This is my very very first fanfic. Please tell me how to improve it.

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Chapter 1- Flashback

Rain was pouring down from the dark, cloudy sky as a beautiful brunette girl ran towards the Pokemon Centre. Just a few days ago, she had parted with her friends: Brock, her little brother Max, and Ash Ketchum.

'Ash…' she whispered to herself as she hurried towards the brightly lit pokemon centre, she had missed him the most. His large auburn eyes, his messy dark hair, his handsome face, and most of all, his grin that always supplied her with the love and confidence that she needed. May smiled to herself as she remembered how she had met Ash.

In another region, far far away, Ash Ketchum fiddled with the half ribbon that he had won with May. A tear rolled down his cheeks, May was the love of his life, and now, she's miles away from him. Ash buried his head in his hands and remembered how he had met May…

Flashback

It was her tenth birthday, and she cycled to Professor Birch's laboratory to receive her pokemon. It has always been her dream to travel the world and now she can. The young brunette girl arrived at the laboratory. A tall man walked past the front door of the mansion.

'Excuse me,' she said 'I'm looking for Professor Birch'

'Sorry, the professor is busy at the moment' replied the man politely, 'He is having some problems with a trainer's Pikachu, I think he's in the forest right now. Hey! You must be May Maple, here for your first pokemon?'

'Yes, I am, nice to meet you' May answered, 'I think I'm going to find the professor, I'm not very patient'

'But…' said the tall man, but May had already cycled into the forest.

Pikachu, sounds cute…must be a pokemon thought May, who cares about dumb pokemon, I want to travel!! She smiled, soon, she would travel the whole of the Hoenn region

'May! Is that You? Over here' shouted a deep voice,

'Professor?' asked May, 'why are you stuck in the tree? And why are there dogs chasing you?''

'Never mind that…grab a pokeball from my bag and throw it!' instructed Birch. May selected a pokeball and hurled it at the ground. A small blue pokemon jumped out from the pokeball.

'Now what?' asked May,

I'm going to change this and introduce Ash now

'Hurry May, tell it to attack! I can't hang on for much longer!' pleaded Birch, hanging from the thick tree branch.

'Ok…Attack the dogs you little blue pokemon' instructed May shyly. Mudkip looked at the brunette girl, a sweatdrop fell from its head. 'C'mon blue thing get rid of the dogs' pleaded May.

'That's not how you instruct pokemon…' said an approaching voice,

'well…it is kinda my first time,' said May, embarrassed. The voice had come from a boy just a little older than May, in his caring arm rested a sleeping yellow rodent.

'hi, I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet town, have you seen Professor Birch? I need to get Pikachu to him.' said Ash.

'ASH, MAY HELP I'M SLIPPING' screamed the professor hanging from the tree,

'P..Professor?' asked Ash, 'What are you doing in the tree? Why are there dogs chasing you?'

'HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE' pleaded the professor,

'Mudkip, I'm not your trainer but use water gun!' instructed Ash. A powerful jet of water shot out from the little blue pokemon at the three poochyenas.

'Oh thank goodness for that…' the professor sighed, he slowly dropped himself to the ground.

'Hey mudkif, or whatever you're called, why didn't you attack when I asked you to?' asked a slightly annoyed May, 'But when this guy here tells you to use water gun, you did! What's the big idea? Am I not good enough?'

The young mudkip looked at May, it recongnised the words 'Water gun' and shot a powerful jet of water at the angry brunette girl.

'BWAAAAAAAAAAA..AAAAA… gurgle' May screamed as the water gun hit her face. 'WHAT WAS THAT FOR YOU LITTLE BLUE..'

'Hey calm down May,' Ash grabbed May's arm, 'I'm sure mudkip didn't mean you any harm'

May paused, looked at Ash, blushed, and looked at her shoes. Ash saw this and also blushed. 'Now, I think you owe mudkip a little apology for scaring it like that' said Ash in a calm and caring voice.

May looked at the blue creature, it was trembling violently with its head in its two front paws. May walked over to the scared creature and slowly stroked its head. Mudkip stopped trembling and looked into May's sapphire eyes. 'M…Mud…kip?' said the creature,

'I sorry for shouting at you mudkip, I'm sure you didn't try to hurt me on purpose, it's just that this is my first day as a…' May was cut off when suddenly, the yellow rodent in Ash's arms let out a brilliant yellow thunderbolt in an attempt to escape from the boy's caring arms.

'PROFESSOR WE NEED TO GET PIKACHU TO THE LAB NOW!' shouted Ash, the yellow rodent then decided to bite Ash's arm.

'AHHH..' screamed Ash, 'Pikachu…don't worry buddy, you'll be fine,'

May looked at Ash's arm, it was bleeding where his Pikachu had bit him.

'Ash!' exclaimed May, 'Is your arm OK? Does it hurt?'

'I'm fine…thanks May' said a surprised Ash, why is she so worried about me?

'Ash, May come quick, we need to treat Pikachu now!' instructed Birch from his truck

I don't really know what Birch is driving so let's just say a truck

Back at the laboratory, May sat in the waiting room, she thought about what had just happened. I hope Ash's arm is okay…it was bleeding, it must've hurt a lot. Wait…Why am I so concerned about Ash? Do…do…do I have f..feelings for him? May suddenly jumped up from her chair and hopped around the room ohmigosh ohmigosh I have feelings for Ash… and I've just met him May sat back down in the chair and smiled as she remembered ash's messy hair and handsome face. He really cares for his pokemon, what a nice guy…

'I think you better get some sleep now May' suggested Birch 'It's getting late',

'Sleep here?' asked May, 'ok then…'

'I'm sorry May, it's dark outside and I don't want you to cycle home alone now' explained Birch 'If you want…you can take the bed in the room next to pikachu' room'

'How's Pikachu doing professor?' asked May 'It bit Ash pretty hard'

'It's doing fine…it'll be as good as new tomorrow' said Birch

Ash walked into the waiting room, he looked concerned.

'Professor…can I stay here tonight? I'd like to stay by Pikachu'

'Sure Ash,' said the professor 'So May, are you going to take the bed or this bench?'

'I think this bench will do' said May 'Thanks professor'

'Well I'm going to take care of some paper work now, you two make yourselves comfortable…good night kids'

'Why didn't you pick the bed in the other room May? I'm sure it would've been more comfortable' asked Ash

May blushed, Ash cares about me 'Nah I'll be fine out here…this is a nice way to spend my birthday' May joked

'It's your birthday today? Happy Birthday May…Oh no! You must be here for your pokemon…I'm sorry I had to make you wait till tomorrow'

Ash sat down on the bench, May settled down next to him. 'To be honest, I don't really like pokemon very much; I only want to travel to world. If I said I was a trainer, my parents would let me go.'

'I think you'll grow to love your pokemon'

'Really?'

'Of course! You'll start to have a bond with them then they'll become your best friends'

'That's really nice…'

May's stomach grumbled, she blushed; a few seconds later, Ash's stomach grumbled too. The two kids laughed with each other. Ash pulled his backpack off and took out two packets of crisps and two cartons of apple juice.

'Here May,' offered Ash, 'These are for you'

May took a packet of crisps and a carton of the apple juice. She smiled at Ash, who blushed and started to eat. May opened her packet of crisps and also started to eat. Well this isn't such a bad birthday after all May thought and smiled.

May looked over to Ash, he was asleep, he looked so peaceful. May edged closer to Ash, then leaned on his shoulder and fell asleep. This is a great birthday May thought smugly before drifting to sleep

Professor Birch sat in his office, he couldn't hear any voices from the waiting room anymore. Hmm May must be asleep, I'm going to check on Ash. He stepped out of his office into the dimly lit waiting room. He looked over to the bench and found May leaning on Ash's shoulder, not wanting to disturb the two friends; he smiled and turned the lights out.

The next day, May woke up to find that she was still on Ash's shoulder. UhOh…What if he saw me May slowly turned her head so that she could see Ash. A pair of entrancing auburn eyes looked back at her. She jumped off the bench and her face grew hotter and hotter.

'Er…morning May…did you sleep well?' asked an embarrassed Ash She slept on my shoulder for the whole night!

'Morning..' said May, she couldn't get herself to even look at Ash, 'Sorry about sleeping on your shoulder…I didn't mean to.'

'It's ok May' said Ash, giving May a smile, 'now lets go get some breakfast'

'May you ready to chose your pokemon?' asked Birch, 'After that I'll make you two a nice big breakfast'

'Sure…I guess'

As May followed Birch, Ash thought it would be rude to go with her but May turned around and signalled for him to come with her. Ash blushed as he started to walk towards the brunette girl.

'Any ideas which one you like May?' asked Ash,

May blushed and looked at her feet, c'mon May…you've spoken to him before…you even slept on his shoulder….what's wrong? Answer him or he'll think you're weird 'Erm…I…I don't really know yet…'

'Well, when I was ten, I was late to my Professor's lab so I got the only pokemon left and it was Pikachu. I didn't think it was fair at first since I wanted a charmander' said Ash, 'Pikachu and I didn't get along at first…but when we understood each other, we became the best of friends.'

'W…Wow…' said May, who was too busy admiring the pallet pokemon trainer's eyes 'They're beautiful….'

'Huh?' asked a startled Ash 'what did you say?'

'Nothing!' replied May quickly that was too close May Maple. Never Ever do anything like that again. May blushed and looked at the three pokemons infront of her.

The orange chicken pokemon jumped down from the table and rubbed itself against May's feet. Ash saw this and said: 'This one likes you, that's good'

'It is?' asked May Of course it is what a silly question… 'I mean yea…of course it's good' she gave Ash a cheesy smile. Ash blushed and looked at Torchic

'Professor I choose Torchic' decided May, 'Ash says that it's good if the pokemon like you.'

Ash blinked, blushed again, wow…she acknowledges me…and to think I got my pokemon in my pyjamas…She's pretty… …wait…WHAT?! Did I just think that? But girls are boring! But this one's so beautiful….

'Sorry Professor I have to get going now to the first Gym, See ya…Bye May' Ash said the last part quietly.

'Wait! The first Gym around would be the Petalburg Gym…I know the way there…maybe I could…go with you…' the brunette could feel her face warming

'Sure! It would be nice to have a pretty…I mean travelling…erm…friend…' Ash said with great difficulty That was embarrassing….

May gave Ash a grin 'Let's go now!' She grabbed Ash's arm and pulled him out towards the road.

'Hey May slow down! We're not in a hurry' said Ash as they ran towards the opened gates. May suddenly let go,

'Sorry Ash…I don't know what came over me…will you forgive me?' replied May, she turned around to face Ash. Her face was bright red and Ash saw tears forming slowly near her eyes.

'Forgive? You didn't do anything wrong…what's there to forgive' Ash chuckled, 'Don't cry May, it makes me sad when my friends cry'

Friend? He considers me as his friend 'I didn't?' asked May shyly, her face was still as red as a Luvdisk.

'Course not' Ash grinned, 'C'mon let's get going' She's so cute when she blushes…

'Yea let's go' May grabbed Ash's arm and walked slowly down the road. Ash blushed, she's hanging onto my arm…maybe she loves me…don't be stupid Ashy…you don't stand a chance with this gorgeous girl Ash thought, he had shot himself down…again

End Flashback

The pokemon centre was just a few steps away, the brunette girl can smell the food from the cafeteria. The drenched brunette girl stepped into the warm, bright pokemon centre.

'Awww my clothes are all wet…' exclaimed May,

'Hi there, how can I help you? I'm Nurse Joy' Nurse Joy introduced herself,

'Hey Nurse joy' smiled May, the fact that all the Nurse Joy looks the same still fascinates her. 'Can you look after my pokemon? And can I stay here for the night please?'

'Of course sweetie, that's what I'm here for' said Joy sweetly, 'you can have the third room on the right…it's our nicest one'

'Wow…thanks Nurse Joy' said May, her stomach grumbled loudly, 'I better check out the cafeteria first…'

'I really think you should get out of those wet clothes first dear…' suggested Joy

'Oh yea…' May gave Joy a cheesy grin.

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