Chapter 3
Brock finished cleaning up the campsite and Ash and May put the Pokemon back into their pokeballs, put out the fire, and went to sleep. Ash however was restless and kept drifting in and out of sleep. Eventually he woke up, and rolled over to see May fast asleep next to him. "She's so lovely when she's asleep," he thought quietly as he watched her sleep there with a little hair drooping over her face, "and even more so in the moonlight."
Ash got up out of his sleeping bag (carefully making sure he didn't disturb Pikachu), and quietly walked over to a large rock before sitting down and looking at the stars and moon above. "The full moon isn't nearly as beautiful as May is." Ash thought to himself.
While Ash was watching the sky, May slowly woke up, and noticed that Ash's sleeping bag was empty. Before she could worry too much, she saw a form sitting on a rock. May quietly got of her sleeping bag and moved closer to it.
"Ash?" she asks quietly
Ash quickly spins around, surprised by the voice, "Huh? Oh, Hi May." he says.
"What's the matter? Why aren't you asleep?" May asks.
Ash sighs, "I couldn't fall asleep at all, not with what I'm thinking about." he admits.
Ash? Unable to sleep? Something must be wrong. "What is it?" she asks while sittting down next to him.
Ash blushes slightly before saying: "Well..."
May looks at him curiously while Ash struggles to speak.
"I...uh...like you. I mean...really like you." he says with more then a bit of difficulty. After the last word came out he starts blushing.
May's pleasently surprised, "Really?...Well I really like you too." she said as she too began to blush. "How long have you felt this way?"
"I've had that feeling when we first met, but ever since that last contest you had, its been difficult to think of anything, but you." He says, now feeling much more confident.
"I also knew that I liked you when we first met, something about you was different, and you taught me how to enjoy Pokemon." May admits.
May slid a little closer to Ash and rested her head on his right shoulder. She takes Ash's right hand in both of her own and they look at each other the same way as when Eevee pushed May into him.
"May, I ..." He's silenced when May puts a finger against his mouth.
"Shhh..."
Ash and May slowly move their faces closer together before giving each other a long kiss. After the kiss Ash pulls May close with his right arm around her waist, and she holds his left hand in both of hers.
"I love you." They say in unison.
They stay this close for an hour all the while gazing up at the sky, until May nods off. Ash smiles to himself, picks her up and carries her back to her sleeping bag. Ash sets her down into the sleeping bag, gives her one more kiss right on the cheek, returns to his own bag, and sleeps peacefully for the rest of the night. Before he falls asleep Ash sees a shooting star.
I wish that May and I would be together forever. He thinks before shutting his eyes and falling asleep.