[Menarker]

Catherine and Miracle conversation
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As Catherine stood frozen at his introduction, Renny worried that he may had accidently did a faux pas of sort.

"Uhh...yeah, good to meet you, Renny, and your sentiments are appreciated but, uhh...might wanna step back...like, ten or so yards."

Renny was perflexed by the Miracle's suggestion and the deadpan tone she seem to speak with. As he look again toward the motherly figure, his vision shrunk as his face was stuffed in Catherine's cleavage.
"It's him! It's totally him!"
His face was totally flushed red, although no one could see his face where it was. His arms flailed up and down once or twice, as he tried to somehow alert her to his increasingly short breath, although he was too gentle to even have the thought of pushing her away cross his mind.

"Could you uhh...maybe get her off of him?" Lola asked Miracle. "I think she's going to suffocate the poor man."
"I'm not sure I can," Miracle sighed. "My mom's crazy about cute things, especially boys. I think she has Renny on her cellphone. Granted, his body's changed a little with the Gallade DNA but-"

"Say there, my little Renny," Catherine purred."How do you feel about...older women?"
"Forget it, Mom. He's already got a girlfriend,"
"Oh, come on. What does she have that I don't?"
"Youth, beauty, larger breasts,"

Suddenly, Catherine released him as she sunk below him in tears. Renny tried to help her up on her feet.
"Catherine? Catherine, please don't cry. I really hoped that I wouldn't make either of you feel uncomfortable."

"I thought Irene was just being colorful about her warning!" Renny was still blushing the entire time, but he couldn't help but smile from such a warm and affectionate... greeting, especially considering that he expected things to potentially be quite worse.

"By the way, I noticed that you didn't deny being his girlfriend."
Lola's cheeks burned. "And she still isn't denying it," Miracle said, turning to Renny. He felt his spirit rising from the exchange, daring to hope it was true. He didn't recall Lola saying anything. Was everyone else just spreading rumors? He listened to Miracle's apology and reassurance as well as their intention to join PATCA.

"Oh, you don't have to be sorry about what happened then. I went despite the fact that once I was alerted to the distress call, it was fairly clear that it was bad news. Admittedly, I was probably over my head, but Irene went by herself and I worried that more people would have been hurt if it turned out as bad as I thought it would. I'm all better now anyhow."
Renny rubbed the back of his head with a nervous grin.
"But I'm glad to know you both feel you will both be ok. If any of you need some help or advice in PATCA, feel free to ask around. In PATCA, there are a lot of wonderful people, which is a big part of why I'm staying. Of course, feel free to ask me too if you see me."

Renny offered his hand in friendship to both of them, smiling warmly. "I'm sorry that I can't stay longer, but I do have something really important that I need to manage. It was a real pleasure to have met both of you. Hopefully we will meet again soon?"

After the conversation, Renny turned to Lola.

"I think I'm ready. Do you want to stay longer? Or do you think we should go look for Milsha?"

"Yes. It looks like about half of the people here have already left," Lola said. "I wonder where we're going to find her?"


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Event with Milsha
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She stood up to go get more ice cream. Seriously, her calorie intake for the day was through the roof. Renny also went to grab a large milkshake in a to-go cup, feeling hungry since the funeral.
"Sorry. I guess my country drawl isn't good for something so serious. But honestly, Renny, you've surprised the hell out of me. I thought I was supposed to be brave and stupid at the same time. After all that happened that night, you still wanna get up the next day with the possibility of that same terror happening again."

Renny kinda shuffled his feet back and forth. The terrors that she mentioned did cause his nights to be uneasy many times. He'd hope he didn't have to explain his motivations further. Some of the fears and pains were so bad, he had wondered why he was doing it.

Milsha finished her ice cream and stood up. "You're getting more?!" Lola asked her.
"Nah, I'm done. I probably won't want ice cream again for fifteen minutes. C'mon, let's go! You have a car, right?"

Renny was eager to come along, hoping that Milsha had agreed to rent the place out to them. He hadn't finished his milkshake, so he took it with him to the car, still nursing on the large drink even as he entered the magnificent hotel lobby before he finally finished it and dumped the container in the bin with a hearty sigh. His eyes darted back and forth with incredible interest, listening to Lola talking with Milsha about how she came to have access to her apartment.

"Holy shit," Lola breathed, still mezmerized. "And it's okay for us to just live here?"
"Sure, why not? It's not a very large room, but back in the days when I lived on the farm, all I ever owned were some toiletries and a bunk...a bunk that I shared with my brothers, to be honest."

He stood there dumbfounded, looking at Milsha, awestruck at her generosity as the elevator door opened and they strolled into the apartment room itself. As he stepped out into the apartment, he released his pokemon so they could get a sense of their new home while Milsha continued to explain the details of the place for a while longer...

"Alrighty, then, I'm gonna go do some weapons testing. I'll go make sure that Pamilla knows about you two. Then you can get some keys to this place. By the way, that one bedroom is yours, so enjoy yourselves?"

Renny rushed Milsha with a big hug before she would leave. "I can't possibly thank you enough for this! I was so worried." He rubbed his eyes with his sleeve "Milsha, thank you so much for everything. This really helps me feel better about a lot of things."

"Seriously, Milsha, this is wonderful. It's so awesome to have a friend like you!" Lola smiled. "Wait, what one bedroom?"
Milsha blinked. "You know. That one I showed you. You'll share that, right?"
Lola slowly craned her head to look at Renny. "Us...in the same bedroom?" Renny looked toward Lola, struck mute by the sudden realization and his imagination ran as wild as his face glowed red.
Milsha folded her arms. "You wacky cityfolk and your sensitivity about gender. I slept with boys all you time when I was young."
"Uhhh..." Lola faltered.
"Out in the countryside, gender is almost entirely negligible. I lived with boys, slept with boys, even bathed with boys."
"Ahhh...bathed with...?" Lola faltered again. Renny's face was still red, especially now that Milsha conjured the mental image of herself naked with other boys.
Milsha simply shook her head and left.

Lola looked at Renny. "Wow. I didn't know any of this about Milsha. About her being hired by Cecilia's company, about any of it. Kind of a super shocker, y'know?"

Renny nodded, but stood there with a semi-vacant and blissful expression for a short while. He then became increasingly nervous about Lola's reaction to sharing a room with him.

"Errr, Lola. I... Ok. Here is what I'm thinking of doing. Before I go, I'll see Pamilla so I can get a set of keys and show her my pokemon, so they get acquainted with each others' presence. I'll head home and pretend to pack up to move away. Essentials in boxes and that sort of thing, but I'll teleport back and forth between here and there during the night before they know what's happening. I'll leave them a note at the end so they know I'm safe and they can go their own way to a safer place..."

He then looked toward her with more focus.
"I errr... I am also shocked that Milsha thought you would room in with me. I, I can understand if you'd rather not. Of course, I'll be very happy to have you here if you would be happy too."

Renny then approached Lola and gave her a warm and somewhat strong hug. "Lola, thank you. I already owe you so much. I know it's going to be hard and I'll miss my family a bit, but I'm starting to feel better like this, especially with all the help you have given me."

He then parted soon after, recalling his pokemon. "I'll go ahead and get started then. I hope I'll see you soon."

Renny took the elevator down and approached the young woman in the bunny suit costume which made him blush yet again that had greeted them earlier. It started to occur to him that his life since he entered PATCA had become increasingly absurd.

"Hello again. I beg your pardon, but is your name Pamilla? My name is Renny. Milsha told me that I might be able to pick up the keys to my residence from you? Also, I was hoping I could show my pokemon so you would not be alarmed by their presence, and the same for them. They are really quite gentle, but I would like to err on the side of caution."