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Chapter 7: The expected confession or is it.
In the cave.
"um... back in the woods, before we ran from the Pangoro, were you going to kiss me?" Serena questioned Ash, with her face turning into deeper shade of red.
Out of awkwardness, Ash withdrawed from snuggling with Serena and backed away a little from her. With him getting out of the blanket while still sitting next to her and still laying his back against the Cave wall.
"Um... Uh... Um..." was the words that came out from his mouth, while he was facing her, with his face turning Crimson red. In his mind though, a lot of thoughts came racing down his mind. "Oh no, what am I gonna do. Am I going to confess right now. What if she-she doesn't feel the same way. What to say... What to say."
Currently, in Serena' mind. "Why did I ask him that. I'm so stupid. He probably is not looking for a relationship right now."
As Ash kept saying gibberish, at an unexpected time, Ash's stomach growled. This change the topic of their conversation. In his thoughts, "thank you stomach." Ash grabbed their packs, which was at the left side of him, put them between the two people and quickly grabbed something out of one of them, A berry. He quickly offered one to Serena and she accepted it, getting the berry out of his hand and quickly ate. It didn't however made it less awkward for them.
Both turned away from each other. Ash was facing the entrance of the cave , while Serena was facing towards the deeper parts of the cave. Both faces were being reddened from each moment passing. This time there was nothing, but uncomfortable silence. There was no one around to break it off and they couldn't suggest that they should look for their lost friends since it was already nightfall and Serena couldn't get up because of her knee. There was nothing else to do, but talk, which nobody did, or keep eating.
As he was getting thirsty, Ash got their water bottles in the bag and got up. He then informed Serena. "I'm gonna go outside and get some water." This got rid of that awkward silence for a little bit until he came back that is.
Serena nodded yes in response not looking up at him so she wouldn't blush. With this he left the cave.
Even in different places, In both their mind, they were thinking about confessing their feelings to each other. Serena was more sure about his feelings towards her, but scared because of that tiny chance that he didn't like her and that if she told her feeling towards him it would undoubtedly ruin their friendship. In Ash's mind, he wasn't sure that Serena even liked him, but unlike Serena he was a little bit more courageous to tell his feeling towards her and told himself that if he was more sure that Serena had feelings for him then he would ask her out in a heartbeat.
He got back from the river, sat down in the same spot he was in and handed her a water bottle. She drank it to quench her thirst and put it in her pack and he also got a sip from his own water container. Afterwards, they resumed eating and that uncomfortable silence was back.
Few minutes later, they had no berries, they ate it all, but they didn't realize until at the same time their hands quickly reached into the same bag. They then grabbed something, each other's hands. They quickly looked at each other and they quickly lift it up of the bag slowly and both blushed extremely as they saw they were holding hands. However, they still weren't letting go as seconds and even minutes pass. They were quiet and not moving, but even though they were not active physically, their minds were.
In Serena's thoughts, "Whoa! His hand is so warm that I wish I could melt in it. He's still not letting go of me and... Is... He blushing! He's so cute when he's blushing. That's it I'll make my make my move on him."
In Ash's mind, "She's still not letting go of me. I think, for sure, she's blushing and it's not because she might get fever. Since, she's blushing, or at least I think she is, then she likes me. She likes me! Ok then, it's time... I guess to confess."
At the same time they quickly said each other's name.
"Serena."
"Ash."
Both were shocked at what just happened and suggested to each other to go first.
"Serena, you should go say what you want to say first." Ash suggested.
"No, no, you should go first." Serena said, Disagreeing with Ash.
"no, you should go first."
"no, you should, I insist."
"ladies first, Serena."
This went on for a while. Both was insisting that the other should tell the other what they were gonna say. It all stopped when Serena decided to give Ash the silent treatment. She let go of his hand.
"Serena," Ash had said in a defeated tone as Serena crossed her arm, gave Ash a pouted look and look away from him, ignoring him for a little bit. "Serena, you really want me to go first."
When she heard this the response he was given was; she finnally stopped ignoring him. She looked at him and nodded yes.
"Fine then, I'll go first," Ash declared, admitting defeat, "Do you remeber when you asked me if I tried to kiss you before that pokemon scared us."
"yeah," Serena replied in an interested tone.
"Well, the answer would be... Um," Ash said.
When he hesitated she encouraged him to go on by saying, "yes, go on, please," intrigued of the answer to her own question. If she said no she would be heartbroken so right now she mentally prepared for the worst. Her first crush might become her first heartbreak.
"Yes, I was going to when a pangoro interrupted us." Ash had answered very nervously.
This was jaw dropping to Serena. When she heard this she felt, the most joy she had felt ever while thinking to herself, "Did Ash just confess. Did he just actually say that. "
"And." he continued, still a little bit nervously. "what will you do if I were to tell you I will be trying to that again." He leaned in closer and closer to her.
"I think I wouldn't mind at all." She responded. Still trying to process everything that was going on and as she heared this, she squealed on the inside. In response to Ash's movement she leaned moved closer and closer.
There was less distance between them as each moment of time passed. They were slowly going in. It was, as though their lips were attracted to each other that they can't pull back, not that they wanted to stop it from happening. Now both felt a warm sensation in their chest.
There was no more distraction that could stop this kiss from happening. They were alone together. They were alone, no friends there at the moment and no wild pokemon as far as they can see. It was finnally happening. Serena was dreaming about this since she first met Ash and now it was happening.
Their lips touch. They kissed. It felt magical to them. For one second, felt like an eternity to them. This kissed went for a couple of minutes. When they broke off they were happy, Serena more so than Ash. In fact, she was so happy, she actually teared up.
Ash saw this and went into a depressed state. "I'm... sorry Serena," Ash said, almost crying, "I guess you don't feel the same for me. If you want I'll stay away from you."
"No Ash." She explained, still raining down with tears, "these are tears of joy. You wouldn't know how happy you made me because I-I feel the same way you do."
"Y-you d-do," He stuttered, with great joy, with a great smile.
She replied, "yes," as she wiped of her tears from her face with her arm.
"S-so... W-when did... um... you start developing f-feelings for me?" Ash had asked, as they started holding hands.
"I started to see you more than a friend, when we first met," Serena answered, "that's why I was so sad you didn't remember me." Serena was pouting as she said this.
"Oh, sorry I forgot," he apologized while scratching the back of his head and gave Serena a toothy grin. Even though he was grinning, Serena saw the guilt inside of him. "Serena," Ash said, now in a more serious tone, "I think I started seeing you in a new light since I was a kid too, but didn't realize my feelings for you at that time. Only when we started traveling I started to realize it."
"If you had feelings for me, why did you forgot about me," Serena said, with some sass.
"Because." Ash replied looking down, and then looking at her. "I guess, I didn't want to remember you leaving me."
After hearing that, Serena blushed furiously and became really silent for a couple of moments. While thinking, "Whoa."
"So," Ash had said with his face now slightly red. "Does this mean that w-we are...um... a couple now."
"y-yeah, I think so." she answered, As they went to each other's arms and fell to an embrace.
The newly founded couple didn't know what to do now. They had now confess their feelings to one another and found their feelings are mutual. They now got together. It was a wish come true again for them, but now there was nothing to do at that cave anymore. They weren't sure where to go from here.
It was dead silent for minutes and possibly an hour, they didn't keep track of time. They were still holding each other now, still feeling the warmth of the other. Until Ash yawned.
"We should probably get some sleep," he suggested.
"yeah, we should," Serena agreed.
They got the their sleeping bags from their bags and slept in individual sleeping bags next together.
Next morning
Ash had woken early and up first. When he did, his first thought was. "Was that whole thing a dream." He wanted to know so bad, but he didn't have the heart to wake her up because when he looked at her, he could she her sleeping soundly, smilling and looking beautiful in his eyes.
He then decided to gather some berries for breakfast and while doing that, maybe find their pokemon and friends while doing that and hoping he wouldn't ran across a wild pokemon.
He wandered and about in the forest looking for things he was searching for. He first taught, he should find Greninja and Delphox first since they would be probably at that part of Forrest with many berries, but the only problem is that he didn't know where it was. He would wander for hours, going through bushes and coincidently, found the spot he was looking. The part of the woods where it was rich with berries. Luckily, he saw Delphox and Greninja sitting down.
He quickly called out to the pokemon, "Greninja, Delphox." He ran up to them, just as he approach them, the pokemon gave him a serious stare causing him to stop.
"Hey guys," Ash said to the Pokemon, as he walk more slower to them, "what's up."
"Greninja Gren," the water type pokemon said. (T: We found our friends)
Meanwhile at the cave, Serena was just waking up. As she did, she looked up at the cave's ceiling,with her first thought being, "was that all a dream. I gotta find Ash."