Chapter 3

~the next morning~

(James)

"Good morning Corona." I told the sleeping Luxray.

"Five more minutes please!" she moaned as she went back to sleep.

"Okay." I told her as I got up and rubbed her head.

I did my usual morning routine as she groggily got up and went to the living room.

"Hey James, about the mating season thing, be careful. My scent is most likely on you and it may possibly make you a target for males thinking you're me." she told me as she stretched out on the couch.

"I'll be okay, don't worry." I told her as I rubbed her head and gave her a small kiss on the head.

"Bye, I'll be back." I told her as I walked out and closed the door behind me.

(Corona)

"Sweet mother of arceus, did he really do that?" I asked myself, amazed by what he did.

"Did he really kiss me?" I asked myself again.

"He really kissed me!" I squealed as I rolled around on the floor happily.

I repeated those words in my head a hundred times over as I rolled around on the floor happily.

"Hey corona, you okay? Or did he finally screw you senseless and now you can't think straight?" Marin asked, catching me off guard.

"Oh if only!" I told her happily.

"Geez, you didn't even hear me come in?" She asked me, dumbfounded.

"Nope, because I'm too happy!" I told her as I got up and pranced around the room.

"You look like a love struck buneary." She said smugly.

"You're right about the love struck part!" I added as I stopped and jumped onto the couch.

"Geez, not even I'm that love struck." She said as she held her head in her paw.

(James)

"Thank arceus, it's lunch time!" I thought to myself.

The bell rung and everyone picked up their book sacks and walked out the classroom. Adam nudged my to hurry up, I quickly gathered my belongings but a small picture fell from my wallet. The picture was of me and corona, it was Christmas and we took the picture. Only now that I noticed that corona had a thing of mistletoe tied to her tail and she had it over our heads, I chuckled and put the picture back. Adam and I walked out the classroom and down the hallway to the cafeteria, the food here wasn't 5star but it was good.

"So you are bringing corona?" Adam asked me.

"Yep." I told him causally.

"I swear you have a love affiliation with her." He joked as he nudged my arm.

"No wa-" I said to him before I bumped into someone.

I was too busy talking to realize I was about to run into someone.

"I'm sorry." I said as I looked up.

I had ran into a girl, a pretty one at that. She had long brown hair that went below her shoulders and she wore glasses that covered her green eyes.

"No it's my fault, I should of watched where I was going." She said shyly.

"Let me help you up." I said as I lend her a hand, she gladly took it and I pulled her up.

"Thanks, my apologies, my names Sarah." She said politely as she shook my hand.

"James and this is Adam." I told her, pointing to Adam.

"Hi." She said shyly.

"My friend here needs a date to homecoming, mind going with his sorry ass?" Adam said to her as he patted me on my shoulder.

Before I could say anything, she replied.

"Sure, it will make up for my mistake!" She said with a smile and walked off.

"Dude, corona is gonna be pissed." I told Adam.

"She's your Pokemon, not your girlfriend, don't worry about it." He said reassuringly.

"Remember the time you brought a girl to your house and after she left, Marin drenched you?" I reminded him.

"Ah yeah, that... Marin acts like my mom so I guess that's not uncommon, she must of not trust her." He said as he rubbed his head in embarrassment.

"Think about what corona will do to me. Possibly electrocute the shit out of me." I said nervously.

"Don't worry about it, corona has a completely different personality than Marin!" He said reassuringly.

"When it's just me and her, she tends to be a little more affectionate and playful. I don't want to see her mad and she's gonna go through heat soon, a hormonal luxray is not something I'd like to piss off." I told him.

"Too much info bro." He said as he laughed and patted my shoulder.

We went get our lunch and ate outside, we chatted for a bit but I just dazed off into my own thoughts. Would Corona be mad at me? I don't want to make her sad, I hated seeing her that way. I just hoped she wouldn't be too mad at me. I knew she was going to be mad at me but I wondered why she would care so much, she had her own special person apparently. I wonder if she was with him right now and if he was treating her right.

(Corona)

-A couple hours later-

"James~~" I muttered in my half sleep as I laid on James' bed.

"You're day dreaming about him again, you're starting to drool now!" Marin told me.

"I can't help it!" I told her innocently as I got up.

"Geez you're a mess you know that!" She told me with a sigh.

"Whatever, how long until they get back?" I asked her.

"A couple minutes actually, well I'm going." She said as she looked at the digital wall clock.

She left through the backdoor and headed to her home just next door. I patiently waited for my ears to be graced by the sound of James unlocking the door. After what seemed like an hour to me, the door unlocked and in walked James.

"James!" I said happily as I jumped on him, putting my paws on his chest and looking up at him.

"Hey corona, what is it?" He asked me.

"Nothing, just been a little lonely." I told him.

"What about that supposed special guy you talked about?" He asked me as he closed the door and put his book sack down.

"Um yeah, it's complicated." I lied to him, the special guy was him all along but he didn't know.

"Did he break up with you?" He asked me sadly.

"Yeah." I said to play along with the act.

He hugged me closed to his chest and rubbed his head against mine.

"Don't worry, you'll find someone." He told me.

"Thanks." I said to him happily.

"Oh if only he knew, it would make me so much more happy than I am now. I just can't get myself to tell him." I thought to myself.

"Corona I need to tell you something." He told me.

I got worried suddenly and anxious to hear what he was about to say.

"What is it?" I asked him nervously as I sat down.

"Would it be okay if I had a girl for my date to homecoming, you can still come!" He said nervously.

He had a date? It wasn't going to be just the two of us. I felt sad, he had a date, that meant he didn't like me.

"Just because I'm going with her doesn't mean I don't love you corona." He told me, noticing my change in expression.

"Then who do you love more, me or her?" I asked him, my body beginning to shake anxiously.

"Corona, I love you more. It's just a small date, nothing more." He told me.

"Yes, It does mean something!" I blurted out, sick of having to keep my real feelings from him.

"I wanted to go with just you!" I yelled at him.

"Why is it such a problem?" He asked me curiously.

"It's because I love you! I don't want to be forgotten about in the background while you have fun with that girl, I've spent most of my life being abandoned and it just keeps happening again!" I yelled at him nervously, each word like a lump in my throat.

"You love me?" He asked, he laughed casually.

"I love you too." He said back.

"You idiot! I mean I'm in love with you! Even though you are thick headed at times I still do, you're so sweet and kind to me, I just want you to love me the way I love you!" I blurted out, by this point I was a nervous wreck.

"Corona, why didn't you tell me?" He asked me with a shocked expression.

"I've tried to several times! You never got what I meant, that whole "saving myself for a special guy" thing was all a lie, I really meant you!" I explained.

He just looked on in utter shock, like he never even had any clue.

"I guess that means you don't love me." I told him sadly.

"I'm leaving, if you don't love me, I don't know who will." I said as tears swelled up in my eyes and I ran to the backdoor.

(James)

Corona sprinted to the backdoor and I scrambled to get to her, she knocked the door open and ran outside, she jumped clear over the fence before I could tell her to stop.

"Corona! Corona! Man, I've really fucked up now." I yelled.

"Yo James, you okay over there?" I heard someone say, I turned to see Adam and Marin peeking over the fence and looking down at me.

"Corona just ran away, I've fucked up." I told him as I collapsed onto the ground and held my face in my hands.

They both jumped the fence and came up to me.

"Why did she run away?" He asked me.

"I denied her, she said she loved me and I acted like I didn't care, it's all my fault!" I said as I punched the grass.

"She loved you?" He repeated.

"Marin, did you know anything about this?" He asked her.

"Yes, Adam, corona is deeply in love with you. Every day I go to visit she sits and waits for you to come back and she does chores so when you get back, you'd be happy. She never stops talking about you either, you have to do something." She explained.

"She's in her heat and she's in a lot of danger, she might get attacked." She added.

"Then let's go find her!" Adam told me.

"I don't know, she might not even accept an apology anymore." I told them as I began to cry.

"Are you just gonna sit here and never know if she will forgive you or not or are you going to go get her back?" He asked me angrily.

"I don't know!" I yelled at them.

"Even if she is a Pokemon, remember that you raised her, she loves you more than anyone else. She loves you! Decide now, the one that truly loves you or that girl we just met today?" He asked me.

I thought for a second, corona did love me, there wasn't much of a chance that girl liked me anyway. Corona was a little hardheaded and quick to act sometimes but she was really sweet, she was always there for me. She was the only family I had left and I'm not losing her. I pushed myself off the ground and wiped the tears from my eyes.

"Let's go find her!" I told them.