*Chapter 40: Clean🎶

"You sure I can come visit?" Rosa asked from inside mother's car before they were ready to leave.

"Yes!" I smiled.

"I haven't been to dad's house in years..."

"It's okay! I'll clean it up before you come! I look forward to it! Bye mother! Drive safe!" I waved goodbye to Hugh and his family in the same car "I hope I can see you again!" Jennie crawled onto Rosa's lap so she can come up to me "What's up, Jennie?"

"It's a full moon tonight, so don't worry! The moon will be watching over you" I smiled at her story and waved goodbye as they drove off. It was just me, Nate, and Looker now on the beach.

"So you'll be traveling on your own now?" Looker asked "I hope you won't get into trouble" I smiled.

"Don't worry. I won't have a need too. I'll be good! I swear" I looked at Nate still staring at his feet "Everyone is gone now, so that means we can go our separate ways. Nate and Looker... Thank you for this opportunity. Looker, if I didn't ask you to send me to Sinnoh, I wouldn't be the person I am today. I got more control from it, but not entirely" I giggled and turned to Nate "Nate, thank you for the memories and journey I wanted for so long. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you. Will you be visiting?" He didn't answer "I understand. I'm sure you'll be too busy when being a cop and all" I took his hands "Is there something I can do for you before I go? Besides not leaving?" I giggled. He squeezed my hands a bit.

"Let me walk you outside the city. I'm sure you'll be using Oricorio to take you home inside Banette?"

"That's the plan!" I giggled "Don't worry, I won't look at her portal" he nodded and walked me through the city on this quiet night sky with the street lamps shining our path "Oricorio should be heading your way whenever the new moon is set for the day. I trust you'll take care of her in her new form?" He didn't say anything "I'm sorry this has to happen, but I can't go around it" he stopped walking, still holding my hand. I looked back at him staring at his feet again "Nate?"

"Cam..." he looked up at me with a slight blush on his cheeks "Could you... Could you sing for me again..?" I widened my eyes, surprised to know that he knew I've been singing to him. Well... since this may be our last encounter, I might as well just say it...

"Sure..." I took his hand and took a deep breath "We keep behind closed doors. Every time I see you, I die a little more. Stolen moments that we steal as the curtain falls. It'll never be enough..." I looked down, squeezing his hands "I can't stop these silent tears from rolling down. You and I both have to hide on the outside. Where I can't be yours and you~ can't be mine...But I know this, we got a love that is homeless..." I sobbed, holding his hands close to my heart.

"Why can't I hold you in the street? Why can't I kiss you on the dance floor? I wish that it could be like that. Why can't it be like that? 'Cause I'm yours~ Why can't I say that I'm in love? I wanna shout it from the rooftops... I wish that it could be like that. Why can't it be like that? 'Cause I'm yours..." I let out a shaky sigh at his tears running down his cheeks. I held his cheeks to bring his lips onto mine, sharing a goodbye kiss that made my heart shatter at the fact that this is the only moment I really told him I'm in love...

Song- Secret Love song pt. II by Little mix

"Goodbye... Nate" I tossed Banette in the air to take my body in hers and feel Oricorio swoop her to fly me back home. I closed my eyes to ignore the portal around me and hugged myself, thinking of the face Nate gave me before I left him. Why..? Why did he look at me like that?

"Ban!" Banette called out to me. I opened my eyes to see myself surrounded by volcanic rock around my home in Letimas Town.

"That was faster than expected" I looked up at the darkness around me with a full moon in sight, but it wasn't enough "I'm going to need some fire... Lampent?" Lampent reappeared beside me "Those lanterns attached to the house. Light them up so I can see where I'm going" Lampent nodded and went to light the outside of the house "That's better... but I'll need more light inside" I opened the door and walked into the darkness inside. The door behind me slammed shut, locking me inside in the pitch darkness.

"What are you doing?" I sweat dropped "You told me to wait... didn't you? At least let me clean the house. There won't be another new moon for another few days. The moon phases really do change fast here in Unova" I clapped my hands "Lampent! Where are you?" A glow came from behind me. I quickly turned around to see Lampent's body glowing and forming into a new shape "Lampent?" In just a few seconds, Lampent evolved into a Chandelure! She shined the entire room beautifully with her light "Chandelure!" I squealed excitedly and jumped to hug her without touching the fire "You evolved! Yes!" I threw my arms in the air "you evolved again! This is so great!" I spun around the dirty room happily, glad that I was able to get my Pokémon to evolve under my team.

"Everything in town would be closed at this time, so I think I'll do a bit of dusting and mopping" Banette spat out a mop and broom I bought the other day for this purpose "I have Rosa coming here soon, so I have to make this place look good!" My Pokemon agreed "Frillish! Help me mop when I'm done sweeping!" I spent my time cleaning and not thinking about the negative things. This will be the first time Rosa will be over in a long time, so I want to make sure she won't worry about dad in this kind of house he was murdered in.

"Rosa and I can have a sleepover here..." I hummed to myself "I hope she's available before the new moon" I looked at my hands "The new moon has always been a strange time... but soon, it'll be the last time I get to experience it" I squeezed my hands "I could had just waited for the new moon to come home so I can spend more time with everyone, but that would just hurt me to leave them immediately..." I nodded "Okay!" I swept the entire house and snap my fingers at Frillish "let's go, Frillish! Let's mop!" Frillish cheered and wet the floors with a water gun.

I spent the entire night just cleaning my childhood home until it almost looked new again. The furniture was covered in sheets, so they still looked new, and I got the chance to fix the windows with tape, but while I was cleaning and sorting the books in the library, I had noticed some weird activity happening all night.

The furniture kept moving, the frames were flying across the room, and books kept falling, and the old tv was staticing... Is that even a word?

The strange activity didn't really effect me, so I just cleaned after whatever was moving my stuff around until I felt something following me through out the house. I went to the kitchen to finish some things up and noticed the microwave buzzing out of control.

"Oh, so you can control electronics!" I spoke to whatever was messing around "What else can you control?" It felt like the microwave was staring at me for a moment before a hint of electricity transferred to the refrigerator "amazing!" I opened the door and felt coldness already coming in "Oh my... I should get this clean" I hummed a song while cleaning the fridge "I can store some food in here for a little while..." I stood up and closed the door to face the refrigerator staring back at me "hey, are you hungry?" I smiled "After a long day of cleaning, I'm pretty hungry. You?"

"Rom?" It spoke. I put my hands together amazed.

"So you're a Pokémon!" I took out my Pokédex to scan what it may be "A Rotom! How cool! I think I can make a recipe for electric type Pokémon! Would you like that?" Rotom came out the refrigerator to show me it's true form. I smiled and offered my hand, watching it float above it "You're so cute!" I giggled as it smiled at me.

I was too excited to get some sleep at all last night, even if I had a long swim the day prior in Undella Bay, I still had a lot of energy in my body! I was allowed to stay up because I was home.

"I wonder what everyone is doing right now..." I put some things away before putting Banette on my belt loop "Probably what they're good at... I'm just here cleaning a house" I giggled "That's alright" I waved to my Pokémon in the living room "Be sure to take care of the house! I'm going out into town real quick to collect some food! Rosa should be coming later today!" I clapped excitedly "This is great! Way sooner than I expected! I'll be back" I waved and left to town to the stores I haven't shopped at since I was a kid. 

"Rom!" I looked at my Xtransceiver confused to see Rotom being synced into it.

"Oh! You want to join me on my walk?" I giggled "Well, it's just grocery shopping and cleaning supply shopping, so nothing really exciting" I walked pass a market filled with many berries and dry food that were native to this area or sent here from other parts of the region.

I greeted those I walked by only keeping their eyes on me and not greeting me back. They looked at me like they were seeing a ghost Pokémon flying pass them, but it was only Oricorio on my head, which made them figure out who I was by my father.

"That should be all of it" I held my shopping bags in my arms "Let's go home now"

"Excuse me?" I looked over at a woman wearing a pink dress and a veil over her face coming towards me "Would you like me to tell you your fortune?"

"Oh! I remember you!" She was that woman who I walked pass that told me about my locked door "No thank you! I already see my future very soon" she offered her hand, not showing her face.

"Just a moment of your time" I looked at Oricorio on my shoulder before shrugging and we went over to sit on a bench together.

"You're a fortune teller?" I asked, sitting down.

"Something like that... May I see your hand?" I offered my hand for her to see. I couldn't make out her face, but something about her seemed weird... like her aura felt different "A particular young woman you are... You've made a great sacrifice very young"

"You can tell just by looking at my hand?" I looked at my hand confused. The woman chuckled.

"Not particularly... Physical touch is important to those who have known your story before. A young girl whose father was killed when she was very young. She sacrificed her own body to protect him, but it was too late. This darkness had taken over you, but it kept its promise to help you protect the ones you cared about" I held my hand close to me "When the new moon appears, the sacrifice will be fulfilled and the nightmares will take over your body, along with the bodies you shared a bond with. You are aware that those bonded with you will develop these nightmares to erase their memories of you, correct?"

"Yes... I am aware" I looked down "I know what I sacrificed... I don't care what happens to me. All I needed to make sure was that those I care about were okay while I'm gone. The new moon will be here in a few days. I told everyone I know goodbye, I told the guy I traveled with that I was in love with him, and my sister will be visiting later today to see the house"

"A bold move you've made there"

"Yeah well... It's not like I thought about any of this when I was a kid"

"Yes... You only thought of your father. I'd say this journey of yours have been an interesting one, and your destiny is coming close to an end... A destiny you cannot shake away. I want you to know something before you give away your body" I listened carefully "Those who loved you will never truly forget..." I looked down and smiled before standing up.

"Thank you for letting me know... I better get going" I bowed my head and walked back home to put everything I had away "I didn't buy too much since I won't need it that much" I sighed and looked at my hand the woman touched "She knew so much just by touching me" I closed my hand "What a strange woman..." I shook my head and put on a smile "I can't be worried about any of that right now! Everyone is hungry and Rosa will be coming soon!"

I got everyone's food ready and set their bowls down in the living room before I put Rotoms food on the counter "I hope you like it" I smiled and checked my Xtransceiver to see Rosa's message.

"Sorry! Skyla was busy doing something! I'm going to be a little late! But for sure I'll be there!" I smiled and replied to take her time. I may need to do some final touches before she arrives.

I went up to my room to check on the Banette's walking around my room like a bunch of toddlers. I giggled and kneeled down to greet them all "Hello, everyone" they all greeted me and crawled on my body to ride on me. I stood up and looked around how lonely my room looked. The lone bed on the side was still as neat as when I last left it...

"Soon..." I rested my arms on it "Soon these nightmares will consume me and eat up everyone's memories. Am I ready for something like that?" I imagined Nate's annoyed face looking at me before laughing at a joke I made "Nate..." I rested my head on the bed "he must hate me now... Wake me up when Rosa is here" I closed my eyes for just a second before I felt a tap on my shoulders. I jumped up and looked around the room, seeing the Banettes looking at something beside me, but there wasn't anything there.

"Huh?" I looked at my Xtransceiver to see that time flew two hours later "How did..?" A message went through from Rosa, asking if she's in the right location. I jumped back on my feet in a hurry.

"Don't leave this room! I can't have her come here!" I closed the door and jumped down from the second floor to get to the front door as fast as possible, swinging the door open to see Rosa jumping surprised to see me.

"Camie!" She looked around "This is the right place?" She didn't look so sure "It looks like an abandoned house..."

"Yeah" I nervously laughed "I couldn't do anything much to the outside" I pulled her hand "come in!" She nodded and walked into look around the place "How was your trip here?" She set her backpack down on the counter and looked around.

"It took longer than expected..." she frowned "This place doesn't feel the same as when we were kids. I don't know what it is, but it feels lonely" I slowly nodded.

"Yeah... Sorry. I tried my best to make it clean, but this place has been abandoned for years already. I can only do so much" she nodded and faced me.

"I always wondered why you bothered staying with our dad even if he was shady and did these bad things. You convinced mom you were fine here, and you seemed like you did. You didn't really change much, but that day when you came home all muddy and jolly, you never came back here. Is this where dad..?" I nodded and looked around "I'm sorry you went through that alone..."

"You don't have to keep apologizing! I'm fine! Father is not gone! He's watching over us!" She smiled and went up to her backpack to show to me.

"I brought us a tea party set, like we use to do when we were kids! I even have some food so we can enjoy them together!" I put my hands together.

"Awe! That's so sweet! Are you staying the night?" She looked around the house.

"I don't know... Everytime we come here you always want to watch a scary movie. You're not going to make me watch any, right?"

"Of course not!" I giggled "there's no power anyway" the television near us suddenly turned on. Rosa screamed and quickly hugged me in fear "Relax! That's just Rotom! If we need some electricity, it'll provide for us"

"You have a new Pokemon?" I nodded, happily "That's great! All of them are ghost types though..." she turned blue "You're not going to tease me like you did when we were kids, right?" I giggled and shook my head.

"No, I don't want to do that to you. I want to spend my day with you and just reviving our childhood. No horror films. I'll even watch some princess fairytales you like watching"

"I'm not a kid anymore" Rosa giggled "but okay.. I don't mind! It'll be like old times. I'm so excited! Even if I feel like something is watching me" I looked around confused "Come on! Help me set this tea party up!" I nodded and excitedly got our slumber party ready, glad I'm getting some quality time with my sister in my father's home before she decided to stop coming, for reasons...

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