Chapter 9
May was still fuming from her fight with Drew. She was calmer now though. Max came over to where she was sitting and looked at her for a long time.
"What?" May said irritably, breaking the silence.
"So you're still mad too, huh?" Max asked.
"Yah, and why do you say 'too'?" May asked curiously.
"Because when I went to see of Drew was ok, he was…"
"Annoying, infuriating, snobbish, jerk-like, all of the above?" May asked.
"Well, actually he was angry…and a bit hurt." Max answered. May stared at her brother, not believing what she was hearing. Drew was pretty angry before, but had she really got to him that much?
"I'm gonna call Mom tomorrow…to tell her to watch the contest." May said. It was starting to get late, and she didn't really have time to call her mother at the moment.
"Ok…and by the way, why are you entering…"
"Because I said so!" May interrupted.
"Well don't worry May, I'll make sure that your father and I watch every minute of your contest! I'll even pull him out of a gym battle, by the ear, if I have to!" May and Max's mother said cheerfully. Her face was shown on a computer screen-like phone.
"All right Mom thanks!" May said cheerfully, she had finally gotten over her temper, or at least until she turned around.
"Need comforting from your mommy before the contest May?" Drew asked.
"Ahh! What the? But you were…huh?" May asked, caught off guard by the sight of her rival. Drew sneered, and this brought May's temper back.
"Look, I don't have time." She said angrily.
"Time for what?" Drew asked.
"Time to waste, fighting with you!" May shouted.
"Well, sorry to rain on your parade, well actually I'm not, but…you already are." Drew said sarcastically.
"Well, who are you to make fun of somebody who is calling their mother? Anybody could, it's not an unnatural thing!" May cried. Drew stared at May for a long time. May could see his mood changing, but it wasn't. It was as if, his mood didn't know where to go.
Finally, Drew looked at his feet. "At least you have a mom."
May froze. "What?" she asked, maybe she hadn't heard him correctly.
"I said, at least you have a mom…" Drew answered.
"Drew, I didn't…" May looked sympathetically at him. 'Drew, not having a mom?' she thought. Drew looked away and walked out of the pokemon center.
May stood in the same spot, looking at where Drew had disappeared, for a while. Then, she walked over to the seat she had been in the day before; still in a bit of a daze.
'Why hadn't he told me?' she thought 'maybe that's what has been on his mind…and what I said yesterday…'
"Hello? May?" May looked up to see her brother's face in hers.
"Ahh! Wha- What is it with people and their need to scare me today!?" May yelled.
"Huh? Never mind, have you seen Drew? I'm actually trying to get you guys to the contest, and I'm the one that didn't want to go." Max complained.
"Um, he was just here a minute ago…" May answered, ignoring his second comment.
"Hmm, maybe he went to the contest." Max figured.
"Maybe…" but May wasn't so sure.
Drew looked over at the clock tower. It was time to be getting to the contest.
"All right guys, that's enough." Drew said. He took out two pokeballs, and Roselia and Masquerain disappeared into the red light. Drew was about to leave the empty practice area when a twig snapped. He whipped his head around. There, by the bushes, stood none other than a Houndoom.
"Rrrrrrrr!" it cried and charged.
The next thing Drew knew, he was on the ground with Houndoom's face in his; a familiar laugh coming from the bushes. And then, Drew blacked out.