Me: "Hey, everybody, (snif)"
May: "Why you're crying?"
Me: "I'm currently listening to the song; "Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisly and Alisson Krausse. It's so sad"
Drew: "It's just a song, get over it"
Me: "Yeah yeah. And I noticed I have mixed up the chapters, you might want to read the story again."
May: "Riikani doesn't own Pokemon"
Me: (snif) "That's sad too"
Drew; "Get your act together and continue this story!!"
Me: "Okay, okay, I never you wanted to get hurt that badly"
Drew:'"..o...damn, not again"
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Chapter 10: Past hurts
The next day May trained and the day after that was the contest.
May felt really nervous; almost as nervous for her first contest. She snickered 'But this is supposed to be my first contest after' she thought and went to the mess-hall.
As usual, she loaded her plate with she would see.
"Still stuffing yourself Foxy?" he asked.
There was Drew.
May nodded but kept eating.
He sat down and smirked; "well, at least I know who I'm up against"
May swallowed what she had in her mouth and picked 8 years of coordinators from her back. "I do too" and she handed him the book.
Drew's eyes and it looked like he was upset for one moment.
He opened the book and his reactions were pretty much the same as May's 2 days earlier; he laughed when he saw Solidad's pages and snickered seeing Harley's.
He suddenly saw himself; "I knew they couldn't resist..."
"Read" May interrupted him.
While he read May saw his face go rollercoaster on emotions. First his eyes widened, then he smirked, reading his description. Then he came to the last part and his became darker.
"This must be the biggest lie of them all" he growled.
"Are you sure?" May asked; "Are you saying it's a lie you quit for awhile? Is it a lie you were pretty upset when you heard May quit?" May asked
Drew shook his head; "No, but it's a lie I felt something for her besides friendship and I did not quit because of her" he said, but his voice sounded more grim than before and there was no sound of mocking at all.
"Then why did you quit?"
He looked up angry, as May had seen him only once while the Kanto-festival.
"What is this, Sora?! 20 questions?!" he spat.
He stood up; "my personal life is none of your business! I felt NOTHING for May!!
He walked away, his hands in his pockets
"But maybe she did feel something for you" May muttered.
She picked up her book and put it back in her bag. Suddenly she didn't even like eating anymore and stalked off to the contest-hall.
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"Hey Sora" a familiar voice said.
"Solidad" May smiled "Am I glad to see you before the contest starts" she said.
"Have you seen Drew?" Solidad asked; "He seemed pretty upset to me, while he most of the time is the coolness himself" she said and frowned.
May scratched the back of her head; "uh yeah, that's actually my fault" she said sheepishly.
Solidad smiled; "How can you be the fault of how he acts?"
May reached for her bag once again and picked out the book. She flipped it open on Drew's article. "I showed him this" and gave it to Solidad.
The said person frowned; "Why would he get mad about something like this, it's actually all true, though he never admitted it."
"Well, he said it was all lies and when I asked him what the lies were, he said he never something for May. And I guess I asked a bit too far" May admitted.
Solidad frowned again; "he's a bit stuck with himself and I guess it is a bit confronting to see the truth that way on paper"
She smiled; "Don't worry; Drew is a strong person. He will get out of it"
She laughed "Let's now concentrate on the contest"
May nodded and looked at the currently performing contestant "The performance was good but was not special. He didn't outstand" May commented softly.
Solidad looked at her surprised; "You know pretty much for someone who just started coordinating"
May smiled back, she didn't find it necessary to answer.
"Sora Naka" was called around and it took May one second to realize it was her. She went to the stage pretty quickly after that.
"Solidad" Drew nodded. "Hey Drew" replied Solidad.
"Does she remind you of someone?" Solidad asked with a nod to the screen where Sora (aka. May) had appeared.
Drew nodded; "Yeah"
He kept silent after that. Solidad raised her brow; "Are you sure you're feeling alright?"
Drew shot a glare at her; "Since she has appeared, I'm feeling like past is coming back to me" he said before stalking away.
Solidad sighed; 'apparently he isn't quite over May yet'
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Meanwhile, May was on the stage. When she had entered the cheering of the crowd had fallen away.
Currently everybody was looking at her, and May was petrified.
"Sora? Are you alright?" The MC Millie (short for Millian, sorry couldn't come up with idea's) asked.
"Everybody...is staring at me" she whispered. The MC nodded; "just start your appeal", she went back to her place on the side-lines.
May swallowed; "Alright then, Wartortle! Take the Stage!" (someone backstage gasped) she said throwing up the poke-ball.
The water-pokemon came out in a whirl bubbles.
"Do Bubblebeam followed by Watergun" she ordered.
The Pokemon took a deep breath and shot the bubbles, and then shot carefully the water in the bubbles.
"And do now Waterpulse" she said. The water-pokemon shot a pulse dividing the bubbles.
"And Finish with the Watergun Icebeam combo" Wartortle nodded and carefully shot the Watergun, and hit them by Ice-beam. creating small icicles, which splashed the former bubbles.
"Wow, she shot the bubbles with such a careful precision and hit them all; people, what do you think of this appeal?"
It stayed silent for a bit but then the crowd exploded.
May was stunned, but then a smile broke when she noticed the crowd was cheering for her.
She hugged Wartortle and cried; "We did it Wartortle, we showed what we could do"
She was so happy; nobody in the crowd was calling her names or was offending.
"Sora, I am stunned, it was beautiful with such a precision" Mr. Contesta said. "Remarkable, truly remarkable" Mr. Suziko added and May glowed.
"Are you sure this is your first contest? You look like an experience coordinator" At that moment May felt a little bad, but she wasn't judged by if it was her first time or not.
Her score ended up in a 29.8.
She happily skipped of the stage to the back were she heard Drew and Solidad; "Her style seems familiar" definitely Drew's voice.
"Yeah, but it's different too" Solidad responded; "a bit unfamiliar and a bit unsure; and that's definetely not May's style" Solidad said. May smiled secretly 'thanks Solidad, you keep helping me to hold up my disguise' .
She entered the coordinator lounge where she was greeted by Solidad; "You were great out there Sora. I didn't know you were that good", May smiled hearing the compliments
"But still not good enough" Drew commented. He was leaning against the wall and was smirking about something.
Then May did something she hadn't done for years, and could possibly blow her cover;
She pouted.
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Me: "W00t, cliffy!!"
Drew: "Don't say you've eaten too much sugar again..."
Me: "I'm awake for 40 minutes (it's 6.40 AM) and I don't eat that early"
May: "Uhm, did this chapter have real importance?"
Me: "uhm... for now maybe not, but in the rest of the story, yeah I guess it does"
May: "Then we'll live with it!!"
Drew: "Why do you say 'we'?
Me: "O dear lord, there they go again. Well, Pleaaase Review... it keeps me going. I'm typing the whole story from paper, so I get easily bored.