Chapter 1

What was the point? Why was she all the way out here in Johto? For Drew? He wasn't exactly being nice to her over here. May sighed, thinking, once again, about how she should've stayed with Ash.

She stared up out at the night sky, a full moon shining brightly at her, but May wasn't shining bright. Not without Ash to cheer her on and keep her going.

Lately, May hadn't been feeling very upbeat. Instead of waking up optimistic and ready to go, she woke up and just wanted to go back to sleep and forget about everything.

Her Pokemon, noticing how depressed she seemed to be, all gathered around and did a cute dance for her, in hopes of making her smile, but to no avail. She stared back at them and smiled weakly, her heart not really in it.

The Pokemon sighed disappointedly and awkwardly idled arounf until she finally called them back into their pokeballs, all except for Beautifly, who refused to be called back.

"Beautifly! Return!" May called, trying again to call back her disobedient pokemon, but Beautifly dodged the red beam that shot at it.

"Why won't you return?!" growled May, frustrated that her sweet Beautifly wasn't cooperating.

Beautifly just stared back at her sympathetically, trying to tell her something, but not being able to really communuicate it.

"You're worried about me...aren't you?" May asked after a long eriod of silence.

"Beau!" Beautifly said, nodding and flying closer to May.

As Beautifly fly closer, May open her arms and embraced Beautifly for a long time before finally admitting, "You should be worrying. I haven't been myself lately. I just... I really miss Ash. I don't know why, but I can't get him out of my head.

Beautifly nodded back to her, and sort of sighed, indicating that she missed Ash as well.

"I don't get it," May whispered, almost toi herself as she shook her head. "When I first arrived in Johto, I was so happy. I thought I'd made the right choice coming here."

May paused for a moment, releasing Beautifly and digging around in her bag. After, a long period of fishing through it, throwing aside things like chapstick and old wrappers, she found what she'd been searching for.

Holding it up in to the moonlight, May nearly began to cry as she stared at her half of the terracotta ribbon. She found herself sniffling and tearing up as she remembered the trainer who carried the other half.

"I wonder if he even carries this with him," May said, choking back tears at the thought of him throwing it away.

"Beautifly...Beauti!" Beautifly responded, clearly shocked that May would even think that he'd throw it away.

May just sighed and clenched the ribbon tight, plopping down and the ground and hugging her knees close to her.

"You're right Beautifly. I doubt he threw it away...but still...I wonder if he remembers me? I heard he's travelling in Unova with some other girl."

Beautifly cringed at the thought of Ash travelling with someone else besides her trainer. Beautifly had always thought that Ash liked May. But of course, he had just said good-bye to her without any protest whatsoever.

May gazed down at the crumpled ribbon in her hand and finally let her emotions escape her. Bitter tears fell into her palm where the ribbon sat as she sobbed. Beautifly began to cry as well, upset for her heart broken owner.

"ASH!" May cried between her sobs. "I KNOW YOU CAN'T HEAR ME, BUT...!" May paused as her throat closed up, more tears raining down. Once she regained her composure, she finished."But I love you so much! And...it hurts! It hurts that you just left me all alone out here!"

"Beautifly! Fly!" Beautifly agreed.

The two wept for a long time, until a certain person snapped them back to reality.

"May?! What's wrong?!"