The next morning, at sunrise, I woke up with my team. We had finally got in sync with this, I looked over at Matt and saw they were still asleep.
"*sigh* Well then," I mumbled, walking over to them. "Hey, sleepy heads, time to get up." I lightly shook Matt.
"Hm...already sunrise huh?" Matt asked, ever so groggily.
"Yeah, so let's go," I said, motioning my hands to the door.
"Ok, smoke first," Matt said, pulling out his smokes.
"Sure, why not," I replied, watching him and a very tired, but too used to routine, Pignite.
"They aren't use to this are they mommy?" Oshy asked, looking fully refreshed.
"Nope. A lazy ass will forever stay a lazy ass," I muttered, getting Oshy to laugh out loud.
"*heart* Your laugh is soo cute!" Singe sighed, hugging Oshy.
"Um...thank you," Oshy replied, blushing ever so lightly.
"Aw, cute," I said, smirking.
"What?" Oshy asked, realizing what I called cute. That only made Oshy's blush deepen a bit.
"Aw, your blush is so adorable!" Singe smiled, arms lightly tightening around Oshy.
"That's for yesterday," I smirked, heading to the door.
"Mommy!" Oshy called, rushing after me with the rest of the team on his heels.
We got outside and I saw Matt shivering lightly, blowing smoke just in front of my face.
"Thanks, I need second hand lung cancer," I muttered, walking to him.
"S..sorry. I..It's so d..damn cold in the m..morning. H..how do you do it?" Matt asked, taking a puff and blowing it out to his right away from me.
"Well, I'm not in just a normal T-shirt, biker jacket and blue jeans now am I?" I replied, smirking lightly.
"You aren't?" Matt asked, checking me out.
"I have a long sleeved shirt too. Though it is only mesh. I guess it's my leather silk trench coat," I mumbled, thinking about this.
"I doubt it. You're just an ice princess, like damn," Matt muttered, taking a puff then quickly blowing it out.
"You know what, call this sweet revenge for yesterday," I smiled, watching him glare at me. "You keep that up and it might be as effective as mine."
"Hm," Matt muttered, looking at my ass instead. We walked back to the route we were at the night before.
"Stop it," Bacon said, hitting Matt's leg.
"What?" Matt muttered, lightly glaring at Bacon for making him feel pain in the cold crisp morning air.
"Stop looking at her ass would you, she might notice and punch you. It's starting to bruise now," Bacon whispered, pointing to Matt's left eye.
"*sigh* I know. It hurts like hell right now," Matt groaned as we got to the checkpoint.
"What does?" I asked, turning to look at him.
"The eye you punched yesterday," Bacon replied, waving it off like nothing.
"Bacon," Matt grumbled lightly.
"I...I thought you said it was ok?" I stammered, feeling really guilty.
"No, it'll be fine," Matt smiled lightly at me, though I saw his wince when he even closed his eye.
"I'm sorry," I whispered, walking over to him, moved his shades up and kissed his eye lightly. To Matt's surprise, his eye did start to feel a bit better.
"Thanks," Matt whispered, his hand just hovering above my ass.
"You grope it, I'll give you a matching pair," I growled lightly.
"But I'm injured," Matt pouted lightly, which got a small smile from me.
"Aaw, but still, no," I said, turning around and heading to the exit.
"Ow, my ego," Matt moaned, getting a chuckle from Singe.
"Your ego will live, now let's get to the desert," I said, putting my scarf up over my mouth and just under my nose. It still covered my neck and I was happy for that. My team put on their scarves as well and covered up to their noses as well.
"You all have scarves?" Bacon asked, looking at my team. They all just nodded in answer to him.
"Yeay, cold wind and sand, perfect," Matt muttered, moving his jacket to cover his face lightly while he smoked.
We walked out into the desert to feel its harsh sandstorm. I looked over and saw Cheren, who was looking around the dark sand. I thought about it for only a moment and went into the dark sand anyway.
'A new team player I see,' Antoinette stated as we wondered in the sand, Matt was doing the same thing not too far from me.
I felt a pull on my pant leg and looked at Oshy, who had a blue scarf with little bubbles on it. Oshy was pointing over in a different direction, so I looked, but decided to give him a ball and waved my hand for him to go get it. Oshy understood and walked off. I couldn't see where he went but when he came back, the ball just disappeared. I drew a question mark in the air to ask my question for me. Oshy went to Antoinette and used her pink smoke to form what he caught.
'I see, so it's this,' Antoinette said putting more detail into the silhouette of the Sandile. Antoinette also put the name that was quickly whispered to her above it.
'Hm, Kithina, not a bad name. For once,' I thought motioning for them to follow me. We trained and trained a bit more, then we went over to Cheren for that fight he was obviously waiting for.
"Roshish!" Cheren yelled, trying not to get too much sand in his mouth. I just waved. Then Matt came over and waved as well, putting his cigarette out.
'Hey,' Matt lipped to Cheren. Cheren just stood there and seethed at Matt as he saw Matt's hand lightly hold my arm.
"Who's that!" Cheren yelled, glaring at Matt some more.
'This is Matt, he is a companion of Roshish's. He's a nice guy who isn't a pervert like you,' Antoinette explained, glaring back at Cheren. Cheren just pouted lightly and sent out his Pidove.
I smirked and looked over at Blaire, who looked up at me and nodded, trying to keep her orange scarf with yellow lightning bolts on it up.
Blaire used one shock wave and knocked it out. Cheren then sent out Slick, I looked over at Singe, who nodded in turn. Singe didn't say a catch line due to the sand blowing around him and because of his red scarf with little orange flames. Singe used incinerate after he moved his scarf and knocked Slick to the ground, then quickly put his scarf back up. Cheren then sent out Flood, so I looked back to Blaire who again nodded and charged up. Flood used bite, which pissed Blaire off and knocked it out with a critical hit shock wave. Cheren looked upset when he sent out his Lucky. I looked over at Shuno, with his black scarf with brown fists on it, who just looked over to me and nodded and jumped out and used low sweep instantly, and knocked Lucky out cold. Cheren just growled, but left to the check point before Nimbasa.
I shrugged, then saw a house, pointed to it for Matt and we headed right to it. Once we got in, a nice middle-aged woman healed our injured pokemon and gave us some drinks.
"It is good to talk again," Matt groaned, brushing the sand off of himself.
"Mommy! Singe is glowing!" Oshy hurriedly told me, pointing to Singe.
"Already?" I asked, looking at Singe's new form.
"Sweet! Come here now sweetums," Singe said seductively to Oshy, wrapping his arms all the way around Oshy.
"Singe!" Oshy cried lightly, both embarrassed and blushing.
"Aw, you don't like me now?" Singe asked, gesturing to his slightly better body.
"I..it's not that I just..." Oshy tried to explain, but couldn't come up with why he didn't want Singe to do this. Singe quietly put a charm on Oshy's bracelet that looked like a flame.
"Oh, just admit you like him so we can get a move on," I muttered, putting my scarf back up.
"Mommy!" Oshy whined, blushing more than he already was.
"Well, it is obvious. Just sayin'," Matt said getting up as well.
"*whimper*" was all Oshy could do as we left to continue training, looking at the new charm with a small smile.
As we fought trainers and wild pokemon, I noticed a split road, Matt shrugged and followed me to the way to the Desert Resort. We spotted another house and went to it. Once we walked in, and started to brush ourselves off, we noticed two middle-aged men staring at us.
"Yes?" the taller one asked, no shirt.
"I think we just..." I started.
"Walked in on something we didn't want to walk in on," Matt finished. We shared a disgusted look then looked back at the shirtless men.
"Oh, no we weren't in the middle of anything," the shorter man replied, handing us both the TM for dig.
"You two can stay for as long as you like. You're a cute couple anyway," the taller man said happily to us.
"Wait... no you see...we aren't...you know..." I tried to explain.
"I'm trying," Matt summed up. The taller man laughed.
"Well, at least you're an honest bunch. You two will be very happy for a very long time," the taller man chuckled, calming down.
"Thanks, that means a lot from two 'not gay' men," Matt smirked.
"Oh, touché young man," the shorter one laughed.
'Roshish,' Antoinette started, floating to me.
"Hm?" I looked over to her.
'I feel ready,' Antoinette stated, looking determined.
"Are you sure? After you do this, you'll only be able to learn TM's," I warned her, knowing what she meant.
'I know. I'm still ready, I want this,' Antoinette replied, still determined to evolve.
"Ok, here ya go," I said handing her the moon stone that Lenora gave me.
The moon stone floated in front of Antoinette, she brought it closer to her and put her little foot on it and started to glow.
"There's a rare sight to see," the taller man said amazed.
"Now I'm glad you two stopped by. I haven't seen an evolution for years," the smaller one commented as Antoinette was now a Musharna.
'Wow. I feel...tres bien!' Antoinette responded well to her evolution.
"I thought you would," I smiled, watching her float around happily.
"It's getting kinda dark out there, maybe you all should stay the night," the taller man suggested. I looked out the window and he was right, it was past sunset by a whole half hour.
"I suppose, as long as you two stay on that bed," I said, pointing for them to not move from the bed they were on.
"Done," the smaller man chuckled.
"Well the young man's pokemon can sleep on our top bunk," the taller man suggested.
"Ahead of you on that," Bacon yawned, laying against the wall lightly.
"Your team can sleep above the two of you. Sorry we don't have more beds," the smaller man said a bit sadly as he saw my furious blush.
"Whoo top bunk!" Oshy called, climbing up quickly and laid down.
"There's not much room up here," Singe replied, trying to be nice to Oshy and give him some room.
"Oh, get over here you silly monkey," Oshy said, grabbing Singe by the arm and pulled him towards himself.
"You sure, Oshy? You don't like me," Singe quoted.
"Screw that and screw you, now sleep with me damn it," Oshy confessed finally, snuggling Singe the whole while blushing.
"Aw, they finally got together," I smiled, as I watched Oshy and Singe snuggle.
"It's cute. Ladies first," Matt whispered, gesturing me to get into the bed first.
"The..snuggling looks nice," I whispered back.
"It feels nice too," Singe commented, getting a small smack by Oshy.
"Are you suggesting you want to snuggle with me?" Matt asked, his arms snaking around my waist.
"Just make out and get this drama over with!" Bacon moaned, still trying to sleep.
"Shut up Pig! And, yeah, let's snuggle," I said, glaring over at Bacon.
"Mmkay," Matt replied, letting me get in the bed first.
"Aaaw! That's so cute. Reminds me of our first snuggle," the taller man started to reminisce.
"Hush you two men down there, you'll ruin it and they will start all over again. It took fo~~~rever to get them this far," Bacon complained.
"Sorry, we'll be quiet," the smaller man said, hushing the taller one.
Matt and I just laid in the bed, trying to ignore the commotion and as Singe had said, the snuggling did feel nice. I turned to face Matt and lightly put my face against his chest and felt his heartbeat. I smiled to myself.
"You should take off your hat," Matt whispered, noticing that it was starting to get in the way.
"Nnnn...I don't really think I want to," I whispered, moving it in such a way that it stopped bothering him.
"It's ok, just get some sleep. We'll be getting up late this morning at this rate," Matt reminded me. I nodded and started to drift off.
"Yeah, sleep...right..." I muttered, almost asleep. Then I felt my head being lifted and lips against mine, I lightly pressed mine closer to his when I felt his tongue tap my lips, I parted them for him and our tongues twinned lightly before he pulled away.
"Good night, my ice princess," Matt whispered, watching me blush as he called me that. Matt then kissed my forehead, the part he could get to, and closed his eyes.
"Night, my snuggle bear," I whispered before I was fully asleep. Matt smiled at his new nickname and then drifted off to sleep as well.
"And they say they're not together. That sure looks like together to me," the taller man whispered.
"Hush up, you'll wake them," the smaller man shushed. They too then fell asleep along with us.