The Shield of Galar

Star Tournament: Day 2

Gloria wakes up, feeling arms wrapped around her torso. She smiles and almost squirms in happiness as she shifts deeper into Marnie's arms, while still clutching the giant stuffed snom she fell asleep with.

After a few more moments, Gloria pries herself out of her partner's clutches and stands up out of the bed to see Bea wasn't behind Marnie. Grimacing, she makes her way out of the bedroom and heads over to the main room, still clutching the snom, and she decides to start cooking some breakfast for everyone. Sitting the toy down, she takes her time making food for all of them.

"I smell something delicious," Allister mumbles as he sits down and puts his head on the table.

"Figured I'd make a nice big breakfast for us," Gloria smiles as she takes some of what she has already made and sets it down in front of Allister. "So, eat up while it's hot,"

"Thanks mom," he says quickly, and Gloria freezes in her tracks. Allister turns red and shakes his head. "I'm sorry, so sorry, it just slipped out," he yells.

"H...hey, don't worry about it," Gloria smiles as she goes back to cooking, her eyes hyper focused on what she is doing, thinking about what he said.

After a few more moments, Gloria asks "Do you...do you see me as a mother figure for you?"

Allister pushes the food around on his plate a bit and sighs. "If I say yes?" he then looks up towards her and turns the stove down a bit.

"You think I would mind?" she chuckles. "Though I figured Bea would be more of your mother figure," Gloria adds and joins him with some food.

"Bea is motherly, but she is my sister. So, I'll always see her as my sister. But you, well, you are caring, cook, clean, and make sure I helped with chores," he explains.

"Doesn't she do the same? In fact she is much more of a neat freak than I am. She can be pretty anal about stuff,"

"Sure, but the way you go about it..." he grimaces. "Can we keep this between us? I think that she would get kinda jealous,"

"No worries, our little secret," Gloria ruffles his hair and stands back up. "Where is she by the way?" she asks as she walks over to the stove again.

"She slept in my room last night. We swam till pretty late, and she didn't want to risk waking you up, so she just stayed with me,"

"Well wasn't that nice of her," she giggles. "When you finish up, wanna go stir them from her sleep?"

"I'll go wake my sister, but I'm not risking my life in an attempt to wake the monster," he jokes and stands up, bringing his plate over to the sink. He then heads back to his room, leaving Gloria alone to make up two additional plates.

Not too long after she watches Bea drag her feet across the floor into their room, followed by screaming shortly there after. Allister and Gloria both hangs their heads and chuckle a bit as the two other girls come out and join them for breakfast.

"Sleep well you two?" Gloria asks with a half chuckle as she sets a plate down in front of each of them.

"I went to bed way too late," Bea admits as she begins eating.

"And I was just very rudely awoken," Marnie adds as she also begins to eat.

"Great, glad to hear it," Gloria responds, nervously chuckling as she goes to start cleaning up.

The other two continue to bicker at the table for a while, so Allister and Gloria decide to get changed and take a dip in the pool.

"With how much you've been swimming you could have been a water type trainer," the Champion teases, getting an eye roll from the boy.