Amourshipping : Love, Loss & Loyalty

Romance

Awkward was certainly a word to describe the feeling between the two. Enjoyment was another.

Both trainers were supremely awkward around one another that night, not entirely certain of what it was that they were supposed to say to the other person. A fair amount of the date was spent in total silence as they made their way from point A to point B.

But neither of them could even begin to claim that they weren't enjoying themselves. In the unsure sense between them, the two of them were very content with their current situation. They enjoyed being around the other person. They enjoyed just being close to one another. Words weren't something that needed to be used to express that. They probably wouldn't be able to anyway.

So they just enjoyed each others company. There wasn't a need to push that any further. That was all the two of them needed to be content tonight.

The parks that they had taken their evening walk through were empty, dark, brightened by street-lamps, Volbeat and Illumise, and very beautiful. Despite being a dead-end town, this place had some real natural beauty to it. Botanists and floral caretakers did their job here, clearly, with incredible skill and talent. Serena wasn't sure she had seen such a wide range of flowers and other such colorful plant-life. Clearly, Adorea Town took great pride in that.

"Wow..." Serena quietly awed at the beautiful park. "It's so beautiful..."

"Yeah..." Ash replied. He hadn't noticed all that much. He was agreeing because, frankly, while he was fine with the silence between them, he almost felt like he was obligated to speak at this point. Like they had to speak. They had a lot to speak about,

But he didn't push it. That would only make matters worse. Dense as the Kantoean was, he knew that he had to let this come naturally.

"Um... Are you okay?" Serena asked, the soft concern in her voice, as always, present.

"Huh? Y-Yeah, I'm fine." Ash stumbled on his reply, caught off guard by her question, and smiled again to cover it up. "Why'd you ask?"

"You just seem a bit... Off."

"I'm uh... Nervous I guess." Confessed Ash, glancing off to the side as he said so.

"That's not like you." Serena said, with a soft smile. She wasn't used to seeing him as anything other than a dense lunkhead. It was actually almost reassuring to see he had more complexity than battle-eat-sleep-repeat.

"This entire situation isn't like me." Ash chuckled, remembering just how bizarre this entire situation was to him. These feelings he held for the Kalosian girl, and the very nature of this night were all alien to him.

"That's true." Serena agreed, her gentle smile still on her lips. It seemed to deteriorate as she looked at the raven haired trainer in front of her. Part of her felt almost guilty for him even being here. Wouldn't he have... Better things to do? "You know... We don't have to do this, you know..."

"Huh?"

"I - I - This date I mean... I - If you want to... You know, go back.. We can do..."

"...What makes you think I don't want to be here?" Ash asked, worried for a moment he had seemed distant to her, despite not wanting to at all.

"I - I just..." Serena hesitated, not sure if she should go on, but did so. It was too late to back out of the sentence now. "I... I thought you might... Want to do something else... Rather than be here... You just haven't seemed... Like you want to be here..."

Smiling gently, Ash sighed. Leave it to Serena to put herself second and him first, despite him having been the one to even propose this date in the first place. It was like she had a talent for selflessness. "Serena, do you remember what I said when we got trapped in that ravine?"