Hello, so thank you to those who reviewed or whatever on the last chapter, I love you guys :D and for those who are wondering when the dance will be, don't worry it should be in the next chapter or the one after, depending on how the story goes. It should be fun. I also put a poll on which male character should I add in the series next so please go vote! Enough talk let's head to Chapter 7.

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Chapter 7: A Younger Face

Serena POV

"Clemont can I call Bonnie?" I ask. It's been at least 10 minutes Dawn left, we had a good time. We talked about our courses and stuff, we also told her about Ash's fight with Calem and how he's in the nurse's office. She looked a bit concerned by this, like have you seen Calem? You don't want to mess with someone who can probably knock you out in a single punch, Ash is a different story though.

Clemont on the contrary, was working on fixing his failed Clembot. I had just gotten myself cleaned up from the soot caused by the explosion. He doesn't even look up but answers; "Yeah sure go ahead."

He gestures the the video phone at the side of the room near the bathrooms. I walk over and sit down in the chair. The screen is pretty small, smaller than the ones in the pokemon centre. I power it up and look through the contacts listed. We put in the people we wanted to call on the first day we got here, just incase we forgot to do so later. I scroll down and I see my mom's name, I think about calling her but I decided against it, I would call her later. Finally reaching Bonnie's name, I press the call button and it rings for a bit before an image forms of a lemon haired girl smiling.

"Serena! I haven't seen you in like forever, why don't you call?" she pipes up. I smile at the young girl on the screen.

"Bonnie we talked before I left for school. Don't you remember?" I inquire. Bonnie looks at me and pouts.

"Yeah but we only talked for like 5 minutes, then you had to leave." she says. I have to admit I do feel bad. Bonnie is like the little sister I never had, but I plaster a smile.

"But we're talking to each other right now, so that has to count for something," I indicate. Bonnie leans back on her chair and folds her arms while she looks straight at me. She is definitely way smarter for her age, but in some case she can still act like she's still 8 years old.

"Whatever," she says while leaning forward, "tell me. How is Grade 12?"

"It's okay I guess, clearly not what I was expecting." I state.

"How so?" she asks.

"Well there have been some events that have thrown the year around for me." I reveal. I can tell Bonnie looks very intrigued as she has her elbows on the table, and making full eye-contact with me.

"Tell me what happened, spare no details."

I take a deep breath and direct another question at her, "Where do you want me to start?"

"When you first got to school," she insists.

I begin to explain how Ash has really changed over the summer, how we saw Calem, and other things including my classes and such. Bonnie looks very interested in my grade 12 year, but she gives me a look, "You aren't telling me everything."

I flinch, I really wanted to leave out the parts like how Miette repeatedly kisses Ash despite his obvious discomfort. Talking about those things kind of make me uncomfortable, but when Bonnie asks something, you have to give her the honest truth.

"Well... Ash got into a fight in my honour?" That came out more as a question than an answer. She looks shocked, barely able to form words in her wide open mouth. It looks kind of amusing though. Clemont starts chuckling behind me at the sight of his sister's shocked state.

"What happened?" she interrogates. Her eyes wide, mouth still dangling open a bit, like getting beat up by the strongest guy in school is part of the good ol' entertainment.

"Well... it was during dinner, and when Shauna and I entered the cafeteria. Ash's back was facing me and I saw a guy almost throw a punch at him, and the guy who nearly punched Ash was Calem. So I yelled at him. Long story short, Calem called me some names and Ash stood up for me, and he got roughed up pretty bad."

"Ouch. Where is Ash now, is he alright?"

"Yeah," I breath out, "he's staying in the nurse's office for a while."

Bonnie looks at me. I can tell she has a bit of concern mixed with interest in her eyes.

"How bad is it on a scale from 1-10?" She asks.

"Uh, I'm going to say it's around a '7', maybe a 6, but definitely not higher."

She cringes a bit after I said what I said. "Do you know when he will get better?"

I shake my head, "I never asked, I assumed he would be fine due to the extent of the injuries, but I never really asked."

"Wait. When you said he would be fine, you never really knew?" She glares at me.

I swear I'm on the verge of tears, it's my fault Ash is in the nurse's office. "I'm sorry Bonnie, I'm just really worried about him."

Bonnie looks at me skeptically, but then a wave of realization washes over her face. "You still have a crush on him!"

"What?" I shriek.

"What?" Clemont yells. He's still sitting on the bed, I don't know how he heard us.

"You were bullshitting when you said you were over him!" She exclaims.

"Bonnie! Language!" Clemont yells. I however am oblivious to this, I was thinking about all my past decisions with Ash. Do I really still have feelings for him?

Ash's POV

I hate sitting in this stupid bed.

I swear it smells like sweat and death. Don't ask me why I smell death, I just do. Laying on this bed reminds me of being in hospital, and I despise hospitals. No offence but they also feel like death. And worst of all, I have an icepack freezing me to… just say it with me, death. No I'm sorry scratch that, I can handle the ice packs. What really bothers me is that how I'm alone, I thought I could survive being alone. I don't have any siblings, and only one parent, so I'm mostly used to it. So I thought I could last when Serena left to go back to the dorm. Boy was I wrong.

I start getting restless, I became more uncomfortable. The only sound in the room is the annoying clock ticking every second. I don't mean to be this negative, it's just that I'm lonely and bored. But I'm glad that Miette hasn't come by again.

The nurse always comes and goes, asks how I feel, jots it down on her clipboard, and leaves the room. It's just part of the simple process of being a medical professional.

But wait I'm not alone, how could I have been this stupid this whole time. I quickly check to make sure nobody is in the room, and I reach for my belt. I run my hands on it till I reach my objective. I grab the little ball and click the button on the middle so it would expand.

I begin to think if I have any doubts about this, of course Serena isn't here to stop me like last time. Any doubts? Hm nope!

I whisper, "Come on out Pikachu!" And I toss the ball on the ground. A blue light appears on the bed and the form of the little yellow electric mouse emerges.

"Pika pika!" It says with a wide grin before jumping on me, but it stops. And a new expression forms on it's face, it's not a good one.

"Pika, pika Pikachu," it says while folding it's arms, also glaring at me.

I rub the back of my neck, "I'm sorry Pikachu but I explained this before. The school doesn't let you release your Pokemon on school grounds. I'm really sorry."

"Pika, chu chu." It says angrily.

"I know I could've gone off of school grounds, but I've had a lot of work today and it's only the second day of school."

I notice a bit of anger fades away from it's face, but not all of it. He still glares at me. "I know you hate being in your pokeball Pikachu but it's either have you in a pokeball or leave you at some Pokemon hotel. And I never want to leave my best friend."

"Pika, Pikachu." It says before nodding. Clearly understanding the choices, but that doesn't mean it still wasn't miffed.

"I thought I was your best friend, it looks like I've been replaced." A voice says from the doorway. Pikachu and I turn our heads to the direction of the voice. At the doorway stands a honey blonde haired girl.

"Serena? What are you doing here?" I ask.

"I felt kinda bad for leaving you alone like that, so I stayed in my dorm a little before coming back here. Looks like you already have company." She points out.

Pikachu stares at her before jumping off the bed and leaping into her arms. "Hey Pikachu, it's been a while. And no I'm not Ash's best friend, Ash would never replace you Pikachu."

Pikachu grins at her before jumping back onto the bed I'm on, I slowly and gently rub Pikachu's head while watching Serena sit down on the chair next to her bed.

"How are you doing?" She asks.

I groan a bit, "Better I guess, but having you two here makes me feel a lot better."

She smiles, "That's good. Here, let me take care of that ice pack." Pointing at the ice pack currently occupying half of my face.

I remove my hand from it, allowing it to slowly fall off my face. But Serena catches it, and repositions it.

"Are you sure you're okay? You seem to still be in a lot of pain still." She asks. I simply just shrug.

"I'm fine, you don't have to worry."

She breaths out a small sigh of relief before giving me a knowing smile. "I'm going to enjoy going to the dance with you."

I return the smile, "You and me both."

Pikachu looks at both of us and just shakes his head, but not without a smile on his face.

"I talked to Bonnie before coming here." She says. I raise my eyebrows with a look of amusement on.

"Really? what did she have to say?"

"I told her about your condition, and she's worried about you." She says.

"Did she really say that?" I ask.

"No but, she did have the look in her eyes."

"Right…" I say with sarcasm, "did you tell her about how I fought in your honour?"

"You have no idea." She says while letting out a laugh.

"And what did she say about that?"

"Nothing really, she just asked about what happened."

"You told her everything?" I ask

"Yep! Every detail, down to the last word." She pipes in.

"Even how Miette kissed me?"

"Especially that," she says with a laugh.

"Her lips were cold, it was like kissing a rock" I say, she scrunches up her nose.

"Ew! Why would you even tell me that?" She asks in disgust.

"I don't know, I just thought I would tell you. I would much prefer to kiss you." I say but I finished my sentence to late. She looks away blushing and I also look away, blushing as well.

"Sorry," I mutter.

"It's fine, but thanks though," she says.

"Don't mention it." I reply.

Before the conversation could get anymore awkward, the nurse comes in with a smile on her face. But when she sees Serena, her smile turns into a frown.

"What are you doing here? I thought I told you to go back to your dorm." She says.

Serena freezes in her place, "I know, I just wanted to see if he was doing well."

"Well no point in shooing you out again."

"What do you mean?" I inquire.

She turns to me and says, "Ash you seem to be well enough to head back to your dorm, there is really no point to keep you here anymore."

I grin, "Awesome! Come on Serena let's go!"

"Ash wait-" Serena says, but she's cut off by me bolting out of bed.

Without knowing where I was going, I instantly run into the door.

"Be careful," she finishes with a sigh.

"Sorry," I mumble.

Serena picks me up off the floor and steadies my balance, I rub my head because of the pain from the door. We make it through the door and Serena and I (I put Pikachu back into it's pokeball before the nurse came) continue or way to the dorm.

Okay chapter 7 down, onto the next one! Thanks for everything guys, you're the best. I'm sorry if the story is straightforward, boring, predictable, long and/or lame in anyway possible. I try my best. This probably wasn't my best chapter but I'll totally make it up for you guys in the next one (wink, wink). Anyways since this is an early finish, I'll get the next chapter up on the upcoming Monday if not earlier. While writing this we hit 1K views I'm so happy :) I love you guys and I'll see you soon, paintball331 out!