Hey guys, Jeff here.
I bring you all the second chapter of this Amourshipping story.
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After they all finished packing and tidying up in their rooms, the gang headed down to the lobby and into the cafeteria to get breakfast. Not surprisingly, Ash rushed towards the cafeteria and left Serena, Clemont and Bonnie to walk there at a much slower pace down the hallway leading towards the lobby; but then they stopped for a moment.
"Serena, you have to tell us everything, okay?" Bonnie whispered to Serena as she tapped Serena's arm to check if she was listening to her or not.
"Yeah, I think we have something to discuss…" Clemont continued on the conversation, as he suspects that somethings up – especially with Bonnie's amusing and unusual behaviour since Serena's last Pokémon Showcase and Miette leaving them once more.
"Fine, I like Ash, okay? I mean, I love Ash. I have passed the crush stage and now in a stage where I truly love him." Serena mumbled out words from her mouth as she was filled with embarrassment, which received a shocked and surprised faces from Clemont and Bonnie.
"That was all we needed. You were easy to read after all." Clemont said in a teasing manner.
"What do you mean?" Serena asked Clemont, confused on what he just said.
"Well, we both already knew that you had a crush on Ash in the first place." Clemont said which received a shocked and surprised look from Serena.
"I heard your conversation with Miette the other day. Miette teased you that she will take Ash away if you don't make a move, am I right?" Bonnie suggested whilst displaying a grin in her face.
"Yeah, you're right. That's why I need him to see what is going on, what my feelings for him are." Serena mentioned, now remembering what had happened yesterday between her and Miette – that horrible memory that she cannot remove from her mind.
"That's going to be hard." Clemont suggested which received a confused look from Serena.
"Why?" Serena questioned Clemont's suggestion.
"You'll see." Bonnie responded with a cheeky grin on her face.
After this conversation has finished, they continued to make way to the lobby via walking down endless corridors – well, that's what Serena felt it was. When they had arrived, they found a crowded lobby – as trainers were scattered throughout the whole room; but they were all looking for Ash. After a few minutes wandering about and looking for Ash, they found him already started eating breakfast without them, which didn't surprise them at all; but what surprised them the most is when they saw the food was already laid out on the table – which Ash had kindly done for his travelling companions.
"Hey guys, over here!" Ash yelled to grab Serena, Clemont and Bonnie's attention from the edge of the lobby. He was pointing out that everything is done for them – by showing the laid out food on the table – and the only thing they needed to get out was the Pokémon food.
"Wow, Ash. I didn't expect you to take charge of food today." Clemont said as he complimented Ash for his good deeds that he has done. "Well, I'd better get out the Pokémon food."
"Whoa, this looks delicious!" Bonnie screamed with joy as she admired the warm, scrumptious, delicious delicacy that is presented in front of her – pancakes topped with syrup and bacon.
"Come on out, everyone!" Ash, Serena, and Clemont said simultaneously as they all ordered their Pokémon to make an appearance and emerge from their Pokéballs.
At that point, everyone has come out and all off the Pokémon looked up at their trainers, anticipating the food that they were about to be given. Clemont then came up and presented them some bowls that their Pokémon food is going to be in. They were excited to finally have breakfast, especially Serena's Braixen and Pancham from their outstanding performance they did yesterday. Surprisingly, Pikachu didn't want the Pokémon food and instead climbed up onto the table and grabbed hold of the ketchup that was on the table, and started to eat the ketchup – which received shocked looks from Serena, Clemont, Bonnie and every single one of their Pokémon.
"Why is Pikachu eating the ketchup?" Serena asked, confused about what is going on in front of them.
"Well, you see, Pikachu likes ketchup. I mean, really likes it. So when he sees one, he just gets excited and starts eating it." Ash explained as to what the whole gang had just witnessed.
"Just how I like you too, Ash." Serena mumbled and was overheard by Clemont and Bonnie – which made them giggle a bit – but obviously not Ash.
"Eh, what was that?" Ash asked as he faced to turn Serena, confused on what she had just said.
"It wasn't important." Serena answered almost instantly to remove the awkwardness of the situation; but she saw Clemont and Bonnie exchange with an 'I-see-what-you-did-there' look between one another and then to Serena.
"So, shall we eat?" Ash added, already forgotten on what just happened – as he was entirely focused on the food, as he was starving.
"Okay." Serena, Clemont and Bonnie said simultaneously in complete unison in response to Ash's suggestion.
"I'll sit with Bonnie for today. You don't mind, both of you?" Clemont said with a teasing trait in his voice, which Serena spotted. She knew that this was all their idea to get her and Ash as close to as possible to each other.
"That's fine by me." Ash replied with glee, not knowing what was really going on.
"Um… okay…" Serena stuttered words out of her mouth as she developed a slight blush, which Clemont and Bonnie spotted. She couldn't keep hold of herself – she was excited that she was going to sit near her crush, but she was also nervous that Clemont and Bonnie are going to see and observe the whole scenario.
At that point, the gang took their places on the table and sat on their seats. Clemont and Bonnie were on one side of the table, and Ash and Serena were on the other. As they sat down and started to eat their food, they overlooked their Pokémon eating beside them on the floor and admired Pikachu still eating the ketchup – which was almost finished. They turned their attention to finally eating their long awaited breakfast and talked about what they were going to do next. They discussed and planned their routes towards Ash's next gym battle and Serena's next Pokémon Showcase; but also they talked about what had happened so far…
"So, Serena, your next showcase went perfectly yesterday." Ash mentioned, remembering Serena's victory yesterday. "I mean, Miette is good and all, but your performance was the best."
"You really think so, Ash?" Serena responded with awe and admiration. She had just received a compliment from Ash – out of all the people she would have thought of.
"Yeah, and the way you didn't give up when your hem got torn truly inspired me." Clemont added as he tapped Bonnie's leg from underneath the table – giving her a signal of some sort as he predicts that something interesting is going to happen.
"You know, it really looked great on you." Ash said as she complimented Serena even more.
"Oh… thank you, Ash…" Serena said as she trailed off to something that is inaudible, even to Clemont and Bonnie – who she knew overhears everything.
At that point, she noticed how Bonnie had 'accidently' dropped her fork and crawled underneath the table to find it; however she noticed Bonnie was directly underneath the empty space where Ash and Serena weren't sitting. She asked Serena to hold her hand out and Serena just followed Bonnie's lead – not knowing where this is leading – and then felt Ash's hand touch her's, which made her blush more than ever; but surprisingly Ash didn't notice this happening until a few seconds later and Serena just cherished that wonderful few seconds on holding Ash's hand.
"Found it!" Bonnie said as she held up her fork and showing it to everyone whilst she winked at her big brother beside her.
"Hey Serena, was that your hand just now?" Ash asked as he turned to face Serena, who had turned away from looking at Ash as she was trying to hide her blush.
"No… that was nothing…" Serena said in a squeaky voice. She was filled with embarrassment from that cheeky hand hold, but also she was filled with delight as she held her crush's hand.
"Oh, okay." Ash said, as he forgot about what just happened and started on finishing his breakfast.
"Oh, I've finished, so I'm going to get seconds. I'll be back." Ash mentioned which made the whole gang sigh, as this is Ash that they were talking about – always hungry for food.
"Clemont and Bonnie, care to explain yourselves?" Serena said as she looked at the two blonde siblings, who were still eating their breakfast, right after Ash left the table with a 'What-have-you-done' look.
"Well, it is to prove about what we talked about earlier." Clemont said in an apologetic tone and Bonnie followed with a nod to show her agreement.
Flashback Starts
(Hallway leading up to the lobby)
"You see Serena, to be honest with you…" Clemont started off as he scratched the back of his head and signalled Bonnie to finish the sentence off.
"…Ash is the most densest trainer ever." Bonnie finished off what her brother was saying.
"I think I agree with you both with that one." Serena added, which made Clemont and Bonnie lean back from this unexpected surprise – they didn't anticipate Serena having the same opinion and theory as them. "I mean, I have displayed loads of hints already, but he still doesn't notice."
"That's true. I have seen your hints already and they are pretty obvious…" Clemont said.
"…but obviously Ash doesn't notice – being the dense trainer he is." Bonnie said as she interrupted what her big brother was about to say, but Clemont knew that he was going to say the same thing anyway, so he lets her off.
Flashback Ends
"So, I just have to give more hints." Serena said gracefully as she noticed Ash coming back from the cafeteria with another plate-load of food.
"What was that about hints?" Ash asked Serena, who was filling up with a red colour on her face.
"Oh, nothing." Serena quickly responded and Ash just continued to sit down and eat his second serving of his breakfast.
'Wow, he is dense, just like what Clemont and Bonnie told me; however that's just one thing that I like about him.' Serena thought on her head. She was filled with thoughts, as she was coming up with ideas of how she would get Ash to notice her, to finally notice her feelings towards him.
Well, that concludes Chapter 2 of Density!
Woah, A LOT of interesting things had just happened... ;)
What is Serena going to do? What has she got in her mind? Will Clemont and Bonnie help her or are there any other helpers? All of these questions will be answered in the next chapter (hopefully)...
Hint: I will be putting some more characters in this story to add some variety and an interesting plot twist, so anticipate for that!
(Guess which character(s) will be appearing in the next chapter on the reviews)
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