A.N: Guess who's back from the dead? Yay, it's me! I hope at least some are happy to hear that. I wanted to profusely apologize for my disappearance, but it had to do with a major slump and just trying to survive school. Anyway, I'm trying out a new font and size, if you want the old one back tell me immediately in the reviews and I hope you enjoy some everyday life of Calem and Serena ^^.
Pokémon Chapter 13
The school bell rang across the yard and Calem yawned. He collected himself before grabbing his bag and walking out of the school building. Classes were over and Calem wanted to go buy groceries as soon as possible. He had left his Pokémon on their own to complete the technique.
It was Friday, so just the last day before the weekend which meant no school, and also an entire day filled with general education.
Calem walked up to Tierno, Trevor, Serena and Shauna and asked: "Hey guys, want to go buy some groceries?"
"Nah, Trevor, Shauna and I have already been to the store," Tierno declined politely.
"How could you do this without me?" Serena exclaimed in mock exasperation. The gang laughed for a bit.
"I don't want to go grocery shopping with just Serena though, she buys so many snacks and because of that we would empty the entire shelves." Calem smirked.
"Hey!" Serena exclaimed, only to let more laughter ensue.
"Well I don't want to go to the store with just you too. You can be so picky sometimes!" Serena said in return.
Calem and Serena started to think hard on who to take along, and they came up with two names at the same time: "Saber and Kate!"
They ran out of the classroom, Calem running to Saber's classroom and Serena to Kate's.
Serena had little difficulty in asking Kate to go grocery shopping with them, but Calem was met by heavy resistance.
"No," Saber said.
"I didn't even ask anything yet," Calem commented.
"And whatever you ask, my answer will be no," Saber explained.
"Oh so if I were to ask if you were not willing to come grocery shopping with Serena, Kate and I, you would answer no. Awesome," Calem smirked and knew that he had Saber backed into a corner. His thoughts were confirmed when Saber's usually calm self, reacted by widening his eyes.
"Fine," Saber sighed in exasperation.
Calem's eyes glinted in his victory and he said: "Come along then!"
With a pouting, midnight black-haired boy behind him, Calem marched out of Saber's classroom, leaving behind a lot of questioning stares.
The duo met Serena and Kate at the school's front gate, bags in everyone's hands, ready to buy groceries. They walked in a slow and steady pace to the store, Serena and Kate trying to strike up conversation with Saber but failing, until Calem asked: "So, how hard did you beat Cynthia?"
"I wrecked her," Saber couldn't help but answer.
Calem laughed at the answer, he couldn't help but remember what Lucas and Cynthia had once told him, a boy his age, completely destroying Cynthia. Lucas wanted to battle the boy himself, but he had disappeared, just as quickly as Red always had. The others looked at Calem, confusion clear on their faces, but Calem waved it off and started walking to the store again.
"Let me just tell you, that the new champions are on a whole new level from the old ones, and I probably won't be able to beat any of them again soon," Calem turned around and said to Saber.
"Says the guy who beat Red," Saber answered.
"I only beat Red because he let me. I couldn't win against Red for my life if he wouldn't let me," the boy leading the group said.
The rest of the walk proceeded in silence until they stood inside the grocery store. Calem quickly walked through the store, shoving everything he and Serena would need into a basket, meat, vegetables, eggs, bread, some stuff to put onto the bread and some drinks. Kate and Saber followed suit, but Kate pointed something out when Serena put sweets into Calem's shopping basket: "Serena, don't you need to buy your own groceries? I mean, you asked me to come with you guys to the store because you and your roommate didn't have any groceries left."
Calem and Serena paused all actions. They had just noticed what had happened because of Kate, they hadn't thought of this. Had the Kalos gang come to buy groceries together, they would have been in deep trouble. But luckily they hadn't come along so Calem and Serena avoided a mild disaster.
It wasn't like they wanted to keep the entire thing a secret, it was just that they wanted to avoid the awkward atmosphere when having to explain the situation. And now they would have to explain it to Kate, but thanks to Serena's quick thinking, they avoided said disaster, once again.
"Hey Kate! They sell all kinds of candy!" Serena shouted in an attempt to change the topic.
Kate whirled around and scoured the shelves of candy to find one that would suit her taste, the lack of Serena's groceries forgotten, even when they left the store and returned to the dorms.
They found out that every one of the four was in House Mew, and parted ways inside of the dormitory which was divided in three wings: the north wing, the east wing and the west wing. Saber's room was in the north wing, Kate's in the west wing and Calem and Serena's room was located in the east wing.
The co-ed roommates rushed into their room and stuffed their groceries into the refrigerator. Calem cooked a stew while quickly finishing his homework. After the stew was done, he served it up for Vee and Serena, leaving behind a note and knocking on Serena's door before leaving the dormitory to get back to his first team.
Calem grabbed a flute out of his back pocket and blew into it lightly, a nearly inaudible sound ringing out of the flute and soon he saw a blue bolt come closer to him. The blue bolt became clearer the closer he came, and turned out to be Latios. Calem got onto Latios' back before flying onto the island where his first team had gathered, all standing there at the ready. They looked incredibly giddy so Calem gestured them to show him what was going on, and Latios and Garchomp stepped forward. Charizard threw a coconut at Garchomp and then the coconut was sliced into eight. Calem had a huge grin on his face when he looked at his first team and said: "Guys, I think this is our very first doubles combo attack. This needs to be used once it's perfected."
Garchomp and Latios gave Calem a look but he shook it off: "Oh don't look at me like that. I know fully well that it's still imperfect. Don't lie to me."
Finally the two Pokémon looked away as if they were not involved in the lie and soon a lot of sounds that sounded akin to laughter rang throughout the island. Calem smiled at the scene in front of him and returned the Pokémon to some well-deserved rest before flying back to the dormitory on Charizard's back.
He walked through the dormitory door, only to be greeted by Serena, heating up his stew.
"I saw you outside my window so I started to reheat the stew," she explained.
Calem thanked her and brought out a bowl and spoon. He barely got them onto the table when Eevee jumped on top of his head, making him lose balance momentarily. The evolutionary Pokémon growled playfully when Calem laughed lightly and started to pet him. Serena giggled at the scene before going into her room and getting ready for bed, Saturday would be a busy day for them.
