"Okay Mister Music Man," Dawn started, "what kinda business are you in?"
"If you're asking what genres I play," Jeremy answered, putting the amp head into a hardshell case, "it would be heavy metal, folk, classical, and some jazz but mostly metal."
"Well it wasn't exactly what I was asking but that'll do" Dawn said, "I knew you were into metal from the start, that's pretty awesome stuff."
Jeremy's jaw dropped. "You listen to metal?"
"Yep," Dawn said, "it isn't all I listen to. I listen to allot of things, metal happens to be one of them."
"Hmmm..." Jeremy was still alittle apprehensive, "name one metal band you like."
"Gorgoroth."
"Dawn," Jeremy sighed, "if you weren't taken and in my age group I would have pounced right on you."
An unfeasibly large sweat drop appeared on Dawn's head and laughed nervously "Eheh... okay then..."
Jeremy laughed too. "I would though... nah I wouldn't. Okay seriously what did you mean to ask me?"
"Okay then," Dawn said, "I meant to ask like what groups or bands have you been in if any?"
"Ummm... so far the only thing close to a band in my eyes was a Pantera tribute group that I was a member of for about a year.
Yeah people kept calling me a maniac cause I went absolutely insane on stage but I started drinking too much and those guys didn't like that so I got fired and I didn't feel like looking for anyone else so here I am."
"Wow," Ash cut in, "you've sure been around then haven't you?"
"Definitely." Jeremy said.
"Not to say that me and Dawn haven't been around the block before." Ash added in.
Hearing this Jeremy suddenly burst into laughter after interpreting Ash's statement in the wrong way.
"What's so funny?" Ash asked, annoyed, he looked back at Dawn who had also thought the same thing was very red in the face.
"I'm sorry I found that hilarious coming from a... kid your age, but I digress, I don't just play guitar I play bass, and the octave mandolin for whatever reason."
"Interesting..." Ash said, clearly bored with Jeremy's rambling.
"Don't worry Jer," Dawn reassured, "Ash is a Pokemon 24/7 kinda person everything else bores him. Oh and do you mind being called Jer?"
"Not at all," Jeremy said, "I've been called that so many times it's pretty much my name."
"Oh good," Dawn smiled
The group continued to chat about various subject for hours until a familiar growl came from Ash's abdomen.
"Uhh..." Ash's hands covered up his stomach.
"I guess it's time to start making supper?" Dawn assumed.
"Yeah, those growls aren't gonna stop any time soon." Ash said.
Dawn looked around in her bag and around the area worriedly, what was she gonna make since she assumed Brock's role as chef.
As she looked through her bag, she found a bag of vegetables with a piece of paper attached to it, it was from Brock as if he knew that she would take his role gave her his stew recipe and the ingredients needed.
"Wow, it's like he knew I was gonna do this." She thought.
She looked around seeing that he also left the cast iron pot with them too, so she just shrugged and started cooking and once an hour or two passed the stew was ready.
Dawn took the wooden spoon out of the pot and tasted the stew. "I think it's ready." She announced.
Ash who was slouched down on the ground, perked up suddenly and charged over to Dawn, Jeremy who was tuning his acoustic guitar followed in a more civilized manner.
Dawn handed them both bowls of stew and spoons then got herself a bowl and sat with the boys in a circle.
As expected, Ash was the first one to dig in. "Wow Dawn this is just like Brock's cooking!" He remarked.
"Well it sorta is," Dawn admitted scratching the back of her head, "cause it's his recipe."
"I see," Ash said.
It was only a matter of time until Jeremy asked "Who's this Brock character?"
"Brock is a friend of ours who cooked, and took care of us basically," Ash told him, "he actually left to go home this morning."
"I see," Jeremy said, "is he a pretty cool guy."
"Yeah," Dawn added in, "he also has a tendency to fall in love with every cute girl he meets before getting Poison jabbed by his Crogunk."
Jeremy chuckled, "I bet he hates that thing so much after all those."
"Nah he doesn't actually," Ash corrected, "he loves all his Pokemon, it's helped him control himself to a degree though."
"Yeah he sounds like a pretty cool guy, I'd hang with him." Jeremy said.
Ash set down his bowl after finishing his stew. "Okay I think I'm good for tonight, thanks Dawn."
"My appreciation." Jeremy chimed.
Dawn smiled sweetly. "You guys are very welcome."
Dawn took the pot off the fire and put some more firewood on, soon enough everyone began to gather around the campfire.
Night had fallen yet our heroes were still very much awake, Pikachu slept peacefully in Ash's sleeping bag while they kept warm by the fire.
Jeremy looked up at the night sky, there were no clouds whatsoever so that the moonlight dimly lit up the forest in a deep blue. He smiled and grabbed his acoustic guitar, a Martin D-28 from 1979 to be exact. To the untrained eye the guitar looks to be only 5 or so years old but further examination shows it's true age.
He did a quick check to see if his guitar was in tune, and began to play, just noodling around at first before going into something very reminiscent or Bron-Yr-Aur by Led Zeppelin.
As he played Ash and Dawn watched him play, captivated by his precision and stoic focus, but Dawn's attention was drawn to someone else. Ash was layed back on a log watching the entertainer not noticing Dawn scooting ever closer to him until, she had wrapped herself around his body.
"You know Ash," She smiled at him, "this time I kinda appreciate his noise."
Jeremy continued as if they weren't even there.
"Me too," Ash replied, but he could see from her beautiful blue eyes that she wanted something.
Dawn continued to look up at him while she rested her head on his shoulder.
Dawn suddenly felt herself moving and resting on top of Ash like the afternoon before. "I don't remember moving up here..."
"You didn't," Ash said, "it was me."
Dawn was very suprised, he had never done anything like that before, her cheeks began to redden and so did Ash's.
"We never got to finish up our moment early today." Ash murmured.
Dawn giggled silently and leaned in, both their eyes closed. Jeremy continued to play his music but in the minds of Ash and Dawn they couldn't hear him, they couldn't hear anything but their breath, and voices.
"Ash?" Dawn whispered, their lips just barely an inch apart.
"Yes?"
"I never got to say this but... I love you Ash."
Ash paused, he could feel his heart suddenly leap in his chest.
"You know what Dawn... I...I love you too."
That sealed it, Dawn just lurched forward, locking lips with Ash Ketchum and and explosion of ecstasy went straight through both lovers as they kissed for the first time.
Not in their wildest dreams when both started their journeys that they would find true love along the way. Ash just figured it would be just like the last 2 female companions but he was completely blown away when Dawn came into the picture, there was something about her additude, her voice, her looks he didn't know but he could resist her. all these thoughts and feelings just bounced around inside his skull like a rubber ball.
Their "love trip" seemed to last hours when it really only lasted a minute and a half when the two broke their bond to catch their breath just as Jeremy finished playing the piece.
Jeremy looked up after he could no longer hear the guitar sustaining and saw the two laying on top of eachother.
Dawn jumped a little remembering that Jeremy was still there. "I-I'm so sorry." She squeaked thinking he would be mad at them.
But he was smiling. "Don't feel bad," He said, "I can tell you two enjoyed yourself more with eachother then listening to me."
The two looked back at eachother and smiled back.
"You kids look like you were made for eachother, I could tell right from when I met you two," Jeremy went on, strumming his guitar a couple times, "save every moment you have together, that's all I have to say."
Ash and Dawn beamed gleefully, cuddling a little bit more.
"It's getting pretty late you two," Jeremy mentioned, "you should get some rest."
The two reluctantly let go of eachother, Ash walked to his sleeping bag and Dawn to her tent.
But Dawn couldn't go to sleep, it had been an hour since she got ready for bed but she just couldn't get to sleep, usually she'd be asleep within a couple of minutes. So she got up out of her bag and tent and tried to wake Ash but to no avail.
"Well I guess one night outside the tent couldn't hurt..."
So she dragged her sleeping bag out of the tent and lay it next to Ash and slipped inside. It was colder outside of the tent but she didn't care, as long as Ash was there, she felt fine and safe and fell asleep.