Heliotrope

Chapter 4: Coral Rose

Everything was back to normal. We were happy again. Bonnie in Sinnoh, Clemont in Kalos, me in Kanto. My new home. The hair wasn't a problem: there were wigs, extensions and of  there was course time for it to grow back. It knocked the wind out of me a little bit when Ash acted so dramatically about my very short hair and forgot my birthday, but we could look past these things. What's love if you're not willing to work for it?

He came home and hung up his coat, "How are you, babygirl?"

I smiled brightly at him and walked over in my dressing gown and slippers. "Great, you?" I kissed his cheek.

He wrapped his arm around me, "I'm getting a promotion!"

"Oh my gosh, Ash!" I kissed him hard on the lips, full of life and love. Things were truly looking up.

Later we found our joyful selves watching old dvs of films from the sixties on our sofa. With the duvet in the living room and my body so close to his I could hear the thump of his heart beat, we were truly one. "You know what Clemont told me over text, today?" Ash kissed my forehead.

"Oh, what?" I yawned.

"She left for Sinnoh, today. And you wouldn't believe where she's going."

"Where?"

"The Pokémon Summer Camp, where me and Dawn and Brock went!" I heared the name of a dark-haired girl with eyes much nicer than my own and I felt slightly off-edge. There were so many beautiful girls that Ash knew before me - Misty, May, Dawn, Iris... Why, out of everyone, would be choose me? You had Misty who was just the personification of a lush, tropical beach, May with her hell of a chest (unlike me), Dawn with the best legs I'll admit I've ever seen and Iris who had hair like a diverse Rapunzel and gorgeous eyes.

Iris had ended up with Cilan, and they really were a like a fairytale couple. Well, perhaps not quite a fairytale, I thought that Iris was the prince and Cilan was her princess. I chuckled at the thought. But regardless, they were happy together. They made eachother complete. They were the ying to eachother's yang.

And everytime I saw them together, in their perfectionist state of lovey-dovey harmony, I knew that that was what Ash and I could be. We already were. My husband was my everything, I would do anything for him.

I never became the Kalos Queen, I never went out much after the marriage. But that was okay, I was happy in his arms. With his new promotion, things were bound to only get better. In a little while we could even perhaps start to think about starting a family together. A little girl named Bonnie who would just simply have to have Ash's lovely brown eyes. I of course wouldn't mind if we had a boy, either. I just already had a name chosen for a girl.

"And she's becoming a singer!" Ash continued.

"A singer? Since when?" I questioned.

"Well you know how Bonnie is." Ash laughed. "She can never make up her mind! But yeah, she's taking a beginner's music course there, as well as a Pokémon trainers one, obviously."

"Well I'm happy for her." I snuggled up to him. "And I can't wait to hear her sing." My mind flickered back to what she had told me before: We'll always be under the same sky. Young, hoplessly in love and running with a passion that burned brighter than Lumiose Tower. She was very much a younger me. I looked into her eyes and saw myself. But that was what scared me the most.

We stopped speaking for a moment. We just stopped. My eyes met his. I breathed out, half exhaling, half giggling.  The space between us closed, as did our eyes. My heart raced to Jupiter and back like I was a teenage girl, again, only fifteen. This was my husband. My one and only love. My cheeks flushed as the warmth of his soft lips set my entire body ablaze. This was heaven, this was paradise, this was the only path ahead of me, the path leading to the future.

"I love you." I mumbled.

He stroked my cheek. "I love you, too."

When I woke up the next morning, he was still beside me. I really did love the weekends. For this very reason. I streched my arms and sat up in bed, admiring how boyish he looked when he was fast asleep. "Ash Ketchum, you are my moon and all my stars." I whispered mainly to myself, trying to not wake him up, "I fall asleep beside you, always under the same sky."

I made my way downstairs, where I heard the Pidgeys chirping away outside. I grinned like an idiot. This was my home, being with Ash. I grew up in Kalos, where instead of Pidgeys, it was Fletchlings that sang at your windowstills. But still, happiness as strong as this could turn even the sound of nails on a chalkboard into sweet tweeting. Nothing can drag you down when you're so on top of the world, especially when you have somebody lifting you up there.