Sparks Fly (reupload)

The Airport

"I still can't believe they're gone, though," a young blonde girl pouted. "They were amazing."

The girl's older brother, who was also blonde, squeezed her hand gently. "It'll be all right, Bonnie. They told me we can contact them whenever we wanted, and vice versa."

"What?! And you didn't tell me?!"

Several people in the airport stared at the two. Clemont laughed nervously, silently encouraging them to go back to what they were doing. "I thought Serena told you!" he hissed through clenched teeth.

"No," Bonnie sighed, looking down at the floor. "Sorry for embarrassing you."

"Oh, no- Bonnie, I didn't mean to make you feel-"

Bonnie giggled. "Clemont, calm down! You didn't hurt me at all! I'm just sad that they're gone."

Clemont exhaled out of relief. Considering how much had happened during his traveling days with Ash Ketchum, a trainer Clemont's age all the way from Kanto, Clemont tried to avoid drama at all costs. What with the rise and fall of Team Flare, multiple kidnappings, and countless battles scoured across their journeys, it was odd that Clemont and Bonnie both missed the chaos. Especially strange in that one of the kidnappings  included a former Team Flare member, Xerosic, attempting to brainwash Clemont.

The siblings walked through the airport, trying to find a clear exit among the crowded building. "They were kinda like our family, y'know?" Bonnie continued. "Serena was really nice. And pretty!"

Clemont nodded politely. "Yeah."

"And Ash! He was strong and caring, and practically the leader of the group! Or even the dad!" she paused. "That would make Serena the mom, then. And then our Pokémon would be... well, themselves, and I'd be the cute daughter everyone loves!"

"What would I be, then?" Clemont wasn't sure if he was asking it to be nice to his sister, or to fill the gaping hole growing in his heart for reasons he didn't understand.

"The nerdy basket case."

Clemont facepalmed. Hard.

"What? I was joking!" Bonnie defended. "You're the... uh..."

As Bonnie was trying to think of Clemont's role in the "family", the boy thought of what happened mere moments ago.

"Ash, wait!" a young girl with short, brown hair called. She ran up the escalator in an excited manner, confusing nearly everyone around her.

Including Clemont. 'What's Serena doing?' Clemont thought worriedly.

Bonnie, on the other hand, could tell what was going to happen.

Observing the situation for a few more seconds, Clemont realized that Serena was now leaning upwards, catching him off-guard. He didn't have to wonder why she was running anymore.

He didn't know why, but he felt his heart break into a million pieces as Serena lowered back down onto the escalator. She bowed respectfully, but he couldn't hear what she was saying as she left to board a plane heading to Hoenn. All he could hear was white noise then, and white noise now.

Why did he feel like that? He didn't feel anything for Serena other than a feeling of friendship. And he wasn't upset in her taste. Actually, he found it to be rather-

"Ash's brother-in-law?" Bonnie suggested. "I mean, it doesn't make that much sense. And that'd make you the uncle, which no offense, but you don't seem like the fun uncle."

"Gee, thanks," Clemont groaned.

"Okay, okay, what I said was mean. But hey! Maybe we can get Korrina in on this! She can be the aunt," Bonnie grinned, looking directly at Clemont. She winked at him without a hint of subtlety, before frowning again. "Clemont, this is the part where you protest and ask me to not say those things again, but I ignore you and do it anyways. What gives?"

Clemont was spacing out again. He tried to imagine himself as Serena's husband, to see if that's why he felt the way he did. But he could barely muster an image of that. "Uh, sorry, my mind was just trying to decide what to program into Clembot," he lied.

Bonnie grinned. "There's my nerdy basket case."

The boy laughed earnestly. At least amidst his personal chaos, some things stayed the same. "Come on, Bonnie," he said, pointing at the exit. "Let's get out of here."

"Yeah, let's go home!"

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The two ate dinner while discussing their plans, since their journeys were completed.

Hours later, Clemont was on his bed, mentally exhausted from today's events. He carefully took off his glasses and wondered for the millionth time that day, 'Why did she do it?'

It felt unreal, like a bad dream or a hallucination of some sorts. Clemont sighed and got into bed, too exhausted to change out of his blue jumpsuit, or to even care about wearing it.

"Why...?" he murmured before drifting off into a peaceful sleep.