Season Of Magic: *imagines readers coming with pitchforks and yelling "get her to write, get her to write" and shudders* I have a truly valid excuse as to why none of my stories got updated last week! Narrator will voucher for me...right?

Narrator: I have no choice in the matter do I?

Anyways, Rai-chan is truly the one author who I see can possibly pull off the sick excuse to not write. Poor girl was bedridden all of last week due to what the doctors called a respiratory infection. Her side effects were migraines that did not go away, low energy, throat and ear pain plus a stuffy nose.

When she ciaims she's sick, please listen to her. Rai is quite the unhealthy writer.

Season Of Magic: Hey! So what if I'm typically sick 1/4th of the month? I'm still very healthy!

Narrator: Sure, whatever you want to believe...

Disclaimer: Pokemon does not belong to us.

Note: I had the idea in my mind and quickly wrote this as it came along. I wished it would be longer, but seeing as I just recently started getting better I do not want to strain myself.

Narrator: You're forgetting something...

Season Of Magic: What can I possibly be forgetting?

Narrator: *whispers to you* that review you got yesterday.

Season Of Magic: *blushes* Oh, that review.

Second Note: Anonymous reviewer Slapwave curiously asked "Will there be a lemon scene?" and my response to his/her question is this:

Dear Slapwave and any readers expecting lemons; I cannot write a battle scene to save my life, a lemon scene? I'm pretty sure it'll be worse.

I'm keeping this story as close to T as possible. Happy, rainbows, sunshines with the hint of teen drama and romance.

So no, there shall be no squeezing of lemons to make lemonades.

Narrator: *laughs* "there shall be no squeezing of lemons to make lemonades" "Happy, rainbows, sunshines with the hint of teen drama and romance" who the hell talks like this?

Rai you can't possibly expect this story to be happy and sunshines when we've already seen jealousy and stuff like that. There is some drama, I've noticed.

Season Of Magic: That's not drama. I'm leaving all that for the sequel. Yes, a sequel is slowly in the works. Don't rush me here, I'm an unhealthy, slow writer.

Narrator: *smirks* she admitted she's unhealthy. Whoo my night is done.

Italics: thoughts or just an emphasis to a word in a sentence

Bold: Jessica's speech

New chapter starts now, go!

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You're The Reason

by: Season Of Magic

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Dinner had come and gone. Ash had come back to the cabin around midnight with the story that Jesse had gone missing.

"Well not missing per say," he had said as he took off his jacket and tossed it to the couch. "I just didn't see her in the table. Maybe she was sick?"

James had shaken his head, a response that meant no but realized that Ash couldn't see him since they don't share a room anymore. "She would not miss a buffet free food for anything in the world." he uttered sleepily from his room. "Sick or not she would have gone."

"Do you think she's okay?" Ash quickly responded back, footsteps indicating that he was now making his way to his own room.

James shrugged, and once again he felt idiotic because he knew Ash could not see him. "I have no clue," he said. "I'll figure this out tomorrow. Go to sleep!"

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On the sixth day of the cruise, the poke gang awoke to find the sun shining brightly upon them.

A good sign many thought as they got ready for the day ahead of them, but they were about to find out just how wrong they were.

"I'm not arriving late for breakfast yet again because of you. Especially not on a day like this." Ash said as he barged into James's room and pulled the blankets away from him. "Up you go."

James simply curled up into a ball and tried to reach for the blanket that wasn't there. With a thud he fell to the floor. Ash simply laughed.

"Can't I just stay here? Go without me." James mumbled.

Ash shook his head and waved a piece of paper around. "You can't. I found this below the door when I woke up." And he started to read it to him. James, you better not miss breakfast like you missed dinner last night. I want to apologize for the way I acted plus there's a surprise I think you'll like. I'll see you there -Jessica. "Isn't Jessica your sister or something?"

James grabbed a pillow and threw it at Ash. "Out!"

"I'm giving you twenty minutes and that's it," Ash yelled as he walked out. "if you're not ready by then I'm leaving you behind."

James yawned and simply nodded as he went towards the bathroom with a towel and his toothbrush.

He took a shower wondering what could Jessica be up to then ran back to his room and closed the door to get dressed.

Ten minutes later he and Ash were making their way to the elevator when they bumped into Dawn, Jesse and a half asleep May.

Dawn and Jesse waved and May simply stayed where she was. Dawn nudged her and May jumped. "I'm awake!" she yelled out glancing left and right.

Dawn was in hysterics, Ash laughed and James walked up to her and pushed her into the elevator when the doors opened.

May uttered out her thanks and yawned as she leaned in the elevator's wall. James nudged her. "Don't fall asleep." he whispered.

The elevator halted to a stop signaling that they had arrived in the first floor and everyone filed out in an orderly fashion and walked towards the restaurant.

As they entered, they were all in shock but mostly James. The restaurant was decorated in a purple theme. Dark purple curtains covered the windows, purple balloons and even the mantelpiece was both purple and white in color.

A small podium was right in the back set up with a microphone and in the middle was a banner which read Welcome home James.

Jessica, whom was wearing a white shirt, gray skirt seemed pretty normal to him but what caught his eye were the sneakers she was wearing. Jessica seemed like the type of person whom would never wear sneakers but here she was, proving him wrong. She stepped out the podium, taking the microphone with her.

I want to take this moment to say thanks for those of you whom waited so patiently for your food. Our guest of honor has now arrived so please, give him a well received cheer and applause of welcome and she smiled as she beckoned James to come to her side.

James was about to object but Ash pushed him towards her and he had no option but to go up.

Most of you know me as Jessica, the granddaughter of the maker of this fine cruise line. What you do not know is that not only am I that Jessica but I am also younger sister Jessica. For ten years my brother's name has not been heard nor mentioned in my family. He's been thought to be a ghost, someone who everyone knew existed because of his birth certificate but that is not the case any longer and she pointed at James. This is James, my older brother, a man whom has gone through so much in life and yet has never given up. Not only is he my inspiration, but he is the reason why this cruise line even exists. As a young child and the heir to the empire, James was taken to meetings and such which is where Luxury Cruise Lines started. I won't go into details but as his sister, I just want you all to know he's back. I may have acted like a snobbish jerk towards him yesterday but after talking things out with a close friend of his, I realized I was wrong. And she motioned towards one of the back doors, where Jesse walked in and shyly waved to everyone.

Jesse was wearing a long cream dress; her hair was up in an elegant bun, her makeup done simple and was also wearing dark cream colored heels.

"What do you hope to gain by all of this Jessica?" James couldn't help but interrupt and ask his sister.

Jessica placed the microphone down and shrugged. "I do not gain anything except the satisfaction in knowing that I helped in bringing Jessibelle down."

"What does Jessiebelle have to do with anything?" James once again asked curiously.

"She's right there," Jessica responded back and waved towards Jessibelle, whom was already standing up and rushing to the podium. "Oh no Jessibelle I would stay where you are if I were you." Then Jessica grabbed the microphone once again and pointed to Jessibelle. That's Jessibelle everyone. She's the daughter of one of our neighbor's and closest friends. She claims that she is my bothers fiancée but the truth is another. The crowd, which consisted of not only passengers of the cruise but also Jessibelle and her own family all gasped in astonishment. She pointed to Jesse. I want you all to meet Jesslina, my brother's true fiancée. She's the oldest twin from my family's neighbor but when they were fifteen, the youngest twin Jessibelle, lied and told everyone Jesslina had run away from home. The truth however, was that Jessibelle coerced Jesslina until she had no option but to run away. But hey, I want to applaud and congratulate Jessibelle. Her plan did not work and now my brother and Jesse (which is Jesslina's nickname) are closer than ever. They gained experience and life lessons that would not have been taught to them in the society I grew up in. If they want to continue living their lives as they have now, I will value and respect their decision. I also hope that you do as well.

James, Jesse, Ash, May and Dawn were all close to tears now. The speech Jessica was giving got to them.

Jessica sighed and then continued. A person is not a mold you can shape into whatever you want; they have the capacity to slowly shape themselves into the form that they want by living their lives, making mistakes and learning from them. I now have a role model, and that is my big brother James. I really hope you can forgive me. Enjoy the meal everyone. And with that she placed the microphone down.

"Did you really mean it?" James asked his little sister, whom was now also in tears.

"I really am sorry I was a jerk James." She said running towards him, whom simply opened up his arms and embraced her tightly.

James smiled. "I'm just glad you finally understand."

Jesse pushed Ash, Dawn and May towards the table where everyone was waiting for them. "Come on you guys, let's give them privacy. Plus this mushy stuff is really getting to me."

Jessibelle stopped them and glared at them. "Where do you think you're going?" she said, hands at her hips.

Ash laughed. "Last time I checked we are passengers of this boat" and then he smirked. "I do believe we have the right to not answer to people who are not even part of the staff."

May nodded. "So excuse us but we are now going to our table. Our friends are waiting for us and we do not have the time to hang with losers."

Jessibelle stomped and walked away angrily. "You will all pay for this!"

May waved her hands unphased by the threat. "Just let her even try," she said laughing as they all went up to the table. "she's the one whom doesn't know whom she's messing with!"

Zoey nodded and agreed. "Jesse and James are now one of us which means they have over four regions protecting them."

Ash nodded. "We're all in this together."

Jesse was almost in tears now. "Even after all we did to you guys and now you're treating us like this? We do not deserve such kindness."

Dawn smiled and hugged Jesse. "That's all in the past now. All that matters is that we're all friends and we won't let anything happen to you or James."

Mitari nodded and patted an empty seat next to her. "Now come on and sit so we can finally order some food." then she pointed to the seafood section. "I saw one of the waiters bringing out a lobster and man does it look good!"

"They're preparing it for lunch Mitari." Drew couldn't help but break the news to her.

May, Jesse, Dawn and Ash all took their seats and glanced towards the menu.

A couple minutes later James took a seat next to Cheren.

After everyone had decided on what food to get, Jessica walked timidly up to them. "Do you guys mind if I join in too?" she said shuffling her feet together.

Dawn shook her head and pointed at the seat across from her that was empty. "There's a chair with your name on it." she said smiling. "Any family of James that is on his side is a friend of ours."

Jessica blushed and saying her thanks sat down and quickly asked what everyone was getting to eat.

"Misty, Melody, Iris Cheren and I are all getting mashed potatoes." May said pointing at herself and her food comrades.

"Mitari, Ash, Cilan, Bianca, Drew, Jesse and I are getting Belgium Waffles." Dawn said pointing at herself and her friends. "The rest are getting pancakes."

Jessica nodded. "Sign me up to the Belgium Waffle team then." she replied smiling. "Have you tried them with sugar, whipped cream and syrup all together? It's really good."

Dawn nodded excitedly and placed her hand up to high five Jessica, whom had no clue what was going on but in the end caught up and raised one of her hands as well. After they high fived, Dawn placed her hand down and laughed. "I have a feeling we'll all get along just fine."

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Season Of Magic: Due to my sickness expect slow updates to my story, I wrote this as soon as I could but I cannot make promises for any of my other stories.

Narrator: You better leave reviews! Rai worked really hard on this!

Season Of Magic: *sighs and pulls Narrator away* come on Narrator, we need to have a chat...*locks door and starts yelling about not asking for reviews and leaving the readers alone*

See you next time!