare card!”

“Ultra what now?”

“Ultra mega platinum rare, Yooh! It has 3 layers of holographic patterns that, when tilted certain ways, will reflect various pokemon patterns!”

“Uh….okay? I’m guessing it’s very rare to find it?” Yoohyeon moved away slightly when she saw the intense look in Bora’s eyes.

“I already bought three boxes of these and I still have not gotten it...”

Yoohyeon gulped and glanced at Pie. Pie jumped into her lap to look at the cards. None of them were of her but she did see the one with Blob sleeping peacefully under the sun and the one with Gahyeon’s falinks in the kitchen. Hey, there was also one of the original fat pikachu. None of the cards had any sort of shininess to them though. Yoohyeon figured that these were common cards.

But the doctor knew that holographics couldn’t be the only reason why Bora wanted that ultra mega platinum rare card. “Who’s on that card anyways?”

“Siyeonie of course!” Ah, now everything made sense. Siyeon was the champion so it was no surprise that she was the top rarity.

Bora paused for a moment, seeing the beginnings of a different holographic texture on the card in the middle of her pack. But it was the ultra mega platinum rare card of Blue, Siyeon’s beloved entei. “Aw, so close.”

“Hey, I’m actually surprised you aren’t trying to get Minji’s card too.”

“Minji’s?” Yoohyeon thought back to the day they had the photoshoot. Minji was dressed in the most ethereal yellow dress, making her look like a princess straight out of a fairy tale. Her beauty was incredible to witness in person and Yoohyeon felt so lucky to be loved by Minji. Yoohyeon distinctly remembered falling on her face several times that day, much to her chagrin. “I have photos on my personal camera from that day if you really want to see Siyeon in that outfit so badly.”

Siyeon was dressed in a turtleneck and sharp blue suit that day and posed chicly. She also dyed her hair platinum blonde and cut it short, making her look ten times cooler than usual. Bora could not stop saying “yes, baby, yeah!