The night was drawing closer and Carmine, for the very first time in her life was wondering about what she should wear. For the first time in her life, she wondered about what someone else besides her would think about what she looks.

Specifically she wondered about how Florian would think she looked.

In front of her full body mirror in her room, dressed in her undergarments and her blue Kimono in her hands, she admired herself. She was never an insecure women, far from it. She knew she had an incredible physique. She was well trained, both in Pokémon battling as well as psychical training. She knew it, she was smoking hot.

And it never mattered to her what anyone else thought about it. That was until now.

That boy had thrown her entire worldview into the pan and stirred it completely upside down. For better or for worse, but most likely both. His entry into her life had completely shifted her perspective. She was a big fish in a small pond and she liked that pond, but then the pond grew bigger or rather other fish entered the pond. And now she was forced to confront the reality that she wasn't the biggest fish anymore.

And then he came along. With his innocent smile and his incredible battling ability.

She wanted to hate him, like she did to all outsiders she thought had come to trample over their way of life. But instead she found herself, at first slightly impressed and as their fight against the Lousy Three had commenced, the sour taste she had towards the outsiders had evaporated like snow before the sun.

She put on the kimono as she remained lost in her thoughts, catching herself blush at the thoughts of the times she had spend with Florian, defeating those three worthless thieves and retrieving Ogerpon's masks.

As she styled her hair into place she looked at the clock on her wall. It was almost time. She took a deep breath and tried to concentrate on the night.

Dusk had just set in and night was beginning to fall over Kitakami.

At the steps of Kitakami Hall, where another night of the festival was being held, Florian awaited for his "date" as she had accidently called it, to show up.

Rubbing his palms together in an anxious manner, the young man was positively nervous for tonight. He felt he had no reason to be. This should be like any other night between two friends right?

Even though he wished they had been more then friends.

He could lie and tell everyone he felt nothing but the truth had been clear from the start. When she so aggressively made him battle her, he was already smitten and that one time she threatened to make him swallow a Koffing whole…well that just solidified his feelings.

Maybe he just had a weird thing for domineering woman?

Florian didn't ponder the question for too long as he saw the object of his affection walking towards the step. Dressed in her blue kimono, her hair straightened and in style. A somewhat rare smile plastered on her face.

"You're here" Florian said excitedly walking up to her.

"Of course as I said I would" Carmine said proudly pointing to herself.

The two then walked up the stairs and joined the festivities of the night. With Ogerpon's true story finally revealed to all the inhabitants a few changes where made. The game of Ogre Dash was now changed to where one now had to attack images of the Lousy Three and punish them for their greedy and cruel deeds and instead of being vilified Ogerpon was celebrated and appreciated and many apologized to her for their previous thinking.

Florian had allowed Ogerpon out of her Poke ball so she could mingle with the townsfolk who now embraced her with open arms. Florian watched from afar as Carmine got them two sweet caramel apples and she handed him one.

He took a bit out of his, salivating in the sweet taste of the treat and looked as Carmine did the same all the while giving him a smile.

"You know I'm really glad you're here…with me" Florian said blushing and looking at the ground.

Carmine chuckled "yeah…same," she said and blushed as she swallowed the lump in her throat and took a step forward "you know I wanted to tell you…"

And then she tripped over her own feet and the caramel apple in her hand flew out of her hand and landed right on Florian's face.

If Carmine's face was having a reddish tint before, it was now positively glowing red from embarrassment as she saw her sweet treat stuck to Florian's face, right on the bridge of his nose.

"Sorry…" Carmine said meekly as she grabbed the candy apple and pulled it from Florian's face, leaving a small residue of caramel on the bridge of his nose. Regardless he chuckled and said "it's okay. It happens."

Licking her fingers, Carmine proceeded to remove the residue from Florian's face, leaving their faces inches removed from each other as she tried to remove the result of her mistake from him.

And they both felt the heat rise, their faces blushing brighter red then ever before and as Carmine's face came closer she felt her insides twist and turn in a good way.

"It's sweet of you…" Florian mumbled, not thinking about how his words sounded. Instead only thinking about how he never wanted this moment to end.

Carmine felt herself getting real warm, all over her body she felt an intense heat as she was close to Florian. Her fingers scrubbing off the caramel residue from his face.

"There all gone…" Carmine said, still not removing her hand, instead guiding it towards his cheek and feeling the warmth emanating from it.

"Carmine…" Florian mumbled. He didn't think, his feelings and desires got the better of him. He was only human after all.

Placing his hands on both sides of her face, he leaned in and caught Carmine's lips into a gentle yet passionate kiss.

A/N: I'm on a roll with this story. I will probably make it rated M in the future but for now I just want you all to enjoy this lovey dovey sweet romance story.