Well I thought I would be making a one-shot or two-shot, at least that was the plan. But now I think I'll make this into a short story of maybe up to 7 chapters or so.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon nor ever will
The morning after the storm saw Lillie confused as to why she was sleeping in Ash's bed, made her blush, and to see Ash sleeping on the couch with Pikachu on his chest. Lillie's heart beated uncontrollably seeing them, and she quickly got away and prepared for day.
Lillie had started to work on breakfast before another person got up. She saw Ash get off the couch and stretch. She guessed he had a rough night sleeping on the couch and instantly felt guilt for occupying his bed.
"Good morning Lillie." Ash said with a toothless grin. Lillie didn't notice when Ash was stretching, but Ash was in a white tank top and boxers. Her blush started to crept up, so she turned around.
"Good morning Ash. I'm making breakfast." Ash smiled at her cooking and Lillie felt herself blush yet again. Lillie scolded herself, she was going to have to control this blush.
"Mmm… already smells delicious. I'm going to take a quick morning jog with Pikachu." Ash said as he went over to the yellow rat Pokemon. He shook him up, to wake him up but Pikachu wouldn't budge. He kept doing i till Pikachu had enough.
"Piko, PIKA!"
Ash fell to the ground, his hair all poofy, and himself covered in soot. He was chuckling nervously and Lillie felt slightly concerned for Ash, but she's seen in it enough times to know that Ash doesn't really feel much pain from it anyway. Though his appearance made her giggle.
"Ha-ha. Well change of plans, I'm going alone." Ash got up and dusted himself off. He grabbed and put on some clothes before he made his way to the door.
"That food better be done before I get back." The statement could come off rude, but Ash was smiling and laughing, meaning Lillie could tell he was partly joking. She knew he wanted his food done before he came back. So she got to cooking.
Haven't you noticed that Lillie's been blushing more lately around you, a voice inside his head he's never heard before said to him. Ash stopped, shook his head, and started to jog again. Usually this would be a time he would think about things.
Sure most people would say he never take time to think things through, which is mostly correct, he's goes off pure instinct most of the time. Jogging and running in the morning is a time where he usually think about things that happened recently, seeing what he did and if he did it well. What other things could he do.
He'll also create goals for the day while he was running. Today he would like to do that. He didn't want to recap yesterday, as yesterday was still confusing as hell to him. But a part of him didn't want to.
Yesterday he thought it was his gut. His gut is the thought process of his instincts, and since he wanted to do some things with Lillie he didn't even know, he thought it was his gut. But he realized that his gut doesn't have a subconscious part of mind. His gut had nothing to do with it. Something else was giving him these thoughts, and his gut is tempting to do them.
He felt as though something unlocked inside of him.
A new part of his brain, where a new subconscious was trying to make him do things and think things he's still confused about. He was going to have to go to Mallow's after Lillie left. He knew she knew what's up with him, he had a feeling.
He saw Kukui's cabin come to view and he realized that he left himself on auto-pilot and he made it back to the cabin. He walked up the steps and heard his stomach growl, he chuckled to himself. Lillie better have that food done.
Instantly as he walked into the door he smelled food and made a b-line towards the table where a plate of heavenly goodness rested before him. He quickly ate the food at a quick pace. Well for most people, he was going his normal speed. He didn't see Lillie shaking her head and giggling at him as he ate his food.
Once he finished he sat down lazily on the chair, his eyes drooping. He felt as though he was in a food coma. He looked up to see Lillie smiling at him. Has she always been this cu- stopped himself. He knew what the sentence was going to end with. He put the thought in the back of his head and got up off the seat.
"Thank you Lillie. That food was heavenly." Ash grinned. He noticed Pikachu sitting on Lillie's shoulder, looking real comfortable.
"Thank you Ash." She started to lightly blush and Ash's mind tried to get him to fully focus on it but he pushed it away.
"Pikachu you rascal. You usually do the morning jogs with me. Oh well, I had some stuff to think about." He scratched the back of Pikachu's ear, making him coo, but unbeknownst to him, that last sentence made Lillie freeze up.
"Later Lillie." Ash waved from outside as she was closing her door inside her limousine. She sighed a dreamy sigh, but her mood instantly darkened.
Yesterday and this morning went very good. She did her plan successfully, cuddling him as she watched the horror movie. Her reaction when grabbing Ash wasn't even intentional. Her thoughts were intentional, but the actually actions weren't intentional.
She was glad she thought of the idea at first. She cuddled with Ash, still but a blush on her face, and he rubbed her arms and back to soothe her. She practically melted on Ash. She didn't want to leave his basically embrace. He soothed her so much she fell asleep.
He even put her to sleep on his bed and called Hopps she later learned. In the morning she made Ash breakfast which made him acted more joyful, but there was something she said that darkened her mood.
"... I had some stuff to think about."
She frowned and shook her head. She knew that it had some stuff to do with the thing she pulled yesterday. Instantly her brain gave her the worst possible ideas of what he was thinking. What if he hates me and felt super uncomfortable. Maybe he was trying to be nice but he doesn't want anything romantic with you.
Her thoughts swarmed her and before she knew it, she was back home. She wished she had someone to talk to about this. While Mallow is an option, she knew Hopps wouldn't let her leave home again.
Wait I could talk to Hobbes about this. Maybe he knows what he was thinking or some idea. She went inside the mansion and saw a few maids doing their jobs. She walked her way over to the dining room and saw Hobbes was setting silverware most likely for her, since he was setting up the plate in her usual spot. Hobbes spotted Lillie and walked over to her.
"Ah Ms. Lillie, you're back. How was your stay?" Hopps asked her.
"Good, well… I kinda have something to talk to you about." Lillie slightly nervously said. She felt kinda embarrassed that she was going to explain what had happen with her butler. But she also saw Hopps as a good friend.
"You do? Does it have to do with Ash?" Hoppes guessed and Lillie blushed. Hobbes smirked at her.
"Well let's talk about before they finished lunch." He said and pulled out the seat for her. She rolled her eyes. Sometime his formality may be a little too much.
"Hobbes you don't have to do that." Lillie said with a slight smile as she sat down.
"Sorry Lillie but I can't help it. It's my job and more of a habit to help you with the simplest of things." Hobbes said as he took a seat right next to Lillie. Lillie folded her hands and thought of a good way to bring it up.
"Hobbes you know me and Ash are good friends. Uh, why would I need to tell you, you already know." Lillie was talking quite fast, though she didn't realize it, which is why when Hobbes started to chuckle to himself she got slightly confused.
"Well I might of gotten a slight… romantic interest in him." She ended the sentence quitely with her face straight down because she was embarrassed. Hobbes eyes lit up slightly, he already mostly knew that.
"So what seems to be the problem?" Hobbes asked, though he had a slight idea of what the problem is. Lillie's head slowly raised up.
"Well he's kind of dense, and what if he doesn't like me." She started off slowly, but said the last part in panic. Her eyes went wide from her outburst, and she was prepared to apologize to Hobbes because it seemed like she shouted at him, but he held his hand up.
"Ah Lillie, there is no need to apologize." Hobbes said softly to her, a slight attempt at calming her down. This brought a flashback of Ash calming her down and it made her blush. Hobbes raised an eyebrow, thinking she was embarrassed from the outburst, which is kind of right.
"For your first problem, well that I kind of already knew and it seems like a difficult problem." Hobbes began, seeing her head go down in defeat.
"But alas I know a solution to this." Lillie's head raised back up, hope in her eyes.
"I know this would work because I've seen it first hand. The solution will push you a bit out of your comfort zone. Most likely his subconscious for thinking romantic thoughts and interest is 'block' and you'll have to 'start it up'." Lillie's face contorted to a look of confusion. Hobbes smiled at her.
"You need to be more direct with him." Lillie face still held confusion but Hobbes could tell she was figuring it out.
"Can I give you an example to make sure I think I know what you mean?" Lillie asked. Hobbes slightly confused at the question agreed.
"What if a girl who's watching a horror movie with a boy, and the girl jumps into the boy and sort of cuddles him." Lillie said with her cheeks flushed. Hobbes questioned the specificity of the question but instantly figured out that Lillie's example was one of her own personal experiences.
"Let me finish, and you fell asleep on Ash after he soothed you." Hobbes said, smirk on his face. Lillie's slight red face became a tomato in seconds.
"Uh… yea…" Once again Lillie ducked her head straight down, she could not handle the embarrassment.
"Yes things like that are perfect, and I have a slight feeling that might of worked in triggering something in him." While he didn't know exactly how Ash felt when Lillie went into his chest, the tone he used last night gave him the assumption that he didn't mind or even enjoyed it.
"So I need to be more direct with him." Lillie, once again, had recovered from her embarrassment and blushes, looking at Hobbes, he nodded.
"Also spend a lot more time with him by yourself, and if you're with your friends, try to make yourself his focus." Lillie nodded, the gears already turning in her head. A maid came into a room with a plate of food for Lillie, setting it down in front of her. The food smelled glorious to her, but before she dug in, she had one more question, but he spoke up.
"And another thing. He'll be interested if that denseness wares off. Don't say that he won't like you Ms. Lillie, if not, why would he spend so much time with you. More so than all of your other friends. He likes you as a person, don't forget that." What Hobbes said really did boost her confidence and she knew changing her personality wasn't that necessary.
"Hey Hobbes, how do you know a lot about this?" She asked him. Hobbes looked at her, but he wasn't focusing on her. He seemed to be imagining himself somewhere else, he softly smiled.
"Like I said before, I've experienced it first hand." He wistfully smiled before he got up and left the dining room. Lillie questioned what exactly he meant by him experiencing it. She shook her, that would be a question for another day. For now, she was going to eat her food and see Snowy.
Lillie walked through the hallways, heading towards her room. That conversation with Hobbes really did help her with what to do. Unfortunately she was going to have to be bold with him, and she was a shy girl.
Last night she completely went against her normal ways, but she knew she had to be bolder in order for him to possibly be romantically attracted to her. She was going to step out of her comfort zone for him. She finally made her way to her room, standing in front of the door, she opened it.
"PIX!" Lillie didn't even had a chance to fully look at her room before she was knocked down by a Pokemon. Her Pokemon of course.
"Alola Snowy." She whispered to Snowy. She didn't know why she whispered, but it felt like she had too. Snowy cuddled into her. Lillie wrapped her arms around Snowy and got up from the ground.
She realized that she hadn't see Snowy for over a day, almost two days actually, and she didn't even Snowy, granted she didn't plan to stay over at Kukui's place, but she scolded herself for not seeing her sooner. She felt as though she had an apology to give to Snowy.
"I'm sorry Snowy, I didn't mean to leave you here alone for two days." She whispered again into Snowy. Snowy just continued to snuggle deeper into her arms. Lillie broke at this, Snowy was too damn cute for her.
Lillie sat on her bed and realized that Snowy fell asleep, cradled into her arms. Next time she was planning on going to Ash's, she needed to bring Snowy. While she was petting Snowy, she eased herself into what she going to do to make Ash noticed her more.
An idea formed in her head that made her blush, greatly, but she knew it was a brilliant idea. She grudgingly sat Snowy on the bed and made her way to her closet. Looking through the hundreds of clothes, she saw the outfit the Mallow had bought her a couple of months ago.
At the time she didn't want the outfit, she thought it was too bold and revealing, but Mallow bought if for her anyway, saying she might need it into the future, and unfortunately, Mallow was right.
Bada boom bada bing, second chapter done.
Yep this is a short story. Next chapter will focus on Ash talking with Mallow, kinda like how Lillie talked with Hobbes.
That's it folks, leave a review, it means a lot to me.