Disclaimer: I quite obviously do NOT own pokemon, however I do own this storyline and plagiarism is not tolerated by me. I will also claim that I did not make up the story title myself, it is an old saying that my mother used to tell me alot when I was little and I thought it went with the story. But most of you probably know that already, right?

Part One.

Chapter Two: Dean Coran.
June 19th.

May and Doctor Bennett attempted to make their way through crowds of panicked people. May wasn't sure whether it was the fact it came from the dressing room, or the fact the scream was pretty chilling as it seemed to ring out throughout the entire hotel.

Fortunately no-one seemed to be attempting to get through the door to the dressing rooms, May barged right past the noise of everyone talking and into the dressing room hall, which effectively kept out most of the outside talk. As soon as they both had stopped their heads from hurting from the noise, they made their way to Jordans room.

His door was wide open, and his body was lying on the floor with a crying Kaori and a oddly concerned looking Drew next to him.

Kaori kept attempting CPR on him with no avail and Drew leant down to take a pulse. Doctor Bennett moved Drew out the way and took the pulse.

"He's alive" The Doctor said.

"..But unconscious" Drew explained.

May glared at him and resisted to urge to use Skitty to double slap him and shout out 'Well, DUH!'

Doctor Bennett fumbled around in his pockets while the only other noise in the room was Kaori's quiet sobbing. The Doctor took a phone out of his pocket and held it out without looking up.

"Someone, take it and phone the ambulance" At first no-one went to grab the phone, "Yes, I know it's very primitive technology, but you'll have to use it, I apologize"

Kaori took it, her hands shaking, and walked into the hallway to make the phone call.

"Ms. Maple?" Asked Doctor Bennett, not looking up at her, "Do you know Jordan well?"

May's cheeks went slightly red, "Yes and No, I know him through his brother really.."

Doctor Bennett smiled, "Good, I need you to phone his family and get them to come here as soon as possible, I fear this is far more than a fever"

May bit her lip, "What could it be?"

The Doctor shrugged, "I have no idea, I'm going to make sure he is stable enough to go in the ambulance, so if you could possibly phone his family now that'd be helpful"

She nodded and begun to walk out the door, then paused.

"Drew..?" She asked, "Are you coming with me?"

His reply was a sigh, he begun to walk after her, not bothering to keep up with her pace and walking very slowly. May begun to get increasingly frustrated.

"Drew! Keep up the pace!" She exclaimed, running back to where he was walking and grabbing his arm.

This wasn't a good idea as his arm shot back like she'd just electrocuted him. May blushed in embarrassment.

"I prefer to travel without being dragged along by a girl like you"

May went scarlet, "And what's thatsupposed to mean?!"

Drew smirked, walking just a bit further ahead than May, not answering her question. May clenched her fists and shot him an angry look, which she didn't realize that because he was in front of her, he couldn't actually see it.

Drew began to be calmer again, strolling just ahead of May still, as if to say he wasn't with her.

"So, how do you know Jordan and his family so well?"

For the first time ever, she was stuck for words.

"Um.. I.. I.. Guess.. I.."

She couldn't finish her sentence so she didn't bother trying, and decided to overtake Drew so he couldn't see the pained expression on her face. Drew stared at her in silence, trying to think of a reason for her weird behavior.

She's hiding something, he thought, She probably doesn't know them at all.

"You don't know them at all, do you?" He asked her, his eyes still constantly on her.

May shook her head, her face still red, "No, it's not that it's-"

"May! Drew!"

Drew stopped staring at May and looked at Max, Ash and Brock.

"Where've you been?!" May asked, giving her brother a bone breaking hug, "I was worried"

"No-one died, May. Anyway I heard that scream, and I ran into Ash and Brock, I haven't exactly been missing" Max rolled his eyes at his sisters concern.

She nodded and yelped a little when a big brown bottle advanced right into her eyesight.

"What the hell is that?!" She shouted, shocked.

Ash looked perplexed at her reaction, "This is medicine"

Max smirked, "Stating the obvious, Ash?"

Ash didn't quite get the sarcasm and nodded.

May heard laughing to her side and turned a little to see Drew stifling a fit of laughter.

"You really think that medicine is going to help Jordan at all?" He laughed, "He's unconscious"

Ash Brock and Max looked concerned and walked into the dressing room to see for themselves.
May hit Drew on the arm, appalled.

"You're-laughing?! How are you so insensitive?!"

Drew shrugged, humoring her, "I guess it comes naturally"

May realized he was doing this to get her good and angry so she fell silent and walked into the lobby, pretending she hadn't heard anything.
This seemed to work because Drew followed her, still not keeping up the pace.

"You know I was joking!" He called after her.

May smirked as she reached the videophones, dialing the number and waiting for the call to connect. Then it hit her who she was calling and why.
The screen showed a symbol to show the call had connected and May began to panic.

"Drew- can you take the call- please?" She said quickly, as soon as the picture came up on the screen she hid behind Drew and pushed him closer to the screen. Drew stood there, unsure whether to speak to the guy or not.

"May, is that you?" Said the person on screen, "Why are you hiding behind a guy with green hair?"

May gave a small laugh, and stepped out from behind a very confused Drew.

"Hi Dean" She said quietly.

"Why are you calling me, May?" He looked really impatient.

Dean had the same aquamarine colour hair as his brother, and was wearing a lab coat.

"Jordan's ill" She said seriously, "He's unconscious, we're at the Bayleaf Hotel, the doctors recommended that you come see him, I know you didn't want me to phone but it was requested by the doctor."

Dean sighed heavily, "I'll come. I'm not too far away from here, anyway. And I was thinking that I need to talk to yo-"

May smiled and cut the call off hastily, then leant against the screen, sighing in relief.
Drew looked at her for a moment, thinking about what that Dean guy had just said, he'd said 'He needed to talk to May'. What was that about? Various thoughts rushed through his mind which he tried to push away, simply telling himself he didn't care, knocking himself back into reality.
May forgotten Drew was standing there, watching her the entire time she was on the phone, and got the shock of the life when he cleared his throat.

"What was all that about May?"

May looked at Drew and smiled politely, "If you don't mind Drew, it's really none of your business"

He looked taken aback, "Why is it none of my business? I'm your friend aren't I?"

May freaked out, "Friends? No, no we're not.. we're not friends.."

Drew smirked, "A rival should never show their sensitivity, you should know that, I was only joking. It was quite funny to see you freak out, though"

May was still unnerved by what he said and laughed a little, "Yeah, it was"

She tried to calm herself down and walked into the lobby again, to go and see whether an ambulance was going to arrive anytime soon. She felt an arm on her shoulder.

"Do you like having boys follow you round like puppy dogs?" Drew said sarcastically, "Funnily enough I care about Jordan too, so just slow down"

May let herself walk at the same pace as Drew, although she was very uncomfortable, considering she wasn't even sure if Drew was an enemy or a friend, the amount of times he'd been nice then turned it around and been the worst person on earth she had lost count by now.
Drews eyes kept wondering to May and looking at her in that dress, he'd only ever seen her looking like a tomboy, which he didn't find very interesting or attractive. Tonight, she was different.
He wasn't sure whether to act nice or anything to May, he didn't want to come across as a complete idiot, like when he was laughing at the fact Jordan was unconscious, but he also didn't want her to think he'd gone completely soft on her.

As they got closer to the dressing room hall, they noticed something different.
Instead of just being loud, the crowd were screaming and shouting, some shoving to get to the front, some just shoving anyone they could for the sake of it. May and Drew began to move through the crowd, then heard some familiar voices.

"Look! Everyone, you're going to have to calm down!" Shouted Brock, "Yes, an ambulance has been called for Jordan Coran, but we guarantee that there is nothing seriously wrong, he is simply ill"

This statement made the crowd shout even more, the shoving and pushing got stronger as May and Drew continued to try get to the front. This was until some crazed Jordan fans began to push their way through, one of them grabbing May's arm and deliberately pushing her. Drew quickly moved and grabbed May before she could fall to the ground, and before she'd even figured out what was happening. He held her in his arms, trying to keep her upright until she noticed and stood up, which she did after a minute or so.

"Thanks Drew" She said, bewildered, "I don't even know what happened, but thanks"

He looked away from her, replying with a simple, "Hmm."

She staggered to the side a little, the push had shocked her a little, partly because she'd done nothing to deserve it except for try to get to one of her friends before his condition could get worse. May shook off the feeling quickly and turned to Drew.

"This time, we're just going to push straight through" She said to him.

He nodded, and they both started to push through the crowd, some people turned around to shout at them, but they both got to the front so fast they were almost like May, completely oblivious anything had just happened.

Brock looked at May and Drew.

"Thank god you two are here.." He muttered to them, "This is absolute hell"

May smiled a little, "I need to go check on Jordan"

"Actually, you don't"

May turned around to look at Drew, "Excuse me?!"

He pointed at a stretcher parting the crowd, led by two paramedics, "I think they may be going to the hospital already"

May's eyes widened, "If they go to the hospital I need to wait here for Dean!"

Brock looked at May, already in full knowledge with who Dean was, "Did you have to call him?"

May nodded, embarrassment visible on her face, "Yep"

Drew looked between her and Brock, "Can one of you please explain who Dean is?"

He wasn't too sure of his reasons for wanting to know a lot more about Dean that he already knew, perhaps it was just curiosity. Drew didn't want to admit it, but it was kind of because May hadn't done anything but get nervous and unhappy every time he was mentioned, and hung up as soon as he'd said he wanted to talk to her. If he made May unhappy, then he wasn't going to stand there and watch her get upset while one of her friends was in hospital.

Brock looked at May for a moment, as if they were communicating telepathically, "You'll find out when you meet him. He just makes May embarrassed.."

But, Why? Thought Drew.

Jordan Coran came out on the stretcher, completely unconscious, appearing to not even be breathing very fast. The lobby fell into silence as he was wheeled out of the hotel lobby as quickly as possible.
A minute or two later, Max Ash and Kaori stepped out of the hall, Kaori was still in tears.
May approached her, "How're you feeling?"

Kaori nodded eagerly, "Fine, I'm fine"

"How do you know Jordan?" She asked, holding a comforting arm around her.

"I... Well.." Kaori said, looking to the floor, "I'm the girlfriend of Clifford Miles, but I used to be best friends with Jordan"

May looked at her for a moment, "I guess you had to pick either one of them because of the rivalry between them"

Kaori nodded, "Jordan made me choose, I thought I could make up with him tonight and speak to him a little more but- Then he fell unconscious and I just screamed"

"So that was you..?" Drew asked, Kaori nodded.

"Yes, I apologize"

The crying, hysterical woman they'd seen only half an hour ago appeared to have been replaced by someone pretty blunt toward other people. May didn't like these kind of character changes in people, like when Drew turned from nice to horrible in minutes.

A paramedic approached the group of them.

"Would any of you like to come with us to the hospital?"

Kaori stepped forward, "I'll go for now"

The paramedic nodded and turned to the rest of them, "It's Hearthome City Hospital, the bigger one, not the one with a private clinic"

May nodded, "I guessed he'd be going there"

Kaori walked off with one of the paramedics, leaving the rest of them to stand there to talk amongst themselves.

"There's something I don't trust about her" Drew thought aloud.

Max looked at him bewildered, "You're joking? She's the kindest, most innocent girl I've ever met, if she has a hidden agenda, I'm never going to trust anyone again!"

"Max has a point" Ash said, "You're too untrusting, Drew"

Drew rolled his eyes, "Whatever you say"

May and Brock watched the three of them and realized how much they didn't get along sometimes. They both smirked at each other and watched them, amused. It almost put them off what was going on with Jordan until an announcement came on through the PA.

"Hello Bayleaf Hotel residents, if you are not staying here tonight, we will have to ask you to calmly leave the premises, we apologize for the inconveniences tonight. Also, if your name is Miss. May Maple, you have a guest waiting for you at reception. Thank you."

A rush of cold sweat ran over May, she knew exactly who was visiting her. Everyone else in their group had stopped speaking, looking at May expectedly.

"May..? Are you going to go see your guest or do you really need us to accompany you?" Drew mocked her.

May nodded, ignoring his sarcasm, "Come with me, it's better if we stick together"

She'd only asked them to come along with her so that like with Drew and the phone call, she might be able to hide behind one of them if the going got tough.

They reached the front desk and found Jordans brother, Dean, standing there. May wasn't sure whether to introduce everyone to Dean. She knew he worked in the Pokemon Lab in Hearthome City, discovering Pokemon and going on archaeological digs, but she didn't know if they knew that. The only one who really knew who Dean used to be to May was Brock.

Dean looked at May, "Are you going to continue gawping or should I introduce myself?"

May looked at the floor, "Guys, this is Dean Coran, Dean this is.. everyone"

"How've you been, May?" He asked her.

"..Ok.." May still looked at the floor, desperately trying not to look up.

Dean looked up at Ash and the others then spoke the words May really didn't want him to, "Does she always treat her ex-boyfriends like this or am I the only one?"