School finally starts in the story! :O
(Took forever, I know)
ON WITH THE FIC!
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"Ash! Wake up already!" Gary yelled as he stomped over to the snoring figure. "We're going to be late for school!"
This was enough to wake up Pikachu, and the mouse let out a loud yawn and stared at Gary. Then, it let out a thundershock straight at Ash.
"AHHHHHH! What was that for?"
"Ash, we're going to be late if you don't wake up. C'mon, it's the first day of school!"
Ash groaned and went to get ready. It was Monday morning, and that meant school. He shined his pokeballs, brushed his teeth, brought all his books, and got ready to leave. Gary just sighed and turned on the TV to some weather forecasting news.
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(Dawn's POV)
A few hours ago…
"So Dawn, how was it?"
"It was great Mom! We went shopping, and got registered, and ate lunch, and-"
"I get it Dawn."
"But I'm not finished yet!"
"If I know you, you would talk on for hours. Anyway, I need to tell you something important."
"What is it?"
"I have to go back to Sinnoh for a week or so because there are some important matters that Professor Rowan has asked me to tend to. Do you think you can handle being home alone?"
"Actually Mom, can I stay with my friends?"
"Sure. Did they give you permission?"
"Yes."
"All right. Do you need me here anymore? It would be easier for me to stay there since I am needed quite often."
"I'm fine Mom. I can stay with them."
"All right, I'll miss you Dawn. Call me regularly."
"Don't worry Mom."
"That's when I worry the most." Johanna sighed. "Well, I should get packing now."
"Ok, I'll go. Bye!"
"Be safe Dawn!"
Now…
It was Monday morning, 7:48 am. Drew, Misty, May, and I were in the living room, getting ourselves ready to go to school.
"OMG OMG OMG!"
"Gosh May, calm down. It was just a tiny spill," Drew said.
"How should I calm down? That's my skirt!"
Drew laughed and added, "Ok, I'm sorry."
"Hey guys, look at what I found on TV," Misty said.
We gathered around to see a guy talking in front of a colosseum, and a poster on the side labeled Battle Tournament - Don't miss it!.
"When is it?" I asked.
"Two days ago, or at least I think he said that."
"No way! Why would they even put that on television then?" Drew scoffed.
"Fine! Next Saturday!"
"That's more like it."
"I don't need you to tell me what to do."
"Then how come I just told you?"
"Oh yeah? I-"
"Doesn't school start in ten minutes?" May pointed out.
"HOLY ARCEUS! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT DREW."
"IS NOT!"
I told May I was ready, and the two of us left first. It was about a five minute walk to the battle school, so we got there just in time. The counselors seemed nice enough, and were glad to tell us about the classrooms and our schedules. May peeked over my shoulder to see my schedule.
"Hey, we have the same fourth and seventh period classes! I can't wait to see you there!"
We began to chat about the classes and soon the bell rang. I walked to my first class, English, and when I was about to go in, I bumped into a boy with purple hair who was slightly taller than me. He sneered and walked into class. Sheesh, just another typical jerk.
English class proved to be as boring as it could get. I don't know if Kanto students were behind, or if this school was, but it was extremely easy. We did some easy grammar work and did all these exercises.
The teacher was a bald, old man, named Mr. Jones. He didn't seem very interested in teaching. He had large glasses and a pokeball on his waist.
I sat in the front with another girl named Candice. She seemed friendly, and she introduced herself to me,
"Hi, my name's Candice. What's yours?"
"My name's Dawn."
"Nice to meet you. Just curious, where are you from?"
"Oh. Sinnoh?"
"REALLY? ME TOO!" She squealed. The teacher stopped talking and looked over to see her guilty face.
"Candice, is that right? Please go sit in that desk over there." She was moved to a desk sitting by itself on the very right side of the room. After that, English class just seemed to zoom by, and soon the bell rang.
My next class was Math. The morning classes were such a torture. I walked in and took a seat on the left side of the class. Then, as I watched the people coming in to see if I could find a familiar face, my heart skipped a beat. I could literally hear my heart beat right now, and time stopped.
The raven haired trainer took off his hat and placed it near his bag. As he sat down, he looked at me and smiled. I turned away quickly, blushing a bright red. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw him frown and look confused.
"Why do you have to be so stupid, Dawn? Now he thinks you're weird….." I thought to myself.
Math class started, and I soon found out this boy was very enthusiastic, and rose his hand in the air for every question. His name was Ash.
The rest of class was torture. I couldn't focus on what I was doing. I turned my head to look at his face, and I stared at his handsome face, maybe a little too long. He looked at me again, and I turned my head towards my paper.
"I don't have anything to do with him. He's just an ordinary student who is probably another one of those popular jerks," I kept thinking to myself. It was impossible to deny that I had feelings for him. I was relieved when the bell finally rang.
I quickly walked out and avoided eye contact. My third class was history. As I walked towards class, I saw Ash following me. Then, he stopped to talk to a spiky brown haired boy.
In English class, I found a seat near the back. As I unpacked my bag, I dropped my notebook in surprise. Ash was in this class too! Oh, why did this have to happen?
"Alright class, my name's Mrs. Sanders. Today's our first day of class. Here are the seating arrangements."
The class trampled over each other to get to the front to see. I took a deep breath. I was far away from Ash. It was just too nerve-racking sitting next to him. The teacher gave us a group assignment of getting to know each other, and I got paired with three others. One of them was the same spiky brown haired boy that Ash had been talking to, and his name was Gary.
It felt like the longest day of my life. About what felt like years later, the bell finally rang and the class flooded out to brunch. Brunch was fifteen minutes long, so I had time to go find May and all the others.
"Hey Dawn!" a voice came from behind me.
I turned around to see Candice and May walking towards me.
"Hi guys."
"So, how do you like the first day of school?" Candice asked,
"It's ok. I recognize people in like every class, so I have no problems."
"It's soooo boring." I complained.
Candice frowned and said, "Wait till you see the battling. It's sick."
We chatted on for some more time, and then the bell went off. I finally had the good classes coming, first Pokemon Education, then two periods of Battling and P.E. Pokemon Education sped by quickly. We learned about the Kanto terrain and some of their pokemon and this and that. Fifth period was battling, and the teacher talked for half the class. I really didn't pay much attention to the long speech, but I heard that there was battling Mon-Thurs, and P.E. Friday.
For the last twenty minutes, we went into the battlefield and each person was randomly matched against someone else. For the two periods of battling, each person would get three battles of one on one. The facility was good, since they had ten battlefields and lots of judges and tools. After waiting for one battle to finish, I stepped into the court and faced against this funny looking boy named Chester.
He was muttering to himself and laughing, and wore these weird glasses with spirals on them. He had a red shirt that had a picture of a clown on it, and stomped his foot repeated.
"GO, SABLEYE!"
A grinning purple pokemon came out, and started dancing. This group should be easy, I thought. They don't take battling seriously.
"Go, Piplup!"
"Let the battle begin!" the judge yelled.
"Sableye, taunt!"
"Piplup, water gun!"
"Hypnosis!"
The two attacks collided, and Sableye dodged the explosion. Piplup got hit and Sableye came out of the smoke, landing a night shade. Piplup fainted.
"HAHA what losers! This place is a joke!"
He kept on laughing, so I just walked away and watched other battles for the rest of class. After that was lunch. I found May and Candice in the lunch lines, and went over to talk to them.
"Dawn, that's not nice, you just cut half the line."
"Oh well," I grinned. They asked me about battling, and I told them what happened.
"Chester? I had him first period!" May exclaimed.
"Really?"
"Yeah. He won both his battles. He's really crazy though."
"You could say that again."
I got my tri-tip sandwich and walked over to the tables. There we met Drew and Misty, sitting on opposite ends quietly eating their lunch. May giggled and we sat down. We talked about our classes and classmates for a while, and I just listened in on them. After a while, May seemed to have spotted someone.
"Hey, Ash!"
"Hmm...oh hey!" Ash replied.
My heart raced. What is he doing here?
Ash and Gary walked over, and Ash looked around.
"Hi guys, I'm Ash. I'm from Pallet Town."
"Gary, aren't you from Pallet Town too?"
"Yeah."
"Ooh best buddies!"
"No not really…." Ash said.
"Pfft."
"Ash! I thought you weren't coming here! Nice to see you!" Candice grinned. She opened up a space and Ash took a seat by her. Throughout the lunch, she would often laugh at Ash's comments and be very close to him. I felt a pinch of jealousy and wished I was in that position.
It was like everyone knew Ash but me. May, Drew, and Misty knew him from her journeys, Candice met him on the ship, and Gary was his long-time friend. I was the only one who didn't know him, and it felt so strange with everyone talking about him while I sat aside confused.
At some point, the group finished eating, and they all wanted to play a sport, so they agreed on basketball. May had to go see a teacher, so I quickly went with her. Basketball just isn't one of my favorite sports.
"Dawn, what did you think of Ash and Gary?"
"Great-I mean ok, I guess."
I blushed a bit and turned my head to avoid her seeing me.
May giggled and teased, "Do you like Ash?"
"NO! OF COURSE NOT!" I felt annoyed at May for bringing up so many questions, and I decided to change the topic to what we would do after school.
"OOH, we could go clothes shopping again."
"No, come on, let's do something different. How about we watch a movie?" I suggested.
"Yay! Fun!"
We arrived at the classroom and May asked her teacher about the homework. We then went outside to find Misty fighting with Drew and the others, Candice, Gary, and Ash, trying to break them up.
*Facepalm*
"YOU PURPOSELY THREW THE BALL AT ME!" Misty yelled.
"Did NOT!"
"Then you're a wuss!"
"WHAT?!"
"Geez, are they always like this?" Candice asked us.
"Yeah, just leave them alone."
"Guys, I know what we should do after school today."
The two turned to look at May.
"We're going to watch the latest movie Clash of the Regis! in 3D!"
"Yay! I heard that movie was great!" Misty squealed.
"Alright, let's do it."
"Can I go too?" Candice asked.
"Me too!" Ash said.
"Sure, meet us at the bike shop across the street after school."
"Yay!"
A voice came from behind.
"Surprise!"
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Thanks for reading!
LATER FICCERS!
