"Lysandre is your father?" Sycamore steps back in disbelief. "I've never heard anything of the sort, and I can tell you that he was certainly never married!" He retaliates.
I let out a sigh, everyone's giving me funny looks. "I speak the truth. My father never spoke of me because... I'm a lovechild." It hurts to tell them this... It seems to be getting a lot more common nowadays, but it's a dark secret that no one should know.
The Sycamore still frowns. "Anyone can dye their hair red and say that!"
"It's natural." I reply with a frown. "Look, I am his biological Son! Want proof? DNA test me! No way I can fake something like that!" I almost shout.
Serena and Calem seem somewhat disturbed by this conversation.
"Sorry about all this you two..." I look at them. They look at me then back at each other.
"Alright Raphie, you're coming with me!" Sycamore declares, suddenly grabbing my arm and walking off with me. Fondu is forced to follow after me.
"My my, what a way to start a morning... You two should follow them... I just have a feeling..." I can hear Dianthia say to Serena and Calem as I get dragged out of the cafe and to the lab.
"Je n'en reviens pas... You were telling the truth..." Sycamore says, almost at a loss for words. He almost falls over. "I just... S-Sorry I doubted you."
"It's fine Professor..." I insist.
Calem approaches me. "If you're Lysandre's son, then how come he didn't mention you when we first met him?"
"Screw that question, I need to know why you weren't even with your father when we met him!" Serena rudely bumps in.
"I can answer both." I tell them.
The two sit down as if I'm going to tell a story.
"First answer... As you probably heard, I am a lovechild... But, an unwanted one. My mother died in a car crash when I was just a baby, sent to live with my... Father." I pause, I need to resist the urge to say Papa around others, I should have grown out of the word 'Papa' but... No. "He looked after me because I was often sick in my younger years... He hated it, looking back at it. It caused him to skip work a ton... I think he doesn't mention me because he doesn't want to be reminded of that time." I give my best answer to Calem's question.
"As for the second question... Urk... One night, I woke up... I wanted to cuddle up to my father but he was no where to be found. I went looking for him, got attacked by some angry man, and when I found my father... I was drugged by another man, my father walked off with him and when I woke up, my father wasn't anywhere to be seen..." I answer Serena's question.
"Oh Acreus, that's terrible!" Serena says, feeling pity for me then hugging me. Tighter than I wish...
"Ca... Can't... Breathe..."
Serena lets go of me.
"Sorry, my sister overreacts easily." Calem apologizes for her.
"Wait, you're siblings?" I ask.
They nod.
"Twins. May not look like it but we are." Serena says, sticking her tongue out in a silly fashion.
"Well, enough with this time wasting. I think you three should travel together." Sycamore suggests. We all turn to face him.
Serena turns to Calem. "I'm fine with this. You?"
"Same here." He replies.
"But, I'm trying to-" I don't bother to finish my sentence, they'll just cut me off or won't listen. "Alright, I'll go. But I'd like a Pokeball to put Fondu in." I ask.
Sycamore looks at me a little strangely but tosses me an empty Pokeball. "I'd ask you some more questions, but I think I've done enough to you for today... And it's not even lunch." He laughs a little.
I turn to Serena and Calem and sigh a little. "On y va?" I ask them. They give me strange looks. Well, French is being used less and less around here... "I said, shall we go?"
Realization strikes them and they nod. Serena takes my arm and pull me along while Calem runs ahead of us, Fondu following him for some strange reason.
I have a bad feeling about this, but I don't know why... Maybe I'm just paranoid about the outside world, or maybe it's because I'm being dragged everywhere today...
