Amourshipping : Love, Loss & Loyalty

Loneliness

Serena took a moment to just admire the countryside in front of her. Halfway between The Battle Cheateu and Lumiouse City, the route in between was a beautiful grassland she hadn't had time to admire the last few times she had come through here. Always on the move, busy rushing from place to place. It was like seeing the landscape for the first time. It was beautiful, to say the least. Flowers of various color and species were scattered all over the trail, and had attracted a wide variety of Pokemon, like Flabebè, Combee and other peaceful bug and grass type Pokemon. Above her were a crowd of Jumpluff, allowing the wind to carry them wherever it went.

She had been moving back to Lumiose City to see if she could visit Clemont and Bonnie. She had parted ways with them for a few months now, not having seen them in all that time. Clemont had returned to his duties as a Gym Leader, and Bonnie, despite her protests, had had to remain with her brother. It had been a tearful goodbye for both of them, so Serena was looking forward to seeing them again. Although it was an exhausting walk, so she was taking a break now. She had been trying to go further in shorter periods of time, and it had tired her out.

She sighed. Traveling on her own was... Kind of upsetting. She had grown accustomed to traveling with friends for a while now, only now traveling without a group for a few months now. It felt isolated. She didn't like it. She questioned how some people managed to travel on their own. It was kind of lonely.

Especially since Ash had returned to Kanto.

"Here." A can of soda, cold on touch, rested itself on her shoulder. Startled for a brief moment, she quickly took ahold of it.

"Miette, why?..." She asked, annoyed.

"You were daydreaming. Again." Miette grinned, sitting down next to Serena.

Miette, whom had been one of Serena's biggest rivals over the last three years, was now one of Serena's closest friends. Their relationship had improved dramatically since the days Serena traveled with Ash. The two got along much better whenever they had run into one another, with Miette even joining Serena on her trip back to Lumiouse City. The two had not only settled differences they had had, they had accepted those differences, and gotten to know each other past them.

"My daydreaming or not, why'd you feel the need to try and freak me out?" Serena questioned, still kind of annoyed.

"Oh relax." Miette smiled, taking a drink of the can of soda she had acquired for herself. "I could have poured water over your head."

"What a pleasant alternative." Serena said, sarcasm thick in her voice.

"Aww, don't be like that." Miette said in a teasing tone. "I wonder how quickly you'd have gotten over that if I had been Ash."

Serena blushed lightly. "Well... You weren't."

"Oh? Don't tell me you aren't in love with him anymore?" Miette asked, smiling and tilting her head. She had long abandoned her claim to shaving romantic feelings towards Ash, and just cut out any pretences. Now, one of her favourite pass-times was teasing Serena about her very real feelings towards the raven haired Kantoean trainer. "I'm shocked!" She continued. "I though you were much more faithful!" She was deliberately acting overly dramatic, like she was in some sort of movie or drama school.

Serena blushed and sighed. "And I thought you had gotten past the teasing thing for a while."

"You should know me better than that."

"Yeah..."

"Level with me though." Miette said. Her voice dropped all hints of teasing and joking, and she questioned the girl next to her. "Do you still love him?"