Trying To Move On

Chapter 12

"Ash can you come out and eat with me? It's been 3 days..." Serena said quietly after knocking on the door to Ash's temporary room.

She heard no response. Serena sighed sadly and left the hallway. She returned to the kitchen to finish eating her food. After finishing up, she started to wash her dishes. As she was, she thought of a plan to talk to Ash...

After finishing the dishes, she went to the lobby of the hotel and went up the managers desk.

"Hi how can I help you?" The manager politely asked. She was wearing a blue jacket with a white button up blouse underneath. She had a long blue skirt the perfectly matched the jacket. She had long brown hair that was pulled into a pony tail and wore a name tag with the hotels name and logo on it.

"Well my friend locked the door to one of the bedrooms in our suite and I was hoping I could get a key to unlock it." Serena said with a smile.

"Oh well no problem. Just make sure you give it back upon your check out." The manager told her while pulling out a key from her desk.

"Thank you so much!" Serena said happily. She grabbed the key and skipped back up to her suite where Ash was currently sulking.

She walked up to the room and knocked again.

"Ash can I come in?" She said sweetly.

Again no response.

'Fine' Serena thought. 'Have it you way then.' Serena quickly put the key into the door and opened it. Upon entering she quickly closed it and looked around. The room had all of the curtains pulled shut so no light was shining in. There was clothing piled everywhere and the TV was quietly playing some sort of Spanish pokemon battle. She looked to the bed and could barely see Ash laying on his back staring at the ceiling with the blanket pulled all the way up to his nose.

"Ash?" She said quietly.

Ash only continued to lay there and look at the ceiling.

"Ash!" She yelled much louder this time.

Ash lazily turned his head and saw Serena standing there glaring at him.

"Yes?" He questioned in a low voice that was somewhat muffled by the blanket over his mouth.

"Why don't you come outside and spend some time with your pokemon?" She said. She knew he loved just spending days with them to increase their bonds and it might be the best way to bring him outside for a while.

After a moment of thinking he responded. "Who cares? I'm not really up to it." He quietly said.

"The same person who's been trying to get you out of this bed for days. You need a shower." She said sarcastically.

Ash simply rolled in his bed in response. Serena grumpily sighed and grabbed his blanket and threw it aside. Ash glared at her. Once she saw him glaring at her she got mad. He spent days sitting in this room and when she tries to help he's going to get mad?

"Now.... ASH KETCHUM! You will get out of this bed now and you will return to the normal world and to me!" She screamed.

Ash looked at her for a moment before quickly jumping out of bed and ran to the bathroom to escape her wrath. He knew better than to upset Serena and she was beyond upset at this point.

As he ran to the bathroom, Serena gave a sigh of relief that she had finally gotten him out of bed. Even if it was through scaring him. She didn't like having to do that but she gave him no choice but to do that. She heard Ash noisily trying to change his clothing and mask his smell. She picked the blanket back up and set it on the bed as she sat down on one end. She heard the bathroom door opening and found Ash coming out scratching his head and nervously smiling.