Me: YAY! I finally finished chap 3!! Took me a couple of days to finish this…:P
Syaoran: (yawns) Ok skip the lecture…
Me: (slams head multiple times) Why?What did I do to deserve this?
Syaoran: Let's see…
Me: I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT!
May: Um…blazingeyes does not own Pokemon or any of its characters.
Me: OR ANYONE (glares pointedly at Syaoran) FROM CCS!!!
Chapter 3: Permission and Preparation
"You said YES??!!"
"Yes dear, I must have told you that ten times by now…" Caroline patiently replied to her flustered husband.
"B-but…she…"Norman spluttered. "I…NO!"
"No, dear?" Caroline raised an eyebrow.
"No." he repeated firmly. "I will NOT just GIFT my daughter some boy she found on the street!"
"But honey, she's in love!"
"That's what they all say in this age…kids keep falling in and out of love. Y-you can't take it seriously!" His voice had a desperate note to it now.
This time Caroline raised both her eyebrows.
"Well I happen to know a certain…ahem…SOMEONE, who fell in love when he was just 10 years old and now he's married to her and they have two wonderful children!"
Norman shifted uncomfortably.
"T-those were different times Caroline…"
"You want your daughter to be happy don't you?" Caroline's voice had suddenly developed a cutting edge to it. She was serious now.
"I…I suppose…" he faltered hesitantly.
"That's settled then. We're going to get May her dream boy for Christmas." She stated flatly.
Norman opened his mouth as though to say something, and then shut it. After a second or two, he reluctantly murmured acquiescence.
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"Thinking about Drew?" Misty smirked.
"Hm…Maybe, maybe not…" May vaguely replied, as she scribbled in her diary.
Dear diary
Today I saw a
boy
And I
wondered if he noticed me
He took my
breath away
(A/N: Song is in bold and italics…^^)
"I still can't believe you convinced your mom to get you Drew as a Christmas present!!!"
"You'll be surprised what a little coaxing can do…"
She continued to write in her diary.
Dear diary
I can't get
him off my mind
And it scares
me
'Cause I've
never felt this way
No one in
this world
Knows me
better than you do
So diary I'll
confide in you
May drew a big heart with a cupid's arrow sticking through it and wrote 'May X Drew 4 eva!' She giggled and flushed with embarrassment. Misty 'tch'ed and rolled over on the bed.
"Man I wish my parents were like yours," she grumbled, "They wouldn't even get me a new bike after that idiot Ash busted my old one…Darn him!!" she clenched a fist and glared at some invisible person a few feet away.
"You're WAY too hard on him Mist. It was only an accident…"
"Accident my foot!" Misty growled, "Wait till I knock off all his teeth…that'll get the truth out of him!!"
May yawned and got a red marker from her bedside table. She walked over to the calendar on the wall and scratched off the number 19.
"Just six more days…" she gazed at it dreamily. Unable to contain her joy, she clapped her hands and did a weird little skip.
"I can't WAIT!"
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Drew picked up a rose from the table and sniffed it.
"Hmm…" he considered it for, like, half a second before throwing it onto the already large pile of withered flowers.
"Not good enough…" he frowned for a minute, then shrugged and picked up another rose.
He pulled on his jacket and opened the door. The moment he stepped outside, his foot almost totally sunk into the snow which was over three feet deep. It was lightly snowing still. Drew grinned and stuck his hands in his pockets.
He continued to walk in the direction of Misty's house.
SMACK!
"What the…" he fell over as a snowball smacked him clearly on his nose.
He heard a girlish squeal, and the next thing he knew, someone was wiping it off his face with a scarf or something.
"Are you all right? I'm really sorry…I wasn't aiming at you!"
However, something brown was obstructing his vision. It took him a while to realize that it was hair. That too, a girl's hair. She straightened up and looked at him apologetically.
May's hair…
She turned a little pink for some reason. He sat up and looked at her. And then out of the blue, he asked,
"Hey, your birthday's on Christmas right?"
"Uh…yeah." She seemed surprised that he had remembered.
"You'll probably have a big party, huh?" he grinned. She nodded, coloring slightly.
He stood up and wiped the snow off his clothes.
"Great. I'll be there…"
And with that, he tossed her another rose and left.
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Caroline pushed the complicated plan under her husband's nose. He stared at it perplexedly, clearly unable to understand even a bit of it. He turned it upside down to see if that would make it any better. Caroline impatiently tugged it out of his hands; Norman looked up at her wearily.
"Honey, what is this?"
"It's my brilliant plan to get Drew to agree to be May's Christmas present. Well," she paused for a second guiltily, "He probably won't really AGREE…nonetheless, it's a completely foolproof plan!"
"Right…so where do I come in the picture?"
"You're the 'staller'." The way she said 'staller' made it sound equivalent to the hero of a movie. But to Norman it felt more like the 'joker'.
When he continued to look doubtfully at her, she gently sat by him and took his hand in hers. She smiled sweetly, "It's very simple dear; you just have to distract him long enough for me to set my plan into action."
Norman gulped, "I don't know…er…what would I SAY? And besides…"
She smoothly brushed aside his protests and continued to add extra details to her plan.
Suddenly, May entered the room with a rose clutched tightly in her hand. Caroline quickly (yet discreetly) hid the plan behind her back. This struck Norman as very odd.
"Hey mom, can you get me something to eat? I'm famished!" she plopped down next to her dad.
"In a moment sweetheart!" Caroline bustled away into the kitchen.
"Um…May?" Norman twiddled his thumbs and spoke in a low whisper.
"Yes daddy?' she smiled.
"Is…I mean, your mother…er…what I'm trying to say is…you…want a certain…um…BOY for Christmas?" he finally blurted out. He had been hoping against hope that his wife had misunderstood and that this whole business could be thrown down the drain.
"That's right." May bluntly replied.
Norman's groaned; his worst fears had been confirmed. But, he thought resignedly, if it was what his daughter wanted, he had no choice.
Heck, he was May Maple's dad; and May Maple ALWAYS got whatever she wanted…
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Me: DONE! Hehe…the fun is yet to come…
May: EH?? What do you mean?
Syaoran: Don't even bother asking her…
Sakura: I'm still mad at you for changing me into a boy you know…(glares)
Drew: (smirks) Wow, you sure are famous among us anime characters aren't you blazing?
Me: ………..
Miyu: (pats blazing's back) There, there…
Mokona: Oh and the song used in the middle was "Dear diary" by Britney Spears.
Me: Thanks Mokona! You're the only friend I have here…(glares at others)
Others: (sweat drops)
Me: Anyways, stay tuned people! Ja ne!
~blazing-chan
