The Confidence Within.

The Truth

I didn't say much for a little bit. I didn't exactly want to hold this against Brendan. From what I'd overheard he had good intentions when he had lied but I couldn't help but feel my trust for him was broken.

Still, the three of us walked back to the Pokémon Center without any more trouble, except of course Kirlia being annoying as always. Come on man! Don't you want to like... yell at him or something? This is way more boring than I thought it'd be.

"So May," I started as we sat down on the couch. "What brought you to Lilycove? I thought you were heading north?" I asked.

May shrugged. "Well the entire mountain was closed off because they're worried about the volcano pumping out too much ash, so I decided to go south and loop around."

"Well then." Brendan sat up. "Looks like since we're both on the gym quest we may as well head to Mosdeep City and take on the gym."

"That sounds like a pretty good plan." May agreed.

"S-so we'd take another boat?" I asked. I wasn't entirely thrilled to be heading out onto open water.

What's wrong Wally? Are you afraid of boats now? Kirlia asked me. I tried my best to ignore him and his pestering.

Brendan nodded. "Yep, unless either of you happens to have a Lapras we'll be taking a couple of boats to get to the next few islands."

"Shouldn't be too bad though. Nothing is too far away from here and the sights are pretty great. We should get going though," May said. Brendan and I nodded and we all made our way over to the port.

I looked back on the city, I was fairly eager to leave. I didn't want to encounter more trouble with Team Crown. Plus I was excited to see the sights in Mosdeep, even though I'd have to wait aboard a boat for some time.

We stepped inside the ship house and checked the schedule. A boat would be departing fairly soon but we would have to wait for a few hours in the meantime.

Brendan wasn't about to sit idly while the boat prepared to depart. "Alright guys, while we wait we should go get some ice cream. I saw a shop on the beach so let's go check it out."

I couldn't help but grin when ice cream was brought up. We walked down to the beach and took in the wonderful smells of the sea.

May stretched her arms and took in the sun. "I love the warmth by the shore! Littleroot is usually pretty warm but it's nothing as pleasant as this."

Brendan grinned. "Yep! It's so nice to go through Hoenn and see all of these great places!"

May rolled her eyes. "Haven't you always been complaining about how Hoenn is just 'nothing but beaches'?"

Brendan rubbed the back of his neck. "Well sure but that doesn't mean the beaches aren't great."

I stared down at my shoes as we waited in line in front of the ice cream shack. I was trying to think of something to say but they were already leaps and bounds ahead of my thoughts in the conversation.

"Do you remember that time when we went to the beach on Route 104 and that old guy let us play with his Wingull?" May asked.

Brendan's head bobbed up and down. "Totally! That was a really fun time! I also remember that time we snuck into Petalburg woods and got chased around by a bunch of Dustox."

May began to laugh. "Excuse me, I don't remember us getting chased around. I remember that you got chased around because you kicked a Wurmple."

"I only did that because you were scared of it!"