Come Back To Me

"Mommy"

Ash was on his laptop, finishing up an email to Dawn. Dawn had just asked him what he had done recently since coming back from his two month long work schedule. It had been a month and a half since he got back, but hardly any of his friends had asked him about what he had been up to since he got back. He told all of them that he was taking a one to two month break from travelling and accepting challenges. He told them he hadn't done much but did note that he met up back with Serena again. They were all surprised but happy that the two of them reunited. All of them had seen Serena in the past sixteen years, so her meeting up with Ash for the first time in that span was music to their ears.

The one that talked to him most was Brock, since he was one of Ash's best friends and the two of them talked almost every other day. Ash always went to Brock when it came to casual talk and more importantly, romance. Brock occasionally asked Ash if he ever considered dating again, which Ash just promptly answered that he needed more time, but thing is, Ash had some doubt in that response, it had been almost eight months since he and Denise divorced and he felt as if he was just about completely over her. Brock had a feeling that his buddy was over his ex-wife but since the two of them were still friends, there was some skepticism in there somewhere.

Brock had a better idea of romance nowadays now that he himself was married. He had married the Battle Pike frontier brain Lucy before Ash married Denise. Brock learned that Lucy liked him about a decade ago and the two went out for a couple of years until they tied the knot. Now that Brock was married, his view of romance took a turn. He no longer went up to every beautiful girl he saw and flirted with them (Obviously). Ash thought that when Brock got married to Lucy, something changed in the guy. Brock would always give out advice about romance a lot better since he now knew how to do it properly. Lucy must have done something to him that gave him more clarity about romance, and everyone, especially Brock himself, was grateful that this was different now.

Whenever Ash stated when he should ever be ready to date again to Brock, Brock just said that he should wait until he was one hundred percent sure he was over Denise. Ash had a feeling that he was just about there, but at the same time thought that it wasn't. Little did Ash know that all of his friends were conversing about Ash dating Serena. They all knew they would be a perfect couple and crossed their fingers that they would be a thing. Only Ash didn't know she had a crush on him when they were kids, and he still didn't today, even at the age of twenty six.

That was one thing that depressed Serena. Her childhood friend still didn't know she had deep feelings for him after nearly twenty years of them knowing each other. Twenty years. Are you kidding me? How could someone you've had a massive crush on for almost two decades still not know that you did? Everyone else around her knew, why was it the one person she wanted to know the only one who didn't? It was so frustrating. Of course, she didn't want to spill the beans too early to him. Even when they were young she knew she had to be cautious when she was around him and she was talking her affections towards him, being afraid he might overhear her say it. But being shy to tell the one you love so much was another part that was frustrating. She wanted to tell him at one point, but she wanted to do it right, not just randomly.