Another time around (a Pokemon fan fiction)

Part 46

After a few hours of walking, May finally decides to talk to me again, even though she hasn't for awhile.
"Look Lauren. I'm sorry. For real this time," she says.
"You already said sorry. You don't have to again," I mutter back.
"Can you just forgive me?" May asks.
"I have," I respond.
"No you haven't. I can't tell," May responds.
"How?" I ask.
"I've known for 5 years now Lauren," May responds.
"Okay good point," I say.
"Can you just forgive me?" May asks.
"Fine," I respond.
"Thanks," she says.
"No problem," I respond still in the same grumpy tone. Why was all of this so old to me? Even though technically May and Dawn were my friends is it okay to really want to run for my life crying? They can say they were the same but I knew they weren't either if it was anything, it was that they were different not me. I still wanted to act like a 7 year old and run away from all of them hoping only half of them will catch up. And do it again until I'm with one person not a stinking tribe of people.
"you know what's funny?" Gold asks.
"What?" I ask really trying not to roll my eyes because nothing was funny to me except the looks on their faces when I left them in the freaking dust of the path.
"You don't have to snap at me," Gold says. I sigh to represent that I'm sorry because if I actually had said it it would ended in another retarded fight for no damn reason.
"So Lauren is like Alpha and leader of May and Dawn and," Gold starts.
"Excuse me I can handle myself without Lauren," May interrupts.
"Nope I'm pretty sure you are like her follower," Crystal says May shoots her daggers.
"And I am like the lead of Crystal and Silvy over here," Gold winks.
"And if you call me that again you will have only one "friend"," Silver says putting quotes on it.
"Silvy," Gold says. Silver quickly storms off in the other direction.
"Man he wasn't kidding was he?" Dawn asks.
"He never is," Crystal says. And the conversation goes on and I remain silent. Just hoping May Dawn and Crystal will have to go back home. Someone's phone rings and I start to pray just hoping to be alone again even though I had just tried to find my friends again.
"Hello," May picks up. "Okay," May says, "Dawn why did you mother call me and not you?" May asks pulling the phone away from her ear. Dawn shrugs. "okay... Why?... I guess--- Okay!... Bye," May says.
"And..." I say.
"For some reason Dawn's mother wants her to come back to sinnoh and my dad called her tell her to tell me professor Birch wants me back to help with some research," May says.
"Oh well have fun," I say silently cheering. They get on their Pokemon and fly away.
"And then there were three," Gold says.
Suddenly I hear someone's voice in my head.

"Lauren!" The familiar voice says. And then I talk.

"What do you want? Haven't you
already taken enough?"

"Enough? The world could never be enough!" They laugh.

"So what? Dream on! Leave yourself unsatisfied!"

"You know Lauren once we were friends and we were happy together!"

"People change! We were something I thought I would hold on to forever! Always looking back at all the time we have had together since we were 13 and just because I'm 20 now and now totally not convinced of the best, doesn't mean I forgave you!" I yell.

It was Gold I was yelling at but what was this? Was this the future? Or just some kind of stupid daydream?

"And that's why I'm here," he goes on.

"To rub my past in my face?" I ask.

"No to do what I should have done so long ago," he says. "I'm really sorry and I want to be friends again,"

"I-I-I..." I start.

Suddenly a melody starts playing in my head. I was singing such a pretty song too.
Say you're sorry that face of an angel comes out just when you need it to
As I paced back and forth all this time cause I honestly believed in you
Holding on the days drag on
Stupid girl, I should've known I should have known

I'm not a princess this ain't a fairytale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet lead her up the stairwell
This ain't Hollywood this is a small town
I was a dreamer before you and you let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse to come around

"Seriously Lauren. It haunts me everyday thinking of you! Thinking of us! And I wanted to ask you to marry me!" Gold pleads on.
"What?!" I ask and the song goes on.

And there you are on your knees
Begging for forgiveness begging for me
Just like I always wanted but I'm so sorry

Cause I'm not your princess this ain't a fairytale
I'm going to find someone someday who might actually treat me well