Okay another few words from me before you guys can start reading. firstly sorry for the late update, my 'best friend' Mr. Writers Block came back. but his gone know. yayyy.

And my second is that im fed up with people saying that why i made a certain ship so canon in one chapter, well my response is I HAVE REASONS WHY I DO THAT! If i made Ash and May kiss early in the story, or Drew and May stuck up on mount Silver one night or May poledanceing (that will never happen in the stry so get your hopes up) all of those and other events i have reasons behind that and its up to you guys wondering WHY?.

Now please leave me alone to decided with shippings will happen in each chapter, if i keep following to you guys this super hard 11+ pages each chapter will go to waste.

So please, let me choose what happens in each chapter, thankyou. =3

~midnight

Shippings in this chapter: Pearlshipping, Contestshipping, Advanceshipping

Rating: PG (K+)

Chapter ten

"Ash, do you love me?" I asked in a soft voice.

"May?" Ash replied. "Why are you asking me this?" The young pokemon trainer replied to me.

"Please give me an answer." I begged. "I can't hide my feelings towards you anymore."

"I…" Ash began but was interrupted when a young girl with long blue hair came into the conversation out of nowhere.

"Tell her." She simply demanded.

"May." Ash began as he placed his hand on my shoulder. "I can't love you anymore."

"No…" I replied as my voice turned into cries of help. "Why?" I cried as I covered my face with my hands. Soon I lifted them away and saw Dawn and Ash gone from my sights as the fog around me got thicker. "Ash!" I yelled from the top of my lungs. "I'm the girl from your past, the missing girl you have been searching for; I'm the girl that has been in love with you for such a long time!" I yelled as I soon descended to my knees and cried a few more tears. And soon saw Ash ahead of me with holding Dawn's hand. With the fog so thick it felt like they were hundreds feet away from me. The fog got thicker as I saw Ash's face clearly for only a few seconds .he mouthed a few words to me that I didn't get and his eyes started to water in them and soon faded from my sights.

"No…." I stated as I got onto my feet and ran to where Ash and Dawn were but as I did I felt like I was running around in circles since the scene wasn't changing at all. "Don't go please!" I yelled as I closed my eyes and when I opened them once more I found out I was out of a depressing nightmare and into reality.

I found around me that Mimi, Lyra and Kenny where looking down at me, I would guessed that I was lying down and must of heard me screaming help in my terrifying nightmare. I turned to my right and saw Drew right beside me. He had a slight worried look on his face but it still had the arrogant look as well.

"You okay?" He asked.

"Yeah." I replied with a slight nod. "Did you guys hear anything?" I asked as I sat up and saw two people enter the cave with a blanket over their heads.

"No we didn't." Lyra replied. But those words felt they went in one ear and out the other as my eyes and my mind kept in focus of the two strangers that entered the cave and walking their way towards us. My eyes widen in shock as I found out it was Ash and Dawn holding hands like in my dream.

Was it already too late?

Was I trying to turn two ways at once?

I wiped my eyes quickly before anyone would notice. Soon I stopped when I saw Kenny's face looking a little annoyed with Ash and Dawn holding hands.

"Sorry we took awhile." Ash apologized. "We got kind of lost on our way here." Ash smiled and soon saw me on the ground. He released his grip from Dawn's and knelt down to me. "You okay?" He asked me.

I had the answer already in my mind but my lips wouldn't move to say them. I tried many times but nothing came out. I placed my hand on my head as I started to get a heavy head and my sight was going all blurry. I saw Dawn knelt down beside Ash and placed her hand on my forehead.

"We better hurry." Dawn panicked. "She has a really high fever."

"What about the semi-finals today?" Mimi asked. "May is too sick to enter."

"The…finals are…"I began as I had a hard time to think and speak. "…will be on…tonight. I will be…fine by…then." I continued as I lost my balance and fell onto my back.

I tried to sit up again but my arms lost the ability and strength to do so, I felt my friends help me onto my feet and Ash carry me onto his shoulders. My arms soon gained slight energy to wrap them around Ash's neck. My head got heavier and rested itself on Ash's shoulder. I could feel my body and mind to drift off to sleep and my lips found it to move and speak words I didn't know why I said them to begin with.

"One day I will tell you…about you and me." I whispered in a low soft voice and closed my eyes and drifted back to sleep.

I woke up once more in the room I was sharing with the girls. My head felt much lighter and I regain my vision. I looked around and saw the scene outside the window and saw it was still around morning.

"What happened?" I asked myself. "How did I get in here?" I added as I sat up and looked around me.

"Ash brought you here." Dawn stated as she entered into the room. "You had such a high fever. We were all worried about you."

"Sorry." I smiled. "I didn't mean to make you guys worry about me."

"It's alright. You're okay now. That's all it matters now." Dawn smiled as she turned her back on me and was ready to leave me alone to get more rest.

"Dawn." I questioned. "Why were you and Ash late and holding hands?"

Dawn still had her back facing towards me and I heard nothing for awhile that came from her lips. Her hands tighten and she looked over her shoulder.

"Can I tell you something?" She asked.

"Sure." I nodded.

"I don't know how to say this but…" the young coordinator added and soon continued. "I think im love with Ash."

I felt like my heart had just beaten its last pulse. Like a gap between the sky and earth has been created between Dawn and I. I wanted to yell that she didn't deserve him or that you had to do something with him forgetting his memory and for that she didn't deserve Ash but me. I grabbed the sheet that covered my body and clenched my fist, like I was using the sheet as a stress ball. I looked down and saw tear drops crashing onto the sheets.

I was crying once more.

I soon made myself stop and looked at Dawn. She has a confused reaction across her face. I knew that I shouldn't be acting like this, that I should be happy for Dawn and that Ash would be in good hands with Dawn and that I shouldn't be so selfish.

"I'm happy for you Dawn." I replied as I forced myself to smile.

"Thanks May." Dawn warmly smiled to me. "I'm going to go now. You should rest more for tonight."

I nodded and watched Dawn walk out of the room and close the door behind her. When I knew she was gone I wiped my eyes to make sure I wouldn't cry once more.

"I'm so stupid!" I cried as I slammed the the lamp onto the carpet, luckily it didn't break. Items from the side table also fell onto the floor. I saw two most important objects, two that I didn't expect to see.

A half pink and white contest ribbon.

And three red roses.

I stood up and knelt down and ran my fingers down the stem of the three roses and felt no thorns. And I ran the back of my fingers down the gold center piece of the Terracotta ribbon. I soon decided to pick up both items and held them close to my chest.

"Who would have guessed?" I smiled and looked at both items in my hands. "These two people would care for me so much." I looked at the three roses. I felt the soft red petals together forming such a beautiful flower. I thought deep and long as I looked at the roses.

"May do you know what it means when a boy gives you three red roses?" Mother asked me.

"What does it mean mommy?" I asked.

"They stand for "I love you." She smiled.

"Drew…loves me?" I questioned myself. "Should I believe such a myth?" I thought. "This is Drew. He really never showed me any deep feelings for me."

"And do you know what it means when you share one half with other person?" My mother added.

"What?" I asked.

"Well if that person keeps it until you meet again that means that you are very important to that person and he remembers everything you had shared with them."

"Well Ash did keep it. He kept our memories until the accident but after that he still kept it find the missing girl because she is important to him." I answered myself and soon a smiled grew on my face.

It's coming back to me.

The tension of fear building up inside of you.

The sweat and negative thoughts building up into your mind. Making you want to quit and back out.

And making you live with the guilt for the rest of your life.

I don't want to go through that again.

I opened my eyes and saw myself standing the the hallway and in front of me was a rich red curtain covering the entrance, hiding the contestants like myself. I walked over quietly and made a gap big enough for to peek and see what was happening around me. I saw every seat in the stands full with people in every age; from young to old. I even saw Mimi looking around herself and wondering when the event was going to start. Soon I saw Vivian enter the stage from another entrance. From the moment she walked on the crowd cheered her name and a few wolf whistles. I closed the gap and walked away and laid my back once again on the wall.

"Not again." I told myself. "I'm getting nervous all over again."

"Same here." Drew added as I saw him walked down the hallway with Harley behind him. Soon he turned to me and soon asked. "Glad your okay because I really want to battle against you."

"Typical Drew." I thought to myself and smiled as I sweat dropped in response. Soon my mind thought of a question that I wanted to ask Drew. "Oh by the way." I begun. "Why did you give three roses yesterday?"

"Why do you ask?" Drew asked.

"It's well you normally give me one and…" I replied as I felt my face go red in the embarrassment my question I was about to ask. "You do know what three roses mean when you give them to somebody?"

"Well…um…I…" Drew answered back as his face went red also by the questioned I asked. Harley just stood behind with his back turned. My best guess he wanted to hear what we were talking and mock us later. "I do know what it means May." Drew soon replied after thinking of a response for a long amount of time.

"Did you give them to me for the reason?" I asked once more.

Another blush quickly went across his face as he shifted his eyes away from mine and his scratched his head. I knew he was trying to avoid my question. I stopped leaning on the wall and got really close to Drew that we could see the colour of our eyes.

"Well?" I asked and I soon found out how close I was to Drew and also shifted my eyes away from him. "Sorry." I apologized. "I shouldn't pressure you about things like this." As I turned around to find Ash, I saw him already there with Pikachu on his shoulder. He had a surprised and shocked look on his face. I was guessing that he had heard what Drew and I had talked about. He saw me looking towards him and quickly wiped it away with one of his warm smiles. I waved back and smiled back at Ash, and soon after I looked back at Drew who was following Harley who was already making their way to the stage. Drew looked over his shoulders.

"I only gave them to you for only one reason." He stated and and walked out of the hallway and onto the stage with Harley.

"I know what three roses mean when you give them to somebody special to them." Ash added as he walked to me and stood beside me. Soon he looked to me. "It stands for I love you."

"I love you."

It felt like Ash said those words for me only. My heart skipped a few beats. I felt feelings like I did with Drew. I just wanted to smile and embrace Ash.

"I love you too." I replied.

"You love me?" Ash asked in a confused manner.

"I mean I love you that you are my partner." I smiled as embarrassment covered my face with a blush of red. "Now let's go and get into the semi-finals!" I cheered as I tried to forget what I just told Ash.

"Yeah." Ash smiled as he grabbed my hand and made me stop in my tracks as I looked into Ash's eyes. "Together."

"I…I…" I replied but my mind couldn't think of anymore words to finish my sentence. Ever since Ash forgotten about his old self I was beginning to find a new side of him, he started think think about love which I never saw in him before, feelings to other people close to him and determination to find the missing pieces of himself, more than I ever saw him when I was travelling with him once before in my early days of coordinating.

"They may lose something they once had but they will always gain something new and that is what we must find out."

"Guess Mimi was right in the end after all." I thought to myself as I smiled back at Ash and we both walked onto the stage.

Together.

End of chapter