Er...hi everyone. *stares at angry readers* I'm so sorry for not updating this in over a month (yes it literally is one month)! I haven't had time to update this because of writer's block and because of summer HOMEWORK!!! DX School's starting again in a couple of days so I'm feeling rather down... Anyways (sorry to bore you about that), this chapter focuses mainly on Ruby and Sapph and is dedicated to all my wonderful reviewers! (Thanks to you guys!) Please have fun reading and review!

Disclaimer: Pokemon still isn't mine.

Sapphire's P.O.V.

"…"

Both Ruby and I stood staring speechlessly at the tacky red and pink sign above us. On it were two large glowing Luvdiscs, kissing. Underneath them were the words, "The Tunnel of Luvdiscs." And underneath those words was, "Take a ride with your soul mate and experience TRUE LOVE!!!" The rest of the sign was covered by gross pink hearts of all sizes. Overall, the whole thing made me want to puke.

"We're not riding that!" I yelled, resisting the urge to rip down the sign and stomp on it.

"Of course not." I looked to my left, wondering why Ruby sounded so distracted. He was looking slightly to the right, where the head of the line was.

I raised my eyebrows. There was nothing interesting there, just a large television monitor that was dark. Suddenly…

"LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!"

I jumped at the shrill voice screaming over the Tunnel of Luvdisc's speakers. I was about to go find the manager of this disgusting ride and beat the pulp out of him/her, when I realized that now there was an image on the monitor.

It showed two people who I assumed were inside the tunnel since A. They were sitting in one of the boats and B. The background was completely red and pink. The worst part? The couple (who were unaware of the camera) were making out.

"…What the fuck?!?" I yelled out. People surrounding Ruby and I stared in shock at me. I glared back angrily until they looked away. I turned to Ruby. "What the hell was that?"

"People kissing, what else?" He shrugged, frowning.

"I know that! But why were they kissing?"

Now Ruby was giving me a strange look. "It's obvious they're together, isn't it?"

"What?"

Ruby sighed. "Well, this ride is mainly for couples and stuff. That's why the people who go here are willing to kiss." He looked away with an embarrassed expression.

Now I could feel myself growing hot. If Ruby and I went on this ride, did that mean we would have to…kiss? Oddly enough, I didn't feel repulsed by the idea like I would have before. My stomach just felt odd and a blush was starting to spread on my face.

"C'mon. Let's go find the others and do something else," Ruby said, pulling gently at my hand. In one second, I was brought back to reality.

"Sure…" Looking to the side I mentally scolded myself. Obviously Ruby didn't want to kiss me. Well it didn't matter! I didn't want to kiss him anyways! I nodded, satisfied with my conclusion.

"Hey guys!"

Ruby and I turned around in surprise. Blue was running toward us, pulling Green behind her. Finally she reached us, smirking widely. "So are you two going to ride the Tunnel of Luvdisc? Or have you guys already ridden it?"

"Of course not!" I shouted. Trust Blue to ask stupid questions like that. I grinned. "What about you and Green? Have you ridden it?"

"Of course!" Blue nodded firmly. I looked at Green, expecting him to be denying it, but he was blushing. I was shocked. Were they now a couple? Ruby had an equally confused and stunned expression as I did.

Blue had an amused look on her face, watching us. "So…" she started. "Are you two going to ride?'

"No way!" we yelled simultaneously.

"Aren't those free tickets?" Blue asked, spotting the slips of paper in Ruby's hand.

"Yeah, but…" Ruby started.

Blue didn't wait for him to finish. "You two should go!" With a surprising amount of force, Blue pushed us both to the man running the ride. (At the moment, there was no one else in line.) She handed the tickets to the man, before pushing us both into the tiny boat. Wordlessly, the man pushed the button and started the ride.

"Have fun you two!" Blue yelled, waving at us cheerfully.

The only thing running through my head as we approached the entrance of the tunnel was, "Damn you Blue…"

-In the tunnel-

Ruby's P.O.V.

"Damn you Blue…"

"Eh?" I looked at Sapph and raised an eyebrow. "What'd you say?"

"Wha-?" Sapph turned to me with a surprised expression. "Oh, nothing. I didn't say anything!" she exclaimed loudly. She looked to her right and was silent.

I looked to my left, feeling the rather heavy silence overpowering us. The decorations and atmosphere didn't help at all. Red, pink, and white streamers were flung everywhere, the walls were crimson, even the sand on the shores of both sides was bubblegum pink. And of course, there were hearts everywhere.

If that wasn't tacky enough, there were various mechanical pokemon couples who were cuddling, kissing, etc. Looking down in an attempt to give my eyes a break from the hideous décor, I realized the water was scattered with rose petals.

"This place is disgusting…" I muttered, sliding to my right, and averting my eyes from the petal laden water.

"For once, I agree with you."

I jumped, forgetting that Sapph was to my right. She was glaring at the mechanical figurines with a murderous expression (probably planning their demise). Suddenly, she ripped her gaze away from the robots and looked down (wrinkling her nose as she caught sight of the water.)

"Hey Ruby…"

"Yeah?" I turned away from a pair of Eevee that were snuggling and looked at Sapph. For some reason, she was now staring at the bottom of the boat with a nervous expression.

"Um…you know how you said this ride is for people who kiss?"

I blinked then blushed furiously as I remembered what I had told Sapph before. "Oh! Uh…yeah…?"

Sapph paused, before speaking hesitantly. "Does that mean…" There was a pause. Then Sapph finished the rest hurriedly. "Does that mean we have to kiss?"

I gulped. "I don't think we have to." I thought for a moment. "We'll probably look stupid on that annoying monitor though…" As soon as I said that, I regretted it. What would Sapph think now?

"So do you want to…?"

"Er…" What was I supposed to say? I mean, now I realized that Sapph wasn't actually so wild and annoying, I was actually starting to kind of like her. But was it enough to kiss her?

Come on, you know you want to…

You again?!? I thought I told you to stay away from me!

Pfft-! Like I could really get away from you! Anyways, back to the main topic. Kiss the girl damnit!

No way! I don't even know if I like Sapph or not…

Ha! You admitted you like her! There was a brief moment of silence before the voice spoke again. But you know, you love this girl.

Love? I just told you that I don't even know if I like her, let alone love her!

Whatever you say, deep down you've got some pretty serious feelings about this chick. I gotta hand it to ya, you do pick a pretty hot girl!

Ugh, get out of my head!

I'm just saying… Slowly, the voice faded away and was replaced by Sapph's frantic one.

"Ruby! Ruby!"

"Wha-?" I blinked and moved back when I realized how close Sapph's face was to mine. She frowned slightly, but continued.

"You blanked out on me again, but that's not important. Look!" She pointed upwards and straight ahead.

I squinted, but couldn't make out anything. "What?"

Sapph sighed heavily. "The camera! You know, the one that shows everyone outside whether we kiss or not!"

I didn't respond; too busy freaking out in my mind. Kiss Sapph? Don't kiss Sapph? Agh! There wasn't enough time! Then, I came to a sudden realization.

Quickly, I grabbed Sapph's right shoulder, forcing her back against the back of the boat. Her eyes opened wide with shock as I pushed her back.

"What are you doing?" she yelped.

I leaned forward, until my face was very close to Sapph's. "Just stay still. We don't have to kiss; we just have to make it look like we are."

Sapph continued to stare at me wide-eyed. Carefully I tilted my head, angling it in a way that looked like I was kissing Sapph. "Make it believable. They can't see my face, but they can see part of yours," I hissed, edging even closer to her.

Immediately, she snapped into action. Her eyes snapped close and she leaned even closer to me. Her free hand reached out and clutched onto my shirt. Keeping my eyes open (seeing as the camera couldn't see me), I was staring straight at Sapph.

Looking at her face, I honestly had to say she looked like she wanted to be kissed. From her serene expression to her whole body edging forward. And her lips… I found myself staring intently at Sapph's lips, knowing that if I moved forward just another inch or two, I would be kissing her. Without even thinking, I started getting closer to Sapph…

"Sh-omph-!"

I felt my whole body being jerked forward as the boat turned a sharp corner. For a fleeting moment, my lips brushed against something soft…before my head came in contact with another hard object.

"Ow!"

Sapph's eyes snapped open as her hand flew up to her forehead, clutching it in pain. She shut her eyes again and winced as she touched it. I bent forward (we were both sitting up straight now), rubbing my own forehead.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

Sapph opened her eyes and glared at me. "Not really! I'm not going to die, but geez, you have a hard head!"

I chuckled wryly. "I can't exactly say your head's soft either."

We continued rubbing our sore heads in silence for a couple of minutes, passing by more horrible décor, until Sapph spoke.

"How come you did that?"

I took my hand off my head. Luckily, the pain was starting to subside a little. "Did what?"

Sapph was still rubbing her head and not looking at me. "You know…came close to me and told me to make it look like we were…kissing."

"Oh." I shrugged. "I was trying to angle it so the camera would make us look like we were kissing. I learned how to do that in photography class."

"Huh…" was all Sapph said.

"You glad we didn't kiss?" I couldn't help but ask.

There was a pause. Sapph glanced at me then back at the water quickly. "Yeah…" she said hesitantly. More quietly (so that I wouldn't hear), she added, "…I guess…"

We didn't speak again as we emerged into the now fading sunlight. The sun was setting, making the sky a beautiful golden-pink, as we stepped out of the boat. Blue and Green rushed forwards. (Well, Blue rushed forwards, pulling Green along).

"Hey guys!" she cried out happily. "Look what I got!"

She held up a snapshot of Sapph and me "kissing." She had taken it when we were being shown on the monitor. Blue smirked triumphantly, waiting for us to speak.

"…You got it alright," I finally said. I turned away with Sapph in tow. "Now let's go find the others."

Normal P.O.V.

"That wasn't the reaction I was expecting." Blue watched Ruby and Sapph's retreating backs, pouting disappointedly.

"…" Green stared at the photo he had taken from Blue's hands. "…They aren't kissing."

"WHAT?!?" Blue yelped. She snatched the photo back from Green. "But look at them! Ruby's face! Sapph's face! Their lips-!"

Green rolled his eyes and sighed. "Not kissing," he repeated calmly. He pointed at the Ruby and Sapph in the photo. "You can tell by how far their faces are from each other. It's a simple photographing trick that Ruby probably knows."

"…" Blue's eye twitched. "Argh!" She grabbed the photo and ripped it into tiny shreds (earning her some weird looks from the other carnival-goers). "Now I have to get them to actually kiss and get a photo of that!" She paused, whipping out her GPS, and staring at it. "But first, we have other things to do!"

She grabbed Green's hand, running off in another direction. Green sighed again, not bothering to put up a fight, knowing it was futile.

Ruby's P.O.V.

Sapph and I walked off aimlessly, swinging our linked fingers between up. Sapph was still rubbing her head (I guess my head really was hard).

"Sorry."

Sapph looked at me with a bewildered expression. "About what?"

I scratched my cheek nervously, looking away from Sapph. "About hitting your head so hard."

"It wasn't really your fault I guess," Sapph said slowly. Now that it was lighter, I could see that luckily there was no bruise on Sapph's forehead.

"Uh…Sapph?

"Yeah?"

Now I slowed down to look at Sapph. She slowed down too, confusion evident in her eyes. "When we were in there, did you feel anything just as we turned that corner after the camera?"

Sapph raised an eyebrow. "Anything?"

I could feel my neck heat up. "Yeah. Like on your face." Sapph didn't speak for a moment as though she was thinking. Suddenly, she blushed.

"Oh. Yeah…."

I regarded her curiously, wondering why she was blushing. "Where?"

She muttered something. I stepped closer, cocking my head and indicating that I couldn't hear her. "On my cheek," she mumbled a little louder.

Now I could feel myself blushing. I had accidentally kissed Sapph on her cheek? And judging by her own blush, I guessed that Sapph had come across this conclusion too. We both stood there uncertainly, until I bent lower to look Sapph in the face.

"Where's it hurt?"

Sapph looked up in shock at seeing my face so close to hers. Too surprised to do anything else, she pointed at the spot where my head had hit hers. Once again, I found myself leaning forward impulsively. But this time, I actually kissed Sapph. Not on the lips though; on her forehead.

I stepped back after a moment, feeling my blush running up my neck and on my face. "Again, sorry for hitting your head," I said, nervously running my hand up and down my neck.

Sapph didn't answer, looking stunned. Finally, she blinked, reverting back to her confident self. "It's cool. Let's go."

We started walking again, but when I glanced over at Sapph, I saw her reach up and touch her forehead, and noticed her lips turn up slightly…

A/N: Well, I did my best. Sorry if there seemed like there were a lot of these (...). It's because I was trying to show hesitation (which there was a lot of XD), since I always see Ruby and Sapph as a kind of awkward couple (meaning they never know how to move forward romantically). And I hope the scene in the tunnel was okay; I didn't want to do the typical "fell into the water while attempting a kiss" scene (too overused!). Hope you enjoyed and please review!