¦¦Hau¦¦

I hugged him for what seemed the longest time he spoke, "Why do you do this?" Gladion asked me.

"What do you mean?"

"Why, why, why..?" He whsieperd.

"Why what?"

Gladion shook his head with his grasp around my body getting tighter. "Nothing. Just keep hugging me." He murmured burying his face in my shoulder.

"Okay.." We stayed like that. Silent and enjoyed the moment, but I had to ask, "So.. What's going to happen to the woman?"

Gladion slightly shrugged his shoulders, "She probably got raped."

I pulled away from the hug, "Rape?!" He said nothing, "And you're okay with that?" He shrugged again. "Are you okay?"

"Peachy." Anyone could see through that awful lie.

"What's wrong? You can tell me Glady."

"For God's sake... Stop calling me that." Gladion told me now grabbing ahold of my shirt.

"I've been calling you that for a long time now. What's the problem now?"

He pulled away forcefully, pushing me back in the process. "Becasue! Maybe what Lillie said was right..." He sighed sitting down at his small desk with a mirror a top. I followed him leaning on his chair. "This is unfair..."

"What is?" I asked staring at him through the mirror.

"This! You!"

"What did I do?" My heart dropped when he said that. I was overly confused.

"You're being you."

"I hope you don't expect an apology from me just for being me." I told him crossing my arms. The things he said started to make my blood boil.

Gladion hid his face in his arms, "I don't.." Time was awkward and still again. "You can go if you want to.."

"Do you want me to?"

"I.. I don't know."

~

Yeah... It's kind of weird, but I ended up spending the night at Gladion's. We actually had a good time. Gladion actually laughed, but it was only for a second, sadly. He also showed me one of his rare smiles. It was really cute.. I mean— smiles looked really good on the boy! You would get it if you ever saw him smile. I woke up with my face pressed up against Gladion's back. I slowly sat up. When I started to hear his phone vibrating on his small night stand. I reached over grabbing the phone. It was from Lillie. Should I really pick up for him? He'd probably get mad if I did. Screw it. I was pretty nosy and decided to pick the phone up. "Alola Lillie!" I whispered, but shouted at the same time.

"O-oh? H-Hau? Why do you have Gladion's phone?"

"I didn't steal it! I just answered for him."

"..You guys are at the same place this early in the morning?"

"I stayed at his place."

"R-really? Why?"

My face began to heat up.. I don't know why. I just– "I don't know. He wanted me to.. And I wanted to..?" It came out as more of a question than a statement.

"Awh, that's adorable!"

"No it's not. It doesn't mean anything. So... What's up with you and Glady?"

"God fucking damn it. I thought I told you to not call me that and why do you have my phone? Who is it?" Gladion groaned as he gt up wrapping an arm around my waist, putting his lips on my shoulder. I'm pretty or he just really needed to someone to hug? Either ways I didn't stop him..he took the phone from me putting it on speaker.

"Gladion, you wanted Hau to stay?"

"..."

"For what reason?"

"What did you call me for?"

"Well, Sun and Moon wanted to take a small break from their island challenges so they wanted to go to a the Battle Royal Dome match and they were wondering if you wanted to come."

Gladion sighed, "I don't really want–"

"I want to go!"

I shouted. Gladion mumbled something under his breath before asking, "Today?"

"Yes."

"What time?"

"In about thirty minutes."

"Seriously?"

"Yes. So I'll see you there?"

Gladion rubbed his eyes harshly, "Yeah." He hung up, but he didn't move. He dropped his phone on his bed wrapping his arm back around me. My heart nearly jumped out of my chest. I liked the feeling. He mumbled something into my shoulder, I couldn't make it out, but it tickled.

"What?"

"Nothing... I should get dressed. You should too."

"Why are you going?"

"Do you not want me to?"

"No–no–no!! I do! That's not it! I do. I want you to. I'm happy you are! I'm just asking why." Gladion ignored my question. He stood up dissappearing into the small closet. I hear him slip his clothes off and hangers rattling. "Is it because I'm going?" I smiled lightly.

"Well aren't you conceded?"

I giggled.