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"What do I do?" Kelsie whispered to James, staring up at her hoothoot. She was chewing her lip, torn between letting him be with his love or being selfish. It appeared hoothoot was thinking the same, glancing between his trainer and his mate. She did nothing, except stare, blankly, at the trainer. There was something accusatory in her stare.

"Let him go?"

"Is that what you want?" Hoothoot flew down to rest on her shoulder. He nipped her ear affectionately, hooting softly. "You were great." She reached up and stroked his feathers. "I'm going to miss you, but who am I to stand in the way of love?" His big. amber eyes stared at her, sadly. Evidently, he would miss her too.

"Hoo…" The female hoothoot had joined them, landing in the grass. Kelsie's hoothoot nodded at her and she flew off again, landing further up the tree where a nest was perched.

"He's a daddy." James gasped.

"All the more reason for you to stay." Kelsie said. Hoothoot gave her another nip and then took off, to join his family. She watched him, tears forming in her eyes.

They trudged back to the makeshift campsite, a few minutes later. Kelsie was still a little sad, but, she reminded herself, she had only spent a few days with him. It would have been a lot worse if she had spent years with him.

Like her typhlosion.

She wished, now more than ever, that her best friend was here.

"You not going to bed?" It was sometime in the early hours of the morning, around one or two a.m. Kelsie was sat by the dying embers of the fire, clutching hoothoot's pokeball. Her eyes were red, slightly puffy. She had been crying.

"I've been kicked out." She croaked, her throat dry. There was a hint of a chuckle in her throat. James glanced at Kelsie's tent, the flap was open and flaaffy and Polly were visible, taking up the majority of the cramped space, including Kelsie's pillows and sleeping bag.

"Just return them."

She shook her head. "I'm not tired." James sat beside her. "I'm fine, go back to bed."

"Rex kicks too much." He replied, cheerily. "You miss him, don't you?" She nodded, knowing that he was talking about typhlosion. She fixed her sight on a small stone that rested on the ground. She didn't want James to see her crying.

James got comfy on the grass, resting his arms under his head. Soon, soft snoring filled Kelsie's ears. He had fallen asleep. She giggled, watching him, and got comfy on the ground too. She wiped her eyes and prayed that her typhlosion was safe, something she did every night.

At some point she must have fallen asleep, because the dazzling sunlight streamed in through her eyelids, waking her. She lifted her head up off her pillow, shaking a cover off her. It took her a moment to realize that she had gone to bed on the grass, with no pillow or sleeping bag, not even a blanket.

"Then…?" Puzzled, she sat up. Her gasp made James wake and roll over, facing her. He used his outstretched arm to lift himself up and then he rubbed his eyes.

"Morning." He yawned. Kelsie was still looking at him in shock, rather red. "What? Did I drool?" He wiped his mouth, feeling for traces of saliva.

"Nothing, it doesn't matter." James looked confused, but Kelsie hurried into her tent to change, returning her pokemon to make some room. She splashed her face with drinking water and shook her head of the thoughts that James' chest was quite comfy…

Soon, they were on their way again. Kelsie, still rather embarrassed, hadn't responded much to James' attempts of conversation. He decided, after much pondering, to change tactics to get her to talk. "How are you going to catch a caterpie then?"

"Huh?"

"Your plans? I still have some cake."

"Oh…" Kelsie smiled in thanks and reverted to her original 'catch a pidgey plan'.

After a few hours in the sun, however, James gave up waiting. He was wet and sticky, thanks to Polly. Well, actually, it was his own fault. He had asked the poliwag to cool him down, eagerly, she obliged, absolutely drenching him with her water gun. The sun had soon dried up his clothes, causing them to stick to him. The whole scene had caused Kelsie to blush even more.

"I'm going to try something else," He told her. "You stay here." He wandered over to the closest clump of trees, calling for Rex to follow. The grass was damp where he had been sitting.

"Don't do something stupid." The atmosphere between them was beginning to go back to normal. For Kelsie, anyway. As far as James was concerned, it hadn't even changed.

James snorted as a response. "As if."

"What are you doing then?"

"I'm going to get Rex to headbutt the tree. Just watch the cake!" Rex shot his trainer a look that quite plainly said; 'you didn't tell me this' and backed away a little. Kelsie swatted away a few weedle that were approaching. Flaaffy helped with scaring them off.

Rex simply refused to move, so James shook the tree. Tried to, anyway. It was far too sturdy. He kicked it and stubbed his toe. He hit it and ended up hurting his hand. Kelsie shook her head, mortified. How could she have ever thought things would get romantically complicated between them, this was James, for crying out loud. Sarcastic, idiotic, ridiculous James.

In the end, flaaffy headbutted the tree, to save James any more injuries. The end result was a complete disaster anyway, as they were now faced with, not a caterpie, but a very angry pineco.

"Idiot." Kelsie muttered, as the blue pinecone shook, violently. Flaaffy and Rex ran back to where Kelsie and Polly were sat. They were smart. James, however, tip-toed forward. Just as the pineco exploded. James was forced back, slamming into another tree, forcing several caterpie to fall out. "Yay! Go James."

"Huh?" James rubbed his head and passed out.

"You know who your friends are when they give up their chance to catch a caterpie to drag you as far as they can through a forest you're lost in." Kelsie sighed, setting James down in the shade. Her arms were beginning to ache from hauling James' weight, slouched over. Poor Polly and flaaffy had been lumbered with the backpacks whilst Rex tried his best to help Kelsie pull James along. All he ended up doing, though, was getting in Kelsie's way, so he led the way with spearow instead.

James opened his eyes. His surroundings were familiar, but then he assumed that every part of the forest was thick, long grass and towering clumps of trees. "Where are we?" He felt groggy, he tried to get up, but Kelsie pushed him back down.

"I hope we're near the exit. Just rest and try not to sink into a coma or die. Or get into any more trouble." She grinned. He tried to grin back, glad she was acting normally again.

"Oh!" Again he tried to sit and was pushed back down. "Lets see your caterpie!" Kelsie kicked his leg. "Ow! What was that for?"

"I was too busy helping you to get one!"

"Oh… sorry." Kelsie waved his apology away, she was just glad James was ok. "Is this are new campsite then?"

"Looks like it. I don't think you're up to travelling any further." She relieved her pokemon of the bags and began unpacking the tents.

"Not sleeping on my chest again tonight?" James chuckled. Kelsie stared at him, colour seeping into her cheeks for the millionth time that day. She had no idea that James had known.

The evening was uncomfortable. Kelsie had gone back to being shy and embarrassed, not saying much. James didn't particularly know what to say to ease the tension. He felt too woozy still. Kelsie ended up hiding in her tent straight after dinner.

Girls… James thought …Are so weird.

Scott stared at the list he was given, the requirements for Vasseur's so-called 'super pokemon'. There was also a note at the bottom, informing him of the scientist who would be helping him. Another new addition. Lysander Roan.

Great. He thought, setting the piece of paper down on his desk. Another obstacle in my plan.

Yep, another update. I'm kinda busy next week so I thought I'd update on both days of the weekend to make up for it. I should update again soon, though. I'll try to write a bit each night.

Kelsie has feelings for James :P But nothing's going to happen… yet.