Oliverqueen01- Almost 1,000 views?! By the precursors, Anyway Chapter 4, things happen and potential futures are shown (maybe) as always reviews and questions will be addressed at the end, anyway disclaimer time!

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Chapter 4: Tutoring,Dinner and a Talk: What could go wrong?

Tuesday afterschool. Classes have ended for the day, Everyone has gone home. It is at Ash's house we find Ash and Serena and the most frustrating subject known to man: Math. Serena was amazed about how well decorated and spacious Ash's house was, They were currently in Ash's room for the tutoring session. They were currently taking a short break.

"These are delicious, who made these?" Serena asked while taking a bite from her finger sandwich that she and Ash were having at the moment.

"I did, well with a little help." Ash replied.

"From who?"

As soon as Serena asked the question, Inside ran Pikachu into Ash's lap. Serena noticed the bond between human and pokemon, It reminded her of her own pokemon who she hope weren't up to mischief.

"Right, you haven't been introduced. Pikachu this is Serena my new friend from school who's helping me try to pass math. Serena this is Pikachu, my best buddy and first ever pokemon who I got." Ash said as he introduced them to each other.

"Pika-Pikachu"

"Nice to meet you Pikachu, I'm guessing your the one who helped Ash with making these delicious finger sandwiches." Serena told the small yellow mouse.

"Pika"

"Well then Pikachu, you did a good job I really like it."

"Chaa!"

"Wow, it looks like Pikachu really likes you, I haven't seen him this affectionate to another person other than me or mom." Ash admitted to her

"Really? I guess he must sense how much I like my own pokemon."

"Ya, If he didn't like you he'd probably would have thunderbolted you by now, I should know from first-hand experience."

"Pika Pi" Pikachu said with embarrassment

The three of them laughed, then the two humans decided to get back to work. Pikachu ran up to Ash's bed and slept while Serena and Ash went back to their tutoring session. It would be an hour before Pikachu woke up.

"So one more time what does x equal to in this equation x-5 =10? she asked

Ash worked out the equation and showed the answer to Serena, She looked at the answer and congratulated him on getting the right answer.

"That's right Ash, x = 15" She smiled

"Good, I think that's enough for today. I've seen all the numbers and equations I can handle for today." Ash told her

"I agree, But do you at least understand how to solve an equation better?"

"Yup, I still don't get some of it but I'm not completely clueless now than before, right now all I can see is variables and equations."

"I think that means we're taking a step in the right direction, we can work on anything else you have difficultly with another day."

Ash's stomach then rumbled very loudly, surprising Serena and waking up Pikachu who jumped off the bed.

"Chaa"

"Had a nice nap buddy?"

"Chaa"

"I bet you must be hungry right?"

"Chaa"

"I bet your also hungry too Serena"

"Now that you mention it, I'm kinda of hungry too."

"Then it's settled your staying here for dinner, I'm cooking, Pikachu your helping me and Serena all you have to do is sit at the table until it's done."

"Are you sure you don't want me to help?"

"Positive, your a guest and besides I want to pay you back for helping me today, If it wasn't for you I'd probably still be dense with all this math stuff."

Serena giggled at him

"Okay then, lead the way."

Pikachu was the first to run downstairs to the kitchen, The two teenagers we're right behind him following suit. However that's when something unexpected happened. Serena somehow missed the step infront of her. She closed her eyes and waited to her the impact of her hitting the ground but it never came. When she opened her eyes she found herself in a pair of arms. She looked up and saw Ash's brown eyes reflecting her own. They stared at each other awkwardly before they broke apart and she thanked him.

Once they had reached the kitchen, Ash told Serena to sit in the living room until he and Pikachu were done, He wanted to keep what they would be eating a surprise. Serena would glance over from time to time to see what was going on. She laughed when she saw both Trainer and Pokemon covered in flour. After 20 minutes dinner was finally done. It was at this point at Delia had come home.

"Oh hello there, you must be Ash's new friend from school he told me about, I'm his mother Delia nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too, My name is Serena."

"Serena, that's a nice name now Serena can you tell me where my son is?"

"I'm in the kitchen mom, I cooked dinner for all of us tonight so you didn't have to, so come and sit down you too Serena." Ash called out

Both the ladies nodded and headed to the dining table. Pikachu came out first bringing a glass of fruit juice to Serena, then returned with another glass with the same glass for Delia. Ash then entered holding a plate for his mother and Serena in each hand. On the plate was some mashed potatoes, some corn and a large piece of baked Salmon. He set down Pikachu's food infront of him on the floor and then proceeded to sit at the table.


"MMM, smells good, but I saw you covered in flour earlier I'm guessing that's dessert?" Serena asked

"Yup, but you'll have to wait for that, for now as the french say Bon Appetit." he said very chef like.

Everyone in the Ketchum house began to dig into their dinner, everyone was enjoying the dinner that was cooked by Ash. After everyone was done he brang in dessert: A chocolate cake. He sliced the cake into 4 pieces. While Pikachu was eating, the humans were talking.

"So Serena, how has my son been treating you?" asked Delia

"He's been treating me very well thank you, I'm lucky to have met him and his friends, they all welcomed me with open arms, I'm grateful to them for it."

"Well that's very sweet of them, even my son acting like such a gentleman he must really like you for him be like that."

Ash turned red with embarrassment

"Mom! You know it's not like that, I was only doing what she would have done in my place, besides I've only known her for 2 days now."

"Calm down sweetie, it's not like I told her how I used to tease you about changing your underwear when you were on your first journey."

"MOM!"

"Oops, my bad"

Serena giggled, she couldn't believe what she was hearing from both mother and son, Serena turned to pikachu.

"Hey, Pikachu are they always like this?"

"Pika- Pikachu."

Serena giggled at the yellow mouses gestures, Pikachu was waving his short hands and tail all about the place when he was answering her. How she wish that one day that a device would be invented to understand what all pokemon were saying. Then she would have an easier time understanding her own pokemon.

Once the embarrassment died down, the humans started speaking again.

"Serena dear what does your mother do for a living?"

"Mom used to be a competitive Rhyhorn racer back home, she retired a few years ago due to injury but she got offered a job here as a coach about 3 months ago, which brings us to living here in Pallet now."

"That's nice, I will definitively invite her over a day to chat."

"I'd think she'd like that, by the way Mrs. Ketchum what do you do for a living?"

"Ash didn't tell you?"

"Sorry, I was so busy with all this schoolwork it must have slipped my mind." He admitted.

"It's okay, Anyway I work at a restaurant in Pewter City called La cuisine d'chateau amour, it's a really romantic french restaurant, maybe one day Ash will finally take a girl he really likes there."

"Mom"

"I know, I know anyway it is getting quite late Serena you should be going home."

Serena took a look at the pokeball clock on the wall it read 7:30 pm.

"It is, Well it was nice to meet you Mrs. Ketchum, It was nice getting to know you and see where Ash's cooking skills where born."

"You too Serena and thank you, Ash your walking her home right?"

"Yes mom."

Serena grabbed her stuff from the front door, and waited for Ash to emerge from the bathroom to leave. Once he was done Serena petted Pikachu on it's head to which he said his name contently, she then said her goodbyes and left the house with Ash.


"I'm sorry you had to be apart of that, I didn't know she would go that far with her questions sometimes I wonder if all those dramas she watches go to her head a too much."

"It's okay Ash, I had fun besides you think your mom is embarrassing? My mom is way worse, she tried to make me go out with her friend's son because she thought I had a crush on him when in fact it was the opposite."

"What was wrong with him?"

"Physically nothing, but I just didn't click with him."

"I know how you feel, like you mom tried to set me up with her friend's daughter. She was good looking but I just couldn't connect with her."

"So looks like our moms think similar, if they ever decide to team up we'll be in trouble."

"It will be the end of the world as we know it."

The two of them laughed at the thought of their mothers teaming up to find them mates, something about threatening to post embarrassing pictures and stories to everyone they knew if they didn't comply.

"Ash can I ask you something?"

"Sure."

"If you were somehow able to find a girl who you could click with what qualities would you want her to have?"

Ash took a long hard moment before he answered.

"She has to be kind, I refuse to be with someone who isn't like why bother being with someone who isn't it doesn't make sense to me. She also has to be smart not a know it all but smart enough to know most things. She must be caring, honest, trustworthy, funny, able to cook as a bonus but most of all she must be someone who is willing to be themselves and not put up a fake image just because they want to be with me."

Serena was taken back a bit by his answer

"D-Did I say something wrong?"

"No-No it's just, that was a really well thought out answer for something I asked in the spur of the moment."

"Well I just said what was in my heart and how I feel about it, I know she's out there somewhere waiting for me, I just have to be patient and she will come to me in time, Oh in all of this talk of meeting our dream partner I should ask what do you want in someone to be with you?"

"You basically said what I would have said in a nutshell and if I had to add something on to it well you might think this is cliché but I kinda want him to be somewhat of a romantic because it would be boring if he was all business."

"You know what would be funny? If the person we're meant to be with is with each other right now and we don't know it."

The two of them laughed as they finally reached Serena's front door

"Well, looks like we've reached my front door."

"Indeed we have arrived at your front door, listen thanks again for helping me with math today I really appreciate it Serena. I mean it."

"It's no problem Ash, if anything I should be thanking you."

"Me, what for?"

"If Principal Oak didn't ask you to help me around school, I wouldn't have met you the way I did nor would would I be friends with any of your friends and we wouldn't be here right now talking to each other."

"Heh, I was only doing what you would have done in my place if I was in your school back in Kalos, besides if Principal Oak didn't ask me then Mr. Wells would have asked someone in class to help."

The two of them smiled at each other before they decided to part ways before her mother's Rhyhorn made a grunting noise.

"Well, see ya tomorrow."

"See ya."

The two of them gave each other a friendly hug and then broke apart. Serena went inside her house as Ash began the walk back to his house.


Serena took off her boots and placed it on the rack. She took off her hat and placed it on the small ledge near the front of the doorway and headed to her living room to where she found her mother watching TV and fletchling on it's perch watching along side her mother. She went to go sit next to her on the two seated white couch, she dropped her bag next to the couch and then sat on the couch to hug her mother.

"How was your day today at work?"

"Well, if you call three of the students going off track and getting thrown off a Rhyhorn because they failed to listen to my instructions normal then pretty good."

"Let me guess is it because they didn't listen to that phrase you drilled into my head since I was a little girl when you tried to make be a racer like you?"

"Remind me, what was that phrase again oh daughter of mine?"

"BE ONE WITH Rhyhorn!"

The two females giggled at the phrase that had become synonymous with their family over the years, true Serena hated practicing her racing skills everyday for 16 years of her life she did however find it useful it if she ever decided to race for fun or teach someone how to properly handle a Rhyhorn.

"And how was your day?"

"School was okay, I had to help one of my new friends today with math."

"Oh, which friend was this now?"

"Ash, I told you about him this morning during breakfast while you were signing my forms to take back to the Office and my teachers."

"Oh, was he the one that the principal handpicked to help you out around school so that would be comfortable or was he the one who was the principal's grandson?"

"The first one, the other one your thinking of is his best friend Gary Oak."

"Ah, so has this Ash been treating you well or do I have to take Rhyhorn and talk to him?"

"There's no need for that mom I promise, but honestly he's a really nice guy. He introduced me to his friends who I'm friends with now. I even met his Pokemon and mother."

"What kind of pokemon does he have?"

"At his house only his Pikachu which was his starter pokemon and he said he has more but he'll show me them another time."

"I see, what about his mother? What's she like?"

"Honestly she reminds me of you."

"How so?"

"Well she's kind, loving and can be embarrassing at times."

"How can I possibly be embarrassing?"

"Remember when I was on my journey with Calem and the others and I called that one day from the pokemon center and you asked me if he was my boyfriend right infront of him? Fully knowing that he was right behind me listening."

"In my defense, I honestly thought you two made a cute couple."

"I know mom but I can't see him or the others like that they're just my best friends, I never want that to change."

"I know honey, but eventually you'll find someone you like and tell me all about him or her right?"

"I promise mom, the day I find someone I really like with all my heart and soul and who feels the same way in return I'll bring them here so you can tell them how much your glad that they chose me over everyone else."

"Good, because you know I only want you to be happy and successful in whatever you decide to in your life."

"I know mom."

Serena layed her head on her mother's shoulder and her mother caressed her lovingly, True sometimes she and Serena fought over trivial things but at the end of the day she loved her daughter and no force in the world would change that.

"By the way, My new friend Dawn wants to have a girls night at her house Friday and she invited me can I go?"

"As long as her mother is there watching over you I have no objections."

"Yay, thank you mom your the best."

"I know I am, are you going to eat dinner?"

"No, I ate at Ash's house I think I'm just going to take a bath, groom my pokemon and then go to bed."

"Ok honey, but you know where the food will be if you get hungry later."

"I do, Good night mom."

"Good night sweetie."

Serena pecked her mother on the cheek, took her bag and headed up the stairs. She quickly entered her room petted her pokemon and grabbed her night clothes and went to the bathroom to take her bath after a long day of school and tutoring. When she was done she headed back to her room and put her clothes on the hangar rack behind her door. She then grabbed the brush used to groom her pokemon. They were standing inline to be groomed. Once they were all groomed Sylveon and Pancham went to their baskets in the corner to sleep leaving Fenniken alone awake with her.

"Fen?"

"Hmm? It's nothing Fenniken just thinking about something that happened today when I was walking home with Ash."

"Fenniken?"

"We were walking back here and we just talked about our dream partner, it just made me think about the future."

"Fenniken, Fen"

"I know, you, Pancham and Sylveon will always be there for me, that will never change even when I do start dating someone."

Fenniken licked Serena on her face which made her giggle a little, she then petted the yellow fox on it's head to which it sighed happily.

"Do you want to sleep with me tonight?"

"Fen!"

Fenniken curled into a ball on Serena's bed and fell asleep instantly. Out of the 3 pokemon she owned her bond with Fenniken was the tightest since she was the first pokemon Serena got when she was back in Kalos.

Serena booted up her laptop and checked her E-mail. There was nothing except some junk and news from some websites she frequented. She then logged off and headed into her bed next to Fenniken, After 10 minutes she drifted off to sleep.

In her dream...

Serena found herself in a field filled with colourful flowers as far as the eye could see, in the distance was a river and the sun in the sky shining ever so brightly. However all her attention was focused on the person in the middle. She approached the figure in the middle and tapped the figure on the shoulder and the figure turned around shocking Serena.

"Ash, but what does this mean?"

He just smiled and started to disappear along with the field, then Serena woke up in a sweat and turned and looked at the clock it read 8:30 pm. She turned to look at Fenniken who was still asleep. She then went back to sleep with one thought in mind:

"What did that just mean?"


At The Ketchum house

Ash came back home after walking Serena to find his mom asleep on the couch with the tv on, he turned off the TV and covered her with the blanket and headed up the stairs to find Pikachu on his bed waiting for him with arms folded.

"What?"

"Pika, Pikachu."

"Ya I know, we just got caught up talking about our mothers and their need to set us up on dates with people who we can't click with at all."

"Pika"

"Yes, that's all that happened nothing more."

"Pika, Pika, Pikachu."

"No I'm not lying really, what possible reason would I have to lie to you about what happened, I tell you everything you know that."

"Pika, Pikachu, Pi Pika Pikachu."

"You are crazy sometimes I wonder what you watch when I'm not home, maybe it's those silly pokedramas or soap operas you watched with mom before she got her new job."

Pikachu sighed in defeat and shrugged his shoulders he knew that the longer that the argument went on the faster Ash would counter his arguments so he quit while he was ahead, He also knew his owner wasn't dense on the subject of romance just not interested at the moment because he hadn't found his ideal partner, but that would be a story for another day.

"Come on, time for bed."

Pikachu hopped up on to Ash's bed after Ash had changed into his night clothes with consisted of a white shirt with a red stripe running around the middle, blue shorts and black socks. The yellow mouse then layed next to Ash and fell asleep. After 20 minutes Ash fell asleep into his dream.

In Ash's Dream...

It was the day of Ash's wedding, All of his friends, family, rivals and Pokemon. However he noticed one person missing. To his left was Gary, Brock, Drew and Tommy in their black suits and ties. Dawn,May,Leaf and an unknown woman were their in pink bridesmaid dress. But what caught his attention was the person in front of him in a silk white dress with the veil down so he couldn't see who was under it. The minister than said those famous words.

"I now pronounce you Husband and Wife, you may kiss the bride."

Ash lifted up the veil to see who was under it and the face that was under it shocked him.

"S-Serena?"

She smiled at him as she disappeared, then everyone else one by one disappeared until he was left alone then in a jolt of energy he woke up. He looked at the clock it read 10:30 pm. He looked at Pikachu who was still asleep. He then fell asleep with thought in mind:

"What the heck was that all about?"

And with that he entered sleep again along with the rest of pallet town.


Oliverqueen01- Well Well Well a couple moments happened, now those two dream sequences remember them, they will pop up again later. A couple of moments in this chapter, which I had fun writing but enough of me drabbling let's get on to your reviews.

Reviews and questions

Espeon44- noted i'll use one of them when the opportunity presents itself, but I just want to stick to dawn dating an OC, brock I will get to later.

Klay (guest)- Unfortunately I won't be putting Misty or Tracy into this story, I feel with the core gang and a couple more characters that it needs a cap. In a sequel maybe they'll be there.

Pokemonmeat- Thank you, I will try to. After seeing this weeks episode I can say I now have a idea for a future chapter lol

amour guest- Thank you will do and yes that is the plan every thursday unless otherwise stated :p

Nexxus176- Thanks for the review, if you think last chapter was interesting, wait until you lay your eyes on the next one.

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