The clouds hovered above as May gazed into the grey mass of clouds that was the sky. Her eyes seemed to be focused on one grey cloud in particular. The grey mass was a few miles away from her; the cold rain clearly visible in the dull sky as the grey cloud was moving closer and closer to her location in Pallet town. May blinked her eyes as a bright bolt of lighting flashed a blue ray of light into her room. The crackling sound of the lightning hitting the ground, thunder, came after the bright light of the lightning, sending goose bumps through May to the most inside of her bones.
Her life felt like that enormous grey cloud that was lurking right outside the protective barrier that she called her room, hopeless and uncertain. She turned around from her glass window and looked around the tidiness space that she called her room. The room was big enough for her, with a master bed, a large TV (which was almost pointless for her to have, considering that she barely spent any of her time at home.), and a small sized dresser with quite a large mirror perched on top of the fine dresser. Not a single piece of garbage graced the floor, as May always made sure that her room was kept as clean as possible.
Tears started to form in the outlines of her eyes and started to fall down her bright red cheek. After two years, she still felt very strong emotion when she thought of Ash. How happy he always was when he was around his friends, such as herself, Max, and Brock. How he always seemed to brighten May's day up even when she was so down and depressed over the simplest things, or at least that is what they seemed like now. Simple things like losing a contest or losing to Drew, Ash was always there to cheer her up. She turned back around to her dresser to see a picture of her. It was not only a picture of her, but it was also a picture Ash, hanging his semi-muscular arm around her; May smiling brightly as if nothing could go wrong. She slowly started to walk to that fine dresser, her eyes still focused on the picture that so elegantly was placed in a frame. She moved her hand towards it and grasped the framed picture, now looking at it up close, with the picture just a few inches from her face. Tears now more quickly started to form around her eyes as memories of Ash started to slowly take place inside of her mind.
"Ash..." May softly whispered as she still held the framed picture in her hand, tears starting to roll down her eyes even more quickly
She quickly put it back down on the top of the dresser as fast as she could. She couldn't bring back up these memories of him; she had to learn to accept the fact that Ash was gone. That he was not going to come back, no matter how hard she wished it would happen. She roughly and slowly went though her chocolate brown hair with her hand, as though she was a nervous, yet she was not nervous at the least.
"May!" a woman's voice yelled from the other side of her large room, "Dinner's ready!"
May stood in her spot silently, she couldn't eat, here stomach hurt too much from her crying and the sadness that cursed her now, at the very moment.
A more visual frown was now noticeable on May's face. She felt like she could just break at any moment into a thousand pieces; so she couldn't imagine how Delia Ketchum must feel.
"She must hold all of the pain in." May thought to herself, tears still creeping down her face "Since she never talks about it."
May swished the tears around her eyes away with a flick of her hand. She slowly moved her eyes from the framed picture that was now on the dresser to the mirror that was perched right beside the framed picture. She stared into the image in the mirror that she knew was herself.
Her chocolate brown hair was no longer in the childish hairstyle as it was when she met Ash. It now laid on her shoulders and her back, not to long, but long enough to reach the bottom of her shoulders. Her ocean blue eyes were still as bright as ever and now matched her bandana. The new blue bandana was wrapped around her head in the same fashion as her red one did, with the same figure of a pokeball on the bandana. She had put her old red bandana inside Ash's coffin at his funeral those two years back at his funeral. Her clothes were still the same, but now with the color blue to replace the red that was in her shirt; so that her bandana would match the rest of her outfit.
She knew was a very pretty 15 year old girl, or at least that is what everybody told her. Whenever she walked around Pallet, she always saw all of the teenage boys turn around in her direction. In fact, almost every weekend, she was always getting calls from desperate boys that wanted to get her attention and to go out with her. It only got more annoying when the boys found out where she lived, or where she lived when she wasn't traveling. They would send things such as flowers, candy, perfumes, and other assortments to Delia Ketchum's house; which would then be given to May by Delia. As much as she felt bad for saying it, each time, she had to say no to the boys that asked her out on dates. She kept saying that she was busy to the hurt boys and that she didn't have the time, but she knew deep inside that it wasn't the truth.
She turned back around from the mirror, dismissing the thoughts of the boys, now turning her thoughts back to Ash. She remembered that the few months after his death, she was mad at the one that she believed took her dear Ash away, God. How dare He, she used to think, how dare He take her Ash away. God must have known how May felt for Ash. That she was madly in love with him. That she would trade her own life, just to hear one more second of his voice. Just one more second of the laughter that she got so accustomed to hearing from Ash before he was token away from her. So why would He take Ash away from her?
"No." May said to herself as tears started to fall across her face once again, "I can't do this to myself."
May had always been hard on herself about Ash's death. She wished that she could have called him one last time before he got on that plane, just to tell him that she loved him. She wished that she would have been with Ash for the last few years of his life when he went to Shinou, instead of going off to Johto to chase after her dream of being a pokemon contest champion, although she knew that is what made Ash happy, her chasing after her dreams.
Out of Ash's death, however, she had gained one positive thing. She had gained a new best friend. At Ash's funeral, May had met Hikari, a very eccentric young girl that was about two years younger than May. After their meeting at the funeral, May and Hikari started to talk a lot on the phone to each other. After a few conversations on the phone, it was confessed by Hikari something else that May, Misty, and Hikari had in common. They were all in love with Ash. When Hikari told May that she loved Ash also over the phone a year ago, May was not angry, but happy. They then had something to talk about more, considering that neither May or Hikari were going to get Ash's heart now. May smiled, she had visited Hikari mother's just a few months back, and she and Hikari had so much fun! They went to the beach of Hoenn and jet skied across the water and swam in the warm ocean. Then they went to the double contests that they had in the near town together, and of course dominated the rest of the teams in the double contests, as herself and Hikari were much more skilled than most of the teams at the contests. They always stayed up late at night talking about stuff that was on their minds, such as Ash, contests, and other things. They both had an extreme love of chocolate, which they consumed quite a bit of together without gaining a pound or breaking out in the face. They did almost everything together.
Misty and May, on the other hand, had never gotten along quite well. Misty was still quite mad that May had a crush on Ash in the first place, although May never felt any envy or jealousy towards Misty for the same reasons. May just wanted to be friends with Misty, but for those reasons, they could just never get along with each other. Misty kept degrading May with hurtful names and always making fun of her. May eventually told Hikari this tidbit of information during one of their "all night talks" at Hikari's house. Hikari, being much braver than May was, grabbed her cell phone and called Misty herself and told her off. Hikari almost started cursing at Misty when she was telling Misty what would happen if she ever called May any kind of name again, after which almost slamming her flip phone shut while she hung up, but didn't put enough force into the slam to break the phone.
"I think she gets the message." Hikari told May after Hikari's conversation with Misty on her cell phone
In fact Misty did. Ever since the cell phone conversation that Hikari had with Misty, May had not even seen Misty around Cerulean City at all.
May walked back to the window that she was peering out of just about thirty minutes ago. She saw that it was now raining outside; the large cloud that she observed was now overhead of her. It was not pouring down raining, but it was at quite a steady pace. She heard the thud of the rain hitting the roof of Delia's house as she continued to gaze outside of the window, as if she was in a magical trance that she could not snap out of.
All at once, she shook her head, as if she had fallen out of the trance that she was just in when she was watching the rain hit the green grass outside. She no longer felt the tears coming from her eyes, at least not at the moment. She was actually quite happy think about her friendship with Hikari, which put May in a cheerful mood.
May stood still quietly as she heard the sound of her stomach rumbling, which was as loud as the thud of the rain hitting the roof. Although nobody was around, May still felt the urge to blush.
"I guess I was hungry!" May said cheerfully as she started walking towards the door of her room
May quickly wiped the remaining tears away from her eyes as she walked towards the door of her room, her eyes no longer red. She quickly opened the door and just before she walked though the door, she had one last thought.
"I think I'm in a chocolate mood today." May thought as a smile graced her face as she now started to walk down the steps of her house, hoping to find chocolate on her plate
Well, what do you think of the first chapter? I was just going to go to the main plot of the story, but I thought that I should at least explain what had happened to all of the characters first.
Well anyways, please read and review………Wait; I guess you've already done the reading part (unless you just scrolled down the page for some weird reason).