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Milo's door was always open, figuratively, just like how his mum would take care of anyone who seeked it.
Milo strummed the acoustic guitar in his lap just thinking. Till the hum of a motorcycle loomed outside then ceased. This snapped Milo back to reality. He tried to button up the loose plaid shirt he was wearing but only able to get half of the buttons leaving his chest exposed, before there was a hesitant knock at the door.
Milo still tried to button the rest of it on his way to the door with no success.
Milo's hand twisted the door knob and swung the door open to see Piers.
"Hey Piers, whats up?" Milo said
Piers seemed more withered then usual, his eyes looked like he hadn't slept in weeks. His arms were crossed but not in a angry way more like he was cold or ashamed of himself. His eyes tried to look at Milo but kept darting away.
"are you okay?" Milo asked gently.
"i-i don't- um" Piers struggled to find the words
"It's okay do you want to come inside?" Milo asked
Piers hesitantly nodded.
As the two made their way to the living room Milo hoped he wasn't makeing Piers uncomfortable. Milo was wearing only a sports bra under his plaid shirt and some shorts that came up to the higher part of his thighs. Piers was wearing some ripped skinny jeans, scuffed up combat boots, and a wide collared long sleeve shirt, he was wearing a jacket but he left it on the rack.
Milo and Piers sat on the couch. Piers fidgeted with his fingers, until Milo asked
"Why are yuh here?"
"Im not sure, uhm i guess i was just seeing where my bike would take me?" Piers said, something still nagging at him.
Milo placed a hand on Piers's shoulder.
"I'll listen to what ever you need to get off yer chest."
"uhm, okay, well- i have been having terrible night terrors, and being a new gym leader doesn't help with that. And i don't think chairman rose likes that i can't dynamax my Pokemon. He tried to get me to move to a place with a dynamax source but i can't just get up and leave my town!.. And its all just uhhgghg." Piers vented as he sunk in to the sofa.
"Hmmm, seems quite stressful, Oh! you know what we should do." Milo said with a smile growing on his face
"What?" Piers asked
"We should have a sleepover! You should take your mind off it just for a bit, and! You said you're having night terrors so maybe you just need a change of scenery," Milo stood up putting his hands on his hips as he spoke. "i could go get some extra blankets and we could watch movies, oh and snacks! All the snacks!!" and with that Milo disappeared leaving Piers dumbfounded.
Milo came back with a mountain of blankets and pillows in his arms. He placed them down on the sofa narrowly missing Piers. Then Milo started walking away to get more stuff when Piers grabbed his wrist to get his attention.
"Milo.." Piers looked at the shorter man
"-Oh Man! im so sorry!! Its okay if you don't want to sleepover. I just, -sorry."
Milo apologized profusely
"No, its fine-.. I don't have any pajamas on me." Piers sheepishly said
"You can borrow some of mine?" Milo offered
"if you're offering, yeah." Piers accepted.
Milo beamed a large grin at him then ran off to his room. Then came back with with some clothes in his hands.
"Hopefully these fit, the bathroom is down the hall to the right if you want to change in to them." milo handed Piers the clothes as he spoke.
Piers nodded and went down the hall as Milo collected more things for their spontaneous sleepover. When Piers came back dressed in a cozy wool sweater that hung off his shoulder and pj pants, the whole living room was rearranged with a pillowfort in the middle of the space. Piers was only gone for like 4-8 minutes how did Milo make this so fast?!?!
"hey Piers," Milo said out of breath wipeing some sweat from his forehead. "everything fit alright?"
"Y-yeah" Piers said still in awe.
"Come on!" Milo grabbed Piers's wrist and pulled him into the fort. They both settled down in the fort.
"Ya'know this kinda reminds me of when everyone was competing for Champion. leon and raihan ran off doing whatever and you camped out with me. You had shorter hair back then."
" -and you had just figured out that you were a guy. You had a whole crisis about it." Piers remarked
"Haha yeah, golly it still feels like that was yesterday even though that was a few years ago," Milo noted.
"Anyways, what movie should we watch?" Milo asked.
"A cheesy horror movie?" Piers suggested.
"I don't have many horror movies, but I'll look through the ones I do have. are you sure horror is the right genre for night terrors?" Milo questioned
"ehh, I'll be fine." Piers shrugged "i don't scare easy, im only getting night terrors because im worried about stuff."
"Okaaayyy" Milo said as he left to get the DVDs.
Before Milo knew it he was cuddling with Piers. Piers had his head on Milo's chest and his arms wrapped around Milo's waist. One of Milo's arms around Piers's shoulder and one hand playing with his hair. The two were watching a horror movie called The Were-Zorark. Then suddenly *CRASH!!!* the two jumped at the sound that came from the kitchen.
"what was that..?" Piers held on tighter to Milo.
"should we find out?" Milo asked his voice a whisper
Piers didn't say anything just gave Milo a panicked but confused look.
"Do you have any of your Pokemon on you, mine are upstairs" Milo asked.
"Uhm.. My jacket! I have obstagoon!" Piers whisper yelled
"-Shh!!" Milo put a hand to Piers's mouth "you hung your jacket by the door, right?, thats on the way to the kitchen."
Piers nodded.
After grabbing obstagoon's pokeball the two walked towards the kitchen, Milo in front of Piers.
"Ok on 3, 1... 2... 3!!" Piers whispered
Milo flicked the light switch on as Piers released obstagoon with a yell.
"baa?" a wooloo said who was munching on spilled fruit; the bowl in-half on the floor.
"Oh its just a wooloo," Milo said with relief one hand on his chest the other on Piers's shoulder.
"I guess i forgot lock the backdoor, whoops" Milo laughed at himself.
"Baaahh!" the wooloo realizing it's been caught ran out of the kitchen to the living room knocking Piers into Milo. Leaving muddy hoof prints in Its wake.
Milo was to preoccupied with shouting at the wooloo to notice how close Piers's face was to his own. Piers noticed. quickly pulling away his eyes drifted away from Milo's face to Milo's chest accidentally. realizing this Piers quickly looked away.
"You a'right Piers?" Milo asked
"Yeah-yeah! Um- we should proba'ly go get that wooloo, yeah?" Piers said futilely trying to hide the growing blush on his face.
"Yeah yer probably right." Milo rushed off to the living after the wooloo.
Milo found the wooloo. In the middle of a destroyed pillow fort with messy hoof prints about. The wooloo stared at him blankly.
"Oh.. Oh no." Piers said assessing the situation.
Milo inhaled and exhaled leveling himself. "should get wooloo back with the others, and deal with this later." he said picking up the wooloo.
Piers hadn't seen Milo tired before. pushing stuff off for later wasn't like normal high energy milo. Was he the reason Milo- Piers was snapped out of his thoughts when Milo asked if he wanted to come with, Piers nodded.
"It twas rainin' earlier so ya proba'ly want a coat, I don't think yer cropped jacket is super warm, hm?" Milo asked
"Oh yeah, wait what 'bout you?" Piers said as Milo grabbed a coat for him.
Milo slung the coat over Piers's shoulders with one hand wooloo in the other arm. Then Milo took Piers's hand in his.
"how are your hand so warm?!" Piers exclaimed.
"I'll be fine" Milo let go of Piers's hand and pated his shoulder
The two got on their boots and headed out. The dew on the grass illuminated by moonlight. Piers shivered the chill night breeze blowing on him gently. Piers had zipped up Milo's jacket and had his hands in the pockets. He liked the way it smelled, like flowers.
"Huh, so thats how it got out." Milo thought aloud noticing the tiny hay-bail next to the fence. Milo put the wooloo back in the pen then jumped over the fence with ease. Milo picked up the hay-bail and tossed it to the other side like it was nothing. "have to do head count in the morning." Milo muttered to himself.
"How much do those things weigh?" Piers asked amazed
"The hay? Like uh- like 90-100 pounds, i think, ehh its nothing much, the one's i use for mah gym challenge weight 'round like 700 pounds? But i just push those 'round." Milo said as he jumped over the fence to be on the same side as Piers.
Piers could feel his face getting warmer but he couldn't tell if it was the cold or the fact the short man infront of him could throw him around like a ragdoll at any moment.
"Piers?.. Yuh there?" Milo asked.
"I need a moment im doing mental math... How." Piers grabbed Milo's shoulders.
Milo burst out laughing.
The two eventually made it back to the house.
"Well the forts destroyed. What do we do now?" Piers asked
"We could sleep in ma bed, If ye want" Milo said sleepily.
"Um ok, i have to go to the bathroom brb" Piers put Milo's coat on a kitchen chair.
"Okeay i'll be in ma roooommm"
Milo got all cozy under the blankets of his bed. waiting for Piers. He started to drift off before noticing a Piers shaped silhouette leaning on the doorframe. Milo lifted the blankets inviting Piers to join him. Piers reluctantly joined.
"Piers?"
"Yeah?"
"Im not makeing you uncomfortable am i? I know im a very uh- physical? With uhm my affection. So if-if im makeing you uncomfortable-" Milo was cut off by Piers hugging him.
"Your not. Um I've actually been kinda craving this. I don't really know how to ask for it without sounding desperate, so um yeah." Piers admitted "but i feel a little guilty because.. Um.. I..i like you. Romantically." Piers lifted himself to look Milo in the eyes.
Milo was silent for a moment. Piers could feel the embarrassment growing on his face and was tempted to just get up and leave the awkward situation. Give Milo an escape if he didn't feel the same.
Instead Milo sat up and kissed Piers's forehead then said "so are we boyfriends now?"
Piers was to shell shocked by the forehead kiss to respond with words. Piers nodded. After a moment Piers spoke.
"YOU LIKE ME?? WE'RE BOYFRIENDS? THIS IS REAL?"
Milo laughed "YES, IVE LIKED YE FOR A WHILE."
"For how long?" Piers turned to Milo.
"Uhm i think when we were up a against eachother in the ranking gym challenge thing." Milo said
"Is that why i won?" Piers asked
"No! Ye won because Your amazing, and a good Pokemon trainer and, stronger then you think ye are and-"
"Ok ok." Piers laughed "i get it"
Milo got closer to Piers and hugged him "And this amazing person is my boyfriend now." Milo looked Piers in the eyes after he said this.
"um can we kiss?" Piers asked pointing to his lips.
"Yes." Milo cupped Piers's face and pulled him in.
one kiss turned in to a few dozen. Piers held on to Milo's waist with one hand. Milo had one hand playing with Piers's hair the other hand cupping Piers's face. The two were practically makeing out at this point. (Like they love eachother and have been WANTING that cookie fr fr.)
Then Piers pulled away, heavily breathing "i love this- a lot like a lot a lot but- shouldn't we get some sleep?"
"Ahahaha, yeah probably, besides we could spent all of tomorrow together if you want <3" Milo huffed
"That would be nice" Piers snuggled into the crook of Milo's neck.
The sensation made Milo giggle.
"Oh? You tickleish?" Piers asked.
"Maybe"
Piers was gently kissing Milo's neck making Milo squirm and giggle beneath him.
"Pier-Piers have ye changed yer mind on sleeping?" Milo said between giggles.
"Nah just messing with ya" Piers kissed Milo on the lips then fell asleep on Milo's chest.
Milo embraced Piers in a hug, kissed Piers forehead and promptly fell asleep.
Piers didn't have any night terrors that night.