Ages: 20-Ash, 20-May, 19-Grace, 30-Vince

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Mewie jumped up on the table. She pounced off it, onto a chair. She curled up there, waiting for someone to come along.

After a couple of minutes, Ash walked in. He dropped onto the couch,

exhausted from work. His hair was stuck to his forehead with sweat.

"Meow?" she purred. Ash looked at the kitten, then at his shoes. He

played with the laces, until they came undone and slid off easily.

Wearily, he pulled his shirt off and let it fall to the floor. He lied down on the couch, sighing, finally being able to sleep. Mewie jumped off the chair and over to the couch.

It crawled onto his stomach, and meowed. "Get off me."

"Mew."

"I said get off," Ash said.

"Meow! Mew!" Mewie curled up, and meowed.

"GET OFF!"

"Ash, Mewie just wants to be with you." May looked around the corner at him. Ash glanced at her, then at Mewie.

"Fine, Mewie can stay here!" he growled. He tried to sleep, with the tiny kitten curled up on his stomach.

After five minutes he fell asleep. May decided after an hour to read her favorite book, The Flight of Butterfree. She grabbed it from the bookshelf near the door and went in the living room. She fell down into one of the chairs, and opened the book.

"Matt took the poke ball with Butterfree out and threw it into the sky. The purple butterfly pokemon came out, and screeched in excitement." May read it to herself.

"Pika?" Pikachu hopped up onto her lap. "Pikachu?"

"Hi Pikachu," May said. She turned the page. "Liz took out her poke ball and unleashed her butterfly pokemon. Matt looked over at her, then at the Butterfree. 'Find your mate, Butterfree! I know one will like you!' he yelled, waving at the pokemon."

"Pikachu pik pikapi pikachu! /That sounds a little like what Ash said!"

"What?"

"When Ash let his Butterfree go! It found another Butterfree it liked and." Pikachu explained the details.

"Ash did that?" May asked, glancing up from her book. "He never told me about that."

"He didn't?" they looked over at him. Pikachu shook it's head and left. May looked at her book.

"'Breeee!' Butterfree screeched and flew over to the other Butterfree. It did the Courtship Dance. Soon both Butterfree were doing the dance. 'Your Butterfree likes mine,' Liz said. Matt looked at her and smiled. 'And yours mine.' They smiled at each other."

May looked up at Ash, then continued to read her book. After reading half the book, she looked up again. Then looked at the book again. "Matt sighed and looked at Liz. 'Lizzie, come on! Just one little kiss isn't going to hurt anyone!' Matt cried. 'But.' Liz looked at him in distress. She thought about what he said, then frowned. 'Please?' he asked. 'Alright.' Liz kissed Matt quickly, then backed away."

May set the book down, and sat there silently. She looked at Ash again, for the millionth time in the past hour, and smiled slightly. Slowly, she got up and walked over.

"Ash?" May got down on her knees on the floor, and put her head on his chest. Mewie stirred awake, and meowed softly. She shoed the kitten away.

Mewie jumped down and pranced over to the door and sat down by it for the breeze.

"Hey, get up." May kissed him softly. Ash groaned. He opened his right eye, curious at why she bothered him.

"What do ya want?" he murmured, rousing out of his sleep.

"Can I ask you something?" she asked.

"Of course!" he said. His smile reassured her that he was in a good mood, even though he was still tired.

"Uh, Ash, can we have a baby? Pleeeaaasee?!?!?!?!?!" she asked. Ash went wide-eyed.

"May, are you even sure you could go though that?" He gave her a skeptical look.

"YES!"

"Geez, you don't have to scream in my face. Yeesch!" Ash winced in pain. He sat up, and looked at her.

"Sorry Ash. Why are you being so uptight about it?" May sat on the couch next to him, frowning at him.

"I just don't want to get us into something we can't get out of," Ash said, hugging her softly. May frowned even more then before.

"But what is the problem? Why can't we?" she whined.

"Uh." Ash frowned slightly. There was no problem. His job was holding up, and they had a car that actually worked. "Fine, if you want to that badly, we'll do it."

"Thank you Ash!!!" May smiled at him. Ash couldn't help but do the same.

'I guess it won't be too bad,' he thought.