I think I've FINALLY figured out how to work this app! YAY lol! Anyway... before I continue I want to say to everyone who commented, thank you. The constructive critisim I recieved was not only helpful, but spot on. I thank you for your warnings. I have decided if and when I block someone, it will be because they crossed a line in my eyes. Some things are a little nitpicky. (Is that a word? I feel like it should be a word lol!) Those things I can always choose to ignore. I wanted to start publishing here because I feel I will get more honest feedback on my stories. I can't get better if no one has the cajones to tell me what I need to fix. :) So everyone who liked my stories, thank you. If you hated them, I'm sorry, lmk what you didnt like and I will try to make my next story better. Thanks for the honesty.

Now that I know how to publish more than one chapter let's get started!!!

As of today this one is unfinished. I seem to have a touch of writers block with this one. Hopefully it will pass soon, I have a draft for the ending...I'm just working on finishing it. I promise I won't leave the story unfinished.

Ikarishipping

I can not believe I got dragged here. My stupid cousin Drew had come to stay with me and my brother Reggie for the summer and brought along his best friend. The most annoying person in the world...Ash had invited some people to a local teen bar and promised that he and Drew would meet them. Since drew was visiting me, it became my responsibility to accompany these two idiots on their outing. At least I could relax with a drink or two. The legal drinking age in Sinnoh was 16. Ash was 16, Drew was 17 and I was 20.

As we walked up to the thick metal doors of the club I rubbed my temples in annoyance. Drew and Ash were looking around like idiots, presumably for whoever it was they invited. I shook my head and told them I was going to find a seat before heading inside and leaving them on the sidewalk.

"Oh look there he is!"

"Hey Paul! Great seats!"

"This is a great table! We're close to the stage and the bar!"

As Ash and Drew blabbered away Paul's attention was drawn to a girl following his companions. Drew took notice of his cousins expression and smirked to himself.

I knew it!

"Ah, let me introduce everyone. This is May, my beautiful girlfriend." Drew grabbed Mays hand and led her forward. She was now 16. Her hair was a few inches longer and still worn in dog ears. She wore a tight fitting v neck red 3/4 length shirt with lacy white shorts that looked like a skirt. She was about 5'3 and extremely busty. The brunette bowed and held out her hand, to which Paul ignored.

"Erm..right, this is Misty, my girlfriend." Ash was about to say more when the red head cut him off. "We've met before Ash. He challenged me a few years ago and won a badge from my gym. It's good to see you. Cold as ever I see."

"Hn"

"I see well anyway, it's always nice to see a worthy opponent after a past battle."

Misty took a bow before getting up to get a drink, her loose fitting yellow long sleeved crop top shirt and tight fitting jean shorts fit her perfectly. Paul noticed Ash look angry as many men's heads turned to stare at her round behind as she walked by.

Paul smirked to himself before turning his attention back to the three people still standing before him. He waited a few minutes before growing aggravated and lashing out on Ash and Drew.

"Still no manners I see."

"What do you mean?" Drew and Ash asked in unison.

"You invite three people yet only introduce two. You completely ignore troublesome over there while you stare at your girlfriends, who aren't much better I might add."

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" May yelled out. She had smoke coming from her ears and her face was flushed in anger.

"You and the gym leader bring your friend, as a third wheel on your double date and then ignore her. Unless you were planning on setting us up, in which case you're even worse friends for ignoring her."

"And what do you mean by ignoring her?" Ash questioned.

"Drew introduced his girlfriend, who I've met twice already."

"Wait when did you meet her?" Drew was confused as hell.

"Stupid...you brought her to the family reunion and Christmas last year!"

"Oh yea I totally forgot." Drew was rubbing the back of his head and laughing slightly.

"Idiot." Paul turned his attention to Ash. "You introduced your girlfriend knowing damn well I've not only met, but challenged and beaten her on multiple occasions."

Ash just deadpanned at what Paul was saying. The lavender haired man glared at everyone before turning back to Dawn.

"I don't need an introduction. But you are all sorry excuses for friends for not even attempting to include her. I'm leaving. "

As Paul turned to walk out of the bar Dawn looked up at Drew, May, Ash, and a just returned Misty.

"He's right you know. He sat there and waited for my introduction and it never came. If you didn't want me here I don't understand why you'd ask me to come."

Tears began to fall from Dawn's eyes as she ran out of the bar chasing after Paul.

"Damn I kind of feel bad now." Ash said hanging his head low.

"Me too I invited Dawn because I knew she has like this huge crush on Paul and I thought maybe..."

"May SHUT UP! " Misty screamed at her friend."Dawn didn't tell us that for you to broadcast it you idiot! So whys everyone so mad anyway? I was gone ten minutes what did you do?"

"Paul got mad because we introduced you and May but not Dawn." Drew explained.

"And why didn't you introduce her?!"

"Because he already knows her."

"Yea..." Ash cut in ... "he's had a huge thing for her for years so we figured he already knew her."

"God you're ignorant. All three of you."

May Drew and Ash cowered anime style as Misty's head grew large and her face turned red with anger.

"It's not about him not knowing who she is, it's about you including her in the get together!"

"That's what Paul said." The three responded in unison.

"So what do we do now?" May looked extremely guilty as she thought about the look of hurt in her friends face.

Misty sighed as she took a minute to think. "We don't do anything right now. We leave them alone and let them work out whatever they need to, when they come back we'll apologize."

"I swear. Why did Reggie make me come with these idiots? They're both adults they don't need a chaperone! All they brought me for was to embarrass me. I am so pissed!"

Paul was outside on the lakes edge throwing stones in the water and yelling at no one. He was angry at his cousin and his friends because of their actions. It wasn't the fact that he needed to be introduced to troublesome again. It was the look of hurt he saw in her eyes as her friends ignored her.

It didn't matter how much time had passed, he still had a soft spot for that girl.

He thought about her. Dawn. He hadn't seen her in 6 years. She had grown so much since then. No longer was she the cute loud girl he had a crush on. She had grown into a drop dead gorgeous elegant woman.

Her Prussian blue hair now hung loosely all the way to her hips. She had it pulled halfway back in a fishtail braid. Instead of the white hat and gold barrettes he remembered she decorated her hair with a simple diamond studded snowflake broach. She had been wearing a pair midnight blue stockings that ran up to her mid thigh, a light grey pleated mid thigh high waisted skirt, and an oversized midnight blue sweater. She wore white rhinestone ballet shoes , diamond hoop earrings, and had a white purse. She definitely wasn't the 10 year old girl he remembered.

"Paul?"

After I left the bar I ran out to the lake. I was sitting on a glowing meteorite, one of the many Veilstone was famous for. I was so angry at everyone. Paul was right. I don't know why they even invited me if they were just going to ignore me. I sat there and cried. The first time I see him in 6 years and I get completely ignored by everyone.

Well not everyone. Paul was the one who spoke up to defend me. He's really changed. Last time I saw him, he wouldn't have cared. But today he looked just as angry as I was. Did he know I was coming? Was he looking forward to seeing me?

He remembered me.

My tears were replaced with a smile as I thought of how he spoke up for me. How good he looked while doing it.

Reggie wasn't joking, puberty hit Paul like a truck! While he used to be short and chubby with messy hair he now stood over 6 feet tall. His dark hair was now just below his ears , about 5 inches shorter than I remembered. Years of training alongside his Pokemon had shaped him into a lean extremely muscular man. He wore dark wash purple baggy jeans with a white tee shirt and a black leather jacket along with black and purple converse high tops. His ears were pierced all the way up and he had a large tattoo across his arm. I also noticed he wore a necklace, although the pendant was tucked in his shirt so I couldn't see what it was. The thing I noticed most was the way he looked at me. There was a softness in his eyes I didn't remember.

I realized while thinking about him that I felt better. And i smiled to myself until I heard the splashing sound of stones being thrown in the water and loud yelling.

I got up from my hiding spot and searched for the source of the yelling. I immediately stopped in my tracks when I saw who it was.

"Paul?"