Fate

Close Encounter

Chapter 10: Close Encounter

Green

"Green! Green! !" I can hear being called. Slowly my eyes open as I regain feeling. I feel wet, cold, bruised... and dry land! I jolt up looking in every direction. I see Red, Professor Oak, Red's mom and a crowd, including several reporters around the edges of The Corral.

"What happened?" I ask slowly as I put my hand on my head. All I feel is throbbing like when the time I hit my head on a stone wall because I didn't see it due to looking backwards. Red helps me stand up by putting his hand around my waist and grabbing my closet arm around his neck.

"You fell into the river trying to escape the attack. That Milotic saved you and brought you ashore when she saw that you were drowning." He points to  the Milotic that the Professor is petting.

"Really? Why did she do that?"

"Because she likes you, Prince of Eindoak." Professor Oak says as he walks over to us. I try to hide my face from view because now everybody knows who I am. I want to die of embarrassment right now. After a second, I burrow my head into Red's neck.

"Red, can we please go." I whisper in a voice that you could tell anybody that I wanted to cry.

"Red?"

"What Professor?" Red replies in an annoyed tone.

"What did I say?"

"You said... his name. That's why he didn't tell you in the first place. He was trying to hide because... someone tried to kill him!" Red says loudly. Everybody in the area then went quiet.

After a minute, the Professor shakes off what was just told and continues. "I'm sorry. I didn't know. But before you leave, take this Red." He hands Red something but I don't bother to look, I just want to get out of here.

"What's this for?" Red asks.

"Like I said, Milotic likes Green... and she wants to be his first Pokemon." Red nods and returns Milotic to her new pokeball.

"Mom. Help me get him him." She nods and quickly gets into a helpful position. We start walking ar a fast rate but my head hurts too much to even open my eyes. I just lay my head on Red's shoulder and let the tears flow.

The next thing I know, we are already back at Red's and he's helping me upstairs. Red's mom said she would make some hot tea to help warm me up. When we get to his room, Red moves the bag of clothes from his bed and grabs me a towel.

"Now, we're going to go slow. Lets take your jacket off first since that's the easiest." I nod and he gently removes the wet, heavy jacket from my body. He hangs it up on the back of my closet door after putting a bucket under it to catch the falling water.

"Good... Now, I'm going to take your pants off. If you feel any pain, tell me." I nod again and he begins to pull them down from the legs. Out of nowhere, a sharp pain runs up my spine and I yelp a tiny bit.

"Sorry." Red says. I look into his eyes and see some pain in them. I try to give  reassuring smile.

"It's not your fault. Continue... please..." He obeys and continues pulling them until they are off. He hangs them up under the jacket.

I feel completely exposed. Wearing nothing but boxers and a white shirt that is doing nothing since you can see right through it from being wet. My face is so bright from embarrassment. Red turns to me and sighs.

"It's okay Green. No one can see you; only me." He takes my chin in his right hand.

His hand is so soft and warm, I can't help but nuzzle my cheek into his palm. We both blush bright red.

"Why am I burning up? What is this feeling." I say to myself over in my head.

Slowly, I start to lean in to Red and he does the same. His hand remains on my cheek; his thumb stroking it slowly. We stop barely 5 feet away from eachothers faces. I can feel the heat from Red's slow breath on my cold skin.

I gulp a little and close my eye. He does the same. I can feel him getting closer with each passing second.

"Red! Green! Tea's ready. Our eyes fly open and we both go flyng back still incredibly read.

"Um... Let's... get that shirt off you. If you want, I can close my eyes to make you feel more comfortable." He says.

"No. it's fine. Anyway... It would be harder to remove my shirt unable to see..."After a second of thinking it through, he nods and starts unbuttoning my shirt. Slowly, the sleeves start to fall down his arms with the back of the shirt, revealing the smooth skin on my upperbody. Red's hand accidently brushes against my arm and it feels... so good... What is this feeling?

"Okay. I'm going to leave you for a minute so you can dry off. When your ready, I'll come back in and help you put clothes back on. Sound like a plan?" I nod and he leaveas. 

For some reason, when he leaves, my heart sinks. My skin aches to be caressed by his touch... What is this?

As I dry off slowly, I think this over in my head...

"So this... is Love."