We assumed that Espeon was referring to our house; we had expanded it after I had discovered my powers. Sure enough, a storm came along, and a tree fell on the house. We were able to salvage most of what was inside. Cathy was devastated nonetheless.
"I built that house with my own hands," she lamented. "It was a part of me."
"Cathy," I said calmly, hugging her, "at least we're still alive. We have each other, and that's all we-"
"No," she mumbled, breaking the hug. Her voice slowly got angrier. "If I had never met you… If I had never-"
"Then I would have been dead!" I argued.
"Well, maybe it would have been better that way!" she screamed as the thunder boomed. She was clearly fed up with me. "Get out of my sight! Get out of my life! My parents were right, I should have waited for someone to come to me."
I broke down in tears, running out of the forest into Route 104. Everything had fallen apart. I had nothing except - no, the amulet had fallen off while I was running - nothing, that's all I had. I jumped up onto the cliffs, Espeon's words echoing in my mind.
"This should have happened long ago," I cried, flinging myself off the cliffs and onto the ground below.
Hoo boy, where do I start...
You know, I'm not even gonna try to explain high school junior me...
~Tenkai