Dawn awoke but lay still, knowing that it was very early she closed her eyes and tried to fall back asleep. Her efforts were futile, so she just lay there, looking at the little frost crystals on the grass. She didn't want to get up as she could see her breath condensing in the cold air. "I guess it's just one of those mornings..." she thought.
She lay there for about 2 minutes when she felt Ash stir, he too had woken up very early and wasn't too happy. "Ugh, great..."
he grunted, and rolled over to his side and saw a pair of cobalt blue eyes staring at him. Ash jumped slightly before realizing they were Dawns. "Oh... hey Dawn, good morning." He said, sleepily.
"Good morning to you too..." She yawned, "you up early too?"
"Yeah, what are you doing out here?" Ash asked, "You usually sleep in that tent of yours"
"I couldn't sleep," she responded, "I just didn't feel comfortable by myself anymore after our little moment, so I came out here."
"I see."
Dawn pulled out her right arm from her sleeping bag and drooped it over Ash's side. "I don't think I need the tent anymore,
well maybe for changing and some... other things."
"Other things?" Ash started, before Dawn put her finger on his lips.
"Don't you worry your pretty little head about anything." She giggled.
Ash also fished an arm out of his bag and wrapped it around Dawn's waist and tugged her a little closer.
Dawns cheeks began to turn crimson and she smiled and moved her arm over Ash's upper back.
Ash looked down at the girl he dearly cared for, running a finger through her long, silky smooth hair, which was surprisingly affected very little by the water vapor in the air.
Dawn giggled again and rested her head into Ash's chest and fell back asleep within a couple of minutes.
She awoke at 9:00 still buried in Ash's chest, the sun was higher in the sky now, most of the frost in the sky had melted and the fog had gone away. Everyone was still asleep, and Dawn was still very comfortable where she was but was now wide awake.
"I could get used to this." She thought.
Very shortly after, the gang began to wake up, Jeremy woke and stood up and flexed and stretched.
Still sleepy he looked over at the two, thinking that they were both asleep he went for a short walk to wake himself up.
He enjoyed the fall and wintertime unlike most folks his age, he finds the cooler temperatures to be refreshing. "Man, what a beautiful morning." He said to himself, "can't wait to get back on the road. Hopefully those two will be awake when I get back."
Eventually, Ash awoke once again, but remained still as Dawn was still in his arms.
"Good morning again." He whispered. Dawn pulled her face out of his chest and looked up at him.
"Good morning." Dawn repeated.
"Hows my little angel feeling?"
"Oh Ash..." She giggled, playfully, "I'm feeling just fine."
"Glad to hear that." Ash said, feeling it was time to get up, he tried to stand but Dawn pulled him back.
"Can we cuddle some more? Just for another minute?" She asked sheepishly, giving some puppy dog eyes.
Ash couldn't refuse that face even if he tried to. "Oh alright."
Dawn beamed and ran her fingers through his messy hair, she continued to do so for the entire minute without realizing it.
Ash sat up, Dawn still in his arms. "Okay, time to get up." Ash announced.
"Awwww..." Dawn groaned non seriously, she then watched as Ash got up and went to get his stuff ready to begin traveling once again. She watched the yellow mouse wake from his sleep then proceeded to roll up her sleeping bag, then returned to her tent to touch up her hair and get dressed.
Jeremy returned to the camp site a few minutes later.
"Morning." Ash said to him.
Jeremy didn't really answer, unless you count a grunt that vaguely sounds like "Good morning" as an answer.
Jeremy cleared his throat and answered properly. "Good morning, where's Dawn at?"
"She's in her tent, getting ready," He said, motioning in the direction of her tent, "Come on Dawn!"
"Don't rush me!" She shouted, "I'm not even dressed yet!"
Ash sighed in frustration, obviously he was as always, very eager to get going and resulted in his impatience.
"Relax dude," Jeremy said, "you got to cut her some slack she's a girl, they care about that stuff more then we do. Secondly long hair requires more grooming." He then took out a brush of his own and did some of his grooming quickly, not to help prove his point but had reminded himself to do that.
Ash could only nod, knowing that he was the only one in his group that didn't have long hair.
Shortly after Dawn emerged from her tent, her hair now brushed to perfection, and dressed in her usual attire.
"Okay," Dawn sighed, more chipper then mad from Ash's hurrying, "I'm almost ready."
Ash fell to the ground as if he and the ground became magnetized different polarities. "Almost?" He spluttered, "What more needs to be done?"
"Taking down my tent?"
Ash fell back down to the ground out of stupidity, but quickly got up to help her take down her tent.
Jeremy then let Machop out to help carry his 'luggage' around for the trip ahead, as he had allot of heavy things to carry already.
The tent came down in about 20 minutes due to a lack of coordination but it came down with no damage done to the canvas.
"Okay let's roll!" Ash said.
The trio once again started their way down the long trail going to Twinleaf town, with their new friend Jeremy in tow, our heroes now set themselves up for future adventures ahead.