Chapter 29: Bowling For Headaches


AJ returns to the pool area with Ash, but only to be smothered by Sakura and Domino's affection. He manages to apologize to Sakura for making her cry and both make up. While everyone is relaxing, Domino claims to May that AJ can beat Ash at anything. May takes that as an insult and ropes Ash into proving Domino wrong. Sakura ropes AJ into the battle as well.

Both teens are stuck on two floating buoys in the middle of the pool while trying to knock the over one off with a noodle. AJ ends up losing to Ash and May brags about to Domino. She in returns grabs May's ear and twists it.

There are a few more interrupts while everyone is relaxing such as Domino hugging AJ or Melody trying to remove her bikini. However, the main interruption comes from AJ asking Domino about why she always wears her hat. With Alexis' help, everyone discovers Domino has extremely long hair and is ashamed of it until she discovers that AJ might like her with long hair. Everyone now has left the pool and the day is slowly creeping by…


Day 15: 2:01 pm


Somewhere on the second floor, May is dragging AJ by the hand to a room she wants him to see. "What's the big deal about this room anyways?" he asked her, "Why did you have to take me away from watching TV?"

"Anymore TV you watch and you'll grow into couch potato and will be unable to move!" she told him, "Is that a good enough explanation for you or do I need to get a little psychical?" AJ looked at her strangely and shivered.

"Are you trying to creep me out?" he asked her, "You know my phobia!"

She rolled her eyes and said, "I'm not trying to be sick or anything. What I mean by psychical is that I'll kick your…" AJ sneezed, but still heard what she said.

"… so hard that you'll be sorry!" she said sweetly.

"A little tough talk eh?" he asked her and she nodded, "Damn it! You win there." She smiled and led him on until they reached a door that was locked.

"It's locked," he said trying the knob and then he said to her cocking an eyebrow, "You brought me all the way to a locked room? I'm missing the CSI marathon because of this!"

"You can guess why I want you here," she said with an emotionless look, "You know what I want…"


"Oh where oh where did my little AJ go?" Domino sang as she peered into different rooms all over the first floor, "Oh where oh where can he be?" She had been looking for AJ for a little bit. She wanted to see if he wanted to watch a movie.

"Isn't that song a little below you?" Ash asked her as he tapped on her back, "That song is for little kids." She stood up and turned around to face him.

"What do you want?" she asked annoyed, "You know I don't like you!"

"I know that," he said, "I also read your myspace page, it clearly states that. Anyways, have you seen May? I was going to ask her something."

"Oh!" Domino said with a grin, "Did you lose your girlfriend?" Ash's jaw dropped and he blushed.

"NO!" he said, "She is not my girlfriend!"

"Hooray!" said Casey and Melody together bursting out of a closet next to Domino and Ash, "We still have a chance! We will not give up!" They giggled, hugged him, and then run off.

"How much do you suppose a bodyguard cost?" he asked Domino.

"Not enough money in the world can stop those two," Domino said, "But back to your question, nope. I haven't seen May around."

Misty the walked by them, but stopped. "May?" she said, "I saw her upstairs with AJ on the second floor. She was leading him somewhere by the hand. I wonder where she was going anyways? She seemed excited."

"She's stealing my AJ!" Domino said horrified.

"You have no proof of that!" Ash claimed.

"Hell with you!" she growled at him, "I must rescue my AJ!" She then took off running for the staircase.

"I might as well go find AJ and May," Ash said to Misty next, "I suppose AJ and May will be needing some rescuing from Domino I bet." He then took of fast to catch up with Domino.

Misty stood there in the hallway alone for a bit. She sighed and shrugged, "I might as well check this out. This sounds like it might led to a fight. I need something exciting for this afternoon so I can survive it." She then left and hurried off after Ash and Domino.


"This place has everything!" May said clamping her hands together excitedly, "Who would of thought that this place would have this?" They were standing in the room and looking around it. It was a bowling alley. It had four lanes, computers to keep track of score, and two ball returns.

"Whatever," AJ said, "We came, we saw, and we can now go." He began to turn around, but May grabbed his arm and dug her nails into his arm.

"You are not going anywhere," she said, "I want to play a game! It's really no fun playing by yourself, so you'll be playing with me!" She gave him a smile and started to look at the selves with the bowling balls on them.

"What makes you think I'll play?" he asked her.

"After seen Flubber?" she asked him, he nodded and she continued, "Do you remember the scene where that crook got hit in the head with a bowling ball?"

"Yeah," he said.

"That hurt a lot I imagine," she said picking up a bowling ball and then waving it in front of him, "But that is just a movie. Do you want to find out if it hurt a lot?"

"No," he said. She gave another smile and dropped the ball onto one of the lanes' ball returns. She turned and faced the lane then. All of a sudden, Domino rushed into the room and tackled May from behind.

"What the hell?" May said as she laid on the ground with Domino holding her down, "What the hell is going on?!"

"Try and steal my AJ away?" she growled, "I'll show you that he only belong to me!" Misty and Ash rushed into the room and grabbed Domino by the arms. They then dragged her off May and away from her.

"Try and steal your AJ?" May asked, "That's horse crap! I like him, but only as a friend."

"Hard to believe that when you tried to threaten me with a bowling ball," he mumbled. May overheard this and twists some of his skin on the back.

"See Domino?" Ash said releasing her, "May wasn't trying to steal AJ away! You overreacted for no reason at all!" She then socked him in the stomach with a powerful blow from her fist.

He dropped to his knees and said, "What was that for?!"

"I had a lot of blind rage," she said calmly, "I need to release it on something. You were the obvious choice for me!" He mumbled something under his breath and slowly got back to his feet.

"I heard something from in here," Sakura said sticking her neck in, "What is going on around here?"

"Not much," AJ shrugged, "May was just football tackle to the ground by Domino."

"Whew!" Alexis said walking in behind Sakura, "For a second there, I thought it was something important!" May then stomped on Alexis' foot.

"Aww!" Melody and Casey said glumly walking into the room with the heads lowered, "And we thought another one of our rivals was leaving the competition for Ash!"

"Since we are all here now," May said looking around, "Why don't we all have one big bowling game! We can separate into 2 teams!"

"Why should we play?" Misty asked her.

"Is there really anything else for us to do this afternoon," she answered.

"What about…" AJ said.

"Besides TV!" May said, "Is there really anything else?" A few of them mumbled, but nodded. They might as well do something! It was getting dull around here.

"Great!" May said, "Now we just need matching team uniforms for the bowling teams!"

"I hate bowling team uniforms!" Alexis said folding her arms, "I have seen what those people wear! Thos e clothes are so out of style!" May ignored her and looked into some of the lockers on the right side of the room.

In one of them, she discovered 5 light blue girl shirts and skirts. She then discovered 4 orange girl shirts and more skirts. "Will you look at that?" AJ nudged Ash, "The only uniforms are for girls!"

"I guess that is a shame," Ash lied, "I guess we can't play!"

"Oh well!" AJ said turning for the door along with Ash, "Guess I'll just go watch some TV!" May jumped in front of the door and blocked it.

"You two are going to bowl with us!" May hissed.

"Yeah!" Alexis said from behind the boys, "Just because the uniforms are for girls, doesn't mean you two can't play with us!"

"What are you...," AJ said suspicious, but then he realized what she meant, "Ah shista!"


Both boys… girls stood there so embarrassed about their situation. Ash was the orange shirt and orange skirt that didn't even reach her knees. She also now had light red hair that looked like orange that reached her shoulders and hazel blue eyes. She was skinny, but had big hips. "My hips look so big!" she cried, "The have to be at least the length of two basketballs!"

"Now that's not true," AJ sighed in her girl voice, "Stop being so upset by your looks." AJ, on the other hand, had long brown hair that reached her bellybutton. Her eyes with dark blue and her skin smooth. She was wearing the blue shirt that didn't reach her bellybutton and a long blue skirt that went to her knees.

"Why can't we vote on this?" Ash whined.

"Because no one would care what the results showed," Sakura said to him/her with a big grin. Ash sighed and wished she wasn't here.

"Didn't you learn your lesson last time you changed me?" AJ asked Alexis annoyed, "You really don't want a repeat of what happened before, right?"

"But I'm now smarter than before!" Alexis claimed, "Because I'm smarter you won't be doing anything odd!"

"Smarter now?" AJ asked confused, "You became smarter than last time? That was only this morning!"

"I'm a quick learner," she chimed, "Plus, I insure that it won't happen again. If you start to act funny, I'll hit you over the head with a chair and bowling ball! A two piece value, but only for the price of one!"

"Huh?" Casey said overhearing, "That made no sense!"

"So," Misty said looking around, "The teams are this I suppose. AJ, Alexis, Domino, and Sakura are taking on May, Ash, Melody, and Casey I suppose."

"Hey!" May said angrily, "You are playing as well!"

"But I'm the referee," Misty said.

"But there isn't a need for a…" May started, but Misty then stared hard at her with a threatening glare.

"I said I am referee!" she snarled, "And that's final!" May took two steps backwards in fear. She didn't like the look Misty was giving her. It made her feel cold and empty inside. She really didn't like that feeling.

"Hey!" Ash said pointing at Misty, "How come she gets to threaten you and you let her not play! I'll do the same thing!" She gave May and angry and mean look. May blinked her eyes for a few moments and let out a big giggle.

"He he!" she giggled, "You know, you look cute when you are angry! It especially helps you cute when you have that skirt and long hair on you. I so like you when you are cute!"

"I don't want to be cute!" Ash yelled aggravated by what was happening.

"Oh!" Melody said jumping into the discussion, "You really do look cute!"

"STOP IT!" she yelled again, "I DON'T WANT TO BE CUTE!"

"Can we just get this over with?" AJ said rubbing her hand against her skirt, "I feel weird and unconformable in this thing! I didn't understand skirts before the change, after the change, and now!"

"Well," Domino said after she finished setting up the computers for the game, "Everything is done. The lanes are on and the balls are chosen. AJ, you are up! Do good cutie!"

AJ groaned and picked up her ball. She tossed it down the lane and instantly got a strike. All the girls on her team clapped for her and cheered. "Whatever," she mumbled taking her spot.

"I'm next!" Melody said picking up her ball. She held it with two hands instead of one and didn't have her fingers in the ball. She tossed it down the lane and it rolled straight into the gutter.

"Hey idiot!" Domino yelled at her, "You are supposed to throw the ball down there with your fingers in the holes! Don't you know that?"

"I'm well aware of how this game plays," Melody said stiffly, "I just prefer to keep my fingers outside the ball, otherwise, I might break a nail!"

"What is with girls and their nails?" Ash mumbled out loud.

The ball came back then. Melody picked it up and did the same thing as before and as before it rolled into the gutter. She shrugged and went back to her spot. Sakura then got up for her team and tossed the ball down their. She scored hit 5 and hit 4 more on the next try.

Ash got up next and picked up her ball, but she struggled to. "Hey!" she moaned, "I can't lift this ball well! I could easily before, but why am I such a wimp? Maybe because I'm a girl and girls have no strength!"

"What you say about girls having no strength?" Domino asked Ash.

"Never mind," she mumbled. She moved her way to the lane and rolled it down there. It collided with the pins and knocked them all down!

"Yah!" she said jumping for joy.

"Hold that thought!" Alexis said pointing at the lane. Ash turned and looked there. All the pins all of a sudden stood up again and moved back to their original spots like nothing happened.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" she said, "WHAT GIVES?!"

"That's funny!" Sakura laughed, "Plus, the computer counted that as a complete miss!" Sakura, Misty, and Domino laughed and snickered at Ash then.

"That's it!" she growled picking up the ball once it returned, "Those pins are dead!" She tossed the ball down as hard as she could at the pins. The ball rolled down fast, but stopped in place only a few inches from the pins. It then tossed itself into the gutter and rolled away.

"WHAT?!" Ash said pulling her hair, "WHAT GIVES?"

"I guess certain people aren't meant to bowl," May said trying to hug Ash, "But you'll always be my number one and a cute winner!" Ash moaned and returned to her spot with May still clutching her.

Alexis was next up on her team. She got up, picked up her ball, and charged towards the lane ready to throw the ball. Unfortunately, when she wound up her tossed, she released the ball behind her. It went flying straight at Domino.

She screamed and jumped out of the way just as the ball crashed into her chair. "Are you trying to frickin' kill me!" Domino said nervously from her new spot.

"I could of found a better way to kill you then hit with a bowling ball," Alexis said, "You can have that kind of trust in me to find a better way."

"This game is going to take forever," May thought hitting her head on the computer, "And why do I have to have a terrible team?"

"Keep doing that and you'll have a terrible headache as well," AJ said commenting on what she heard May just say.


5 frames later, AJ kept hitting strikes, Sakura kept hitting nines, Ash and Melody ended getting mostly gutter balls, and everyone else was doing average. Ash was growing more and more frustrated which time she threw the ball down the lane. It would either, stop and roll into the lane, somehow bounce off the pins (without knocking them over) and go into the gutter, or it would just hit the pins, knock them over, and they would get back up again!

"I swear!" she grumbled, "It's like this game is rigged or something! Or it could be that my ball is being somehow controlled!"

"That's the stupidest thing I ever heard!" claimed Domino, but when no one was looking at her, she tossed a remote control away from her.

"Come on Ash… ley," snickered AJ, "I thought girls were supposed to show good sportsmanship!" Ash hissed at her then.

"Time for my turn!" May said. She picked up her ball and tossed it down. It rolled into gutter though.

"Crap," she mumbled watching it roll down the gutter. When it reached the pins, however, it bounced right out of the gutter, into the lane, and knocked down all the pins.

"Sweet!" May said jumping happily, "I did it! I don't know how, but I did it!"

"Does that count?" AJ asked confused.

"Maybe," shrugged Misty.

"What happened?" Alexis chimed.

"Weren't you watching?" asked Sakura.

"I don't think that ball counted," Melody said.

"What are we talking about anyways?" asked Domino.

"I think we are talking about how Family Guy is a dumb show," Ash replied.

"I believe a good TV show is West Wing," Casey spoke up.

"I'm living with a bunch of clueless idiots," May said sadly dropping her head in shame, "Why the hell me?"

Alexis went next. She picked up her ball and closed her eyes. Sakura noticed and asked her, "Why the hell are you closing your eyes? It seems a little bit a stupid to bowl blind don't you think?"

"I know," she said, "But I'm going to my special powers to help me see where to bowl!"

"You have special powers?" May asked her unconvinced.

"Of course!" she said smiling. She then tossed the ball down the lane as hard as she could. It started to drift to the gutter, but then it took a weird turn and collided with the middle pin. This caused a chain reaction to knock the down the rest of the pins.

"What the hell?" Ash asked her shocked as she walked back from the lane, "How the heck did you do that?!"

"Like I said," she said giving a sweet innocent smile, "I used my special powers to throw the ball in the right direction!"

"What are your powers anyways?" AJ asked.

"My girl instinct!" Alexis replied.

"That's the dumbest thing I ever heard!" AJ claimed. Alexis frowned and picked up one of the balls. She then proceeded to drop the ball onto AJ's foot.

"Instinct huh?" Ash said. She went over and picked up her ball. She closed her eyes and let loose the ball onto the lane. But she accidentally tossed it onto the other lane knocking down all the pins.

"Thanks for the free strike," Domino grinned as Ash opened her eyes to look for the ball.

"D'oh!" she mumbled.

"Some of us are just naturally gifted with these powers!" Alexis explained, "And the rest are pathetic people who cannot tap their instincts."


It was now the final frame. May and AJ's teams were tied. It was now just Melody and Sakura's turn. Sakura went first and knocked down 4 and then 5. "Ok," May said to Melody, "We need a spare or a strike here so listen to this well. But come closer please."

Melody leaned in to listen. May smiled and then screamed at the top of her lungs, "PUT YOUR FREAKIN' DAMN FINGERS INTO THE BOWLING BALL OR I'LL DO IT FOR YOU!"

Everyone jumped back, but Melody began to sway. "Whoa," she said, "I got a bad ringing in my ear now!"

"Just go out and play!" May said shoving the ball into Melody's grasp. Melody put her fingers into the ball and tossed it down the lane. The ball knocked all but the 10 pin down.

"This game is almost all over, but the crying," Alexis mumbled. Melody took a deep breath when her ball returned and tossed the ball down. It began to swerve at the pin, but then it rolled towards the gutter and then back at the pin, then back at the gutter, and then…

"Ok," Casey said following the ball down the lane with her head, "I'm starting to get dizzy, will this ball just stay in straight line or something?"

The ball then collided with the last pin and knocked it down, insuring the win for Melody's team. All of her team began to jump up and down happily while the other began to cry. "Ok," Alexis said wiping the tears from her eyes after a few moments, "Now that the crying is here, the game is over. I'm out of here!"

She then ran out of the room quickly. All of a sudden, AJ realized something, "Hey wait a minute!" she said chasing after Alexis, "Turn me back now!"

At that moment too, Ash stopped jumping. "Something wrong?" Casey asked.

"I got to go to the bathroom," she said blushing.

"So?" Misty asked.

"Umm…" Ash said looking down at her skirt, "How do… you girls… umm… this is very embarrassing, but… how do you… go the bathroom anyways?"

"This could be a problem explaining it to you!" May said heading out the door, "I better go find Alexis to change you back now!" She headed out and started to comb the halls.

She then finally stopped at one, because she found both AJ and Alexis. But not what she would expect to find. AJ was still a girl only adding to weird factor. Both Alexis and AJ, were lip-locked in a deep kiss.


Author Notice: Don't you love it how I just leave you on these kinds of cliffhangers? Betcha you never ever would of saw that one coming at you! Now to leave you all in bitter suspense!

Someone mention that I keep focusing on AJ all the time. For this chapter, I tried to focus it on May and her interest in bowling. Was it a good idea?

It is that time of month again! Time to announce the Top 5 Stories of the Month! The Top 5 for November are:

1. Synchronicity By: Alexia Kyrcek

2. ReiShine By: Digital Skitty

3. Yearning to be Free By: Amber20

4. Pokemon XSD: Windstorm of Cyclones By: Patinator

5. The Matter of Choice By: Dearing

You know what is also this month? At the end of this month, I began the competition for Award Show! All the people competing are listed on my Profile! Go see if you are competing, who you are competing against, or see who is in the run!

In the next chapter… I'm either going to have Ash and AJ battle it out in a Pokemon battle or have to think of something else. See you until that time.


Next to Come: Chapter 30

Date: 12/8/06

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