BFFs – Chapter 3
Author's Note: I am so so so so so so so so sorry for such slow updating with this one! I've had a ton of homework and just hadn't gotten around to it. I'd like to thank all my lovely reviewers! ThePokemonNerdOriginal, Not-Alone-Anymore, jou2015, Guest Reviewer, The Moltres's Flame/Luna the Delcatty, AquaStarlight, Catrina7077, Rose, cherrylovesshipping and A-Song-For-You. You are all so amazingly awesome! Now enjoy!
It's Been Awhile
Your fate has been decided. It was decided long ago. To be, or not to be; was never your choice. But the path you take and the roads you follow are up to you. Know that friends are for school, but best friends are for life.
Same place, same time
Misty's POV
Leaf and Gary stared at each other in awe. Gary had stood but seeing Leaf he fell right back down into his seat.
Ash was waving his hand in front of Gary's face, but he didn't respond. I grabbed Leaf's shoulders and shook her. Hard. She came back from lala-land and sent a glance my way.
Mouthing her thanks she turned back to Gary. He'd snapped out of it too.
"Long time no see Leafy!" He said gleefully.
Pouting Leaf swatted him and they both laughed.
"Just like old times." Gary chuckled.
"Um… Explanation please!" May grumbled poking Leaf.
"Oh, um. Sorry. Gary and I were best friends in Pallet Town. Ten years ago, before I met you guys." Leaf explained quickly.
There was a chorus of "Oh"s and "I get it now"s from our group.
"Let me guess this was before you met us Gary?" Drew asked as his eyebrow rose.
"Yeah, long before dude. Like 10 years back." Gary said waving his hands frantically in front of his face.
Leaf impatiently swished her bracelet on her wrist as if waiting for an opening to speak. Her bracelet was special, from her childhood. We knew better than to ask about it.
Gary's eyes widened. "No way… You still wear it?" He was looking in disbelief at her bracelet.
Leaf grinned. "I never took it off."
Standing up from his seat, Gary embraced Leaf. She seemed shocked but hugged him back.
"I never thought I'd see you again…" He murmured.
"Me neither Gary." Leaf hugged his torso tight. I think I saw Dawn take a picture of their hug.
Even as the tomboy I am, I thought it was pretty cute. Ash was mumbling to himself about dragons and saving fair maidens. Groaning I pulled out my mallet and whacked him. He groaned and fell backwards into the bleachers. I saw Paul snicker.
Leaf and Gary broke apart. He looked at her a wide grin on his face. "We've gotta meet up and catch up."
Putting her hand on her hip Dawn got a frustrated look on her face. "We need the full story. Now."
"Ok, ok. Calm down Dawn!" Leaf muttered. She opened her mouth to speak but was cut off by the bell.
"Talk about saved by the bell…" I snickered. "So anyone have History?"
"ME!" Dawn and Ash squealed. They high-fived and I looked around.
"I do." Paul grumbled halfheartedly.
"Oh boy… We're stuck with the killjoy over here…" Dawn muttered angrily. Leaf and May were giggling. She sent them a death glare and they shut up.
"I have Math." May said.
"Well airhead, lead the way." Drew smirked and May hit him. She cast a glance over her shoulder to Leaf who just shrugged.
"Drama…" Leaf smiled.
"Let's go Leafy!" Gary smirked and grabbed Leaf and dragged her out of the auditorium. She giggled and followed him.
I smiled and grabbed Dawn's wrist. "Follow us, new kids!"
"HEY!" Ash yelled.
"Hn." Paul grumbled.
As Dawn and I lead Ash and Paul to History, we conversed.
"So what about Paul, Dawn?" I snickered.
She flushed and ducked her head in. "Quiet! Misty, he's a coldhearted jerk!"
"Well you better warm that oh so cold heart of his, if you want to date him." I said knowingly. She frowned then came up with a comeback.
"Yeah? Well you and Ashy huh Misty?"
"NO!" My cheeks were hot. "He's a douche Dawn. I'd never go out with an idiot."
"Better find him a tutor then, Misty!" She said gleefully and ducked as I tried to grab her. I tripped and crashed into Ash.
"MIST! Get off please!" He whined.
Pink in the face I pushed myself up from on top of him. He mumbled something about redheads and temper. I was too busy glaring at Dawn to notice.
"Eek! Paul! Misty's gonna kill me!" She shrieked and hid behind said boy.
"Well that's your problem." He muttered and walked into the classroom clearly labeled 'History'. We followed him in. Dawn was wearing her puppy-dog pout just because he ignored her.
Guys NEVER ignore Dawn. She's like the sweetest girl ever. She's a bit of a heartbreaker, but to the guys I guess that makes her more desirable.
I was still pissed at Dawn as Ash and I took our seats. I was next to Dawn at the row second to the front and Ash and Paul were behind.
Just as class started our teacher started another one of her boring lectures. She only asked her favourite students to answer questions so I was safe. So were Dawn and the new kids, Ash and Paul.
I felt something hit the back of my head. I turned and picked up a crumpled ball of paper. Curiously I opened it. There was a message written in messy writing.
Ash grinned as he saw me open it, which gave it away. Reading the message I scrawled my response. I casually stretched and dropped it on Ash's desk.
Reading my response, he grinned. How I was starting to love that idiotic, silly, childish and cute grin…
Wait. What am I saying? Ash, cute? Ha, and I'm supposed to be the tomboy of the group…
Well he is pretty sweet. He's dense as hell, but that's cute and funny…
My phone vibrated in my pocket and I whipped it out under my desk. Did I mention our history teacher is a total idiot and you can do ANYTHING in her class? Well, yeah. You get the point. I read the text and my face went red.
Dawn giggled and I shoved her lightly. She had sent me a text saying: Ooh Misty's got a crush! ;).
I replied quickly. How did you know?
Her reply came almost instantly. Misty dearest, I know a lot about love and your face is totally love-struck. Especially since you two were passing notes and smiling. He's totally into you girl!
I frowned. But if he's not? What if I confess? I'll look like an idiot! I'm supposed to be the tough, tomboy!
Dawn smirked. Maybe it's time to change that Misty! ;) We'll talk later the bell's about to go for lunch.
Putting our phones away we started packing up. Our teacher, Ms. Harrinow, hadn't assigned any work. Just her usual lecture.
When the bell went everybody sighed and left the classroom for lunch. As Dawn and I were walking Ash ran up to me.
"Hey Mist, so when do you want to come over?"
Dawn gave me a look and I blushed. "How about tomorrow at 6? Remember, studying only."
"Ok! Hey what's your number? I'll text you!"
Dawn stepped in and spoke. "Here Ash! Take all of our numbers. Leaf's, May's, Misty's and mine. The other guys might want them too." She passed Ash her glittery pink PokePhone.
Cheekily he punched our numbers into his phone. He sent a text and then explained he sent our numbers to Paul, Gary and Drew.
The three of walked to the cafeteria for lunch. Leaf saw us and waved us over. We sat down at the table after getting our food. Paul was sitting stoically at the table, eating his lunch. Gary and Leaf were having a friendly and flirty conversation. May and Drew were have a heated argument.
I mean heated. May was standing her palms slammed into the table, red faced and screaming at Drew.
Drew stood there with an arrogant smirk on his face. He made a snide comment and May huffed, grabbed her empty lunch tray and stormed off.
After she left Drew's expression changed to slightly troubled but he quickly composed himself.
Tearing her eyes from Gary, Leaf spoke up. "Someone should go after her."
"I will." Dawn said firmly. She dumped her leftover lunch into the garbage and walked after May.
With May
Dawn's POV
"Hey May." I said quietly approaching said girl. I knew exactly where to find her.
She was in the auditorium seated at the piano bench. This was her special spot. Whenever she was emotional, the girls and I knew she'd always be here.
"Hey Dawn…" May looked up her eyes red. She'd been… crying? May never cried over guys. Not after Brendan. She'd said herself; all guys were lying, cheating bastards.
"May. What happened to you?"
"I-I lost it."
"Your emotion?"
"No. It."
I gasped; May had never lost, misplaced it, or even really removed it. It was a gold locket.
Her birth mother had given it to her. But, that was before her family died in a car crash.
She broke down in sobs again and I rubbed small circles into her back.
"We'll find it May, don't worry. I'll get the girls right away." I said soothingly. I sent a quick text to Misty and Leaf to get their butts over to the auditorium.
Once they were here, I gave them a rundown. We all crowded around May giving her hugs and speaking words of encouragement. Her sobs slowed to sniffles and our hug broke up.
"It couldn't of gotten far May." Misty reassured.
"It's not like it could grow legs and walk away." Leaf added.
May cracked a wistful smile. "You think we'll find it?"
"I know so." I said confidently. "We'll look for the rest of today and we can after school too."
"Ok." May stood from her piano bench. The bell rang, conveniently and we all headed to English.
Entering our English class we noticed that all the guys were here too. Leaf brightened and May groaned.
Walking over to the guys quickly Leaf engaged in conversation.
"And you said I was in love…" Misty snorted looking at Leaf.
I giggled. "You all are!" I dashed over to the boys to avoid getting killed by Misty and May.
Their rage combined is very, very, very painful…
As I walked over I heard the end of Leaf and Gary's conversation.
"So tomorrow at 6?" Gary asked.
"Yeah, the new café downtown." Leaf confirmed.
"Aw! Are you two going out?" I chirped sweetly.
Leaf's face caught fire and she said hastily said. "No, just a catch up. You know? As friends." She accentuated the word friends.
I shook my head giggling sweetly and Leaf blushed harder. She turned back to Gary. Misty and May were now over here and talking, Ash and Drew were conversing and that left me with Paul.
"You're annoying troublesome girl." He informed me.
"Hey, I'm just doing my job. As a matchmaker." I snapped.
"Sure, sure. Whatever. Just leave me out of this."
"Oh, and why should I?" I smirked.
"Troublesome."
"What. Did. You. Just. Call. ME?!"
"Troublesome." He repeated. "Now quiet, the lesson's starting."
The teacher asked for us to pass our homework we had been assigned over the summer up to the front. Paul, Gary, Ash and Drew walked up to him and explained they were new. He nodded and sent the boys to sit down.
"Our first project this year will be on Shakespeare. You will be in groups of 4. You will be assigned a play and you must make a poster, write and report and make up a skit." Mr. Alderson, the teacher, announced. "First group is: Leaf, Gary, Drew and May."
Leaf and May high-fived and Drew and Gary smirked. I inwardly groaned because May was a great actor and Leaf was great at writing reports.
"Next group is: Misty, Ash, Paul and Dawn." Mr. Alderson read out.
Misty and I smiled and Ash tried to get Paul to do a fist bump with him, but he was completely ignored. I giggled at this.
Mr. Alderson continued to read out names until everyone had their groups. Then he assigned plays. Misty and I got Hamlet. May and Leaf got Romeo and Juliet. They were sooo lucky. I wanted that one!
He then told us to meet with our groups. Misty dragged Ash and Paul over to our desks.
"Who wants to do the poster?" I asked calmly taking the leadership role.
"ME!" Ash yelled. Misty whacked him with her mallet and said,
"I will."
"I'll do the report." Paul grumbled.
"We can all take part in the skit I guess. I'll also help Paul with the report." I concluded.
I stood and walked over to Mr. Alderson. "Mr. Alderson, we've decided that Misty and Ash will do the poster, Paul and I will do the report and we'll all do the skit together."
While I was talking Mr. Alderson had scribbled down what I was telling him. May walked over to give Mr. Alderson their group's information.
"Leaf and Gary are doing the report and Drew and I will do the poster. We'll all do the skit."
He wrote that down too and waved us away with the back of his hand. He started taking down other groups' information as May and I walked away.
"Class dismissed." Mr. Alderson said still writing down information. May and I hi-fived and cheered. We walked back to our desks grabbed our bags and walked out of the classroom.
"Any word May?" I asked cautiously.
"Yeah, actually." May pulled her simple gold locket out from under her white cardigan, which she had added to her outfit this morning.
"Whoa… That was fast! Who had it?" I asked curiously.
"The Bastard." May replied steaming.
"Drew?" I asked. She nodded.
"Apparently it fell of onto the table when he and I were arguing…" May clenched her fists and kept walking.
I knew better than to bring up Drew or her locket again. As much as she denies it, the more obvious it is, she likes Drew. The same for Misty with Ash and Leaf with Gary.
My friends have utterly hopeless emotions. Well, I guess you could say the same about me too.
Never in a million years, will I fall for Paul, though. Nuh-uh. Never.
Me: DONE! OMG I'M SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SORRY!
Dawn: Big thanks to all the reviewers!
Leaf: Dawn dearest, you cannot deny liking Paul forever.
May: You do know by doing that, you'd be denying Liv2Laugh00? I'm pretty sure she's an Ikarishippper.
Me: You girls are to talk, you like Drew, Ash and Gary. Respectively. Please forgive me in advance, I'm terrible at writing Ikarishipping...
Misty: Never.
Me: At the beginning of each chapter I will now be doing reviewer shout outs!
Dawn: Just drop in a review by hitting that nice big button down there and you could be chosen.
Leaf: It'll be totally random and by leaving more than one review you are entered more than once!
May: But if you just review for a shout out, you're not getting one.
Misty: The next chapter will be Leaf's date with Gary and about mine and Ash's.
Me: 15-20 reviews for chapter 4.
Leaf and Dawn: NO FLAMES!
May and Misty: Liv2Laugh00 doesn't own Pokemon!
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Me: BYE ~