Chapter 6: Courage
Serena was never the best at hiding her feeling, she would always blush any time she received any sort of compliment from her crush, even just walking next to him made her red, Ash on the other hand, was a straight up professional, well not really, he never had to try to hide his feeling because he never knew they were there till they were right in front of his face, kissing him goodbye.
He did know how he felt about the kiss, surprised, relieved ,stress, and Saddened all at once, then came the feeling of love, he had always admired her ability to never give up, he now knew where that came from, him, and made him love her even more.
Serena had different feelings about the kiss, anxious and worried right before, but on her way back down, she felt nothing but joy and love, a big part of who she was came from that boy, rejection would have destroyed her. Courage used to be a problem for her, but that's what Ash gave her, courage.
In the morning Ash and Serena were the only ones awake, their plane was a 4:00 flight, and they were a 30 minute walk away, they had already said there goodbyes and packed, but neither of them were moving.
Serena's head laid in ashes shoulder, hugging him, and Ash was hugging her back.
"We have to get up or we'll miss our plane Serena" Ash told her, although he himself didn't rly care, he loved being this close to her, holding her in his arms.
"Okay" Serena responded, solemnly, then she got cheery after an idea popped in her head.
"But, we have to do something first" she said slyly, knowing what ash would do.
"oh yeah, what's that?" Ash asked turning to face her. He had just finished speaking and time seemed to slow down, as their lips met each other, ashes original feelings swarmed him, overwhelming him, but without the sadness, this time she wasn't going anywhere, this time he would be by her side, so he returned the passionate kiss.
Serena only meant to peck him on the lips like a fletching, but she found herself staying, unable to move away, feeling very warm inside, and red outside, to them it seemed like minutes, but in reality it was only 10 short seconds. The two did have to breath, and after they did they almost went right back in, but the alarm rang.
"I guess we have to go" Ash said disappointedly.
And they did, the walk was rather quite as the both had a lot on mind, and were both super tired, Serena had asked Ash to take his gloves off so she could hold his actual hand, they plane they got on wasn't very big and was mostly empty maybe 40 seats, 20 on each side, and maybe half of them unused, Serena had wanted the window seat, and ash of course let her have it.
Serena had wanted to fall sleep and she did laying against his arm with her head resting on his shoulder the armrest in between them was able to pushed back into the seat, it didn't take long for Serena to fall asleep, slowing her dreams to take over. When Ash noticed she had fallen asleep on him, he began to dose off as well, reflecting on his thoughts he fell asleep also.
He woke up in Hoenn with a kiss on the cheek from Serena.
"I'm glad you're here with me this time Ash" Serena spoke quietly, as they were in close proximity, just then the captain came on the speaker.
"Make sure your buckled inn because we are about to land, welcome to Hoenn!" The captain announced
I know I said these were going to be longer, I just felt like it was a perfect place to end, and not I'm typing out extra words just to say how many I had was enough lol.