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Jealousy

Ash woke up tilted his head and looked across the room. In the twin size bed next to his he saw his roommate gone. Ash would like it if he actually woke up first instead of Serena for a change. Maybe catch a glimpse of her beautiful sleeping face could make the morning more better.

Ash sat up straight and stretched his arm up and yawned. "Serena?" Ash wondered where she is. "Where is she? She has woken up really early for the past week or so." He looked at his clock on the night stand by his bedside and checked it. "10:30 huh."

Ash got up from the bed and opened the blinds revealing the morning light of the sun. "Wow, That's bright." Ash covered his eyes from the gleaming light until his eyes adjusted to it.

"Ok then," Ash said to himself. He got dressed and headed out. "Pikachu should be with Bonnie. Maybe I should go do some special training with my Pokémon. I haven't done that like in what, like a week. I wish Serena was here. I hope sees just in the Pokémon Center lobby or cafeteria."

Serena was at a busy street just about two to three miles away from the Pokémon Center.

"So you're Dawn," Serena said. She held out her hand for a handshake. "My Name's Serena." Serena can't help, but focus on Dawn so much to every detail of her physical appearance. She was wary of her for some reason. She became a little bit interrogative. She just meet the girl and she didn't know anything about her relationship with as or maybe any feelings towards him.

"Nice to meet you," Dawn answered before yawning. She stretched out her hands. They shook hands afterwards.

"Just woke up?" Serena asked.

"Yeah." Dawn yawned again. Her eyes felt tired and all her body.

"It's always so nice to meet one of Ash's friends, welcome to Kalos." Serena had this sarcastic mean tone to her voice, but Dawn didn't notice. From the look on her face she was really tired.

"It's Ash, of course I'm going to come. I'm one of his best friends, I wouldn't miss it for the world." Dawn felt a little pressure from her hands, as Serena gripped her hand a tighter instinctively. Dawn started to notice. "Ow." Dawn released her grip and tried to shake of the little pain felt in her hand.

"Sorry about that." Serena still felt uneasy about Dawn. She seemed good looking, smart and she had traveled with Ash for about a year, and yet to Serena she was but a stranger. The only things she knew about her were the things Ash talked about like

"It's fine Serena. Some grip you have there." Dawn looked over to Serena's hands and pointed at it.

"I guess I have a strong grip, but It's only because I had grown up riding Ryhorns since my Mom made me and I had to grip the saddle so I wouldn't fall off." Serena knew the only way for her to become less uneasy over Dawn was to create a bond with her and the way to do that was to share things from her personal life.

"You're mom is a Ryhorn racer. That's cool. My mom was a Pokémon coordinator."

What's it like to compete in a contest. There really isn't any contest here in Kalos.

"Really they this region doesn't?" Dawn asked shockingly. Dawn thought Coordinators were around the world in every region. "You know Ash competed in a contest once. I guess that's why I didn't she any contest here anywhere."

"Ash did?" Serena asked. She felt a little irritated, Ash didn't really talk much about his past adventures with her. She knew the basics like who he travelled with, who did the work around the camp, where he did gym battles, but nothing else.

"You know what, I'll tell you more about it later. Kay?" Dawn would tell her this now, but she was tired. She only slept a little last night and before that she had a train ride and a flight beforehand. She actually just wanted to sleep this day, but Brock insisted she meet Serena.

"Are you and Ash just friends? Serena said.

"Well my best friend to say the least." Dawn and Ash had been through a lot together. She wasn't embarrassed to say it and they have fun when they're together.

"So is this guy your boyfriend?" Serena pointed to the guy standing just behind Dawn.

"This guy has a name by the way, Ritchie." Ritchie said kind of offended.

"Umm, sorry I didn't ask for your name." Serena said. There sincerity in those words. "That was kind of rude of me."

"It's cool." Ritchie replied. He wasn't really bothered by it. "And no we're not dating."

Serena was kind of disappointed. She knows that jealousy of Dawn when Ash and her finally gets together so she wanted to get some more reassurance over her feelings. "So when did you meet Ash?"

"More than a year ago," Dawn replied.

"So do you like A-" Serena got cut off in her speech when Brock and Leaf arrived.

"Hey guys," Leaf greeted them. "What's up?"

"Nothing much, just talking to Dawn and Ritchie over there," Serena answered.

"So is it done?" Dawn asked.

"Nope, It's not ready yet, but Bonnie and Clemont are there to finish things up." Clemont answered.

"Okay then in the meantime Serena and Dawn come with me," Leaf said.

"Why?" The two girls asked.

"I just want go shopping for a bit," Leaf answered. The two guys bolted unnoticed for a short while.

"Shopping!" Dawn's tired expression to that of a more energetic one. "I'm in."

"Yeah you guys are kind of experts in clothing and fashion and all that stuff and I kind of need new clothes. Dawn I heard from Ash you know a lot of things. How about you, Serena?"

"Well sure thi-" Serena noticed something. "Where did Brock and Clermont go?"

"Where are those two?" Leaf looked around to see if there was any trace of them somewhere.

"Well, I guess those two didn't want to go shopping with us." Serena said. She was kind of disappointment that she didn't have the help to carry all the things that she listed in her mind at that moment to buy.

"Where shall we start ladies?" Dawn asked smirking. That the start of their shopping extravaganza.

Back with the Brock and Clemont they were running through the crowd as if their lives depended on it. Once they thought they thought they were far from the girls they caught their breath.

"We... got... away from... them." Clemont panted and spoke in the pauses, trying to catch his breath.

"I didn't want to go shopping with them." Brock said. "I can already see the future. My arms would break.

"Hey, do you think we overreacted? Clemont asked.

"Nope, not in the slightest." Brock answered with so much certainty. "I learned from my many adventures that when you have a chance to run, you do."

"So what do you wanna do now?"

"Wanna go back to Ash. Bonnie is keeping him occupied for the moment. They're back at the Pokémon center."

"Okay, let's go."

Hours passed with the Dawn, Serena, and Leaf at a shopping district. They had a handful of bags at their disposal.

"I wish Brock or Clemont was here. My arms are getting tired." Leaf complained, she had bought the least amount of stuff, but still it was about They walked carrying their bags tired from there adventure in their wallets.

"I'm tired, as much as I would want to go on, I just can't," Dawn complained. At the running for most things bought Serena was first, following close second was Dawn, and Leaf was of coarse dead last.

"Well, Dawn if you can't go on we can stay and rest somewhere." Serena was also tired, but there was just this thing inside her that won't admit anything to Dawn. To be honest, she was the most worn out not just physically, but mentally. All say she was trying to one up Dawn in terms of fashion, items bought and if they ever saw an item they both wanted, Serena would be the first one to snatch it. Dawn however, didn't show any emotions of anger towards any of that, which kind of annoyed Serena.

"Let's try and get like a park bench or something to rest for amount," Leaf suggested and they walked throughout the street and Dawn stopped them.

"Hey is that, Vetements De Amour? Dawn asked getting all excited. She pointed at a small store at the edge of a street corner. It was a rectangular building two stories high and only about ten thousand square feet. There were signs out front and arrows pointing towards the store. Most of the signs were heart shaped and had the words lucky on it.

"Vete-whatna?" Leaf asked.

"Change of change, change of love." Serena said. "It's their slogan, at least in English."

This added more confusion to Leaf. "Huh?"

"It's a clothing store that popular in Kalos." Serena answered. "In my language it roughly translates to Clothing of love, or lover's clothing, depending on how you want it translate it.

"Yeah, this Is the first thing that I wanted to visit on my personal list when if I ever get the chance go to Kalos." Dawn said with excitement. "You cannot find it anywhere else besides Kalos."

"What's so special about this shop?" Leaf asked.

"Well, It's said to have mystical powers surrounding it and if you buy a specific item it will give you a something like a fortune telling you about your future relationship on the receipt. It's really the place to go for like matching t-shirts or bracelets and stuff like that for couples." Serena answered. "Plus most of it is almost in sale all year."

"Really," Leaf said. "What if they give you good fortunes based on the prices of the stuff in it."

"I don't know. It might actually be real," Dawn replied. "I kind of wanna see my fortune."

"Really you wanna see your fortune about your love life next to the price you bought whatever you bought from there?"

"Why do you need to get a fortune? You're already pretty enough to get a date." Serena said this in a matter where it wasn't really a compliment. She wondered if it why dawn would want more relationship help. She was told that she was single by Bonnie, but she was interested in a guy. She had a thought it might be Ash, so she panicked a little in her head.

"Thank you, Serena." Dawn took it as a compliment. "But I still want to go in."

"Fine let's go," Leaf said as the girls went in. "Only to see how they con people into buying their merch."

They went it and the store was a regular clothing store. It was had a few aisles and a couple of commercial clothes racks towards the front of the store hanging miscellaneous things like tee shirts, jeans, jackets and other stuff. One commercial clothes rack was labeled clearance and a different one had a label that wrote clearance. There were shelves way at the back for things like shoes. "On a sign on one of the commercial clothes rack it was written, "buy the t-shirt here cause you to have better luck with your spouse. just buy these shirts fifty percent off.

"This is sooooo fake," Leaf commented on the whole store as a whole. Serena and Dawn agreed.

"Yeah this is," Dawn agreed. "Still though, I want to get something. For some reason the store has a surprisingly very accurate in the fortunes they do. Plus the stuff here isn't really expensive compared to most stores."

"I guess," Leaf answered.

There was many aisles in the store. One filled with suits, one filled with specially branded perfumes, and much more.

After a minute of walking around and going deeper in the store something caught each of the girl's interest. there was a sign that says romance miscellaneous hanging from the ceiling and it didn't specify which aisle, because the aisles in the store were labeled the sign just pointed right in the walkway.

After they turned they saw aisles dedicated to romance. There was an aisle dedicated to love cards, an aisle with matching t-shits and matching jeans. There was also some perfume and jewelry there. Most of the jewelry was in a glass case.

"There so much stuff about romance," Dawn commented as she saw a shirt on a table with the an arrow pointing to the right saying "I am with her" and the shirt to the right having a it have an arrow on it pointing to the left saying, "I am with him."

"Well it is a love store," Serena remarked.

Leaf was bored out of her own mind. She invited the both of them because she actually needed new clothes and see got it. She wasn't really that into fashion, but she wanted something that lasted, but still be decent to look at so she invited them. They both really had a knack for fashion and she knew of this from personal experience with Serena when they were little, and talking with Brock about Dawn.

"Hey is this cute?" Serena held up a t-shirt in front of Leaf, who was sitting at one of the chairs in the isle. Leaf saw it was a shirt with the a Pikachu on it and had the words "Sparks fly when I'm with you."

"It's fine," Leaf responded. She didn't really pay attention that much.

"You know what it might be a little too corny," Serena said as she went back and returned it to where she found it.

Leaf just played in her phone and watched them look at clothes almost all day after she got her outfit which included right now and she notice something while watching them right there. Whenever they Dawn and Serena found something they both like they would both reach for it, but Serena rushed quite a bit as if she wanted to beat her in a competition.

After a while Leaf actually called her. "Serena can you come here for a second. Yeah I need to get something from that Isle and I wanted your opinion."

"Sure thing," Serena called back and there she went. The two of them went to a different isle and a couple of meters away from Dawn. They whispered during the conversation.

Leaf asked her, "Hey do you have something against Dawn or something?"

"What makes you say that!" Serena whispered shouted.

"Well, you've been kind of acting a bit different around Dawn, but to everyone else you're yourself."

"So, you noticed." Serena looked a little disappointed in Leaf's eyes.

"So, what's the matter." Leaf had changed her tone to a more solemn tone.

"It's just that I've been seeing Dawn as this rival sort of person in terms of well... Ash, but It just be all in my head. I mean I'm kind of jealous of the time she spent with Ash. I just heard from Bonnie that Dawn likes someone.

"You thought it might be Ash." Leaf finished her sentence for her.

"Well... yeah."

"Come on Ash wouldn't do that. I know you know that. I know that, heck everyone knows that Ash won't just leave you for some other person."

"Yeah I know that much, but still. I still have this feeling in my chest that won't go away from some reason."

"Well, why don't we asked her?"

"Right now?"

"Well duh. Do you wanna stop feeling jelly."

"Yeah."

"Then let's go." Leaf went and grabbed Serena's arm. Leaf was half dragging Serena towards Dawn. Dawn was at the same spot looking at clothes in the romance isle.

"Hey Dawn." Leaf called and got Dawn's attention. While all they were talking Dawn was just looking through the various items in the isle, minding her own business.a

"What's up?" Dawn asked.

"Who do you like?" Leaf asked.

Dawn became flustered not prepared for that question at all. "Wha-," was the only thing she could say in response.

"Come on just say it. No need to be embarrassed," Leaf gestured her to continue her phrase.

"I- I.." Dawn replied. She didn't want to reply so. "I don't want to say it. Plus what if I don't have a crush."

"Liar," Leaf remarked. "You wouldn't have been flustered so much if you didn't actually like someone."

"H-how about you tell me who you like and I tell you who I like," Dawn replied.

Leaf was now the one to be flustered. "That's irrelevant. I don't like anyone."

"You wouldn't have been flustered so much if you didn't actually like someone." Dawn mocked Leaf.

"Just tell me yours, It's probably someone we don't know," Leaf pleaded.

"It is someone you know," Dawn said and immediately after this she instantly regretted it.

"Who?" Serena asked.

"It's no one, okay." Dawn replied. "I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours Leaf."

"Never." Leaf responded.

"I guess we'll never know then," Dawn said as she proceeded looking through the clothes in the isle.