Italics = thoughts
Bold = emphasis or sarcastic tone
*** = bigger time skip

INTRO

Way out in the Pokemon world there is a region named Kalos. Kalos is a beautiful and various land full of many unique people's and Pokemon. But we'll be focusing on two specific people. Their names are "Ash" and "Serena". You see, Ash and Serena are traveling companions. And recently their other two traveling companions named "Clemont" and "Bonnie" have left the group to stay in Lumiose City. Now it's just the two of them. The interesting thing about them is that they've never been able to have so much time alone and that is about to lead to something much bigger.

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Ash and Serena are now traveling together through the region. Ash is supposed to leave Kalos in a little over a week. At this point they are still in Lumiose City where they said their goodbyes with Clemont and Bonnie. Currently they're walking the streets.

Ash's stomach starts rumbling. "Hey Serena, I'm starved. Whatcha say we go get something to eat?"

Serena gets excited at the thought. "I've never ate alone with Ash before. It'd be like a date!" She answers "I'd love too."

Ash says "Okay, great. Let's try out that place over there." gesturing to a restaurant up ahead.

Serena agrees "Okay." as she nods her head and follows in behind Ash to the restaurant.

It's a big building, appearing very tall and wide from the outside. They walk up to the front door and are already being greeted. As they walk inside they can see it looks to be a pretty nice place.

After getting seated together at a table near a window Ash asks Serena "Is this place nice enough for you?"

Serena answers "Of course, It's even better than I need." But she regrets saying that. "Oh no, now he'll think that I think it's all too much!" She quickly tries to cover it with "But more is better I guess." She regrets those words as well. "Stupid stupid stupid. What am I saying 'I guess.''I hope he doesn't take it the wrong way."

Ash is thinking about it as well. "Aww man. I screwed up big. She doesn't even like it here. Come on Ash, You gotta pick better restaurants. Finally, Clemont and Bonnie are gone. Now's the time to show you can be the type of guy that deserves a girl like her. *sigh* What am I doing? She may not even like me." Trying to fix things he suggests "How about you pick somewhere next time."

Serena saw the look on Ash's face. It was full of disappointment. She feels as though she ruined their their first date."Oh no, I knew it. I ruined everything." She starts to try and recover the situation with a smile and saying "Ash, this place is great." Thinking to herself "Maybe that's all I needed to say."

Ash is starting to feel a bit better noticing that she tried to fix the conversation. But still..."She's just trying to be nice. She always is. That's one of my favorite parts about her though." "Well I'm glad you think so." He gives her a big grin.

Serena feels very relieved now. "Maybe he didn't think much of it." She hopes for the best for the rest of the night.

Soon after their conversation a waitress comes by to take their orders. When she sees just the two of them "How cute. You two here on a date?" This surprises both of them, causing them to both blush.

Ash tries to laugh and denie her question in defense. "Hahaha, what? No, we..."

Serena adds in to finish his sentence while also defending herself. "We're friends. We're just friends."

Both Ash and Serena don't even notice the other blushing because of their own embarrassment. The waitress just responds with a smile and says "Okay. Well what can I get you two?" She decides to leave it be.

The two feel better after the waitress drops the topic. They continue to order their meals. Neither will bring up the topic again, afraid of the others response.

Later after their meals come both are very hungry by now, but only Ash looks at his food as though it's his prey. "Oh wow I'm starving." He digs straight in and continues to do so until he notices Serena looking at him with a smirk.

Meanwhile Serena's thinking "Oh Ash, even when you're being messy you're so cute." She sees him look up and stop eating. "You weren't kidding about starving were you?"

Ash answers back with a smile. "Nope. Haha." He goes back to eating and so does Serena.

By now they've both finished eating and are leaving the restaurant. As they walk out the waitress is sure to wave and say "Goodbye, you two."

They both wave back and say "Goodbye." Now that they're back on the streets, they can get moving to their next destination. But where is that?

Ash asks Serena "So where do you wanna go now Serena?"

She is unsure. "I don't know. You've only got about a week left in Kalos. Where do you want to go?" She feels a bit sad after saying that. "I can't believe Ash will be gone soon. I wish he could stay here in Kalos."

Ash hears her words and considers them. " I wish she wouldn't remind me that I'm going back to Kanto. I'd rather stay in Kalos, but of course my mom is making me go back. Huh, I don't know where to go now either." He answers back with " I don't know where to go either really." An idea pops in his head. " But how about we go everywhere?!"

Serena is confused. "What do you mean everywhere?"

Ash explains his idea to her. " I mean, what if we just retravel all of Kalos together? Or most of Kalos anyways?"

Serena's face lights up seemingly as much as it possibly could. "Oh my goodness! That has to be the greatest idea ever!" "Ash that would be amazing! We could revisit our favorite places! You're a genius. But which place would you like to go first?"

Ash is extremely happy that his idea made Serena extremely happy. " Yes, She loved it! Now, where to go?" He tells Serena " I want you to choose."

Serena is flattered that Ash wants her to pick. " hmm, where should we go first?" " How about we go to Vaniville? I'd like to see my mom again."

Ash assuring Serena that he likes her idea " Great, Then we're going to Vaniville!" hoists his fist high in the air.

Serena feels a bit embarrassed by his public action, but pushes the feeling aside. She's too happy to see him so excited about something she chose. "Alright then, let's go!

Ash grabs her hand and starts running off into the direction of Vaniville. Serena is tugged forward, so she goes with the momentum and runs alongside Ash.

Both are moving quickly down the street when Serena sees a store. It has a huge window with a gorgeous wedding dress in the center display. Serena is stunned in her tracks by it. She instantly stopped running to look at it. "That one. It's the most beautiful dress I've ever seen. If I were getting married, that's my dream dress to wear on that day."

Ash stopped as well. He sees the look on Serena's face as she stares at the dress. "Wow, she's completely mesmerized by that thing. She looks like she's about to marry it. Good thing it's already dressed for the occasion." He laughs at his own joke. " Hahaha."

Serena is snapped out of her daze. She looks over to Ash realizing he laughed. With a small worried look on her face she thinks "Is he laughing at me? He must be, what else would he be looking at me for while he laughed."

Ash sees Serena with a worried look now. "Oh no, she thinks I think this is ridiculous or something now doesn't she." He tries to make her feel a bit better. "I think it looks great Serena."

Serena doesn't believe his words. She thinks he's just trying to make her feel better as usual. "Oh great, now he's giving me pity." "Ash, You don't have to say that. I get it. You probably think it's kinda ridiculous for a girl to look at a wedding dress like that, but somehow I just know that that's the one."

Ash putting his head down a little says "Sorry, I was just thinking it looked kind of funny how you were staring at it like you were going to marry it. And because it's a wedding dress I guess the thought was just too funny to me." He looks back up with a confirming smile to show he's serious.

Serena decides to just laugh at his corny little joke. "Haha, okay I'll try not to take it so seriously." Though she actually feels upset about it still.

Ash tries to get them moving again. "Come on Serena, don't wanna be late to your moms house do you?"

Serena looks at him and smiles. "Nope, lets go." The two get moving again and forget about what just happened for now.

After walking for a while on their way to the edge of Lumiose City on their way to Vaniville they decided to pick up a few things from a local store nearby. They were planning to have a picnic somewhere along the way to Vaniville, because it's quite the walk. After picking up the supplies they start heading out of the city and are back on their way to Vaniville. But a mile out from Lumiose they can see a figure up ahead coming their way.

Ash sees it first. "Hey Serena, look."Ash is still try to determine who it is.

Serena look down the path. "Hmm! Who is that?" They've walked closer to the person now."Wait that's... Oh no. I don't like him around me."

Ash realizes who it is too. "Ugh, this guy again. He's cool but keeps looking at Serena weird. I don't like it." Ash calls out to their old friend "Well well well, look who it is!"

Serena adds in "Hey Tierno, how's it going?" Because she wants to be nice, though he actually gives her the creeps.

Tierno replies back "Hey Ash, Serena." He gave Serena a wink when he said this. He now asks "So guys, where's Clemont and Bonnie?"

Ash answers him back. "They decided to stay back in Lumiose City with their dad. Plus, I think Clemont's eager to get Clembot ready to battle again."

Serena adds in "And well, Bonnie just follows her brother so..."

Tierno laughs at what Serena said. "Hahaha, true. So where are you guys headed?"

Serena says "Vaniville, we're going to go see my mom right now. It's one stop on our way around some of our favorite places in Kalos."

Tierno just replies back "Nice, but if you don't mind me asking, why are you guys retraveling through Kalos? I just figured that you guys would probably have gone separate ways or something by now."

Ash is a little upset he's saying this. "Well, you see. I kinda will be leaving Kalos soon, but it's not because I want to. My mom is making me because we're moving. I've got a little over a week until I go." He sighs after saying this.

Now Serena tells Tierno "And that's why we're going through the region to our favorite places. It because we'll have to say goodbye soon." She gets more upset as she said it. She really hates the reminder.

Tierno tries to show concern, but on the inside is excited that soon Serena might be feeling a little lonely and he could be the one that shows up to make her feel better. He hates himself for the feeling, but he gets an idea from it. "Hey Serena, if you need a friend around afterwards I'll always be around for you okay?" He gives a wink and a smile to help comfort her.

However on Serena's end it wasn't a comfort at all. In fact, it was a discomfort to her. She tries to be nice to him anyways. "Umm..., thanks Tierno. Good to know."

Ash is sitting back uncomfortable as well, but stays quiet unsure of what to say."I really don't like the guy now."

Tierno just remembered something important. "Oh yeah, I need to get to Lumiose City. I've run into some trouble back that way and now Blastoise needs to get to to a Pokemon Center. Hope I see you guys later, alright?"

Ash is much happier now that Tierno is leaving. "Alright, hope we meet again."

Serena was getting eager to say it. "Goodbye." She and Ash both wave as Tierno heads off to Lumiose City.

Serena not knowing how Ash feels about Tierno says "Well that was nice, I guess."

Ash is hoping she doesn't actually like him back when she said that."Umm sure. It's always great to see a friend again." He quickly tries to change the subject though. "So, we probably should hurry up and keep moving huh?"

Serena just answers back "sure" and keeps walking. She's slightly upset thinking about Ash's leaving. "Why did Tierno have to remind me?"

But she's surprised when Ash asks her "Umm... Serena, so do you actually like him? Tierno?" It's been bothering Ash for a while and he finally decided that he needed to know more on how she felt. He was going to leave in a little over a week anyway.

Serena is hit with emotion. She's trying not to blush, but can't hold it back. "Ash thinks I might like Tierno? I don't, but why does he care?"

Ash sees the obvious blush. "She's blushing. She probably does like him and I just pointed it out."

Serena answers him. "No..., I don't. Why do you ask?"

Ash thinks she's lying to him. "She doesn't want me to know, but I saw the looks Tierno gave her. She responded pretty positive to them. Back at the restaurant she answered that we're just friends pretty quickly." "Umm, I don't know. I just guess... I was wondering what you might be doing after I'm gone is all."

Things are quiet between them as they're walking. It stays this way for a while. Eventually after trying to ignore each other long enough, they start giving each other looks. Serena would look over to Ash as if to say something, but would stop herself from saying what she's thinking."I want to say something more, but I don't actually have any words to say. What do you say when someone asks you about that?"

At the same time Ash is noticing her look over to him. He looks back every once in a while. "I wish I could read a girls mind. Things are so much more complicated than they seem. I see her looking at me, but she never speaks. Why? Should I be saying something and if so, what?"

Serena finally breaks the silence. " Ash, I-" But just as she starts to speak a drop of water hit her in the face. She looks up. The clouds are really dark.

Ash looks over to her eager to hear what she was going to say, but sees her looking up. He then looks up as well. Suddenly he was hit three times by rain droplets. "Serena, I think we should find a place to take shelter from the rain. He looks back to her and she's nodding at him. He quickly calls out Talon flame. "Talon flame. Buddy, you think you could find a place for us to keep dry?"

Talon flame responds in an agreeing way. "Talon." He then flies up high into the air and circles around scanning the area. Then he calls out "Flame!" to tell them that he can see a spot. He flies in its direction and Ash and Serena follow.

They both run back through the woods as it starts to rain harder. Ash leads the way, but Serena is close behind. Suddenly the rain is pouring down on them. Serena slips on the wet ground and fell in a small puddle. She squealed as she fell down. "Eeeeehhhhh!" She immediately was soaked.

As soon as Ash heard her squeal he turned around to check on her. "Serena! Are you okay?" He ran over to her and tried to help her up. She was crying. He was trying to help her stand up, but when she tried to take a step she screamed out in pain and fell back to the ground.

"Aaaaaahhhhh! It's my ankle." At this point Ash saw no other way. He picks Serena up in his arms in a cradle style and runs the direction Talon flame was headed. He looked up and saw Talon flame had circled back to wait on them. Talon flame continued to lead the way. It wasn't much further until Ash had run up on a clearing with a large rock wall. From the wall came a stream of water falling down into a small pond. But he could see a small cave by the waterfall. "There. We'll hold up there until it's clear."

Meanwhile Serena had been completely distracted by Ash. All she could do was stare at his face. And it was easing the pain."Wow, he looks so determined. Like he's trying to save my life. His eyes are just glittering right now. Is he crying? It's funny, I don't feel much pain when I look into them. And his arms are so warm and embracing."She just continues to stare into his eyes and smile.

Ash ran into the cave. He looks over to Talon flame and says "good job, you can return."Talon flame with a cheery look says "Flame." and then returns to his comfy pokeball. Now he's looking for a place to lie her down and check on her. The cave seems to be extended to the side more. Ash walks that way and finds that it leads right behind the waterfall. It's a beautiful spot, so he decided go ahead and put her down up against a wall. As he does though, he notices her looking up at him smiling. He just looks back down at her with a smile."She doesn't even look like she's hurt."Then he asks her "What are you so happy about?"

Serena suddenly snaps out of it. She's blushing again and has a scared look of shock on her face."Oh no, I got lost in his eyes! His deep... Dark... Brown... eyes. Focus!" She takes a moment to say "U-Umm..., you're just a great person." She's extremely nervous and her heart is racing now.

Ash can feel her heartbeat pounding against him. "Huh? Her heart is pounding! Does she...?" Ash starts to blush at the thought.

Serena is looking at Ash's face still."Why is he turning so red? Wait, what's that thudding on my side?" Ash's heart was beginning to pound as hard as Serena's now. Ash decided it would be best that he goes ahead and puts her down. Serena's pain starts to increase again. She's upset by this. "No! I thought we were having a moment."

Ash sees the disappointment on her face after he put her down."She has to. I just know it. Well, come on Ash just do it." The rain has stopped and the clouds have separated. Sunlight is shining through the clouds now. It shines right through the waterfall and gives a glimmering feature to each of their faces. Ash is now stunned by the sight."She looks more beautiful now than I've ever seen her look before." Ash then acts on instinct and leans in for a kiss.

Serena is in shock as she sees him leaning in. She's extremely nervous although she's dreamed of this forever. But when his lips make contact she forgets every nervous part about herself. She kisses him back and notices the pain fading away from her ankle. It's almost vanished entirely. After about ten short seconds, Ash pulls back. "Aww, I wanted it to last longer. I can't believe that just happened though."

Ash thoroughly enjoyed it as well, he stopped afraid she would think he's suffocating her."That was the most incredible and addictive thing I've ever done. I want to kiss her again, but I need to hold myself back."

Serena asks Ash "Ash, why did you do that?"

Ash answers back with the best reason he could think of."I-I'd always wanted to, but after feeling your heart race and seeing the sunlight glimmering on your beautiful face I realized that I should do it, now or never."

Serena is in absolute awe. It takes her a minute to form words to say to Ash. "I-I... I feel the same way." A tear streams down her cheek and she quickly leans forward and hugs Ash. He hugs her back. They hold each other for a long time. Eventually Serena says "I'm so glad I have you Ash."

Ash is happy that she said that, but at the same time upset that he's going to have to leave for Kanto in shortly over a week. Regardless, he wants Serena to be happy right now so he doesn't mention the thought. Instead he tries to embrace her. "I'm so glad I have you too Serena." After a touching moment between them Ash finally decides to bring up her ankle now. "So how is your ankle? Let's check it out."

Serena being reminded of the injury suddenly starts feeling the pain grow back."Ow, I'd forgotten about it for a little while until you brought it up."

Ash says "Sorry, I just wanted to make sure you were all right."

Serena just responds "I know I know, but to be honest it was like it disappeared when we... Uh... You know." Serena blushes again.

Ash is thinking "Wow, she blushes a lot. Was it always like this? How could I not notice? Well, whatever the case. It's adorable." He looks down at her left ankle, which is the hurt one. "It looks swollen."

Serena says "Well it hurts too much to walk, and it's going to be dark before we could get to Vaniville like this. What are we gonna do?"

Ash looks back at her ankle. It could be while before the swelling goes down. Walking on it would probably slow how fast it'll heal."We could have made it to Vaniville if she didn't get hurt, but we clearly can't now." "Well I guess we'll just have to camp out here for the night. It's dry in here anyway."

Serena agrees."Okay, but do you think you could make a fire? I'm getting cold because I got soaked. Braixen could help if you need."

Ash considers this."Hmm, a fire would be nice but I'm sure all of the wood around here is extremely damp now. Haha, maybe if Braixen used excessive amounts of flamethrower on it."

Now it's dark outside and only the moonlight is lighting the cave. Serena laughed back. "Haha, well I'm not going to be able to sleep well tonight then. Why didn't we bring sleeping bags?"

Ash has an awkward look on his face. "Yeah umm... About that, I actually left them back at Clemont and Bonnie's house." Ash just smiles and scratch the back of his head.

Serena just laughs at him."Hahaha, oh well I guess."She couldn't possibly be mad at him after what had just happened minutes ago. Ash is happy that she's not mad at him. Then Serena says "Well my ankle still really hurts, so I'm going to go to sleep if I can." Ash gives her a nod and lies down himself somewhere five feet over to her side. And as they both lie there facing opposite directions Serena says something."Hey Ash..."

Ash answers her back with "Yeah Serena?"

Serena has a brief pause before saying anything. "So about what just happened earlier... Are we...?" She's afraid to say the words. Both of them turn towards each other.

Ash realizes exactly what she's talking about. It's something he'd wondered himself. He asks her "Do you wanna be?"

Serena just asks him his own question back."Do you wanna be?"

Ash decides to end the cycle of questions. "Yeah."

Serena just smiles, blushes and says "Alright... Boyfriend. Goodnight."

Ash smiles back with a light blush. "Goodnight... Girlfriend." "Boyfriend? Girlfriend? Why does it sound so right?"

They both close their eyes and try to sleep. Serena thinks about what just happened."Ash is my boyfriend. Finally... I've dreamed of this moment since he helped me back at summer camp in Kanto. Of course my ankle hurts a lot, but I wouldn't change a thing about today now." Serena just smiles as she tries to sleep.

Ash opened his eyes to look at her again. He saw her with that smile on her face."She looks so cute just lying there, she must be really happy about us being closer now."

Serena however started getting uncomfortable due to the cold. Her clothes were still damp and she had nothing else to wear. She had started shivering, but persisted to try and fall asleep anyway.

Ash saw her start shivering. As she did the cute smile he was staring at disappeared. Ash wasn't very cold. He wanted to fix it, but what could he do? "How can I make her warmer? Wait, I've got it." Ash then started scooting closer to Serena until he was right up against her. He wrapped an arm around her and saw her eyes open. She was shocked that he did something like that for her. But then her face calmed and her smile eased back onto her face. And just like that they fell asleep.

The next morning Ash woke to realize he's lying on his back. He looked down and saw Serena's head on top of his chest. All he could was smile and blush at the sight.

But seeing Serena there only increased his heart rate. Serena had felt the thudding on her ear. She started to open her eyes."What's that? Huh? Is something wrong with Ash?" She looks up to see the boy looking back at her.

Ash realized it was his own feelings that caused her to wake up. He's embarrassed and feels kind of bad about it. He gives a smile and says "Sorry..."

Serena just smiles back and says "I don't mind." She lies her head back down on his chest listening to the beat. "It's good to know how you feel."

Ash is speechless. The girl he likes, likes him back so much. It's like everything had just come into place for him. They just lay there for a long time after.

Eventually Serena picked her head up. Then she sat up and began to examine her ankle. It looks a lot less swollen than it had last night.

Ash sat up and saw what she was doing. He then asked her "How's it doing?"

Serena replies after wiggling it around. "It's almost unnoticeable now."

As gives her a grin and says "Okay, well do you think that you could walk the rest of the way to Vaniville?"

Serena answers him more positive. "I'm sure of it!"

Ash is surprised by her burst of energy. "Wow, well alright. When do you wanna get moving again?"

Serena gets up and starts testing out her ankle. It hurts her, but hardly at all. She looks back down at Ash."Right now, let's go."

She starts pulling him up to his feet. Ash says "Haha, okay I'm coming." as she pulls him up. Now on their feet, they take off outside of the cave. When they get out far enough, they look back and see that the location is a really beautiful place. It has a sparkling waterfall, a small pond at the end of the waterfall with a river running off to the side, even the grass is lush and relatively short. Ash and Serena look at each other with seemingly the same idea. Ash asks her "So breakfast?"

Serena responds to him."Yes, I was so excited to get moving again and see my mom that I almost forgot to eat."

Ash laughs."Haha, yeah well we didn't get that stuff for a picnic for nothing."

Serena gives him a somewhat mad look."I know. It's just been really... Interesting lately." She gave him a blushy smile after saying that.

Ash smiled back reminded of the amazing thing that happenedu the night before. He then began to setup everything up for their picnic and called out all of his Pokemon.

Serena helped him get things ready and called out her Pokemon too. All of their Pokemon gathered around and enjoyed the picnic with them. Serena starts to look at Ash as he is holding Pikachu in his lap. He's smiling and happy. Pikachu is just nibbling on something. Then Serena loses track of her thoughts. "Hmm, Ash loves his Pokemon so much. And recently I found out he likes me. I wonder if I'll ever become more important than them to him. Maybe I already am! Calm down Serena, that's ridiculous. He's going to be leaving soon. He probably just has a small crush and did something about it because he knew he was going to leave."

Ash suddenly calls out "Serena!"

Serena snaps out of her thoughts. "Huh, yeah Ash?"

Ash says "I was just wondering if you were still there. It seemed like you were zoning out. Are you okay?"

Serena covers up her doubts. "Yeah, I'm fine."

Ash is still concerned for her but replies "Okay." After spending some time with their Pokemon and doing things like training with them and playing with them for a while, Ash and Serena pack up the leftover picnic supplies and head in the direction to get out of the woods through the same way that they came in, but as Ash and Serena are leaving Ash notices Serena looking over at the puddle she fell in."Serena, is everything okay?"

She calmly looked back up to him and said "yeah, I was just thinking... I was thinking that I wouldn't change a thing."

All Ash could say was"Oh." He was pretty stunned that she had said that and so calm and easily. He realized she had become more comfortable in their newfound relationship."I need to be more like that." So as they both continue to get back to the main path, Ash would try and walk closer to her. Once they've both gotten back on the path to Vaniville, Ash grabs her hand and holds it as they walk to Serena's moms house.

To be continued...

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Thank you so much for reading this. It took lots of effort. If you liked it please let me know. More chapters to come, but it takes a lot of time to plan and write out these things so I won't have them come out often. However if people do really like it then that's more motivation for me. Also I'm sorry I haven't included much of the actual Pokemon themselves in this, but Im trying to play to my strengths and I need to work on that.

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