Me Notes: Me no own Pokémon! Warning: I wasn't going to, but I'm adding an OC to the story, no worries she's minor…-ish.

Pokémon Academy

Chapter 4: Preparations

After first period, May and Dawn excitedly went to second period. After a few minutes of debating who's Pokémon was cuter, Dawn noticed they had a follower. "May, don't look back, but is Drew following us or what?"

"What?" she swiveled her body to face the teen. "What are you doing stalking us Drew?"

Dawn's shoulders drooped, "told you not to look back…."

"For your information," he flicked his bangs, "this is also the route of my second period."

May looked at her schedule and groaned. "Don't tell me you have 'Battling' too?" The girls stopped and waited for him to catch up instead of talking to him from a distance.

He passed them and smirked, "Okay, I won't."

"Stupid, smart-aleck," May mumbled under her breath. 'Nice one moment, rude the next!' She mentally cursed him for being so confusing and contradicting. "I'm gonna—hey look it's Harley!" May waved her arms to be noticed by the sophomore.

Putting on a pleasant face, Harley waved back. "Why, hello May and May's little friend. How are you enjoying your first day of school so far?"

"Great!" the girls exclaimed and then introduced Dawn to him.

"Oh my," Harley noticed that the girls followed him and Drew all the way to the large building of his second period. "Don't tell me that they're with us for second period?" he whispered to Drew.

Drew shrugged, "Okay."

"DREWY!"

He sighed, "Just look at the bright side, you can show-off all you want and prove what a great Co-ordinator you are."

At this, Harley brightened up and opened the doors for them. He thought to himself how much he'd enjoy defeating May and crushing all her little dreams.

Second and fourth period May had class with all her new friends as well as lunch with them. There she saw her brother Max and the two siblings rushed towards each other. Max towed along a new friend he had created. She had long pink hair to her knees and a really cute voice. May invited them to sit with her and her friends.

"Guys, you know Max, my brother, but this is Daisy, his friend. Daisy, this is Dawn, Misty, Ash, and Brock," May introduced everyone and asked them how their first half of their school day had been. Everyone gave a unanimous responded of enjoyment. Max, knowing his sister was fidgeting from the anxiousness to show off her Pokémon, gave up and finally asked his sister on what Pokémon she received.

Misty, Ash, and Brock all second the motion for the "rookies" to present their Pokémon. May presented first followed by Dawn. Max and Daisy both called out theirs at the same time. Porygon and Budew came out and were examined by everyone. Ash seemed to be the most excited as he pulled out his Pokédex in a flash.

"I was so glad when I got Budew," Daisy hugged her Pokémon before setting her back into her Pokéball. "I wanted to have the same Pokémon as my neighbor. He was the one to encourage me to come when I became accepted. My older sister on the other hand, didn't want me to come. At first I wasn't going to come, but now I'm glad he motivated me!"

May was glad to relate to someone and she told Daisy and the rest of the table her story. Dawn and Misty wanted to see pictures of May's boyfriend but she didn't have any on her. She did although present them with the necklace he gave her and the charm Brianna gave her too. May then promised to show them a picture of them when classes were over.

When lunch was over, everyone walked off to their fifth class. May only had one class left with Dawn, and soon discovered to have one with Harley and her last one with Drew. He wasn't who May would have wanted but was glad to discover she new someone in every class. Unfortunately, it felt like she was alone for the last period of Gym because Drew seemed to have a group of fan girls constantly around him.

Then their Gym teacher announced to the class for them to take out one of their Pokémons out. The whole point of the class was for the two to build up endurance, work, and become stronger together. After he handed out the P.E. uniforms, he commanded everyone to run laps until the bell rang. May was glad therefore to at least have Torchic out with her, but was not fond of running the whole time. Torchic on the other hand seemed to be excited for anything.

Torchic led the way as everyone began to run. "Wait up Torchic!" May's Torchic was soon ahead of the whole crowd and the coach yelled for them to keep pace with their Pokémon. May therefore was forced to run up to be with her Pokémon. "Why must you be so energetic about running?" She continued talking to it as they soon made the first lap of many.

After a while she seemed to slow down, but Torchic kept at it. May followed a few feet behind. "How is it possible that you can keep going? We've pass everyone else at least twice. Or are you imaging delicious food at the finish line?" Torchic happily chirped on without slowing down.

May's misery was soon increased by Drew's presence. "Well May, I'm surprised you've kept up with your Torchic for this long. Can you keep it up for fifteen more minutes?"

"Shut up Drew!" she growled. "You're messing up my concentration."

He chuckled, "My apologies I guess. I didn't know I was such a great distraction."

"Roselia!" a Pokémon with red and blue roses on its arms seemed to be skipping alongside of Drew. She seconded his comment.

"Keep running you wimps!" Coach's voice carried all throughout the track. "Are you really going to let Hayden and Maple out show you? How will any of you be able to participate in Homecoming next week if you can barely run? Maple's only a rookie and already she's better than most of you veterans! Keep running!"

"Homecoming?" May turned to look at Drew who had no sign of sweat on him. "The Academy has Homecoming? Which school's coming?"

Drew laughed. "We don't have any real sports teams, May. Our Homecoming is more like a battle tournament on Friday. We do almost everything a public school does, a spirit week and dance at the end of the night. Homecoming court and parades are small, but we do it. It's even all open to the public."

"Really? There's a dance too?" May would jump for joy except for the fact that if she did while running, she'd most likely fall flat on her face. "So I can invite my boyfriend and best friend?"

Drew's smirk fell, "Of course, you're not a good listener are you? I said it's all open to the public. And because it is open, many students are working on everything this weekend so we'd be presentable. All the grade levels have their own floats as well as some small clubs. The freshmen are building theirs next to the Arts building this weekend. I'd invite you to help, but I doubt you'd have time for it."

"No, I'd come!" May panted as she was losing stamina. "I want to help. Why wouldn't I have time?" Anger increased her strength as she pushed harder. She only had five minutes left.

"Well," he shrugged, "I'd assume you'd want to go out to see your boyfriend. Most teenagers are that way."

May stopped as she realized this and let Drew, Roselia, and her Torchic rush pass her. "That's right. Brendan and I promised to see each other every weekend."

"KEEP RUNNING MAPLE! YOU ONLY HAVE THRITY SECONDS LEFT! RUN! KEEP PUSHING EVERYONE!"

She started to sprint to catch up to Torchic and Drew. A smile spread on her face as she passed him, "I'm sure he'd understand," he heard her say. "Come on Torchic! Let's make this our first victory over Drew!"

"Tor!"

"Roselia!" she complained as she watched them advance and looked up at her trainer.

Shock was clearly written on his face, but the clever Pokémon noticed something new on it.

The coach's whistle blew loudly and long. "Great job Maple! I'd like to put you in the track club, but it's entirely all up to you. Hayden, why didn't you push yourself, I don't see any sweat on you. As for the rest of you, get out of here! Class is dismissed."

"Sorry Coach," Drew flipped the hair covering his eyes. "I didn't see any real reason to." He disappeared into the guy's locker room.

May walked into the locker room. Her day was over and she was exhausted. Most of it was from running, but some of it was because it was the first day of school at the new school. The only comfort she had was that she had no homework. No syllabus to hand to her parents or explaining how her day went to them. Although she did plan on telling every little detail to Brendan and Brianna as soon as her cell phone turned on.

After May finished changing, she picked up her phone and walked out of the locker rooms. She sped dialed her boyfriend. Five rings wet through before his answering machine picked up. "Hmm, I know they're out of school already and there isn't any soccer practice…"

"Already five minutes after school has ended and you're already calling Brendan," Max appeared beside her without his little friend. "Can't you survive a week without him?"

"Nope," she quickly said to avoid a long argument. "Actually, I was going to call him to ask him if we could postpone our date until the following weekend. That way he could come to our school's Homecoming! I wanted to help build the floats, so I won't be able to make it this Saturday. See I can survive without him for TWO weeks!"

Max rolled his eyes, "Bravo. By the way, have I ever told you I don't like Brendan?"

"Yep," his sister kept on walking to her dorm. She then next dialed Brianna's number and had the same result. "Why are neither of them answering their cell?"

"Well, Brianna has dance lessons right now remember?" Max remembered Jake's sister's schedule. "I liked Brianna; she is a good friend to you. Brendan seems too good to be true, it's not natural."

May giggled, "That's one of the reasons I love him! But you're right about Brianna in both cases. How could I forget she has dance today, oh well. I'll call her later." She redialed Brendan, but still no answer. "I'm going to meet Misty and Dawn in a little bit, wanna come?"

"Nah, I'm meeting Daisy in a few, Max quickly glanced away. May caught the small blush creep across his face and she smiled knowingly.

"Right, your little girl friend," May provoked him.

"She's not my girlfriend!"

May laughed, "I never meant girlfriend; I said girl friend. So tell me about Daisy. How many classes do you have with her? Where is she from, does she know who you are?"

He was still pink, but happily gave her details. "Yeah, I have four classes with her. We have seventh period together, but she had to do something before we go to the Pokémon Center. Anyways, Daisy also knows about our parents and says she's even been to Petalburg before. She's from La Rousse, a whole two hours away from here due north. She's farther from home than our forty-five minutes from home and in the opposite direction."

She was impressed, "She's only eleven and she's so far away from home and all by herself. I probably wouldn't be able to be here without knowing you're here." May admitted at still being nervous.

"Yeah, well, actually she has an older sister here, but she was gone from studying abroad. She's supposedly coming back in a few weeks or days," Max laughed at May. "You are such a baby."

"Am not!" May gently pushed her brother away. "Besides, I wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for you. See ya later!" She met up with the girls and discussed their day.

May told them about Homecoming and Misty explained it in greater detail. "I'm actually in charge of the float for the Water club. Do you want to go shopping for decorations with me?" Dawn and May agreed and headed off for the closest art and crafts shop. Misty explained more on their way. "The presidents of each club and class are the ones in charge of coordinating the parade and floats. I'm the president for the Water club and gave other instructions for this weekend. Are you guys staying and helping this weekend?"

Dawn and May nodded. "That's great, all you have to do is get invited to be able to help," Misty opened the door to a small shop called Sprinkles. "You're invited to be in the Water club, but most of the members are true water Pokémon fans or had our first Pokémon be a water type…" The two girls look at May who has a fire type.

She got the hint and laughed, "I get it, hmm, but could I be a true water Pokémon fan? I think it's too early to say, but I've already been invited to work on the freshmen float."

"Drew invited you?" Misty asked.

"Yeah, why? Wait, how did you know?"

She shrugged, "Usually only the presidents are the ones that invite students to help out. Drew is the President of the freshmen class. He never personally hands out invitations. It's usually the VP, well Ash, who does it."

"What? Drew's the president?" May asked in shock. "How? Who'd vote for him?"

Misty and Dawn laughed. Dawn answered this one, "Have you seen his fan girls? He has popularity with all girls and most boys."

"Last year," Misty went into detail, "Drew won presidency without even running. The same goes for the president for my class, Gary. Harley was so mad that Gary won, he wouldn't even talk to him even though they have to work together as president and vice president."

"Aww, poor Harley," May held a bottle of blue sprinkles up to Misty. "Hey does this look useful?"

"Yeah, get two more of those please," Misty grabbed a lot of aqua poster board. "Oh, yeah May, weren't you going to show up a picture of your boyfriend?"

Dawn quickly turned around and accidently pulled a yard of light blue cloth out with her. "Oh! I wanna see! Is he cute, hot, sexy?"

May blushed and took out her cell phone to find a picture of him, "I say yes."

The two girls look at him and nod in approval.

"I'm asking him to come to Homecoming, and then you can actually meet him there," May squealed. "He says that he's trying his hardest to come here next semester so we can be together again. Did you guys leave your boyfriends back home too?"

"I wish," Dawn's shoulders drooped. "Kenny and I went out for a while, but it didn't work out. We're great friends now, but I kinda still like him. That's why I came here, to get away from him for a while and to become better than he is."

Misty and May both pat her on the back, but the sad moment only lasted a second. The freshmen attack the sophomore. Together, May and Dawn ask Misty, "Do you like Ash?"

She took a step back, "What? W-what makes you think th-that?" The two girls grinned and shrugged. "Well I don't. We've just known each other for a while."

"Well, I'll take it upon me to get you two a date for Homecoming!" May smiled, proud of her idea. "And I have just the plan."

Dawn and Misty look at each other with worry in their eyes. "Oh no…"

Me Notes: Okay, not my favorite chapter, but it'll get better. Sorry it's long, but thanks for reading! Tell me what you think!