<sub>[Laughter's contagious, but the chuckle Heather gives off in return is a little bit weak, and trails off quickly.]

[She's quiet for a few seconds, before taking her hand off his shoulder and letting it rest on the bed behind them, looking off at the rest of the tiny room that had become her home after she'd been uprooted from Johto, and then proceeded to uproot herself from the apartment she'd spent high school in.]</sub>

... I didn't... think I'd ever see you again.

_{[She looks back over at him.]}

I know your note said-- .... but I didn't really believe it. ... If I'd known, I'dve... I'dve stayed in one place. Sorry you had to go on a wild goose hunt for me.

_{[She feels bad for not believing it would happen, but...]}