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.
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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!