A/N: I get so bored… Here's a short side-story of Brandyn's dad through the eyes of his mother, Lorelei. Please enjoy and leave a review!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokémon or any mentioned brands!
Chapter 1:
I was at the Indigo Plateau Lobby, somebody had sent me humongous bunches of roses. Jynx and I were spraying water on them before Indigo Plateau opened for trainers to challenge us. My room was too cold for these, they were going to have to wait here in the lobby. Then my son and his Sneasel, and my mother walked in.
"Mom, look at all flowers!" Brandyn said. I nodded with a smile.
"Oh my Arceus!" Mom screamed. "Who died? Did one of us die?"
"Mom, they're for me! They're from a secret admirer!"
"Oh Lorelei, you have to stop sending flowers to yourself"
"Mom!" I frantically looked at my son who was sitting on a table, he and his Sneasel had a smirk on their faces. "That was only once!" I cried out.
"It was on your Junior Prom" she babbled. I glared at her but she paid no mind and continued telling the story to Brandyn and Sneasel. Even worse, Jynx took interest as well. "Junior Prom, your mother didn't have a date, as always. Even bought her own corsage and had flowers sent home to herself from a "secret admirer", and at the prom, she snuck into a janitors closet and slowed dance with a rake. She would've gotten away with it too, but then she tried giving herself hickies with a vacuum cleaner and they heard the vacuum and there she was." She pointed at me. "With the vacuum cleaner hose right on her neck" Brandyn, Sneasel, and Jynx were howling. I've never been so humiliated. The Pokèmart and Center attendants looked over at them like they were crazy. I felt my face flush. Brandyn saw and in between giggles asked. "Who d'ya thinks they're from, ma?"
"I don't know, I plan to find out tonight. I reached into my pocket and handed him a letter I got. He , our Pokémon and mom read over it and Brandyn said, "Mom are you sure, that's safe?"
"Celadon Bistro, Brandyn. You know how nice that is-"
He frowned, "You know what I meant. A blind date?"
"Don't put it like that, Brandyn. I've been on plenty of dates"
"Oh, balon-" Mom said.
"No, grandma. She honestly has." Did Brandyn just defend me? "But none of them have been a blind-date" he looked at me with concern. "Mom, let us go with you. I'll keep my Pokémon with me in case something goes wrong"
I thought about it, it did seem like a pretty good idea but… "Fine, but one." I pointed at the Sneasel on his shoulder. "Sneasel has to be in his Pokeball or be left at home" Sneasel seemed offended. "Don't take it personally, Sneasel. It's a people-only faculty" He accepted it.
"Staying home, buddy?" Brandyn asked. He nodded. "You and Jynx can take care of the house while we're out. I'll bring you something too. Sneasel purred and rubbed his head on Brandyn's face. "Okay mom" rubbing Sneasel's head, "what's number 2?"
"That's shit, pumpkin", Mom said. He ignored her.
"You guys can't go around embarrassing me in front of him." Brandyn's, Sneasel's, and Jynx's eyes went on Mom. "Mom"
"I'll try but if they serve cauliflower, let it be in Arceus's hands." It was settled, I worked the day, beat four challengers, lost to two, but no biggie! After work, I convinced Lance to give me a ride with his Dragonite to Celadon. There I got a hotel room for a few hours and transferred my Pokémon to my PC and at home Brandyn got ready himself, called out Jynx so she and his Sneasel could watch the house, then he took the boat to Kanto and used his Crobat to fly to Celadon. It was such a relief to see him, with my purple dress too! And then Mom came around on the bus. 2 hours later we were ready and we took a cab to the Celadon Bistro. Brandyn saved precious time and had reserved a table.
"Brandyn, comb your hair!" I said.
"Lorelei, calm yourself!" he said.
I was going to say something back but then the waiter walked up said "Miss, a gentleman has asked if he could join your company?"
"Oh, yes, please send him over." I said. As the waiter headed back I took a swig of wine, checked my choker and dress, and reached for a refill of wine, but Brandyn took the bottle from me, and mom took the bottle from him.
"Act natural, Lorelei!" he said.
"Stop calling me Lorelei!"
"Sorry, heat of the moment… Keep calm" he held my hand.
"I'm trying my best! Mom, can you see him?"
"I think so. Damn! So good-looking!"
Then I heard a slightly-familiar deep voice say, "Lorelei?" I stood up and turned around and smiled. And then it broke, I screamed "Oh, my Arceus! Y-y-you. It can't be! Why do you look like that?" assuring the attention of all the customers and workers. I felt tears welling up. Brandyn stood up and grabbed my shoulders trying to calm me down.
"Mom, calm down" he said calmly "Mom, who is he?"
I stared at the black haired, sleek man. The tears were coming up, I could feel them leaking slowly from my eyes and rolling down my cheek. "Brandyn, if I didn't know better, I'd say… it was your dead father." I couldn't help it, I turned around and ran out of there, leaving Brandyn and Mom with this man. This man that looked like Greg, and even sounded like Greg. This had to be him, but how? Greg died when Brandyn was only 8 when he died in a bus accident. It was impossible! But it was happening… Right now.