May had been waiting for almost ten minutes the Pikachu in her lap and patting his sides softly as she sat there waiting for her friend. She was a little impatient she had to admit, but who could blame her, she had a creature in her arms and she was waiting for a boy in his pyjamas to bring him edible food.
Sighing softly she looked down at the yellow mouse pokemon and smiled at the innocent look in his bright onyx eyes. Scratching his head softly she cast her gaze out the window and into the far distance, till everything merged into a colour of brick. Just a few hours away was the block of flats that was obscuring her vision of the woods that curled around the town. Why someone had thought it a good idea to build a town in the middle of a wood was beyond everyone. And how it fit in was at the top of the list of questions regarding the town too.
"Do you wonder where they went?" She mumbled, the question directed to the pokemon but more to just verbalise her thoughts. She wondered where they'd gone, were they in the town or were they still in the woods? Were they looking all over the woods for her and the Pikachu or were they looking in the town? She had so many thoughts and the more that came the more questions she had, and the more fearful she became.
Pushing her worry to the back of her mind she focused her attention on wondering what was talking Ash so long. All he had to do was bring a bowl of water up and some fruit. Sighing she patted the pokemon's head. She had been doing that a lot over the past ten minutes and was beginning to think she was irritating the baby
Downstairs Ash had finally managed to get away from the questions her parents had been throwing his way about his odd choice of day wear and was now trying to choose which fruit he should take. It wasn't really the most important thing to be fussing about but he couldn't help himself. He knew May, and he knew that if he just brought anything up then she'd say it was the wrong one. And he'd be forced to go back downstairs and another barrage of questions from her odd family.
Max had brought a friend over and she was sitting next to him while they were eating breakfast. Ash had to stop himself from mentioning anything about it but it didn't help him when a girl he'd never met saw him in his pyjamas. Her family knew he was a little odd but that girl didn't. So to save themselves from looking weird they questioned him when any other day, Ash knew this, they'd have just let it drop.
Still though, he wasn't going to complain, at least he got what he came downstairs for. As he trudge back up the steps he grabbed at his school bag. Because it wasn't important he had dropped it on the stairs but he did have a few pieces of paper in his bag that he'd torn from his books. He could use that to write down stuff about Pikachu.
It would be helpful for them if they had some notes.
It was only thirty seconds later that he came into the bedroom carrying the bowl and food with his bag over his shoulder.
"I thought we were looking after him, not doing homework."
"Be quiet, I had to bring it up, that was my lie for coming over here and having to be in your room with the door closed. How convincing will it be if my bag's on the stairs? Besides, I have some paper we can write on." He answered making May smirk.
"That makes sense, besides if you told my parents that you'll have to have brought it up. My mum still thinks there's more going on than just friends. I don't know about you but I don't need my parents speculating that we're dating again. I had enough of a nightmare trying to convince them otherwise three years ago when we first became friends." Ash laughed, his parents were the same, convinced that he and May were dating. It took him going on a date with a girl he didn't even like to convince them otherwise.
"Completely agree May, now come on, I brought up an orange. Do you want some?" He asked as he held it out to her.
"It's for him" she answered pointing to the Pikachu
"Yeah, but if he doesn't like it we might as well have some of it before, so not to waste it." Rolling her eyes she held her hand out. Waiting less than patiently for him to actually peel the thing.
"Hurry up" she complained as she motioned with her extended hand for him to do just that.
"Shut up, you know I don't have any nails." He snapped back at the brunette finally managing to peel the skin. Handing her a piece he broke off one for himself and handed the yellow pokemon one too.
Pikachu took it in his hands and stared at the small piece of alien food. Tilting his head in pure confusion he watched as it dripped on his legs. Sticking out his tongue he let a drop land on it and pulled back quickly, staring at the thing, eyeing it in confusion.
A smile worked onto the two kids faces, they'd never seen someone look so perplexed by a bit of food. He stuck his tongue out again letting another drop into it, this time though he didn't pull back, more pulled a strange face and waited for the next drop.
"He knows he can bite it right?" Ash asked, smirking at the pokemon. May just shook her head.
"I don't know." She admitted as she took the food from him. Earning a scowl from the baby. Instead of talking to him though she took his sides and turned him around so he faced her. "Open up" she ordered, keeping her voice soft.
To her surprise he did open his mouth. She placed the food in his mouth and watched as he closed his mouth around the fruit. His eyes widened, as though he'd bitten something sour. It was a strange reaction, but one that made them laugh. Pulling his lips together in a pucker that was usually seen on someone eating a lemon he bit on the food.
Covering her mouth to stifle a laugh, she didn't want to make him feel uncomfortable, she watched as he tried to bite on the food. It was a tentative bite, almost like he was afraid of biting it. But once he bit it once he did it again and again until a small smile worked its way onto his lips.
May patted his head as he started chewing the small bit of food, he seemed to be concentrating too much but they didn't say anything. At least he was eating.
"Ash, get some paper out and write that he can eat oranges. Once he's finished it we'll give him a sip of water and try him with something else" May ordered as the boy pulled out some scrap paper from his school bag. It looked like a page from a maths book, one that had a large scribble on the back.
"Alright," he told her simply as he pulled out a pencil and scribbled down that he could eat that fruit. While May was watching him eat Ash started to write on the paper. He wrote in big bold letters. Pikachu's food list. May rolled her eyes at him
"You do realise that if someone were to pick that up they'd see what it was?" She told him, as though it were obvious, which it was.
"Yeah, and? They don't know who or what Pikachu is, they may think it's just a nickname for a friend." Ash defended as he straightened the paper.
"What if them from the woods found this?"
"Come on May, you're being paranoid" he assured as he slapped her shoulder
"Yeah, I guess I am, a little" she conceded as she saw the small pokemon finally finish off his food. "Ash, pass us the water will you. He needs a drink"
Leaning over Ash grabbed the bowl and held it in front of the Pikachu. He stared at the clear liquid for a second before placing his hands on either side of the bowl. Almost like he was mirroring Ash and leaned down to take a sip.
She watched as he drank, it reminded her of a dog lapping at water. He was using his tongue to drink and it looked slightly strange. Almost like he was unsure if he was doing the right thing. Placing her hand on his back she patted it softly and he raised his head to look him in the eye. Tilting his head in confusion he released the bowl allowing Ash to take it back.
"Good boy" she praised as she took one of the other foods Ash had brought up. It was an apple and she knew that'd be harder for him to eat. But if he could chew then he had to have some teeth. "Here try and eat this" she coaxed as she handed him the food. He stared at her bemused, hesitating on whether to take it or not. After some minutes though he did.
He pulled his upper lip back as he held the apple in his hands. He had two canine teeth that looked to be quite sharp and a few between them. But they could hardly be called teeth, they were more like little dots.
But it was his canines that were more important. He pressed his tooth against the red skin of the apple. Piercing it with the sharp tooth. It was quite comical watching him try and eat. It looked very funny, he looked wary of the food and the juice inside was being pressed out. As soon as the liquid touched his tongue though he pulled back, cutting the apple with his tooth and staring at it with shock. Holding it as far away from his body as he could. He looked like he wanted to drop it on the floor. To throw it away, but something made him not do that.
"Pikka" he whined. Motioning with the food that he wanted it gone. "Pikka"
"I don't think he likes it" Ash noted as he took the food from the baby's tiny alien hands.
"I think you're right. He looks bordering on distressed" May added as she stroked his head, trying to calm him down.
"That's a 'no' on the list." Ash mumbled as he wrote down that he didn't like that food. Ash dug around in the pocket on his pyjama shirt and pulled out a small blue berry. "I brought this up too. Just in case he might like it. It was growing on a tree just outside the kitchen window. I managed to grab it." May stared at the berry. She hadn't seen one like that before.
"Yeah, try it" she told him casually, it couldn't hurt could it.
"Alright" handing him the berry he expected the pokemon to be hesitant about this too. But he bit into it without a moment's hesitation. Eating it quickly and smiling to himself as he turned to Ash. Asking for another one.
Ash looked beyond bewildered. This pokemon really knew how to surprise him.
"Well he likes that" May finally managed to speak, smiling softly at the small bit of blue tinting his lips as he continuously licked at them. Looking like he was trying to get more of the taste but really he was just losing it to his lips.
"I can see that" Ash answered, his voice slightly too high.
"He is odd isn't he?" May mused "I thought he was going to be wary of it. Obviously I was wrong" Ash nodded his head in agreement
"Yeah, he's confusing. I can't understand him"
"I doubt we'll ever understand him. Well, write that down." She told him rolling her eyes in confusion.
"Alright" he answered as he wrote. 'Weird food outside the window'
Rolling her eyes May decided not to say anything, if he wanted to be strange she might as well let him. There was no chance of her changing him now, they'd known each other long enough to know when something was hopeless.
"Ok, now what? We haven't got anything else for him."
"I don't know, how about we go back to the woods, see if we can find anything of his or those people and see if we can send him back home"
"Have you been thinking about this?" May asked, slightly shocked that he'd come up with all of that that quick.
"A little" he admitted making her sigh. Of course he wouldn't shock her that much.
"Ok, but get changed first. I'm not walking around with a boy in his pyjamas."
"Alright" standing he stretched turning his head towards her. He knew he had some clothes over here that he'd left the last time he stayed over. Now all he had to do was find them. "Care helping me?" He asked a smirk on his face.
"Why not?"
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