And here is chapter 2 of the sequel to "To Dwell In Possibilities", I hope you enjoy it. Here are my thank yous to my first two reviewers:

DJ-I'm glad you like this pairing, so do I^^ thank you for reviewing!*tosses you an Ash plushie*

LYNN-thank you for reviewing, I'll have the AAML version up sometime probably during the fall, so be patient^^ *throws you a Misty plushie*

Chapter 2: A New Friend, My Rival

May had reached the first building she saw, it was a market. She stood out in front of it until someone came out. A girl who seemed to be about five years older than her stepped out carrying two bag of groceries in her arms and a pokemon in her backpack. May stopped her as she was walking away.

"Um, excuse me, I'm new here and I was wondering if you could tell me where the Ketchum residence is?" the girl smiled and nodded. "Sure! I'm on my way over there myself, you can come with me!" May beamed gratefully. "Thank you so much!"

The girl's pokemon trilled happily. "Togeprrriiii!" May giggled at the pokemon. "How cute! What is it?"

"This is Togepi, say hello Togepi!"

"Toge! Toge!" May found it irresistibly cute.

"Oh I'm sorry I didn't introduce myself, my name's May." May held out her hand. "Nice to meet you May!" the girl used her left arm to hug the two bags of groceries up close to her so that they wouldn't fall and shook May's hand. "Here let me help you with that." May took one of the bags from the girl. "Thanks!"

May walked besides the girl to Ash's house. "Your Togepi is absolutely adorable, what other pokemon do you have?"

"I have a Politoed, a Corsola, a Psyduck..."

"Those are all water pokemon, right?"

"Yup, I plan to be a water pokemon master!" May grew a sort of admiration towards this girl.

"Wow! All I've planned to do was to enter pokemon contests and travel to different places."

"That sounds fun! What pokemon are you going to enter contests with?"

"Well I have my Beautifly with me!" the girl grew curious of the pokemon.

"I don't think I've ever heard of a Beautifly before, what is it?" May stopped walking for a moment and took out a pokeball. She released her Beautifly, it flew above her and landed on top of her head. May looked like she was wearing a very large and colorful bow.

"Wow, it's so pretty!" the girl awed at the butterfly. "Thank you! I thought it would take forever for it to evolve." May returned the pokemon back into it's pokeball.

"What pokemon is it an evolved form of?"

"A Wurmple!" the girl had that curious look again.

"A Wurmple?"

"Yeah! It's this cute little worm that eats anything and everything." May brought out her pokedex and showed the picture of Wurmple to her. The girl's face turned pale. May noticed this.

"What's wrong? Are you sick?" the girl shook her head. "No it's just that I hate bug pokemon, not even if it evolved into a cute little Beautifly like yours I would never catch one." May smiled.

The two girls continued walking towards the Ketchum residence while discussing their likes and dislikes. The two of them seemed to be hitting it off quite well, they found that they were both very fond of each other. Soon they were talking like they've been friends for years.

"Have you lived here long?" May asked the girl.

"No, I don't live here at all. I live in Cerulean City, the gym to be exact."

"Wow, that's cool, you're from a gym! So am I!"

"Really? So May, where are you from?"

"I came from the Hoenn region, have you heard of it?" the girl grew quiet. May showed concern.

"What's wrong?"

"Well, it's just that, this boy I have a huge crush on went to Hoenn to compete in the Hoenn League." the girl giggled a little as she thought about the boy she liked.

"When I first met him, he was just a rookie trainer. He borrowed my bike and I found it totally trashed. I got angry at him, but then when I got to know him a little bit better, I started to like him more. So I told him I wasn't going to leave his side until he got me a bike. That's how I was able to stay with him for so long on his journeys, but..." the girl grew solemn. May stared at her with a sympathetic.

"...the place where I left my bike, a pokemon center, well we visited that same one and it turned out that my sisters left a message for me to look after the gym that they were in charge of, I wouldn't leave until I got my bike back but the Nurse Joy that worked there fixed it for me, so the guy no longer had a debt to pay and I was able to leave."

"Oh, I'm sorry about that. So if you're in charge of looking after the gym then why are you here?" the girl then cheered up. "Because my sisters returned to the gym and now I'm able to visit him!" May smiled.

"Oh, so your crush lives here?"

"Yup!" the girl blushed slightly.

"Oh, you know what? I never told you my name. It's..." just as the girl was about to say it, a familiar voice from up ahead was heard.

"Misty?" the girl and May looked up ahead and saw Ash standing several feet away with an disbelieving face.

As May heard the name Misty, she thought back to that night. 'Misty is the name of the girl that Ash likes.' May turned her head towards her new friend. 'I so hope that she isn't Misty, but if she is, then my new friend is now my...'

The girl smiled excitedly and without thinking, she dropped the groceries she had in her arms and ran up towards Ash embracing him. Ash only stood there blushing as she did so. May looked at the two with a saddened face.

'...my rival.'

End of Chapter 2. I decided to make May and Misty friends before they find out that they both like Ash unlike most fics I've read that have Misty and May hating each other at first sight. I rather have them as friends then enemies set out to destroy each other. Please review and I'll have the next chapter up real soon. Ciao!