I dial the number watching as it rings. Then I see my mom on the other side of the screen.
She smiles and I can see dark circles underneath her eyes," Honey I saw your match today. You did great sweatheart winning on your first try. I also heard from your weird friend that you are traveling with a boy I don't know the name of. Now who is this boy and why are you traveling with him? Then you disappeared for seven days and again you do not call until after your gym match. The worst thing is not knowing if you are dead or alive Honey. Oh do not make me forget the call I got from a pokemon center about money you owe for a destroyed room. Honey they were going to send a bounty hunter Nurse Joy after you if that nice gym leader you defeated today did not call to tell me he was going to pay for the destroyed room. Honey you are in big trouble when you get home in August. Your father when he heard the news was going to have one of his gym trainers act as gym leader when he went to deal with your mess in Galar. You know your father is a busy man and I do not like having him deal with your messes young lady!"
I avoid eye contact," Mom I am sorry I was going to call you after I got here last week but everything went horribly wrong. There is a team called Team Mafia after me to kidnap my Tokepi Leilani. They were the ones who destroyed my room at the pokemon center. I did not have enough money at the time to pay for the destroyed room. Henry helped me and my traveling companion escape into the woods. He lead us to a waterfall to help me train for the gym I just defeated. My new traveling companion is Rain Everstone the brother of the champion Bisck. He joined me after I defeated the first gym. I could not call in the area I was in since there was no cellphone connection there. I was hoping that after I defeated the gym here that I would have enough money to pay the pokemon center back. I also did not want to call you until after I payed off my debt. I wanted to show you that I can pay for this myself and that I am not a little kid anymore."
I told her this because I am older than sixteen. I lived twenty four years before I died and woke up as a baby here. That I need her to not treat me like a child anymore.
My moms eyes widen," Honey thank you for explaining yourself. I should treat you like an adult but it is so hard to treat the child you raised and cared for sixteen years as anything else but as your baby. Honey in my heart no matter what you will always be my baby but I see your point in treating you as an adult. That does not excuse you worrying me by not calling more often. Also now knowing that a group of people are after you will worry me even more. Honey you need to be careful with these people they sound dangerous. I tell your father about this but do not forget I love you and if you need me at all call. I will come with your great grandfather and uncle to help you Honey. If I have to I will also call on the rest of the Blackthorn clan to help."
I smile," Mom I will call you if I need it. I will not let you down by losing to these people. Tell dad I said hi and give Ash hugs and kisses from me."
My mom looks at me then hangs up. I look at the phone contemplating calling my father. Then I decided not to call since he will be busy right now. Either doing Team Rocket business or gym work. Then again he most likely already knows what I am doing because of his paranoia of me dying or getting hurts causes him to send Team Rocket members to watch me. These Team Rocket members also report everything I do to him. My father also believes I don't know that Aunt Kelly is his secretary that was sent to watch over me.
Before I turn off the lights I release the rest of my pokemon. I put down the food given to me by the chefs here for them. I make sure that I put the food in bowls that have their names on the side in different colors. I also take out the water bowls and put water in it. I place the bowls on the floor by the bathroom.
Echo herds the others over to eat. She grabs Leilani and puts her in front of her own bowl. Echo makes sure that Balwin does not steal Leilani's food. I chuckle when I see Mercy trying to groom Balwin. It does not go over well and ends with Echo separating them.
I go to bed after turning off the lights. My pokemon crawl into bed with me. Then I fall asleep.