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"Any ideas?" Dawn asked, tapping a notepad with her pencil, chewing slightly on her lip.
"What is there to think about?" May asked. "Drinks and naked men. Sorted."
"Good plan." Misty nodded in approval.
"This is Suzy's big send off into married life!" Dawn exclaimed. "We need something more than drinks and naked men."
"That's all I had." May shrugged.
"Well Suzy is a little different from you, I think she'd want a classy dinner at least." Dawn said, writing her idea on the pad.
"Are you implying I'm not classy?" May fake gasped, clutching her heart.
"Of course not! You're one of the classiest women I know." She winked, finishing her scribble.
"And don't you forget it." May nodded.
"Here's what I suggest we do. Go out for dinner, have a few drinks, come back to the hotel and get the champagne flowing…" Misty started but May soon cut her off.
"You know what champagne does to you." May warned, flashbacks of her wedding flashed through her mind.
"I'm celebrating it's allowed, now let me finish my plan." May just nodded, allowing Misty to continue. "So we come back here for champagne and suddenly the police burst in and get naked for us."
"Why would the police get naked for us?" Dawn asked in confusion.
"Because they're not really police, they're strippers." May explained slowly.
"Right, okay." Dawn nodded. "Where we going for dinner?"
"That cute Italian down the road?" Misty suggest. "Suzy's always talking about it."
"I do love me an Italian." May said, licking her lips slightly.
"We're talking about food May, remember that." Dawn said, smirking at the girl.
"Food's good there too." She shrugged.
"So we're sorted?" Misty asked, going to stand up.
"No we're not done!" Dawn cried out. "We haven't thought about a theme."
"A theme?" May and Misty asked in unison.
"Yes! What are we going to wear? Dress up and such." Dawn nibbled on the end of her pencil, trying to think of a theme for the evening while Misty and May shared a concerned look. "I've got it! We can all dress up as Pokémon!"
"We can't tell people on the day of the hen night that we're dressing up as Pokémon, nobody has those sort of costumes lying around." Misty rolled her eyes. "We need something that people would have bought with them."
All three girls fell into silence, thinking about the clothes they had brought with them and how they could make them into a theme for tonight.
"Corsets?" May spoke up after a few minutes.
"Why have you brought a corset with you?" Misty asked, shooting her a look.
"Drew appreciates a good corset." May said casually, sticking her tongue out at Misty.
"Well I'm sorry to say I didn't bring a corset with me." Dawn muttered.
Misty almost made a comment about how Ash was partial to girls in corsets himself but she bit her lip before she did, she could do with avoiding topics that would make things awkward with Dawn. Having only just created common ground with the other girl she would really prefer to keep it that way.
"I don't think this theme thing is doable." Misty settled for saying instead.
"Well we need something besides badges." Dawn pouted.
"Badges?" May and Misty asked, once again in unison.
"You two spend way too much time together." Dawn said, reaching into her bag to produce a packet. "These are the badges I'm talking about."
"When did you get these?" May asked, picking them up.
"I planned ahead. Miss Dizzy is me of course, Miss Saucy is you May and Miss Naughty is Misty. The others can fight it out over what's left."
"And what about Suzy?" Misty snatched the packet out of May's hand to read the rest of the names.
"Well she'll have the bride-to-be badge, sash and tiara." Dawn stated, producing more items from her bag.
"Seriously Dawn, we don't need dress-up if we have these." Misty said, picking up the tiara and placing it on her head.
"Cute." May nodded in approval, Misty blowing her a quick kiss.
"But it needs to be more!" Dawn whined.
"I think Suzy will like it." May shrugged. "Just make sure you plan ahead for your hen night so we can dress up as Pokémon or something."
"Believe me I will." She said.
"So, we done here?" Misty asked.
"We're done." Dawn nodded.
Handing back the badges and tiara Misty stood up and walked away.
"She's in a rush today." Dawn said, placing everything back in her bag.
"I think she wants to see Gary." May smirked. "It's been almost twelve hours, poor girl must be having withdrawal symptoms."
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"Right." Ash said, sitting down at a table. "We need to sort out Brock's stag tonight."
"Pub then strip club." Gary said, barely caring.
"Boom! Sorted." Drew said, slamming his hand down on the table.
"Great." Ash smiled, standing back up. "See you all later."
"That was easy enough." Drew said, standing up too.
"Hey Drew, can I ask you something?" Gary asked, as others left the table leaving him alone with the Drew.
"Sure, what's up?" He sat back down in his seat, leaning forward slightly as he listened.
"When you first got together with May how did you know it was something?" Gary rubbed the back of his neck, feeling slightly awkward.
"Something?" Drew questioned.
"Yeah, rather than just thinking she was hot and fuckable, how did you know it was something more?"
"Why?" Drew asked, a knowing smirk on his face.
"No reason, forget I said anything." Gary said, pushing himself away from the table. It was embarrassing enough he was even having this conversation he didn't need Drew making it worse.
"Wait up Gary!" Drew called, walking after him as he headed to the lifts.
"What?" He asked, impatiently pressing his button.
"The fact that you're asking that question means it something." Drew said.
"What? This was hypothetical." Gary turned to his side but saw that Drew had already walked away.
Gary stepped into the lift as it arrived and ran his fingers through his hair with a sigh, he hated feeling like this, not even fully sure what this feeling was. He hated how his throat tightened whenever he saw her, how his heart would skip a beat at the sight of her, how his palms would get sweaty when she got too close. But most of all he hated how much he loved these new sensations.
Stepping out the lift he decided he'd have a nap before heading out tonight, it was the only successful way he'd found to fight the urge to go find her. She was like a drug that he'd been introduced to over the past couple of days and very quickly had become addicted. But his plans were soon ruined when he noticed her stood outside his door.
"Misty?" He asked, as he neared his room.
She jumped slightly at the sound of his voice, her hand quickly flying to her chest, she turned to him with a slightly flushed complexion, embarrassed to be found outside his door.
"Hey Gary." She smiled slightly.
"Any reason you're staring at my door as if it holds the secrets to the meaning of life?" He asked, raising his eyebrow.
"I was just wondering if you were in or not." She shrugged.
"An easier way of doing that would be to knock. But as I'm here now, why were you looking for me?"
"I was bored, thought I'd come bug you." She smiled up at him, Gary silently cursed as his breath hitched.
"Well I can think of plenty of exciting things we can do, alone, in my hotel room." He winked, leaning around her to open his door.
"Don't even try anything Oak." She laughed, walking into the now open room and sitting herself down on his bed.
He lurked awkwardly by the door, worried he wouldn't be able to control himself in such close quarters with Misty on his bed.
"Sit." She patted the space next to her, Gary reluctantly walked over and sat next to her, making sure to leave at least a foot between them.
"You're getting my hopes up Red." He joked, trying to ease the tension but judging by her face she didn't feel any.
"Let's play twenty questions." Misty suggested, turning to face him, her legs now crossed in front of her.
"What? Are we thirteen year olds at a sleepover?" He laughed, turning to face her too.
"Come on, we're meant to be dating but we barely know anything about each other." She moaned, a slight pout on her face causing Gary to smile.
"And twenty questions is the way to learn everything?" He asked, Misty nodding at him. "Alright fine, you go first."
"Okay." She nibbled on her lip as she thought of a question, this simple act really testing Gary's self-control. "Who was your first kiss?"
"My first kiss?" Gary laughed. "Well, her name was Alex, I met her in Viridian City. She was so impressed that I won my first gym battle I was rewarded with a kiss. What about you?"
"Rudy." Misty said with disgust, repressing a shiver.
"Rudy? I always thought Ashy-boy would have got in their first." He'd come to terms with the fact that Misty had been intimate with Ash but the thought that there were other men too didn't settle well with him.
"Nothing happened with Ash until I was at least eighteen, did you really think nobody touched me in the years leading up to that?" She crossed her arms slightly, a little insulted.
"I guess not, a gorgeous girl like you must have been fighting them off." He winked, causing a blush to rise to Misty's cheeks. "So Ash wasn't your first time either?"
"Uh uh." Misty shook her head. "That wasn't part of the question."
"Okay, my question. Who was your first?" Misty rolled her eyes at his question.
"You really do have a one track mind Oak. But yes Ash was my first time, there were boys before him but nobody I loved and I wanted my first time to be with someone special. You?"
"I haven't yet." He said, trying to stop himself from grinning.
"Are you shitting me? How are you still a virgin?" Her eyes widened and that was all it took to crack.
"I can't believe you bought that." Gary laughed.
"You twat." Misty said, leaning forward to slap his chest.
"I'm sorry." He placed his hand on top of hers. "Sorry. My first time was with one of my cheerleaders, Michaela was her name I think. I was fourteen and decided it was time to become a man and that seemed like the best way to go about it."
"Romantic." Misty rolled her eyes.
"Sorry Red, that's just who I am." He shrugged. "So, if Ash was your first was he also your only?"
"I don't really think you understand the concept of taking turns to ask questions." She gave him a look but he didn't back down.
"It's natural progression, I'm curious." Since they'd split up he'd not heard of Misty having another boyfriend but that didn't really mean anything, who knows how many men she had waiting for her back in Cerulean.
"Me and Ash split up two years ago, and while I probably don't come up to your standards of promiscuity I haven't exactly been a nun. Now, my question." Misty said, quickly changing the subject. "Have you ever been in love?"
"I don't know, maybe." His gaze dropped down to the bed sheets, suddenly seeming very interesting. "I certainly thought I was."
"When?" Misty nudged him, her smile wide at the romantic side of Gary.
"When I was seventeen, her name was Leaf and I really thought she was the one."
"Then what happened?" Misty asked, her voice so caring that Gary felt confident enough to look up, knowing he wouldn't be judged.
"She didn't love me, she was just looking for her fifteen minutes of fame on the back of the Oak name. Turns out she was seeing someone else, whom she actually did love." He said, trying to smile as if it didn't still hurt him.
"She was a bitch, she didn't deserve you." Misty offered him a reassuring smile back.
"I'm over it, in fact I'm used to it now. I play up to it, use the Oak name to my advantage. You'd be surprised at how easily it works."
"Where's the fun in that?" She asked, leaning forward so that her lips were mere inches away from his. "I much prefer the chase." She whispered.
Allowing himself a moment of weakness he felt his eyes begin to close.
"Gary?" Her breath lightly brushing his face.
"Yeah?" He whispered back.
"Your question."
His eyes flew open to see her sat back in her original place, a smirk on her lips, almost as if s few seconds ago hadn't even occurred.
"Okay, what do I want to know?" He paused briefly as he thought. "Tell me something about you that not many people know."
"Hmm, I don't know, I'm quite an open book. Only one thing is coming to mind, I can pole dance."
"Pole dance?" Gary's eyes widened, she managed to become more appealing with every passing second.
"Yeah, I took a few lessons as a way of keeping fit and I really enjoyed it. Kept it up for a few years and now I'm amazing." She raised her eyebrow.
"Am I ever going to get to see some of your moves?"
"Maybe if you're a good boy. What about you?" She leant her head to one side.
"Me? I don't pole dance." Gary laughed.
"Shame, but I meant tell me something that nobody knows." As she asked he let his eyes close, taking a deep breath before he told her, before he admitted to something that he'd never let anyone know before.
"I tried to kill myself." He said, eyes opening again.
"What? Is this another one of your jokes?" She asked, her eyes almost begging him to laugh, begging him to tell her he was winding her up, begging to see that smile on his face again.
"Completely true." He nodded.
"Why?"
"It was right after Leaf, she was sort of a wakeup call to me. For the rest of my life I would always be Gary Oak grandson of Professor Oak, nothing more, nothing less. Nobody would be interested in the real me, only the me they read about and that killed me. I couldn't live the next sixty or so years surrounded by fake friends, people pretending they cared, the only way to avoid that was to just give up." He admitted to her, thankful to finally get it off his chest, usually he hated to seem vulnerable but somehow with Misty he didn't care so much.
"What made you change your mind?" She asked, he was tempted to joke about how she was breaking the rules of twenty question but he knew it wasn't the time. For once in his life someone genuinely cared about him and he wasn't about to mess that up.
"My sister came to visit, I decided I could put off my plans for one night while she was there." He laughed feebly, trying to cover the cracks in his voice. "Then she told me about Amy, my niece, at that point she was just a little bump in my sister's stomach not the strong kid who can knock me to the ground with her hugs that she is now. Looking at the ultrasound I realised that I may not find that perfect person who loves me as I am but I'd always have my imperfect family who love me unconditionally and in the end that's all I need. That, and I knew people would miss me." He said, shooting a wink in Misty's direction.
"It's true, I'd be heartbroken without you." Misty laughed slightly, her mind still reeling from Gary's confession.
The pair sat in silence after this, neither one able to say anything else until Misty's ringtone blasted out in the room.
"It's May." She said, answering the call. "Hey… Right now? I'm a little busy… Yes I'm with Gary… Okay." Misty pulled her phone from her ear. "She wants to talk to you."
Slightly confused, Gary reached out and took the phone from her.
"Hello?"
"Hi Gary, I know you love Misty but I'm stealing my girl back you can have her later tonight, okay? Good." May said hanging up the phone before he could protest slightly.
"I guess you're going to May's now." He said, handing the phone back to Misty.
"I guess so." She slipped the phone back into her pocket before pulling Gary into a hug. "All joking aside Oak, I'm so glad you didn't kill yourself." She mumbled into his hair, placing a soft kiss on his head.
"Me too." He said as she pulled back taking hold of both his hands.
"I really would have missed you." She smiled, with one last squeeze of his hands she walked out the room.
Gary sighed and lay back on his bed, staring at the ceiling. In that moment he realised Drew had been wrong, this was definitely more than just something.
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Misty sat in Dawn's hotel room, staring past her glass of champagne in front of her. She'd been distracted the whole evening, barely tasting her food at dinner, downing drinks with her friends but not feeling their affects. Her mind was elsewhere, she couldn't get Gary out of her mind after this afternoon, she wanted to be with him now, she felt awful that she'd ditched him once he'd said all that. How long must it have taken to gain the courage to talk about it and she'd run?
"Mist, why are you so sad?" Suzy slurred, falling into the seat next to her.
"Nothing, just thinking." She smiled, trying to show she was having a good time she finished her drink and grabbed another.
"About Gary no doubt." May shouted, listening in on their conversation.
"No it wasn't Miss Saucy." Misty rolled her eyes, hoping May was too drunk to pick up on the lie.
"Whatever you say Miss Naughty, but since I dragged you away this afternoon you've been in a grump." May smirked, holding out a tray of shots, Suzy reaching out and taking a couple.
"I am not!" Misty downed three shots then crossed her arms.
"Don't sulk, you can go see your little Gar bear later." May turned and went to offer the shots around the rest of the girls.
"I'm not sulking!" She called out but May was ignoring her.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door, causing Dawn's head to shot up and give Misty a look. With a nod Misty stood and stumbled towards the door, the drinks having more of an affect than she would have liked to admit.
"Who is it?" Misty called through the door.
"It's the police! Open up!"
"The police!" Misty shouted dramatically, a huge smile breaking out on Suzy's face.
Misty pulled open the door to reveal three men dressed as police officers.
"Excuse me Madam, I understand there are some very bad girls in here." The first man said, pushing Misty against the wall and patting her down in a mock search.
"I know a certain young lady that might be hiding something." Misty said, pointing towards Suzy. The man clicked his fingers at the other officers and pointed towards Suzy, the pair of them walked towards Suzy and efficiently began giving her the same treatment.
Misty then felt the man's hand slip under her dress and place a card inside her bra cup, giving her a quick wink he turned towards the rest of the party.
"Alright ladies, please have a seat." He said, shining his torch in their faces. "We need to give this young lady her rights." He pulled up a chair and the other two led Suzy into the chair.
Misty bit her lip slightly, feeling guilty that she had let this become a distraction to her when she should be thinking about Gary. She watched as the officers took their tops off to reveal their toned stomachs. Surely she could allow herself a little fun, Gary was probably knee deep in girls right know, worrying about him was only going to ruin her night rather than provide him with any comfort.
She moved over to the group and wedged herself in between Dawn and May, making sure she had a good view for the rest of the show.
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Gary rested his head in his hand as he watched the dancers on the stage, bored out of his mind. Stripping had never really been his favourite thing, he found the whole thing cheap and it never held his interest for long. As Misty had said earlier there's no fun without the chase, and you definitely didn't need to work hard for these girls.
"You sure you don't want one?" Ash asked, mindlessly slipping his money into the bra of the girl currently grinding on his lap.
"I'm alright, thanks." Another thing he hated about strip clubs, you usually walked away from the club bankrupt with nothing to show for it.
"Come on, you're the only guy who's yet to have a dance." Although he was talking to Gary, Ash's eyes never once left the girl in front of him.
"That's not true, Drew hasn't." Gary said, pointing towards his currently flaked out friend, head flat on the table in front of him.
"I don't think Drew could even if he wanted to." Brock laughed, ruffling Drew's hair.
Drew murmured slightly but was unable to make any complete words or sentences.
"The boys a light weight." Gary laughed, half of him slightly glad he was done for now. In the peak of being drunk he'd managed to bring the topic of Misty up again, his own confusions was enough he didn't need Drew pestering him too.
He finished his drink and placed the glass back down on the table with a sigh, he needed to do something. He'd drunk too much to be sitting around in a club just watching, he needed to be up dancing, he needed to do stupid things, he needed to meet people and a little part of him needed to sing. But it wasn't his night so he had to do what Brock wanted, who seemed quite intent watching the dancers, so he gestured for another drink to be brought over hoping to reach the level of drunk where doing anything became out of the question.
Taking a sip of his newly arrived drink he felt a vibration against his leg, pulling his phone out his pocket and excusing himself he stepped outside to take the call.
"Misty!" He shouted, answering the phone.
"Gary!" An equally drunk and excited Misty shouted back.
"What you calling for?" He asked.
"Once you've seen one police officer's dick you've seen them all." She said, as if that answered his question. "Where are you Oak?"
"I'm out."
"I know that, where?"
"Teasers, not really your sort of place Red." He laughed. "But I'll call you when I'm leaving yeah? You can come keep me company then."
"Sounds like a good idea. See you later Gar bear." She said, hanging up the phone.
Gary walked back to everyone and sat at the table, he decided he needed to make this drink last so he didn't end up like Drew, turns out he was going to be doing something interesting tonight after all.
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For the past half an hour Gary had checked his watch every five minutes, knowing Misty was waiting for him back at the hotel made him almost desperate to leave, but instead he was stuck watching Ash get his tenth lap dance of the night. Although, despite his need to go, Drew was certainly providing some entertainment, currently lying on the floor as he struggled to made his way over to the toilets. Girls just stepping over the obstacle on the floor, completely ignoring him and carrying on their nights work.
Turning towards Brock to ask when they were leaving he felt a hand on the back of his neck, the girl using this as support spun around his chair and landed rather clumsily in his lap.
"I haven't got any money." He said, not bothering to look at the girl.
"Don't worry about it Oak." At the sound of his name his head spun around so quickly he thought his neck was about to snap. "This ones on the house." A very drunk Misty winked at him, making herself comfy on top of him.
"Little Miss Naughty." He smirked, reading her name badge. "Nice of you to show up."
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These chapters keep being a lot longer than I expect :/ I guess there's no real issue there it just shocks me every time :p
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