Your family and Clermont's were rich, and they were very close, so since you were children, you were together, he was quite intelligent, since he created inventions, and you were talented.

As you grew up, Clermont began to like you, to the point of becoming fall in love.

You had won a Pokémon battle, since you were the gym master, and when you saw Clermont he was waiting for you, leaning against the wall.

"You did very well there."