Why Can't I
By: esmtz
"Why would she leave all her stuff here?" May asked confused.
"Isn't it obvious May? She was humiliated in front of not only the crowd but Paul as well. Imagine if that was you in front of him." Zoey replied a little harshly.
May winced.
"I didn't think she would take it that hard. I thought she was kidding about liking Paul."
"May I know you haven't noticed it but Dawn is a lot like you when it comes to liking someone" Brock told her.
May sighed.
"I guess I shouldn't have gone overboard with using my Blaziken"
"Don't worry about it May I'll go see if I can find her" Brock replied.
"No Brock I should be the one to do it. Besides I need to apologize to her for going off the way I did. I'm just not going to apologize for falling in love with Paul." May told him.
"Don't worry about it May it's my fault I called you out like that" Dawn said as she suddenly appeared in her normal clothes.
"Look Dawn I'm really sorry I shouldn't have used my best Pokemon knowing that you wouldn't have a chance" May said sadly.
"It's part of contests right? People are supposed to use some of their best Pokemon eventually" Dawn smiled a little.
May looked at her surprised to see that Dawn was ok with what had happened.
"Oh and about Paul….I think you two look really good together" Dawn said trying to hide how hurt she really felt.
May didn't say anything as she saw that Dawn had tears in her eyes.
"Guys look the final round is about to start!" Ash said as he quickly ran back to take his seat in the audience.
Brock smiled at both girls as he turned to follow Ash.
"Well it looks like there is nothing left to do now but to see who wins this last round" Zoey said.
"You guys go ahead I'm just gonna head out" Dawn told her.
"Dawn where are you going?" May asked worried.
"I just need to be on my own for awhile. Tell Ash and the others that I will meet them in the next city" Dawn replied as she started to walk away "oh and Zoey? Could you give my dress to Nurse Joy to send back to my mother's? I won't be needing it for awhile"
"Sure Dawn" Zoey looked at her friend very worried.
"Thanks bye guys" Dawn said as she left.
May now felt extremely guilty about what happened and was about to chase after Dawn, but suddenly a rose was right in front of her face.
"You did a good job out there May, but you still need a lot more training if you want to beat me" Drew smirked as he flicked his hair.
May took the rose and looked at him.
"I thought you left already Drew"
"No I just hung back waiting for a chance to talk to you before I go"
"So you wanted to say goodbye?" May asked.
"Well that too, but to really tell you that if he treats you badly I'll take care of him for you" Drew grinned as May blushed.
"Drew just go!"
Drew laughed as he flicked his hair again.
"See you at the next contest May" Drew told her as he left.
"Interesting. He's still in love with you even though you and Paul are together now" Zoey grinned.
May shook her head blushing even more.
"That's not true! I still need to ask Paul about that…" May said shyly.
"Well we all know what the answer is and it looks like Misty won the match!" Zoey said as she heard the announcer declare the winner.
"That's great!" May smiled.
"Let's go where your friends are at. Trust me you want to see this." Zoey grinned as she headed towards the audience.
"Huh what did she mean by that?" May asked as she quickly followed behind.
Everyone was yelling and congratulating Misty as she held up the ribbon for all to see.
"Alright I did it!" Misty yelled happily.
As soon as May and Zoey got there they saw that Ash had ran from the audience and headed towards Misty giving her a hug and a kiss on her cheek. As soon as he realized that he did that he turned bright red, but not as much as Misty whose whole face was red.
"I knew it" Zoey grinned.
"It's about time!" May exclaimed.
May watched as she saw Paul walk up to Misty and congratulate her on her win. May quickly ran from where she was at and towards Paul and the others.
"Hey Paul I'm sorry I didn't get to see your match, but I know that you did great!" May smiled as she hugged him.
"It's ok May. Did you find Dawn?" Paul asked blushing as he hugged her back.
"Yeah she decided she wanted to travel on her own for awhile" May said sadly.
"What?!" Paul asked shocked.
"Yeah I know I was surprised too" May sighed "Paul I wanted to know…are we going to be dating now or not because if we aren't I understand and I'll just travel with my friends"
Paul blushed furiously.
"I know I want to be with you May….and to be honest if you want to stay with your friends then I'll be there with you. Just don't expect me to get along with that loser" Paul said as he nodded in Ash's direction.
May giggled.
"Ok Paul"
As Paul and May were leaning in for a kiss, Misty suddenly cried out.
"What?" May asked.
"Ash asked me out!" Misty blushed really hard and practically had her arms around Ash hugging him and kissing him.
"That's great! Oh and guys Paul is going to be traveling with us from now on!" May smiled happily.
"What?! Oh just great!" Ash yelled.
"Well at least I get to see the reasons why he keeps losing to me" Paul smirked.
"What did you say?!" Ash said starting to get angry.
Everybody just laughed.
"Well guys the contest is officially over and ash it looks like I get to stay with you guys for as long as I want!" Misty smiled.
"That's great! Alright guys let's start heading out for my next gym battle!" Ash cried out excitedly.
As everyone laughed and was walking out of the building, Ash holding Misty's hand and Paul holding May's, May kept thinking about Dawn and wondered if she was ok or not. Brock noticed this and looked at her.
"Don't worry May she will be fine. As soon as we catch up to her we will convince her to join up with us again" Brock said.
"Thanks Brock" May smiled a little as the group went back to rest at the Pokemon center.
THE END
