While You Were Sleeping (An Amourshipping Story)

Chapter 13

Serena woke up to the feeling of something licking her face. She moaned softly and rolled to the other side of her bed, but something with four little paws walked around her head and started licking again. The honey blonde woman moaned again and rolled to the other side, and this time the small figure stood its front paws on her head and leaned its head into her ear.

"Fennekin!"

"Ow!" Serena shouted.

She sat up, rubbing her ear, and turned to see daylight shining through her window. She looked down at Fennekin, who was on the bed looking like it wanted to run.

"Fennekin, that was loud," Serena rebuked. "What do you want?"

Fennekin ran over to where the bed stand was standing next to the bed, where the alarm clock was. Serena rubbed her eyes and looked at the clock before she gasped loudly. It was 10:44 a.m.

"Oh my gosh! My wedding is in sixteen minutes!"

Serena threw the covers away, jumped off the bed, and rushed into the bathroom to take a quick shower. She rushed into drying her hair before running back to the bedroom to put on her wedding dress. Fennekin went over to the entryway to pick up Serena's white shoes with its mouth and ran back to the bedroom to give it to her while she put on the dress. After putting on her shoes, Serena put on her father's coat, and together, she and Fennekin left the apartment with Serena not bothering to lock the door behind her. The honey blonde woman and her Pokemon partner burst through the apartment complex's front entrance and began running down the street to the hospital.

"Of all things to forget last night, it was setting my alarm so that I wouldn't oversleep," Serena whined. "This is what I get for being so focused on stuffing my suitcase with things for the honeymoon."

"Fennekin," Fennekin said.

By the time the two of them made it to the hospital, it was nine minutes past eleven. They went in to find Joy pacing in front of the reception desk, holding a bouquet of pink flowers. When she saw Serena and Fennekin come in, she ran over to her, grabbed her hand, and began leading her down the hall with Fennekin following them.

"Everyone else is waiting," Joy said. "Did you seriously forget about your own wedding?"

"I forgot to set my alarm," Serena answered.

The three of them raced down the hall where the hospital chapel was. The chapel was two-story-tall with a thin, wooden cross hanging on the wall on stage. A short old woman was sitting in front of an electric keyboard on the stage's left side. At the center was a priest with Calem standing on the right side in his hospital clothes with a sport coat around him and an IV pole attached to him. Next to him was Ash in a modest gray suit, and behind him was Pikachu in a little suit and holding a purple pillow carrying two golden rings. On the left side of the stage was Shauna in a white and pink dress as Serena's maid of honor. Delia, Mimey, Dawn, Piplup, Grandpa Ramos, and Sonia were sitting in the front row on the left side. Iris, Axew, Cilan, Maynor, and Dratini were sitting down on the right front row.

Joy helped Serena take off her coat, hung it on a coat hanger, and handed her the flowers. She and Fennekin walked ahead to stand next to Shauna as bridesmaids. The old woman began playing the wedding match on the keyboard, and Serena stood at the center of the aisle, took a deep breath, and walked down, holding the flowers up. She looked at the Ketchum family, where Sonia gave her a smile and a nod, Grandpa Ramos was taking a picture of her, Dawn was struggling to contain her excitement, and Mimey was handing tissues to Delia. The latter was smiling at Serena with teary eyes.

Serena turned her head to the left side of the stage, where Calem gave her a sunny look. Her gaze then turned to Ash, and she smiled, thinking he looked handsome. Ash smiled back, finding her to be as pretty as a picture despite her self-effacing dress, but then his smile faded. Serena's smile disappeared, and she wondered what was on Ash's mind. She then turned at Iris, who was still unconvinced that what the honey blonde woman was doing.