Daydream of a model

Thanks to all you people reading my story! I expected way less to still show interest in fanfictions on visorshipping

I hinted another shipping in this chapter, and I wonder why nobody wrote a story about that one in about four years. Maybe I'm going to write another fanfiction dedicated to it in the near future.

I don't own the characters, places or pokemon itself, and I have no intention to make money with this story in any way.

Chapter 2: Sending letters

Nate finally arrived home in Aspertia City after his long journey. As he passed the gym with his bicycle, he saw the gym leader of the town, Cheren, and his childhood friend, Hugh, arguing about whether or not they should assist the police in taking down the last Plasma grunts. In the background, a worried Bianca wondered whose side she should support, ending up deciding not to take part in the discussion at all.

The new champ smiled at seeing them acting like they always did. He locked his bicycle to a floral lattice and went over to them. When Bianca spotted Nate and greeted him loud enough to catch the attention of her friends, the conversation changed, and the Plasma grunts were forgotten, which was quite surprising considering Hugh's obsession.

It was almost sundown when the boy was done catching up with his travel companions and taking all the acknowledgments of his childhood friends who noticed his return. His mother didn't come back from her holiday in Hoenn she started shortly after he left yet, so the boy had the house for himself. He just hoped she would be back before his birthday in two weeks. Admiring the sundown from his window, he remembered the highlights of his adventure.

How he received his Tepig at the lookout... His ride on the Royal Unova... The time he battled at the PWT... Saving Unova from Ghetsis and the evil part of Team Plasma... How he saw the Pokemon league for the first time after passing the Victory Road and challenging it the next week... The day he spent with Rosa...

Nate could just sigh at the thought of her. Why did he just let her go? He regretted leaving her shortly after he won his battle with Elesa when the excitement decreased, but when he searched for her on Route 16 afterward, he found the Marvelous Bridge being blocked, and went away to go on with his journey without entering the Lostlorn Forest where she tried to find a Zorua for her team during that time.

The next he saw of her was in a show of Elesa presenting the new autumn collection on the catwalk. The gym leader convinced Rosa to wear the clothes designed for the youth after she battled her.

As Nate watched his friend looking beautiful in the stunning dresses from the TV of his hotel room in Driftveil City, he had been close to smash his head against the wall for how stupid he felt not to attempt more with her. He could have competed with his Emboar back then!

When he traveled threw Undella Town and wanted to buy some new pokeballs, his eyes got stucked on a nice-looking Greet Mail in the store of the pokemon center. It again reminded him of her.

He didn't hesitate to buy it and wrote down some friendly phrases, but he still didn't dare to express his feelings. "If she answers, I'll write a more personal letter.", he said to himself. He caught one of the Wingulls who were resting on the water and sent it to deliver the Mail to her, knowing she was still wandering somewhere around Nimbasa City.

But he never received an answer. What he didn't know was, that Rosa actually sent the Wingull back with her own Mail, but on the way it got captured by a bunch of Team Plasma grunts heading towards the Abundant Shrine to fulfill their mission and find the legendary Landorus, which they never succeeded in.

He tried to drive his thoughts away from how he lost the wonderful girl, but he couldn't. It was almost midnight when a knocking sound on the other window in the room brought him back to the real world.

He first was afraid of who would come to his house that late, but as he sneaked to the window, he saw the silhouette of an Unfezant behind it. Confused about the strange acting of the apparently female bird pokemon, he opened the window to let her in.

As she calmly flew into the light, Nate noticed a red collar with a bell attached to it at her neck. He saw this collar before, he remembered, at the neck of Rosa's Tranquill. As the image of the pokemon flew through his mind, he hastily ran towards the bird.

There actually was a RSVP Mail tethered to her left leg. The boy didn't waste a second and carefully took the letter away from her. Afterwards he quickly searched for a few Oran Berrys in his bag and placed them on the ground for the bird. Then he sat down at the kitchen table and opened the letter.

Dear Nate,

Congratulations for your latest victory in the pokemon league! I hope you arrived home safely. I just passed Reversal Mountain and visited the beautiful beach of Undella Town. A friend I made lately gifted me the HM2, and now that I can travel to wherever I want, I thought it would be a good opportunity to ask you if you were interested in meeting me again in Nimbasa City tomorrow in the evening and hang out or whatever works for you.

Warmly,

Rosa.

Nate almost forgot to breath during reading her letter. The bird pokemon watched how he laid the letter aside and then took it again to ensure she really wrote these words. He wanted to write her an answer at once, afraid of making another mistake by letting her wait, but by rummaging in his bag, he noticed he was out of mail paper.

The boy yawned, trying to get to the door to head of to the pokemon center, but he was too tired.

"Will you wait here until tomorrow morning, Unfezant?", he asked the bird who had landed on the table by now. She cooed lovely in agreement, so Nate went of for his bed and fell asleep immediately.

On the next day, the new champ hurried to have breakfast and take a shower before he left for the pokemon center. He didn't care for the pouring rain which started in the night.

When he passed the home of Hugh, he saw his friend at the nearby lake with an umbrella, watching over his little sister who was playing with her Liepard in the mud. When he spotted Nate himself, he whispered something in his sister's ear and went over to him.

"You need an umbrella?", Hugh offered friendly and ran back to his house to get him one. Together they walked to the pokemon center.

"So, what do you want to buy, anyway?", Hugh asked inquisitive.

"I just need to get some mail paper.", Nate answered, hoping he wouldn't ask whom he wanted to write. But his friend never noticed when he wanted to keep anything private, and he already had an idea of who the letter was for.

"So you met a nice girl on your journeys?", Hugh concluded.

"How do you know?", Nate wondered surprised, nearly shocked, what made his friend laugh.

"I know you too well, mate!", he remembered, then he asked a question with an a bit more serious voice. "It's not for Iris, is it?", he wanted to know.

Nate frowned. "Are you joking? She's...", he began, but he didn't really know how to end the sentence.

"...seventeen, just like we are. And she is kind of... awesome.", Hugh finished it for him.

"No, I want to write another girl.", the new champ declared. His friend's face lightened up as he heard this. "Then I guess it's my turn.", he determined as they reached the store and grabbed a Greet Mail himself.

When Nate returned home later than he hoped, he didn't waste any time and wrote a few lines, telling how he missed her and that he couldn't wait to meet her again. Afterwards he bound the letter to the leg of Rosa's Unfezant that was still sitting on his windowsill resting from the flight.

"You don't mind flying through the rain, do you?", the boy asked hopefully. The bird pokemon made an accepting sound, thought it wasn't to enthusiastic.