Me: HI!!!!!
Drew: Owwww! Don't be so loud!
May: Drewy has a headache!
Izzy: …Drewy?
Rachael: That's sweet… and scary…
Anna: Meh. I guess that's a side effect with love!
Drew: …I'm not even going to dignify that comment with a response.
Me: …You can't think of 1 can you?
Drew: …Rose Bud doesn't own Pokemon. That solely belongs to that guy who wrote it.
Me: I hate you. Anyway… this is the Ikarishipping chapter!!!
Chapter 12
A Spirited Victory
It was the morning after the guitar incident, also a Saturday. The girls were trying to cheer up a depressed Izzy.
"Do you want to go swimming?" Misty asked.
Izzy shook her head.
"Do you want to play Baseball?" Rachael asked.
Izzy shook her head.
"What do you to do then?" May asked.
"I want to sit in the dark and listen to Coldplay," Izzy said.
Dawn sighed.
"I have to go… sorry," she said apologetically.
"Where are you going?" Steph asked.
"Cheer practice."
"Try to ask Paul about Julz," May whispered.
"Don't worry! You can count on me!" Dawn grinned.
Paul was slowly walking down to the practice field. Today he was supposed to select the members of the school football team. It was going to be a long day.
"Paul!"
He turned around and saw Dawn running after him, her too short (in Paul's opinion) skirt was flowing in the breeze. She caught up to him. They began to walk together.
"Hi Paul-Bear," she said sweetly.
Paul's cheeks tinted a pale pink, but no sooner had the blush appeared did it disappear.
"…Did you call me Paul-Bear?" he asked.
"Yeah! I figured that since you're my boyfriend, I can give you a pet name!" Dawn said happily.
"Why Paul-Bear?"
Dawn frowned slightly.
"I like Schnookums and Hunny-Bunny too!"
Paul stopped in his tracks.
"Paul-Bear it is then."
"We got spirit, yes we do! We got spirit, how about you?" Dawn yelled.
Paul sighed and turned to the hopefuls. There were a handful of 1st years, 5 3rd years and 1 2nd year: Tracey. Paul glared and walked over to Tracey.
"I didn't think football was your thing," he commented.
'I thought it was stalking.'
"I'm a guy of many talents," Tracey replied.
Paul began his speech on how they needed to be committed to the team, determined to win and focused at all times. And Paul noticed something: the entire speech, Trace was looking at something past Paul's shoulder. And that something had a very short skirt (AN: Leave the goddamn skirt alone Paul!!!)
"I'm going to need you to tell me your name and your position," Paul barked.
He started with a small-ish 1st year.
"D-Daniel," he squeaked.
"Position."
"Line Backer."
Paul continued this patter. All the while the cheerleading squad was cheering. Loudly. By the end of the formalities Paul had had enough. He turned to face the squad.
"Dawn!" he barked.
"Yeah Paul-Bear?"
"Could you shut up for 10 minutes? We get it. You got spirit!" he said.
Dawn walked over to him angrily.
"You could try saying please," she pointed out.
"You could trey wearing a longer skirt," he countered. (AN: Oh for the love of Entei…)
Dawn glared at Paul.
"It's our uniform! I don't complain that boyfriend plays on a field and touches other guys butts!" she said. (AN: I think he deserved that)
"You know you're being watched, right?" he whispered.
"By who?"
"Tracey."
Dawn looked over Paul's shoulder. And sure enough he was staring at her.
"He always does that… it scares me," she said.
"Really?"
"Yeah… I mean… it's really perverted. I'm sometimes scared to shower incase he's there. Misty sorted out a while ago… but it doesn't stop my skin from crawling," she said.
Paul looked at her and saw she was serious. Tracey really freaked her out.
"Sorry… I shouldn't be dumping that on you. Go… pick a winning team," she said.
She flounced over to the rest of the team.
Paul couldn't believe it. Tracey… was good. At football!! The Apocalypse was coming. The hopefuls were taking a break. Daniel was talking to Tracey.
"Why do you to be on the team?" Daniel asked.
"To get closer to a girl," Tracey said, glancing at Dawn.
Paul's fists clenched into a fist. He took a minute to calm down and said:
"I've narrowed down my choices to 2. Daniel and Tracey. Could you 2 come here please?"
Everyone else groaned.
"I'm impressed with you 2. There is just 1 more test," Paul said.
"What's that?" Tracey asked.
Paul tackled Tracey to the ground hard.
"You obviously can't handle stronger opponents. Daniel… welcome to the team," Paul said.
Tracey still laid, a broken heap on the floor. Dawn bounced over and whispered in Paul's ear.
"It's funny… I don't remember that being in the tests last year," she said.
Paul shrugged.
"It was made up especially for creeps like him," he said.
Dawn smiled.
"Thanks," she said.
"No problem… Schnookums," Paul said.
Dawn grinned at him.
"You know what… I think you actually make that name work."
The pair of them was walking home together.
"So… how is Julz?" Dawn asked.
"Heartbroken and devastated. Izzy?"
"Same."
"…She didn't say that… did she?"
"Of course not! …Could you please talk to Julz?" Dawn asked.
"We're here. And… yeah. I could try," Paul said.
Dawn got on her tiptoes and kissed Paul's cheek.
"Thank Paul-Bear."
She disappeared red faced into her room, not seeing the blush that creeped on Paul's cheeks. And this time… it stayed.
Me: Well? Do you hate? Do you love it?
Drew: Well I hate you.
JER: Stop being bitter! She locked in you in a cupboard and forgot! Deal with it!
Izzy: Anyway… what did you do in there?
May: … REVIEW!!! Run Drew!!! (Runs away)
Drew: (Runs after May)
Rachael: Awww!!
