Update June 2013: This chapter has been updated and revised from its original version. Past errors have been fixed and adjustments have been made but the plot of the chapter, characters, and events have remained the same.
Well, all of you totally ignored my question about whether or not I should make a Twitter. :P Here's the chapter I've been itching to write! Have fun reading it! Please review! :D
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starlit wishes: I agree with everything you said. Harley's always been hilarious to me and May is in so much denial, it's not even funny. xD
chocolatehell: Hahaha, he's playing with fire, that one! I literally laughed out loud at the part about Ash and Misty!
I'm sorry I had to leave the last chapter with a cliffhanger. I hope this chapter makes up for it. I mean, this is the chapter, after all. :D
Yup, gotta love Harley! He was always one of my favorite characters in the anime! So funny. x)
Lol! You were the only one to answer my question! No one said anything about whether or not I should make a Twitter, so I guess I'll just enable my PM for now. It'd just be silly to make a Twitter and have no followers. :P
I can't wait to see it! I've heard so many good things about it! I'm so obsessed, it's not even funny...
I'm not suffering from allergies, thankfully. But a cold got to me. Not cool. -_-
Bahahahaha, I'm dying. Your stories are awesome! Don't even try to argue!
Pear-Shaped: I adore gyarados! My absolute favorite pokémon! Don't worry about Admirationshipping! This is a Contestshipping story! :D
EeveeTransformed: Absolutely! I'm serious, I'll put you in if you want, haha! ;D
Pokemaster: You know Harley, he's everything. ;D I'm so happy that I have two male readers! I never expected to have one. :P
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Claudette14: They were in my story at the beginning, but I'll be bringing them back soon! At the wedding to be precise! :D
Well, now that you pointed it out, I guess I did unknowingly make everything in the anime happen in my story except for May and Drew meeting. Thank you very much! You'reamazing!
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FlygonFan: What? Why? Harley's so cool! Don't nail gun him! His sticking-his-ugly-nose-into-other-people's-busines ses is helping Drew and May get together! :D
I know! Totally unexpected from Ash, huh? The chapter wasn't called Old Friends, Invitations, and Surprises for nothing! And this story is certainly not called Love Unexpected for nothing, either!
Don't throw the brick at Brianna! She's nice! I promise! You'll regret it at the end of the chapter. :D
ElsieLorraine: I love the name Caleb, too. There's a really hott guy in my school named Caleb, and he happens to be Brock's skin tone, so I decided it'd be a suitable name for one of Brock's sons. ;D I'm definitely writing the wedding! It'll take place in either the 28th or 29th chapter! I've been itching to write it for a while!
I did mean never-before-seen. As in, no one's ever seen Drew's gyarados before, so it's never-before-seen. Get it? :) The battle's pretty long! Get ready!
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Love Unexpected chapter 25
If May was dreaming, someone pinch her. Pinch her immediately. Pinch her out of the terrible nightmare that was her life. If not, let a black hole open up beneath and suck her in.
Drew was determined to end her himself, anyway. Or at least, that's what it felt like after what happened with Brianna in the back room.
And considering his pokémon of choice for the final battle against her.
A gyarados? Really? Out of all his pokémon, he had to choose a gyarados?
Since when did he even have one? He had never told her about it, nor was there ever any mentioning of it in any type of coordinating news. But that would change soon, May could tell already.
The gyarados was incredible. Even with half of its body in the pool, the large, dragon-like serpent easily towered over everything in the arena. Its large, blue scales alone probably measured up to one or two feet in diameter. Its wide, gaping mouth looked like it could swallow a fourth of the crowd in one gulp. The three pointed, dark blue crest on its head cast an eerie shadow over its vicious, red eyes. And yet, despite its terrifying appearance, it still managed to carry that cool, suave demeanor of its trainer.
It was the most intimidating pokémon that May had ever seen.
And she had to defeat it in order to win the contest.
Arceus, help me, she thought as she brought herself to unhook a PokéBall from her charm bracelet. After taking a deep breath, she threw the ball forward and hoped with all her might that her pokémon of choice would be able to battle against Gyarados.
Delcatty appeared from the white flash of the PokéBall, materializing onto one of the floating white platforms in the pool. The feline shook its gleaming fur to loosen itself up after a long nap in its PokéBall, completely oblivious to Drew's gyarados at the moment. Without sparing its opponent a glance, it turned its head to the side to scan the crowd.
An adorable crease formed in between its eyes when it noticed the shocked looks on the faces of the audience members. It never remembered getting such a response before, so it wondered why it was getting one at the moment. After finally looking at its opponent, it understood why.
May suddenly worried that Delcatty wouldn't be able to hold itself against Gyarados after seeing her pokémon tense up. She couldn't blame Delcatty, she really couldn't. The serpent was more than four times her size in length, let alone her delcatty!
Words couldn't explain how awful she felt at that moment for making Delcatty go against Gyarados. She had just guaranteed her faithful pokémon a severe pummeling. Delcatty couldn't win.
But then, May reminded herself that she needed to have faith in her pokémon and faith in herself. Gary had once told her that pokémon were able to sense the emotions of their trainers. They felt what their trainers felt, so in other words, if May was so nervous, then Delcatty was, too. She needed to be strong for her pokémon's sake. She couldn't let Delcatty down. She could beat Drew. Her and Delcatty.
"We can do this," she muttered under her breath.
And then, as if it could hear her, Delcatty straightened its posture and readied itself for battle. The seconds began to tick down from the timer on the display screen.
"Delcatty! Wild Charge!" May commanded.
Drew smirked to himself as Delcatty shrouded itself in electricity and charged forward, leaping unbelievable distances to get from platform to platform. Head-on attacks wouldn't work well against his gyarados, even if they were electric attacks. He had made sure to train his gyarados to endure those attacks ever since the day it had evolved from a magikarp a year ago. His most powerful pokémon wasn't going to be that easy to defeat.
"Aqua Tail!" he commanded.
Delcatty leapt to a different platform just as Gyarados slammed its tail down on the one that it had been on prior.
It was a narrow dodge, and Gyarados still managed to splash it with water, but when compared to the amount of damage that it could have taken, Delcatty didn't complain. Especially when it saw that the platform had split in half under Gyarados's tail.
May hissed on Delcatty's behalf. Gyarados was definitely not a force to be reckoned with. How stupid of her to think that a head-on attack would work on it. Maybe using the water to her advantage would work instead.
"Delcatty, Thunderbolt into the water!"
Electric bolts flew out of Delcatty like tentacles and stabbed themselves into the water. Drew watched with gritted teeth as Gyarados was shocked for a good amount of time. May was smart, he had to give her that. Water conducted electricity, intensifying the power of her delcatty's attack, and therefore causing more damage to Gyarados. His points were certainly suffering from the attack as well.
But that didn't mean that it was the end.
"My turn," he smirked once the attack was over. "Gyarados, Whirlpool!"
May gaped as the water suddenly swirled into a whirlpool and sucked Delcatty into its vortex. She watched helplessly as her pokémon was tossed around and around, barely a blur in the violent waves. She hadn't expected for Gyarados to be able to recover that quickly from Delcatty's Thunderbolt. The attack was supposed to have crippled Gyarados at least! Drew had trained one heck of a pokémon if it was capable of withstanding a blow like that.
As if he could read her mind, Drew glanced across the field at May. Emeralds clashed with sapphires, and then he smirked. Very arrogantly.
May felt herself reach her boiling point as her fists reflexively clenched at her side. Oh, how much she wanted to hit him in that moment.
After pummeling its victim, the water finally spat Delcatty back out onto a platform. The pokémon coughed out a mouthful of water and struggled to get back on its feet, despite the protesting of its muscles. It was sore from head to toe from the assault, but it wouldn't go down so easily. Even with Gyarados's intimidating glare, it wouldn't let May down. With a shake of its fur to rid itself of the excess water, it concentrated on making a Wish.
The audience watched in awe as Delcatty's Wish came true. A golden glow surrounded its body, restoring the energy that it had lost and relieving the pain in its body. When it eventually faded, an unscathed Delcatty stood tall, staring defiantly into the eyes of Gyarados and completely ready for its trainer's next command.
May smiled to herself. She mentally praised her pokémon for the quick thinking. Using Wish to restore its energy? Brilliant.
Drew, however, wasn't impressed. He frowned to himself as he glanced over at the display screen, only to find that May was beating him. By a small amount, but she was beating him nonetheless.
Glancing back from the screen to look at her, he saw that she was smirking at him now. Almost as if her smirk sucked up all of his arrogance from earlier, it was practically the word hauteur against her skin.
He glared back at her and she bit her bottom lip to hold back a laugh. She was taunting him, he knew that.
But damn was that an enticing look.
"Use Flamethrower, Gyarados!" he commanded to distract himself from May.
"Delcatty, Copycat!" May called right after.
A funnel of flames blasted from Gyarados's gaping mouth, firing its way to Delcatty.
Using Copycat, Delcatty simply mimicked its opponent and opened its mouth, releasing a Flamethrower of its own.
Delcatty's Flamethrower spiraled its way through the air to meet Gyarados's. Right when the two attacks met, an explosion erupted in between them, and they disappeared into a large puff of smoke.
"Gyarados, Dragon Rage!"
Gyarados reared its head back to conjure a massive sphere in its mouth, concentrating so that all of its rage was put into the attack. As it fed the sphere more rage, the orange globe grew bigger and bigger. Once it reached an ample size, Gyarados let it go in the direction that it had last seen Delcatty standing.
"Delcatty, Protect!" May called quickly as she saw the orb fly.
Drew scoffed at her in his head. Surely she didn't think that a simple Protect could keep his gyarados from inflicting any damage on her delcatty. It could still attack Delcatty from underneath.
"Gyarados, Dive!"
The smoke from the two Flamethrower attacks cleared a moment too late for Delcatty. By the time the smoke disappeared, Gyarados was already no where in sight. Having been within the thick barrier of the dome that was its Protect, it hadn't heard the command that Drew had given Gyarados. Its ears flickered in alarm as it tried to figure out Gyarados's location.
"Delcatty! Watch out!" May cried at her pokémon, but it was already too late.
With a ferocious roar, Gyarados resurfaced from the pool and slammed into Delcatty's platform with immense force, sending the feline flying straight into the pool.
May's points began to dwindle down as Delcatty tried to get back to the surface of the water. The more it struggled, the more points May lost. She was only a small fraction away from being behind Drew, and with Delcatty struggling in the pool and Gyarados lurking in the water, she was sure that she wouldn't be ahead for long.
But she had a plan though. If all went well, her plan would work and she would win the battle.
If not...
"Gyarados, finish it with Iron Head!" Drew commanded before May could finish her thought.
There was no more time to think anymore. She had to act.
Gyarados gave another roar before it dove back into the water to let Drew know that it heard his command. It became a dark blur that inched closer and closer to Delcatty after it swam to the bottom of the pool.
May dug her nails into the palm of her hand as she followed its movements in the pool with her eyes. She prayed that it wouldn't attack Delcatty from beneath again.
Her prayers were answered when Gyarados appeared in front of Delcatty.
Perfect.
"Delcatty, Mud Bomb!"
A large mud ball launched forward from Delcatty's mouth and soared through the air.
The serpent in front of it froze at the sight of the ball, giving just enough time for the attack to reach it. It roared in pain when the mud exploded all over its eyes, depriving it of its sight.
Drew growled as the crowd gasped at May's save. He had thought for sure that Gyarados's Iron Head would have been the finishing blow for the battle. But now, with his gyarados blinded and only a little over a minute left of the battle, he didn't know if he could beat May.
So, he called the first attack that came to mind.
"Gyarados, Whirlpool!"
May smirked. It wasn't the move that she was hoping for exactly, but it had worked just fine.
"Delcatty! Use Blizzard on the edge of the pool and run!" she called.
Knowing what its trainer meant, Delcatty shot a Blizzard attack from where it was in the water all along the edge of the pool. Just as the water began to swirl at the center of the pool, it climbed onto the bridge that it made for itself and dashed off, successfully saving itself from being sucked into the water again.
Another growl left Drew's mouth as he watched Delcatty run. May's second save was certainly smart and creative, and his points suffered from it. Looking back at his Gyarados, who was still blinded, he growled a third time before calling the next attack that came to mind.
"Flamethrower, Gyarados!"
Gyarados paused for a moment to pinpoint the exact location of Delcatty. Instinct told it to fire the attack at a sixty degree angle, so it did just that. The Whirlpool seized in the pool as the flames managed to melt away the ice bridge just behind Delcatty, nearly setting the feline's tail on fire.
But Delcatty kept running even as Gyarados's Flamethrower followed behind it. The pokémon continued to run until it got close enough to a nearby platform in order to leap on. After doing so, it went on to bound to the next one, elongating its body to the fullest to make its strides as long as possible.
The next couple seconds went on in the same manner. Delcatty continued to leap from platform to platform as the blinded gyarados chased after it with Flamethrower. Whenever the next platform was too far away, Delcatty would simply shoot out a Blizzard attack to encase the top of the water in ice, building itself a bridge to help itself reach its destination.
All the while, Gyarados's Flamethrower continued to follow close behind it, melting away the ice bridges right after Delcatty ran off it. No one understood what it was exactly that Delcatty was doing, but Drew eventually realized what it was.
It was too bad that he had realized it a moment too late though—Gyarados's Flamethrower had already caused all of the water in the field to evaporate into thin air. All that was left was an empty pool.
"This is amazing! Delcatty managed to trick Gyarados into boiling the water in the field to the point where it all simply evaporated away! Looks like Gyarados can't use Whirlpool anymore! And with only fifteen seconds left on the clock and Gyarados still blinded, who'll win?" Lilian exclaimed excitedly into the microphone.
Turning around to glance quickly at the display screen, she gasped and then turned back around to announce what she saw.
"May's winning by a small fraction, folks!" she announced.
May sucked in a shaky breath at the news. She could do this. She was going to win. She just needed to finish the battle before time ran out.
"Delcatty! Finish this off with Thunder!"
Delcatty slid to stop at the bottom of the empty pool. It panted heavily, completely exhausted from all of the running that it had done. For a moment, it honestly considering lying down and giving the win to Gyarados, but it willed itself not to do it. It couldn't let May down—not when they were only seconds away from winning.
So, with every ounce of strength left in its body, it brought itself to conjure the largest thunderbolt it could before sending it flying toward Gyarados.
The attack crashed into Gyarados. Right when it did, Gyarados let out a deafening cry of pain that drowned out the gasps of the crowd and Drew's final command. It groaned as it collapsed to the bottom of the pool, writhing in pain. After a moment, its writhing seized.
Delcatty gritted its teeth as the impact of Gyarados's body shook the ground, forcing itself to remain standing until the buzzer went off. When it finally did, it let out a groan of pain before falling to the ground just as Gyarados did.
A moment passed as the two pokémon lay still.
But then, Gyarados suddenly surprised everyone by lifting half of its body off the ground.
"What just happened?" Lilian asked, more herself than anyone else.
She had thought for sure that May had won the contest since Gyarados fainted before Delcatty.
But now that Gyarados was conscious and Delcatty was still lying on the ground in an unconscious heap, what did it mean?
Mr. Contesta answered her question. "I'll just explain since I was probably the only one that heard Drew," he began. "You see, right before the Thunder attack reached Gyarados, Drew called for it to use Endure. He saw how close to fainting Delcatty was, so he must have taken the chance and hoped that Endure would be enough to keep Gyarados from fainting along with Delcatty for he would've definitely lost if Gyarados did so."
He paused to see if everyone was following what he said.
Drew nodded at him as if to tell him that he got everything precisely right.
Mr. Contesta nodded back and went on, "Luckily for him, Endure did the trick."
"So...what does this mean?" Lilian asked stupidly.
Mr. Contesta sighed.
"It means that Drew has won the contest."
May tapped her fingernails against her seat as she waited in front of the phone in the Pokémon Center lobby. The phone buzzed in her hand as it tried to get through to the person that she had called. She needed to talk to him more than anyone at the moment or else she would explode.
After losing the battle to Drew, she couldn't stick around to see him receive the ribbon. She had been so close, so close to winning the battle. If only the sly grasshead hadn't called that Endure then she would have won. Her points had been well ahead of his, her pokémon had been the last to faint—after the buzzer went off, too, if she may add—and yet he still managed to beat her.
It was a huge disappointment; she couldn't lie and say that it wasn't. If the victory hadn't slipped from her grasp just as she got it, she wouldn't have been so upset. But the fact that Drew still managed to beat her with a simple Endure was terrible. She just couldn't stick around and watch him gloat.
Especially when Brianna rushed out of the back room to give him a hug as the crowd applauded his victory.
So, there she was, sitting in front of a phone and sulking over her loss after making sure that her Delcatty was checked into the Pokémon Center. She obviously didn't blame it for her loss—it was her fault for being so stupid, after all—so she made sure that it received proper care before she did anything else. Delcatty would probably be more upset than she was when it woke up, anyway. It deserved some time to recover after fighting so hard. She was proud of her pokémon, she really was. It didn't let her down, but then again, she never thought that it would.
"Hello?" said a familiar voice coming from the phone that was pressed against her ear.
"Hi there," May greeted as happily as possible, a smile spreading across her lips at the sight of her best friend.
"May?" Gary gasped as he took in the sight of her on the screen. She was just as stunning as the last time he saw her. "I haven't seen you in so long! I'm so glad you called!"
"I know, it really has been a while! How are things in Sinnoh?"
"Things are going pretty good! I've just been helping Professor Rowan with some research, that's all. It can't be half as exciting as what you're probably doing on your journey, though."
May gave a halfhearted chuckle and shook her head.
"Believe me, I'm not doing anything exciting on this journey. I had more fun traveling with Ash, Brock, and my brother," she admitted.
"What? Is Drew mistreating you?" Gary asked with a frown.
He had already thought that it would be a bad idea for May to travel with the guy, but he had better not have done anything to hurt May on their journey.
You could say that, May thought to herself, but instead she said, "No, he's not. I just prefer traveling with more people as opposed to just one. I've always liked companionship, after all. You know that."
"Of course I do," Gary said, smiling at her.
May couldn't help but return the smile. Of course he would know. He knew her better than anyone.
"Are you going to Ash and Misty's wedding?" she asked to change the subject.
"Yeah. My grandfather's making me go, so I guess I have to."
"Aw, why are you making it sound like you're being forced?" May teased. "Here I was thinking that you would be thrilled to go to your best friend's wedding."
"You're my best friend, May," the young professor corrected with a cheeky grin. "And this isn't your wedding that I was invited to, thank Arceus." He paused to shudder. "But I'm just joking. I'm going out of my own free will. Can't miss my little Ashy-boy's wedding now, can I?"
"You're both twenty-three, Gary," May said with a playful eye roll. "He's not that much younger than you are."
"I was talking about his height..."
May had to laugh at that. Ash was pretty short for a guy. At least he was average height, though.
"But I am still five months older than him if you want to bring age into this."
"Oh, because that makes you so much older, huh?"
"Well, that makes me five years older than you, my dear."
"What does my age have to do with this?" May laughed. "We were talking about you and Ash!"
"It has everything to do with your age," Gary laughed back. "You're our little Maybear, remember?"
May groaned at the childish nickname. It had been so long since Gary or Ash had called her by the name. They had given it to her four years ago when she first started going to Lilycove University High. The two guys had clutched at one another, while mockingly crying out, "Our little Maybear's growing up!"
And then, they made sure to call her by that nickname every time they saw her until she made them both feel bad enough about it to stop. It was a straight two years worth of torture.
"Don't call me that again," she whined. "Not after all that begging I did."
Gary chuckled at the funny memory of May's pseudo crying as she begged himself and Ash to stop calling her Maybear in her junior year. It was so adorable that they couldn't bring themselves to call her by the name ever again.
"Alright, alright—I won't. I'll just stick with Mayflower, okay?" he offered.
"Yeah, that'll work just fine," May said fondly and with a grin.
She still remembered how she had gotten the nickname. They had stumbled upon some mysterious flowers in a forest a few years ago, and he had told her that they were as pretty as she were, thus naming them "May's Flowers". After discovering that they were, ironically, called mayflowers, he just decided to make Mayflower her nickname instead.
Her heart had pounded so hard in her chest at the time that she was sure that it would explode out of her and whack him in the face.
"Well, Mayflower, I should be getting back to Professor Rowan now. I told him I would be right back after I got something, but I'm sure I've taken longer than he expected."
"Aw, I was hoping to talk to you for a little while longer," May pouted, genuinely disappointed.
"I'm sorry," Gary said, looking rather reluctant to hang up himself. "When's the next time I'll be able to reach you through phone before Ash and Misty's wedding? I promise we'll have a longer conversation next time."
"I'm heading straight for Pallet Town next to pay Ash and Misty a visit before their wedding. Could I call you then?"
"Sure. I'll make sure to reserve some time for you."
"I'll hold you to that promise."
Gary chuckled, staring into her eyes through the phone.
"I'll be sure to keep it—I do miss you, after all," he murmured thoughtfully. His eyes dropped for a moment to stare off into space somewhere on his lap. Then, he seemed to snap out of whatever daze he was in and glanced back up at her. "I'll talk to you soon, May. Take care."
"Bye, Gary. You too," the brunette said, and then she hung up.
She sat in the seat for a moment, waiting for the fluttering in her stomach to come, but it never did. Then, she touched her cheeks to feel the blush, but there was no warmth. And her heart wasn't racing either when she put a hand against her chest.
How strange. All three of those things always happened after she saw Gary. Heck, they were always happening whenever she was simply thinking of Gary. Where were they now?
A giggle coming from the front doors of the lobby caught her attention, and May turned to see whom it belonged to. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw Drew and Brianna walking into the building with the redhead holding onto his arm. She met May's eyes for a brief moment before she turned to lean up and give Drew a kiss on the cheek.
May couldn't watch anymore. Pushing herself up from the chair, she made her way to the elevator as quickly as possible and hurried in to get to her room. The entire way there, she couldn't help but feel betrayed. The memory of Brianna kissing Drew on the cheek was enough to make her want to gag, and she ran her hand through her hair to calm herself once she entered her room. So many questions were running through her mind at that moment that she felt as if her head was splitting in half.
Why did she feel like Brianna was trying to make her jealous when she kissed Drew on the cheek? If so, then why did Brianna succeed in doing so? Why did she get so jealous just at the mere sight of Drew being with Brianna? Why did her heart skip a beat at the sight of him? Why did she even care so much about him?
She let out a frustrated growl and ran her hands through her hair again. No answers came. They never did.
"Are you okay?" someone asked.
May jumped and turned around to face the door of her room, only to meet the eyes of the cause of her stress.
"What're you doing here?" she asked him.
"I was just making sure that you were alright," Drew answered with a shrug, while he closed the door behind him.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
"Well, you left the contest building right after I won and didn't stick around to see me get the ribbon."
May narrowed her eyes at him.
"Did you come here to brag? Because if you did, then you can take your leave now," she snapped a little harsher than intended. Then, she turned back around so that she didn't have to look at him.
"No, I didn't," Drew insisted. "But if that's not the thing that's bothering you then what is it?"
"Nothing's bothering me!"
"I know you better than that, May. There's obviously something bothering you or else you wouldn't have ran to your room."
"I did not run back to my room!" the brunette nearly screamed as she turned back around to face him. "Just accept the fact that there isn't anything bothering me, leave me alone, and go back to Brianna!"
Drew was surprised to see how aggravated she looked.
"What does Brianna have to do with this?" he asked, even though he already had a hunch as to what the answer was.
"Isn't she your girlfriend? Go back to her. I don't think she'll appreciate you being in here with me."
A smile tugged at the corner of his lips.
"I never said she was my girlfriend."
"Well, your actions made it pretty damn clear!" she snapped.
"Language, May," he warned jokingly just to tease her. Then, he put all the humor aside. "What actions?"
"The rose? The kiss on her finger?"
"You know those things don't mean anything."
"Oh, are you sure they don't?" May scoffed. "Because I'm pretty sure they do."
Drew had to smirk. "Are you jealous?"
May blinked at the question, confused for a moment. Then it occurred to her that she had come off sounding a lot more jealous than she would have liked. The answers to her questions came to her then, too.
She liked Drew. She really liked Drew. She had fallen for Drew without even knowing.
Holy crap.
"No," she lied, diverting her gaze to hide the shock at the realization in her mind.
"You are, aren't you?" he accused, his smirk widening into a grin.
"I told you—I'm not," she lied again, turning around once more to avoid his all-too-knowing stare.
Drew took a couple steps forward and turned her around, making sure to grip her arms to keep her from turning around again.
"You are jealous," he stated. "Admit it."
"No, I'm not," May insisted stubbornly, looking everywhere but his eyes.
"Yes, you are."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
Drew sighed. "Yes, you are."
"Fine!" May growled, while breaking Drew's grip on her arms.
Then, she began to pace around the room in anger. He wanted to hear her say it, did he? Fine! He was going to hear it. He was going to hear it all.
"So what if I am?" she demanded, going into a rant. "Any girl would be jealous if the guy she liked started dating her friend!"
Drew beamed with glee. She finally admitted her feelings for him!
"You like me?" he asked, while taking a step closer to her pacing form.
"I don't want to be jealous!" May went on, completely missing his question. "It's the crappiest feeling in the world! Especially when I have to stand here and watch as you freakin' act all lovey dovey with her!"
"May..."
"I mean, giving her a rose and kissing her finger? Come on!"
"May?"
"What the heck is that? And doing it in front of me, no less! First, you give me roses, and then you give her one? Then, you kiss me accidentally, and then you kiss her intentionally? What the heck!"
"May!"
"What?" she cried in aggravation, stopping in her tracks to glare at him for interrupting her rant. "You've been driving me crazy for the past couple of days, and now you're screaming at me? What's your problem?"
Drew sighed and went to grab her around the wrists. "I'm not dating Brianna."
May gave him a disbelieving look.
"Oh, so she just decided to kiss you on the cheek in the lobby to piss me off and you let her because you're not dating her?" she challenged.
"She didn't kiss me on the cheek? She told me to go after you in my ear," Drew told her, honestly confused. When did Brianna kiss him?
"Why would she do that? She likes you."
"No, she doesn't."
"Yes, she does! She told me!" May argued.
"No, she doesn't!" Drew exclaimed back.
"Then why would she tell me that she did?"
"Because we were working together to make you jealous enough so you would admit your feelings for me!"
May's mouth fell open in shock.
"You guys did what?" she all but shrieked.
Drew took a deep breath before explaining.
"It was Brianna's idea," he began. "She saw me the morning after that night in the tent and she asked me what happened. I told her everything about the situation, and then she suggested that we use jealousy to try to get it out of you. Everything that's been happening in the past couple of days has been part of the act. She doesn't like me, I don't like her." He sighed. "And we're definitely not dating."
"Why would you do that?" May whispered, her mouth still slightly agape in disbelief.
"You're just so stubborn," he told her, exasperation evident in his voice. "There was no other way for me to get you to admit your feelings for me, so when Brianna suggested this plan, I just agreed. I was desperate, so I just went along with it."
"You jerk..."
"I'm sorry," he said, though he didn't look sorry in the slightest. His hands moved down to cup hers and he brought them up to his lips to plant a kiss on her fingers. "Forgive me?"
May bit her bottom lip to keep it from quivering.
"I should hit you so hard right now," she whispered, but the words lacked the anger to make them much of a threat.
Drew laughed as he let go of her hands. Then, he slowly went to take her face in between his hands, bringing it closer to his.
"Don't do that. You'll damage my beautiful face," he whispered.
May had to let out a small laugh.
"Arrogant jerk," she whispered back, feeling herself softening up.
Instead of answering, Drew simply smiled and closed the distance between their lips.
It felt like a million sparks were flying around them the minute their lips touched.
Finally, he was finally kissing her. Really kissing her. And she was kissing him back. She finally admitted her feelings for him, and she was kissing him back. Willingly.
The feeling was amazing. Her soft lips were even better than he had imagined. He had been aching to kiss them for months, and he was finally able to do so. And now, he was sure that he would be able to kiss her from now on whenever he wanted. That one fact was enough to get his heart soaring.
After a while of meaningful kissing, Drew pulled back to get some air and to look into her sapphire eyes. When he saw the smile on her face, he beamed back at her and then bent back down to reattach his lips to hers.
He pecked them once. Then, he did it again. And again. And again.
He didn't stop until he felt that he had made up for all of the kisses that they had missed.
"So, is everything okay, now?" Brianna asked when she saw Drew and May walking down to the lobby.
Judging by their intertwined fingers, she assumed the answer was yes. But it didn't stop her from eying the pair warily, especially May.
"Yep, everything's okay, now. Thanks, Brianna," Drew answered, grinning at her before looking down at May. His girlfriend, May.
Arceus, was it amazing for him to be able to call her that from now on.
"Awesome!" Brianna beamed, but then her smile fell as she glanced at May. "You're not mad at me, are you?"
"Nope," May assured her, a grin playing at the corners of her lips.
She couldn't thank Brianna enough, how could she even think to be angry at her? She lied, sure, but it was because of her lie that got her and Drew together. She hadn't realized just how much she had wanted it to happen until it finally did. It was taking every ounce of her willpower to keep herself from crushing the girl in a hug for all that she had done for her. The gratitude she felt swelled in her heart.
"Great! My plan was a success!" Brianna cheered, clapping her hands together happily. "Now, let's go get some dinner! It's on Drew!"
Said guy blinked. "Says who?"
"You? You promised that if my plan worked, then you'd treat us all to a nice dinner as a reward, remember?"
"I'm pretty sure I didn't," Drew insisted, even though he was pretty sure that he did. "Besides, the sight of us being together should be enough of a reward for you. You don't need a nice dinner."
"Dude, you cut my finger with a rose."
"I didn't cut you with a rose," he scoffed. "Plus, I gave you a kiss to make it feel better."
Brianna frowned. "No, I think you just infected it with your cooties."
Drew rolled his eyes as May laughed merrily.
"Real mature," he muttered, while he glared at the both of them.
"You just have no sense of humor," Brianna insisted as she turned around to head out of the lobby. "Let's go get dinner."
As Drew and May followed her, Brianna couldn't help but let out a breath of relief. Thank Arceus that they finally got together; it was about time, and she had begun to get really tired of lying to May. It was hard to lie, especially to a friend. It had never been her strong suit, since she always considered it bad. But she guessed that if a simple lie could bring two people together then it wouldn't make her conscience haunt her.
With those thoughts in mind, she smiled to herself and began to lead the way to the nearest restaurant. She wanted her reward.
But she had to wash her hands to rid them of Drew's cooties first, of course.
Author's Note: Psh, did I not tell you all that Brianna was a good character? Don't be mean to her anymore! She got Drew and May together! :D Hehe, hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks for reading! Reviews are very muched appreciated!