Chapter 25: Kidnapped... In a way


     The weather had changed drastically by the time I had woke up.
Unlike the night before, it was bright and cheery and I was in a much
better mood as I set off to go back to Fortree.

     Somebody had total faith in me, and Steven's words had inspired me
to go forth. I was going to check out of the Fortree Pokemon Center and
I was going to go to Mossdeep and get my next badge.

      I was actually skipping along route 120, until I felt a pair of
eyes on me. I looked over my shoulder several times, but nobody was
there. I felt paranoid and scared.

     I was finally almost to Fortree when somebody grabbed me from
behind. I tried to scream, but no sound came out of my mouth. It was
like my worst nightmares from when I was a child in Sunnydale, and
before that, Goldenrod. 

      "Wow, you're dumb," remarked Taylor casually. I was squirming to
get away but he wouldn't let me go. Wally was eyeing me from the side
and I did NOT like it. I despised them both, they had done enough to
hurt me already.

      "No, not really. What do you think you're doing?" My voice was
calm, and that surprised me. Usually, whenever I am mad, my voice gets
shrill and I scream a lot. But not today.

      "Our boss likes your style, even though I think it's too
goody-goody. So he told us to come get you, no matter what the cost.
Isn't it lucky for us that you're fighting with your moronic friends?"

      "I guess it would be, except that her moronic best friend saw you
take her," said Nathan, walking into the bush that Taylor had made his
secret base in.

      "Since when are you still her best friend?" asked Taylor with a
raised eyebrow.

     "Yeah! Since when?" I chimed in, not caring that I was agreeing
with Taylor.

     "Since I realized that what I did was stupid and I'm apologizing."

     Taylor and Wally turned to me, as if they were watchind a soap
opera. I'm sure that me and Nathan were very amusing to them.

     "I thought that I had to forgive you in order for us to be friends
again," I said coldly and the Team Magma members turned their heads back
to Nathan.

      "But you ARE going to forgive me, right?" Nathan questioned and
all he was succeeding in was infuriating me further. How could he expect
that I would forgive him just because he told me to after what he did to
me?

     "Wow, you've improved your skills as a comedian in the week that
I've been gone," I noted sarcastically.

     "Jenn, don't be a witch!" Nathan scolded and that only thing that
was holding me back from hitting him was my self-control.

     "Well, do you EXPECT me to be friendly to you after our last
conversation?"     

     "Jenn, I'm sorry!" he pleaded, but I shook my head.

     "But that doesn't mean that I forgive you, Nathan. Because I
don't."

     "Jenny, don't you think you're being a little too hard on him? He
apologized," Taylor cut in and I was shocked.

      "Did you not hear what he said to me back there? How could I ever
trust him again?"

     "Maybe that's a problem with you," Taylor noted and I raised my
eyebrows at him. "I mean, everyone makes mistakes but when someone does
something wrong to you, you act like it's the crime of the century and
you never trust them again. Nathan knows what he did was wrong, so just
forgive him and in time you'll trust him again."

     Wally's eyes were wide and I think he was more shocked than the
rest of us, even me. Taylor was his partner in crime, and now he's
making speeches for the greater good? He couldn't have been too happy
about that.

     "Please, Jenn?" pleaded Nathan again and I tried not to cry as I
heard Taylor's words echo in my head. Nathan was my best friend... And I
couldn't hate him forever just because of one mistake.

     "Alright... But it's going to take a lot of hot fudge sundaes to
make it up to me! And a lot of vanilla creme frappicinos from
Starbucks..."

     "Of course, Jenny. If it makes you feel better..." We grinned at
each other and I felt a lot lighter and happier than I had been in the
last week.

     "Now let's get back to the group... And did I mention I'm
pregnant?"

     "WHAT?!" he cried in shock and I started to laugh.

     "Just kidding..."