Serena stared at me with a death glare and slightly narrowed her eyes at me. A huge crowd gathered among us and I could hear some chattering from the students. I could see May from the corner from my eye standing away from the crowd but with a worried expression on her face. I didn't know where Ash had vanished.
"Well?" I almost forgot that Serena was still giving me daggers, "Explain yourself." She said as she brought her hands on her hips waiting for a possible explanation.
I didn't really understand what the big deal was about. I accidentally sat on his lap; it's not as if I kissed him or anything. It wasn't intentional at all. I couldn't get why she was so upset. It evidently showed yesterday that she couldn't really care less about Ash anyway.
"There's nothing to explain about. I accidentally fell on him, that's it." I shrugged and ignored the loud gasps from the crowd.
"Accident my foot! Stay away from Ash." She warned while pointing a finger. I wasn't fazed even the slightest. Serena was no threat to me.
"Serena, I have nothing to do with your boyfriend. And if you don't believe me then that's your problem, not mine." I said and it looked like Serena got even more furious.
"Stop your lies! You've been having a secret crush on him since the day you came here and ever since you've been out to get h-"
I interrupted her by putting a palm in front of her face, "Hold on a second. First of all, if I ever had a thing for Ash Ketchum, I would have stolen him from you a long time ago," Serena popped a vein, "And for your kind information there is nothing about him to steal from you." I said and the crowd gasped.
"Oh no she didn't!" A female blonde student exclaimed. I rolled my eyes.
"And I have another thing to add, Serena." I said as she crossed her arms and rolled her eyes, "Why do you care anyway?" I asked.
"Because I'm his girlfriend." She stated as if it were obvious.
"Oh really?" I raised an eyebrow, "Because from what I've seen girlfriends don't threaten their boyfriends!" I exclaimed.
Serena began to stammer a little, "Y-You don't know what you're talking about. I love Ash. Why would I threaten him?"
"Because you-" She interrupted me.
"See everybody? This girl," She pointed to me," wants to steal Ash from me and she's denying it. She wants to cover herself by making me look like the bad guy here." She said and I growled. This girl was good.
"I'm not lying! You are!" I retorted but she just responded with a smirk.
"Says the person who wants to steal my boyfriend."
"I told you before! There's nothing going on between us." I gritted my teeth.
"Just accept it, Dawn. Admit that you want my boyfriend." She practically commanded.
"I don't!" I screamed.
"Why you ungrateful little boyfriend stealing bitch!" She exclaimed as she tried to lunge at me but before she could I skipped past her and she ended up falling on the ground. She sneered. The crowd was going bonkers and was chanting the word "Fight" while I just shook my head and walked away from the crowd, not bothering to look at Serena.
"Hey! Come back here! I'm not finished with you!" I heard her exclaim as I walked to see the Principal. He had a stern look on his face.
"What's going on here?" He enquired.
"Nothing at all Sir, just walking to class." I replied nonchalantly while Serena walked up behind me.
"Sir, Dawn is-" I cut her off.
"What? What was I doing, Serena? I just came to school hoping for a normal day when all of a sudden this huge crowd gathered around me and you start threatening me for something I didn't do." I said and she gasped.
"Please, stop your ridiculous lies. She's the one who's trying to steal my boyfriend." She pointed to me and I turned around to face her.
"I've told you over a billion times, I'm not interested in your boyfriend!" I exclaimed as I rolled my eyes. "And for the record, Serena tried to attack me." I turned back to face the principal. He looked over at Serena and gave her a glare.
"Is that true?" He asked.
Serena hesitated, "Well yeah but-"
"Sorry Serena, we don't allow people to just attack each other at school. You're going to have to come with me to my office." He said and Serena sighed irritably.
I sighed a breath of relief as I watched Serena reluctantly walking besides the principal up to his office. I was glad that's over. I turned back to see the crowd still in formation as they continued to watch.
"Don't you guys have anything better to do?! Seriously, mind your own business!" I yelled and with that the crowd slowly started to dispatch as each student began to head to their respective classes.
May was still behind the crowd and I watched as she looked at me in shock. "What? I raised an eyebrow.
"That. Was. Epic!" She squealed and ran up to me to give me a hug.
I giggled, "You think?"
"Yeah, you really showed Serena her place. I mean, wow!" She exclaimed in shock and I giggled.
"I just told her the truth really. If she didn't wanna believe me then that's her problem." I shrugged.
Before we could chat more, the bell rang signalling the start of homeroom, "Come on let's get to class." May said as she grabbed my hand and walked with me.
"What are we having first period?" I asked and then she took out her timetable.
"English," She replied, "My favourite subject. Plus Drew, Barry, Ash, Zoey and Misty are with us too."
"Cool!" I exclaimed.
"Hey speaking of Ash…where is he? I didn't see him in school this morning." She turned towards me and I shrugged.
"Yeah, I don't know where he is which is really weird considering he came to school with us in the bus." It was really weird. I hadn't seen a sign of him ever since I had gotten off the bus.
"Aww…" May said with a saddened expression on her face. I rolled my eyes.
We were about to approach the classroom when May bumped into somebody which caused her to drop her textbooks she was holding in her hand.
"Oops, sorry!" She sheepishly said and reached down to pick up her textbooks.
"No need to be sorry, April." Drew said as he flipped his hair. Oh this was one of Ash's stupid and arrogant friends. Why did he call her April?
"My name is May not April," She sneered while she picked up her textbooks and he smirked.
"Okay fine I won't call you April." He said with a grin on his face.
"Thank you!" She smiled satisfactorily.
"Let's go to class December," He winked as he walked into class.
"Aughh!" May exclaimed as her jaw dropped, "Jerk." She mumbled. I giggled lightly behind her as we walked into class.
As I sat down in my seat and the teacher started writing some notes on the board, I began feeling drowsy in. It probably was because I slept late yesterday night…but it was so worth it. I wonder what I'm going to do tonight. Hmm, maybe I should invite May over.
"Dawn!"
"Huh? What?" I suddenly lifted my head from my desk to the voice. Was I sleeping the entire while?
"If my class is so boring then don't bother coming to my class," She gave me a glare. I could tell that she was not happy.
"Sorry, Ms. Jenson, I was just feeling a bit lightheaded so I decided to take a little rest but I'm good now." I hope that was enough to convince her.
"Hm," She simply said and continued back to her lecture.
After a forty minutes of trying to stay awake during her dull lecture, I packed my bag and headed out where I saw Zoey. She smiled and approached me.
"Hey Dawn, I was wondering if you wanted me to tutor you tonight." Zoey enquired and I just shrugged. "Because I can't today."
"Why not?" I asked.
"Because I have Dance club today plus I'm also tutoring a bunch of other students as well not to mention the English project we just got assigned.." Zoey said. She sounded exasperated.
My eyes blinked, "We have an English project?!" I exclaimed as I widened my eyes. Zoey chuckled.
"Wow, you really need to pay attention more." She said and I nodded.
"Clearly. Anyways, can you text me the details for that? Here's my number." I said as I handed her my number on a piece of paper.
"Sure," She smiled as she got hold of it, "I'll do it when I get home this afternoon. And sorry I can't make it today."
"Thanks," I cheered, "And no problem, there's always next time." I smiled.
We bid goodbye and then I went off to my other respective classes until it was finally time for Dance Club, the highlight of my day. This was the only reason why I got up this morning to actually go to school. It surprised me that as I entered, I saw Ash sitting back leaning against his chair. He must have skipped classes.
"Ok class," The instructor began, "Today we will be an announcement of a dance project that's due in two weeks. You will work with a partner and be assigned a type of dance to work on. On the day, the pair will demonstrate their performances and I will decide which pair is best and give that pair a special prize." The class seemed enthusiastic about this and so was I, surprisingly.
Kenny, who was sitting next to me, turned to me and asked, "Hey Dawn, you wanna be my partner?"
"That's sweet but I was thinking to partner with May," I said as I looked back at her.
"Oh yay!" She exclaimed in delight.
"Oh." He said with a saddened expression on his face as he looked down. I found May giggling behind me. I wonder why..
"Oh did I forget to mention that I will assign your partner?" The instructor suddenly exclaimed and I groaned. I might not be partnered with May although there might be a chance…a small chance. She and I get along so well. Although it might not be so bad. I could end up being partners with Zoey. She's really friendly and great to talk to. Or even Misty although we never really talked much but it could be a way of getting to know each other.
I just hope that I wasn't going to be paired up with Gary, Drew…or worse, Ash. That would make it horrible.
The instructor started selecting random people and paired them up with each other. Kenny was paired up with Zoey, Misty was paired up with Gary and May was paired up with Drew, much to May and my dismay.
"Dawn," I lifted my head up to listen keenly, "Your partner is…" She hesitated as she looked around the class.
Please don't be Ash, please don't be Ash, please don't-
"Ash."
My jaw dropped. Ash looked to me and smirked.
"No!" I practically retorted as I got up from my seat. The instructor looked at me weirdly. "Can't you assign me another partner? I don't wanna work with him."
"Hurtful," Ash said and I rolled my eyes.
"Why, Dawn?" She asked.
"Uhh…" I hesitated to find an appropriate response, "I think that we don't really…match." I stammered a bit.
"Yeah I object to this!" I suddenly heard Kenny protest as he got up from his seat. Well, this is odd.
"What's wrong with working with me?" Ash asked as he got up from his seat facing me.
"Everything!" I shot back.
"Come on you should be thankful that you're being paired with someone as awesome as me." He boasted and I refused the urge to sigh.
"Ash and Dawn shouldn't work together!" Kenny protested once again.
"Guys, calm down," The instructor said as she put her two palms in front of the students in a calming manner. "Look, I assigned Dawn and Ash together because I feel a strong bond between the two of them. Your performances will be very strong together. And I am the instructor so I'm sorry but you have no choice."
I sighed. Worst day ever.
After she finished assigning partners, she had to assign the type of dance we had to perform. Ash and I got Salsa. I didn't really bother to hear what type of dance the others got since I was still bummed out that I was being paired up with Ash. I can't even imagine how Serena would react if she hears about this.
Speaking of which, I haven't seen or heard about Serena ever since this morning.
After Dance Club, I headed towards May while she was packing her bag, "Hey May are you doing anything tonight?" I asked.
"Hmm," She thought, "No not really. Why?" She asked.
"Well you can come over to my house just to hang out. Won't that be fun?" I suggested and she lit up.
"Sounds awesome! I'd love to come over." She smiled.
"Thanks. Now that my mom's not here maybe we can hang out every day for this week." I suggested.
"Sounds cool but I can't come over all the time. I have to take care of my stupid younger brother Max." She rolled her eyes at the mention of her brother.
"Wow that must suck." I said. "Is he annoying?"
"He's not annoying. More like a giant prick in my back." She rolled her eyes again and I giggled.
"That's one of the perks of being an only child." I bragged.
"Yeah you're lucky," She nodded in agreement, "And more lucky to be paired up with Ash." She smirked.
"Ugh," I groaned, "That's not lucky, that's a nightmare!" I exclaimed while May giggled.
"Lucky is what you are to be paired up with Drew…" I smirked and May groaned.
"No way! That's a nightmare!" She exclaimed before realizing something, "Hey you know who was acting totally weird in dance before?"
"Who?" I asked curious to know.
"Kenny!" She blurted out, "I mean, first he asks you to be his partner and then he defends you in class. Isn't that kind of weird?" She asked.
"Yeah, it is weird." I nodded in agreement.
May suddenly clicked, "He must like you, Dawn!"
I looked at her as if she had gone insane, "What? I don't think so."
"Of course! It makes sense! Think about it. Actually now that I think about it, the flowers you got yesterday must be from him." She said and I looked at her suddenly realizing that she might be correct. It all did make sense.
"Wow," I managed to utter.
"Yeah…do you like him too?" She asked.
"No way! I mean Kenny is nice and all but I could never picture us together." I said as subtle as possible.
"Yeah you're right, Ash is more your type." May whispered something I couldn't hear.
"What'd you say?"
"Oh nothing, anyways I'll meet you later okay? Bye." She quickly hugged me and ran off. I smiled as I shook my head slowly. May was no doubt an interesting girl and I was glad that she was my friend.
I started to walk back home while looking at my phone. I had just received the details for the English project from Zoey. I was just about to read the text when I felt someone bump into me, allowing me to lose my balance and felt myself falling on the ground with a body on top of me.
"Ugh watch where you're go-" I stopped when I saw Ash staring down at me. I could feel his eyes practically burning on mine. I shifted a little and pushed him off me.
"As if my day wasn't bad enough," I grumbled loudly as I got up and dusted myself off.
"Pshh, any girl would be enjoying me on top of them." He smirked as he looked at me and I shuddered a bit.
"Do you have any idea how perverted that sounds?" I asked as I screwed up my nose in disgust, "Besides, I'm not any girl."
"Oh, I agree," He added as he looked at me again. Something about him looking at me in that manner was not right.
"How come you bumped into me anyway?" I asked in an irritated tone.
"Well I was trying to catch up with you to talk to you about the dance project but on the way I tripped on a rock and, well, lost my balance and fell on you." He sheepishly laughed while scratching his auburn hair. I raised an eyebrow.
"Well, be more careful!" I exclaimed.
"Of course my supreme overlord." He said as he bowed to me lightly and I just rolled my eyes and continued to walk past him.
"Hey," He grabbed my arm, "Where are you going?" He asked. I eyed my arm. He noticed this and instantly let go.
"Home, where else?" I said as if it were obvious.
"Well do you want to work on the project tonight?"
"Sorry, not tonight. It'll have to be tomorrow." I strictly told him and he looked fazed a little.
"Why not tonight?"
"Because I have plans." I said.
"What kind of plans?" He asked.
"I don't think that's any of your business," I said with a fierce expression in my eye. Ash was taken back a little.
"Sorry, it's just that I was really hoping to work with you today." His eyes suddenly changed expression as if it was showing a hint of mercy in those chocolate brown eyes. I refused to give in.
"Hey by the way have you seen Serena? I haven't seen her at all and she's not answering my calls." He enquired.
"Oh so you haven't heard the news!" I exclaimed and Ash raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, your girlfriend, "I pointed to him, "was accusing me of trying to steal you away from her because everybody in the bus decided to spread the information that I accidentally sat on your lap." I explained in disgust.
"It may be an accident but you still liked it." He smirked. I rolled my eyes.
"Anyways so Serena tried to attack me and she got busted. I'm guessing she went home or something." I continued and he nodded.
I suddenly clicked and pointed a finger at him, "You better explain that all this was an accident. I already have enough problems in my life." I glared and he was stoic until he smirked again.
"And what if I don't?" He stepped a little closer trying to intimidate me. I stepped back a little as my eyes widened a little.
"You act as if…you don't care about her." He was hesitant to reply.
"You could say that." He shrugged.
I knew it. I knew it in my heart that Ash and Serena weren't in a true and loving relationship. I somewhat surprisingly felt sorry for him because he ended up with a self-obsessed girl who only cares about herself. But the real question was…
Why are they even together?
"Why are you even with her in the first place?" I asked. I could feel a clod breeze playing with my blue locks as Ash turned around and faced the sky.
"I-I can't answer that." He said with a dull expression as he looked down.
My heart felt weary all of a sudden, "Ash.."
"I gotta go home. See you tomorrow, Dawn." He simply said before walking away from me without looking back.
Ash Ketchum was a really complicated guy. At one point he could be perverted and arrogant while on the next hand he could have a somewhat sweet nature. The only mystery here was his relationship with Serena. I couldn't understand why but my heart felt weary for him. It actually made me want to assist him in some sort of way and to understand what he might be going through. I shook away my thoughts for the meantime and headed home, looking forward to the rest of the day.
Woohooo! No cliffhanger plus it's sort (?) of long. Right?
Yeah well, this was an extremely fast and lucky update because I realized that the readers deserved something more than that short chapter the other day.
Heads up for the next chapter: Dawn will have a weird dream and May comes over to Dawn's place. What do you think the dream will be about? Thoughts in reviews please :D
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