Forget Me Not

Prologue

What are you doing, Keiko? You okay?

The young woman spun around, startled at the sudden question, but sighed in relief when she saw it was only her Kadabra, Rune. She nodded her head reassuringly at the psychic Pokemon, smiling weakly. "I'm fine."

You don't sound fine. He replied, looking over her. You don't look fine, either. He directed his worried gaze towards the bags under her green eyes, which seemed to have lost their luster from lack of sleep.

"I'm just fine, Rune." her glare hardened. "I've just been thinking, you know? ...Reminicsing." she gripped a pen tightly in her hand as she bit her lip. "It's been so long since we started our journey... So much has happened."

The Kadabra nodded, now staring at his feet nervously. I see. he paused for a moment, as he seemed to be thinking in a deep trance. After a few minutes, he closed his eyes as he quietly spoke, his voice barely audible. Sometimes... I miss the others.

Keiko nodded sadly. "I do too, Rune. Sometimes when I'm dreaming, they're here... with us. And then I wake up, and they're gone. And there's only me and you." she closed her eyes as she choked on tears, letting them slide down her face.

Her eyes narrowed to a vase of seven violet flowers, called Forget-me-not's. The tears continued to come as she stared at five of them that were faded in color, tinted black, and drooping. The leaves were crinkling off as they died silently without complaint.

"Every time..." she wiped away her tears. "Every time one of them left us... a flower died." Keiko couldn't take her gaze off the last two, who flourished in colour, standing erect as they brimmed with life. Her stare turned into a fierce glare as she clenched her teeth. "And ours... they continue to live. While the others drop dead quietly. Look at those last two... they've been like that for dozens of years." she drooped her head, her auburn hair hiding the tears that were pouring down her face.

"It- it's just the kind of thing I thought happened to other people. Not us..."

Rune looked at her and shook his head. And it's just so hard believing...

"...That we're other people, too." The girl finished sadly, as both of them had memorized the phrase.

There was a long pause before the Pokemon began to walk off. I'm going to sleep, Keiko. Good night.

Keiko sighed as she watched Rune walk off- he usually never slept. This was the complete opposite of the Rune she knew. But then again, neither of them had been the same lately.

She pressed the pen against the paper, thinking of what to write as it made an big ink blotch on her paper. She sighed, getting out a fresh sheet. "I know what to write about," she said quietly, "But I don't know where to start... I don't know if I can even remember clearly..."

Her eyes lit up for a moment as she thought of an idea. "I'll start when I started my journey," she said, a small smile appearing on her face. "From the beginning..." she frantically began to scratch out the words on the paper, writing out every detail she could manage- from the happy to the sad, from the fun to the frightening, the memories were flooding back already. And now... she was determined never to forget again...

"It was my thirteenth birthday when I began my journey..."