Well, as we're nearing the end, here's where things start to take a turning point.


May spent the majority of the next day doing household tasks as usual, while Drew once again went out with his friends. He had taken both his and May's sets of keys and had locked the door, to make sure she didn't leave the mansion while he was out.

While May was doing the household tasks throughout the day, she was miserably thinking about Ash; about how kind he had been to her, buying her wonderful birthday presents and not wanting to see her sad. She would go to see him today - then she would never see him again.

As she was thinking about Ash while doing her household jobs, she did not do very good at her jobs. She tried hard to do them, trying to take her mind off Ash, but as soon as she would do a task, she would collapse to the floor and cry softly. She had never felt so miserable. Her life had changed dramatically for the better when she had met Ash. And now it was going to change yet again - for the worse.


As dusk started to fall, Drew walked through the front door of the mansion, having returned from being out with his friends, to find a glum May sitting on the bottom stair, looking miserably down at her feet. Drew frowned in puzzlement. "What are you doing just sitting there, May?! Have you done the tasks like I asked you?"

"Yes Drew. I did the tasks," May replied quietly without looking up at him. "Just like you asked me to."

"Good." Drew walked over to his armchair and collapsed into it, then raised his legs and rests them on the footstool. "Then you can have a break."

"A break?" May looked up. Drew had never given her a break before.

"So that you can go over to that boy's house and tell him you don't wanna see him again." Drew picked up the television remote control and turned on the television before him. May sighed unhappily, stood up, slipped on her new trainers and disappeared out of the front door. As she walked down the path, she looked up into the orange sky and noticed the Sun. It was sinking, just like her heart was right now.


May came to the route the Ash's house and walked along it, full of despair. As she was so lost in her thoughts about the boy who had quickly become her friend, showed her so much compassion and even saved her life, she actually didn't notice her surroundings. But having walked along the winding path in the hills a lot for the last few days, she didn't need to see it to walk along it and know where she was going. It had come as a reflex to her. The only part of the route which she did notice was the bridge crossing the valley. Somehow, it didn't seem special to her as she walked along it. What she was focusing on was the other side of the bridge as she approached it. I was right all along, she thought unhappily as she walked along the bridge. The other side of the bridge does have something, or rather, someone, wonderful on it - and I was lucky to meet him. But now, after tonight, I have to stay on my side of the bridge.


May soon arrived at Ash's cottage and stood there in front of it. Just the sight of it made her feel miserable. She had always thought it was a nice place to live in, and her visits there were good enough for her. But she wouldn't be aloud to visit it ever again.

Just then, she spotted a little yellow creature in the downstairs window. He noticed her too and looked delighted to see her. Then a boy with messy black hair partly covered by a red cap, dressed in a blue sweatshirt, black shirt and pale blue jeans came into view through the window, and he too spotted May with his deep auburn eyes. Seeing these two, who May had come to know, made her eyes tear up. But Ash and Pikachu looked thrilled to see her. They waved to her, retreated from the window, then the front door of the cottage opened and Ash walked out towards May with Pikachu once again on his shoulder.

They still looked thrilled as they approached May. But when they came right up to her, they noticed how miserable she looked and their faces fell.

"Hey, May," said Ash quietly, a concerned look on his face. "Are you okay?"

May looked up at him, her eyes tearing up. "A...Ash...I...I..."

"You what?" Ash placed his hands on May's shoulders and squeezed them gently. "What is it, May?"

"Ash, I...I can't see you anymore!" May shouted out quickly, letting out a huge sob.

"Huh?!"

"Pi?!"

Ash and Pikachu looked horrified. Ash let go of May's shoulders. "Why not, May?!"

May gazed at Ash, tears running down her cheeks. "Ash...It's not that I don't want to see you anymore. You're a wonderful person. I'm so grateful I met you. But Drew says I can't-"

"DREW?!!!"Ash exploded, taking both May and Pikachu by surprise. "So he's the one stopping you from seeing me."

"Well...yes..."

"May, you don't have to do this!"

"Yes I do, Ash! Drew needs me-"

"Yeah, he needs you alright!" Ash glared. "To cook and clean for him while he does absolutely nothing for you- except hit you-"

"Because I deserve it!"

"No May!" Ash placed his hands on May's shoulders again. "You're a lovely girl. You don't deserve to be hit. You deserve a nice quiet life. Leave Drew and come and live with me and Pikachu. I will promise you that you will never have to cook and clean and you will never be hurt again."

"Ash, I...I can't!"

"But May," Ash protested, his glare fading and his face looking more sad. "I don't want you to walk out of my life."

"Oh, and you think I really want to walk out of your life!?" May shouted, the tears flowing faster. "Not when I love y-" She broke off. A shocked expression shot onto her face and she clasped a hand to her mouth.

"What was that?" Ash asked, looking just as shocked. "You love what?!"

"Pi?!" Pikachu had heard it too.

May remained silent for a few moments more, then look her hand away from her face, still looking stunned. "I love...everything that you've done for me." She took Ash's hands off her shoulders and held them tight, looking deep into Ash's auburn eyes, which could clearly see the sadness inside her own teary sapphire blue eyes.

"Ash, please don't think badly of me from now," she said sadly. "Please know that I am grateful for everything you have done for me. I really am. But I can't go on seeing you."

"May..." Ash said quietly.

May tore her eyes away from him, as tears continued to leak out of them. "I'm sorry, Ash. I can't!" She tore her hands out of his and ran from the cottage.

"May!" Ash called after her.

"Pika!" Pika called too.

"I can't...!!!" Ash and Pikachu continued to hear the sound of her loud sobbed after May disappeared from sight. Once the sound of her sobbing died down, there was a moment's silence as Ash looked miserably down at his feet. Then a crash of thunder from a distant storm broke the silence, as raindrops began to fall from the sky, which was now eaten away by grey clouds. Ash looked up glumly at Pikachu, who let out a sigh of sadness. Then he turned around and walked back into the cottage, closing the door behind him.


May ran along the route back to the village, unable to stop herself from crying. She was immediately regretting telling Ash that she couldn't see him again. She knew that she had never wanted to walk out of his life, but it was Drew had told her to do.

The rain was coming down harder, as she made her way past the gates up the path and to the front door. She wiped the tears away from her eyes before disappearing inside, to find Drew still sat in his armchair, clutching a drink bottle (May couldn't tell if it was the same one as when she had left him), watching a baseball game on the television. He didn't noticed her until she called out; "I'm back!"

Drew tore his eyes away from the television with much difficulty and looked at her. "So did you tell him?"

"Yes Drew...I told him...I don't want to see him again."

"Good! I'll drink to that!" And Drew took a long sip out of his bottle, the neck clamped between his lips, which were twisted into a nasty sneer.


And so, May spent the rest of her life, living with Drew, cooking and cleaning and getting beaten in return and she lived miserably ever after.

Or did she...?!

Like with Chapter Three, I was gonna continue writing, but I think this might be a good place to end this chapter. There will be two more, and they may be a bit shorter than the others, but that's because I chose to end here on this chapter and will write the rest in the next chapter. And the last one will contain the conclusion of the story - which I'm not gonna reveal, since that would spoil it, so you'll have to wait and see what the future holds for May...