I planned on starting this chapter a long time ago…days ago really but I literally had absolutely no clue how to go about it. Every single idea flew through my mind and every idea wasn't up to par with what I expected of myself. I've been putting a lot of pressure on myself, especially after the last chapter. I don't know where this may lead, but I trust myself. I haven't let myself down before when I had no clue what I was doing. Ninety percent of the time I have no clue what I'm doing. It's nothing new. Hopefully this next chapter comes out better than what I expect and what you all expect. Thanks for reading.

~Rolyn~

Chapter Twenty Five: Perfect

Drew shut the door quietly behind him before moving to pull on the dress shirt that he'd been wearing the night before. He didn't button it closed, or even bothered to put on pants. It was six in the morning. He didn't expect any of the girls to be up, but he did make a mental note to at least leave a t-shirt and sweatpants here since he spent half of his time in the Dragonite House.

He padded through the house quietly, passing by Dawn and Alex's room. He could hear Dawn snoring lightly; she was very tired out from all the dancing she had done the night before. Alex probably was equally as tired. Marina was usually the first one up. She had always been an early riser and ever since she had gotten further into her pregnancy, her wake up time was usually around seven in the morning. He thought he heard Jason's voice last night, so he was probably hiding away in his sister's room. He'd chew his best friend out later.

Brushing his chartreuse hair out of his face, Drew strode lazily into the kitchen in hopes of finding something other than water to drink and maybe a snack if he felt so inclined. He didn't plan on staying down in the kitchen. He wanted to get back to May before she woke up. Drew couldn't help but smile at the thought of the brunette and the night they shared. As awkward and clumsy as it was, it was perfect in every sense of the word. He just hoped that she felt the same way.

"Morning!"

"Jeez!" Drew jumped back at least a foot as his heart skipped a beat. Samia smirked around the rim of her mug as she tentatively sipped whatever steaming beverage she had made for herself from it. It was probably coffee - she hated tea. Drew took in a deep breath and shook his head at the short girl seated at the kitchen island. "What are you doing here?"

"I do live here on the weekends, and today is Saturday." Samia sighed as she set down her mug. "I just got in actually. I was supposed to come yesterday, but I held off since I knew it was Homecoming for you guys, but let us forget about me for a moment and focus on the fact that this is the Dragonite house and I'm pretty sure you aren't a Dragonite." Samia's smirk broadened. "Not to mention your state of undress would leave a girl to wonder."

She gestured to exposed chest and lack of pants and the green haired boy blushed uncharacteristically.

"I didn't expect anyone to be awake." Drew murmured dodging her question as he approached the fridge. Her eyes followed him and she watched him with a perked brow as he pulled out a bottle of apple juice that had Rolyn's name scrawled all over it in permanent marker.

"I didn't either. I was just about to head up to bed myself…maybe wake up in the afternoon or something." Samia replied as she played with the handle of her mug and tore her gaze away from the leader of the Flygon boys.

"So, how was Homecoming?" She pried.

Drew shrugged as he poured himself a cup of apple juice. "It was pretty fun, actually. No issues minus for a minor run in with Jasmine and her friends. Other than that, it wasn't such a bad night." Drew supplied vaguely.

Samia nodded, smiling knowingly.

"I bet it was a pretty good evening for you." She said aloofly. Drew eyed her with narrowed green eyes before he took a step towards her.

"What are you getting at?"

"Oh please Drew, I didn't graduate at the top of my class for nothing. I'm an observant person…I'm good at reading people and despite your abilities to constantly remain aloof and detached, you are giving signs hinting towards one thing." She said smartly as she nodded towards him. "You're practically glowing!" She added with a laugh.

Drew blushed for the second time. He didn't talk to Samia often, but any time he did, he almost felt like a child. She never belittled him, but she treated him the same way he treated others. He wondered if this was how May felt whenever he spoke to her. It wasn't that it was a bad feeling. It was just weird.

"Your blush gives it all away," she sang cocking her head to the side. "I'm sure you and May had a lot of fun last night, but I don't plan to keep you from her any longer. I'm beat." Right on cue, the short girl with the dark hair yawned daintily.

"Can you not mention...it to anyone?" Drew said quickly as he watched Samia hopped down from her island stool and went to go put her mug in the sink. She'd return to wash it later after she had a little sleep under her belt. Catching the early train to Jewel took a little out of her.

"You accuse me for being a gossip, I'm a little wounded," Samia sighed as she left Drew to his own devices in the kitchen. Drew watched her go before releasing a sigh and downing the rest of his sister's juice that he was sure she wouldn't miss.

Blowing out a puff of air, Drew decided to go on his way as well. He shut off the lights in the kitchen and took the stairs two at the time before quickly returning to May's room. Once again, he shut the door behind him as quietly as he could in hopes to not wake up his brunette and once the door clicked shut, he felt safe.

"It's not that hard to notice when your body pillow disappears." He heard her drowsy voice grumble into her pillow. Drew's brow furrowed briefly before May turned her head to the side for him to see her blue eyes cracked open. She smiled sweetly at him while waving her arm around lazily, silently telling him that she wanted him to return to bed.

Drew laughed behind closed lips before approaching the bed, stripping his shirt off as he went. May pulled up the bed-sheets, careful to keep her naked body covered – despite what they had done, she still clung to her modesty. Drew slid closer to her in the full sized bed and wrapped his arm around her bare waist. May brought herself against him and rested her head on his chest before smiling fondly.

"I'm sorry that I woke you up." He murmured into her hair before pressing a kiss to the top of her head. May's smile broadened.

"You didn't." She sighed. "I had to pee."

Drew couldn't help but laugh. May was a true delight even with her odd innocence and naivety.

"I heard you talking to Sam downstairs…what about?" She questioned as she lifted her head so that she was resting her chin on his chest and looking up into his eyes.

"She asked how Homecoming was before deciding to head to bed." He responded vaguely. She didn't need the details about how Samia's sharp mind easily pieced together that he and May had been together intimately for the first time.

"I wish she could have been there." May yawned.

"You're still tired…" He pointed out. May simply gave him a long blink before nodding lazily at him. "I'm sorry, next time I'll take it easy on you." He smirked and May snapped her eyes open to give him a narrowed eyed look. In spite of this, May's cheeks flushed at the mention of a next time.

"That is not something to be arrogant about." She ground out laying her head flat against his chest again. She could feel the rumble of his light laugh and nuzzled his chest.

"I'm sorry…" he said quietly. "But…are you okay? Did you like it?" Drew sounded like a kid; May could almost laugh, but she knew how awkward this was for him. Last night it had been as simple as breathing, but right now they were just talking. She could admit she felt closer to him when she felt like they would never be closer and she liked it.

"Of course I liked it!" May murmured into his chest. "I loved it and I'm fine. If I wasn't meant to handle it, I wouldn't have been born a girl." She joked. She felt the rumble of Drew's laugh again and another kiss was pressed to the crown of her head. She couldn't help but smile contentedly. This was perfect. Everything was perfect.

"Are you sure, honey? You have time to make these decisions." Jennifer said with a slight pout as she stared at her daughter through the computer screen. Rolyn smiled anxiously while shrugging. She had only woken up an hour ago before her computer started going off signaling she was getting an incoming video call. Since the only people she ever video called were Nate or her parents, she went with the latter knowing Nate was probably still asleep. There was a small time difference between Hoenn and Jewel. "We can postpone the date! A summer wedding instead of a Spring one. You can married after your birthday."

"I'm sticking with May 5th, Mom," Rolyn said with a tone of finality. Jennifer sighed deeply.

"I just don't want you to rush things…" She said quietly. Rolyn smiled fondly at her mother. Jennifer was always so worried about, not only her daughter but both her children. Drew dealt with just as many video calls as his sister from their eccentric mother. Their father only called maybe three times a week just to make sure everything was alright while Jennifer called twice a day to get a minute by minute replay of what was going on. "I want everything to be perfect for you. You deserve nothing short of the best because you are my little Princess and Princesses always get the best."

Rolyn nodded in understanding. "I know, Mommy," She laughed. Jennifer beamed.

"I can't believe my little girl is getting married." She sniffled dramatically. Rolyn laughed behind closed lips just as Jason came out of the master bathroom connected to her room. Rolyn glanced over her shoulder at him and quickly whipped around when she only found him clad in a towel while running a second one through his hair. Rolyn was glad her mother was too busy talking to notice. "I can't say I am not that surprised, though. The Alvarez family were very headstrong people. Amy didn't give me a choice when we became friends. I always found her to be quite strange, but I valued her initiative nonetheless."

"Yea," Rolyn laughed awkwardly just as Jason took notice of her talking to her mother. The green eyed boy came up behind her and smiled at Jennifer over her shoulder. From that position, Jennifer wouldn't be able to see his lack of clothing.

"Hey Mrs. Hayden," He greeted. Jennifer beamed at him in return.

"Jason, it's so good to see you. Rolyn didn't even tell me you were there." She said quickly.

"For a reason." Rolyn grumbled to herself.

"You're looking as handsome as ever, Jason. If I was a couple decades younger and not madly in love with Darren, Rolyn would certainly have some competition." Jennifer nodded in an affirming fashion and Rolyn resisted a groan as she brought her hand to her forehead. Jason laughed awkwardly while shrugging. "Well, I won't keep the two of you any longer. You probably have plans. Rolyn, I'll call you later about more details, alright Princess?"

"Sure, Mom." Rolyn sighed with a smile. Jennifer smiled right back before the connection was cut and the screen saver of Rolyn with all of her Pokémon came up. Rolyn released a deep breath as she ran a hand through her hair. "I love the woman, but she has been all over me lately."

"No, I think that's me." Rolyn turned towards Jason and gave him a blank look. The green eyed bow smirked in return before pressing a kiss to her nose that made her blink. "She just loves you…people tend to bother the people they love mercilessly." He said as he moved away from her and let his towel drop.

Rolyn quickly turned away, her cheeks flushing. "Yea, you would know about that, wouldn't you? How long have you been a thorn in my side, I will never know, and yet you say you do it all out of love." She sighed as she peaked at him out the corner of her eye. He was just tugging on a pair of sweatpants that he let her keep. She turned to face him fully as he reached for the undershirt he had been wearing the previous night. She had to admit, Jennifer really wasn't kidding when she called the boy handsome. He was unmistakably a piece of walking sex as Alex would put it…although she'd never say that about Jason.

"A pricking thorn gets more of a reaction than a piece of cotton, sweetie." Jason said smartly as he approached her once again at her desk. He crouched down in front of her and Rolyn perked a brow. "One can only hold your attention for so long…"

"You always have my attention." She retorted. Jason smiled, taking one of her hands and stroking the back of it tenderly with the pad of his thumb.

"And for that, I'm grateful…" He said quietly before pressing a kiss to her knuckles. Rolyn bit the inside of her cheek as they began to burn with a blush. "You have no idea how much I love you, Rolyn."

Rolyn smiled. "Enlighten me, then…"

Jason smirked. "But I just took a bath…"

"Not like that, pervert." She ground out as she swung a fist at his head. He ducked just in time for her to miss. She narrowed her eyes at him briefly.

"What would you have me do for you then, my darling?" Jason bowed his head dramatically and Rolyn giggled.

"I just want to spend the day with you…no one else, just the two of us." She said hesitantly. Jason lifted his head and brought his eyes to meet her. He could see the hope in her eyes. He had to admit, even he couldn't remember a time where it was just her and him for more than an hour. Their friends were so tight knit and so busy, it was hard to find time for yourself.

"For you, Princess, I'd spend eternity with just the two of us."

"Arceus no…I need my girlfriends every once in a while." She laughed. Jason pouted. "But since you are my fiancé, I guess you have a little leeway over them." She added. Jason grinned.

"So what do you want to do today? Go out to dinner? A stroll along the beach? Maybe I could take you shopping?"

"How about we get a couple of superhero movies, a horde of food and a couple of video games and leave it at that?" She offered in an unsure tone with a shrug.

"Holy crap, I love you so much!" Jason groaned as he feigned fainting. Rolyn giggled once again and shook her head at him. "Where have you been all my life?"

"Right here." Rolyn laughed with a roll of her eye.

"Oh yea…" Jason laughed along with her before leaning up and pressing a kiss to the ebony haired girl's lips. "I'll get the video games and the movies. You get the food?"

"Deal." Rolyn smiled against his lips.

"Can you pass me the confectionery sugar and the cream?" Dawn inquired as she pointed towards the medium sized bag of powdery sugar. Paul glanced at the bag before quickly handing it over to the navy haired girl and heading towards the fridge to get the cream she had asked for. When he returned with the carton, he found his girlfriend measuring out the sugar before moving to get a stick of butter from around on the many metal mixing bowls they had out.

Paul had no intentions of baking…ever really, but he knew how much Dawn liked to do it, so after the navy haired girl had called saying that no one was around and that she had nothing to do, he offered for her to come over…and bake. The purple haired boy even surprised himself. He maintained an impassive expression as Dawn went to work, asking for this or for that and mixing whatever together to create the tie-dye cupcakes and rainbow cookies.

She didn't force him to help her, which he was happy about. She said his company was enough and in between her focusing on her concoctions, she would talk to him about simple and uncontroversial things. He even found himself smiling more than he ever thought he could in one day. Dawn just had that kind of effect on him. He made a mental not to spend more time with the navy haired girl he was so enraptured with.

He watched as she dropped practically half a stick of butter in her mixture of powdered sugar and cream and he furrowed his brow. "What are you making?" Her jerked his chin towards the bowl she was currently working with. Dawn glanced between him and the bowl and smiled. This was the first time today that she hadn't spoken first.

"I'm making icing." She explained simply.

"Butter in icing?" He questioned. Dawn simply nodded as she began to work the butter into the thick mixture. Paul watched as her arm tensed as she did so. Her hand was getting red from all the mixing too.

"It makes buttercream icing which is my favorite. I'm sure you've had it, too." She said as she continued to force her wooden spoon through the mixture. Earlier on, Paul had offered that they use the mixer that Jason had purchased a while back but Dawn had refused, claiming that there was nothing better than doing everything by hand when it came to baking. It was the clumps in it that made it authentic.

"Let me try." Paul demanded holding out a hand towards the navy haired girl. For a second time, Dawn glanced between the bowl and her boyfriend before reluctantly releasing the spoon and sliding the bowl towards him. Paul immediately went to work, mixing the icing harder and faster than Dawn had.

"Calm down!" She laughed reaching for the bowl. Paul shot her a narrowed eyed look as he pulled the bowl just out of her reach. Dawn rolled her eyes. "Fine, but go a little slower. If you mix it like that, it'll be too thin."

"Whatever…" Paul grumbled as he return to mixing, but this time at a slower pace. Dawn smiled and nodded in approval. After watching him for a moment, she couldn't help but giggle. His brow was furrowed in concentration and his lips were lightly parted as the tip of his tongue poked out in his focus. If the other's saw Paul now, they'd never connect him to the sarcastic, nonchalant, reserved, smart-mouth guy they all saw him as…then again, Dawn was just fine with being the only one that saw this side of Paul. It was special for her.

"You could be the next cake boss." She joked as she leaned against the counter. Paul narrowed his eyes at her briefly before turning his eyes back on the bowl of icing he was mixing. "Okay, but I'll have you know it is a fact that girls are much more into guys that bake. It's unbelievably sexy."

Okay, it wasn't really a fact, but Paul didn't know that.

"Is that so?" Paul breathed. He didn't look up as he spoke. Dawn nodded while humming in confirmation. "Then you must find me enthralling right about now." He sighed. Dawn could catch the slightest hint of a crooked smirk on his lips. She couldn't stop the blush coming to her cheeks.

"I dunno," She giggled with a shrug. "You're still a beginner."

"I'll put more practice in." He retorted playfully.

"Don't think that baking for me is gonna make me put out." She said quickly. Paul glanced up at her. There was a recognizable spark in his dark eyes that made her giggle again.

"I don't have to bake for you to put out."

Dawn gasped. "Are you calling me easy?"

Paul chuckled inwardly.

"No, I'm just saying I'm talented. I don't think you can really disagree." He glanced at her briefly and her cheeks flushed a bright red as she moved around the kitchen island and took the bowl. Paul blinked in surprise as she pulled the spoon out of the mixture and set it to the side.

"That's finished." She said with finality. Paul perked a brow at her before shrugging. "We can go on to mixing the food coloring into the batter. What color should the cupcakes be? I was thinking pink and blue."

"Whatever colors you want." He sighed. Dawn pursed her lips.

"You're no fun." She grumbled as she pulled out the pink food coloring along with the blue one.

"I just think whatever you choose would be best." Paul responded automatically. "My opinion doesn't matter because I trust your judgment. Besides, it's just cupcakes." Paul shrugged and Dawn glanced at him before smiling lightly.

"Whatever, Paul…"

"I'm just glad I could spend time with you." He added quickly.

Dawn blinked in surprise. Paul rarely said such sweet things, if he even talked at all and while at times it was frustrating for the youngest of the Dragonite girls, it made these small moments all the more meaningful.

"You're so sweet," She gushed as she turned towards him and wrapped her arms around his neck. Paul eased his arms around her midsection. Usually it would take a bit of coaxing for him to ever return a hug but as of lately Dawn has found Paul responding to physical affection almost immediately. "I love you." She giggled while pressing her cheek to his chest. Paul smiled down at her fondly, but it was brief.

"Love you, too…" He murmured while stroking her dark hair. She giggled again as she hugged him tighter. "Alright, why don't we finish these cupcakes and get to work on the cookies? By the way, don't push it with the lovey-dovey crap. You won't hear any more of it from me."

Dawn threw her head back with laughter. Times like these were perfect.

I really struggled at the end there, but I am getting more confident in my personification of Paul. It's hard to write fluff with him because whatever comes out of his mouth is usually a threat or insult. I'm not gonna try and overcomplicate him or match him too closely to his character in the show. I had fun in the beginning, too. I like picturing Drew as the lesser in a situation and I like making him feel nervous and awkward because he never is unless it has to do with May, right? Anyways I think this chapter can be seen as sort of a filler. Next chapter we'll get a move on with dates and stuff…not dates like going out, just to clarify. Thanks for reading.

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~Rolyn~