Sinnoh Journey

Chapter 15 - A Friendly Reunion?

Upon reaching Hearthome City, Kyra began fearing the worst. What if Nate and Willow took what she had said earlier too personally and they hadn't gone to meet her in Hearthome City at all? She knew it was probably best to call them, but at the same time, she didn't want to have to go through the disappointment of being rejected by her two best friends.

"Kyra, relax, I doubt Nate and Willow will still be mad. They probably weren't even mad to begin with," Lucario said, hoping she would be able to calm Kyra's nerves.

Kyra sighed, "I shouldn't have snapped at them like I did. They were just joking around and I took it the wrong way. I'm a terrible friend," she replied, the more she thought back to what she had said, the more stressed she got.

"You're not a bad friend, I'm sure there was a reason behind why you snapped at them. They're the bad friends if they don't accept your apology, we can see you're really stressed over it which means you still care," Eevee reminded, she too trying to calm down her stressed trainer.

Kyra decided to go into the pokémon centre to get her pokémon seen to, Lucario decided it was best to double check everything was ok after having fought the vast majority of the Wayward Cave's population. Eevee, since she hadn't battled at all, wanted to stay with Kyra and make sure she wasn't planning on doing anything stupid.

Nate and Willow still hadn't made it to Hearthome City, Nurse Joy having apologised that Nate and Willow hadn't stopped in the pokémon centre at all. This only made Kyra panic even more, the fear of losing her two best friends sinking in even further.

Kyra was torn as to what she wanted to do, part of her just wanted to go home and forget she had even started out as a trainer, part of her desperately wanted to find Nate and Willow and apologise for what had happened earlier, then part of her just wanted to find some sort of comfort that would give her some sort of certainty now.

She couldn't bare the thought of being alone in the pokémon centre. As much as Kyra knew she wasn't being stared at, she couldn't help but feel she was being judged for sitting alone, as if the other people in the pokémon centre knew she had potentially ruined her most meaningful friendships.

Once outside, Kyra found a quiet bench broke down, Eevee tried all she could to try and cheer Kyra up, but nothing she could do worked. She was so worked up and stressed that she could barely cope, she hated what she had brought upon herself and didn't know how to make things right.

"Do you mind if I sit down? Sorry if it's a bother," a voice asked. There was a hint of concern behind it, not that Kyra was in a good enough state to notice it.

"Yeah, it's ok. I'll move, don't worry," Kyra replied, quickly trying to wipe her tears away before they were noticed.

"I didn't mean to force you to move. I can see something is troubling you and was wondering if there was anything I could do to help," the woman replied, she could tell that something was deeply troubling Kyra.

Kyra sat back down and let Eevee sit in her lap. "You could say that something's troubling me, but it's nothing too major, it's quite stupid really. I didn't get much sleep last night since I was worrying over something that happened in the morning. I snapped at my two best friends when they were joking around since I felt like they were being rude and I said I'd meet them here this evening but they haven't showed up yet. I feel like an idiot for taking things too seriously and now I've ruined my friendship with them," she explained, still very much upset.

"There's nothing stupid about what happened, all good friends have falling outs, it's natural. Do you mind me asking what you were worrying about last night? That might help you realise why you got so snappy," the woman asked, hoping she would be of help.