A/N possibly the last chapter

~enjoy


Over the past few days Ash and the gang have been traveling to the nearest town, the same one that Paul was heading too.

Dawn has been so quiet, unlike her usual talkative self. Brock was very suspicious of her but didn't want to get involved with it; he figured it might be just a girl problem.

Dawn has been sad, and tries to hide her emotions form her friends and pokemon but they know something is wrong. She often goes out for a 'training session' alone in the woods just to think about that one night, but she often ends up crying. She comes back from training looking worse then before and her cheeks are is worried about her; even Ash knows something is up.

She woke up this morning looking depressed and not her happy self, this has become a common thing for her.

"What's the matter Dawn?" Brock asked.

She looked up at him and gave a fake smile. "Nothing Brock, nothing at all." She said falsely, waving her hands in front of her.

She tried to burry her sad, confused, angry, and frustrated emotions by not thinking about anything. She hides her emotions and has no expression on her face. She is just numb and goes through her day like this with no enthusiasm in her voice and no pep in her step, and looking like she's on the verge of crying... again.

A few hours before lunch was going to be ready, she could barrly handle what was going on in her head without crying. "I'm going to go train." She said with a sad voice as she walked away into the forest, far enough where her friends couldn't hear her.

With a sigh she said "Piplup, use bubble beam on that tree."

"Piplup…" It said with a concerned voice.

"Good job." She said on the brink of tears.

While she continued her training, Paul saw her from behind. He notices that she doesn't seem peppy, or happy for that matter, and she's not putting any enthusiasm in her training. 'Why is she acting so different?' He thought 'Why have I been thinking about her so much? Is it affecting my training too? Ugh! Why do I care!...

Why? Because…

I love her. Dimmit!' While he was thinking, his body was moving and with that last thought he realized that he was walking over to her training spot. He stopped, ready to go back, but it was too late, she saw him.

She looked surprised at first, then mad, finaly showing some emotion. "Piplup return!" she said louder than necessary. "What do you want?" she said sharply.

His face looked the same as it always did. And his hands were in his pockets as he walked a few steps closer.

"Go away!" she hissed, thinking 'why is he here? He doesn't care about me!' He took one step closer; they were about five steps away now.

"Stop! I don't want to see you!" she raised her voice at him, holding back the tears.

'Ugh!' she thought as he stepped closer

'Why I am I so emotional about him! What does it matter if I like him, he doesn't love me. It Hopeless!'

he takes another step,

'I should just run away right now. And I'll never see him again!'

Another step

'why is he still coming closer?'

she was angry at him, her face was red with hatred, but also with nerves as he came closer.

She felt two hot tears roll down her face.

Paul silently took the final steps up to watched her red face with tears down her cheeks.

She stood there, looking at him angrily breathing heavely.

Then he took one of his hands out of his pocket and wiped away a tear on her cheek. But she slapped his hand away from him and yelled "get away from me!"

Paul almost gave a surprised look on his face, but it really hadn't changed.

"I hate you!" she screamed, tears rolling down her face.

She started to turn to run away, but Paul's swift movement caught her looked surprised as he turned her toward him. She was silent, face still red but not so angry.

"Calm, down" he said smoothly.

'What does he…' her thought was interrupted by the soft kiss that was placed on her lips. More tears slowly moved down her face, Paul moved away and wiped the hot tears off of her cheek again. Dawn was paralyzed, she didn't move. Paul was still holding on to her arm, but not so tightly now.

She just looked at him, then, as if her emotional rain cloud opened up, she started crying; she grabbed on to Paul and squeezed her eyes shut as she cried.

Paul at first didn't move. But as he saw her clinging to him he felt sorry for her. All the emotions and pain he put her through. He placed his arm around her and lightly stroked her hair with his other hand.

She was still crying on his chest, letting out all of her frustration, and pain. After about a minute or two she slowly stopped crying and her face turned red. 'Look at me, I look like an idiot! Crying on him like that.' She thought, and then she blushed harder as she realized he was still stroking her hair.

She was about to remove her head from his chest when she heard him mumble "I'm Sorry" she looked surprised. She raised her head to look at him, she was still hugging him and he had his hand on her head and his arm around her. Her tears were gone and she was speechless as he returned the gaze at her.

"W-What?" she said quietly.

"Sorry" he mumbled again and looked away.

She smiled at him, then she hugged him tighter, and put her head back on his chest. "Thanks" she said happily for the first time in days.

"Humph" he said as he rolled his eyes.

She removed herself from him and smiled."Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about this, I promise"

Paul quietly nodded his head; he put his hands back in his pockets and turned around to leave. Dawn watched as he walked away. Her heart was fluttering and she was happy.

She ran back to where Ash and Brock were with a smile still on her face, and her tears all gone. She returned happily ready for lunch.

"Hey Dawn!" Ash greeted, happy to see a smile on her face.

"Hey how was your training session Dawn?" Brock asked.

She sat down at the picnic table and smiled as she replied. "It was the best."

Brock smiled, clearly happy to hear this, he continued preparing lunch, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Paul walking away from a distance.

"That good Dawn, I'm glad you're happy again" he said with a smug look on his face.


A/N ok, so that could be the end, i'm not sure. Comment if you want me to keep going because i don't know if i should or not.