Chapter 2: Priorities

recent notes (this won't be here forever): I have up to chapter 7 pre-written, but just hear me out-

A few of you expressed desire for a few things. I'll do what I can but this is pretty planned out. If you want a Miette and Ash chapter I'll hit you up tho.

K thanks enjoy

Days until time's up: 29

Days until Ash leaves: 39

Serena woke up earlier than normal. She was concerned about this whole deal thing. It seemed like it would hurt their friendship a lot. But she was still determined to get what she wanted- Ash.

She left her house for the day to clear her mind. She had a huge contest coming up, and being able to spend time with her Pokémon to bond before the contest is just what she needed.

But Serena was also scared. Would she be able to perform for the contest, but also still be able to win Ash's heart? Questions were flooding her head, but she had her Pokémon with her, and while she couldn't speak with them, she felt like they understood, and that's what mattered to her.

"Now Sylveon, use Swift!"

Sylveon shot out stars from her ribbons, which landed right in the sparkling vortex of darkness that Pancham had made. Her contest routine had finally become pretty stable.

"Now Braixen!"

This was Serena's cue. She hopped in the air to jump through rings of fire, but he tripped on the last one. She fell to the ground.

This deal was too busy swimming through her head to get anything done. She knew she could pull it off, but she knew Miette wasn't kidding, and her and Ash would be dating soon.

Serena thought. "How can I possibly feel prepared for this contest when all I have on my mind is Ash?"

She almost thought a little too loud. Just then Ash walked in the training room. Serena blushed almost immediately, but she kept it hidden. Ash was so oblivious that hiding it was never an issue, which was good because she did it so much.

Ash gave her one of those "whoops" smiles. "Sorry, thought no one was in here. Greninja and I were about to train. We'll go find a different one."

Just that quickly he was gone. Serena removed her hat from her face, looking around. Her knees were kind of scraped up from her fall, and she had two bruises on her left arm. Wait one of those is a burn mark. Shoot.

She wondered if Ash would notice.

Oh well, back to training, after all her contest was five days away.

Serena thought back to the day she met Ash. Not that day at the summer camp, where she started to kind of like him, or the day she saw him on tv and decided to travel to a different city and start a Pokémon journey to see him, and when she walked into that gym in Santalune City, where Ash was battling that bug type trainer. Ash said he won that battle because of what she said.

She lied down on her back in the middle of the training room, just thinking about Ash.

Miette didn't have a chance. Shame.

Notes: watched that episode today so I thought about it and so I wrote about it. It was more like 3 episodes but dailymotion has me covered

See y'all next time.

As in yes I'm watching the series. I'm at episode 54 in xy, but I've seen all the big plot episodes