12/23th/199×, some peaceful neighborhood in Lumiose, Kalos.

It's the day before Christmas eve, your whole family is already over, celebrating, drinking, making jokes, catching up.

It's a traditional family get-together for the end of the year.

Aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, parents, grandparents.

[...]

You know, it's not that you don't absolutely love your family, but the problem was, the Pokémon league of that year had been postponed to a month of waiting because of problems in a few of the stadium's structures.

And that postponing fell right on the week of Christmas.

[...]

You liked to spend time with your family, but you had also promised Ash you'd watch every single one of his battles.

He was your boyfriend after all.

[...]

It was a girl's dilemma, choose between her family and her boyfriend.

She loved both so much!