I'm Stuck in a House Full of Girls!

Chapter 21: Emotions

"G-Gardenia?" Lucas was surprised when he realized that it was the Gardevoir's voice.

"I'm glad, you still remember me…" She replied in a soft tone.

"…Okay?"

"Umm… where are you?" Gardenia suddenly asked.

"At my house at Sinnoh..."

"Where exactly?"

"The outskirts from Sandgem Town. Why do you ask?" Lucas was clueless why is she asking him that.

"…"

"Hello? You still there?" Lucas called out since she hasn't replied yet. He stared at his cellphone, but the call hasn't been disconnected.

"Gardenia?" He asked again for one last time before he was going to disconnect.

"…" However, there wasn't a reply at all.

When Lucas was about to end the call…

"Huh?" He felt a weird presence emitting inside the room; he quickly turned towards the center of the room where the futons are placed as a flash of light suddenly appeared.

The flash of light suddenly grew as it formed into a tall silhouette as another flash illuminated the whole room and blinded Lucas, forcing him to block the flash with his hands and close his eyes.

When the bright flash finally ended, Lucas slowly peeked and was shocked by what he saw.

"Gardenia?" The tall, psychic type pokemon appeared in front of him, holding a cellphone on one hand and a folded piece of paper on the other. But what surprised him most is her facial expression; tears were flowing from her eyes.

"W-what's wrong?" Lucas slowly approached the psychic-type; but just after his step towards her, she quickly darted from her position which caught him off guard and lunged against his chest, causing the two of them to fall on the floor with her now on top of him.

"Hey! What's wrong with you?!" The Lucario was surprised by her strange behavior and tried to lift himself up in a sitting position.

"P-please… Can we stay in this position for a while?" She replied softly as she raised her face from his chest and looked at his face; tears were continuously flowing from her eyes.

After about a half minute later, she finally got herself off him and wiped her eyes and tried to make a smile at him.

"What happened?" He asked as she responded by raising her hand where she held a piece of paper and and showed it to him as he slowly took it from her hands.

"What's this?" He stared at it for a bit before he opened it.

"It's a letter… from my brother." She replied softly as Lucas's eyes widened in surprise to hear that Gallade's name that tried to burn down their house and almost killed Umber.

He was immediately curious in finding out the contents in this letter that may explain everything to him as he read the contents out loud.

"I'm writing this letter for you to know that this may be last time you'll hear from me. The truth is I've been keeping a secret from you. I owe a certain someone a great deal that I needed to repay him very soon or else, your life will be in danger. I'm sorry that our noodle shop is losing a lot of income lately, that's because I'm secretly getting some of our earnings to pay for my debt. I couldn't tell this to you sooner since I don't want you to be involved and share my problem.

To pay back the last of my debt, I had to become close with Esper so I can gain her and her family's trust, but ultimately, I had to destroy her family.