Frozen Resolve

Chapter 6 : Catnip

"What was yours about?" I asked. "Helping an extremely annoying Carracosta called Twirk move his house" Kuro grumbled. "And we failed to help him move all of his stuff...he even asked us to move him, he was so heavy the two of us couldn't even move him for a tiny bit" Duff added. "That's that, and of course, we ended up ditching him after working for the whole day," Kuro said with a grin. "His name is...Twirk?" Randy asked. "Yeah...does that ring a bell?" Duff asked. "Uh...nope"

"Icy, are you feeling better after all that grass?" Randy asked as we left the inn and headed home. "A little" I replied shortly. "Sorry about earlier..." Randy muttered. "For what?" I asked. "For making you so nervous back there, laughing at you eating grass, and the crush thing" he replied. "It's fine, Randy. Everymon has their interests, even though I don't appreciate some of those...I'll forgive you as long as you let me tickle you after we get home" I replied with a grin. "What?!"

"Just kidding, tickling you isn't as fun as tickling Blossom and Spark. Not only that, I'm so tired today, I'm aching everywhere and I'll probably just pass out right away after taking a bath" I replied with a smile as we passed Boro's tent. "I'm glad you think of me like that, Blossom's probably going to pound me when I get in, I have no idea how she's gonna react," he said quietly. "Don't worry, Blossom and I are best friends, and I've never seen her mad before. She's always happy, excited, and outgoing"

"Say...Randy, why do you seem so sad all the time...or not sad...how do I say this? You seem to care a lot about others, try to help out and make them happy while you do all the hard work" I asked. "I..." "Hey guys!" a familiar voice exclaimed, followed by a blue mon dashing towards us and jumping onto Randy. "Blossom, no hugs!"

"Sorry, just got a little excited" she replied with a grin. "Blossom, did Randy tell you that he liked your hugs and he wanted more?" I asked with a smirk. "Really?" Blossom asked excitedly. "No! Icy, that's not how I said it! I did not mention anything about liking her hugs! I hate being hugged, and hate being kissed even more!" Randy yelled. "So where've you been this whole time?"

"We went on a mission while you...uh..." I muttered as I tried to think of an excuse. "We went to rescue a Deino and didn't want to disturb you since you overslept" Randy added. "Oh come on! Deinos are so cute, why didn't you wake me up?" Blossom whined. "Randy, what's this white cream on your shoulder?" I asked. "Huh?"

"Oh, about that..." Blossom said and scratched her head. "Blossom, why is the same cream on your mouth?" Randy asked. "Did you know that an ice cream parlor just opened around here?" she asked, then Randy and I exchanged looks. "Probably"

"The ice cream there is so tasty! I didn't know what happened earlier, I only knew that I felt extremely relaxed in some kind of dream-like state and came to our bed, drooling everywhere with my pajamas all ruffled up. I then felt hungry and exhausted, so I spent all of my poke' there and had ice cream for both lunch and dinner!" she exclaimed. "Didn't your brother tell you not to eat too much sweet stuff? You're going to get plump" I said to her. "What's wrong with being plump? I'm fine with gaining a little weight" she said with a grin. "And if you spent all of your poke', that means that I'll have to be paying for your lunch tomorrow!" I grumbled. "I'll pay you back someday!"

"Sorry, but we're out of ice cream today," the Vanillite at the parlor said to us when we went to ask if they were still open. "It's fine, Icy. Guess you're not paying me those 4 ice creams today" Randy said with a smile while I let out a sigh. "I hate owing other pokemon stuff" I muttered. "Hmm...great to mmm...see you today, hmmm...?"

"Hi Boros, haven't seen you for the whole day" we greeted him as he walked toward us. "Hmmm...it's mmm...chilly in the night, hmmm...?" he said to us. "A little bit, but I'm fine with that" Randy replied as it got colder and colder when we chatted, but it was overall still bearable.