A/N: Well, sorry for the delay, I had to publish that story Just A Dream otherwise it would just keep bugging me. So, here's chapter 3:

I dedicate this chapter to my older sister, who turned 24 today! I love you Courtney and I miss you!

Chapter #3- Love is Hard-

Dawn looked over her shoulder toward the tent flap, sniffing. "I wonder what he was doing in here… Do you have any idea Piplup?" She looked at the penguin, but she only shrugged.

"Oh, well. If I know Kenny, he was probably just trying to get me to help with him with some sort of work." She blinked hard and another tear slid down her cheek and landed on Piplup's head. "He never cared about me or how I felt."

"Pip piplup lup, (Dawn you're just overreacting,)" Piplup reassured her patting her arm, "Piplup lup pip lup pip, (Just try not thinking about him for awhile.)"

Dawn just looked down at the little penguin and forced a smile, but it hurt too much, so she stopped. She took a shakey sigh, "Oh, Piplup, I want to tell him the truth sooooo bad, but I'm afraid he won't feel the same!"

"Why do I have to feel this way!?" She asked herself, putting her face in her hands, "Everything was so much easier when Kenny and I were little and I still thought boys had cooties!"

New tears formed in her eyes as a picture of her and Kenny playing together a few years back flashed through her mind. "I love him so much" Dawn cried, face in her hands, "But I'm too chicken to tell him."

"Pip, lup piplup lup lup piplup pip piplup pip!? (Dawn, why don't you just tell Kenny the truth?)" Piplup asked, and before Dawn could refuse, she added, "Piplup pip lup piplup lup lup pip, (If you think about it, it's a whole lot better than just sitting around and moping over him.)"

"You're right Piplup!" Dawn exclaimed, jumping to her feet as Piplup did, "I should just tell him! Hey, heartbreak has to better than just waiting, right?" She looked down at her for support, which she got in the form of Piplup's way of thumbs up.

"I'm afraid you're not going to be able to do that," came a young man's voice from behind her. Dawn gasped and whipped around.

Yeah where yous is goin,'" The Meowth said, approaching her with some rope tape, and a large black blindfold. Dawn was too scared to move, let alone order an attack from Piplup, so she just stood there like a lifeless manikin as they got closer.

She was, however, able to point at them with a shaking hand as she shouted, "Team- mmpphh!"

"Ah, ah, ah," The woman said in a little baby voice, her manicured hand clasped firmly over her mouth, using her other hand to pinch Dawn's left cheek, "Not a word, unless you want to cause extra trouble for your little boyfriend and his precious Prinplup!"

Dawn's eyes lit up in mock terror. Oh no! What are they planning on doing to Kenny?

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk (horrible time sequence)

Two and a half hours after Kenny and Prinplup had finished with the dishes, dinner was ready. (I told you Brock was a slow cook!) Now all that was missing were the people to eat it.

Brock had sent Ash's Staraptor to get him about five minutes ago, and it had already gotten back, but when Kenny had gone to get Dawn, he claimed he couldn't find her. Her tent was completely empty of her Piplup, and her backpack, but no one had seen her leave, nor had she told anyone that she was going anywhere.

"Hey guys!" Brock and Kenny whipped around, half praying that it was Dawn, but were disappointed to see the 12-hour-couple walking towards them.

"Okay," Ash said, clapping his hands together, "I'm ready to chow down, how about you guys?" He laughed, but Misty nudged him softly and motioned to Brock and Kenny's panicked expressions.

"Hey what's wrong?" Misty asked softly, looking around the camp. "Where's Dawn?" She added, finally noticing her absence.

Brock and Kenny didn't answer at first; they just stared at the ground chewing their lips and tried to avoid it. Now, Ash and Misty definitely knew something was wrong.

"Guys, answer us," Ash said, a little more sternly than Misty had seemed earlier, panic beginning to run throughout his body, "Where is Dawn?"

Kenny finally looked up at them, his eyes brimming with tears. He seemed unable to speak, so instead he just mouthed the words, "We don't know."

Ash looked over at Misty, unsure of what to do, and so glad that Misty was there to help him. He knew if she hadn't been there at that moment, squeezing his hand for support, he'd probably be having a nervous breakdown right now or doing something extremely reckless.

Misty gave Ash an isn't-it-obvious look as she exclaimed, "We should probably look for her. From what you've told me about her, she doesn't seem like the type to just wander off without leaving some sort of clue as to where she's headed."

Everybody nodded at her words, and looked her straight in the eyes, waiting for further instructions.

"Okay, what we need to do is split up," Misty said, trying to remain calm, as Ash gave her hand another squeeze. She turned to face Brock, "You and Kenny go recheck everything in her tent; there has to be something in there that might tell us where she is."

"Ash and I will scour the lake; maybe she went for a nighttime stroll," She shrugged, highly doubting her last statement. Something about all this just didn't feel right…

"Geez Jess," James asked as their balloon lowered down to the ends of the treetops, "Do you think this'll work out? What if those twerps don't find the note we left them?"

"They'll find it sooner or later," She replied, glaring down at the tied up blue-haired girl by her feet, "Even this Brat's friends can't be that dense."

"But Jessie," Meowth added, wanting to be part of the conversation, "These are the twerps we're talking about!"

"You're right!" Jessie laughed, looking back down at Dawn and smirking "They'd never find it even if we stuck it on the tips of their noses!"

The three Team Rocket members kept laughing, while back at the "Twerp" camp, Kenny came upon the very thing they thought he'd never find.

"Guys," He called, scanning over the note pinned to the inside of the tent door and yanking it down, "Come here and read this!"

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A/N: Okay, I'm going to my Grandparents house on Christmas for a week, so I may not be able to post another chapter again til after the break, just to let you know ahead of time so you don't get mad!

Team Rocket's just so full of themselves, aren't they? I tried to make them as close to their characters in the show, but I don't think I got it about right.

Again, let me know what you think, oh, and plz answer the poll at the top of my profile for me.