Shipping: Ikarishipping

Contagious

Contagious. That was the one word that seemed to tell everything about Troublesome. Her smile was contagious, and so was her laugh. Dawn laughing was all it took for my lips to curve into a smile. When I first met her she was very optimistic, and she still is. I admire everything about her. She's pretty but I don't really care about that.

When Dawn first talked to me, I wanted to rile her up. She looked amusing when she yelled at me, so I purposely started to call her Troublesome. Seeing her angry face made me want to laugh. She was so contagious, her personality affected everyone, and even I changed.

On the outside I was cold, blank, intimidating. On the inside, I was the opposite. I always felt like Dawn could understand me, more than Reggie could. Reggie wanted me to be more open, but he never really did much to cause that. Dawn, well Dawn was different. She got herself emotionally hurt (well Reggie did too but) just to open me up. Then again, so did Reggie. Well, let's just say that I had a crush on Troublesome. That's what makes her different from Reggie. I'd never hurt her...

*Present Time* (A/N: Didn't think I would do that did you? XD)

"Troublesome, wait." I grunted, grabbing her wrist. She looked at me, fresh tears in her eyes. Guilt ran through my veins. I had hurt her, even though I told myself I would never do that. I was just teasing her about her Pokémon, but it had gone too far.

"What Paul?" She said softly, hurt and a slight bit of curiosity in her cerulean orbs.I said nothing, but I pulled her into my chest, burying my face in her hair.

"Paul?" Dawn whispered. She started to break away, but I pulled her back into me.

"Let's stay like this for a while." I murmured. Finally she reciprocated my grip, sifting her hands into my hair. Soon we broke away. I missed the feeling of her body against mine already (A/N: For those weird perverts out there, and I'm not saying you are one, mind outta the gutter! XD)

"Mind telling me why you hugged me?" She asked.

"Just needed to release my emotions every once in a while. Also, to be very blunt, I like you." I told her.

She happily threw her arms around me, which I took as an "I like you too!" and I reciprocated her grip, pulling her closer.

"Why do you like me Paul?" She whispered into my ear, her breath tickling it.

"Because you're so contagious." I murmured, pulling her in for a kiss.

~Fin

A/N: I know, that was too short, don't judge me. And Paul was a little OOC. It's my first Ikarishipping one shot, if you don't count Reunion, because it had all four ships I support. The prompt was good, but the one shot didn't end up the way I wanted to. I guess you could say it wrote itself, with a little help from me of course! XD

My next one shot will be called Perfect, with Oldrivalshipping and Contestshipping. It's sorta based off of the song "Perfectly" by Selena Gomez, and it will be told from May and Leaf's POV.

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-MayXDrewForever