The next day, Ash woke up at 5:00 am, breathing heavily. He looked around to see that he was in his guest room. He looked down and saw Pikachu was still asleep. He got out of bed, got dressed in his clothes from the day before, and walked out. He saw that Professor Juniper was cooking some pancakes.

"Morning, son. Want some?" Professor Juniper asked.

Ash shook his head and grabbed a glass of milk and walked back into his room. Soon, Dawn walked out.

"Morning, mom."

"Morning, sweety. Want some?"

"Sure. Where's Ash?"

"He went back into his room. I'm not surprised. Yesterday was pretty rough for him."

"Yeah…"

"*yawn* morning." Ashley stretched her arms.

"Morning. What do you want for breakfast?"

"Just some orange juice."

"Okay." Professor Juniper then grabbed a glass and filled it with the juice and handed it to Ashley.

The three socialized when they heard.

"DO I SMELL PANCAKES!?"

"3…2…1…" at the end of 1, May was there looking around.

"Would you like some?" Professor Juniper asked.

"Sorry. Yes, I would." May calmed herself and said politely.

She looked around and saw that her crush wasn't there.

"Where's Ash?"

"In his room."

"Oh…"

"Sorry you're crush won't be with us." Dawn teased.

"Why you…" May began to chase after Dawn.

"My my, is this true, Ashley?" Professor Juniper whispered.

"Oh, completely true." Ashley said.

Meanwhile

Ash was sitting on his chair and looked outside his window at the pidove that were flying by.

He decided to see what was going on in Kanto. He turned on a computer that was in the room and typed in the news.

'Hello and welcome to Kanto news. Yesterday, we had two children and one young adult run away from home. The mother asks that they return. So far, the searches cannot find anyone that matches their descriptions. Coming up soon is a trio by the name of Team Rocket, not on team rocket anymore?'

He heard a noise near the door and saw that two pancakes were on a plate with a bottle of syrup and a note was next to it. Ash walked over, opened the note and read.

'I don't want you to starve to death. ; ) -May'

Meanwhile

"You know, we should get new clothes for you guys."

"That sounds like fun."

"I know a place to go." Professor Juniper smiled.

"Should we bring Ash?" Dawn asked.

"I think it would better to let him rest." Ashley said.

"Okay…" May said in a disappointed voice, making Ashley smirk.

The four got multiple outfits for themselves and for Ash, ( not going to go into detail because you'll either die of boredom or kill me because of the boredom) and headed back. May walked over to give Ash his new clothes when she saw that there was an empty dish outside with a note on it.

'Thanks for caring about me. -Ash.'

May smiled, put the note in her pocket and walked inside. She heard that Ash was in the bathroom, probably taking a shower. May placed the clothes on the bed and quietly left.

Ash walked out and saw the clothes. He took out a shirt that had a picture of a girl with long blue hair on it and twin blonde haired siblings, a pair of pants, and a hat that had a red pokeball on it. He walked outside and saw everyone was out. Professor Juniper was working on some work, May was chasing after Dawn, and Ashley was watching it happen. When Ash came into view, everyone walked over to him.

"Hey Ash." May said.

"Hey. Thanks for the clothes." Ash said.

"You're welcome, Ash." Professor Juniper smiled. Ash walked over and sat down.

"Why was May chasing Dawn?"

"Well you see-" Dawn was about to explain.

"Nothing! Nothing at all! We were just having some fun." May quickly put her hand on Dawn's mouth to keep her quiet. This caused the room to sweatdrop.

"…Okay, how about some dinner."

All of them nodded.

As soon as Ash ate his food, he headed back to his room.

'He's gotten better.' Professor Juniper thought to herself. Before they went to sleep, Professor Juniper had an announcement.

"So I have to ask that you guys stay in your room for a few hours tomorrow."

"Why?"

"Well, first new trainers are arriving for their starter Pokemon. And then I have some work that I can't be distracted from. But after that, we can have some fun."

"Okay."

"Now I think it is time for some sleep." Professor Juniper clapped her hands. Everyone then headed to bed.

Time skip: 5 weeks later

Ash has gotten better through the weeks. The searches in Kanto have ended after 3 weeks, saying that they can be anywhere in the world at this point and they are only allowed to search in the Kanto region. Ash has begun to talk more and has started hanging outside with the others. He has been either training his Pokemon or hanging out with the others. Ashley has started to help professor Juniper out with some research and May and Dawn are training for contests. Dawn has been teasing May about her crush on Ash, close to telling Ash about it. Currently May was having her moment of thinking in her room.

'What if he likes someone else?'

'What if he does and you just don't want to ask?'

'If he says no, I'll be destroyed.'

'Well how about we find out what he thinks?'

"May, you have a moment?" Professor Juniper asked.

"Sure, what is it?"

"It's Ash. I think that even though he is getting better, he is still majority broken. He looks like he hasn't slept very well in a while. Can you keep an eye on him?" Professor Juniper asked.

"Sure!" May said immediately.

"Excellent." Professor Juniper smiled.

Later that night

May was across the room from Ash and was paying attention. She listened until she was asleep. An hour later, May heard Ash breathing heavily. She walked into see Ash was awake and crying.

"ASH?!" May ran over to him. "Ash, what happened?"

"I had a nightmare. The same one every night." Ash said between breaths.

In the dream of Ash

Ash was walking through the house when he saw EVERY person in front of him. Brock, Misty, Max, Delia, Dawn, Ashley, Serena, Clemmont, Bonnie, professor Juniper, professor Oak, Gary, Paul, and May.

"Failure."

"Give up."

"Loser."

"Just give up."

Ash tried to cover his ears and run, but the voices seemed to have gotten into his head. The same things.

"Loser, loser, LOSER!"

"Stop it!"

"Give up then!"

"No!"

Suddenly Pikachu, May, Dawn, Ashley, and Professor Juniper were glaring at him.

"Why did we agree with you?" Ashley asked.

"You suck, bro." Dawn said.

"Why don't you get it?" Professor Juniper asked.

"Why did I choose you as a trainer, you weakling?" Pikachu glared.

"You're a pathetic trainer." May said. "Pikachu, use thunderbolt!"

Pikachu unleashed a massive thunderbolt at Ash. And that's when Ash woke up.

"Ash, I'm so sorry."

"You don't think that I'm a pathetic trainer do you?" Ash asked.

"Of course not." May said.

May was about to leave when Ash said something.

"Hey May, I have a question. What did Max mean about his statement?"

"Him insulting you?"

"Not that part. The part when he said 'your secret crush'."

"Uh… well you see… I uh like you…" May stuttered.

"What?" Ash asked.

"I like you… more than a friend."

"R-Really?"

"Yes." May said.

Ash was dumbstruck. She liked him?

"I thought that you liked Drew."

"I only think of him as a friend." May said.

"Um… hey May. I need to say something."

"What?"

"W-Will you go out wit-" Ash didn't get to finish when May kissed Ash on the lips.

"Yes." May smiled.

The next morning, Dawn was on her way to see how Ash was doing. She walked in to see May and Ash that were in his bed asleep, cuddling.

"I knew they would finally hook up." Dawn smiled as she quietly shut the door.

Hi there, Spartan here. I have something to say. I got a review from Farla I think their name was. It was a long rant about all of the things that were wrong about my story. I just have two things to say. 1: I'm sorry that you don't like my stories. 2: thank you for the advice. As I said on my profile, I appreciate all reviews good or bad. But anyways, so I'm sorry if this isn't good, I have been up two nights until midnight working on this so I'm a little tired. Until then. Later.