Chapter 1

"Go! Beautifly!" May shouted out as she tossed the bright red and white Poké Ball early in the morning. The little butterfly fluttered out of the Poké Ball and started to fly toward the bright sun. May yelled, "Okay, Beautifly. Show me your Silver Wind!" It sounded like it responded with "Ok." as it started fluttering its wings furiously. A silvery and glittering Silver Wind came flying out of its wings as though the Silver Wind was trapped within it and wanted to escape. May suddenly said, "Good job Beautifly. Return." She said in those satisfying tones while Beautifly was surrounded by a red ray and was zapped into the Poké Ball. She had one of those satisfied faces as she put her Poké Ball back into her new black pack. She is getting pretty good. May was wearing a new outfit. She looks really… cute in that outfit, I thought. She wore a black and turquoise bandana on her head. Instead of a red shirt, she wore a black one with turquoise stripes crossing her shirt diagonally. I tossed something that landed on her right foot. "Huh?" She gazed into the rose I had just thrown. May picked it up with her gentle hand and stared at it in suspicion. "I think I know whom this came from," she said. She started to walk down the dirt path that leads to the Pokémon Center. I started to walk down a path different from May's toward the Pokémon Center. Oh no. The paths are joining each other! I thought in horror. The next thing I knew was I was walking right next to her. May was still holding the rose. She looked at me in shock and said, "Drew?"

"Yes, it's me," I replied.

"Um, Drew? I wanted to ask you something."

"Keep going."

"Well, I saw a rose land on my foot. By any chance, did you throw that?"

I felt my face grow hot and I'm pretty sure I turned bright pink. "Actually, I did," I responded in embarrassment. We kept walking until we got to the building we were headed for. We said at the same time, "Nurse Joy? Please take our Pokémon."

Nurse Joy replied, "Okay. What do you think I'm here for?"

"We also want to stay for the night," I blurted out. I didn't mean to say "we." "Okay. You have Room 166. Here are the keys," Nurse Joy said as she handed us a pair of keys.

May blushed a bright red and smiled. "Drew, do you mind if I stay with you?" she asked.

"Um, okay," I replied. We took the elevator and started to walk down the hallway full of doors with numbers on them. "Room 160… 162… 164… Ok. Room 166," I said. I opened the door with the key and walked into our room. It was painted a light blue with navy blue carpet. Two beds were in the room with a small drawer separating them. It was lit with a small lamp on the top drawer. The room had a TV and DVD player came with it placed on a TV stand. There was a small door to our left that led to the bathroom which was painted a midnight purple. It had a small toilet, a shower, a sink, a medicine cabinet, and a mirror. "Well, I guess this is it," I said as I slowly walked to a bed. "Let's get our stuff settled. I'm going to eat lunch at the cafeteria. Do you want to come?"

May quickly responded with, "Sure. I'll go." We put our stuff aside and I threw myself onto a bed that I called mine. "Let's go eat lunch." We ate cheeseburgers. That was all that was left in the cafeteria. No lasagna was left for me to eat. The burger wasn't that bad. Or good. After lunch, May and I picked our Pokémon up from the Pokémon Center. "May? Do you want to… train for the Grand Festival with me?" I asked. I meant to ask her something else. "I could use a little practice," she responded.

"There isn't a person I know who doesn't train for the Grand Festival,"

"I meant practice with you."

"Oh. Okay then."

"So? Do you know what Pokémon you're using first?"

"I'll probably use Absol. He's pretty good."

"I didn't decide yet. Maybe I'll use Combusken."

We sat there for a few minutes. "Come on. Let's go train," I said, disturbing the silence.