"And everything I can't remember, As fucked up as it all may seem. The consequences that I've rendered. I've stretched myself beyond my means...."

Stained "It's Been A While"

"Stop!" May yelled in the dark of the night as she shot her head up from sleeping, a cold sweat was dripping all down her body, as if she was had just been sleeping in a sauna for the last few hours

Tears steadly rolled down May's fragle cheeks as she looked around the small roomlike structure that she was in, so frightened that she was shaking from head to toe. She was in her tent outside at night, just as she remembered she was in when she went to sleep the night before. The cold October wind blew a frozen shrudder across May's entire body and the tent itself was moved, making ripples that crossed the tent so elegently, it was haunting and beautiful in itself. May fell back into her pillow face first, as if she was afried of what she might have saw if she didn't do that as soon as she could.

"Calm down, May." May quietly said to herself, sobbing as she was saying each of the words, "It was just a dream, a harmless dream..."

She tried to convince herself that it was just a dream, but it wasn't just a dream. It was much more than just a dream, much more than just the recuring dream that she had every now and then. She silently quieted her sobbing enough to hear someone or something was making a noise outside her tent, the sound was a sharp noise, as if someone was walking right by the tent, the leaves crackling and crunching under the weight of the person or pokemon that was walking outside the tent that May was currently occuping. May waited a few seconds, frighten as she saw the zipper on her tent quickly being unzipped. When the person walk in a step, May found out in comfort that it was just her best friend Ash, who had a worried expression on his face, his eyes directly set on May.

"What wrong May?" Ash asked her quite loudly, rushing in though the zippered tent, worried for May's own safety, mabye more than May actually was for her own safety herself, "I heard you scream from in my tent."

"Sorry..." May quietly wispered, a blush slowly creeping onto her face from embarressment, but still was showing so much fear in the expression on her face, "I...I just had a nightmare."

"Well..." Ash said and stopped for just a second, trying to find the words he wanted to say, not really knowing how to comfort someone that just had a nightmare and then continued, "Do you want me to help."

"No..." May said below a whisper, softer than what she said before, with the same fear that was in her entire face when she woke up from her sleep

Ash didn't move, he silently scanned his eyes over all of May. She looked paniced, tears now rolling down her eyes faster than before, blood red fear in her eyes and from the tears. Ash looked straight into May's red eyes, finding more fear than Ash had ever seen in anyone before. Ash wasn't going anywhere, he decided. In fact, he moved closer to May, thinking that he could comfort her in some way.

"There's something wrong May." Ash said, quite serious with his choicing of his words and his tone, "What is it?"

"Nothing's wrong Ash." May said, trying to convince Ash so that he would leave the tent, so May wouldn't say anything that she would regret saying later, "It was just a dream, a harmless dream."

Ash continued to stare at her, he wasn't buying it, not for one single second. She didn't want her to be afreid of a dream, he wanted to confort her, to make her feel better. Ash grabbed May's hand lightly, reasuring her that he was there for her, that he was going to be there for her always. He looked at her again, the tears now stopped, and the fear expression in her eyes and her face were now gone, replaced with her regular, beautiful face. Weather or not May was chosing to surpress herself from crying and hiding the fear that was just in her eyes and on her face was beyond Ash's knowlage. May quietly squezzed Ash's hand as he held her's, reasuring him that she was going to be alright.

"I'm ok Ash." May said now in an almost normal voice, with almost no signs of unhappiness in the tone of her voice

Ash smiled, mabye he was getting too worried about the nightmare. It was just nothing, everyone had bad dreams, it was a part of life. May's dream might have been a bit more frightening than ussual nightmares, but it was not beyond the normal to have a terrifing nightmare. Ash's frown quickly turned into a smile. Slowly letting go of May's hand, Ash, without a word, crossed over to the other side of the tent. He unzipped the tent and quietly walked out of the tent, assumingly back into his own tent to get some much needed rest. The moment that Ash walked out of the tent, tears started to roll down May's cheek again.

"Why didn't I just tell him?" May asked herself, tears rolling down her eyes so fast, it was hard to keep up with each individual tear

She knew that she couldn't and wouldn't tell Ash or anybody else for that matter what the dream was about, she just couldn't. May slowly ran her right hand through her beautiful brown hair and sighed, she need to get some sleep also. She quietly laid her head down back on the pillow and covered herself up with the sheets that were beside her, pushed off of her because of the dream that she had awoken from just those few minutes ago. As May lied back down, she felt dirty, as if she had done something wrong.

Ash was right, she wasn't alright, she was far from it...

Sorry that the chapter was short, it's always hard for me to start a story. You can expect the next chapter to be much longer, and you can expect it in the next couple of days.

I am going to try to keep this story in the teen rating, but I can't make any promises, considering it gets more of an adult theme the next chapter, but I'll try to keep it Teen safe to read.

Also, sorry if I misspelled a few words. I'm on an old computer that doesn't have spell check, but I'll be getting back to my regular computer with spell check sometime today and I'll spell check this...

But anyways, enough about that, as ussual, please review.