I'm not a Trainer

XVII: To forgive

ESPEON

Shortly after Trainer went to his room, Decidueye joined both of me and Vaporeon. I'm taking the leftmost space on the couch while Vaporeon is curling up like a ball in the middle, probably close to snoozing off. Decidueye stands near me. She didn't sit down, she rarely does sit actually. Do owls prefer to sit or perch on something? I mean I can make an educated guess and say it's the former judging by how Decidueye acts every day. Not like her legs bend the way ours do anyway.

Decidueye then looms over me as she bends forward. She looked at me with a light smile before she says...

'You alright Espeon?'

'Huh? Where did that come from?'

'I mean you did get dragged by Vaporeon to bathe together. Thought I asked how you're feeling.'

'I...uh-...'

Before I managed to come up with any reasonable response Vaporeon flicked her tail against mine, granting my attention. Her lips smirked, and she stared at me with half-closed eyes.

'Oh Decidueye~, Espeon loved it. Isn't that right leader?' She pounced on me and of course, I tried to retaliate.

'Get off me! I swear you tried to do this every time you got the chance to.'

'I mean, of course I would. Your fur is just so warm, it's honestly comforting.'

'Tch, Decidueye, get her off me.'

Decidueye puts on a mischievous smile, her wings crossed on her chest. Sometimes Decidueye can be a flip of a switch, one moment she would be the most reliable ally and another moment she would be a very naughty teammate.

Sigh, I wonder what got her excited today.

Her expression never lied and because of that, it puts me on edge. Honestly, I'm quite afraid of what she had in mind. When she stared at me with that eyes my furs went upright. I'm getting concerned.

'Uh, Decidueye? What are you doing?'

'Oh, nothing. I'll just-...'

Decidueye ambled to the back of the couch acting as if she was going to leave the room. During this moment I haven't noticed that I could read the mood of both Vaporeon and Decidueye. However, with Vaporeon clinging onto me, effectively distracting my concentration I couldn't get a proper frequency read on Decidueye. I thought she was planning to leave the living room, letting me be alone with Vaporeon.

Then she takes a sudden turn, where she jumped over from the back of the couch landing right on both of us. Her wings covered half of the couch and her chest covered almost my entire body. Vaporeon seemed to have stuck under her grass hoodie. Vaporeon giggled at Decidueye's action while I'm getting more and more miserable.

'Decidueye! Why?!'

'You know Vaporeon? You're right, she does feel extremely warm.' Decidueye hugs me even tighter.

'I know right? It feels so good right after the rain had stopped' Vaporeon assured Decidueye with a smile.

'You, both, Argh...Fine, just do whatever you want, I don't really care anymore.'

Sigh, now out of all days both of them get in the mood to tease me. Had today been a bad day I might've been more resentful, though I guess since earlier today with the Trainer had lifted their moods a little. I can justify that. Still, I would've preferred for them both to not at least touch my body too much.

The reason why my body is constantly warm, or rather my fur, is because I sunbathe a lot. I gain a lot of my psychic energy through sunlight and doing it every day becomes a routine. If I were to be low on energy I tend to get very sluggish and having Vaporeon and Decidueye under my arms I couldn't let myself get tired. The leader is the leader after all.