Best friends

There she was again, staring down at me. She’s been doing that, ever since I arrived on this Ranch. My trainer, Tenanye, knew that none of the other pokemon wanted to play with me. They’d always stay away from me, telling me, "we don’t want a form changer here,” and, "we won’t fall for your tricks, fox.” I have been here for a few weeks now, just laying around on my own. Without anyone around me, except my trainer, who visits me every day. She’d brush me, cuddle with me, give me a kiss, and then leave. Before she’d leave, she always stares at me, worried.

She knows I’m lonely, that I want friends. But every pokemon she has taken in ever since I came her, has avoided me. They got pulled away from me, by the others. They’d say, "you don’t want to be friend with him. He’s cursed.”

One day, she took in a new pokemon. A small gray, crawling bug pokemon. I stared at him from a distance, and he stared back. After a few moments, he started waving his tiny paws towards me. The others approached him, telling him once again what they always did. They pulled him away, but he turned his head around, smiling at me. He was the first to do that.

A few nights later, while I was almost asleep, I felt something crawl up against me. I looked up, seeing the little bug laying next to me. He smiled up to me again. "I’m Marseille,” he said, "what’s your name?”
"I’m Light,” I said, a bit scared. I heard a tremble in my voice, he must’ve heard it as well.
"They are not very nice to you, are they now?” Marseille said.
I felt tears jump into my eyes. All these weeks, nobody wanted me. Nobody came close to me. Marseille bumped his head against mine.
"Do you want to be friends?” he asked me.
I started crying, tears streaming down my cheeks. Somebody wanted me. At first I couldn’t speak. All I could was cry. After I calmed down a bit, I sniveled. I tried to dry my tears with my paws, but the fur around my neck was in the way. Marseille stuck out his little paws and stroke them over my cheeks.
"I will be your best friend from now on,” Marseille said, smiling like he always did.