Hey ya'll! Ok so I may be getting a head of myself but I got two reviews within the day I posted my other Dawn and Paul story. These things make me happy. I am currently understanding this Paul and Dawn stuff, hopefully I will move on to May and Drew because face it there are some cute stories out there and maybe that couple could get me off this damn angst thing I have going on… I would love to get off it. Hell since Ash and Misty were the original couple I may try and shoot one of them out there too… Ha… way ahead of myself. My point of this note was to tell you this will most likely be a stretch on their characters so please bare with me, and please not yelling/flaming what ever you would like to call it.

Oh and this is not a sequel to Runaway... I will post that most likely after this one.

Thanks

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Dawn was sitting in her room at the PokeCenter, on her bed, taking a few deep breaths. She could this, right? Right. Dawn kept asking to herself. Somehow by traveling alone, she found that being flighty and giggly when she was nervous, didn't really help her. She had been traveling alone for five years now and managed to teach herself to breathe, when she was alone, to calm down.

Tomorrow was the Grand Festival. Dawn had been training for this since her loss, five years ago. Oh GOD! Dawn thought to herself. Where the HELL is my lucky DRESS! Dawn shot off the bed and began throwing her cloths everywhere, frantically.

Dawn froze and she knew EXACTLY where that dress was. Her dress! Her LUCKY Dress! Dawn crumpled to the floor. She had caught up with Ash and Misty about a month ago and Buneary was chasing Pikachu around, with her dress. "Buneary, why?" The fifteen year old girl moaned.

She quickly popped up, "Off to by a new one!" She smiled to herself, "No need to worry!" Dawn said readjusting her hat that had gotten disheveled in the frantic panic of looking for her dress.

Dawn went into the city mall and quickly found a dress shop that had one dress that stood out to her. Once she rushed into the store, she grabbed the dress and ran to try it on. Dawn smiled once she got the dress on and looked in the mirror.

The dress was purple and it came to her knee it was tight around her chest and torso then at her hips was a dark coal gray almost, just almost black, but not quite. After the tie the dress flared out and had a semi full bottom. Then tie went to the back and made a large bow. The dress was also covered in the same color gray small circular swirls all over the dress. She looked in the mirror and admired her developing figure.

She had a flash back to her last Grand Festival. She had grown a lot, and so did her wardrobe. She now loved the color purple, but she dared anyone to guess why. Ok well really that wasn't fair. Misty and May knew hands down, and if Ash would step away from his hatred for Paul and his clueless tendency and Drew cared, both boys would know it too.

Dawn sat down on the dressing room bench and sighed. She loved that stoic, pompous, smug, cold jerk, named Paul. She loved looking at his angular face as his straight purple hair around it down to his shoulders. She sighed again. She lived with these feelings for a couple of years now, but she could never tell him. Paul barely knew she existed. He didn't even know her name for crying our loud.

Dawn changed into her normal dress, which had not changed over the years, and went to look at accessories. She found a stunning square pendent made out of sterling silver and a matching bracelet. She loved it and she found some silver clips for her bangs.

Over the five years her bangs had grown down to her chin and she liked them like that, just barely to short to go in her high pony tail she wore for her contests. Her midnight hair reached the middle of her back.

So anyway, Dawn happily skipped back to her room at the PokeCenter when she ran into someone.

"Troublesome!" A low threatening growl called.

"Oops sorry!" Dawn apologized frantically, and then she blushed as she realized who she ran into… Paul.

"Why are you frolicking around anyway?" Paul asked very irritated.

Dawn saw he was very beat up. His face was covered in dirt and she wasn't sure if he was covered in sweat or water. "Oh, I just got my new dress for my contest tomorrow." Dawn smiled waving the bag in his face giggling excitedly.

Paul rolled his eyes feeling the urge to ram his head into his Torrenta's shell.

"What are you doing here?" Dawn asked bouncing on the balls of her feet.

"Gym battle," Paul grunted. She should know that is a STUPID question. "Stupid troublesome girl," He muttered under his breath.

"That isn't nice Paul!" Dawn exclaimed. "And would it kill you to call me by my name?"

"Yes," Paul said stoically.

"Are you going to watch the Grand Festival?" Dawn asked still bouncing up and down.

Paul faked a scoff. In truth, he was going to watch the festival, just to see her. Instead, however, he replied after scoffing with, "Please troublesome that is a wait of my time."

"Jerk, you are just worried you might actually learn something!" Dawn called steaming from the ears. She could feel her blood pressure rising.

"Psh, please Troublesome." Paul let out a bitter chuckle and walked away. Once he was out of ear shot he laughed at the memory of he face, to go from bouncing up and down to steaming mad. She was so easy to take shots at. He let out a genuine laughed once he was completely alone. Picking on the blunette was among one of his favorite things.

Dawn stared as the purple headed guy walked off. She could not believe that he was being a complete asshole. She then flicked her emotions to sad that he was always mean to her and she never had a chance to return her feelings. Then Dawn looked at her bag and resumed to her bouncy perky self, as she saw her dress. She was going to look just stellar!

"DAWN!" A girl screeched.

Dawn turned around and saw a brunette running to her and embracing her in a large bear hug.

"Umm, yeah sorry she had a little too much sugar in her tea this morning." Drew joked walking up to Dawn who was being suffocated by May.

Dawn hugged her friend back, "Good to see you May! I am so glad you came!" Dawn squealed.

"Incoming!" The trio heard a male voice call.

Misty came running to the two hugging girls, "Dawn, May I have missed you both so much!" Misty laughed.

"Hey Drew" Ash said grinning a carefree grin.

"Hey Ash," Drew said nodding to Ash then he looked at his girlfriend, "May is just a little hyper." Drew added to his comment by holding out his hands about two feet apart.

Ash laughed, "Misty is excited. I managed too keep her away from the sugar. God only knows how."

This comment got Drew to laugh.

"I am so glad all four of ya'll came" (I got they are not southern, but it is so natural for me to say "ya'll" instead of "you guys", sooo sorry) Dawn laughed.

"We wouldn't miss your big day!" Ash said brightly.

The girls let go of Dawn to see her biting her lower lip, "Yeah I am excited." Dawn said animatedly.

"Oooh is that a new dress?" May asked bouncing up and down.

"Yes," Dawn smiled "Because a certain bunny pokemon decided to chase a certain mouse pokemon around with my old dress, and therefore it cannot be found." Dawn explained dramatically.

"Let's go inside so we can see you try it all on." Misty said.

Dawn nodded in agreement and led everyone to the PokeCenter, let them check in and get their own rooms and then led them to her room.

I know this is a bad place to end; however, unless you wanted to read over 7,000 words in one shot this is what I have for ya. The story is all written so it should all be up soon. I hope you like it. (I really should stop posting at midnight :) oh well ).

Rin