Me- Hey guys, here comes the next chapter
Drew- You updated pretty fast by your standards
Me- Hey! I'm not that lame!
Drew- Yes you are!
Me- Am not!
Drew- Are too!
Me- Am NOT!
Drew- Are TOO!
Me- AM NOT!
Drew- ARE TOO!
Me- AM NOT GET THAT INTO YOUR FREAKING HEAD!
Drew- ARE TOO GET THAT INTO YOUR FREAKING HEAD!
May- QUIT FIGHTING ALREADY; FIGHTING WITH DREW IS MY JOB!
Me- You're right, sorry May. But he started.
Drew- I didn't!
Me- You did!
Drew- No!
Me- Yes!
May- Guys, you're doing it again.
Me- Sorry.
May- It's alright, how comes you're in such a bad mood today?
Me- How do you know? Is it that obvious?
May- Yes it is, you aren't the kind of girl who fights often
Me- *whispers* You never saw me with Dan
May- What did you say?
Me- Uh? Nevermind, anyway, we should start with the story so do the disclaimer May
May- AdorableSkitty doesn't own Pokémon
Me- Yeah so on with t-
Kiara- Hey guys. Am I late?
Me- No, you're just in time so on with the story
Chapter 6 ~ The day of the Grand Festival finals
Today finally was the day of the Grand Festival finals and May's got to face Drew. I'm sure it's going to be a tough and interesting battle between the two of them. I got ready and went to the contest hall.
''Welcome ladies and gentleman, fans and contestants. Today is finally the day we have waited for, the Grand Festival finals!'' Lilian said and everybody started to cheer.
''Now let me introduce you our finalists, at my right we have May Maple from Petalburg City and at my left we have Drew Hayden from LaRousse City. The time limit is 5 minutes, now release your Pokémon, you have 5 minutes from now on!'' Lilian said.
''Beautifly and Blaziken, take the stage!'' May yelled.
''Go, Roselia and Absol!'' Drew shouted.
''Beautifly use gust on Roselia, Blaziken use double kick on Absol!'' May commanded and Beautifly sent a gust attack towards Roselia while Blaziken jumped in the air and headed straight towards Absol. Drew's points went down by 1/16.
''Roselia counter with magical leaf, Absol dodge it and use sandstorm!'' Drew replied and Roselia used her magical leafs to counter Beautifly's gust attack, as gust and magical leaf collided magical leaf seemed stronger and hit Beautifly, while Absol disappeared in a sand storm and was safe from Blazikens attack. May's points went down by 1/8.
''Oh no Beautifly! Blaziken search for Absol and use Sky Uppercut as soon as you find it!''May commanded, Beautifly got up and Blaziken found Absol in the sandstorm, so it was about to attack Absol with Sky Uppercut, like May told him.
''Absol, use flash!'' Drew told his Pokémon and Absol used flash and bedazzled Blaziken as Absol jumped out of the sandstorm and looked beautiful, May's points went down by 1/8 so she had left 3/4 of her points left while Drew had almost all his points.
''Don't give up guys, the battle's just started!'' May encouraged her Pokémon.
''Roselia use grass whistle on Beautifly!'' Drew said and Roselia played a beautiful melody as Beautifly fell asleep. May's points went down.
''NO, BEAUTIFLY!'' May cried.
''Absol use ice beam on Beautifly!'' Drew said.
''Blaziken protect Beautifly with flame thrower!'' May said, and flame thrower collided with ice beam. Since flame thrower was stronger than ice beam, Absol got hit by it and Drew's points went down.
''ABSOL, NO!'' Drew shouted.
''Blaziken now use Sky Uppercut on Absol!'' May told Blaziken and Blaziken jumped towards Absol to hit it with Sky Uppercut.
''Roselia, protect him!'' Drew said and Roselia got in front of Absol and got hit with Sky Uppercut. Drew's point's went down more.
''Absol use water pulse!'' Drew told Absol and he thought, 'Absol and Roselia are pretty weak now, I only can win if use a powerful solar beam.'
''Roselia use sunny day!'' Drew told Roselia and while Blaziken and Beautifly got hit by water pulse Roselia used sunny day and the sun began to shine bright.
Blaziken was pretty weak now but the water pulse snapped Beautifly out of her sleep, so she was awake now. As May noticed how bright the sun was shining she got an idea.
''Beautifly use morning sun, Blaziken use flame thrower!'' May said.
''Roselia use solar beam!'' Drew said.
As Beautifly used morning sun to regain its health, flame thrower and solar beam collided, they were equally strong.
''Blaziken use overheat now!'' May commanded and a powerful overheat went towards Roselia and Absol, both of them got hit and were barely able to stand.
''Roselia use s-'' Drew said but got cut off.
''TIME'S UP!'' Lilian yelled and gained everyone's attention.
''And the winner of the Grand Festival and the new Top-Coordinator is... MAY MAPLE FROM PETALBURG CITY, CONGRATULATIONS!'' Lilian said.
''We... we won?'' May asked.
''Beautifly, Blaziken we really won! Thank you guys!'' May said and rushed towards her Pokémon and embraced them.
Mr. Contesta gave May the ribbon cup and congratulated her.
As May stood there with the ribbon cup in her arm I saw Drew smiling at her, I can tell he was proud of her.
And of course after the Grand Festival would be a party in honor of the top-coordinator at evening.
At the party there were many guests and I couldn't find May at first.
After a while I found her so I headed towards her and said,
''Hey May, congratulations for winning the Grand Festival. You did great!''
That was when I noticed the person standing next to May, it was Drew.
''You did good too Drew,'' I said and smiled, but he just looked at me with a suspicious look.
''Thanks Sheena,'' May said smiling.
''So are you guys leaving today?'' I asked them curiously.
''Nope, I'm staying here. I might leave tomorrow or the day after, don't know yet,'' May said.
''That's great, what about you, Drew?'' I asked him.
''I ain't leaving neither,'' he said, by the way he looked at me I could tell he didn't trust me and didn't want May to be anywhere near me, less unattended.
''You aren't? But you always leave after, no during the party,'' May said surprised.
''Ain't I allow to stay once for a little longer?'' he asked.
''Of course you are, I was just wondering,'' May responded and smiled.
''I'm going to drink something, be right back,'' I told them and went away to get a drink.
As I returned I saw them talk, Drew had a pretty serious look on his face while May a confused one.
''Why should I stay away from her?'' May asked.
''I heard her talk to her Roselia about you, I didn't hear everything but I think you shouldn't trust her, I also doubt that she is who she pretends to be,'' Drew said.
''But why? I mean she is pretty nice and-,'' May said but Drew interrupted her.
''May, Harley also was nice to you at the Hoenn Grand Festival, but only to fool you,'' Drew said.
''But she helped me as Harley tried to fool me, and she also-,'' May said but quickly shut up.
''And she also what?'' Drew asked her.
''Uh...nevermind,'' May said with a slight blush on her face.
''Whatever, I just have a bad feeling about her. Take care at least, okay?'' Drew asked her.
''Okay,'' May said.
I guess Drew told her about what he happened to hear yesterday.
''Hey guys, I'm back,'' I told them.
''Uhm, hey Sheena,'' May said rather uncomfortable.
''So what were you two doing?'' I asked them.
''Nothing,'' both of them said.
''It's rather late, why don't we go back to the Pokémon Center?'' May asked and Drew and I agreed.
On the way to the Pokémon Center it was silent, nobody talked.
As we arrived at the Pokémon Center we parted ways and everyone went to their room.
As I entered my room Roselia was there waiting for me, she was outside of her Pokéball.
''Roselia, why are you outside of your Pokéball?'' I asked her.
''ROSE! LIA! LIA LIA RO ROSELIA!'' she yelled tembling.
''Transcend the confines of time and space,'' I said.
I saw how worried Roselia was because of its trainer.
He'd die tomorrow if we don't prevent it, so of course Roselia was pretty worried.
''Don't worry Roselia, we'll save him. I promise,'' I consoled her.
''Rose Roselia!'' she said and smiled.
Then I remembered May's diary and went to read the probably last entry I'm going to read.
Dear Diary
Today I won the Grand Festival! Really I beat Drew in the finals!
I'm so happy about it.
But Drew told me that I should stay away from Sheena.
He said that she isn't who she pretends to be and that I shouldn't trust her.
As I told him that Sheena is way too nice for doing something like that he told me about when Harley fooled me in the Grand Festival.
But is Sheena really like Harley, like Drew thinks she is?
Would that mean she only asked me if I love Drew to confuse me?
No, why would she?
I mean she helped me as Harley tried to fool me again.
I don't think she is a bad person, but Drew said he heard her talk to Roselia about me...
But what did she said at all?
I'm pretty sure Drew also liked her, at least that was my impression as we went to that restaurant together.
What could he have heard, and what could she have said?
I'm so confused about everything right now, I can't even enjoy that I won the Grand Festival.
Well not about everything just about Sheena and about my ''true feelings'' for Drew.
Maybe Sheena was right, I don't know.
And maybe Sheena said something and Drew understood something else so this would just be one of those misunderstandings that happen.
I hope so, I don't want to believe that she is a bad person.
~May
As I finished reading I went to my bed, lied down and wondered if I should just tell them the truth.
I lied there for a while wondering about what I should do, before I drifted into sleep.
Me- 6 Chapter down, one to go!
May- +the epilogue
Me- Yes
Drew- I lost the Grand Festival? First you let me die and now you didn't even let me die as a top-coordinator?
Me- Yes and by the way YOU ARE ACTUALLY ALIVE
May- But only in the past
Me- Sheena is in the past now, what makes it the present
May- So the present is the future?
Me- Yes
Kiara- Is Sheena going to tell them the truth? Will Sheena succeed or is Drew going to die...again?
May- Find out in the next and final chapter of ''Red Roses Don't Fade Away''
Me- Yes, I might take a while until I'll be able to update the next chapter but I'd do my best!
Drew- A while? Great we won't hear anything from you for the whole month
Me- I DON'T NEED A WHOLE MONTH TO WRITE A CHAPTER GRASSHEAD!
Drew- Right, you need two
Me- May, how can you stand him 24/7?
May- Now you know what I'm going through
Me- Yeah
May- So?
Me- So what?
May- Nevermind...
Me- Uhm okay?
Kiara- Anyway please review~