Serena Shauna Girls of Kalos
It was while watching reruns of Bugs Bunnelby with Serena that I felt a surge of desire for her rush through my fingertips as her hand crawled toward mine, It was the loveliest hand ever, with perfectly manicured cuticles. And my heart was hers from that moment.
It was a week later, when we were at the Vaniville Creamery, that I noticed a sliver of ice cream on her cheek, and moving my tongue toward it, I licked it off without prethought.
"Your tongue tickles," Serena said.
"Do you like it?"
"Very much so."
I had my hands on the table. She reached her hand over, and squeezed mine tightly. "Sometimes I feel I want to do this and never let you go," she said.
That was when my heard began moving with the speed of a Gorebyss in a Rain battle. Serena liked me! I was so giddy that I didn't notice that the object of my desire had vacated her seat for a moment. And then I was alone. I started to run after her, but the Pansear show began, and the Creamery doesn't allow anyone to come in or leave while the Pinsir Pansear show is taking place.
I ran to Serena's house directly afterward but her mother told me she was watching The Fennekin and the Herdier, a classic Vansprow movie, which caused people to weep profusely. So sad it was…
I felt like crying myself when I got home, not because of some movie, but because Serena had run out and was probably offended by me.
I called her the next afternoon but she didn't answer. The da after that I pounded on her door at nine in the morning, but to no avail, and when I got home I had to deal with my cousin's Dedenne that was plugging itself into every outlet in the house, taking our electricity with it.
The ensuing day, in the park, weary from having to chase that Dedenne, I took a seat on a beach and just sat there for hours,pondering about life, when the skirt belonging to the most blessed girl in existence alighted on the seat next to me.
Here was Serena, my sweet.
"Been so busy these past few days, I haven't seen you," she said.
"I thought you were avoiding me."
"I'll only do that if I'm chained to my bed with a Probopass guarding my door."
"Yuck. Probopass."
"I know. But if my mother ever finds out about us…she's of a strictly heterosexual mindset, and won't like…I mean, I suppose I'm jumping ahead here, but I really like you, Shauna. Will you consider…I mean, we've known each other long enough…will you be my girlfriend?"
I was so shocked that I couldn't respond for two minutes.
"It's all right if you don't want to."
"Of course I want to, Serene! I'm crazy about you!"
"So I take it your answer is yes?"
"Yes, my answer is most definitely, one-thousand percent yes!"
Serena smiled and I felt like golden sunshine. She liked me, she really like me!
She wrapped her arms around my shoulders and I felt happiness throughout my entire body from the crest of my head to the tips of my toes.
I should have known our bliss would be halted by a witch, who came in the form of Serena's mother.
It would not have appeared to me that Serena's mother was the kind to chain her daughter to her bed, and if she allowed a Probopass into her house, it would tear everything apart. But she was certainly rooted in heterosexuality, and any sign of Serena and I being a couple would grate on her nerves.
When she saw us feeding each other cereal on the eleventh morning after the declaration of our being girlfriends of the mating sort, she began an outright banshee, shouting me out of the house. And I didn't get to see Serena again for the rest of the day. Then on the phone that night, she told me her mother's intentions, and how she willed to extricate me from my darling, or rather prevent Serena from seeing me, even if she wouldn't take as drastic measures as Serena had limned before.
Serena's mother pushed her to spend a lot of time with a boy named Todd, rather than me. She thought our relationship a bane, and even tried to outright forbid Serena from seeing me. That was a week of dread, never encountering Serena once, though I waited outside her house a few times, until a Fletchling began pecking at my feet…that nasty bird Pokemon.
Then one Saturday morning, at 3 A.M., I heard my window shutter being lifted. I was afraid it might be a burglar and began to scream. Team Flare was in the news a lot in recent times to that.
I started to scream when I saw a hand on the windowsill, before noticing that it had a Vivillion ring attached to it. That was Serena's. So unless a Team Flare member had stolen her ring and then come to take something from my house, this was Serena. I wished I could see if the hand was manicured from my vantage point, but I couldn't make it out.
Then the latch and the window sliding open, and my wonderful dear stepping into my room. I flipped on the light and started to cry out her name in joy, but she put a finger to my lips.
"Don't give us away, Shaun. This is our secret."
She lay her hand over my heart and slipped a locket into my hand. It was a locket I had given her when we were both sevenyears old, dreaming of being Pokemon trainers. It was shaped like a Poliwag.
"I suppose you're with Todd now," I said.
"Only because Mom is making me. She doesn't know that what we share is love too. And Todd and I don't correlate."
"I wish you could ditch him."
"He just wants to be around me because of my looks, not caring about what makes me who I am. When I try to talk about you, he tells me to hush. But I love you too much. You know I do."
"Well, I…I love you, too."
That was our way of telling each other how much we appreciated one another. It wouldn't be till later that we got a deeper grasp on what love meant, with all the people who tried to come between us wanting to tear us down, but we would stand strong like the Tower of Mastery, which symbolizes the ability to make Pokemon that are already overtly strong even stronger.
That summer in which w were fourteen, Serena and I snuck around to be with one another, hiding under parked cars, going in a cavern nearby which most others our age were too terrified to explore, and concealing ourselves in bushes. We were so happy at the moments we were with one another, and the rest of the time only thoughts of each other could keep us gong, when we'd meet next and such.
It was our adventures with Pokemon that would solidify our relationship. But Kalos doesn't allow anyone younger than fifteen to get a Pokemon license. I heard that in far-away regions such as Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn, they allow people of younger ages take up a Pokedex, even as young as ten, but in Kalos the rules are different.
That summer we had a few "Pokemon spies" as Serena liked to call them. A Caterpie watched us holding hands once. A Fletchling nibbled at my toe while I sang softly in Serena's ear. It wasn't until then that I appreciated that species of Pokemon. But when you're with someone to love, any Pokemon can be all right. Yes, even those that terrify and made one shiver, and those that attack humans for no apparent reason.
The scariest Pokemon I ever encountered was Gligar. I was standing at the top of an outdoor auditorium area when a Gligar flew in my face and gnashed its teeth, beating my shoulders with its pinchers. I never was so frightened in my life. Running back to Serena, I encircled my arms around her and begged her to tell me everything would be all right. But Todd's little sister, Geeni, had let her Maractus loose, and it stuck its spikes into my back. So on the one hand I was quite thrilled to be in the arms of my darling, Serena. But to be slashed this way really hurt.
Serena offered to give me a massage, and I accepted it with glee.