Author's Note: Kyokon Here! Break will show distinction from sections of a chapter. And also, I don't own Pokemon!
"No!" I screamed, slamming the door in my mom's face. I screamed in anger as I stormed across my room, flopping onto my bed and burying my face into a fluffy pillow.
"But honey, just-"
"No!" I repeated, glaring as my mom meekly opened the door to my room and followed me to my bed.
"Try to listen," She started, rubbing my back. "This is a great opportunity for your father. His studies on Mega Evolution has gotten him a job in a Kalos, and we have to move with him."
I flipped back on my stomach and tried my best to ignore her. "Kalos is a beautiful place, I'm sure you'll love it. You won't miss Johto at all." She offered, but that only made me even angrier.
I got up and glared some more. Mom had a hopeful smile, but paled when I looked her in the eye. "Mom. We've lived in Mahogany Town our entire lives. I don't want to live in any part of Kalos, beautiful or not. I was going to go on my pokemon journey in two weeks mom, two weeks. Now that's ruined, all because Dad decided to become a mega evolution expert." She looked down in her lap and wrung the bottom of her apron in her hands.
"Felicity... She begged, her voice quiet.
"You don't get it!" I shouted. Tears pooled in my eyes and I felt my face get hot. "She didn't understand." I thought, but my eyes widened and the tears fell as my mom jumped off of my bed, her fists balled up.
"This isn't just hard for you, Felicity! Ellory and I are dreading this as much as you are! But this is your father's dream. He's been working his entire life for this and he deserves our support! Be reasonable, Felicity." She shouted as she stormed off, my mouth hung open as she stomped off to her own room.
I debated getting up to apologize, but then a head poked out from the doorway. Ellory waltzed into my room, her Glameow hugged tightly to her chest as she pouted. Her curly blonde hair bounced behind her as she pulled my rolling desk chair across from me and sat down.
I moved to cross my legs under me as she sighed. "So we're really moving to Kalos?" She asked, stroking her pokemon's back as she pouted some more.
"Yeah, I guess…" I trailed off, looking at the doorway again. "This is so unfair. I wanted to travel around Johto, Dad has ruined everything." I whined. Ellory nodded sympathetically, but it was clear she didn't understand. She already had a pokemon, but Glameow was a pet, not a fighter. She never wanted to be a trainer, she hadn't dreamed of getting her first pokemon, hers was bought in the Goldenrod Pet Shoppe.
Ellory swiveled around in the chair as she thought. "I know, but Johto already had Professor Elm. Dad's kinda famous thought, right?" She perked up at the thought, "So, we're kinda famous now too?" She grinned, "This is too cool!" She chirped, and I huffed and threw a pillow at her. Her blue eyes narrowed as she ducked, and she gripped Glameow tighter.
"I'm just trying to make the best out of this situation." She growled, and her attempt to be scary made me smile a little.
"Thanks, Ell." I said, getting up and pushing her in the chair. She squealed as she rolled back, and I giggled. "Well, at least Ellory is coming with me." I thought as she jumped out of the chair. Glameow fell to the ground, and with a grumble, stalked out of the room. "Let's go get something from the souvenir shop." I decided, pulling her by the arm.
"Oooh, buying stuff always makes me feel better!" She giggled behind me as we ran out of the door.
Break
I sat with my feet in the shallow end of Lake Rage, and stared at the sky as the sun set. I splashed my feet around in the water as I thought about how much I'd miss Johto. I trailed my fingers around in the dirt as I felt more tears forming in my eyes. All I could think about was how unfair this was.
"This is not how this was supposed to go!" I shouted to no one in particular, but to my surprise, I got a response.
"Not how what was supposed to go?" A deep voice said behind me. Pryce, the gym leader, sat beside me, and smiled down with genuine interest. Everyone in Mahogany Town adored Pryce. He wa a strong and stern gym leader, but was very kind to the townsfolk and helped out when he could. "Care to chat a little?" He asked, smiling again.
"Dad got a job in Kalos. We're moving," I said sadly, looking out into the lake. I pulled my feet out of the water and tucked my knees under my chin. "Am I being childish? I yelled at my own mother for Arceus' sake! I just… I don't know." I twirled a strand of my long black hair around a finger as I talked.
Pryce nodded and stared at the lake with me. "It's understandable. You've lived here your entire life, I watched you climb a tree beside this very lake and break your wrist when you were six." He patted me on the shoulder, "You came to me when your little sister got a pokemon before you and you were upset. When you mother decided to let you go on a pokemon journey, you asked me which pokemon you should choose."
I thought about all the things he said. Pryce was right, this was my home. Chilly, small, Mahogany Town was my home, and despite how small, and even boring, it was, I didn't want to leave.
"You think it's unfair." He finished, and I nodded quietly.
"Yeah…" I sniffled. "I just want to stay here."
"I think you should go." Pryce decided. I whipped my head around in shock. He was supposed to me on my side! "Kalos is a new place, and you might enjoy living there. You're upset, and you're scared. But I think it will be a good experience for you." I stumbled for an argument, but he smiled softly again and interrupted me before I started talking. "You're a smart young lady, you'll be just fine." He said, patting my pack.
"But it's hard," I said finally.
"I know, but if life was easy it wouldn't be worth living." He chuckled, "Here," He said, unwrapping his white scarf from around his neck. "Remember home with this," He said as he placed it in my hands. It was soft and fluffy, it clearly kept him warm as he trained in Ice Path. A Mahogany Town gym badge was pinned to the corner of the scarf, and I fiddled with it as tears slid down my face. Pryce stood up and helped me up after.
"I'll take you home," He said gently. I only nodded as I continued to cry, holding Pryce's scarf close to my chest. "It will get easier," he said as we walked down Route 43. "You'll be just fine."
Break
It was pitch black by the time Pryce knocked on my door, and as my mom opened the front door I panicked. I was gone for a long time and didn't tell Ellory where I was going, she was probably worried sick after our fight.
"Felicity!" She gasped, pulling me into a hug. I hugged her back, relieved she wasn't screaming but the gym badge was digging into my sternum so I pulled away.
"I apologize, Mrs. Sycamore, Felicity was with me and I lost track of time." Pryce said, smiling at her. "Oh, and congratulate Augustine for me, Felicity told me he got a job in Kalos."
"I will, you've been such a good friend to us." Mom responded, smiling back. "Would you like to come in for dinner? I just put it on the table." She moved out of the doorway to invite him in, but Pryce politely declined.
"I would love too, but I really should be getting back to the gym. The gyms are about to reopen for the season and I have to start preparing." I felt another pang of sorrow as he mentioned trainers challenging gyms, but I tried to hide it. Pryce said goodbye and gave me one more pat on the head before walking back to the gym, and I went inside.
"Honey, I'm sorry." Mom apologized as I shuffled to the table. Cheese stuffed pasta and various other dishes were laid out on the table, and I realized every dish was one of my favorites as I sat down. "I should have been more sensitive about moving, I know this isn't what any of us really wants." She strode to the hallway and yelled for Ellory and then sat down across from me at the table. "I shouldn't have yelled."
I grabbed a spoonful of pasta and dumped it on my plate. "I shouldn't have either, this isn't your fault." I said in between a mouth full of noodles. Ellory pulled a chair out next to me and began piling her plate full of food.
"Kalos might not be that bad…" I thought outloud, running Pryce's scarf through my fingers.
"Wonderful," Mom said cheerfully as she fed Glameow a noodle. "We leave tomorrow."
Ellory and I both dropped out forks, "TOMORROW?" We both shrieked.
Mom shrunk back in her chair. "You didn't know that?"
We both groaned.
Break
The morning sun shone through the window of my empty bedroom. The movers had finished taking the furniture out of my room a while ago, and I was alone as I stood in the middle of the room looking it over, and thought about my childhood. I made blanket forts with Ellory and almost caught one on fire when we put a lamp in one.
…
"This will work!" Ellory giggled as she pulled my desk lamp out of the socket and wiggled under the makeshift door of our fort.
"Now we can color in here!" I squealed as I scattered crayons around the floor. We flipped through coloring books of pokemon after she plugged the lamp in, and soon had pictures scattered around us.
"Look at this!" I announced, holding up a colored picture of a Flareon in Ellory's face.
"Cute," She responded, pulling the picture out of my hand. "It's so good, I can smell it!" She laughed, rolling on her back.
"I can too." I said, giggling along with her, until she stuck a purple crayon up my nose and continued laughing her head off.
"OH ARCEUS!" Mom screamed, pulling a flame covered blanket off of over us. She threw it on the ground and stomped on it with her house slippers until it was nothing but smoke and ashes.
Ellory and I both gaped wide-eyed at her as she looked us over for burns. "Thank Arceus you're okay," She sighed, hugging us close.
"Are our crayons okay?" Ellory asked, her voice muffled from the hug.
"They might be a little melted, but we won't tell Daddy that I'll get you a new pack if you promise to never do that again."
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Or what about the time I snuck out of the window to go to Lake Rage when I was thirteen and had a crush on a boy from New Bark Town. I giggled as I thought about it as I trailed my hand over the window pane and looked outside.
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"Here, put you foot on my shoulder I'll help you down." Ethan said, squatting down. I twisted and lowered myself onto him, but we both fell and broke into a fit of laughter as we brushed dirt off ourselves.
"SHH!" I said, putting my hand over my mouth to quiet my giggles.
Ethan grabbed my hand and pulled two pokeballs out of his sweatshirt pocket, "Come on, let's go down to the lake. "Race ya, choose one." He grinned down at me, and I smiled back as I picked one. We both threw them, mine had a Pidgeot and his a Rapidash.
"Good choice." He said, getting on to his Rapidash. "Now, be gentle, she hasn't flown before." Ethan told his Pidgeot, who ruffed it's wings and swooped down to let me on.
"Is this safe?" I asked, wrapping my arms around the giant bird.
"Does that matter?" He asked, turning the bill of his hat behind his head. "Last one to the lake gets pushed in!" He said.
"Ready… GO!"
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I thought about all the things I've done until my mom yelled from the kitchen, telling me everything was packed and we were ready. I leaned on the door to the room I lived in for sixteen years, and looked it over one more time before closing it.
It was time to go.
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