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Later that day at lunch

Dawn walks out of the lunch line with a tray in her hands and glances around nervously, looking for a place to sit. Everyone was staring at her like she was some sort of alien. She sighs softly, and ends up sitting in the usual place that she sits with Misty, Ash and sometimes Paul.

Paul walks out as well a few seconds after and sees Dawn sitting where they all usually sit. He wanted to go over there and talk things through but he couldn't. The pain in his chest keeps reminding him of what she did. He stares at her with a blank look on his face, not knowing what to do.

Misty all of a sudden walks up next to him, "You alright?" she asks him hesitantly.

"Hn" he grunts out, "just looking for a place to sit." he says as he continues to stare down Dawn, now with a scowl on his face.

"Oh well, there's a table over there. Come on." she said, nodding her head to an empty table and sits down at it with him.

Giselle all of a sudden takes a glance at Misty and Paul sitting at another table, while Dawn was alone at another. She smirks deviously and stomps right up to Dawn's table "aw trouble in paradise?" she sneers down at her.

Dawn sighed rolling her eyes at Giselle, "Get lost Giselle." She muttered out in annoyance.

She grins wickedly down at Dawn, "What? Just because you can't sleep with me and steal my money. We can't talk?" she cackles loudly at her.

Dawn frowns and glances up at her, "What—how did you?" she tries to say, but got interrupted by Giselle's squeaky voice.

"Oh honey, it's all over the school. Everyone knows what you did. And if you want my advice, since you are so good at having sex, you might as well become a prostitute since you want money so bad. Just saying." She tells Dawn rudely, in a snobbish tone.

Dawn clenches her fist angrily, and stands up pushing her roughly. She makes her way out of the cafeteria, bumping into someone as she reached the hall way.

"Oh—sorry!" Ash apologizes, but then sees it's Dawn and he frowns, "Oh… it's just you…"

Dawn sighs softly, and mumbles out incoherently, "sorry…"

Ash rolls his eyes, "whatever." He mumbles out, and turning back to head into the cafeteria.

Dawn's eyes started getting glassy, "Wait! Ash—please!" she pleaded, grabbing onto his arm.

Ash glares at her, "What? Are you going to tell me you like me, then sleep with me and take all my money?" he angrily snaps at her.

Dawn sighs, letting go of his arm, casting her gaze downwards. "I deserve that. And so much more. I know I did a horrible thing, but please let me explain myself. I know it won't make anything better, but—but… I—I didn't mean to…" she sniffles, not wanting to cry again for umpteenth time today.

Ash's hard angry gaze softens hearing her sniffles and not wanting her to cry. He sighs in frustration, "fine. Just talk, you have one minute."

She glances at him, and wipes her nose. She then takes a deep breath, "Alright, when I first came here, I had every intention of using everyone at this school, especially Paul—but,"

Ash frowns, "so you are admitting it?" he glares at her again, crossing his arms over his chest.

Dawn sighs, and gives him a pleading look. "Please let me finish—please." She takes another deep breath, "That was when I first arrived here, after hanging out with you guys, you guys treated me like I was—I was normal, like it didn't matter to you who I was or who I wanted to be. It didn't matter to you, that I was rude or had a snobby attitude. You didn't care for it, or even fear it. And then I realized that you guys were just being real with me. For once in my life, I didn't know how to react. I was so used to people, just following or doing what I said…." She lets out another deep breath before speaking again, "with Paul, he isn't like any other guy I met before, I knew I didn't deserve him the first second we even spoken. I tried so hard not to fall in love with him, and push him away because I knew I would hurt him. But I can't—I can't hide it anymore, I know I hurt him and I know it's unforgiveable and that nothing will ever be enough to fix it. But all I can do is try, try because I know he is worth it. Try because I'm madly in love with him, and I know that feeling will never go away…and—and I don't know what to do or how to fix things—and I'm just—I'm just incredibly sorry for—sorry for the way I treated all of you…" her voice started cracking, and she covered her face with her hands, letting out a sob.

"Please—help me—I beg of you…I'm so sorry." she hiccupped, wiping her eyes roughly, trying to make the tears stop. It's a good thing she hasn't worn a lot of makeup, or else she would look like even more of a hot mess.

Ash's glare softens. He looks her in the eyes and sees how much pain she has been hiding, and how she truly sorry she was and he definitely saw the guilt in her eyes eating her up alive. And plus, he is the biggest softie ever, and he feels sorry for her. He can't deal when a girl cries in front of him. "Okay…fine. I'll try and help you." he says reluctantly.

Her eyes widen in disbelief, she couldn't believe that he is even helping her, when she doesn't deserve his help at all. That just shows how good of a friend he could be and she never wants to get that for granted ever again. She sniffles, "Thank—thank you. You have no idea how much this means to me." she says softly, wiping her eyes.

Ash frowns and sees that she is in just as much pain as Paul, "Come here." He says gently, pulling her into an awkward hug, rubbing her back as she cried all of her tears.

Paul walks out of the cafeteria at the wrong damn time. He frowns seeing Dawn in Ash's arms crying. He growls thinking something is going on between the two and he walks past them. "Gee, thanks a lot man." He sneers, walking away angrily.

Ash's eyes widen at how this must look, he let's go of Dawn and she covers her mouth with her hand, obviously realizing the same thing.

She face palms herself, "God, why do I always mess everything up?" she yells at herself in desperation. "I'm so sorry!" she pleads with Ash again.

"No… it's alright it's my fault… I'm going to catch up with him." he says in a rush, and runs after Paul trying to catch up with him "Paul, dude wait up!" he shouts after him.

He turns around to face his roommate, and snarls at him angrily, his veins popping out from his arms and neck, "So? How long is this been going on?! Some friend you fucking are!"

Ash's eyes widen, "Are you kidding me? You think something is going on between us? I'm fucking with Misty for Arceus sakes dude! I am your friend, she begged me to listen to her and she was crying and she explained the situation, you really should just hear her out. She seems really sorry—and"

Paul scoffed in disbelief, "let me guess, she slept with you and made you say that. Right?" he grunts angrily with pain laced in his voice.

Ash glares at him, "Look dude, she might have stole your money but she didn't lie about her feelings for you. I know that doesn't make it any better, but don't ever fucking accuse me of something I didn't do! Just go hear her out." he jabs his chest, getting pissed off now.

Paul frowns and glares at him coldly, "Why? So she could break my heart again? No thanks." He sneers, slapping his hand away and turns to walk away from him.

Dawn was listening to the whole conversation from a distance. She frowns as tears start to swell up again in her eyes. She wipes them away before they can fall. She sighs to herself, turning to walk away from the scene before her.

A couple of hours later

Dawn was laying on her bed in her room, remembering the night before.

"I missed you—" she couldn't help but say, even though it had only been a few weeks, she couldn't help but dream about making love to him again, and reminiscing his touch.

His response was a kiss, a hard, bruising kiss that made her whimper into his mouth. He coaxed her head back and swerved his tongue between her parted lips, kissing her hungrily yet with something else, something desperate, urgent, almost…longing and loving.

She covers her face with her hands, trying to tear her thoughts away from the flashback. "Arceus why do I always screw everything up?" she mumbles in sadness and in misery.

Misty walks into their room slamming the door behind her, causing Dawn to jump up from her bed. "I can't believe you would do this to me! You know how much I wanted to be the homecoming queen! But no you had to go and screw that up for me!" she yells harshly at her roommate.

Dawn gives her a strange look, "What in the world are you talking about?" she asked in confusion.

She glares at her, "Don't pretend you don't know! You and Giselle are running against me for homecoming! You said you wouldn't run, but I guess that was bullshit, like all of your other pathetic lies?!" she screams at her, getting in her face.

She backs up with her eyes widened, but still confused. "But—I didn't. I would never do that to you—I don't even care about that. I swear I didn't—"

Misty scoffs, "Save it, Dawn. Like I will ever believe you." she spat viciously to her and walking in their bathroom slamming the door in the process.

Dawn sighs softly, sitting on her bed, thinking to herself who could have done a scam like this and suddenly a thought comes to mind, and she growls "Giselle…"

One week later, and there are two days left until the homecoming dance

Giselle runs up to Dawn, "Dawn, guess what?!" she squeals obnoxiously.

Dawn rolls her eyes and groans in annoyance, "What do you want Giselle?"

She smirked deviously, "You are never going to believe who asked me to the dance." She squeals again.

Dawn rolled her eyes, "Gee, I don't know your alter ego?" she said with sarcasm dripping from her voice.

Giselle cackled loudly, "Nope, Paul Shinji did."

Dawn's eyes widen, and she coughs awkwardly trying to clear her throat. "And you're telling me this because…?" she asked, trying to sound like it didn't bother her, but it did.

Giselle smirked seeing how much it affected her, "Oh, I just thought I'd let you know." she says cockily.

She fakes a smile at Giselle, "How sweet of you. Now if you will excuse me…" she walks past her bumping her shoulder against hers on purpose, and then she walks up to Ash who was at the end of the hall. "The plan's off." She mumbles and turns to walk away from him.

"Wait, what?" he calls out, he then said his goodbyes to his friends and goes to catch up with her. "What the hell, dude?" he grabs her arm, trying to keep up with her.

She glares at him, "Don't call me dude. And he obviously found another girl. So there isn't any point in trying to work things out with him…" she mumbles out sadly.

"What are you talking about? He didn't find another girl?" he asked her curiously, confusion written all over his face.

"He asked Giselle to the dance. Which obviously means for me to give up on trying… just like he did." she said in a shaky voice.

Ash rolled his eyes, "Do you even hear how stupid you sound? That's bullshit, he just said yes probably because she kept annoying him. He doesn't even want to go, but if you don't show up, Principal Cynthia will come at your dorm and make you show up."

Dawn sighs softly, "Whatever Ash, it would never work anyway. You saw us, all we ever did was fight. We don't belong together, if we did things would have at least made some progress by now. But it's clear he doesn't want anything to do with me, and I honestly don't blame him." she commented, and walked away from him.

Ash sighs to himself seeing her walk away, he starts thinking of to at least get them in the same room together.

A/N: One chapter left, I have an idea for a sequel :) so I'm super excited about that. But sorry if there are any mistakes. Let me know what you think will happen! The next chapter is going to be a pretty long chapter and I have it written already so I'm super excited to post it! Leave a review please :) thank you guys for sticking with me with this story. I do hope you enjoyed it and will enjoy the sequel as well!