Her shoulders sagged and she whispered, "Nah, it's nothing. Nothing you need to worry about, anyways..."
"Please, Serena?" His brown eyes almost immediately melted her heart, and she couldn't take how sad he looked.
"It's because..." Her voice trailed off.
"...because what? Serena, please tell me!" Ash begged her, and Serena couldn't resist him.
"Don't laugh at me, okay?"
"I won't."
"Alright," Serena said, "It's because..."
Here's the moment of truth...
"...I really, really wanted to dance with you today. But the dance ended before I got a chance." She let out a shuddering breath as Ash smiled kindly.
Nooo! Stupid Serena! Why couldn't you phrase that right? He's gonna laugh, I just know it...
"Well, why didn't you just tell me that in the first place? I mean, I can always dance with you, right?"
Serena flushed. He...didn't laugh? And...he wanted to dance with me? Her lips curved into a small, hesitant smile.
"So, do you know where your tablet is?" Serena, confused, reached into the large pocket of her red jacket and pulled out the fake-leather bound tablet.
"Why? I mean, what are you going to do with it?" Ash reached over and took the tablet, swiping to the music application.
"For music! Here, I'm sure there's gotta be some dance music in there, right?" He handed Serena back her tablet, and she immediately looked through all of her playlists. She finally found one featuring waltz music. She flushed, and hoped Ash didn't notice.
The waltz? That's a lot closer than I expected...at least it's not a tango.
"H-here," she said, stumbling over her words. Ash looked at the tablet and noted the kind of dance on the playlist. "Okay! We'll...waltz together!" Serena detected a hint of nervousness in his posture and voice. "Just wondering, Ash, but you look a lot more nervous now that I think about it."
Ash scratched his cheek, laughing nervously. "Well, the truth is, I'm sorta rubbish at waltzing, or rather dancing in particular. You know, right?" Serena laughed, remembering the exasperated look on Miette's face as Ash kept stepping on her toes. She smiled softly, remembering her own advice to him.
"Just follow your own rhythm, not Tierno's!"
Perhaps she should follow her own advice now.
"But you have your own rhythm, one that you use during battle. And you're not rubbish at that, so..." Serena paused and thought for a moment, before an idea popped into her head.
"I know! How about we do a Pokemon battle to the music?"
Ash stared slightly agape. "You...want to do a battle against me?"
To be truthful, that was the least likely thing he thought she would suggest. But she nodded, and said, "Braixen, wanna help me out here?" Seeing that she was actually serious about her suggestion, he nodded as well and pulled out Greninja.
"Greninja, come on out!"
Greninja cried out and, seeing Braixen on the other side of the battlefield, did a double take, obviously shocked that Braixen was even battling him.
Then he noticed the slightly desperate look on Serena's face, before looking back at Braixen.
"Greninja gren gren?" [Translation: What is your trainer doing?]
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Amourshipping One-Shots
Random*cover by randomnessblob* Once Upon A Time... A weirdo has decided to make a book.But,he had too much ideas and they wouldn't last long,so he decided to add all his ideas into one book,just for the sake of entertainment.So enjoy his horrible stories...
