What If (A Mirror Amourshipping Story

Chapter 8

As soon as Serena enters her apartment she drops her backpack on the floor, walks to her bedroom and plummets to her bed with a depressed sigh. Neither she or Ash said a thing to each other or even glanced at each other during the entire trip back home. Brock and Holly were surprisingly mature enough not to say a word during the entire trip and no one even bothered to say a friendly goodbye when they drop Serena off at her apartment first.

In her mind, Serena feels confused She was hoping this special time with Ash might give her some clarity about how she seems to be feeling with him right now with Palermo's offer to go to Sinnoh still in the air. At first,it seemed like things might start to become a little clearer after that moment in the hot tub, but after Brock and Holly locked them in her room with nothing but their swimsuits on and her single bed and even worse she argued with Ash for the first time makes her feel more lost than she ever was before. The image of seeing Ash look so angry and bitter at her while the two of them argue was a side of him she had never seen before and she silently prays she will never see again.

So now her boyfriend of over 5 years is still miles away, and her boss is pretty much demanding that she makes a decision on whether or not to leave Kalos as well, and now she feels a rift between herself in the one person she feels closest to with Calem gone. Nothing feels right for the snarky honey blonde woman anymore.

After about an hour of mentally moping about her troubles. She finally stands up and walks over to the kitchen for a glass of juice. She takes a brief sip of her drink quietly as she sits at the kitchen counter laying her head against her crossed elbows. She sits there and does nothing apart from taking a couple sips juice here and there until she suddenly catches her eye on the open airplane ticket to Kanto. She remembers that she can use any time and in the three months that Calem has been gone she still hasn't used it. With Palermo's deadline and her confusing thoughts of Ash on her mind, she considers that out of everything she's done to consider this possibility she hasn't gone to visit Calem.

After giving it more thought, she thinks maybe some time with her boyfriend that she misses so much might clear things up about Sinnoh and her shy, raven-haired friend. After a couple seconds of thinking, she takes out her phone, looks up the next flight, grabs her backpack, calls Lillie to tell her that she's going to Kanto and leaves her apartment to catch a taxi to take her to the Kalos Airport.

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After an 8-hour flight, Serena takes a cab to Cerulean City. By the time she makes it to where Calem's apartment building is, it's late at night and no one replies when she rings the bell to his apartment. With a pout, she sits on the tall stairway to the building and waits for Calem, figuring he's out somewhere.

After waiting for about half an hour, she hears the sound of a man and a woman laughing. She looks up to see Calem and a woman with brown eyes and short brown-hair walking towards the apartment building with their arms around their shoulders. The woman appears to have had a little too much to drink as she and Calem talk and laugh like drunk idiots. They make it to the staircase before Calem looks up and sees Serena sitting there and staring at him.

"Serena!" he says in alarm as he quickly let's go of the brown-haired woman. The woman panics as she suddenly loses her balance and comedically falls down the steps. Serena and Calem turn to her in alarm as they run over to her and carry her inside to Calem's apartment. Calem rushes over to the kitchen, finds an ice bag and gently puts on the brown-haired woman's forehead which is already swelling. Calem sighs before he turns to Serena who gives him a sad look.

"Bianca here is just a friend from the Johto side of the team," he quickly explains. "She lives in the apartment next door to me and we just went out for drinks with the rest of the team after work and I was just helping her home."