[ti]open[/ti]The Mother Dilemma

Rose was, for lack of a better vocabulary on her part, very confused.

She'd been staring at the pop-up that told her to say goodbye to Mom for a few minutes now and she had no idea what to do. She had played Pokemon before and always had a Mom in those too. A friend told her at school that you could talk to mom and get healed up! But here?

Here, she was clearly hesitant to approach the house, even though her bare feet dearly needed some shoes.

"You're staring into space again." Sprigatito licked at its paw as it noticed, trying to snap them back to reality. "You really are a spaced-out kid, huh?"

Rose quickly shook her head, glancing over at Mother's house in the distance before looking down at her new talking cat friend.

"I did not go to space! I'd need a rocket ship! Silly." She laughed quietly, shaking her head slowly once again. "I just-"

"You're nervous about seeing mom," The cat licked its other paw this time, quickly walking towards the house anyways. "She won't be upset that you're leaving home, you know."

"W-wait! I'm not nervous! I'm a big girl!" Rose shouted out, quickly trying to catch up to her cat who had already made it onto the front porch.

"Then knock, big girl. Or don't, it is your home. Just go on in."

"I- I'll knock." It felt so strange, this wasn't her home, but it was? She didn't know how to process that. She did indeed knock on the door, hearing movement around inside. Was someone else home?