Kris: Hi! Hi! Everyone! How's it going?
AJ: A pirate's life is a life for me!
May: Enough with the pirate stuff already!
Mikey: …Meow?
All: Boo!
Kris:
Ha! Anyway, who's gonna do the disclaimer today
Ash: I'll do it! KrystalClear101 is not the owner of pokémon.
May: Boom!
All: Start the party!
What If
Chapter 11
"Convince me to please you! Make me think that I need this too!" May happily sang the lyrics to a song she was listening to on her iPod as she cleaned the house. She bounced along sweeping and dusting various places and absentmindedly knocking over various objects.
"I'm not gonna write you a love song!" she sang into the broom stick as if she were on stage. She sat the broom down and sauntered over to the counter where a wet cloth was sitting. She wiped the counter down and continued humming to the song. She then moved onto the sink where there was a mini stack of dishes from the night before. She turned to water in the sink and reached to the side of the sink for the cloth she just finished using and some dish soap.
"I believe there's a way you can love me because I say I won't write you a love song," she whispered lightly as she looked out the window and into the street where kids were playing and laughing with one another. She paused her current action of scrubbing dishes to just stare out the window at the laughing children and admire their optimism.
'To be a child again…' she rested her head into her soaking palm and just sat there sighing. A knock on the door snapped her out of her trance. She dropped her dishtowel and picked her headphones out of her ears and hung them around her neck as she walked to the door.
"Hello?" she answered. At the door was one of Max's friends that lived in the neighborhood. He stood about half a foot shorter than her with short black hair. He wore a long sleeve blue shirt with dark colored jeans and black tennis shoes.
"H-Hi May." He replied shyly. May smiled sweetly at the boy causing him to blush lightly.
"Hey Kenny. Are you looking for Max?" she asked. He shook his head and continued to stare at his shoes. Kenny had always been a shy boy. To her, he seemed extremely uncomfortable around her.
"No." he answered and looked up at her slightly. "Uh…Gary said he's sorry." He explained. May looked surprised but that expression soon changed to an expectant one.
"He is, huh?" she crossed her arms. He nodded and quickly ran off the porch. "Okay Gary, since when do we use twelve year olds to apologize?" she called out, expecting him to come out of his hiding place.
"I told you, since I started acting more gentlemen-like." he explained as he stepped out from the bush on the side of her house. May scowled at his apologetic face, waiting for him to come to the door.
"Right." She rolled her eyes and leaned against the doorframe.
"Look, I overreacted about the whole Ash spraining his arm thing and I'm sorry." He admitted. May stood up straight from her position and averted her gaze from him and began to shuffle her feet back and forth.
"I hope you don't think it's going to be this easy." She said with a smirk. He sighed and stuffed his hands in his pockets.
"Oh of course not. It's never this easy with you." He said. May looked at him strangely.
"What do you mean?" she asked, almost offensively.
"You are so hard to figure out." He reached out to her but she turned her back on him, her arms still folded across her chest.
"But so easy to love." He whispered as he wrapped his arms around her waist. That was all it took for her to give in and melt into his chest. But she stopped herself and stepped out of his embrace.
"There you go with the love thing again. I'm not sure if I'm ready for the 'I love you' part yet. I mean…" her voice trailed off when she noticed the hurt look in his emerald eyes.
"I've always loved you, but as a brother and not as a boyfriend." She tried to explain. "I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's going to take awhile before I have that type of affection for you, that's all. So until then…" he held up a hand to cease her talking.
"I get it. I shouldn't have assumed that you had the same feelings I had at such an early part in our relationship of three days." He said with a smile.
"I'm glad we're on the same page here." She smiled and looked down at her shoes with a faint blush on her cheeks. He brushed a piece of her hair behind her ear causing her to shiver slightly. She was about to say something, but she was interrupted by a sneeze that came out of nowhere.
"Achoo!" she sneezed loudly. Gary backed up a bit and began to wipe his shirt of her spit.
"Er…are you okay?" he asked cautiously, to avoid being sneezed on again.
"Yeah. It was just a one time a-a-achoo!" she sneezed again and again and again. Gary looked at her strangely as if anticipating to next one.
"Okay. I think I'm done now. So maybe it wasn't a one time thing." She shrugged.
"Are you staying here? Or are we going over to your place because I really need to shut the door." She explained.
"You know what? I'm gonna go home right now. I think we could use a break from one another at least for a couple hours. A lot happened today and I need some time to think." He explained with a distant look in his eyes. May was taken aback by his expression and followed him to the door.
"You sure?" he nodded and smiled. "Well, okay then. See you later." She smiled back as he leaned in and gave her a smile peck on the cheek. As he turned to leave she shouted one last thing at him.
"Don't send Kenny back here to apologize!" he put up a hand of understanding as he walked off. May looked outside before she shut the door and went to continue on with doing her dishes.
"That was weird." She said, stacking dish after dish on the counter. "I didn't expect him to say we need a break from each other. Oh well." She shrugged and dried her hands with a dry towel and took the stopper out of the sink. She then reached for the house phone and picked it up in her hand and began dialing.
RING…RING…
"Hello?" a female voice answered.
"Mrs. Ketchum? Hi it's May." May answered the phone with a smile.
"May? Oh, Caroline's daughter! Right, hi May." The older woman replied with a giggled.
"I'm sure Ash told you about what happened yesterday, right?" May asked nervously.
"He sure did. Don't worry about it May. He's always been clumsy." Delia laughed. May giggled as well.
"Okay then. But he left the things he bought at the store here and I wanted to make sure he got them. So is it alright if I come over?" she asked.
"Sure, sure. That's no problem. I had no idea he even went to the store. But yes, that'll be fine." She answered.
"Thanks. I guess I'll see you soon then. Wait, is he there?" May asked quickly before Delia hung up the phone.
"Yes dear, he's up in his room right now. I'll tell him to expect a visit from you pretty soon." She said with a slight giggled.
"Alright then, bye!" May hung up the phone and began digging through the cabinets for things that she knew belonged to Ash. Things like fruit snacks, chips, frozen desserts, and bottle of ketchup.
"He is so weird. He bought all this junk food and a bottle of Ketchup. Go figure." She rolled her eyes and stuffed them all inside of her large tote bag. She grabbed her keys and started for the door like she always does.
Before she took off down the porch, she locked the door behind her and carefully walked down the steps. She tried to remember the directions to Ash's house so she wouldn't get lost. She noted the temperature of the wind as she developed goose bumps on her arms.
"It's getting cold outside. Maybe I should go back and get a jacket or something. But I'm way too far away from the house to go back now. Oh well. I can make it." She traveled on, crossing various streets and making turns as well.
She thought about why she really wanted to go over Ash's house, besides bringing him some of the things he left at her house. She had to be honest with herself. She wanted to see Ash. She wanted to know how he was doing with his arm. She wanted to spend some time with him since her and Gary were taking a break from each other. She needed to be with a friend since Kelly wasn't talking to her and she still didn't know why.
With all of these things going through her mind, she didn't notice when little drops of water began to fall from the sky until one landed on her nose. She jumped and looked up to see rain beginning to pour onto the ground. She cursed to herself and began to run the rest of the way to Ash's house.
When she finally arrived, she was soaked to the bone. She ran up to the door and stood under the little roof and knocked on the door. She nervously stood at the door, rubbing her arms with her hands, trying to ignore the wind that was sweeping past her. She thought she was going to lose her mind until the door finally opened and she was welcomed by the smell of baked apple pie and warmth.
"May! Oh geez, get inside." Ash answered the door happily but quickly stepped aside so she could enter. She smiled gratefully and stepped inside slightly shivering. She dropped her tote bag to the ground and began to look around the house she was now in. She jumped slightly when she felt something around her, it was a jacket.
"Ash, is this-" she started but he shook his head and picked up her bag.
"I had a hunch that you were cold." He shrugged and brought the bag into the kitchen where his mom was in an apron, cooking. May followed him and he sat the bag on the table and began emptying its contents. May sat down in one of the chairs and tried to warm up.
"Oh May! You look awful." May sweatdropped as Delia rushed over to her and began to apply her mothering skills. She grabbed a clean towel and began drying her hair, while Ash busied himself with putting the small amount of groceries away.
"Er…thanks?" she said cautiously.
"Dear, you need to get out of these wet clothes and into something dry. I'm sure Ash has something that you can put on." She said with a smile as she rushed out of the kitchen and up the stairs.
"Mom! Why can't she wear your clothes?" Ash asked frantically. But Delia was long gone. He sighed and sat down at the table with May and rested his arm on the table.
"What's the matter? You don't want me to wear your clothes?" May asked slyly. Ash looked surprised at her comment but his expression quickly changed.
"Oh no! You're not getting me with that again. No May, I don't have a problem with you wearing my clothes." He smirked back. She giggled at his response and nodded.
"Good. I might want to take them home." She smirked back and stood up from her chair to meet Delia at the stairs. Ash gaped and ran a hand through his dark hair. He sighed and looked around the kitchen until his eyes stopped at the window where the rain was practically coming down in buckets.
"Man, it's really coming down out there." He whispered to himself. Delia walked in the kitchen idly and continued working on her pie that was currently baking in the over.
"May's in the bathroom changing right now." She explained. Ash looked at her strangely.
"You did that on purpose didn't you?" Ash asked. Delia didn't turn around but she reply shortly.
"Did what?" she answered back innocently.
"Oh come on mom. This is some kinda scheme that you're planning with May's mom to try and hook us up." Ash got up from his chair and leaned back on the counter to look at her. Delia never met his gaze as she continued working.
"Do you like May?" she asked. Ash began to stare off into space, comprehending her question.
"Maybe." He shrugged and walked out of the kitchen and into the front room where he met May, coming down the stairs. Delia smiled sweetly as she watched them interact.
Kris: End of Chapter!
AJ: Teehee!
Mikey: Yargh!
May: No! That's a pirate thing!
Mikey: Meow…?
May: No!
Kris: Anyway, Chapter 12 should be right on schedule. So wait for it!
All: Review! 4 Sure!
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