Looking over Ula'ula island from his thrown, Tai let out a sigh of boredom. If he could count on it, he would have about two challengers a week, and that was a busy one. Guzma would appear every once in a while, and Hau would show up to say hi now and then, but really tough trainers never really showed up.

Deciding to take a break, Tai walked to every chamber of the Elite Four, knocking on their doors and letting them know, before heading back to Melemele Island, wanting to get something other than snow in the rather sunny region.

Sitting on the sunny outside of the Aether Foundation, Lillie was busy thinking about what had happened for her rather recently.

It had been about two weeks since she returned to Alola, and Gladion was being rather watchful of her.

She didn't know if he was hurt because she went to see Tai before him or not, but he seemed to be a bit more protective, with Wicke seemingly looking where she was more often.

However in the basement of the island, someone had just gotten off of a ferry and was working his way up.

Feeling a tap on his shoulder, Lillie looked around and saw Tai standing there, a rather embarrassed look on his face.

"Tai?" she asked, rather surprised that he would show up here.

"Come with me," he said.

"What?"

"Come with me," he said again, taking her hand and leading her to the elevator inside.

"Tai, what are you doing?" Lillie asked, knowing that he probably didn't know how to express his feelings in words.

"Let's go to Ten Carat Hill," he said rather hastily, looking to see if Gladion knew he was here.

"Why?"

"I've already asked my mom to make some things," he said, relieved that he could get down without getting caught.

"Are you inviting me to a picnic?" Lillie asked, as she started to get a small flush on her face. This was rather bold, coming from Tai.

"Yes."

Smiling, Lillie started to run with him, as the ferry headed off to Melemele Island, with Gladion yelling at Tai to 'get his dirty hands' of his precious sister.

Tai just yelled back, 'then why did you leave her?'

Sharing a Tauros to break through the rocks that kept people out of the mountain, Tai and Lillie were rather satisfied with the small picnic that they had. They had let all of their Pokémon out, and some of the Rockruff coming out and started playing with their Pokémon, while their Lycanroc parents watched from a distance.

Simply sighing, both of them just sat there, looking off into the distance of the mid afternoon sky.

Leaning on his back, Tai started to think about the question he was going to ask.

No matter how many times he ran it through his head, he couldn't quite get it right.

A frown on his face, he turned his back to Lillie so that she could see the face he was making.

"Is something wrong?"

"No."

"Then why are you facing away from me?"

"I was thinking."

"About what?"

"What I was going to ask you."

"Ask me about what?"

"If you would come with me to a movie tomorrow at around five on the beachfront of Hou'uli."

And there, he just said it.

"Are you asking me out?" Lillie asked, a hopeful look on her face.

It took Tai a while, but he realized that Lillie had managed to talk his thoughts out, so he flushed, nodding while still facing away from her.

"Yes, an official date as my girlfriend."

Smiling at him, Lillie turned his head around and gave him a gentle kiss on the lips, leaning her head on his shoulder.

As calm as he appeared on the outside, Tai was internally freaking out, his mind leaping ahead to things like preparing a shelter for him to hide in when Gladion found out, or what to do if she fell asleep right there.

"Yes, I'd be happy to watch a movie with you tomorrow as your girlfriend, now that you've said it," she responded, leaning in even further to his shoulder.

Deciding to say at Professor Kukui's lab for the night after telling him the news, Lillie was rather excited about the idea.

Tai seemed to have a hard time getting his feelings out for her, but she was glad she was able to get him to ask her.

To be honest, she didn't know what she was going to do now that she was back in Alola, and officially being the Champion's girlfriend didn't sound so bad. Plus, Tai was a person that let her follow her mother to Kanto, so there wasn't much of a chance of him saying no to whatever she said.

Back at his old home though, Tai was tossing and turning in his bed, thinking about what he had actually gotten himself into.

Did he want Lillie to be his girlfriend?

Yes he did.

Did he know what being in a relationship would do?

He had no idea, and that was the part that scared him.

For a guy that liked to plan ahead, that was probably the scariest part.

What would happen with his position as Champion?

There were some people who wanted access to the Ultra Beasts, would she start to be targeted?

Things like that started to run around in his head, and he couldn't get them to stop.

So when Tai got up the next morning, his mom had him thrown into the ocean to get his mind off of things, while Primarina took a small bow, showing off her skills again.

Glaring at his mom and Primarina, Tai sat on a rock, letting the sun dry him, while his mom decided to go buy some different casual clothes for him.

With the sun starting to set, Solgaleo was licking Tai's head and hair, seemingly trying to make it a mess. Swatting at its face many times, Tai was starting to grumble, starting to wonder how this would affect their first night as boyfriend and girlfriend.

"Stop it already," he grumbled trying to return it to its ball, but the Sunne Pokémon just swung a paw out to trip him, causing him to land flat on his face.

And at that moment, the door bell rang, signifying Lillie's arrival, where Tai's mom opened the door for her, only to see Tai continuing to be licked by Solgaleo.

"Oh, I see that you're busy, maybe I should come back," she said, before laughing a bit, picking up Solgaleo's Pokéball that was rolled out to her by Tai and returning the Pokémon.

Getting back up, Tai's face looked like he came out of a cleaning jungle, hair standing up strait in random directions and a trail of lion slobber all over his face.

"When did you learn to talk like that?" Tai asked, a more stunned look on his face now that he could walk around.

"Once I went back to Aether Paradise, there wasn't much for me to do, so I watched some shows from Kanto," she responded, before taking his hand and putting Solgaleo's ball in it.

Now that he was paying attention to what Lillie looked like, Tai quickly flushed a bright shade of red, before passing out on the ground.

She was dressed in a hat similar to what she wore when he first met her, only smaller, a bikini top, a towel wrapped around her waist and a backpack with the Aether foundation logo on the back.

Sighing a bit, Lillie opened one of her own Pokéballs, and with some help, managed to get Tai on her Pokémon, before walking off to the beach front.

"We're going to have to do something with how pure you are I guess," Lillie said, taking an open vest out of the bag, figuring something like this could happen.

Walking down the streets of Hou'uli City, Lillie guided her Pokémon to the beachfront, before finding the area Tai was talking about for a beachfront movie.

Well, she thought, here's for a better next date.

AN: Well, like I said, I needed a break from my current big story, so here's another chapter for this one. After this, most chapters aren't going to be in a set time frame, unless there's some kind of idea that I think of and have a small mini arc in this.