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Chapter Four:

Feelings

Lily POV

I was shocked; Jake was kneeling at my feet, making the promise that I was dying to hear. His eyes, looking straight into mine, spoke of sincerity and truth. I started to cry from the happiness that was inside of me and hugged him, and to my surprise he returned the hug.

"Don't cry," he patted me on the back as the words left his mouth, "I'll never break that promise and I won't let you be harmed."

"Thanks Jake." Releasing each other, we sat together for a while, watching the night sky before he asked, "Are you hungry?"

Realizing my growling stomach, I returned a nod and he smiled. Going into the tent, he soon came out with some sandwiches. The meal was delicious, and after finishing and relaxing for a while more, Jake checked the time and told me that it was about time to sleep, and he needed to change into his night clothes. However, this time as he made his way back into the tent to change, I suddenly got an urge to watch him. Resisting it, I looked at the tent for a few moment before the strange feeling got unbearable.

I walked to the tent and knelt beside the entrance to look through a very small opening, such that I could see him and he couldn't see me. He had already taken off his coat and was unbuttoning his shirt, and when he was done with that I gasped. He has a well-defined body, almost hypnotizing. Snapping out of it, I noticed that he was taking off his pants. All of a sudden, I started to have a strange urge to enter the tent, leap to his side and kiss him. Time seems to pass so quickly, and before I can even comprehend my reaction he went to his bag and pulled out his pajamas, making me feel a little sad.

Moving away from the tent in silence, I laid myself down on the ground again, admiring the stars and trying to forget about what I've just saw. My efforts were futile, however; as soon as I close my eyes, the image of his body appear in my mind. Regretting my previous act, I wondered about the sudden desire that popped up inside me before hearing his voice, almost like a dream...

"Lily, where are you? You can enter now." He called out from the tent and I promptly rose, to move myself to the tent's interior. Jake was sitting on the sleeping bag, reading a book.

"What are you reading?" I asked, settling myself down.

"Romeo and Juliet." He replied without taking his eyes off the book.

"Romeo and Juliet... What is it about?" I asked.

"It is the story of a forbidden love that killed the son and the daughter from two feuding families."

His love of romantic things intrigued me, but what I wanted to tell him the most is just to admit the truth, that I saw him changing. This though was in my mind for a few minutes when he finally closed the book, turned off the lamp before climbing into the sleeping bag. I climbed in as well, resting my head on his chest and wondered for a moment, 'This is a strange feeling...Is it love? Or something else, just impulse?' With that thought still lingering somewhere in the back of my head, I drifted off to sleep...

Opening my eyes, I suddenly found myself in the middle of a forest clearing. Feeling quite strange, I approached the lake nearby and saw the neat reflection of a Gardevoir in the calm water. Scared by this, I let out a shriek, which immediately elicited a response from someone who was nearby. Turning around, I was suddenly greeted by a hug from Jake before he asked, "Honey, are you okay?"

"W-why do you call me that?" I replied, feeling a little embarrassed.

"What are you talking about? I had called you like that since we got married." he said, showing the ring on his hand.

I looked at my hand to see a matching ring. Shocked from the prospect of being married with Jake, my incomprehension was interrupted when a pair of Kirlia walked out from the woods and came beside me.

"Mommy, are you okay? We heard you shouting!" I understood them as being my children, and the one speaking was a girl.

"Dad is here, Mary, so it's not possible that she would be harmed. She maybe is scared." The other one pointed out. He sounds like a boy, and I saw a wooden sword hanging on his belt.

"But Marcus, what could have scared her? She doesn't fear anything when she is next to dad." Mary said.

"Okay kids, I think it's time to go home now." Jake told them.

"But dad, we are having fun here!" They replied in unison.

"If we go back now, I will cook my special honey pancakes." He said with a smile.

"Let's go back, let's go back!" They said, running to the woods again.

"He he, they'll never get tired of my pancakes. So honey, are you okay or do you need me to throw away those fears for you?" Jake said, while I unconsciously started following him.

"Throw them away, but how?" I asked.

"Let's go home and I will do it." He answered, still grinning.

I felt really strange, but let him take my arm anyway. We walked for a while in the direction where our children went before sighting a house, which surprised me; why is Jake, the son of a rich family, living in a wooden house in the middle of a forest?

"Jake love..." I started, "...why is our home in a forest?"

"Did you forget? We came here and made this place our home so that the other humans would not disturb us because of our relationship." He told me, looking surprised.

"Oh, is that so? Sorry, I have been a little distracted since a few hours ago." I said, not believing what was going on.

"And I will solve that trouble." He replied, kissing my lips.

I felt as if I'm soaring through the sky when I felt his lips touching mine, but the world suddenly distorted before me into a white void space. Surprised, flailed my limbs in desperation when, all of a sudden, all became dark and I woke up. I looked at my body and saw that I still was a Kirlia, which made me very upset; but when I saw that Jake was hugging me, still asleep, the misery and confusion seems to all fly away. Hugging him back, I felt his firm body greeting my touch through the pajamas, and his warm breath descending upon my face. Looking at him, I felt it: I have fallen in love with Jake.

Romeo: So...How will things work out between the duo now? How will this new feeling develop...

Danny: Are you not the writer?

Xellan: Shh, he's in a rather strange state right now.

Romeo: I'm not! Just trying to concentrate on writing here!

Danny: Alright, alright, but let's do this first, ok?

Romeo&Danny&Xellan: Bye readers!