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Stupidity Does Not Earn You Heaven

by: Season Of Magic

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The week came and went. Everyone's life was going pretty much okay for the most part.

Brianna was getting adjusted to public school pretty well and so far Dawn had not received any calls from the teachers which to her, was a good sign. Maybe Brianna could go to a normal school for once after all but then again, considering who her father was; Chaos would ensue sooner or later.

May had started to do some work for her boutique from her laptop and the excuse? Even if Brianna was a total cutie pie to babysit, she was getting tired of only doing one thing. The truth however is that May does not trust whom she left in charge of the finances. The one person she left in charge was none other than her younger brother, Max.

When Ash and Gary were growing up, they had been Pokémon trainers. Competing against gym leaders, other trainers, several leagues and traveling through different regions gave them enough money to live comfortably for the rest of their lives.

Tracey had been a Pokémon observer, working for Professor Oak, one of the greatest known researchers in any of the regions which gave Tracey almost as much money as Ash and Gary.

May was also part of the Pokémon world but unlike Ash and Gary whom battled in gyms and the like, she was a contest person. She too had a lot of money.

Ash had met May in one of his travels through Hoenn where a battle and contest were being held together. They had become good friends almost instantly and were the best of friends even now.

The same way how Ash had met May he had also met Dawn. Well not met her personally... he had simply seen her on several occasions when contests and battles were occurring simultaneously. He had to admit, Dawn was quite good and deserved the several recognitions she got.

If May was Hoenn's princess then Dawn had been close to achieving Sinnoh's princess, Zoey was always one step ahead of her though.

Ash wondered how life would be for Dawn if none of what had happened to her would have occurred.

Of course, Brianna is the one thing he knows Dawn does not regret and even if she is not his neither does he. But still the doubt about her and competitions had been bothering him for a few days then again, if she missed competing...

"Dawn, can I ask you something?" Ash said as he walked down the stairs of his house.

Today it was his turn to host the hangout party and since May lived with him, Dawn and Brianna lived right next door they had all been the first to be here. All they were waiting for to get the party started was for Tracey and Gary to get here with the food.

Dawn glanced up from the television screen and looked Ash's way. She and May were watching the movie Aladdin with Brianna. "Sure Ash what's up?"

"Well I was wondering; do you miss competing in contests?"

Dawn was caught in utter shock by that question.

She had not thought about Pokémon contests in years. Did she miss participating in them?

Her brain started processing thoughts really fast. Even though she did miss the glitz part of the contests, if she was offered her old life back but for it she would have to trade the life she has now, her answer would definitely be no.

Having thought about it carefully, she was silent for a while but then answered; "Not really." And went back to watching the movie with May and Brianna. Ash was going to reply back something but the doorbell rang and he sighed, going towards the door.

He opened the glass door and a few seconds later Tracey and Gary walked in. While Gary had a few pizza boxes at hand, Tracey had a few bags with potato chips, popcorn and soda.

"Yay, we got food now!" Brianna said as she stood up to help carry the pizza.

Gary laughed. "You're excited about food huh? Where's our love? We're the ones whom bought the food."

Brianna stuck her tongue out. "You don't get any." she said and everyone laughed.

Hitting pause to the movie, May and Dawn stood up from the couch and went to help the guys out, quickly placing all the food on the table.

Seeing himself free from the boxes, Gary went to the couch and took the remote. "What are we watching?" He asked.

Food forgotten for the moment, Brianna hopped to the couch and took the remote from Gary.

"Aladdin." She said pressing play. She sat back, ready to resume watching the movie.

Gary groaned but saw no other option but to watch the movie along with the girl. He was grateful it wasn't too much of a princess movie.

Aladdin was one of the few Disney movies he would ever say out loud he actually liked.

Brianna and Gary were too engrossed in the movie (the flying carpet ride song scene was coming up,) to notice what had been occurring around them.

Ash had been hungry (nothing new there really,) and he had sat down in the table, beginning to eat some of the pizza.

"You're dead Ash!" May and Dawn chorused together and Ash gulped. Standing up from the table he ran away as fast as he could. "That's right! You better run!" They began chasing after him.

Brianna whom was sitting down next to Gary watching the movie could only stare mouth agape.

"They're acting so childish." Was all she said. "And here I thought I was the young one."

Half an hour later when everything finally calmed down everyone was sitting at the table eating the rest of the pizza and talking.

"You know I had never actually seen Ash's house before." Dawn said.
Brianna nodded. "Your house is awesome! You have to let me come and use the pool sometime."

Ash's house was similar in design to Dawn's but his house had a pool and two Jacuzzis. Dawn's house had no pool and only one Jacuzzi.

Ash smiled as he ruffled Brianna's hair. He liked doing that for some reason. "You can come here anytime you want kiddo."

May simply sat there eating one of her slices. "Yeah, yeah we know you're as generous as ever what I want to know is what movies we're watching tonight. Wasn't it Brianna's turn to pick?"

Brianna nodded and smirked as she walked to the couch and showed everyone one of the many dvd's she had brought along with her. "We're watching Tangled."

Dawn and May cheered, Ash and Tracey shrugged and Gary crossed his arms.

"Another Disney film?" Gary gawked, "No way in hell are you making me watch it! One was horrible enough!" he exclaimed.

"Don't curse in front of Bri." Ash said. "Besides, it is her turn to pick. We can't say no to her choice." Ash stated.

"Let's get this over with." Gary grumbled and walked to the couch with a bowl of popcorn. "This is going to be torture."

"If you think that's torture just wait until you see what else she has picked out." Tracey said as he held up a few Barbie films like Princess Charm School and Mermaid Tale.

"Someone kill me now I beg of you." Gary exclaimed.

Ash walked to the dvd player. "Which one should we watch first?"

Brianna exclaimed; "Princess Charm School!" Whilst Gary shouted; "How about none!" At the same time together.

"Princess Charm School it is then." Ash said as he took the dvd and placed it in the player.

"You can tell she's a princess she doesn't need a crown..."

An hour and a half had passed, the movie had recently ended and Brianna was still happily singing along to the movie's main theme.

Gary however, was trying hard to erase the memory from his mind. He passed most of the movie with a pillow in his head to cover his eyes but that did not stop him from hearing it. "I'll never be the same again." He complained.

Tracey gently pat him on the shoulder. "Don't worry; you still have two more movies to go through."

Gary turned to Ash. "Kill me now. I beg you. Get Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, Iron Tail, Energy Ball I honestly don't care which."

"Oh stop being so dramatic," Ash replied as he pointed to the television. "Mermaid Tale is starting now."

Gary stood up. "If you need me I'll be in the bathroom trying to throw up everything sunshine, rainbows, glitter and fairy that are now engraved in my system."

"You my friend," Ash said as he made him sit down again, "are not going anywhere. If we have to watch these films then so do you."

Brianna, whom was sitting right next to Ash quickly went to shush them while pointing at the screen. "The movie started."

Five minutes into the movie Gary was shaking his head. "Arceus, what did I do to deserve this torture?"

While Brianna, Dawn and May whom were too engrossed with the movie simply placed one of their fingers to their mouth to try to quiet the whining, Ash and Tracey grabbed a handful of popcorn and threw it at Gary. "You will stay quiet or else." Ash warned him.

Gary placed one of his hands in the armrest and sighed. This was going to be a long night for him.

Another hour had passed and Brianna was getting more hyper.

"Okay no more soda for you." May said taking the can of sprite away from the seven year old and replacing it with a bottle of water.

"You know, putting everything glitter and fairies aside that was in it I think Princess Charm School was pretty good but Mermaid Tale was better," Ash said. "Well at least the plot."

"There's only one more movie left. Can I skip this one?" Gary said a bit hopeful.

"No!" Everyone said together.

Gary raised his arms up in defeat. "Forget I even asked."

Tracey took out Mermaid Tale from the player and placed in Tangled instead. The opening credits rolled in and Brianna began jumping up and down.

"I love this movie and I think you're all going to like it too," then she smiled. "Last year I made Kenny watch it with me and at first he was like no I don't want to watch it but at the end he totally enjoyed it."

"Kenny?" Ash asked not liking where this conversation was going.

"Yeah he's mommy's best friend."Brianna said and Ash sighed in relief but only until she added, "I think he has a crush on her."

Ash went completely cold.

"Kenny? He's the guy with the Empoleon right? He's won a lot of contests," May said. "Isn't he a judge now?"

"Yeah. He got so far in the contest world they had no option but to make him a judge. I think Zoey got the offer too but she chose to host the contests instead," Dawn then sighed. "I have to call them. Haven't heard from them in a few months."

Brianna tried to shush them. "Can you all talk about this later? I want to watch the movie." She said waving the control around. She had put the movie in pause.

Everyone nodded their head and each took their bowl of popcorn, eating a few pieces as Brianna hit the unpause button and the opening credits began rolling again.

Two hours later roughly about ten thirty in the night May, Dawn and Brianna were close to tears and Gary, Ash and Tracey could only watch in amusement.

"For Arceus sake stop being so sentimental it's not like he died. " Gary stated.