Shippings in this chapter: Advanceshipping, slight Pearlshipping and Contest.
Rating: K+ (PG)
Chapter two
I didn't know what to say right away. I wanted for somebody to pinch me to see this was real. Finally I meet Ash after two years and this is how we meet up again? by forgetting who I am? After awhile took in breathe and breathe out and replied.
"I'm so sorry about that." I smiled as I played along. Pretending I never met Ash in my life. "You look like a very close friend of mine." I added.
"Oh I see." Ash smiled. "I wanted to congratulate you on the win yesterday. You were great."
"Umm, thank you." I blushed as I looked away from Ash's face for awhile. "Doesn't he remember me at all?" I asked myself. "Out of all the people in the world that had to forget their memory it had to be Ash." Then I turned around to face Ash who had a worried look on his face.
"Are you okay Miss?" Ash asked.
"Please call me May." I sweat dropped. "Anyway I wanted to celebrate my victory and I want to know you better. Mind if we talk more about each other at lunch?" I asked.
"Yeah sure." Ash shifted his eyes. Thinking of how awkward of a person he uses to know asking him out for lunch. "Are you asking me out?" Ash added. "Because the way you're asking it sure sounds like it."
"WHAT?!" I replied in shock. Surprised at the same time Ash would ask something love-related. "No, of course not." I replied. "Just a simple lunch between rivals. Sounds okay with you."
"Okay that makes sense now." Ash laughed. "Okay meet you at the café here in the pokecenter. Fine by you?" Ash asked.
"Yeah. That's fine." I smiled.
Soon Ash made his way away from me. After the conversation we had I wasn't sure if I was glad to see him or not. I rested my back against the hallway wall covered in a pale yellow colour and felt my back slide down towards the cold tiles. I just stared down at the tiles at worked my way up to where Ash walked towards too. I heard footsteps coming towards behind me. I didn't bother to turn around until I felt a gentle hand placed on my shoulder.
"Are you okay May?" Drew asked as he was kneeing down with his hand on his shoulder and look up to where Ash just walked to. "Was that Ash I just saw earlier?" He asked.
I just nodded to Drew's question without even looking at him as I continued to gazed at the cold empty tiles I was sitting on.
"What was he doing here?" Drew asked once more. "I thought he would be at the Sinnoh Championships by now."
"His forgotten…everything." I replied as my voice turned into a whisper. "Harley, Soledad, me, you and him ever begin a Pokémon trainer." I added.
"His forgotten everything?!" Drew replied in shock. "But how?"
I shook my head in a response telling Drew that I didn't knew. I placed my hand on top of his. Even I disliked Drew around me; I needed somebody to comfort me and help me to what had just happened.
*~*~*~*~*
"Those his forgotten everything about us and him ever begin a Pokémon trainer?" Soledad asked in shock as she held her chopsticks in her hands.
"Yeah." I muttered as I played with my food by using my chopsticks to move them around with. "Now Ash has become a Pokémon coordinator and like I need another rival." I sighed.
"Ash as a coordinator?" Harley replied in his girly surprised tone of voice. "I thought I never see the day!"
"So your going to have a date with him to find out more?" Drew asked like he was jealous of some kind.
"It's not a date Drew." I replied. "I'm just having lunch with my former best friend to find out more and what happened in two years. The last time I saw him was back at the Wallace Cup." I sighed soon after. "I have no idea how this could happen to Ash."
"I don't know." Drew replied as he flicked his fringe."Sounds like a date to me."
"It's not a date." I repeated slightly annoyed. "It's just a simple lunch with a old friend." I replied as I stood up from the table.
"Where are you going?" Harley asked.
"To a friend." I replied as I continued my way.
*~*~*~*~*
I walked away from the others and walked to Nurse Joy to receive my Pokémon off her. Then I walked over to the video phone and pushed in the numbers to the Hoenn grand festival. I knew she was there from a recent letter she wrote to me on about how Hoenn was so different from Sinnoh and Johto. I waited as the dial tone began to ring. Soon I heard a voice on the other end of the phone.
"Hello?" The voice asked.
I didn't responded
"Hello, anyone there?" the voice asked again. this time I could tell it was Dawn's voice I was hearing.
"Hey Dawn." I finally greeted.
"Oh it's just you May." Dawn replied. "I thought it was just another of those prank callers I have been getting lately."
"Well I see then." I replied as I took in a breath and continued. "I want to ask about something."
"What is it May?" Dawn asked.
"What happened to Ash?"
*~*~*~*~*
(going three person view for this)
The hospital was quite as the two friends sat quickly in the room as their friend was hanging to dear life. Sleeping peacefully like the accident had never happened. The young bluenette coordinator by the name of Dawn sat right beside her friend gripping on her hands hoping that everything was okay while another friend of hers, Brock laid his back against the white wall with his arms crossed, hoping to the same result as Dawn.
The young pokemon trainer's old companion, Pikachu was sitting near the trainer's shoulder. Placing his paws on his trainer's shoulder, shaking it just slightly hoping he would wake up. The yellow mouse pokemon sighed as its ears slowing fell down. Showing how disappointed it was. The mouse pokemon walked to Dawn's arms and snuggled into the coordinator's arms and Dawn cuddled the pokemon back.
"This should have never happened Pikachu." Dawn replied as her voice dropped into a whisper. "Why did Ash do something so foolish?" Dawn asked the Pikachu and looked at Brock. "Why?"
"This is Ash we are talking about." Brock replied. "He would do anything for his friends."
"I know that but…" Dawn replied as she looked at her friend. "…he knew it was dangerous."
Soon Pikachu's ears sprang up and soon the pokemon leaped out of the girl's arms and to his trainer. Soon a smile grew on its lonely face as Ash's eyes started to flicker. Dawn and Brock quickly surrounded the young pokemon trainer. Smiles also grew on their faces quickly as Dawn wrapped her arms around the trainer as tears of joy escaped her eyelids and down her cheeks. The young pokemon trainer quickly blushed and soon Dawn stopped the embrace and wiped her tears away.
"Ash!" Dawn smiled. "I'm so glad you're alive!"
"Dawn?" Ash asked. "What happened?"
Dawn stood at a standstill. "You mean you don't remember?" Dawn asked in a surprised tone of voice.
"No I don't." Ash sweat dropped as he looked as the side table and started at his bag, gym badges and a half pink and white ribbon lying quietly on the side table. "And I don't remember getting does stuff there." Ash pointed and the items on top of the side table.
"You mean you don't remember any of that stuff over there." Dawn pointed at Ash's items.
"No." Ash replied. "I really feel like into contests now Dawn." Ash added. "But I really don't remember that ribbon at all. Who gave that to me?"
Dawn just stood up and glanced at Brock over her shoulder. She too couldn't believe that Ash wasn't into gym battles but into pokemon contests and that he had forgotten that the ribbon he didn't knew gave to him was a close friend of his, May. Dawn looked back at Ash who was looking back to her like a little child who didn't knew what was happening around him.
"Do you know a pokemon coordinator by the name of May?" Dawn asked in a worried tone of voice.
"Who?" Ash asked.
Dawn's eyes widen and slowly turned her back on Ash and walked towards the door and sighed and walked out in the most shocking disbelief she had heard in her life.
*~*~*~*~*
"So that what happen." I replied in a low voice.
"Yes May." Dawn replied. "I tried everything to bring the old Ash we both knew but he isn't him anymore. He is just into pokemon contests so I thought maybe sending him there to Johto might bring a few things back to him."
"Well, tell him to go to a different region." I replied. "Because if he can't remember me then might as well forget him as a close friend to me!" I replied as my voice rose slightly.
"May, we both know that you can't do that." Dawn replied, trying to calm me down. "Ash is a important person to you. Without him you might never be a great coordinator you are now."
"I want to forget that he was in my life Dawn." I replied. "I haven't seen him for two years until now I forgot about him. Why stop now?"
"Because you care for him." Dawn replied.
"Because you care for him."
Those words didn't leave my mind. Any friend would care for him but did I care more than a friend could? Did I love Ash more than a friend could possible do?
"We all care for him Dawn." I replied. "After all we are friend with him. Even he can't remember me at all."
"Then start over." Dawn replied. "Just like the first day you met."
"Maybe." I replied. "I could give that a try."
*~*~*~*
I sat down on the pokemon center café table which had a great view of the waterfall near the pokemon center as I saw Wingulls flying past chirping in they own language. I took a sip of my drink and looked at the entrance as I saw Ash coming toward me. I looked back at the view thinking how I should start a conversation like we were never best friends.
"Hi there." I smiled. "I'm glad you came."
"No problem." Ash smiled. "So you want to get to know me better?" Ash asked.
"Yes I do." I replied. "your such a skilled coordinator that I just had to get to know you better."
"I see." Ash replied. "Anyway my name is Ash Ketchum, I just started begin a coordinator two years ago."
"Well my name is May Maple." I began. "I have been a coordinator for awhile now." I added. "Anyway why did you knock on my door?" I asked as I took another sip from my drink.
"I just simple wanted to say great job on the win the other day remember?. I do that to all my rivals that I lose against." Ash smiled.
"Wow, you are so kind of doing that Ash." I smiled. "In fact I was wondering if you would want to stay here for awhile for my upcoming battles against Drew and Soledad."
"Why not?" Ash replied. "I might pick up a few tricks from you." Ash winked. "But after you win, I want a rematch."
"Deal." I replied in a taunt voice. "But don't expect I will go easy on you."
"You know, I should be the one saying that May." Ash laughed.
I didn't reply but instead I laughed with Ash. Even he couldn't remember me, I was just glad that I was able to laugh with my best friend Ash, once again.
End of chapter.