A.N. Hey Guys! Something is going to develop in this chapter! Also, the asterisks mean that Eric is thinking, so don't get confused!
I awoke the next morning to see Tori still asleep on my body. I smiled, liking how peaceful she looked, and then nudged her a little, trying to wake her.
"Ngh..." She said, cracking open an eye.
"Good morning Sleepyhead..." I said to her.
"Can't I get five more minutes?" She asked me.
"I'm sorry, but if I can't get five more minutes, then you can't. Don't worry, we can sleep in tomorrow." I told her, starting to slide out from under her. She sat on my bed with her legs to one side, and started to yawn.
"I want to spend an entire day in bed with you one day, Eric. Just you and me, asleep. And when we wake up, we roll over and go back to sleep!" She said as I was packing my bag.
"Oh, I'd love that." I said to her, pulling my laptop cable out of the charger for it and putting my laptop in the bag for me to carry. I stood up, off the futon, and said, "Tori, you know the drill."
"Yeah, I know, I know...eyes covered..." She replied, covering up her eyes when I looked at her. I was about to change my pants as soon as I turned around when I saw a familiar set of ears.
"Noodles! Get away from my door!" I yelled at the Pikachu, trying to be sneaky.
"Pi, Pika!" Noodles yelled, before I heard him move away from my door. I closed it fully, and locked it, before going to change my pants. As soon as they were changed out to shorts, I turned back to face Tori.
"Alright, you can look now..." I said to her. She uncovered her eyes and looked at me, when I had a shirt off, while I was swapping out to a cleaner shirt.
"Eric, why do humans wear this many clothes? It seems silly..." Tori asked me.
"Well, most of us are ashamed of what God gave us, so they want to keep everyone clothed at all times. Others wear clothes because they're comfy and easy to wear, and then there's people like me..." I explained to her.
"Why do you wear clothes?" She asked me.
"Because I'm forced to. I just like showing the world who I am. I'm a lot like a Pokemon in that way..." I said, putting on my standard shoes.
"Oh, so you like being naked..." Tori asked me.
"Yeah." I said, throwing my wallet and phone in my pockets before letting Tori up off the futon.
After I got back to school, and we saw Shadow's new form as a Combusken, we had to go off to Animation. In that class, I pulled along a spare seat for Tori, due to her now requiring a desk in all of my classes, and she sat beside me. A little while later, Deb came in, her Riolu now having evolved into a Lucario.
"Deb." I said coldly.
"Eric." She said back.
"John." Tori said, remembering that the two of them not only talked a bit, but also argued on their last visit.
"Lu..." He said, in Pokespeak.
"Alright, you four, wait until after school to get into a fight..." Mr. Stanard said, Chrom now following him in a Duosion's body. I turned back to my computer station, and started to work on the first project that we were assigned: To make a flying machine that wasn't related to Star Wars. I decided to have an open cockpit, lower atmosphere flier, that had the engine directly under the pilot's seat. Tori aided me in making this by pointing out some things that needed some additional attention, such as certain parts of the plane being see through when they shouldn't, signaling that I need to reapply my point structure. I edited the project as much as I could, until the bell rang, and I had to transition to my Math class.
I was waiting desperately for lunch by the time that it came around. I was bored and sleepy from Math, where Tori aided me in keeping awake by nudging me, and we did nothing in English class except read a Shakespearean play that everyone else had already known about. I grabbed my slice of Pizza, and I paid for it and Tori's salad that she decided to get. I lead us to the table that we normally sit at, where I was once again greeted in a harsh manner.
"Ox." Said the girl I despise.
"Nag." I replied. I sat down at the table, with Tori beside me, and we started to dig in.
"So, when did Tori evolve?" Jazz asked me, her Swalbu on her head.
"Well, she turned yesterday, which is also when we managed to get a former bully to walk out of the room." I said, giving Tori a small side hug.
"Cool." Joey said.
"Marsh Top!" Ben said. I smiled, knowing that it had to be standard praise. I started to dig in, while also showing Tori how to use her fingers and manipulate the fork for her salad. We all dug in while talking about how our days were, and I noticed something weird. A hand on my leg. I snuck a quick peek to see that it had three fingers and it was green, and connected to Tori, who had finished all of her leafy food. I decided for now to ignore it, and ask her about it when she and I were alone.
After I had gotten done with Psychology, which didn't give Tori a headache this time, we went back into the car. I threw my book bag into the backseat, and handed Tori my laptop bag, which held my now dead laptop, and I plugged in my iPod, which Tori grabbed from me.
"I got it." She said, and started to play "Livin' la Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin. As soon as I started to pull away from the school parking lot, I decided to confront her about the lunch incident.
"So, what was that at the lunch table today?" I asked her.
"What?" She asked me.
"Your hand on my leg. What was that about?" I asked her.
"Oh! Uhh..." She said, a blush starting to form across her face.
"Hm?" I asked her.
"Well, Uh...You...know I love you...right?" She asked me.
"Yeah..." I responded, changing into the middle lane.
"Well...I love you...like that..." She said to me.
"Oh!" I said, my cheeks starting to heat up.
"Yeah...I...I'll understand...if you...don't feel the same way about me..." She said to me as I turned onto the main road for our neighborhood.
"I...I...I'll... have to think about this..." I said, moving a hand to the back of my neck, trying to alleviate the awkwardness that I was feeling.
"Oh...Okay..." She said, looking down at her hands. I decided to think about the new revelations later, when I was alone.
I was finished with my homework fairly fast, due to not having a whole hell of a lot. Tori aided me as well, helping me with the Math that I had unintentionally slept through. After that, we decided to start watching some Netflix, turning on Law and Order: SVU.
"So, this entire show is about them catching Rapists?" She asked me as we started watching.
"No, it's also about cases involving children, or otherwise 'Special' Victims." I explained to her.
"Oh. So, if someone was mentally disabled..." She started to ask.
"Then they handle the case completely, yes." I answered her. She smiled, then gave me another hug. I smiled at her, then hugged her back. We then continued to watch the show, ignoring the thunder blasts from outside, which was obviously my sister training Noodles. "That's going to be a pain on the roof..." I said to Tori.
"Yeah...Thank god that I don't have any Electric-Type moves..." She said to me.
"Hey, what moves do you know?" I asked her.
"Well. I know that I can perform Psychic, but I can also use Shadow Ball, Energy Ball, and Hyper Beam." She said.
"That's awesome!" I said to her.
"Thank you. It's nothing, really." She tried to dissuade me.
"No, it's really awesome!" I told her. She smiled, then dug her face into my chest, obviously feeling shy at this. I smiled, and held her closer to me.
After dinner ended, Tori went to bed, so I decided to head up to the roof. I was sitting in my normal spot, and I decided to think.
*Okay, so today, Tori revealed how much she loves me. I had thought that she meant as a friend, but this blows that completely out of the water. I don't know if I should like her, or if it's even legal. I do know that before her, no one truly loved me...they only faked it...but Tori...she loves me with all of her heart, and she would not let anything happen to me. I...I think...* I thought, before my mind was interrupted by a familiar sound.
"Pi Ka?" Noodles said, quizzically. I looked to my right to see him on his hind legs, staring at me with his head turned, as if he did not know why I was on the roof, alone, at night.
"Hey Noodles..." I said, rubbing the top of his head.
"Pi, Pi Ka!" Noodles said, as if he were telling me to let him in on what I was thinking.
"Are you, asking what's wrong?" I asked the little yellow mouse.
"Pi Ka!" He said, nodding his head at the same time.
"Well, Tori said that she loved me..." I said to him.
"Pi?" He asked me.
"Well, she said that it wasn't friend love...it was love love..." I explained to him, which practically caused his jaw to drop.
"Pi, Pika Pi, Pi Ka Pi! Pikachu!" He started to ramble on, which caused me to be lost in translation.
"Uh...was that you praising her for finding someone like me?" I asked him.
"Pi!" He said, nodding his head.
"Thanks, Noodles, but that's where the problem is...I don't know...if I should pursue Tori...I mean...if I do...then I'm afraid that it would ruin what we have..." I was saying, before I got hit in the face with something that felt like Metal. I looked at Noodles, whose tail was loosing it's luster. "Noodles? Did you just...use Iron Tail on me?" I asked him.
"Pi! Pikachu, Pika Pi! Pika Pika Chu!" Noodles said to me, anger in his voice.
"Um, are you saying that I should suck it up and be with her, and accept any faults as part of my journey with her?" I asked him, partially understanding him.
"PIKA!" Noodles shouted, falling onto his back. I started to laugh, and then helped the exhausted Pokemon up on his feet.
"Thanks, Noodles. Who would have thought that the only one that could understand my dilemma was someone that I can't understand..." I said to him.
"Pi Ka..." Noodles said, rubbing the back of his head. I laughed at him, and then remembered something.
"Noodles, can you not tell my sister about our little chat here? I don't want her involved.
"Pika Pi!" Noodles said, nodding his head and extending his little paw out towards me, which I shook.
"Alright, now, let's go down off the roof. Don't want anybody else worrying about us..." I told him, standing up. Noodles nodded, then ran up along my leg to ride on my shoulder. I let him enjoy this small and short ride for as long as it would last. Once I got off the ladder, however, I was met with a sour look from gorgeous, Ruby eyes.
"Why were you on the roof again? With Noodles?" Tori asked me.
"I was just up there thinking and mulling today over. Noodles came up for moral support...and he needs to go back to Julie, right?" I said, looking at my shoulder to make Noodles understand my point. He nodded, then jumped off of me and ran into the house.
"So, what did you think of?" Tori asked me. I walked up to her, taking her small, thin hands in mine, and kissed her cheek.
"I thought of us, and what it would be like. Then after Noodles hit me with an Iron Tail, I realized that you and I were meant to be together..." I explained.
"Well...that explains...why my face was hurting a little while ago..." She said.
"Yeah...Sorry about that..." I said, giving her a hug, which she returned.
"So...does this mean..." She started to ask me.
"Yeah...it does..." I said to her. She smiled, and hugged me more, careful of her horn. I picked her up bridal style, and carried her back to my bed, where we slept, as happy as could be.