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Chapter 2: B is for Bicycle

"Come on, Iris, it'll be fun!"

"No, I'm not doing it, Ash,"

"Don't say that! Besides once you see how fun it is, you'll thank me,"

"I'll thank you alright, if I don't end up dead when I crash!"

"You won't crash,"

"And what makes you say that?"

"Cause I'm here to teach, ya!"

"Oh wow, that makes me feel a whole lot better," Iris muttered, sarcastically as she rolled her eyes

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" questioned her raven haired friend, frowning

"It means that, the only thing I'll learn is how to crash twice as fast, that's what!" Iris answered as she crossed her arms and looked away, "I'm not getting on that bike,"

"But Iris," Ash moaned

As the two friends continued to bicker among themselves their connoisseur friend, who sat not too far away on a park bench, sighed to himself.

"The one day when we fine some time to relax, and those two have pick a fight," Cilan groaned, burying his nose deeper into his book.

It was a calm peaceful day, the sun was out, it's rays raining down on the large park the trio were currently at. It was a nature park, with large colorful displayed of flowers, tall trees that offered their cool shade to people that sat on the benches that were located under the trees, and watched their children play or just to remove themselves from the sun's rays. There was playground equipment were kids jumped about on and played pretend. Also looping around the large nature park was a paved path that served as a walking area for people to run around for exercise or just for a casual walk, but it was mostly used by kids, who insisted on going around in circles on their bikes, roller skates, skateboards, scooters and other modes of outdoor transportation.

"Everything had started out peaceful, we were all enjoying ourselves," Cilan continued to mutter as he thought back to when they had first arrived at the nature park.

Ash and Iris had entertained themselves by running around, playing and acting childish. Cilan on the other had wanted nothing to do with running and playing all he wanted to do was to read the last two chapters of this mystery book he had been itching to finish. He had told himself to get to the ending for the longest of times, but between traveling, cooking and keeping his friends from arguing 27/4 he hadn't found time to finish it. So seeing he had some free time, Cilan just plopped himself down on a bench but before he could even get through a few pages, he was interrupted by Ash, who eagerly asked if he wanted to have a bike race. And Cilan, who was trying his hardest not to look annoyed, politely decline the offer and suggested that he asked Iris instead.

The connoisseur had felt pleased with himself, assuming that he had gotten Ash of his back, but his joy was short lived when he heard this conversation going on between his friends:

"Nah, Ash I don't wanna ride bikes," Iris, who had busied herself by admiring the lovely display of flowers.

"Why not?" Ash whined.

"Because going around in circles, meh, I find it boring," Iris answered as she leaned down and sniffed the flowers; she smiled at their sweet aroma.

"What do you mean, it's boring?" Ash asked, "I thought you'd like biking, since you know, you like vine swinging and swimming and-"

"Yeah, I like those things Ash," Iris interrupted as she reached out to pick a flower, "but I just don't like bike riding,"

"Oh come on," Ash said nudging his purple haired friend, "you gotta like bike riding, everyone does,"

"Well not me," Iris said, as she frowned down at a sign that read: please don't pick flowers. She looked up at him, hesitated for a moment, before sheepishly adding, "And besides I've never even got on a bike before,"

Ash blinked, "Y-You never been ridden a b-bike Iris?" he asked, obviously shocked.

"Uh…well no," Iris answered looking at her feet, she shrugged, "I never felt the need to learn,"

Ash flashed a grin, "Well, of course you need to learn! Everyone needs to learn to ride a bike! And today I'm gonna teach you, Iris!"

At this Iris quickly refused, but Ash was persistent and had managed to actually get a bike for her to try out.

"I'm not getting on that bike, Ash," Iris said firmly.

"Why not? It's a perfectly good bike," Ash said.

"Yeah but it's too…girly…" Iris said, with a shudder.

She was right, the bike had a hot pink frame and had bows and hearts printed all over it. There was a white basket with a frilly pink bow in the front that matched the white wheels that had pink polka dots. The whole design of the bike made Iris's skin crawl, it was just too girly and little kidish for her to bear! Iris almost couldn't stand to look at it.

"It looks like it should be used by a five year old," Iris conclude, "I'm not getting on it,"

"Iris, so what if it looks girly," Ash said, with a roll of his eyes, "besides it was the only bike in the rental place that was your size, so stop whining and get on already,"

"No, you can't make me," Iris stated crossing her arms over her chest

"Oh, yes I can!" Ash said.

Cilan who sat on the bench, suddenly cringed when he heard a high pitched yelp. Looking up from his book, he saw Ash had gotten a hold of Iris and had lifted her off the ground, bridal style, and despite her flailing and yelling for him to put her down, Ash was able to get Iris onto the pink bike. Sweatdropping, Cilan returned to his book.

"Y-You didn't have to do t-that," Iris managed to say, a pink color tinted her cheeks form what Ash had just done.

"Yeah, I really didn't," Ash moaned, rubbing his arm were Iris had scratched him with her nails

Sighing, Iris kept her feet planted to the ground, and clutched the white handle bars, "Okay, Ash since you got me on here, what do I do?"

"Well since you're a beginner," Ash started as watched Iris struggle to keep her balance on the bike, "you gotta make sure your safe so…" he then reached down and picked up a pink helmet that matched the pink bike, "you gotta wear this!"

"A helmet?" Iris asked, a frown decorated her face, "I'm not putting that on it-"

"I know I know, make you look like a five year old," Ash interrupted as he approached her and lifted it to place it on her head.

"No," Iris said, waving her hand to prevent Ash from putting the safety mechanism on top her head, "I was gonna say, it won't fit! It's too small!"

Ash made a face, and lowered the helmet, Iris was right. The circumference of the helmet was way too small to fit around Iris's massive pigtail hairstyle, "Okay, then we'll just forget the helmet," he carelessly tossed the pink piece of headgear aside.

"What?! But wh-what happens if I fall o-off?" Iris nervously stammered, "I don't wanna get a concussion or anything,"

"Aw, don't worry, Iris. We'll just have to be careful!" Ash said, giving Iris a playful pat on the shoulder.

Iris glared at him, "Fine, but if I break my neck on this thing, I'm blaming you,"

Later on, once the raven haired boy had finished explaining to Iris the basics of riding a bike he decided she had enough knowledge to try it out.

"So I-I just put my feet here," Iris gently rested her feet on the bike's pink pedals, "and I just push?"

"Yup," Ash confirmed

"B-But I c-can't even stay b-balanced!" Iris stated, as she pedaled once and wobbled uncontrollably.

"Don't worry about the balance part yet, Iris,"

"But-"

"I'll be right here beside you, and I'll hold the back of your seat to keep you from falling," Ash told her grinning.

Iris bit her lip nervously, but nodded. So after she took a deep breath, Iris pushed against the pedals and slowly started to accelerate forwards. As she gained speed, the dragon loving girl smiled at how the wind felt blowing at her face and through her hair, it felt wonderful!

"Wow, this is amazing!" Iris exclaimed, glancing over at Ash

"See, told ya it be fun!" Ash panted, who had taken up a run to keep up with Iris on the bike, "you're doing great, Iris,"

"You really think so, Ash?" Iris questioned, feeling flattered especially since this was her first time on a bicycle.

"Yeah, you're doing so well in fact, I think I could let go now," upon saying that the raven haired boy released his grip on the back of Iris's seat.

Instantly Iris felt the bike start to shake from the loss of balance, and despite the fact that the wobbling was far from being dangerous Iris panicked.

"WAAHH! Ash!" Iris screeched, even though he was right beside her.

Iris tried to balance out the bike but in her panic she was unable to do so and the bike, just started to teeter and totter more and more. Letting out a squeal of alarm her hands quickly released themselves from the handle bars and quickly reached for the closest thing to latch onto. Which happened to be around Ash's neck.

"Ir-Iris?! ACK! Wh-what are you-?!" Ash stammered, when Iris had clamped her arms around his neck.

Ash didn't get to finish his sentence as he was forced to grab Iris's waist, to keep himself from falling. Since no one was steering the bike it titled and forced Iris and the bike right on top of Ash! Back on the bench Cilan once again cringed at the loud sound of the bike hitting the pavement and the sound of groaning. Frowning he peeked over the top of his book, only to see that Iris and Ash were on the ground. His purple haired friend had a death grip around Ash's neck and the raven haired boy were showing signs of struggling to breathe.

"Ir-Iris…ack…l-let g-go…" Ash wheezed as he tried to loosen her grip around his neck, but at the same time couldn't help but flush a bit red at how close his female friend was to him. She was so close he could smell the scent of her lavender shampoo from her hair.

Hearing her friend's pleading, Iris blinked her eyes open and then gave a small gasp as she realized what she had done. Quickly she released Ash's neck and sat up.

"What the heck was that for?" Ash asked, as he rubbed his now sore neck

"I almost fell!" Iris answered, in a sheepish tone, "I-I…didn't want to get hurt,"

"Iris you would have been fine," Ash said, as she helped him to his feet, "if you feel like you're gonna fall just put your feet on the ground, easy!" he said it as if it was the most logical answer.

"Oh, well o-of course I-I knew th-that," Iris lied, as she picked the bike from the ground, "now uh I want to try again,"

Once seated on the pink bike, Iris placed her feet on the pedals and Ash held the back of her seat and they started off again. As the two went around the big looping trial, Iris was smiling the entire time, while reminding Ash not to let go of her seat. Ash was also proud of Iris at how quick she able to learn how to ride the pink girly bike and was wondering if she'd be a worthy opponent when they raced.

"Okay, Iris you're doing awesome!" Ash said between breaths as he ran beside her.

"Yeah, we already went around two times," Iris giggled, "and I haven't even fallen once! You did an amazing job teaching me Ash!"

"What can I say; I'm a natural at teaching!" Ash said with a goofy grin.

"What a little kid," Iris muttered rolling her eyes. After one more lap Iris stated, "Do you think I'm ready to go on my own, Ash?"

"Maybe," panted Ash, who still ran beside her, "you just started so-AAAHH!"

Ash didn't get to finish his sentence as he tripped and as a reaction let go of Iris seat as he fell forwards.

"Ash!" Iris cried looking behind her at her friend that was now on the ground.

Ash quickly sat up, "D-Don't worry I'm fine-" but he stopped mid-sentence as he noticed something, "Hey! Iris you're doing it! You're riding all by yourself!"

Iris blinked and then noticed how she was still moving forward, she was still pedaling, and she wasn't wobbling at all! A smile spread on her face as all of this came to realization, Iris giggled, "Look at me I can ride a bike!" she yelled at the top of her voice for the whole park could hear.

Ash sweatdropped, "And she calls me a little kid," he chuckled as he adjusted his hat that had fallen from his head.

Over at the bench, Cilan had heard Iris's loud shout and looked up from his book to see that Iris in fact was riding the pink girly bike all by herself. He gave a small sigh of relief, now knowing that he would probably get some peace and quite so he could finish his book. But once again he was wrong.

"Great job Iris!" Ash called as Iris sped towards him after going around the track by herself, "now you can race with me,"

"Sure thing, Ash," Iris said smiling, as she steered towards her friend.

Ash sweatdropped, "Er um I-Iris aren't y-you uh gonna stop?" his friend was going at pretty fast pace and was heading right for him.

"S-Stop?!" Iris squeaked, her eyes widened, "ASH HOW DO I STOP?!"

Panicked Ash quickly tried to explain to Iris how to use the breaks on the bike, but his words weren't leaving his mouth fast enough and all of his efforts were in vain as suddenly the front tire of Iris's bike got caught on a rock! The bike, having no choice but to obey the laws of physics, pivoted forwards! Iris, who was not ready for the sudden change in direction, screamed as she went flying over the handle bars. In reaction, Ash cried out Iris's name and outstretched his arms to catch her, which thankfully he did. Unfortunately though, the impact of Iris's weight was too much for Ash to handle and it sent them both tumbling backwards into one of the large bushes that displayed bright pink flowers.

CRASH!

Was the sound Cilan heard when his friends hit the ground.

Sighing in defeat, he placed book down knowing that he'd never get to finish it, "I knew something like this was going to happen," he muttered as he jogged over to the bush were his friends had landed, "Ash I know you're trying to teach Iris how to ride a bike, but you need to be more careful if-"

But upon approaching the bush the green haired connoisseur stopped in mid-sentence at the scene that was before him and he grinned. His two friends were both covered with stray leaves and pink flower petals that were once part of the large bush. Ash was on his back, his Pokémon League hat had fallen from his head, and his arms had a firm grip around Iris waist from when he had caught her. Iris, whose long dark purple hair was littered with leaves and flower petals, was seated on top of Ash and had her arms resting around the raven haired boy's shoulders, from when she had clung to him when they impacted.

They were close to each other.

Very close to each other.

Both of their faces were as red as Cherri berries and Ash's auburn eyes and Iris dark chocolate brown eyes were wide with surprise, and this was all because of how the raven haired boy and purple haired girl's lips were smashed together! Their kiss held for a few seconds, neither of them blinking as they stared at each other, before they slowly pulled away. They were both speechless as they stared into each other's eyes. They silence would have lasted forever it Cilan hadn't broken it.

"Well, I'm guessing you're next lesson is teaching Iris how to use the brakes right, Ash?" Cilan chuckled

"CILAN!" both Ash and Iris shouted in utter embarrassment.

Toadettegirl2012: Well there you have folks! Cute, wasn't it? Hehehehe! Hoped you liked it! And stayed tuned for the next chapter who will be done by Zeldafan128!

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