Pokémon High / Amourshipping

Chapter Ninteen - Fight for Love

Ash's P.O.V.

When I got home from the pizza with Serena, all I could think about was Calem. Was he mad at me? Was he mad at Serena? Or maybe he was just in a funky mood.

     Diesel had fallen asleep in my lap, curled up in a yellow little ball. I didn't want to get up from my bed because it would wake him up, and I would rather be alone with my thoughts for now.

     The nights have been coming sooner and sooner since fall started, so now it was getting dark around 7.

    Crickets chirped outside my window, so I went to look out and see what was going on outside. I carefully picked diesel up, placing him Down on the bed. Like that scene in Imdiana Jones with the golden statue. Thankfully, he didn't wake up.

     To the left of my house I saw kids trying to catch fireflies in jars. To the right I saw a lot of my friends houses. They all had their room lights on, but I couldn't help but stare at Serena's room. I wondered what she was doing, watching Tv? Playing video games? Maybe she was also thinking about the Calem incident.

There was a quiet knock at my door, "Ash, are you ok? You haven't been down except for diner." My mom asked sympathetically.

"Yea mom, just doing homework." I lied.

"Okay, good job!" My mom said, going. Back downstairs.

     Once again alone, I decided to go on my phone. The first five notifications were all texts from Meitte. She's nice and all, but she's way too over attached. I've never been with her outside of school, but she's spamming me messages asking me to hang out. I just usually shake her off and say I can't. I scroll past her messages, hoping to see one from Serena, but no. Only stupid game notifications. So I decided to man up.

"Hey Serena, what was up with Calem today?" I sent it.

     A few minutes went by and I thought that she didn't read it, was ignoring me, or was busy, but no. I giant wall of text appeared after that time. Here we go.

"Well Calem has been my friend for a few years now, ever since he moved here. He's always been really overprotective about guys talking to me for some reason. I used to think that maybe it was because I was his first friend here, but now I think he kinda has a crush on me."

     After reading that message it all hit me. Was he trying to keep me away from Serena out of jealousy? I can't think of any other explanation, considering how good of friends we were for the first few weeks of school. We got along like a house on fire. Now that Serena was between us though. You know what they say...

"You gotta fight for love."