Disclaimer: I'm tired of putting this up but seriously, I DON'T OWN POKÉMON
I frowned as Taylor video called me over the videophone. It was 8 in the morning so we'd see each other in school within the hour.
When I answered the call I was surprised to see that it wasn't Taylor who was on the other end, but her mom. Kaylee and Leah were also there.
"Taylor? Why'd you call at this hour? We'll be seeing you in… " Kaylee's voice trailed off. "Oh, Hi Mrs. Walden,"
Mrs. Walden smiled. "Hello to you too, Kaylee."
She took a deep breath. "This is hard for Taylor and I know that it would be hard if she told you so I decided that it would be best if I was the one that told you…" Her voice trailed off and she once again took a deep breath.
"We're going to move next week. I got a new job in Castelia City and I'll get more that twice the money I get now." She paused to look at our faces before continuing. "I didn't want to break you guys up, but I want what's best for our family, and it's only a year before you guys start on your journey and you can meet up again. We'll come and visit on Summer Break and Taylor's gonna keep her phone number so you guys can still talk on the videophone whenever, I just." She trailed off, looking at something off scream.
"It's ok," Leah spoke up "We understand, and I know it would be hard for me, as well if I was moving." Taylor and I nodded our agreement. But something inside of me said that moving was a bad idea, but I waved it off as sorrow that one of my best friends was moving away, after all, everyone gets that feeling at some point, right?
Today is the day that Taylor's moving. Taylor invited us over to her house for one last time before they moved.
As I slowly walked up the driveway I turned around and waved to my mom, who had driven me here, and went up to their porch. It was empty now, the light green chairs weren't there, and the curtains were gone, there was a sign that said SOLD hanging up on the door and the brown wooden 'W' that usually hung up on the door was gone.
I sighed. I got today off of school but tomorrow I had to go back, and I didn't want to go back. It just wasn't the same, and now Taylor wouldn't be sitting next to me.
I took a deep breath and knocked on the door. Seconds later the door opened to Mrs. Walden, who was frowning and her face was red. She opened her mouth like she was going to say something before her her expression changed and she smiled. "Oh, Hi Alyssa! Come on in. Taylor and Kaylee are in the living room and Leah said she'd be late."
I nodded and made my way to the living room. When I got there, it was obviously not much of a living room anymore, the only thing there was a couple of beanbags. I made my way and sat on the blue one. Kaylee was on the yellow one and Taylor was on the red one.
We chatted and exchanged ways to communicate other than via videophone until Leah arrived.
Me and Kaylee knew why Leah was late but it was a surprise for Taylor. When Leah came in the room she brought a small box with her. It has red wrapping paper with a gold ribbon. Me and Kaylee each slid her about 400 poké (yeah, I know it sound like a lot but it's not much considering how much you get in the games) making sure that Taylor didn't see. She accepted the money and slid it into her pants pocket before giving Taylor the box.
"Here. It's a going away present from all of us." Taylor looked at us and smiled before carefully sliding the ribbon off the box. Then, she tore the wrapping paper neatly and placed it next to her beanbag. She looked inside and gasped. "You didn't."
I smiled "We did."
In the box was 4 X-Transceivers. "We thought about getting something else like a pokétch, or a C-Gear, or a Hollow Caster but since you were moving to Unova, well they use X-Transceivers there." Kaylee told her.
"Thank you so much!" She stood up and gave each of us one of the X-Transceivers before sitting down again. She stared at it for a moment before playing around with the buttons.
"I can't believe you did this for me!" Taylor looked each of us in the eye. "Thank you so much."
We smiled. Nothing needed to be said to know that.
In the middle of it all, I heard a stomach growl. We all laughed. "Sorry, I had lunch just before I came over." Kaylee winced. "Ow, that actually kind of hurt."
We continued laughing. This was how friendship was supposed to be.
After a few moments Taylor's mom appeared. "Your mom's have arrived." She swallowed. "Time to say goodbye."
"No." We all looked at Leah.
"No goodbyes. Just a long 'See you later'."
We all nodded in agreement. We'll never say goodbye to each other. Because we all knew that someday, we'd see each other again.
A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I've been pretty busy with school (though that's the excuse everyone uses, you've gotta admit it's true).
I'm posting this because I have time during my class and I want to post it as soon as possible.
