Inspiration

Chapter 9

Weekend! Yay! :) Sorry to the delay guys! DX

Looks like May gets a break of Brianna and Ursula for a day or two. *sighs in relief* One thing less to worry about for now...

Since you all seem to be sensing the contestshipping, time to get some of the other shippings moving. :)

Reviews-

Nighttyger: Haha, yup. Wait... all at once? *rereads* Oops! That sounded funny, I fixed it. -_-" LOL! Things are confusing. I know what you mean, in the movie she took "forty minutes to descend the stairs". Strange... Thanks! :)

Ydream08: Thanks! :) Ah... well, you see... I really like the movie, and there are parts that I want to keep, like the Cinderella plot. Although, I am planning up a bunch of twist in the near future. :) I'm hope I'm not disappointing.

Lapiz14: Haha, same here! I know what you mean! Contestshipping is so cute! Thanks! :)

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KicksAndKisses: I might have stolen that line from the movie... XD I fear so, my friend. May is going to have a little *cough* BIG *cough* problem in her future. I guess we'll have to find out soon! :) Ikarishipping should be coming soon... Enjoy!

Contestshipper16: Yup! :) He'll do some more... very soon. Agree, she's over the top. XP Ah! I know! That moment was so cute yet embarrassing! I think we'll see more of those moments later in the story! :)

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Ama Zon: Run, May, run! XD We can't let her kill off half of the main shipping! Ikarishipping shall be appearing a bit more now. Or at least I hope so... :)

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Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon


Dawn's POV

I sat in my room, waiting for everyone to arrive. Valentine's Day was coming up next week, and I for one, was super excited. I was a huge romantic. So I guess it's not a surprise what my favourite holiday was. Yesterday after the tutoring session with the ice cube, I noticed a poster that explained more about the school dance. A masquerade ball! How dreamy could this dance become?!

I smiled, feeling excitement bubbling up inside me. Everything next week would be perfect if it went according to the plan.

The doorbell rang, causing me to perk up. I told Misty, Vi and May to come at ten, and the guys to come at ten thirty, but it was barely ten o'clock. I'm guessing it was Vi. Then there was a knock at my bedroom door.

"Come in!" I called out.

Vi opened the door and stepped in. I smiled knowingly.

"Greetings, Princess Dawn," Vi exclaimed mockingly, curtseying before me.

"Ah, thank you, thank you!" I answered, waving for her to get up. "What brings you on this pleasant morning?"

"Just thought I'd come early," Vi shrugged, claiming the chair by my desk. "I'm glad it's finally the weekend."

I nodded in agreement. "Same here."

Vi asked me about how the tutoring session went with Paul, which caused me to start talking about his cold personality. She claimed that he wasn't that bad and managed to help me, but she agreed with me that he was kind of distant from people. Truthfully, his antisocial personality made me wonder if he had friends. Before long, Misty and May appeared so I could tell them about what I've planned for the past few months.

"So what are you so radiant about?" Misty asked, sitting down on a large pink cushion.

May nodded. "You look really excited."

"I am!" I exclaimed, grabbing a few sheets of paper off my desk. "The dance is this upcoming Friday, and I have your outfits all ready! At least mostly."

I handed out the dress designs that my mom and Vi's mom had created in the past few months. Our moms worked in the same designing company, so I had completely trusted them to help create our Valentine's Day dresses.

"I like mine," Vi smiled, looking at her design. "Simple, but pretty!"

"Same here," Misty agreed. "I don't usually wear dresses, but I'm glad I let you help."

I turned to look at May, waiting for her response. She was staring at the design, biting her lower lip. Did she not like it? I made a special request when they asked what kind of design May would like.

"It's beautiful," May said, looking at me with a small smile. "I love it."

A huge grin appeared on my face. "Great! I'm glad you guys like it!"

"Looks like there's no need to worry!" Misty exclaimed, quoting my usual catch phrase.

"That's when I worry the most!" May joked, her mood brightening.

I laughed along with everyone, the four of us were as close as sisters. Nothing could go wrong if we stuck together.

Vi glanced at the clock as I took back all the designs. "Ash and Jack are probably going to arrive right..."

My room door flew open, Ash toppling into a pile on the ground as Jack stood behind him with an eyebrow raised.

"...now." Vi finished as we all sweatdropped at Ash. "You okay, Ash?"

"I'm great!" Ash declared, heading over to sit next to Misty.

I shook my head in disbelief as Jack walked in. "Knock first, next time."

"We were going to," Jack explained. "Then he tripped."

We all looked at Ash, who was staring blankly back at us.

"Well... now that we're all here," I said slowly. "Let's go shopping!" Immediately, everyone looked at me alarmed. I giggled, when I mentioned shopping, someone would freak out. What was so bad about shopping? "I'm joking! We need to tell Misty and Ash what happened this week!"

Over the ten minute explanation, a surprising amount of things happened. I started to tell the two happy campers how the week went, Ash somehow found my hidden stash of candy, Misty used her mallet on him a few times, May became extremely flustered about her incidents with Drew, Jack started tossing paper balls into my trash can and Vi was watching Misty and Ash with a puzzled expression.

"Why are you looking at us like that?" Ash asked, looking at Vi.

"Is something wrong?" Misty added, blinking.

Vi shook her head. "Something doesn't seem right..."

May nodded, "That's right! You two seem closer than usual!"

The two went red in embarrassment, causing me to realize what was happening.

"OMG! Are you two dating now?!" I squealed, staring at them excitedly.

Misty looked down, while Ash reached over to take one of her hands. I mentally started to squeal again.

"I asked her to be my girlfriend while we were at camp," Ash confessed.

"You two are so cute!" I cooed, watched them happily. "Now there's two couples in our group!"

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed Jack and Vi who were quietly talking to each other, turn pink as well.

Misty looked up at us. "Can we go somewhere else and stop talking about me and Ash?"

"Not happening," May teased, giggling.

I smiled and nodded, "Okay, where should we go?"

"The pool?" Misty suggested, recovering from the embarrassment.

"Too cold," May shook her head.

Ash was going to say something, but Misty must have sensed it was food related and hit him again before he could. It looked like it wasn't as hard a usual, though, if you get what I'm saying. After a short silence, Jack spoke up. "What if we just walk around downtown? We haven't done that in a while."

"I'm sure we'll find something to do when we get there," Vi added, nodding.

We all agreed and then left my house. Snowflakes were lightly falling all around us. I wonder how this day might turn out. Fixing my scarf, I knew one thing, that's for sure. Today will be a great day!

Paul's POV

I stared at my computer screen, taking in all the information. After tutoring that troublesome girl yesterday, I couldn't stop thinking about those memories and the girl from my past. Reggie was out on a business trip for the company, which left me alone at the house without distractions.

Using my memories as my guide, I managed to find out some useful information. Ten years ago, when my parents started their company, Platinum, we lived in Petalburg and then moved to Veilstone. Our families lost contact after I moved away that year.

This meant the girl might have been her. I didn't want to make any assumptions, so until I had my facts right, I wouldn't say anything.

Blue hair, outgoing personality, and might still live in Petalburg after all these years. I could only hope.

Waiting for my parents to reply to my email about where we use to live so I track down some more information, I got up and laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling.

"Ouch!"

I turned around to see her with tears in her eyes, she had tripped and fell. I held out my hand for her, she accepted and I pulled her up to her feet.

"Be more careful," I said, my expression softened. "Are you hurt?"

"I-I'm okay!" she nodded, clinging on to my arm. "Can we go to the park?"

I shrugged, looking over at our parents.

"Why don't we go to the park?" my mom asked. Her mom agreed and soon we were playing at the park.

While we were there, I noticed some other people our age playing nearby. There was a guy with black hair running around with green haired boy. Not far from them, a girl with similar black hair was quietly swinging alone on the swings, were they related?

"Come on, Paul! Let's go play on the swings!" she cheered, nudging me.

I nodded and followed her to the swing set where the girl was.

I grabbed my head as a headache rippled by. I was probably thinking about this too hard. Getting up to check my phone, I groaned and grabbed some stuff before heading out.

Since I lived within walking range of downtown, I decided to walk to the Platinum company branch.

"Hey, Ash! Wait up!" a familiar voice shouted.

A raven haired guy run by pulling an orange haired girl behind him. Not far behind them I see a brunette, troublesome, Vi and Jack. The brunette rushes right past me as the other three stop to talk to me.

"Hi Paul," Vi greeted. "Thanks again for yesterday."

I just nodded in response.

"What are you doing here?" troublesome asked.

"Work." I answered bluntly.

"We better get going," Jack exclaimed, scanning the streets ahead. "Ash is probably found the event going on."

"I'll catch up with you two later," troublesome called out after the two.

She started to walk next to me, exactly a step behind, almost as if it were natural. I noticed a flyer advertising the Valentine's Day event going on not far from the company I was heading to. As if she knew I had looked at it, she started to talk about it.

"Valentine's Day is coming up in a week," she exclaimed, smiling. "I can't wait until the school dance!"

I continued walking without acknowledging her, she continued to talk.

She definitely had the personality match for my mystery girl.

"Hey! Are you listening to me?" she asked.

I stopped then turned to look at her. "How long have you lived in Petalburg, troublesome?"

"Hm?" she blinked. "First, my name is Dawn. Second, my entire life. Why?"

I looked up at the falling snow, not expecting myself to answer her. "I'm looking for someone."

"Really? Maybe I can help," Dawn offered. "Is it a girl?"

"Hn."

"I'll take that as a 'yes'. How sweet," she whispered to herself. "Maybe you're not as cold as you seem."

Sweet? Did she think I liked the mysterious girl from my past? ... Did I like this girl?

"Feel free to ask me if you need help," she chirped. "Good luck, ice cube!"

With that she took off and disappeared into the crowd. I let out my breath, watched it float away and continued to walk to the company. Changing into work mode, I slipped into the building.

"Mr. Shinji, good morning!" the receptionist called out.

I nodded my greeting and headed into the elevator. Checking the time, it was barely eleven thirty. I pressed button to go to the fifth floor, and waited a few seconds before I stepped off. Once out of the elevator, I noticed Eve and Drew waiting for me.

Platinum was the type of company that did various things, from online business to creating technology. Drew was the one exception within our entire company. Our parents were close, he had potential, and that was how he became a pop star.

"What's the problem?" I asked, looking at the two.

"I thought we could talk more about Drew's break and his public image." Eve explained, standing up. "Should we go into the conference room to discuss this?"

Drew groaned. "I thought I told you, I need this break to get some inspiration."

"Let's take this to the conference room," I said. "Although I don't see any change in plans."

Drew shot me a smile as Eve let out a thin smile. "I understand."


... and that's why this story was called "Inspiration"! :D

Things are slowly moving along... For me, this is good! :) I'm not sure if you guys noticed, but I'm trying to give each character their own little back story and problem. After all, everyone is different.

As I was writing this chapter, I've thought of an idea. Sometimes, I mention things and really want to elaborate more into it but don't know how to. So... I'll be writing little spinoff stories! :D I have some planned, but I'm not sure when they'll come out...

Anyways, here's a quick preview:

"What do you think you're doing?!" I shouted, pulling out my mallet. "Leave them alone!"

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day!

~Skitty13