Ages: 13-Ash, 13-May, 13-Gary, 13-Anne, 14-Misty

- 1 - It was a typical day in Pallet Town, in the Ketchum residence. Ash was on his regular schedule of brushing Pikachu after breakfast. Misty was getting ready to head back to Cerulean City, so she was getting her things together, taking a shower, ect. Brock had left to Pewter City to help with his little brothers and sisters and Mrs. Ketchum was god only knows were.

"Ring, ring! Phone call! Phone call!" rang the videophone.

Ash put down the comb (so Pikachu went upstairs for a nap) and walked

over to the phone. "Hello?" Ash asked. He turned the screen on. A girl of his age with long brown hair, black eyes, and a sweet voice answered.

"Hi Ash!" she said happily. He knew at once who she was: May Oak, Prof. Oak's granddaughter.

"H-h-hi May," Ash stuttered, secretly he had a little crush on her, "How you d-d-doing?"

"Wonderful, thank you. Is it all right if I come over?" she asked. Before he could reply she looked to the right, sighed, looked back at the screen, then said," Hold that thought a moment. Mom has this black dress on that zips in the back and her hair got caught in it. I'll be back in a minute." She sulked away.

A Pikachu suddenly appeared on the screen. Ash just smiled slightly, just noticing the pink bow on its head. "Hullo. I guess your May's Pikachu?" he

asked.

With a small nod it just replied with a "Pika," and then it started blabbering on and on about something. 'Does her Pikachu ever shut up?' Ash thought miserably.

After a minute of listening to the Pikachu talk about something (he couldn't understand it), May came back. The Pikachu just looked at her, waved good- bye to Ash, and ran off. May shook her head laughing, then said, "That had to be the most boring conversation, I bet?"

"YES AND THANK YOU FOR COMING BACK! I didn't even know what it was saying!" Ash yelled.

"Thought so," May mumbled, "So? Can I come over?"

"Yeah. Oh, hi Misty," he said.

"I'm May, remember?" she snapped.

"Misty just came downstairs. I said hi to her," he muttered.

"O.k. OUCH! RAICHU! WHAT WAS THAT FOR, YOU IDIOT!? I'll be over there in a moment!" May practically screamed.

"O.k." he said. May hung up.

It took five minutes for May to get over there. When she got in the house, she almost fell onto the couch next to Ash. "Stupid Raichu. It bit me. After I got mom's hair out of the zipper and zipped it shut, she started walking around

putting her make-up on and stuff, she walked over to the mirror next to the phone and Raichu was standing next to me and she just had to step on it's tail. In pain and shock it bit my hand," May grumbled, showing them her hand, which was bandaged.

"Hope you didn't get hurt to badly," Ash muttered, just low enough so only May could hear him. She smiled, then shook her head.

"No, no, I'm alright...that Raichu isn't though," May replied in a just as low voice, then speaking louder so Misty would hear said, "That Raichu had a nice time with Pikachu!"

"What happened?" Misty asked interestedly. Ash and Misty both looked at her, waiting to hear about what happened. She just laughed then looked back at them.

"Well, Pikachu ran into the room because of hearing me yell at Raichu. It saw that it bit me and used Thunder Shock on Raichu. Raichu tried to attack back, but all it did was hit it's self and it fainted!" she said. They all burst out laughing. After they all had stopped laughing she just shook her head and sighed.

"I have four pokemon in my group and that Raichu has to be the weakest of them all," she moaned. Seeing their confused faces she quickly said," I'm not a pokemon trainer, but I asked Grandpa, you know, Prof. Oak, if I could capture some pokemon and keep them as pets, and he said yes. He gave me a poke dex, so I could see what kinds of pokemon there are and all I got are four."

"What are they?" Ash asked.

"Let's see, I have Pikachu, nicknamed Penny. Then there's Raichu, nicknamed Minny. I also have a Charmander; Grandpa gave it to me for my birthday, nicknamed Charna. Then there's Ponyta, nicknamed Red-flame. I'm interested in the electric and fire types. I want to get Moltres or a Vulpix or a Flareon or a Growlithe for a third fire type, and for a third electric type I want to get a Jolteon or a Pichu. If I can't get two different ones, one from each, I'm going to get a Dratini and Butterfree or a Butterfree and Eevee." she replied softly.

"You really know what you want May, do you know when your going to get them?" Misty piped up.

"No. All I know is that I might be getting a Pichu in a few weeks though," May said, taking off the bandages from her hand.

"How do you know? Oh...it looks like you were bleeding from Raichu biting you," Ash said looking at her now unbandaged hand. She looked at him and then took a poke' ball from her pocket and let a Pikachu out.

"I was bleeding for a few minutes after the little incident if you wanted to know. Also I know I might be getting a Pichu because in a few weeks Mom, Dad, Gary, and me are taking a trip to Goldenrod City in Johto," she stated plainly. The Pikachu (Penny) squealed in delight at the mention of the trip.

Ash's Pikachu crept down the stairs to see what he was doing. It whimpered at the sight of Penny and tried to run back up the staircase. It was too late, penny ran up to Pikachu and got in front of it. "Pi Pikachu! \Hi Pikachu!" she squealed.

"Err, Ash? Is your Pikachu a male or female?" May asked.

Ash shrugged. "Not sure. By the look of it, it must be male," he replied, "Because I'm positive yours is female! Why else would you put a pink bow on it?!" 'How stupid am I!? I didn't even know what my Pikachu was!' he thought.

They just stared at the Pikachus. May whistled and Penny looked down

the stairs. She hopped down the stairs and jumped onto her owner's lap. May scratched Penny's ears a bit then said, "I'm starting to train Penny, Charna, Red-flame, and somehow Minny to come if I whistle. After that, I'm going to train them to do one of their attacks when I snap my fingers, or clap, or whatever. If I ever have to battle, the opponent won't know what my pokemon are going to do...plus they'll think I'm nuts," she said proudly. Penny hopped off May, and sat down on Ash.

"I wouldn't," Ash muttered, then thought, 'I am soooo going to end up blurting it out...'

Penny jumped off Ash and curled up between him and May to take a pika

nap.

"Ash, look at Pikachu," Misty whispered. He looked at Pikachu to see it teetering on the edge of one of the stairs, staring at him with a look that said, "I think I know some thing you don't want anyone to know." Ash sighed then called it over there.

It slumped over to him and climbed onto the couch. "What is it?" Ash

asked softly.

"Ash, I think you like her," Pikachu mumbled pointing at May. He looked at Pikachu, then May, then back at Pikachu.

"What did it say?" May asked curiously.

"'Think! Think!' Err, Pikachu said, err, your pretty," he lied. May shook her head.

"That's a lie and you know it!" she said.

"I don't want to tell you what Pikachu said...it's a secret," he mumbled. He was blushing a little.

"You should have just said that in the first place!" she said. Penny stirred awake and looked to see what was happening.

"Want to know how I know that, Ash?" Pikachu ask sadly.

"Later," he muttered. He looked up and jumped. May's brother, Gary, was standing there. Gary was as pale as death, he muttered a quick hello and asked Ash to come in the kitchen.

Ash looked at May, who shrugged, so he stood up and walked in the kitchen.