chapter 8

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It was muffled, but Ash heard and just stop. He stood there, not moving a muscle, waiting for Lillie's words. He soon felt his shirt started to dampen from Lillie's tear. A little uncertain with what he should be doing, he wraps his arms around her, returning the embrace. He rub up and down her back while patting the top of her back, comforting her and trying to make her stop crying.

They stood there motionless in each other's embrace for feels like a century when only minutes has only passed. When Lillie was done, she pulls back from him and pulls out her handkerchief from her skirt-pocket.

She was about to wipe her face when Ash reach his out to the cotton fabric in her hand.

"Let me." He asked.

Lillie stares at him with looks of regret. How could she avoided this kind, young man? He's been nothing, but kind and patient with her and she just ignore him like he does not even exist.

Now, she thought, she will not do that anymore.

"Okay." She let him take the white hankey. She closes her eyes as Ash wipes off the dry tears from her face. After he was done, Lillie took back her handkerchief.

"Thank you."

Ash smiles at her, which she shyly returns. Ash is glad that she is now starting to warm up to him and may even accept his apology.

Lillie then frowns, "Ash, I'm sorry."

"Huh? Why are you sorry?" Ash said with a surprised look and frown, "This is my fault."

"No, it's not!" She tried to tell him, not wanting him to feel downhearted anymore.

"Yes, it is!" Ash tells her, "That kiss wouldn't have even happened if I did not run across the course. So it is my fault."

"Yeah..." Lillie can not disagree with that reason, "but I don't blame you for that!"

"But I still made you uncomfortable, didn't I?"

Lillie fell silent, not sure if she could continue without making Ash blame himself more. She then felt his hands on her shoulder, looking back at him, she saw that Ash has a look of determination.

"If there's anything I can do for you," He started, "Name it and I'll do it to the very end."

Lillie blushes, she never knew that he was this handsome up close. Speaking of up close, this is the first time she is this to close to a boy who is not her older brother. She started to regret to never reading those dating magazines that were offered to her by Mallow, the knowledge inside those thin articles would have been great help with her current situation.

All of her time were spent on studying Pokémon, so she never gave much attention to boys her age ever since she mysteriously developed her phobia. Throughout puberty, her urges were repressed because her mind was always focused on Pokémon; after that incident, all of those repressed urges started to resurface of him and her kissing. Her eyes wanders down to his lips, which are now stern and determine. Her blush deepens when her mind wander back to the kiss.

Even though that kiss lasted a second or two, she could still remembered the sensation of her lips press against someone else's. Before, she never understood the concept of kissing, sure she understands kissing on the cheeks, forehead, and on the back of the hand as shows of affections, but on the lips she did not understand. Initially she was disgusted at the thought of kissing on the lips, but after that experienced, her views started to change.

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