"How do people wear these clothes all day everyday?" Ash yelled, looking at himself in the mirror. "I've had this on for twenty minutes and I hate it."
"Typical Ash Ketchum" May said, from behind him, "Anything that isn't jeans and a T-shirt is awful."
"But these suits are boring", Ash groaned, "You can't catch Pokemon in these."
He heard May holding back a laugh as soon as he finished, as if to say she wasn't taking his claim seriously. He really couldn't face the idea of wearing a suit then going to looking for Pokemon for hours upon hours.
Looking back at himself he sighed, loudly. Why did Professor Oak have to get an award the night where his three favourite films were on TV? And when his mum was out of Pallet for a whole week. Life just didn't seem fair at all.
"You know we have to leave soon right?", May said, "It's not often that someone we know is getting awarded for... what was it again?"
"Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution in Pokemon research...or something."
"Well it sounds important, so hurry up."
As May disappeared from his line of sight, Ash put both his hands on the back of his head. He knew that nights like these don't come around that often and he would always be there for Professor Oak but the idea of sitting around watching people talk for hours rather than battling, seemed like a waste of time to him, even if most of his friends were going to be there.
He looked back at himself in the mirror and was then confronted by the biggest problem that he had faced in a months.
"May!" he yelled, prompting the girl to walk back into his bedroom, standing inches away from him.
"You called sir" she said, causing herself to giggle.
Ash looked to the ground and mumbled, "Can you tie my tie for me?"
May smiled, "Sure, hold still".
The smile quickly vanished off of May's face, replaced by a look of pure focus and determination. In the seconds that followed May took the two ends of her boyfriends tie, and quickly wrapped them around and through each other to create the greatest Windsor knot that she had ever seen.
"You like it?" She asked, her eyes fixated on Ash.
"I love it" he replied, leaning down and softly kissing her on the lips "And I love you."
May blushed and promptly kissed him back, "I love you too."