Twins of kalos (5th place in Adventure) PWA 2018

Chapter 51: Shards*

Aside the emotions of Fear, Devotion, Regret, Anger, Determination, Courage, Wisdom, Disgust, Curiosity, Affection, and Hope I had already seen since being asleep, I faced the actual emotion that ruined me all together

Sophia sat on her bed next to Serena, stroking her hair as she laid on my lap, crying through the screaming and covering her ears to ignore the words. I sat there listening to it all... I wanted to comfort Serena in the best of my ability, so covering my ears wasn't a option

"Please, I need you to believe me!" Dad begged to mom in the living room "I've been working this whole time!"

"Don't give me that bull crap again! That's what you always say! I don't want to hear it anymore! It's already been done!" Mom shouted, rambling through things. I looked over at our luggage fully packed for the new home mom said grandma left for us before she passed. It wasn't until a few days later that we were at the airport, waiting for our flight to greet us and allow us to get on board

"The Valor airlines would like to thank you for your patients. Would all passengers heading to the hoenn region please step into gate 23" Sinnoh doesn't have a direct flight to Kalos, so multiple planes had to be taken to head there. Serena tugged on mom's skirt

"Mama... is dad coming?" Mom didn't say anything, probably feeling sad about this whole divorce thing. She always tried to keep it in, but she always fail on showing that she was fine. Serena frowned and turned to me "why did dad do this..?" She started crying "why did this have to happen..?" She looked back at me when I stepped away. Mom noticed too "Sophia-chan..?" I shook my head

"I'm not going..." mom stood up

"Baby, I know how you feel-" she reached to take my shoulders, but I brushed her away "Sophia!"

"I'm not... going..." I stepped away again "I'm... going back... to dad" I bowed and left the airport just like that. At the time, I expected mom to chase after me, but it was Serena who stopped her

"She wants to go... she's stronger than we are" she looked down "she never ask for anything... so let her... mommy" mom looked devastated and watched me leave alone. I bit my lip and cried. Sophia eventually made it to the hospital and after his shock of seeing me, I said

"I'm... sorry... for" she looked down "never telling them the truth... about... you" even if I didn't know it at the time, it was because of me that I didn't try hard enough to keep the family together. That was my first time regretting anything

I can feel Xerneas staring down at me as I sat on the floor, crying to myself "I wish I had done something before... dad wouldn't have been gone" He helped me on my feet

"He wouldn't want to see you like this" he took my hands holding all the shards and put them together, later pushing my hand towards my chest to feel oddly warm inside "I am the Pokémon of life... I wanted to tell you all along that it's alright now. He never blamed you" my eyes widened "you don't have to live with this regret anymore"

"All this was just to tell me that?" I sobbed "you idiot..." I keep thinking it's Calem, but it's not. He only chuckled

"How about one last dance before you wake up?" He bowed, offering his hand "remember... head to the lake at that time... it's the only time you can go" I nodded and freely took his hand to dance the night away in Swana lake