A New Journey Begins!

Chapter 5: A Day Off

{A/N Yet another chapter with my good friend dragon_blader_girl. She's such a good writer, and make sure to stop by her page and give her some love. Okay enough talking! Let's continue off where we were last time!}

Ash's POV.

I hear some shifting in the night, I slightly wake yet I don't open my eyes. It must be Serena coming in finally, I hope she didn't stay out too late. My body begins to heat up and then I feel breathing on my face, it's very light and then it slows. Serena must have been cold or something to be that close to me. I really hope she's alright, maybe she is still worried about what happened earlier with her walking in on me.

She's such a wonderful person and I think very highly of her, an-

My thoughts are interrupted by a warm feeling on my lips. A warm, and sweet strawberry taste. It only last for a few seconds. They felt cold again once it left and then I hear Serena say something under her breath.
"Goodnight Ash" She says in a sweet but tired voice.
I feel a smile come onto my face and I drift back off to sleep...
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The Next Morning...

I wake slightly as I see nothing but sun shining through the flaps of the tent, it looks like dawn must have just broken. I try to shift around but I can't, I seem to be locked in place. I look next to me and to my surprise I have a certain honey blonde haired girl, with her arms locked around me. She must have gotten cold or something late last night if she was that close...
I get a feeling in my stomach like I haven't before, and it just gets me thinking about Serena. She looks so pretty and peaceful when she sleeps, even though I can't see her beautiful ocean blue eyes, she still looks calm and collected when she's sleeping...

Its official. I'm weird. I'm watching somebody sleep...

Why am I thinking this all of a sudden? It doesn't make sense... Her body shifts and one of her hands move towards my chest. It feels so soft... I shift onto my back and she follows me, strange. My chest now becomes her pillow and now she has one arm over my body and the other behind my neck. I will admit she must be as comfortable as I am.

I'm not complaining but I don't want to move too much so she wakes up.

No sooner do I think that, I feel shifting near my body, it must be Serena. She lifts up her head and groans, rubbing her eyes. Still half asleep, she looks up at me, her hair a mess, but it's okay. Her eyes lock onto mine, and it hits her. Her face becomes about as red as the topcoat that she wears.

"G-good- Good morning, Ash, umm, sleep well?" She stutters.

"I think you slept a bit better than I did, it seemed like you were comfortable. Arms wrapped around me and all." I say with a small smirk on my face.

"U-um, Y-yeah... Sorry about that, I uh... Got cold and I wanted some uh... extra warmth..." She said as she pulled her hair behind her head and tied it off. She layed back down on me, which was strange, I didn't think she would stay this long.

"Um, Serena, are you going to uh, get off of me?" Not that i didn't mind, because it didn't really bother me, maybe she was still cold.

"Oh, is it making you uncomfortable? I'm sorry!" She quickly removed her arms and scooted away, to my disappointment.

"No no, I don't mind!" Her face shifted from concern to relief, and I remembered what happened last night, just before I fell asleep. "Uh, what about last night though?" I could feel my face heating up, and Serena saw it.

"Oh, ahh, I'm sorry!" She turned bright red, and turned her face away, her eyebrows furrowed and an anxietic look in her eyes.

"If you're worried about whether or not I hate you for it, don't. I, actually, umm, kinda," I stumbled on my words. "I actually kinda liked, um, it."