#for context. I hc Milo and Leon being childhood friends. like known each other since diapers since their fams were farmers

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Thinking about Milo's and Leon's friendship. About how Milo was probably one of the first to know that something wasn't (emotionally) right with Leon and Rose. How maybe one day when both Milo and Leon were still pretty young ( 2 or 3 years after Leon's been champ, and Milo had only just became a trainer in his mother's gym) Leon came to Milo sobbing about how Rose wouldnt let Leon go home. Or talk to certain ppl. Or just something not right. And Milo saying they could tell his parents but then Leon vehemently tells him not to tell anyone, that leon still needs to be champion to support his family. So Milo comforts and reassure Leon that they're friends and Leon can always come to him for help. But after that Leon kinda realizes that a good friend doesn't only use someone for comfort. So they drift apart. And it isn't till their adults, and after Leon and Piers get into a verbal argument, that Milo realizes (and a few others discover) that Leon isn't in the best mental health, and after getting a splash of deja-vu from seeing leon sob and falling to knees to hug and comfort, and now that their adults. Milo might just start speaking up.