Chapter 11
Parenting 101
"Luxray mating habits? Defiantly no, I know that one fairly well. Luxray ecology? No. Shit, I don't think there's anything that I can find to help." I said to myself as I dug through the library's section of books on electric types.
Seeing the books about luxray made me sad because I thought of Lia, but I tried to tune it out the best I could.
"Do you need any help with something?" I heard someone say, scaring me to where I almost jumped in place.
It was the librarian from before, the one with the gardevoir.
"Uhh yeah, I need to find a certain book." I told him as I backed away to let him look.
"About what exactly?"
"Well I... Umm... I'm raising a shinx and I was hoping to find some type of book on how luxray raise shinx."
"Oh yeah, there's one right here. You're the one with that luxray right? If it's her's, why doesn't she just tell you?" He asked me.
"She's gone." I said quietly, but just enough for him to hear.
"I'm sorry for bringing that up. I heard about you yesterday, I didn't realize it was you it happened to, I'm very sorry."
"No... It's okay."
"Well, let me find that book you were looking for."
"Thanks."
"I'm gonna take a wild guess but... The shinx is your's? Right?"
"Yes."
"Sorry, the question is extremely awkward if you get it wrong."
"I understand."
"Here we go." He said as he pulled out a small book, called "Electric types and parenting habits," or something like that.
"You have fun parenting." He told me as he handed it to me and walked away.
"Or learning how to that is." He said as he peeked his head out from behind the corner.
I scoffed and walked away, the librarian's gardevoir memorized just about every person who checked out a book, being he probably told her I did meant that I could leave. I walked back to my apartment quickly just because I was beginning to get anxiety from not being near the egg. I got to my apartment and opened it the door to find sis, her lucario, and Tia sitting in the living room.
"Sis?" I said as I walked in, pocketing my book in the front pockets of the hoodie I was wearing.
"David... It's been a while. I want to talk to you in private." My sister said as she pointed to my bedroom, I hesitantly walked in and she followed me in and closed the door behind us.
She embraced me and held me there, until I felt her tears hit the top of my head.
"I'm so sorry, about what happened to Lia."
"Please, don't bring it up, it just brings the pain back."
"Sorry. It's just so heartbreaking, she was so innocent and sweet."
"Please... Don't go on. I've accepted what happened, but I still feel the pain in my heart."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize, it's not your fault."
"At least you have a good way to remember her."
"I guess. I'm not cut out to be a parent."
"I thought I wasn't a good parent either, now look at me."
"I'm trying to work on it."
"What the hell is that inside your jacket?" She said as she grabbed the book from the pocket and looked at it.
"Ah. Well that's one way. It's better if you go off instincts, being a parent from a book is stale."
"Well it was just to see if there are things I should know about beforehand."
"Didn't she tell you about this beforehand?"
"No, we didn't plan on having a kid. Well I didn't."
"What do you mean?"
"We were both drunk our first time."
"And you don't remember anything?"
"Basically."
"Sucks for you."
She sighed and slapped me on the shoulder as she dragged me back into the living room. Lucario just glared at me.
"Dude, she's my sister."
"It isn't that... I sense spiteful aura coming from you."
"What?"
"You want revenge don't you?"
He was sort of true, I was very spiteful towards that cop and the government, there was going to be no forgiveness from me.
"That's not going to bring her back."
I wanted to yell at him and get angry, but I could only cry.
"Don't you think I know that dammit?" I said as I could feel the tears roll down my cheek.
"David! David!" I heard someone yip, I looked down to find Max tugging at my pants leg, like he wanted me to talk to him.
I bent down till my head was level with his, he merely threw his arms around my neck and hugged me, whilst nuzzling my face.
"David!" He said as he hugged me tighter.
The cute act didn't help me stop crying but it defiantly made me feel better.
"Thanks Max, I needed that." I told the riolu as he let go off me, his tail happily wagging as he ran up to my sis.
"That was sweet Max." She told him as she picked him up.
I hid the book back in my pocket and sat down beside Tia, who was holding the egg in her arms. Sis, Max, and lucario all left and it was just the two of us.
"Did you get what you were looking for?" Tia asked me.
"Yeah, it's right here." I said as I pulled the book from my pocket.
I flipped through the first couple of pages till I actually got to the important information.
"The first being a newborn will see it will interpret as it's parents, usually the newborn will not open it's eyes until the day after it hatches." I read aloud.
"David... Are you sure you don't mind me being her mother?" Tia asked.
"It's okay, I want her to have some type of mother figure, even if it isn't Lia." I told her as I skimmed through the other parts.
"Newborn shinx will not leave their parents side, no matter what, for the first week of it's life." I read aloud.
"Fair enough." I said to myself as I read the next part.
"Newborn electric types have hard times controlling their natural born electrical powers and may discharge accidentally."
"So be careful with her around water." Tia said as she peered at the book.
"Newborn shinx must learn who their father is, and the rest of their family, so they can always find them by their scent."
"She's gonna need to memorize our smell?" Tia asked me in confusion, to which I just shrugged.
"Shinx will be very attached to their father during childhood, they will tail him wherever he goes."
"You don't mind that one do you." Tia asked me sarcastically.
"The shinx will seek all ways to learn things from the father."
"So you have to be her teacher."
"Doesn't sound like a problem to me."
I kept reading and after a while of not hearing Tia say anything, I found out that she was asleep, with the egg in her arms.
"Geez, you could of stayed awake for this." I said to myself as I put the book down and picked her and the egg up lightly in my arms.
I walked into my bedroom and put Tia down on the bed, with the egg next to her. When I stood up, Tia was blushing and looking at me.
"You didn't cope a feel did you?"
"I did not!"
"Your hand was really close to my butt!"
"Because I was holding you!"
"In a bridal carry..."
"Tia, I was just helping you into bed!" I told her as she completely ignored me, looking to the other side of the room.
"Don't ignore me!" I told her, she grabbed my head and twisted it for me to look where she was looking.
The egg was shaking in place and about to hatch, little cracks had formed at the top of it as it continued to shake.
"Get a damn camera Tia!"
"We don't have a camera you idiot! Shut up and watch."
The egg continued to shake and a small piece of the side broke off and the egg tipped over. The little shinx came tumbling out onto the bed, she looked around and did the little shinx cry. I picked her up and she sniffed my hand, like she was evaluating me. She was tiny, she was barely a foot tall and could almost fit in my hand.
"See, I told you she would be a girl, Lia was right."
"Coincidence!" Tia spouted out as she looked at the little shinx.
"Whatever, isn't she the cutest thing?"
"Yeah, what are you going to name her?"
"Sasha."
"Why Sasha?"
"It's a cute name, and I've always wanted a daughter named Sasha."
Tia walked into the other room to get the book from earlier as I held Sasha in my hands, she just sniffed around and tilted her head in confusion.
"What's wrong girl?" I asked her as I rubbed her cheek with my thumb.
She just purred as I rubbed her cheek, then I heard the sound of something like running water, then my shirt felt wet.
"TIA SHE'S PEEING ON ME."
Bro, shinx are freaking adorable and have like my favorite pokemon cry beside glaceon. Sorry for the wait, I was dealing with some shit and then I had to go to a place where there was like no wifi.
