Chapter 4 up!

Things start to get funny in this one :3

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Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon and its characters, it all belongs to its respected owners. The only characters I own are Stephanie and others that will appear in the story.

~*Preparations Part 1*~

Once they arrived at the Hylia once again Stephanie docked the boat quickly as they got out once again. They walked the opposite way from the hotel and the gym and walked into the city until they were completely surrounded with skyscrapers.

As they walked on the sidewalks Ash, Misty, May and Brock were amazed at how many people were walking around. Stephanie stood in the front of the group acting as a tour guide as the others behind her looked around.

"Wow, there are a lot of people here." May said.

"Yeah when we first came there weren't as much people." Brock agreed.

"Well the league prom attracts a lot of people no matter where the prom is located, and since its only three days away everyone that is going to attend is arriving." Stephanie explained.

They turned a corner from one block and stopped at the intersection, they looked up to see the city bright with lights. The many cars and buildings filled with commercial billboards closely resembled New York City's time square. The light turned green as the many people started to cross the street, that's when they noticed all the expensive department stores filled with different clothing.

"Wow where do we start?" Ash said looking in all directions.

"Well all I can tell you is that the girls can look at those stores" Stephanie said pointing in one direction, "And you guys can look at those stores." She finished pointed at the opposite direction.

"Ok." Brock said.

"I can't shop you all now, but I'll meet you up at the hotel later on today kay?" Stephanie said.

"Ok see ya Steph." Misty said.

As Stephanie walked back towards the water Ash, Misty, May and Brock went their separate ways remembering where Stephanie had just told them.

Misty and May walked along side the avenue looking at the large windows that were filled with manikins wearing dressing and other clothing, however as nice and elegant it looked they all seemed very expensive.

May stopped and pressed her hand onto one window as she looked at a sparkling red dress.

"You really think that we can find something Misty, I mean all these stores don't look cheap." She said in a worried tone.

"Don't worry May I'm sure if we don't find anything we can ask Stephanie to come with is tomorrow." Misty said.

"True." May said as she stood up straight again.

As she turned her head that was where she noticed a small store in the corner of the block. It was not as extravagant as the other stores but it was worth a try.

"Hey Misty let's check in there." May said.

"Ok let's try." Misty said as she followed her towards the store.

They walked into the store and saw small rakes of dress in front of them, to the side on the wall were glass doors that covered shelves of jewelry. Near the dresses was a small hallway that lead to dressing rooms, as Misty and May looked through the dresses a woman walked up to the two.

"Hello ladies, how may I help you today?" She asked with a smile.

"Hello, we're here looking for dresses for the league prom." Misty explained.

"Oh you're going to the prom? Well follow me I have some nice dresses I'm sure that you will like." The woman said as she walked to a rake of dresses.

They followed the woman as she searched through the pile of dresses and took out two dresses. Misty and May couldn't see the dresses clearly before the woman was pushing them towards the dressing rooms.

"Try these on and I'm sure that you'll love them."

As Misty and May walked into the rooms the woman waited outside the hallway waiting for the girls.

After a few minutes May had her dress on as she tried to zipper the back but was unable to.

"Misty," She called out as she tried again. "I can't – get this dress on."

"Do you need help?" Misty asked.

May tried again but stomped in frustration, "Ugh! Please!" She begged.

Misty giggled as she cracked open her door enough for May as she came close to zipper the back of her dress. Once she zippered the back she fixed the bottom half and then stood back to show Misty.

"Well…what do you think?" She asked.

Misty looked at May and didn't know what to say. She tried to get out a good complement but she struggled, she just stared at her, the dress didn't fit her at all. It was a lime green dress that was fit to the top of her body as soon as it reached her hips it ruffled out and came down to her knees, the hot pink design going along the side did not add a good factor to the dress either.

Misty's nose wrinkled as she tilted her head, May looked down to see the dress and tilted her head as well. They then looked up at each other and gave an "I don't think so" look as May went back to her room to take it off.

Misty closed the door and then took a look at her dress. It was red and had many rhinestones attached to it as it sparkled, but it confused her, the strapping didn't look right.

May knocked on the door, "Do you need help?"

Misty opened the door without hesitation, "Yes."

Misty held up the dress as May looked at her with a confused look, "Yeah and?"

"How am I suppose to put this on?"

May shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, but I'll try and help."

Outside down the hall the woman placed some dresses on the rack and then turned to look down the hall with the dressing rooms, she remembered that Misty and May were still there. The woman walked to the dressing rooms and before she knocked all she heard was some scrabbling and mumbling coming from the inside.

"It doesn't go like that," Misty mumbled.

"Yes it does." May argued.

"Are you sure cause it looks like it belong in the back not the front!"

The woman then decided to knock softly on the door as she asked, "Is everything ok in there?"

"Uh, yes everything is fine." Misty called out.

"There I think that's it." May said as she stepped back allowing Misty to look at herself in the mirror.

Misty turned to look at herself and froze from the image she saw in the reflection. She just stared at the dress and couldn't believe what she was wearing the dress was beautiful but revealed just a bit 'too' much. The red halter-top wrapped around her neck and came down her front in a 'x' form just barely covering her chest and then came into a 'x' form again ending at her waist, the bottom half of the dress was the only decent part as it looked like a normal dress ending just passed her ankles.

"What…am…I…wearing?" Misty stumbled.

"It actually looks good on you." May said.

"You think I'm going to the biggest party in years looking like this?!" Misty snapped.

"Ok, I guess it is a bit revealing." May said with a slight smile.

"A bit?!"

"Ok a lot, but it does look good on you, you have the body for it." May said trying to cheer her up.

Misty narrowed her eyes as she turned her head slightly to look in the mirror again, she shook her head vigorously as she began to un-strap it.

"I don't think so."

Once Misty got dressed again they both came out of the dressing room but their dresses in hand. The woman looked to them as she smiled.

"So did you ladies like the dresses?"

They both looked at each other as they tried to get something out to say to the woman.

"Uh I think if anything we'll come back?" May said as politely as she could.

"Yeah we'll come back." Misty followed.

The woman didn't seem a bit surprised, for their sake, as she took the dresses. "Oh, ok I hope that I see you ladies again."

Misty and May smiled as they tried to walk as fast towards the exit. As soon as they got outside May took Misty's arm as she held her head.

"I don't wanna go back there."

"You can say that again."

Ash and Brock walked along the many stores until Ash stopped as he saw a nice suit in one of the passing windows.

"Hey Brock check this one out."

"Not bad, lets check in here."

They walked into the large store and saw that it had a decent amount of people inside, however it was not crowed.

"This place is huge." Ash said.

"Why hello there, can I help you?" Someone asked from behind the two.

But from the sound of the voice neither Ash nor Brock wanted to turn around, but not to be rude, they did anyway.

"Can I help you two handsome gentlemen?" The man asked in very feminine voice, the man was tall and skinny and had very short orange hair as was wearing a lime green and white suit. He placed one hand on his hip as he waited for an answer.

"I think so?" Ash nervously said.

"Oh I just bet you're here for the league prom am I right?" He asked.

"Yeah but we're looking for something a bit low in price." Brock said.

"Oh don't worry I'll help you out," He said as he took him too the both to a wall that was filled with different types of suits. However all the suits that were hanging were nothing compared to the suits in the window, and not in a good way.

"Uh I don't think-" Brock started but was cut off the man again.

The man waved his hand femininely as he took a bright colored suit from the a rake, "Oh don't worry about it just try on these suits, I'm sure you'll look good in anything." He winked.

Brock stood in shock as the man turned around and searched for more suits moving his hips side to side with a beat that was maybe going through his head. Ash stood on the side holding his mouth to hold back his laughs. But as the man threw a suit at Brock he looked at Ash as he stood up straight.

He pointed at Ash as he said, "Now for you."

He turned on his heels and searched around again and pulled out an orange suit. He pushed it on Ash as he got behind to two and started to push them two towards the dressing rooms.

"There ya go," He waved as he leaned on the doorframe that separated the dressing rooms from the store. "Now try it on, I'm sure you'll look great."

Ash and Brock looked at the suits that were shoved at them and then back at each other as they walked into different rooms to see what they got themselves into.

Five minutes passed as the rustling and banging in the different rooms finally stopped as the man passed his hand through his hair and looked at the back of his hands. He placed one hand on his hip as he looked at his watch, it's been a while since Ash and Brock went inside he needed to check on them.

He knocked on one of the doors, "Yoo-hoo are you ok in there?"

It was Ash's door and he responded very nervously, "Uh…I don't know."

"Oh and why's that?" He asked.

Ash responded behind the door again, "I don't think this suit is gonna work."

"Oh come now I bet it's not that bad."

Ash daringly peeked out from the door, "Oh no its bad."

"Come on don't peek out let me see you."

Ash should have known and stood behind closed doors as he was now struggling to keep the door shut as the man tried to open it.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Ash stuttered.

"Come now you little party pooper don't be like that I wanna see how good you look." He said as he tried to open the door again.

But Ash kept the door closed as tightly as he could, he tried to lock the door once again but with the struggle he was unable to.

"I look stupid!"

The man gasped, "Don't be ridiculous!"

"Brock! Help!" Ash pleaded.

Ash didn't have enough strength to hold the door any longer and the door flew open to reveal him. He stood in complete embarrassment as the man looked at the orange suit he was wearing, underneath the bright orange color was white and had ruffled shirt and cuffs all of this topped off with an orange hat.

Ash hung his head as he sighed, "I feel like a moron."

"What? You look fab-u-lous!" He said snapping his fingers emphasizing each syllable.

Ash just sighed again, "Why me?"

The man leaned his head on his hand as he looked at Ash, "You know the more I look at that suit the more I get a craving to buy it."

Ash gave a narrowed look in disbelief as the man skipped to Brock's door, "Now to see how our other gentlemen is doing." He knocked quickly on the door, "How you doing in there handsome."

"I am NOT coming out." Brock answered from the other side.

"What is with the both of you, the suits I gave you were just fine."

"Well mine's not." Brock said again.

"Come on Brock I 'm sure it's not as bad as mine." Ash said.

He walked to the door and to his surprise it was open, as he pushed the door it revealed Brock in his suit. It was a velvet burgundy and hunter green suit with an over extravagant white ruffled shirt and cuffs.

Ash stood back and couldn't hold back his laughter anymore and started to laugh.

The man gasped again and added, "Why I have never seen someone look so good in that suit before."

"Gee I wonder why." Brock said.

"So do you boys have a date for the prom, cause if you don't I'll be delighted to escort you two." The man winked again.

Ash and Brock froze in place and looked at each other, their faces went pale as they rushed into the dressing rooms and quickly changed back into their regular clothes. They took the suits and gave them back to the man, as he stood confused at the two.

Ash handed the man his suit, "Well it was nice trying this on, but I think we have to get going."

Brock did the same, "Yeah have a nice day."

With that said they didn't look back as they speed walked out of the store not looking back.

The man held both suits in his hand as he blinked, "Oooook?"

Outside Ash and Brock walked as fast down the sidewalk away from the store.

"Please tell me that just didn't happen." Brock said.

"I would be haunted by this for life." Ash added.

On the other side of the city Misty and May were walking back to the hotel since they didn't find any more stores that interested them. But as they walked it brought up an interesting conversation.

"So Misty what are we gonna do about…the you know." May stuttered a bit towards the end.

"About the what?" Misty asked.

"You know, date wise."

"What about it?"

"Well hasn't Ash asked you to go with him yet?"

Misty blushed a bit from the comment, "What do you mean?"

"Come on Misty, don't try to deny it you obviously like him." May teased.

Misty blushed deeper as she stuttered back, "N-no I don't"

May giggled, "Sure whatever you say Misty."

"Oh yeah, do you have a date for the prom?" Misty asked.

May nodded, "Yup, Brock asked me right before we left today."

"He did?"

"Yeah, it's just a friend thing nothing serious you know."

"Didn't see that one coming." Misty mumbled to herself.

"What did you say?" May asked.

"Oh nothing, I just thought I left the key back at the room." Misty quickly replied.

After a long walk they finally reached the hotel again and went up to their room. Misty opened the door and placed the card on a small table as May went to the sofa throwing herself on top.

"Who would have ever thought that shopping would be so hard." May sighed.

Misty joined her at the sofa sitting down taking a T.V magazine, "I know. There's three more days till the prom and we still don't have anything."

"I wonder how Ash and Brock are doing with their shopping?" May wondered.

"I bet it's a lot better then us." Misty replied.

They sighed again.

Misty flipped through the magazine and said, "Hey why don't we check out what's on T.V while Ash and Brock get back?"

"Ok sounds good." May agreed.

Misty took the remote and turned on the large T.V. She flipped through the channels but didn't see anything. Misty leaned on her head as she flipped through the channels.

"Man there's not even anything on T.V." May said leaning on her hand.

Suddenly Misty caught something and stopped. It was a theme song indicating that it was the start of the show, however it was in a foreign language. Once the song finished it displayed the title of the show as "El Cuerpo Del Desao", it was a Spanish soap opera.

"Hey I've heard of these, they're suppose to be good and full of drama." Misty said.

"Let's watch a little bit of it then." May said.

Sitting back they started to watch "El Cuerpo Del Desao". Little did they know what they were in for.

A half an hour passed and soon Ash and Brock came close to hotel as they too came empty handed. As they walked through the sliding doors Brock asked,

"So Ash what are you gonna do about a date?"

"What do you mean?" Ash asked.

"You're not going to the league prom along aren't you, what about taking Misty?" He suggested.

This caused Ash to blush at the thought, "You mean as a date?"

"Yeah, you know I've seen the way you look at her, you have a crush on her don't you?" Brock teased as he pressed the elevator button.

"No! Why would you think that?" Ash complained.

"Hey it's just a guess, I mean you and her are really close right maybe you're too shy to admit it." Brock added as they walked into the open elevator.

Ash crossed his arms as he leaned on the elevator wall and mumbled, "Ha like that's ever gonna happen."

"Whatever you say." Brock chuckled as he pressed the button that said thirty-five.

"So what are you gonna do for a date?" Ash asked.

"I already asked May to be my partner for the night." Brock said.

"You did?"

"We're friends, besides its you that's waiting for the last minute."

As soon as he said that the elevator stopped on their floor and they both walked to their room. Brock took the key from his pocket and slipped in into the detector and opened the door.

"What a day." Ash sighed as he walked through the large doors as Brock followed.

When they walked into the main room they saw Misty and May glued to the T.V screen ignoring the two completely.

Not noticing what they were watching Ash asked, "Hey how long have you been here?"

But neither Misty nor May answered and kept watching to the Spanish novela.

"Hello?-" Brock started but then got Shssed by the girls.

"Hey what are-" Ash tried by also got Shssed.

"We can't concentrate on you and the T.V at the same time." May said answered but her eyes were still fixed on the screen.

"What the heck are you watching that you can't talk to us?" Ash asked.

"El Cuerpo Del Desao." Misty tried to pronounce and succeeded.

This confused Ash completely, "Huh?"

"It's a Spanish soap opera." Brock told him.

"It's really good, very dramatic." Misty said as she too still had her eyes on the screen.

Ash and Brock just stood watching the T.V and surprisingly didn't say another word after that.

Another thirty minutes passed and now Ash and Brock joined Misty and May on the couch watching the T.V. fully entranced while watching the novela. May was holding a pillow in her arms as she leaned her head on it as she watched; Misty also had a pillow on her lap as she gripped it with every dramatic sound. Ash and Brock sat between Misty as they leaned over and watched as well.

They were so concentrated on the T.V that they didn't notice someone walk through the door.

"What's up everyone, have a good day-" She was Shssed by everyone before she could finish her sentence. "-Shopping?"

"Why the heck you shssed me for?" Stephanie asked as she placed her hands on her hips.

That's when she looked up to see what they were watching and laughed slightly.

"You're watching El Cuerpo Del Desao?" Stephanie said.

"Yeah, that hot guy, I think his name is Simon, was seeing this girl and a while ago he was talking to her about hearing kids and she told him that those were her roommates kids." Misty explained.

Stephanie stood with her mouth hung open with shock.

"You understand Spanish?"

"It's not hard once you get into it, I guess it's like all foreign languages." May replied.

They kept on watching it and suddenly a very loud and dramatic sound came from the T.V followed by a gasp from everyone on the couch.

"So they were her kids after all!" Ash said in shock.

"I knew it!" Brock said after.

They settled down again and started watching again as Stephanie giggled.

"You guys are really into it aren't you?"

There was no response as she smiled slightly.

"I take that as a yes."

By no surprise there was another dramatic part that reacted with loud music.

"She's what!?" They all yelled.

"You know she's lying that she's pregnant right?" Stephanie said pointing out the obvious.

Still in mid shock they watched the screen as the two characters stood with the music climbing, seeing what was going to happen next…but then the credits came up.

"OH C'MON!" They all yelled again.

"I hate it when they end it like that!" May said angrily.

Misty turned the T.V as she frowned angrily from the conclusion of the novela. As Stephanie finally said,

"Well, now that's over, how the was the shopping?"

But suddenly she received a deadly glare from the group as she suddenly got a bit scared.

"O-ok I guess that's a no?"

Stephanie sat besides May on the couch as they all told Stephanie their "encounters" today shopping. Misty and May told their story Brock and Ash laughed from the story but when it was boys turn it had everyone in laughing so hard they had tears.

"Are you serious?" Stephanie said as she laughed.

"Steph we really need your help." May said.

"Yeah it's late already and now it's gonna be down to two days." Misty added.

Stephanie whipped away a laughing tear as she sat up again, "You know what, I'll pick ya guys up tomorrow and I'll show you a good store that I was going to head to cause I myself have to get my stuff together."

"Geeze waiting till the last minute I see." Misty said.

"Well…yeah." Stephanie said.

She got up and headed to the door as she finished the plans for tomorrow, "So I'll see you tomorrow then, and I promise we wont experience anything like you guys did today." She giggled at the end.

"Ok see ya Steph." May said.

She waved good-bye and then lefted closing the door behind her.

Everyone then decided it was late and got ready for bed, in the same arrangement as last night May, Ash and Brock were already in bed and sleeping soundly. But Misty on the other hand was out on the balcony looking at the crescent shape moon reflecting on the navy blue ocean, the calm sea breeze hit her face and made its way through her loose hair.

She leaned her elbows on the balcony edge and sighed. The thoughts running through her mind was mostly of what May mentioned to her earlier.

"Well hasn't Ash asked you to go with him yet?"

Misty blushed a bit from the comment, "What do you mean?"

"Come on Misty, don't try to deny it you obviously like him." May teased.

Do I actually like him, I mean I did have a crush on him before we went out separate ways, and now we're together again, does that mean I developed feelings for him again? Misty thought in her mind.

In the room Ash turned to his side as he slept but then he felt a slight breeze hit his face and slightly opened his eyes to see the balcony doors open, he sat up and rubbed his eyes to see around the room.

"Who left the door open?" Ash mumbled.

He saw the figure outside and he sat up from the bed and walked slowly to the balcony not recognizing the figure at first. But when he got to the door he saw that it was Misty.

Misty? I wonder what she's doing up so late Ash thought.

But as he watched her he could help but look at Misty from head to toe, to him is was one of the most beautiful things he's ever seen. The sound of the waves crashing on the beach and the wind hitting Misty's hair made it look like orange ink in water. It was the perfect scenery to describe her. He then took a deep breath and started to walk slowly towards her.

Misty didn't hear anything and continued to look towards the city and then focused on the beach once again. But then suddenly something caught her attention and made her jump and she turned around to see Ash right behind her.

She held her chest as she asked, "Ash? What are you doing up?"

"I felt that the door was open and I saw you up."

"Oh, sorry if I woke you."

"It's ok," He said as he walked up to stand next to her, "What are you doing up so late anyways?"

Misty looked out, "Nothing just thinking about things."

Ash looked at her again from the corner of his eye as she gazed out to the sea. He thought to himself why he had such a weird feeling now that he's with Misty again, it's been years since she traveled with him and they both grown to be mature teen, and now he's starting to think of her as more of a friend. He sighed to himself, Brock was right after all.

There was a moment of silence, as another breeze blew past the two he decided it was best to ask now.

"Hey Misty, can I ask you something?"

"Sure what is it?" She asked without hesitation.

"You know that you can't go to the prom alone or anything so…I was wondering…" Ash stumbled a bit.

"Ash what's wrong, you know you can tell me."

"Misty, do you wanna go to the prom with me?"

Chapter 4 End

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