>>21538302When he got out of the hospital, he wasn't the guy I remembered. He was a lot quieter, and didn't crack nearly as many jokes as he used to. We still played Pokemon, but it eventually devolved into trading items between each other. Eventually, we drifted apart. It's not to say that we weren't friends any more, we still were, but I never really got the chance to see him. His parents must have taken the hospital thing really hard, as they wouldn't allow him to leave the house and play outside with me at all until they were sure the pollen had cleared up.
I was a stupid kid, and I thought it was totally unfair to me, and that it was entirely my friend's fault that he was ditching me so badly.
I didn't tell him though.I was playing Pokemon with him for old times sake, and I really want to beat his dang Focus Punch tactic, so I just start throwing random Pokemon I had in my box at him to see what stuck. Eventually, it gets to Kecleon, and my friend laughs a big ol laugh, which ends in a whopping cough. It felt good to hear him so happy again, but I felt awful for making him cough so badly. He was doubled over, coughing, because I made him laugh. I wasn't sure what to do, he wouldn't stop coughing. I called my parents, they called his parents, and he was taken to the hospital again.
He never left the hospital. His family hated me, calling me a bad influence on the guy, and that if he hadn't met me, maybe he would have gone on to do something amazing. I thought were right about it too, it still haunts me today. I did, however, stumble across his old Pokemon game, years later. His team was the team I battled on that faithful day, but this time, I saw the whole thing. I only saw 4 of his Pokemon that day; I had no idea what the other two were.
Zangoose, and a Kecleon called Powalski, running SubPunch, and holding a letter, that read "friend friend haha !!!"
I still run SubPunch Kecleon, for obvious reasons.
