Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon...but that'd be so cool!

It was a wonderful morning on that particular day. Too bad May couldn't enjoy in that dark moving van filled with boxes. She sighed as the road went from smooth concrete to bumpy off road, grass. She was sitting on a big box that said 'books' on it, her knees close to her face.

"Why couldn't we've stayed in Goldenrod?" she thought as the road grew bumpier. She then remembered with a pang in her stomach that back in Goldenrod, she couldn't see her dad at all. He was the gym leader of Petalburg city, and couldn't come home very often, if not at all. She missed him along with her mom, so they moved as close as they could to Petalburg. So, they were about to move into Littleroot town, which was a ten minute walk from the gym. Suddenly, the van stopped.

"Whoa!" May cried as she fell off the box to the floor. "Ow..." she rubbed her head as slight pain found its way to her. Then, the big sliding door of the van rushed open.

"Ah!" May instantly covered her eyes as light poured into the darkness. She soon heard her mother's voice.

"May! C'mon inside, okay?"

She uncovered her eyes. It wasn't quite so blinding as it was, but it was still bright to her as she climbed out of the van and got a good look at the new house. It was a tiny little house that was white with an almond brown roof. May could tell it had two floors, up and down, because of the windows upstairs. A smile crept up her face as her mom came outside from the house.

"What do you think of it?" her mom asked.

"I like it," she replied. "But doesn't it seem a little small?"

"It actually isn't. It has one big room downstairs, another big one upstairs, and a big, hidden basement."

May never really did think it would have a basement, but when they got inside, her mom showed her the secret door in the corner of the room. Sure enough, it existed.

"I'll be sleeping down here," her mom was saying. "And you can have the room upstairs." That kinda shocked May.

"Really? I can have the whole upstairs?"

"Of course!"

With that, May hugged her mother, and ran upstairs. The room was quite big, and empty. With sudden realization, she shouted downstairs,

"hey, mom! How're we going to move our stuff!?"

"The mover Pokemon'll get it!"

"The what!?"

Her question was soon answered as two big, muscular Machoke walked into her room. One was carrying big boxes of stuff, and the other, her mattress and bed frame.

"Wow!" she exclaimed, surprised to see the big Pokemon carrying so much that could crush her if she had carried it. They put the mattress and frame in the corner of the square room, and the boxes right next to the door so May could put everything where she wanted it to go, then walked back downstairs.

"Figures they'd leave the bed for me to set up..." she thought as she stared at her bed, which leaned in pieces on the wall while the mattress was on the ground. She walked over to the boxes and opened one. Her laptop, computer mouse, and a big pillow sat inside, just waiting to be taken out and put away. May picked up the laptop, and sat it on the floor.

"Chhhooaaakkk..." she heard someone moan. She turned around to see a Machoke carrying her desk.

"Oh, sorry!" she squeaked, picking up her laptop. The Machoke let out a moan, and put the desk down before walking back downstairs. May put her laptop down on the desk and got her mouse out to connect. A little while later, May finally finished unpacking. She was just setting the final thing down when she heard her mom call her. She ran down the steps.

"Yeah?" she asked as she reached the bottom step. Her mom was sitting at the table, drinking tea. Something strange though was an unfamiliar face also sat across from her.

"May, this is Mrs. Birch. She has a son about your age." her mom explained.

"Oh, thats nice. And its nice to meet you, too" May said happily, but in her mind, she was thinking something else.

"A boy about my age? Great, I bet she's setting me up with some jerk I don't even know! What are the odds a thirteen year old boy lives in this place? Well, I hope he's cute at least!"

"Why don't you go over and meet him, May?" her mom asked. "That is, if thats okay with you, Delila."

"No, its perfectly fine!" the lady happily exclaimed, kinda loudly.

"Well, go on then!" her mom forced her out the door into the what was now bright sunlight. May shielded her eyes as she reached outside.

"Now, where's their house?" she asked herself. She ran back inside to get the answer.

"Oh, it's just right next door! You can't miss it!"

Sure enough, she didn't. She had absolutely no idea there were only about six houses in the entire town either.

"Great, now I bet she thinks I'm stupid or something," May thought as she noticed the big house next door. She walked over towards it,

and pushed on the handle...

Yeah, I know this was sort-of short, but hopefully good! I'm still trying to figure out a couple of ways how this story is different from others based on Emerald\Ruby\Sapphire. If anyone has any ideas, its greatly appreciated if ya'll can tell me some! :)
Sheimi