Curate, connect, and discover
Summary; Camille, Goh's mother, gets woken up by a scream at night. It turns out her son had a nightmare.
The apartment was a quiet place, they had neighbors, after all. So hearing screams was not normal. Especially hearing her son, Goh, scream. He was a quiet kid.
So, she was confused when that scream woke her up from her slumber.
She looked out the small windows and saw that it was still night. She had a late shift at work, some old couple, so she needed her sleep, her husband did too.
But she dusted off dust from her sleeping gown and got up. She let her husband sleep, leaving the lights off.
She walked through the living room, searching for the location of the scream. While looking, she also heard shuddered breaths, filled with cries.
Soon enough, she had searched almost the whole apartment, except her son's room.
Now that she thought about it, the scream sounded like Goh's voice...
But her son was asleep, wasn't he?
As she got closer to Goh's room, the shuddered breaths got louder.
She slowly opened the door, and inside she saw Goh, sitting up, with tears running down his eyes.
She put on a little light and went over to him, hugging him tightly.
”Goh, sweetheart,” she started off softly. ”What's wrong? Why aren't you asleep?”
Goh cried, wiped his nose, and leaned against her.
”Mom,” cried Goh. ”I-I had a nightmare.”
Nightmares could be tough, she knew that.
Goh cried louder, and she just hugged him tighter, then sitting down on the bed with him.
”My sweet baby,” said Camille, and Goh blushed from embarrassment at being called a baby. ”What happened in your nightmare?”
She called him her baby sometimes because that's what he was, he may already be a pokémon trainer, but he was still young. It simply didn't matter that he had gone through a lot alone.
Her work, after all.
But Goh had turned out amazing, and the fact that she worked a lot didn't change that. He had been alone for so long, so she was gonna give him some love. It's what he deserved.
”My old bullies were in it,” answered Goh. ”And it got me thinking about how I don't deserve Ash.”
Ash, her son's crush...
She brushed her son's locks, especially his red highlight.
”Of course, you deserve Ash, baby. Those bullies are wrong,” said Camille. “okay?”
(A while later)
Her son's soft snores were heard and she tucked him in, kissing him on the forehead.
She then left and went to her bed again.
And as she was laying down, she wondered how she couldn't realize that her own kid wasn't okay.