Jacob and I are eating dinner, the mess hall was mostly empty except for a few Pokémon here and there, Archie was talking to Rio at the head of the table. I was enjoying my meal when Jacob said:

"Oh, not making googly eyes at Archie?"

I groaned, "No, not anymore, I mean, he's cute and all but he's too serious, he'd bore me to death."

Jacob nodded gravely, "So you need someone more like Rio?"

We laughed and without thinking I replied, "Ha, no way! If anything, I need someone like you."

...

I didn't just say that, I didn't say that aloud... I felt my face burning as I looked at him, he was shocked, it was clear on his face. Then he started laughing and hitting his paw on the table.

"Hahaha! Funny! You couldn't handle all of this." He gestured to himself.

"Yeah, you're right, no-one could handle all that stupidity, that's why you're gonna die alone Ace."

He frowned now, was about to say something but I did before he could.

"Besides I'm out of your league, remember?"

"Well thank goodness for that", he drawled that last line and it ticked me off.

"You know, we may be friends, but I don't like you." (The bottom left of Pixie's mouth twitched, not that she knows that.)

"Well fine by me, I'm leaving once everything's back to normal, don't get too attached."

He had been teasing the whole time but now I couldn't keep the venom out of my voice:

"Well good riddance! It's not like you'll be missed!" (Her mouth twitched again! Reader; Does the mouth twitch hold any relevance whatsoever!? Author; Maybe, maybe not, figure it out!)

With that I stood and walked from the mess hall back to our room. Curling into a ball I lay on my bed and closed my eyes. Jacob walked in soon after, went to say something, sighed, blew out the torch and went to sleep.

"Goodnight Pix."

"Night Ace."