Author's Notes: Hey everyone :D Long time no see, huh? Yeah~ sorry about that. I was really stuck on this chapter, but I was finally able to get through it :) And I must say, that I really like this chapter ;)

But, I won't talk any longer since the long wait you already had... xD. So you may read now (:


Dawn woke up to her loud, irritating, beeping alarm clock...again. She threw her arm out from underneath her bed sheets to shut the alarm off, and finally - since she hit the snooze button twice already - she got out of bed. She wasn't really tired; she was just worn out from the day before.

Johanna made Dawn clean up every single drop of chocolate in the kitchen. Johanna didn't let Ash help because of two reasons: one, he was the guest and two; she said that Dawn was responsible for the mess. Dawn even tried to tell her mom that it was Piplup and Pikachu's fault, but the older woman just shrugged it off and said, "They don't have hands to clean it up and I'm not cleaning it up." And she left it at that.

To put it easily, she was more than upset with Dawn.

Dawn made her bed and walked to the bathroom to get ready for her day at school.

...

An hour and fifteen minutes later, Dawn joyfully skipped her way downstairs and into the kitchen. "Good morning mom." She said when she saw her mom drinking her morning tea. Dawn wasn't sure if her mother was still mad at her or not.

"Morning." Johanna replied, emotionless and not looking at her. Johanna simply flipped a page of the newspaper she was reading and continued to sip her tea as if Dawn was not in the same room as her.

Yeah, she was still mad.

Dawn sighed. "Mom, I don't understand why you're so mad at me. It wasn't even my fault." Dawn shot her blue friend a quick glare to which he just innocently climbed in Johanna's lap and started cuddling her. "It was Piplup's fault! He was chasing Pikachu around and-"

Johanna stroked Piplup's head and looked at her daughter, who was looking highly irritated. "Dawn, like I said before, you were responsible. You should have been watching them."

"I'm not a babysitter! Besides, how was I supposed to know that, that would happen? They were upstairs watching TV while Ash and I were down here." Dawn said.

"Like I said, you were responsible." Johanna said. She stood up, placed her now empty cup in the sink, and exited the kitchen to go upstairs. She was done with this conversation for the day.

Dawn rolled her eyes and took out her ringing phone. "Hey, Ash." She said when she answered the incoming call.

"Good morning, my lovely girlfriend." Ash said, making Dawn smiled. "I'm outside your house, so come on." Ash said while he beeped the car horn for evidence that he was waiting out in her driveway.

"Okay, I'm coming." Dawn hung up the phone and walked out the kitchen. "I'm leaving, mom!" Dawn yelled. She waited for a response, but one never came so she just locked the door and left out the house. "Good morning, Ash." She said as she got in the car. She gave him a quick peck on the lips and put her seat belt on.

"Why do you look annoyed?" Ash asked as he studied his girlfriend's face expression.

Dawn rolled her eyes to herself before replying, "My mom...she's still mad at me." Dawn sighed. Ash smiled so he could hold in his laughter that was trying to escape. "But, I'm not too worried about it. It's just something that has to blow over."

"It might take a while considering how bad she fussed at us, well mainly you, when she came back in your room. I had never seen your mom so angry before. I was kind of scared." Ash said as he put the car in drive and pulled out the driveway. The whole situation of Johanna yelling replayed back in his head. It was like she was so angry you could almost see smoke coming from her ears. Ash shivered at the flashback.

"Yeah, she was kind of scary." The bluenette admitted. "But, I've seen it all before so it doesn't freak me out too much." Dawn put her hand on Ash's hand, which was resting on her leg.

Ash's face flushed, slightly, at his girlfriend's touch. It was kind of unexpected, but he smiled loving the feeling of her soft hand on his.

The rest of the ride to school was quiet.

Ash pulled into the school parking lot and found a space to park. He got out the car first and walked to the passenger side of the car to open the door for Dawn. She smiled gratefully and got out the car.

"Thank you, Ash." She gave him a kiss on the cheek and entwined their fingers together and started walking towards the school.

"Who missed me?" A familiar cocky voice asked from behind them. Ash and Dawn knew who that voice belonged to. They turned to face a certain green haired coordinator. He had a smirk on his face and had May behind him. "I know you two missed me." He said while flipping his hair.

"Oh, please, Drew. No one misses you." May said as she walked around Drew to go towards the couple. "Hey Ash. Hey Dawn" May chirped, happily.

"But, you miss me." Drew said. He snuck up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist securely. May smiled and didn't say a comeback. "Yeah, I thought so." He said, sounding pleased with himself.

Gary came up behind the group walking with some pep in his step, looking happier than ever. He walked up the group - Ash was the first to notice him.

"Hey, Gary. You look pretty happy today." Ash said while he smirked. Drew let go of May's waist and walked up to his brown haired best friend.

"He's happy because he got so-"

Ash cut Drew off before he could finish his sentence. He already knew why Gary was happy...there was only one reason and one person who could make him this happy. "You got back with Giselle?" Ash asked, while he smiled.

Gary put his hands in his pockets. "Something like that." Gary said, coolly. Dawn and May started to squeal with excitement.

"Finally!" Dawn said. "What happened?"

"I'll give details later. I have to go do something." Gary smirked at Ash and Drew and then turned to leave. "Ash, we'll talk in class. Drew, I'll tell you after class." After saying that he walked off with a huge smile on his face.

"Well, it's about time." May said.

"Again." Dawn added. They've been together and broke up plenty of times before but this time seemed to be the longest break up they ever had.

"Right. I miss seeing them as a couple. Hopefully Giselle doesn't have anymore trust issues." May said.

Ash smiled and came behind the bluenette, wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin on her shoulder, making it a cute sight. Just a tad of pink colored Dawn's cheeks.

"Yeah, I know." Dawn said. "That's what happened to them the-" Dawn cut off her sentence once she saw Kai walking into the school building. She tore herself from Ash's hold. "I'll be right back." She said and started to walk in Kai's direction.

"Talk about trust issues..." Drew mumbled to himself as he watched Ash slightly tense up with jealousy and some anger.

Ash leaned on the wall and watched his girlfriend leave him to go to Kai. He told himself that he wouldn't let this get to him. They're just friends. Ash is the boyfriend and Kai is the friend...

Dawn walked away from Ash, Drew, and May and headed towards Kai with a smile on her face. You could say that she was happy to see him. Why shouldn't she be? He's almost like her best friend, except maybe better. They've became quick friends in just one week and she felt like he could be her best friend - though she wasn't sure if she could tell him any secrets yet. They just got along so great together and it's like they have a certain connection...

"Morning, Kai." Dawn said in a bubbly tone. She felt happier when she saw him. He looked at her and smiled. His eyes...they were beautiful. They looked exactly like Ash's.

"Good morning, Dawn." He said. "You're pretty happy." He stopped walking and admired her face for a moment taking in her beauty. He smiled back at her, his face flushing slightly.

"Well, I don't have a reason not to be happy." Dawn said, jokingly. She started to walk with him towards their hallway, completely forgetting about her friends...and Ash. "Did you have a good weekend?" She asked, sparking a conversation.

He nodded his head. "It was alright. I had to babysit my little brother and sister on Saturday." He sighed. "And that was like hell." Dawn chuckled and put her hand on his shoulder.

"I'm pretty sure it wasn't that bad." Dawn assured, thinking he was just exaggerating.

Kai shook his head. "Trust me, when you have a little brother and little sister who don't get along to great...things get pretty crazy. Plus they don't listen, so that made it even worse."

"Are they bad or something?" Dawn giggled. "You make them seem like they're just bad children."

"No, they're not bad...just hard to control." He chuckled while he ran his fingers through his hair. "Well, my parents can control them but I can't. They just won't listen to me."

"I could help you babysit one day." As Dawn said this, her cheeks turned a light pink color.

"Actually," Kai started. "I texted you on Saturday night. I was going to ask you if you wanted to help me babysit that night, but you never sent back." Dawn stopped when they reached their lockers and turned to face him with a confused expression scribbled all over face.

"You didn't text me Saturday. I would have sent back." Dawn took out her phone and went to her inbox and scanned through all her messages. She never bothered to delete them so she had tons of messages in her inbox, but none from Kai...at least on that night. "Yeah~ you definitely didn't text me." She said while she looked up at him.

Kai took out his phone and went to the sent messages folder and showed her the message he sent her that night. "See?" He showed her the text he sent. "Maybe you just deleted it on accident."

"I don't delete my messages..." Dawn trailed off her sentence.

"Did someone else do it?" Kai asked.

"No, I don't think so. No one goes in my phone. And the only person I was with on Saturday was..." She trailed off her sentence and her eyebrows went down. "Ash." She whispered pretty harshly.

Good thing she had a trash folder. Dawn went to her trash folder and there it was; the message that Kai sent her that night. He must've sent the message when I left out the room...and Ash must have read it and deleted it. Dawn thought. She slammed her locker shut.

"Woah, you okay Dawn?" Kai asked. He noticed her sudden mood change. She was just happy a second ago but now she was slamming lockers with all her strength.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Dawn replied. She forced a smile on her face. Even though she wasn't for sure that he had done that, it was a ninety-nine point nine percent chance that he did and that really upset her. She never read his messages before, so why did he think he could do that to her? She gave him his privacy and she should get the same respect back.

Besides, why would he delete the message anyways? This question ran through her head over and over. She couldn't really understand it. She was going to question him about this later.

Dawn stormed into her first class, with Kai walking behind her. He could tell that she wasn't okay by the way she slammed her locker and the angry look on her face gave it away too. He wasn't going to ask any questions though, if she wanted to tell him than she would, right? He sat down in his assigned seat, next to hers.

While Dawn sulked, May walked into the room and sat in her seat next to Dawn. She saw the angry expression on her face but ignored it.

"Dawn, why did you leave us?" May asked. You could hear in her voice that she was a bit pissed because of that. Her walking off with Kai wasn't setting to well with May... "Ash is mad at you too." May added. Dawn snapped out of her thoughts once she heard that sentence.

Ash mad at her? Was there even a reason to be mad?

"He's mad at me? I'm mad at him!" Dawn snapped, frightening May a little. "Why is he even mad at me in the first place? I didn't do anything?"

"He's mad because you left and walked away with Kai. I guess he felt like you'd rather be with him or something. Plus you said that you would be right back but you never came back. I'm a little mad at you myself, but I'll get over it. But...I don't know if Ash will." May said. "Just saying. I don't think you should have done that."

Kai overheard what May was saying and started to feel guilty. He felt like it was his entire fault that Ash was mad at Dawn and that was the last thing he wanted. When he saw them together they looked so happy with each other and looked really in love and he would hate for anything to happen to them.

Dawn rolled her eyes at everything May just said. Maybe he deserved that for going through her phone, invading her privacy. Then again...maybe he didn't deserve that. Dawn sighed, even though she was still incredibly mad at her boyfriend she couldn't help but feel some guilt. She didn't mean to walk away with Kai like that, it just kind of happened. She got caught up in him...

She would hate it if Ash left her and walked away with some other girl. That would break her heart to see that happen. She could only imagine how Ash was feeling.

Dawn sighed. She refused to say anything.

The teacher walked in the class and started writing notes on the board for the students to copy. Without a word from Dawn, May, and Kai they got out their notebooks and pens and started to copy the given information on the board.

...

Dawn stopped copying notes when a folded sheet of paper was slid over to her desk. It was from Kai. Dawn looked up from her work and looked at Kai. He was writing notes on his paper. She unfolded the paper and read the message.

I'm sorry that Ash is mad at you /: I feel like it's my fault that he's upset with you. And I feel guilty about it.
Sorry.
- Kai

Dawn smiled at the note and silently shook her head. She wrote back to what he said and slid the folded paper on his desk. He unfolded it and read:

Awe :) That was sweet, Kai, but it's not your fault. It's my own. I'm the one that made the bad decision, not you. So don't feel guilty about anything...you have no reason to.

- Dawn

After reading what she wrote, Kai looked up at her. She was looking at him with a reassuring smile on her face, making him feel warm inside. He loved her smile. It was beautiful.

Even though she told him it wasn't her fault, he still couldn't help but feel a bit of guilt in him. Maybe if he never walked through the door Ash wouldn't be mad at her...

Their small moment was interrupted when Dawn felt her phone vibrate in her pocket. She broke away her eyes from Kai and reached into her pocket and took her cell phone out, making sure it stayed hidden from the teacher so it wouldn't be confiscated.

She had a text message from Ash.

For some reason she started to feel nervous all over. Her hands started to shake a little as she clicked the view button on her phone. This wasn't the first time Ash texted her in class, in fact they always do it but this time she had a feeling that it wasn't something good.

Can you meet me at our secret spot on the roof, right now? I'm already here. We need to talk ASAP! - Ash

Dawn gulped lightly. The only time he went up there was to clear his head of things that were bugging him, to just think to himself and to have some alone time so he could think. Dawn had only been up there a couple of times with him in the past. They'd sneak up there while switching classes and stay up there for no more than ten minutes just enjoying each other's company.

She decided not to text back and just head to the roof top. Dawn slowly got up from her seat.

"Where are you going?" May whispered.

"I'll be right back." Dawn replied. She walked to the front of the room, to the teacher s desk. "Can I go to the bathroom?" She asked. Without looking up from the stacks of papers on his desk, the teacher nodded his head. Dawn quickly walked out the classroom, closing the door behind her.

She walked through the halls with questions running through her head. The closer she was getting to the staircase the more nervous she grew. What was he going to say? Why did he even tell her to meet him up there? Was he going to break up with her? She didn't know what to expect right now. Maybe he just wanted to talk to her. Maybe he wanted to just be with her for a while...maybe.

Dawn climbed the hidden stairs, getting more nervous with each step she stepped on. She reached the door that lead to the roof and slowly turned the door knob. She opened the door just enough so she could get outside. It's been a while since she'd been on the roof top.

There he was.

Ash was leaning on the railing, his eyes fixed on nothing particular. He was just staring. You could tell by the expression on his face that he was thinking. He looked hurt, angry, lost. But he still had that facial expression of thinking.

Dawn quietly walked towards him and supported herself on the railing right beside him. She looked up the clear blue sky before she said anything. "Hey, Ash." She whispered. She was a nervous wreck right now. She didn't know what to expect or what was going to happen. Or what he was going to say.

He didn't say anything. He just continued to stare into nothing, his thoughts clouding his mind.

Dawn waited a few minutes for him to respond. She was really waiting for him to just explode at any given moment, even though he wasn't the type to really do that. It just seemed that he would be able to do that at this moment since she was told he was upset with her.

Finally, he said something.

"Do you like him?" His voice was calm and quiet but audible enough for Dawn to here the question. "Be honest."

She stared at him, not believing he even asked her that, but he didn't look at her. He continued to stare. "No, Ash, Of course I don't. Why would you ask something like that?"

Ash exhaled. "How do I know you're not lying?" He finally turned to face her and looked into her eyes. Now she could see everything he was feeling. It was all in his eyes. Hurt, confusion, anger. It all showed through his eyes while his face expression was blank. "I me-"

"So you think I'm lying?" Dawn asked, cutting him off.

Ash shrugged his shoulders then nodded his head. "Yeah, I do." He watched as her eyes lit up. It was obvious that she wasn't expecting him to say that.

"Ash, why would I lie to you?" Dawn said. "I've never lied to you and I'm not going to start." Dawn paused and bit down on her lip. "Why do you think I'm lying, Ash." Dawn redirected her gaze from Ash to somewhere else. She could feel his eyes drilling holes through her.

"Because...you just left me to basically be with him."

"That's not true, Ash." Dawn said.

"You sure? Because that's what it seems like." His voice was starting to get sterner. "You just rip away from me and walk away with him! I didn't like that. It's like can't even have time with my own girlfriend when he's around." He gripped the railing with anger now building up in him.

"Ash, I was with you this weekend! I don't have to be under your arm all the time." Dawn rolled her eyes. "You know what? You say it's me, but I think you're just jealous!"

That word.

Jealous.

It hit him...hard.

"I'm not jealous!" Ash yelled. Dawn flinched at his sudden outburst. He was tired of everyone 'claiming' he was jealous. He wasn't...in his defense.

"If you're not jealous then why'd you delete that message from Kai on Saturday night?" She could tell by his change in facial expressions that he knew exactly what she was talking about. "Yeah, I found out you deleted it. You must didn't know I had a trash folder. Why'd you do it, Ash? I thought we both agreed that we won't invade each other's privacy? I never looked in your phone or anything, Ash. Know why? Because I trust you!" She was looking him right in the eyes. "You must not trust me if you feel the urge to read my messages." Dawn crossed her eyes and looked away so he wouldn't see the single tear that slipped out her eye and made a wet path down her cheek.

"I-I just don't feel comfortable with you talking to him. Yeah, I did read and delete that message. I don't know why I read it...I guess half of me just doesn't trust you anymore." Dawn turned her head back to face him so she could look at him. She couldn't believe what he said.

"You really don't trust me?" Ash didn't answer her question. He just moved his eyes elsewhere. "Wait. You just don't trust me around Kai. That's it, isn't it?"

"I-I don't know." He looked back into her eyes. He could that her blue orbs were shining from tears that were building in her them. "It s just when you go around him...you two just connecting in a certain way. I can see it." He could feel the anger building back up inside him. "I don't want you hanging around him, Dawn. He's ruining our relationship."

"No, you're ruining our relationship! You and your jealousy! Why can't you just see that we're just friends?" Dawn wiped her eyes and walked towards the door. "You can't stop me from being friends with him and you won't! If you can t accept the fact that I only love you and that Kai and me are just friends... Dawn trailed off her sentence, not wanting to speak the words that were about to escaped her mouth. "Than maybe we don't need to be together anymore."

Dawn opened the door and left, with tears streaming down her face.

Ash, mouth wide and tears starting to fall down his face, watched as she walked away from him, slamming the door.


Author's Notes: OOOOOH! Cliffhanger ;). The next chapter will continue from this point. Was this chapter over dramatic? O_o for some reason, I feel like it is...but I still like it. It adds to the drama ;) hehe...

Oh yeah...I have like one chapter for this story FINISHED...but it won't be up for another 4 or 5 chapters xD. Don't ask why I did that...I just has the most amazing idea for that chapter and how 'things' should be revealed and then I started writing. It's a really different way ;). Lol, and I was actually crying while I was writing something Ash was saying O_o...weird~...
Anyways, it won't be up until like 4, 5, or 6 chapters. But be ready for it ;) You'll have a clue about what it's about in a few chapters when stuff starts happening...

Hm...I don't think I have anything else to say... except review please :D. And I'll hopefully be updating soon :). I'm FINALLY getting my internet back in like one and a half week...so that means updates will be much more frequent :D

Anyways, I have to go home now xD. I'm at my friends house.

- Angel :D