I got dressed and went for a walk, I kind of really needed it. The whole thing with Aldith reminded me of my travels as a kid, it felt very familiar, up until it got weird anyway. No but seriously, I used to sleep around girls a lot. We had to stay close to each other during the night, and we had to get used to it. While I was traveling with them, be it with Misty or May or Iris, or Dawn, or Serena, or Bonnie, we'd have to make due with whatever we had wherever we were, and it was almost always on the ground. It didn't get better than a flat piece of soil without any rocks on it. I also could go a few days without bathing or eating real food, and it was kind of dangerous too, and that wasn't the only thing to worry about. More often than not you'd encounter wild pokemon, who'd instantly start chasing you out of their land if they saw you, and some of them were very powerful too. So it was very important that we stuck together during the night. But none of that ever bothered me, not in the least, and it didn't bother my friends either, we were having the time of our lives.

Aldith's eyes specifically reminded me of this one girl from Kalos named Serena. I don't know where she is now, but she still pops up to say hi every once in a while. The last time I heard from her she was actually on my home region of Kanto. When that happened I was actually about to go back there myself. Maybe she had heard about me coming back, now that I think about it. But in the end I didn't go back to Kanto that time. Before I went back I decided to head to another region at the last second. I had the energy to do that, I didn't care, I had just traveled for miles and miles through this one place and a moment later I was about to start over again. And it was always better when I had someone to travel with, and I guess that's why I rushed to yet another region so fast. My friend Gary suddenly popped up out of nowhere, I had known him for pretty much for all of my life, he was from Kanto too. Anyway, before he even finished talking to me about this region he was visiting soon I had already decided I'd go with him. The names of these places tend to blend together in my mind, it's not like they are really all that different from one another really, at least not now that I think about it. Anyway I hadn't heard from Serena since, and if I had had her number or if I had had an idea of where she was I would have probably called her, but there was no use, and I forgot about it by that night anyway. She's a great person, she loves baking sweets, and she's a great performer, one of the best. I guess you could say she's a girly girl, she's very in tune with fashion and stuff like that, more than any other girl I traveled with. The only one who'd be the closest to her would be May, but even she couldn't compare to Serena in terms of fashion. I don't know how to say it, I'm not really in tune with that myself, I don't even pick my own clothes for me, except for the snobby jacket I guess. At some point when I was traveling with one of the girls, like at the middle point of the journey, their hair would start looking worse, and they'd have more trouble combing it and such. I guess that's why they always had their hair short, except for Iris, but she always had trouble to comb her hair, regardless of if we were in the middle of the forest or not, she was that shabby, she really didn't care for her hair. But anyway that never happened to Serena. It didn't matter where we were, her hair always looked shiny and well cared for, and her clothes always looked clean, and she always smelled nice, literally always. She cared a lot about her appearance, but she didn't care a lot about other things. One time she almost died from starvation. It used to be that, when we were in the forest and didn't have a lot to eat, either she or my nerdy friend Clemont would cook something, but, you see, for me it was never enough, and sometimes Serena would give me part of her food. I was a beast, and I used to eat everything they put in front of me, and I'm not like that anymore, now I barely eat, but it was really bad during that time. And, I guess it happened way too many times and she got used to giving me her food, even when I didn't ask her, and it got to the point where she got really ill because of that. I didn't notice until it got really serious, she could have died, and I really wish I had noticed, I swear. I feel awful about it, and it destroys me every time I remember, like at that moment when I was walking through Castelia. At that moment I wanted to call her to apologize for being a dick, but I didn't know how, and even if I called her, knowing her, she would have probably said it wasn't my fault, even though it obviously was. I really had no idea it was happening, and at the time I actually got really mad at her for not saying anything. I know, I suck. She's really a great person, she really didn't have to deal with my stupidity. I assume she would have preferred to hang out with someone who cared more for his appearance, or at least showered every day. She was way too nice to me for no reason. Now that I think about it, she was too nice, and there must have been a reason for it. And if there was, what was I supposed to do about it? I was a kid. Kids do stupid stuff, you can get angry at kids, but you can't hate them and you certainly can't blame them, because kids are stupid by default. For them, and maybe only for them, it is not their fault. I don't know what I would do now, maybe nothing, but at least now I know I'm being stupid, and unlike when I was a kid, now I deserve what happens to me. I really should stop thinking about it. Anyway, Aldith's eyes reminded me of her, and they also reminded me of Bonnie. She's Clemont's little sister, and I didn't have to look at anyone's eyes to remember her. However, she did remind me of someone. She reminded me of Max I guess, but also, of me. She traveled with us, me, Clemont and Serena, all through Kalos. And she never got tired, and she always ate a lot. She was too young to train pokemon at the time, I really wish she wouldn't have been, I would have loved to teach her stuff. She still learned a lot from me, and from Serena too. I think at the time she learned more from us than from her own brother, she was definitely more interested in fashion and pokemon than in science and such. Although I don't mean to say she didn't love Clemont, because she in fact loved her brother very much.

All of the sudden I got a very intense urge to go to Kalos, to visit them. I kind of really wanted to see them, and even though I didn't think I had enough money for a plane ticket, I thought maybe a boat would do, but I decided against it in the end. It was too much trouble, and I wouldn't have known what to say when I got there. After the urge went away I decided to go to the Golden Osyduck and eat a fancy breakfast, just to spend my money, otherwise I'd want to get on a boat to Kalos, and then I'd have zero money and be farther from home than ever before, instead of having some money and being simply far from home. And I still wouldn't have known what to say.