The Shield of Galar

Lake of Outrage

Bea wakes up the next morning and feels an odd weight on her chest.  Looking down, she sees Gloria sleeping on her.  Slowly her face turns red as that brief half awake memory of last night flood in.  She had thought it was a dream, but here Gloria was, laying on her chest. 

Closing her eyes, she takes deep breathes to calm herself.  It takes a bit, but she is able to regulate her breathing and get her face a bit less flushed.  With a smile on her face, she wraps her arm back around Gloria and allows sleep to take her again.  They'd be exercising later anyway, she can give up her morning run for this.  If she could wake up to this every morning, she'd give up her morning run indefinitely. 

Gloria slowly comes too, her eyes adjusting while her mind tries to catch up with where she is.  Seeing the material of the tent, she starts to remember the day before.  Then, her face turns a deep crimson as she realizes she is still laying on Bea.  With the fighting type leader's arm wrapped around her, any move she makes will wake her, but she doesn't really want to move.  This warmth, this embrace,

"I see you are awake," Bea chuckles in a whispered tone, breaking Gloria from her thoughts. 

"Oh, yeah, sorry," Gloria mumbles, pulling away, her face hot from embarrassment. 

"Don't be sorry," Bea smiles, sitting up in her sleeping back.  "Waking up to your beautiful face was like a gift from Arceus," Bea blushes a bit as she says it, but Gloria is red from head to toe. 

"I think, I, well, I'll go make curry," Gloria stutters then scurries out of the tent.  She covers her face as she walks out, not believing what she just heard, and embarrassed at how she reacted.  Either way, she had to commit to it now, time to make curry.

   Bea can't help but laugh as Gloria fumbles her way out of the tent, the commotion of which stirs Marnie. 

"Five more minutes," the dark type leader mumbles. 

"Come on, up and at em," Bea laughs, smacking Marnie in the head with her travel pillow.  "Gloria is going to make us breakfast, so we should go gather some wood for a fire for her,"

Marnie yawns and stretches in her bag before slowly propping herself up.  Her hair, unlike Bea's whose just sort of stays the same, is all over the place.  "I'll meet you outside," Bea says and leaves Marnie to herself to get ready.  Although she hated being up this early, it had been ages since she had had a meal cooked by Gloria.  So brushing her hair into her normal pigtails style, she steps out and joins the two girls. 

"Morning," She yawns and drags her feet over to the fire pit from the night before.  Gloria is peeling berries and throwing them into a small pot she has. 

"Morning Marnie," Gloria smiles.  "It will likely be a bit before anything is ready.  But do you mind grabbing water for the pot?"

Marnie nods, and grabs the bucket they have and fills it up in the lake before dragging it over.  Then she dumps it in and puts it over the fire that Bea and Cinder and started. 

Bea and Marnie both sit back and watch, both eventually joined by the now maskless Allister. 

"I was so tired, but food smell so good," he mumbles and flops down next to Bea and lays his head on her shoulder. 

"I agree, she really is a heck of a chef," Marnie says, passing around cups of water for Bea and Allister. 

"You guys..." Gloria starts

"Give me way too much credit," the rest of them finish, causing Gloria to silently turn back to her curry.

"You could just accept the compliment you know," Marnie huffs as Gloria grabs bowls for all of them.