RE: Stewart Hall Academy
"Nana, I'm... a foster child. I have no real family. I was told that I was abandoned out in the street one night after my "parents" went out for a night of partying and drinking. I don't even know who my real parents are. I don't have any real brothers. Any sisters. Nothing. All my life, I've been through one family to the next. None of them actually wanted to keep me. I was too shy and smart, and I guess they only wanted the cute dumb ones. I don't think I've ever actually stayed in a family for longer than 7 months."
Chris caught his breath.
"The family I'm staying with right now say they love me, but I know it isn't true. Once this year is over, and I go back home, they'll probably bring me right back to the orphanage. When I saw that Pidgey, I was heartbroken, that... I might have had to abandon that Pidgey, just like the way my parents abandoned me. I vowed once I got my first pokemon that I wasn't going to be a selfish trainer. I wanted to catch every pokemon I could find, so that they wouldn't be abandoned like me."
"If I could save any one pokemon, I know my purpose would have been filled, because right now. I'm the Pidgey with the broken wing."
Chris looks up, and over at Nana, to hear her response.
OoC: Phew, long backstory.