I just realized I put too many chapters for October, so I'm going to do one less for November since this isn't really as fun of a month to write about as some of the others. Sorry for the insane amount of line breaks, but I figured this would work better this way.

Chapter 10

"Exams are in two weeks. I'm pretty sure at least ten trees were chopped down to give me all these study guides," Dawn complained shoving a 3-page study guide into a pink folder.

"Are they midget trees that seem to have problems with plant puberty?" Leaf teased showing off a dense 10-page packet from her AP history class. May's eye twitched, she was having trouble turning in a worksheet on time, much less finals.

"After modeling today why don't we have a study session or something?" Marina suggested not minding the fact that she and Leaf were going to be the ones in charge of tutoring.

"Why not? I could lose some brain cells," Leaf received a bone crushing dead arm from the two. May sighed, school just ultimately sucked. They got into the car with Marina's dad, dressed as a banana…

"Dad…" Marina gave a pseudo smile.

"Today was great! Could you imagine that they let me star in a children's show today? Ah, it was great, we sang about how if you eat too many bananas it'd be problematic because they're slightly radioactive. We also had this guy dressed as an apple sing about how it keeps you awake more than coffee, so kids never have to drink that stuff, and we…" Marina's dad started dragging on about every detail that occurred throughout his onetime only showing at the show, Fruity Fun. A show that spoke about fruit while singing. It was a load of barf to almost everyone except overprotective moms who couldn't stand most cartoons in the modern era. The group resisted urges to cheer and party as they arrived at the studio.

"Mom said I couldn't enter the building anymore, something about being too disruptive and annoying. That's awfully rude of her, but I'll let it slide. Time to go-Hey! You guys left me while I was talking, that was very rude. Marina, I'm going to punish you when we get home," Her dad proceeded to talk to himself about what kind of punishments he should bestow onto Marina. A few passersby stared since he forgot about closing the door, but his sanity was already considered inexistent.

Meanwhile, Marina and the others were getting prepped while May watched in awe at all the beautiful people. The zit May discovered underneath her bangs felt like a big ugly balloon ready to pop at any minute. Life was just too unfair.

"Wow! You're so gorgeous Elesa!"

"Can I have your autograph?"

May looked toward the crowd of obsessed girls. In the middle of the crowd was Elesa, the shining beauty. Her sleek blond hair adorned with a black headband with two pigtail-like black wire extensions with white at the end. Her famous yellow top with black stripes in the middle, skin tight black jeans, and yellow 4-inch heels made sure she was known as the electric gym leader of Unova.

"Elesa, I'm glad you could come. I was hoping you would finally answer my emails and calls. Here, try this on," Lucia held up a black dress that had a short front and long back. The strapless and sleeveless top had two rows of rhinestones, flashy and elegant, just like Elesa.

"This dress is wonderful!" Elesa parted from her crowd and went to change. She came out moments later with the dress and black strappy sandals. It would've been almost impossible, but Elesa could make guys drool without showing off all of her skin.

"I can't believe only one person gets to pose with her! I would so kill to be that girl, I hope it's me. I made sure to diet like crazy just for today in case I was picked. It's unfair that the winner is chosen by a raffle, that's so random," May overheard someone in the crowd say. What raffle?

Now that it was mentioned, there was another group of people at the entrance crowding something. She quickly ran back to the entrance and sure enough there was a large bingo raffle thing, those ones that spun and released a white ball with the coordinate. In fact, the thing was filled with white balls with names written on them. Next to the thing was a bucket of blank ones and a note that said, Only one per person! If otherwise, you'll be disqualified!

May shrugged, grabbing the black sharpie next to the silver metal bucket and took out a ball. May quickly scribbled down her name and tossed it in, why not, right? It's not like she could lose anything.

Leaf, Dawn, and Marina all sat down on the gray leather patented couch.

The green girl was in an emerald prom dress with a fat skirt that almost dragged and appeared to look like it was all tied together by a black bow on her waistline.

Ms. Pink was in a hot pink covered with black tulle and another black ribbon with a pink rose on the waistline. Her skirt had black tulle flowers, that somewhat looked like roses, but who cared? They were cute.

Marina was an actual shocker. She was in a bright metallic purple dress that was as simple as 1+1. The only decoration was on the hip, where a silver rhinestone embedded clip hung onto a handful of fabric giving it some kind of design. Nevertheless, Marina pulled it off.

"I'm going to faint. That pose was not natural, nor comfortable. Photographers going to lie," Leaf complained.

Dawn slapped the couch, "Shush! They're about to announce who gets to model with Elesa."

"-And the winner is… May!" Lucia said reading the small white ball on a small stage where Elesa was already in her next dress. The black dress had a layer of white underneath, and a white flower with pearls beneath the V-cut, and ended by cutting slanted. Her neck was holding a necklace with slabs of gold and slabs of white. Her wrist had a curved gold bracelet, silver sandals with curved designs hung onto her dainty size 6's, and a black clutch with gold and white designs shimmered in her hand.

"What?!"

"It should've been me!"

"This is so unfair!"

"Where?"

Who?!"

May hid behind Marina who was a whopping six foot three. Lucia rolled her eyes and dragged May up the small plight of stairs and onto the stage next to Elesa. A girl, probably an assistant May had seen run around every so often in the studio presented a dress, so plain, only Marina could pull off.

The number was made of a black satin material, strapless, a medium-sized bow in the middle, and of course, plain. May gulped; there was no way she could do this. With her last session as a reminder, she really didn't want to do it.

"Pleasure to work with you, now, if you please," Elesa gestured toward the changing room. May froze; everyone was starting at her now, whether out of jealousy, hate, watching, or out of support (her friends).

Someone pushed her and her hand instinctively gripped the dress, then she somehow found her way into the dressing room and let out a breath she hadn't known she was holding. With her heart beating fast, May just stared at the mirror. She really hadn't won; someone was going to pop up any second and yell, "Just kidding," while she was half naked. After a moment of closing her eyes and waiting, nothing happened.

This was a joke, right?

She took a deep breath, "Okay, this is a joke-but no one's coming in… Maybe it isn't."

May jumped when someone knocked on the door, "May, how's it going in there. Almost done? It's been 5 minutes already."

"I'm almost done," May lied to no doubt, Lucia's voice. Ripping off her clothes, May pulled on the dress. Pulling off her bandana and letting her hair flow, she ran out of the dressing room without taking a look.

"May! Your hair-" Lucia gasped.

"I know, it looks horrible, I kind of just ripped off my bandana," May whispered back not wanting anyone else to hear.

"It's wonderful! That windblown look, it's outstanding!" Elesa complimented.

"Exactly!" Lucia agreed, but adding in a whisper, "I was going to say it looked great before you pessimistically interrupted me. Don't think otherwise, you look amazing, sweetie," Lucia's voice was for calming, much like a mother's.

"You know, I think we need some white pearl accessories for this," The assistant rushed and brought back two pearl bracelets, a necklace, and a pair of strappy black sandals.

"I thought the shoes would be a nice touch." The assistant was around May's age. Her strawberry blond hair was tied into a messy bun, makeup perfectly applied to match her skin tone, a baby blue tank, creamy white cardigan, creamy white pleated skirt, and white ballet flats. She handed May the accessories and waited for further instructions.

"Nice touch, I'll be sure to make tell FIE that. Kirsten, can you help fill the newest girls' papers out?" Lucia wrote something on a clipboard that made Kirsten's green eyes light up.

"Thanks and of course! I seriously owe you big time," Kirsten left.

"Lucia, who's that?" May asked.

"Kirsten? She's my intern and I'm helping her score big with some big shot fashion university, Fashion Is Everything. Whoever came up with that name, well, they need to change it. I can't believe people actually take a school with that kind of name seriously. Whoops, off topic, now let's get started."

"May, pleased to meet you. Let's see what kind of magnificence we can elicit this evening," Elesa gave a warm smile and went to get her makeup done. May sat down to a dresser next to hers and had girls professionally match May's skin tone, apply, wipe, smear, apply, wipe, smear, gloss, repeat about a billion times, and that's how makeup's done.

Ending result, well, they're both gorgeous. They modeled perfectly. Pictures came out next day. Everyone loved them. Brendan broke up. May won his heart. Happily ever after, actually, not really, May had started another one of her ridiculous awkward pose montages.

"May, darling, can you please smile wider, close your legs together, and put your hand underneath your face?" The photographer instructed again. His legs were starting to cramp from waiting for May to strike a decent pose. May tried to do as told, but only ended up looking like an emotionless robot.

"Okay, now, relax," The photographer commanded again. May relaxed, but again, she failed.

"May, it's okay. Just be your natural self," Elesa advised. May felt herself relax a bit and nod. SNAP! FLASH!

May blinked, the photographer thought it was good, but it was just her happy-go-lucky goofy smile as usual.

"Though, I like this side of you May, the dress really doesn't fit you. Your kindhearted smile is much too playful, so we need a playful dress to go with it." May sighed, and the next thing she knew Lucia was back with another dress. This time the dress was indeed playful.

The black strapless dress's top was like a black mosaic with shiny pieces of white and gray, underneath a large white fabric hugged the dress with a black and white flower. The skirt was black and gray and made up of entirely of frills. To be frank, it was May's forte, being lively.

"Marvelous, it matches perfectly!" Elesa complimented.

"On the contrary, we have a dress for you, too, Elesa. I'm not going to allow P-Idol magazine to have you in only one of the fabulous dresses I've designed, publicity couldn't hurt." Flashing a dress from behind, Lucia introduced yet another black dress. This time, a plain back dress with random pieces of fabric popping out in swirls lined with white.

"This is wonderful! Let's hurry and get this through, I have a commercial to shoot afterwards, and then back to the gym for me," Elesa said taking the hanger in her petite hands. They both got into their respective dressing rooms and rushed out to have accessories and makeup done (again).

"Perfect! See, you're gorgeous," Lucia pat May's back as she tied a necklace around her neck.

"Thanks," May stood up and went to the backdrop with the bossy, yet great photographer. Together, Elesa and May took playful and flirty faces/poses. This time around, the photographer didn't have to constantly instruct May, though; he sensed it was because she was finally having fun.

May got home and collapsed, not only from modeling, but from studying. Marina could really turn into a strict killer teacher when she wanted to. May guessed she got her amazing acting from her dad. She still remembered it with clear HD memory,

Marina's house wasn't any less impressive than anyone else's. The outside had a fountain with mini fountains within mini fountains. Water jets shot out occasionally and cute Pokémon ran through the yard in the orange sunset. The house was a palace and inside didn't surprise May either. It was one of those occasions where the inside looked bigger than the out, which really said something. The outside already looked enormous.

They were currently in Marina's room, painted a light teal color with white carpet. Her bed had a simple blue floral design and small little Pokémon stuffed animals. A few windows hung on her walls with azure curtains, except for one doorway leading to a balcony on the third floor.

"You two don't think you're going to mess around the whole time," Marina growled, very uncharacteristically.

May shuddered, that was a horrifying experience. Just because she ended up memorizing most of the stuff and probably acing through her tests, didn't mean that Marina was scarier than thought possible; she was probably going to be in her nightmares.

"You know, thanks to my hectic schedule I haven't even been able to meet your friends. I've heard of them, but I don't actually talk to them or anything. You should introduce them next time, or a sleepover or something," Misty said.

"How about Friday, bring your friends too, we could hang out during the day and then have a sleepover, sound good?" May said asking for confirmation.

"Why not? It's after finals," Misty shrugged blending a mixture of oran, pecha, sitrus, rawst, a fourth of a spike from a tomato berry, and a pint of lum juice. After a moment, she took off the lid and added the ice and sugar, then blended again.

"Smoothies and dad's burgers for dinner…" May drooled over the whirring machine.

"Let's go to the indoor pool. I want to go for the last time before it gets way too cold," Leaf butted in.

"Misty would love that, yeah, let's go," May agreed.

"Wait. No one brought swimsuits and I really doubt we all want to go in Dawn's line of pink bikinis, I might be used to modeling, but I can get cold," Marina added.

"That's okay, we can just drop off at my house, we have enough swimsuits to spare," Leaf shrugged.

After school due to finals, school activities were non-existent and that students should take the weekend to blow off some steam. Crazy as it was, Misty practically begged to at least practice one small round of softball to make sure her skills were more honed. Actually, she begged so much, May had to pry her away.

"Misty, take it easy!" May said taking one arm.

"Yeah, seriously!" A girl with shorter hair than most guys' said.

"Fine. Whatever." Misty huffed and fixed her side ponytail.

"Yes. Whatever. It's time for introductions," The girl with short brown hair said. May really sucked at names, she swore Misty had mentioned her at least a billion times. Something that started with a P?

"I'll start. I'm Misty; this is Mattie, Ash, and Taylor."

Close enough.

Mattie was a girl who was naturally pretty in the tomboyish way. Her freckles dotted her face, her deep gray eyes had a hundred shades, and her dirty blond hair was tied into a loose braid. Not to mention her body shape was a male magnet, though she was wearing a tee two sizes too big, it was still noticeable.

Ash was a guy, so it would be slightly awkward to being him swimming. No one cared, though. As they liked to put it, "If we're caring about what sex we are, then we may as well not have it."

Yeah, Taylor was definitely a pushy, do-it-my-way type of girl…

Taylor was the closest to Misty out of the three and had hair shorter than Ash's raven colored hair. She had on red basketball shorts and a jersey. Her big brown eyes weren't what called cute, they were more fierce and bold than anything. She was also tall, really tall. She was at least a head taller than anyone in the group.

"Right, I'm Marina, that's Leaf, this is Dawn, and that's May."

With all that being said, they headed to Leaf's house.

"I should say I'm used to it, but no matter how many houses I see, our school is filled with a bunch of the richest people alive," Taylor shrugged. Leaf's house was just as fancy as all the rest; it was extravagant, top notch, blah, blah, blah.

Leaf's room was painted leaf green, a realistic tree glued onto the wall, then painted over to give it an interesting design, a large bed, soft leaf green carpet, and some other fancy wealthy people stuff. Her closet was filled with fashionable clothes (model, duh!) and yes, stylish swimsuits as well.

"You have more swimsuits than I have clothes…" Mattie commented.

"Where's Ash?" Misty asked.

"I think he's in the kitchen," Leaf put up her hands in a shrug.

"Seriously… That idiot, I'll make sure I'll pitch him the Misty Ball next time," Misty growled taking a simple blue one piece off the rack.

"None of these are going to fit me…" Taylor said.

"Um, then borrow my mom's, she won't mind," Leaf ran down the stairs and back up, but held around 5 swimsuits.

"Jeez, I don't really care what I wear, but I'll take this one." She held onto an orange two piece that was separated, but when put together, would look like a one piece.

"Marina needs one, too, huh? Why can't I be tall?" Leaf complained, though, she was six feet tall.

"Then you would be considered big foot, except without the big feet," May injected. A few girls rolled their eyes (Misty and Leaf), a few laughed (Dawn and Mattie), and a few gave awkward smiles (Marina and Taylor). They all went to change and see if the sizes matched, one size tended to fit well, anyway.

Later, at the pool a sort of twisted surprise came into play. Well, it wasn't exactly terrible, but would be slightly awkward. Lisa and Felicity probably had to idea and Simon followed, and Drew got dragged along. Oh, and that's not all. Brendan and Wally were also accompanying the pool. The pool was actually so crowded, that May hadn't noticed they were there until an hour later when she accidentally spotted them when the lifeguard blew the whistle.

"Yo! It's May!" Brendan waved.

"Hi, May," Wally greeted in his typical mute voice. As if by magic, her friends had swum over to the other side of the pool, without her. Now she was by herself. With Brendan. Oh, and Wally, too.

"You know, we haven't talked in forever. How's life been? Enjoying Poke Tech?" Brendan asked.

"Yeah, life's been good," May answered refusing to look at anything else other than the blue water of the pool. Splash!

"Lighten up! Whenever I talk to you, I feel like I'm talking to some kind of robot," Brendan joked. May wiped the water off her face and flushed.

"R-right!" May stuttered. Wally laughed gently at May's struggle to find words.

"So, let's try this again. How's life?" Brendan said it more lightly and playful this time around.

"Well, my life is crazy. Exams are too hard, and Marina's a really strict tutor. I feel like I'm going to cry," May sighed. Brendan and Wally began to laugh.

"Hey! School's not easy!" May retorted.

"That's not why… I'm laughing! It's… because the first words you say to me that doesn't sound forced, is just really amazingly hilarious. Okay, maybe I'm laughing at that," Brendan joked. Wally laughed along them in a calm manner.

"Jerk!" May playfully hit his arm.

"Wow! Such man power!" Brendan rubbed his arm as if it actually hurt.

"Guys, it's time to go. You need to catch up on some Z's, bro. We have a huge game tomorrow. Dude, can you imagine what's going to happen after we win?" Some jock, he looked a little familiar. Maybe, someone at the dance?

"Well, little red, see ya next time! Hopefully, we can talk longer than a second," Brendan said.

"See you tomorrow," Wally waved.

"Y-yeah, bye," Robot was back. Brendan rolled his eyes and left with the jock and Wally. The girls saw it as a sign of returning and time to gush, while the tomboys would play around with a pumped up beach ball.

"You guys were giving off a nice atmosphere. If only Brendan would break up with Addison, but they're a really good match, too. May you're up for some tough competition," Dawn commented.

"For some reason that doesn't make me feel better," Dawn laughed awkwardly and dove underwater in a sad excuse for an escape. It was about then that May spotted Lisa trying to rip Drew away from the lawn chair.

"Why are they here?" May whispered.

"What?" Leaf asked.

"Nothing," May laughed awkwardly and attempted Dawn's failure of an escape.

"Whatever weirdoes, let's play some kind of volleyball. We have enough for four on each side. I call Misty, Mattie, and Taylor!" Leaf called.

"That's not fair! They're actually good at this! I call even teams!" Dawn protested.

"Fine, fine. May, Mattie, Misty, and Marina on one team and Dawn, Taylor, Ash, and I on one team," Leaf sighed.

Misty nodded, "Okay, go Team M," causing the others to realize that they all indeed had names that started with M.

"Then I guess we're DALT?" Leaf answered with hesitation.

"That's not exactly a great name… It sounds like something a loser would say. Whatever, Team DALT! All the way!" Dawn cheered. The lifeguard blew his whistle at Dawn.

"Sorry, won't happen again…" She said. The lifeguard went off to do other business and Dawn stuck her tongue out at him. The rest of the time, Team M creamed Team DALT and that was that. Taylor also let out a few tantrums about being put on the wrong team.

"This is so unfair! I call a do over!" She punched the water releasing a painful sound.

"Awh, go cry yourself a river, build a bridge, and get over it!" Misty put her hand up to her eye and feigned tearing.

"Oh, boohoo! I'm so sad!" Taylor said hotly, and then she started laughing like some kind of psychopath.

"She gets like this when she loses," Mattie whispered into May's ear.

"I'm going in. I'm getting all wrinkly and gross," Dawn shoved a wrinkly hand in Marina's face.

"It's getting late. We should head back to May's house for the sleepover. We already have a bunch of duffel bags with all the necessities of a girls' sleepover," Leaf said. As the others were getting changed, May sighed. Why do girls take forever to change?

"May, wow, here I thought I was going to enjoy myself after finals. Guess not," Drew's voice came in the three A's, annoying, arrogant, and a word that meant donkey… Right now, he was all of the above.

"Gee thanks," May said ironically.

"No need for thanks. I already know you love my presence," Drew shrugged.

"Yeah, that's why I followed you all the way to the pool, just so I could talk to you for a minute," May rolled her eyes. Stupid jerk.

"I should say I'm flattered, but we already discussed about stalking, right?" Drew teased. May blushed remembering how she found his house.

"Drew, go tell Simon to hurry! I swear that kid takes longer than anyone to dress- May? Hey, didn't see you there. I thought I spotted you before, but I couldn't find you afterward, so I thought I was just going insane," Lisa complained with Felicity beside her.

"Yeah, yeah, but if I come back maimed in any way, you're going to pay," with that being said, Drew walked into the guys' dressing room.

"That crybaby, so May when did you get here?" Lisa asked.

"I think 5?" May responded with a shrug.

"Really? We've been here since after school," Felicity replied.

"That's really something. I'm surprised you guys aren't more wrinkled than an elephant," May took Felicity's hand and stared in awe at the lack of wrinkles.

"Better take another look, Felicity seems to be immune to wrinkles, though, it's scientifically impossible. I, on the other hand have a crap load of them," Lisa's hand were so white and wrinkled, you couldn't tell the difference between a grandma's and hers.

"You guys are lucky, Simon didn't put up a fight," Drew did that hand thing where you show you accomplished something by wiping your hands against each other.

"I'm right here, I'm not your pet," Simon protested.

"Yeah, yeah, now be a good pony and let's go," Lisa waved him off and headed out. The three left, and Drew waited until they were out the door.

"Hope you did good on finals," A rose was tossed and a green-haired teen was gone. Maybe Drew's voice actually have 4 settings, annoying arrogant, adamant, and angelic.

Well, that's that. If you're confused why May's last list is weird, well, it's because I didn't want to cuss. Yeah, I know, I'm such a loser, blah, blah, blah. Also, the reason descriptions were cut off on some parts was because they were written during my depressing few days. My best friend just recently moved, and it seems like no one's sad, but me, so I get to sulk by myself… Anyway, ignoring my problems, REVIEW!

~TDF~