Summary: A collection of drabbles and one-shots based off of 'Imagine your OTP's posted on Tumblr. Oldrivalshipping/Conflictingshipping/Leafgreenshipping.
Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon, oak-ay~?
Imagine your OTP
Shipping: Conflictingshipping
Person A: Leaf
Person B: Blue
Imagine Person B of your OTP telling Person A they like someone, which instantly makes Person A sad, but they want Person B to be happy. Person A encourages Person B to confess and Person B does so to Person A.
. . .
It was a cold, wintry day in the small town of Pallet, and though the snow lightly rained down from the sky, two figures sat next to each other on a wooden bench; a girl and a boy, both wearing several layers of clothing.
The boy let out a breath of air, and in the cold it looked like a white fog spilling from his lips. The girl's forest green eyes flickered over to him, but just as quickly she looked away again.
"So," she began, watching as the snowflakes drifted to the ground in front of them, "why did you call me out here, Blue? It better be important if you made me come outside in zero degree weather like this."
Blue looked over at her, the motion making a few snowflakes fall from where they had settled in his spiky brown hair. "What, can't handle the cold, Leafy?" he teased. She glared at him, wrapping her arms tighter around herself, and he rolled his eyes before continuing. "Just kidding, jeez, Leaf. To be honest, I need your help," he admitted, perking the girl's interest.
"With what?"
"Well, you see…" He looked away, and Leaf thought she saw his cheeks turn pink with a light blush. He looked back at her, and when his blue eyes met hers, she could have sworn her heart skipped a beat. She almost had to fight back a blush herself; Arceus, why did he always make her so flustered? "…I really like this one girl, and I want to confess to her that I like her, but I don't know how," he admitted, and immediately the warm feeling in Leaf's cheeks disappeared.
Her mind felt as numb as her cheeks as she replied, "Oh really?" Her voice sounded distant even to herself, and she mentally cursed herself. But how could she sound interested that Blue had a crush, when secretly she had one on him? Somehow, after years of knowing him, she had somehow developed a crush on her rival…
Gritting her teeth slightly, she asked him, "And you're telling me this, why?"
Blue shrugged, looking out across the snow covered houses in the distance. "Well, since you're a girl, I thought you'd know what sort of romantic things girls wish a boy would say to them."
She perked an eyebrow at him, trying not to show any emotion. "Why didn't you just ask Daisy, then? She's a girl, too, and I'm your rival – how are you sure I won't tell you something embarrassing and stupid and you say it in front of that girl?"
He simply rolled his eyes. "Because I know you won't." Darn, he knew her too well. "And if I asked my sister for help with girl problems, well…I'd never hear the end of it." He shivered. "And she'd probably torture me until I told her who it was I liked, too…"
Somehow, Leaf found the image of Daisy torturing Blue to be extremely amusing. Maybe that's because it was, or maybe it was because she was trying to ignore how terribly heartbroken she felt right now.
"So…what exactly did you want to help with?" she asked slowly.
Blue rested his chin on his hand, slightly tilting his head sideways. "How should I confess to this girl? What should I say?" he mused.
Leaf bit her lip. She really didn't want to discuss with Blue how he was going to confess to another girl when she liked him, but if it made him happy being with this girl he liked, she certainly wasn't going to ruin his happiness… "Well, first, I need to know what this girl is like," she finally decided to say. "If I don't know what her personality is like, I can't exactly help you figure out what to say to her."
She watched his face, waiting for his reply, and internally cringed when he got a distant look in his beautiful blue eyes, and a small smile curved his lips. Leaf knew that he was thinking about the girl he liked, and that she was the reason he was smiling…not her.
"Well…sometimes she a hothead, but only when I tease her," he began. "She's kind and helpful, and I admire that she puts other's happiness and safety before her own…plus she's smart and beautiful, and she really does mean the world to me…I'm just afraid she won't like me back…"
Leaf blinked a few times, mostly to hold back her tears but also to shake a snowflake off her eyelashes. This girl sounds perfect for Blue… she thought despairingly to herself. I'd never have a chance against her, and it sounds like Blue's already in love with her, too…
"So." Blue's voice caught her attention again, and she looked over at him to see him already staring back at her. "How should I confess to her?"
"I….ah…err," Leaf stammered, wracking her brain for something to say. "Well," she slowly began, "you definitely don't want to make it sound like you're teasing her or being insincere when you confess to her, since you said that irritates her, and if she's smart don't treat her like she's dumb. But, Blue…I think the best thing to do when you confess to this girl is to just act like yourself. Just tell her why you like her, and let your emotions speak for themselves. No girl wants a guy who fakes what he's really like, and flattering words can only go so far…"
Leaf fell silent, and awkwardly looked away from Blue's piercing gaze to watch the snowflakes drift to the ground. The snow piled on the ground around their feet was noticeably higher, and she shivered despite the many layers of clothing she was bundled in. How long had they been out here?
"…Leaf," Blue finally spoke, and said girl cautiously looked back over at the spiky-haired boy sitting next to her. She was surprised to see him smiling softly at her, sending her heart aflutter. "…thanks. I know what to say to her now."
Leaf smiled tightly back at him, hoping it looked convincing. She couldn't let her rival see how much helping him was hurting her… "No problem." Her voice sounded a bit hoarse, constricted.
She stood up, brushing the snow off her pants. Blue stood up beside her, doing the same. They both turned to each other at the same time, and after a moment of hesitation, Leaf spoke. "Are you going to go confess to her now?" she asked.
Blue's lips twitched, and she couldn't tell if he wanted to smirk or smile. "Yeah."
Leaf had to fight the wave of sadness that was over her. "Oh, well, have fun with that. Good luck. I hope she says she likes you back," she told him, a lump building in her throat. She turned so that her back was facing him – so that he couldn't see the tears forming in her eyes – and said, "I should probably be going now. You know, since it's freezing out here and there's a big cup of hot chocolate just waiting for me back home."
She paused for a moment, still facing away from him, and released that a few tears were trickling down and freezing on her face. Trying to keep her breathing even, she took a deep breath and then exhaled slowly. "Well, I guess I'll see you around then, Blu-."
Leaf froze in mid-step as a hand grabbed her wrist.
"Wait. You can't leave yet." Her heart sped up dramatically at the sound of Blue's voice.
"…What? And why can't I?" she hesitantly questioned, slightly turning her head, but not enough for him to see her face. A part of her wondered what Blue wanted, while the other simply wanted to be as far away from him as possible. "Do you need help with something else?"
"No. I…I need to tell you something." There was a change in Blue's voice, a softness that hadn't been there a second ago, and it made Leaf curious enough to make her turn around and look at Blue, despite the frozen tears on her face.
"What is it?" she murmured, meeting his eyes. "I thought you were going to go confess to that girl you liked right now – or aren't you?" she asked him, even though it felt like stabbing herself in the heart. Maybe she should have just refused to even come out here when he asked her to in the first place, she thought.
"No, I am," he said, and then he did something that shocked Leaf. He smiled at her. Like, the smile he had when he was talking about the girl he liked. But instead he smiled at her, Leaf. "But I don't need to go anywhere…since she's standing right in front of me."
It took Leaf a moment to figure out what he was saying, and even then she had to look behind and around her to make sure nobody else was there before she looked back at Blue, eyes wide. "Wait, are you saying-?" she began, but the spiky-haired brunet in front of her pressed a finger to her lips before she could continue.
"You mean the world to me, Leaf," he whispered, smiling softly at her, and she recalled him saying exactly that about the girl he liked. "…plus she's smart and beautiful, and she really does mean the world to me…" Leaf gasped, taking in a sharp breath.
"I…I…"
"I don't know how it happened, but one day I realized I liked you, Leaf, my rival. And since then I think it might have grown into something more…" Blue mused, closing his eyes and smiling softly. Then he opened them again and looked at Leaf, who was still completely stunned by his revelation. "Everything I said about you earlier was true, Leaf; you're beautiful, smart, helpful… Arceus, but I didn't know how to tell you how I felt." He chuckled quietly, shaking his head. "So I had to ask you how to confess to you."
Leaf's mouth opened and closed like a fish gasping for air as she struggled to find words to say. "I… You're not kidding me, are you?" she asked, heat flooding her cheeks. "B-Blue…"
"So now that I confessed to you…I have a question for you," he said, smirking. Leaf looked at him, curious but still slightly wary. She still felt numb from his confession. "Will you, Leaf Green, be my girlfriend?"
Leaf blinked. And then blinked again. She wasn't hearing or imagining things, was she? Was Blue actually confessing to her and asking her out? "I…I'm not dreaming, am I?" she whispered, feeling a bit wobbly on her feet. She couldn't really be the girl Blue liked, could she? Could your mind play tricks on you when you're super cold? Was that possible? "But even if it is a dream…yes…"
Blue smiled so widely that Leaf thought his cheeks might rip, but she didn't think long about that before Blue wrapped his arms around her, breaking into laughter before he kissed her straight on the lips.
Leaf's eyes widened; he was warm, so much warmer than she was, and…and he was kissing her! She wasn't dreaming, she knew right then, and so see returned his kiss with just as much passion as he. She could still barely believe she was the girl he liked, but when they pulled away and he looked at her with soft eyes, brushing the frozen tears off her cheeks with his thumb, she really didn't care.
"I'm not dreaming. That kiss was real," she told him, a smile curving her lips. "But I'm still cold."
The brunet simply chuckled, shaking snowflakes from his hair.
"Hot chocolate, then?"
A/N: …Yeah, I had no idea where I was going with this. XD I just knew I really wanted to update something this weekend, so forgive me for this terrible chapter. It wasn't planned out and didn't flow or make any sense at all. XD (And there wasn't any humor in it, either.)
…but Blue and Leaf kissed, so that's all that matters. :P
…Leaf wants hot chocolate, too, if you can't tell.
…Yeah, you should probably ignore what I'm saying. XD
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