CHAPTER 6: Apologies from mother to daughter

A week had passed since the incident of the kiss between Queen Serperior's daughter and Oshawott, that made break them away and without possibility to see each other by orders of the queen. The two were very sad by the abrupt separation. They couldn't longer approach each other anymore.

Serperior didn't want that her daughter was with Oshawott, she had her reasons. She had to punish Snivy for having a romance with him, she hoped to have made the correct thing to her; but, in second thought, she thought that she was very harsh with Snivy about the kiss. The Regal Pokémon thought that maybe the rage took hold of her for a moment, she even gave a slap with a vine to her own daughter, why would she do that if she was her mother who loved her so much since she was born a long time ago? Serperior should apologize to her; besides, after having spent a week, she thought that the punishment of a month without play was a little bit exaggerated, she believed that her daughter had learnt the lesson after all, thinking she wouldn't get together with Oshawott again.

Queen Serperior went to her daughter's house and knocked the door, saying:

"My dear, could you open the door for a moment?"

"I don't want to." Snivy was still angry with her mother.

"Please, Snivy, I want to talk with you for a moment. I want to apologize for being very harsh with you."

Nothing was heard after what she said, but she later heard Snivy open the door to talk.

"What do you want?"

"My dear, forgive me for being so harsh with you for seeing you kissing Oshawott in that moment. I didn't know how to react when I saw that, the rage took completely hold of me. Could you forgive me?"

Snivy was undecided. She asked straight to her mother:

"Will you lemme return with Oshawott?"

"Dear, well… I can't allow it."

"Why?"

"It's a very difficult subject to explain now, but…"

The Grass Snake Pokémon closed the door. Her mother tried to reason her.

"Honey, please," she said almost begging," try to understand. I can't allow it, but at least I'll let you play again, I am going to remove the punishment from now on. Now you can play with your friend Deerling without restrictions."

Snivy continued silent in her little house.

"My dear," saying in a sad tone, "I do it mainly because I love you so much. I'm really sorry for having slapped with my vines," wanting to cry, "Please, forgive your mother, I will not be angry at you anymore."

The little grass type continued undecided, but after hearing her mother about to cry, it made her feel guilty. She didn't want to see her mom sad like that. Snivy loved her so much like she does to her beloved daughter. She continued upset for not being able to get together with her boyfriend Oshawott, but she thought that she had to settle with what Serperior said. Snivy exited from her house and said:

"I accept your apologies, mom. Don't be sad again, okay?"

With tears in her eyes. Queen Serperior took her daughter with her vines and approached to her to give her a fond hug.

"Oh, thank you, my dear daughter! I thank you so much!"

"Don't cry, mom, don't cry."

After the hug, Serperior released Snivy and said:

"Now you can play freely."

"Thanks, mom. See you later."

"See you soon, my dear."

And Snivy ran to see her friend Deeling, who hadn't seen her in a whole week. Her mother was happy for having make peace with her daughter. At least that made her happy. Now she had to think on what to do about the engagement of her daughter with Oshawott. She had a lot of time to think about it seriously. She went to her chamber to continue with her tasks.

Snivy, meanwhile, went to see her friend Deerling, since a long time that she didn't see her. After arriving, the deer said:

"Oh, Snivy! Hi! What a joy! Long time no see!"

"Yeah, that week was endless for me."

"What happened? Why didn't you want to play with me for a week?"

"Well… I don't know how to explain it."

"Is it complicated?"

"Yeah, you see, my mother didn't let me go to play for a week because… uh…"

"Yes?"

"This… do you remember that I had a kind of… secret admirer that he liked me, the one who you called him lucky that time?"

"Yeah, I remember that. What's wrong?"

"It turns out that that lucky guy it was nothing more and nothing less that… my Pal Oshawott."

"WHAAAAAAAT?!"

It was difficult to tell the truth in front of her, Snivy thought. She thought that her friend would be surprised by the revelation, but never too much to be truth.

"So your boyfriend was Oshawott who saved along the others and with you the PokéPark?!"

"Deerling, don't yell. Anyone can hear this."

"Okay…" she said lowering her voice.

The grass snake gave a loud sigh before continuing talking.

"Yes, I have a romance with Oshawott who accompanied me to save PokéPark, the same one."

"H-h-h-how that happened?"

"I told you that time that we had a sleepover in our houses so we can understand better, don't you remember?"

"Not so much, what happened?"

"Well, it turns out that Oshawott fell in love with me without me knowing. I realized it after he gave me a lot of flowers in his attempt to tell me what he felt for me."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I didn't know what to say to him in that moment. Until I felt something inside me that made me feel very strange, as if I wanted to be with him or something like that. After he confessed his feeling to me, it took me another day to say to him that I love him as well."

"Oh! What a cute love story! Snivy and Oshawott, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

Snivy felt embarrassed by the things that her friend said. Now she knew everything. The deer continued talking:

"Well, what have to do with not being able to go to play for a week?"

"It turns out that… my mom… saw us kissing each other without not noticing."

"Seriously?"

"Yeah, afterwards she called the Bisharp patrol and broke us away, saying that I wouldn't see Oshawott again, and grounded me for a month in passing, but she reduced it later to a week."

"I see… And why your mother separated you two?"

"I don't have idea either."

"Maybe Serperior doesn't approve your love with Oshawott?"

"Hmm… it could be, I'm not so sure. I have to know the reason of this."

"And what happened to Oshawott?"

"He's not allowed to enter the Arbor Area after the incident."

"Really? Oh, that's so sad!"

"Yeah, I won't be able to see Oshawott for I don't know how much time. I felt lonely without him."

Deerling saw Snivy sad, for the first time she looked like that with a Pokémon that don't be an acquaintance of the Arbor Area. She tried to cheer her up.

"Come on, Snivy, cheer up. At least you can play with me, that's something."

"Yeah…"

"Maybe in the future your mother changes her mind and let you be with Oshawott."

"I could be… Ah! Just in case, don't tell the other that I have a romance with Oshawott, okay?"

"Your secret is saved with me."

"Thank you, Deerling."

"Do you want to play?"

"Yeah, since a long time that I don't do that."

And the two played all day, at least Snivy was happy to play again with her friend.

Days had passed and Oshawott and Snivy wasn't allowed to get together again yet. Each day that passed it was a day without giving love to each other. They missed each other so much to the utmost. All the time they thought on each other, they couldn't stop their head in peace by thinking it so much. The days were lonely and the nights were cold without they being next each other. Is that really the end of that love relationship for both? It seemed that what remained to do is forget their love for each other forever.