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Here is chapter 4. Hope you enjoy. Thanks to all my reviewers

Chapter 4: Nightmares and comforting words

"Bye" the trio bade their goodbyes to the three beauties. As soon as they were out of sight, Brock confronted ash.

"Alright ash, speak up. How did you get those three girls attracted to you?"

"I don't know"

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"I mean, I don't know. Are they even attracted to me?"

"Ash, you're just as dense as ever" misty butted in.

"Oh yeah?!!!" Ash retorted.

"Yeah!!!"

"Alright, knock it off both of you" Brock intervened to prevent a very familiar argument that is about to ensue as well as realizing that squeezing a boy, who has absolutely no idea what flirting means, for tips would be useless.

"Hmph…alright" misty said.

The trio then noticed that night time is rolling in. The skies darkened and darkened until it became so dark that blue appeared to be black.

"I think it's time we camp out" Brock expressed his opinion. His two companions nodded in agreement. The trio started fixing their sleeping bags when misty suddenly noticed something.

"Oh no…I forgot my sleeping bag!!!" she exclaimed.

"And they say I'm irresponsible…check you out" ash playfully said. He received a glare from misty.

"What did you say?!"

"Nothing"

"Nothing doesn't exactly mean nothing ash"

"Well my nothing means nothing"

"Stop it both of you" Brock once again intervened already settled in his sleeping bag.

"He started it!" misty pointed an accusing finger towards ash.

"Me? You're the one who can't take a joke!" ash retorted

"I know, why don't you two just settle this with rock paper scissors…winner gets ash's sleeping bag" Brock proposed already half asleep—but he didn't expect them to actually consider it.

"Fine" the two agreed. "Rock, paper, stick and stones" the end result: Misty's hand is in the form of a rock, ash's hand in the form of a scissor—misty wins.

Ash can't believe his bad luck. But he's not entirely disappointed. He planned on giving misty his sleeping bag anyway and is kind of glad she won.

Misty smirked as she crawled in his sleeping bag and started to drift off to sleep. Without anyone realizing, misty took a deep breath to try and savor ash's scent on the sleeping bag. She took a little scent and smiled. How she loved his scent but she won't admit that to anyone of course.

Ash laid himself down on the cold ground wrapping his blue over shirt around him and laid his cap on a rock beside his yellow pokemon. Pikachu simply looked at his master with pity, sighed and went back to sleep.

3 hours into the night; ash was woken up by some noises. He looked up trying his best to see something in the dark night. He heard misty's voice.

"NO, PLEASE STOP….DON'T DO THIS….HEEEEEEEEEELP SOMEBODY HEEEEEEELP!!!!" she's yelling and ash can tell she's tossing and turning in his sleeping bag. Immediately, he got up and went to where she is.

"Misty, misty, MISTY!!!" ash rocked the girl in hopes of waking her up.

Misty woke up and immediately sat upright. The first thing she saw was the worried face of ash. Without hesitation, the red haired girl wrapped her arms around his neck and started sobbing on his chest.

"Shhh…there, there…it's just a dream, a bad dream…everything's fine now. I'm here, no one's going to hurt you" ash comforted the frantic girl, rubbing his hands against her back up and down in a rhythmical motion. After about three minutes, misty calmed down but she still clung to him.

"I was in a dark room and there were these guys who're trying to rape me" she gave details of her dream to explain why she's so frantic. "I'm really glad you woke me up ash, thanks"

Ash nodded accepting her gratitude. "Don't worry, no one's going to hurt you mist. Not as long as I'm here"

"Thanks ash, that's nice of you" a thought then crawled into misty's mind. "ash, do you mind if you….ummm…you know….sleep with me tonight? I'm really scared and I don't want to wake Brock up"

"Ummm…sure, but misty, I've been sleeping with you the entire night" ash really has no idea what misty is thinking about.

Misty chuckled. Ash is just as dense as ever. Not to mention innocent. "no silly, I mean you and I, in the sleeping bag"

"Oh…" ash blushed at that proposition "…umm, are you sure? My sleeping bag is only meant for one person"

"When you fold it twice…" misty began "…but when you fold it once, it becomes for two persons" she illustrated by refolding his sleeping bag "so? What do you say? pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaase"

"Whoa, I never thought my sleeping bag has that feature"

Misty chuckled. There it is again, his innocence. She then smiled as she saw him crawl into the sleeping bag and invited her in.

The red haired girl snuggled up beside him and wrapped her arms around his torso, hugging him tighter while pressing her head harder into his chiseled chest savoring the warmth he is offering. Ash wrapped his arms around her waist making sure he doesn't touch anything unnecessary. Then, he drifted off to peaceful sleep.

Misty stayed awake for a little while longer, still savoring his scent, still absorbing his warmth, still feeling his rough body against hers.

Misty subconsciously smiled as she drifted off to sleep knowing that she won't have any nightmares because he is here, with her, chasing her nightmares away.

To be continued

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