Adore The Music
Chapter One: The Interview
Ash almost spat out his coke when he saw Serena on the TV screen in-between two handsome males. He couldn't mistake those big blue eyes for anyone else. It was his childhood friend and one of the many dear friends that he had travelled with. Just looking at Serena and how much she had grown up since he last saw her reminded him of the wonderful times he had in Kalos.
The sounds of camera clicks made him grit his teeth. He wanted to hear what Serena had to say. His eyes widened from Serena shrugging her shoulders as she blushed. Her eyes squinted at the bright lights.
"Hey Pikachu!" Ash called out to his best friend on his shoulder. "It's Serena. She's on TV!"
"I don't like her," cried the voice of a teenage boy sitting on the table ahead of him. His other friends nodded in unison as a group of girls sitting on the table nearest to the television gasped and expressed a sullen frown on their faces. They were whispering, and he heard Serena's name mentioned.
Ash reached his limit when he heard a little kid scream, "Serena sucks and is damn ugly."
"Hey!" Ash yelled. He stood on the table and crossed his arms. "Serena happens to be my friend. You guys have no right to judge her. She doesn't deserve this."
The teenage boy gazed at Ash. "She's Shuichi Shindou's replacement. It's a truly devastating day for music."
Ash gasped. "Who's Shuichi?"
Everyone in the restaurant glared at him. Ash took a step back and held his hands in the air. "I'm a pokemon trainer, so I'm not always up to date with the music scene."
"Shuichi Shindou is the best singer in the whole wide world," the girl at the bar proclaimed. "He formed Bad Luck with his best friend, fell in love with a novelist, then he went off and dominated the world with his extraordinary talents." Ash was stunned. The girl had broken down into tears. "As gay myself, I could really relate to Bad Luck's music. Serena is really bad luck for this band!"
"STOP IT!" Ash yelled. Pikachu yelled with him as sparks arouse from his red cheeks. "Has any of you actually heard Serena sing?"
"No," the crying girl said. "I don't want to either. I know she will sound like a strangled cat."
"You have no right to judge Serena until you've heard her sing!" Ash demanded. "Don't knock it until you try it."
All were silent; including the crying fan-girl.
"There was no man that could replace Shuichi," the news reporter said as the camera fixated on her large breasts. "So they hired a woman instead." The woman smiled as the microphone jumped closer towards her mouth. "We will now bring you over to Sasame who will be doing Bad Luck's first live interview with their new lead singer."
Serena had been a pop star for seven hours. When she was a kid, she used to dream of being a star. She wanted to be admired and respected just like her mother was as a rhyhorn racer.
Serena wanted to try a music career. Whenever Serena sang, it made her feel alive and it gave her an identity. She knew that she wasn't the best singer in the world, but she would do her best. It was all about having fun. Still, it was all very nerve-racking, but at the same time she was so excited she could feel an earthquake inside her.
Her two band-mates were very nice, and they also had other careers outside of the music scene, Klavier was a prosecutor and Matt was one of the original digidestined who was now a spaceman.
The other two were so talented that Serena felt left out. Even though everyone in the studio said that Serena's voice was good, she knew that she would always be second best.
Bad Luck was Shuichi's band, and people will always say that the originals are the best. Klavier and Matt weren't original members of the band either, but stepped in after the other members left the band to pursue their own interests.
When the cameras began rolling, she sat in the same position as she was in her press conference. In the middle and sandwiched between two guys. She sighed, wishing that Ash was by her side.
Serena had admired him since they were very young. Each gift exchange was special and Ash was one of the few people in the world who she could feel as if she could open out for.
Serena would have loved the opportunity to be in a serious relationship with him, but fate had other plans at the moment. Serena was hopeful that he would one day return his feelings.
Serena thought to herself that she didn't want Sasame to mention Ash very much. Thinking about him made her heart quiver, and she didn't want to embrass herself in front of her new band and potential fan-base.
Sasame looked just how Serena had expected him to look like. When she heard his deep soothing voice on the radio once, she imagined him to be tall, pale and with hair brighter than pure snow.
"Good morning and welcome back to Japan Central News," Sasame announced. Serena carefully observed how laid back he seemed as his eyes rolled towards the camera. "It's a new era for music. Last night were were given a bomb shell that Shuichi had sensationally quit Bad Luck and now we are here with Bad Luck and their new singer, Serena." Sasame twirled her chair and smiled to the band. "Good morning Bad Luck."
"Good Morning, Sasame," Bad Luck said in unison.
"I have to ask this, why did Shuichi leave the band?"
"He was ready to do his own thing," Matt said.
"It is an end of an era but the beginning of a beautiful one. We are born from the ashes," Klavier interrupted as he gently closed his eyes and clicked his hands.
Ashes. Serena could feel her world turning to Ash. Even though he was miles away, he would always be close to her heart. Memories of him will be strength to get through this difficult hurdle.
