Hey readers this is my first chapter of these series, to give you some background of what's in here I wrote:

In a year- 730 days, twelve months, seven-eight weeks in it.

So Ash had aged in Jotoh and when he traveled in sinnoh.

So right now Ash is now 12 years old and so is Serena and Clemont.

Bonnie is 8 years old.

Also, I'm sorry for any grammar errors.

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Chapter 1

The change of heart

Avalugg is unable to battle," the referee declared, "the challenger is the winner."

"Great job Haluwcha," Ash said to his Pokemon he used in the battle, "you were really great. Now return."

"You really did a number on my Pokemon." The gym leader said as he giving the last badge he needed to go to the Kalos league. "Due to you win I present you with the iceberg badge.

Ash happily acceptedit and held it up sayin, "alright...I got the iceberg badge!"

His friends then ran up to him from the sidelines of the battle field to congratulate him for win against his eight gym leader which qualifies him for Kalos league tournament. Clemont shaked his hand, Bonnie talked just how amazing the battle was and Serena saw this opportunity to hug her crush and childhood friend and did so while blushing.

"Thanks guys for your support, I coudn't have done it with out you guys," Ash said to his friends.

"Congra-" Clemont congratulated him was soon interrupted by Ash's growling stomach.

"Sorry." Ash announced. "Guess that match got me hungry."

"Still the same ash I guess, let's go to the pokemon center and get us something to eat." Bonnie said.

"Yeah," the group said as they walked out of the gym saying farewell to Wulfric.

Then when they got outside they zipped their jacket up since it was cold outside that there was snow all over the city.

"Oh yeah," Ash said, admiring the badge while walking along side with his friends on the side walk, "this qualifies me to be in the Kalos league tournament."

"By the way Ash, when's the tournament," Clemont asked.

"In about 3 weeks", Ash replied.

"Hey Serena when's your master showcase," he asked her.

"In about a month," she said.

"looks like we have a lot of free time" Clemont said.

"Yeah we we do have a lot of time, I usually don't finish this early collecting badges." Ash announce. Yeah, what do you guys want to do, Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie.

Then they realized Bonnie gone. "Where did she go," her worried brother said.

"Hey miss will you marry my brother" a child's voice said, catching the attention of the group. With that Serena, Clemont and Ash looked back. When they did, they saw that the owner of that voice was Bonnie and she was speaking to a girl. Clemont went red and grabbed his Sister with an invention he created.

"I'm sorry Miss," Clemont said as he ran away heading to the direction of the Pokemon center, leaving Ash and Serena behind.

"Looks like we'll meet them at the Pokemon Center," Ash told Serena.

"Yeah," Serena replied, with her sweat dropping.

As they got to the pokemon center, they met up with the siblings and Ash asked nurse joy to heal his pokemon from the fierce battle, this included Onbat, fletchinder and Haluwcha, all of his flying type pokemon. They also got their rooms. One two bedrooms along with two beds for each room. One for the boys and one for the girls.

The group then went to the cafeteria. They released all their pokemon, got dinner, and got a booth. On one side of the boothyou've got the blonde siblings, Clemont and Bonnie, while on the other side you've got Serena and Ash.

Serena tried to sit as closely to ash admiring him because she liked him more than friends ever since that day Ash helped her out of the forest. At first it was just a silly childhood crush, but after traveling with him for months now her crush was strengthened. She always hoped that they would be more then friends.

Her crush was also obvious to their traveling companions, Clemont and Bonnie,and even to all the Pokemon currently with them, but since he was so dense, He never picked up any hints that she left. It was even clear to Shauna, Miett, Tierno and some other people their group has encountered.

Ash being one of the most Denses person when coming to romance was a relief to Serena since she wouldn't want to be rejected, to her just thinking about it gave her one of the worst feelings she ever felt.

"Hey pikachu you want more ketchup with that," Ash questioned to his starter Pokemon. With this sentence pikachu' eyes lit up.

"pika pi", Pikachu responded which meant yes. With this, Ash gave pikachu a ketchup bottle and in an instant, grabbed the bottle and started licking it.

"Wow," said Clemont, as his sweat dropped, "Pikachu really likes ketchup."

"Yeah," Ash replied. "You guys know pikachu used to be really fat, I could barely carry him in my arms."

"That is so cute," Bonnie exclaimed.

"So anyway Ash," Serena said, "If you become a pokemon master, what will you do next. Do you have any plans?"

"You know what, I don't know yet," Ash answered, "I haven't really thought about it."

"oh okay," Serena had said in a depressing tone. She wanted to know if she was a part of his future, " For me, in the future I might try to get someone I like." After that sentence she freak out inside her mind, her face turned red and thought to herself, "oh no, oh no, oh no was that too obvious, did he know it was for him or does he think I'm into some other person." She also saw the blonde siblings grinning at her.

In Ash's mind he had been in deep thought about his future plans and when he realized Serena had just talked about something he said, "I'm sorry did you say something." Not hearing what she was saying."Wow, your face is all red, do you have a fever?" Ash asked, worried for her.

The blondes then Faceplamed because of how oblivious Ash was and Serena just sighed with relief and had just said that it was nothing.

After Ash finished dinner first, which is always because he's a fast eater, he returned all his Pokemon in its pokeball, except pikachu, who rode on his shoulder, since he doesn't want to be in a pokeball, and walked away to his room.

After Ash left Bonnie teased Serena," sooner or later you're going to have to confess your feelings to ash. Unless... you...want me to tell him?"

Serena blushed at her comment, "No Bonnie, don't tell him under any circumstances, you hear me, you to Clemont," she pointed out to the little girl and her big brother.

"I agree with my sister, Serena, Sooner or later you're going to have to confess your feelings to Ash, Serena. You only have about a month left together and then he's gonna go back home to Kanto." Clemont had spoken, agreeing with her sister.

"I pick later,"'she responded, clearly annoyed about the truth in what the siblings told her. She then finish her meal quickly, returned all of her pokemon in their pokeballs and stormed out, not noticing that some of them didn't finish their meals.

A certain grass type pokemon was happy and helped himself to the leftovers.

As she walked through the hallway she thought more and more about what they said and then it hit her. She actually hit her head on a door because she was walking without thinking.

She realize that this was Ash's door, "Maybe this is a sign. After all the rooms in this Pokemon center I wound up here," she thought to herself as she knocked on his door.

After that while waiting for Ash a rush of anxiety went through her body. In her mind she kept regretting she knocked.

5 minutes before in Ash's room

In Ash's mind he was thinking about his future, "what am I going to do next I've been so focused on becoming a pokemon master that I haven't figured out what I'm gonna do next. After I win a league, beat the elite four and beat the champion, what am I gonna do?"

"Hey pikachu what should we do, after we win the league?" Ash asked Pikachu.

"Pikapika chu," Answered pikachu, which meant, "I don't know, you're the trainer."

After that he heard something on the door. Ash spoke to his pikachu, "what was that... I guess that was nothing I don't hear anything on the door." Just then a someone knocked on the the door. "Guess someone was over there" Ash said and answered the door. To his suprise Serena was on the other side.

"Hey Serena, what's up," asked Ash.

"Oh...um... I just wanted to...um," she said trying to ended it with, "tell you how I feel," but just couldn't, due to the fear of rejection and finish her sentence next best thing, "to congratulate you on your win today." Then she pecked him on the cheek and acted all casual as she quickly walk out of there and closed the door behind her. After she closed the door, her face turned red and leaned on the door. Currently, in Serena's mind after that was she thought to herself, "why did I do that, I'm such an idiot. He probably doesn't like me that way," as she kept hitting her face. Then she bolted to her room as fast as she can.

In ash's mind he thought to himself, "I think I just found what I'm gonna do," and then touch the part of his cheek that got kissed and blushed, while still standing and staring at the door. After a few minutes of silence, he grinned.

Pikachu saw this and also grinned facing his trainer, Thinking, "about time."