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Pokemon isnt mine
Paul woke up at 5:30 and ran down stairs and collected the pokeballs. He quietly walked into her room; he had left the door unlocked. He put all her pokeballs on her nightstand and looked to see her face and even through the dark he saw she looked uncomfortable, like she was having a bad dream.
He bent over her face and gave her a kiss much to the one he gave her when he tucked her in. She let out a little groan and Paul jumped up and ran to the door and quickly shut it. He walked around until five minutes after six and he knocked on the door. He waited a moment and knocked again.
"Oh fine I am up!" Dawn groaned.
Paul waited one more moment until he heard movement and ran around the corner. He listened for the door to open and the door to shut. When he heard both noises he was satisfied and went to his room and promptly passed out.
Dawn went back to her room and looked at the clock. She had an hour to get to registration. I really don't remember how I got to my room. Dawn thought to herself and looked at her surrounding and quickly headed to the shower.
After her shower she went to check in at registration and was back in her room at 8:30 am. Once she got in her room there was a knock at her door.
Dawn still being very tired groaned as she went to open the door. "Hello?" She said groggily.
"Hey!" May smiled.
Dawn instantly perked up seeing her friend at the door, "Hey May!"
"You doing alright? You sound tired."
"Yeah I was up a while preparing for today." Dawn smiled "No need to worry, though, I am all ready." She looked at her clothes, "Well minus actually getting ready."
"I came by to ask if you wanted to get some breakfast."
Dawn felt her stomach growl and gave away a small blush and giggle, "Absolutely!"
May led Dawn to the rest of the group and they went and enjoyed breakfast.
Around ten Dawn dismissed herself from the table and went back to her room. On her way back to the PokeCenter she saw Paul taking a bite out of something in his hand.
"How was your training?" Dawn smiled stepping in front of Paul.
Paul swallowed what he had in his mouth, "Mn, Troublesome."
"My name is Dawn jerk!"
"I have a gym battle to get to." Paul said with no emotion to his voice.
Dawn smiled even bigger, "Well good luck!"
Paul side stepped her and went to walk around her until Dawn popped in front of him again.
"Hey maybe you can come watch the grand festival then?" Dawn asked hopefully.
"No." Paul said walking around her and off to the gym.
Dawn stood there for a moment saddened by Paul's lack of interest. He was so helpful yesterday. However Dawn took a deep breath and shook her head wildly. Get your head in the contest. Go to your room and get dressed. Contest, nothing more. Dawn told her self going into contest mode.
Dawn got into her dress and fixed her hair. She made sure her pokemon where ready to go and sprayed a couple of sprits of her strawberry perfume. She applied she strawberry lip gloss and smiled. She looked at the clock and it was noon. She panicked and grabbed her hairclips and ran out to the stadium, with her pokeballs lip gloss and hairclips in her bag.
Dawn got to the stadium and saw what time she did her appeal and smiled. She had time to get her hairclips in.
"Oh and look who we have here!" A bitter sweet voice said behind Dawn. "What in the hell is going on with your dress?" The girl scoffed.
Dawn turned around allowing her bangs to obscure her face. "Oh Ursula," Dawn said once her bangs fell out of her face.
"Your dress is hideous!" The girl seemed genuinely amused.
"It is not!" Dawn stamped her foot. "It is my favorite color!"
"Your judgment sucks!" Ursula laughed still amused.
Dawn took her hand that she had her clips in and pointed to Ursula, "You are just afraid you are going to lose again!"
Ursula slapped her hand away and the clips fell to the ground. The pinkette stepped on the clips and ground her foot into the ground until she felt them break. She smirked and walked away. "Hope you can see it is awful windy out there."
Dawn bent to the ground and picked up the ruminants of her clip and felt tears in her eyes. She looked up and May and Misty came over to her.
"That bitch!" Misty growled her hand on her mallet. "Please just say the word and I will beat her within an inch of her life."
Ash walked up behind her and grabbed the mallet "Now Mist, that won't help anyone."
The air around Misty got clammy and dark "Ash Ketchum if you do not hand me that mallet back you are in for a world of hurt and pain!"
Ash went running off and Misty took off after him. May sweat dropped and turned her attention back to Dawn who still had tears in her eyes.
"Look here." May said trying to get her friends attention.
Dawn was staring down at the hair clips, trying not to cry. Get your head up! A voice in her head commanded. Get rid of those! The voice said again as a tear rolled down her cheek. Dawn took a deep breath and rubbed her eyes, then looked at May. Over May's shoulder about 30 yard off she saw a purple headed boy staring intensely at her.
He gave a curt yank of his head side ways once to the left and once to the right, then he stuck his chin up. No, don't you dare! Get your head up! Paul thought to her.
Dawn blinked a couple of times and she looked in the same spot and Paul was not there. She held her head. Did I just imagine him here? Of course you did Dawn. Get a grip, he said he wasn't coming. He doesn't care. Get over it! Dawn was about to cry. He has to care. He helped me with my pokemon.
"Dawn! Dawn snap out of it!" May said hugging her friend.
"What is wrong with her?" Drew said.
"Ursula broke her clips and she spaced out and just started crying."
Drew flipped his hair. He had an idea. Everyone knew she had a crush on Paul. He had caught Paul staring at her a few minutes ago. He thought back to that moment.
"Do you like her?" Drew asked.
Paul jumped. "What? NO!"
"Then why are you staring at her?" Drew smirked flipping his hair.
"I think that hair flipping is affecting your brain function! I wasn't looking at the troublesome girl!" Paul growled leaving the area.
Drew chuckled. He so likes her.
Dawn dried her face with the back of her hands and put on a smile, "No need to worry!"
The brunette frowned, worried about her friend, and took Dawn's bag. She took out the lip gloss and handed it to her friend. Dawn dumped the broken clips into her bag.
Dawn reapplied her lip gloss and took her Lopunny's pokeball out of her bag. "See ya'll out there I am going to put my bag in the dressing room." Dawn said hugging May.
Dawn ran to the dressing room and put her bag down just in time for the PA system to call her name to the stage.
Dawn walked out into the arena when she was introduced. She instantly felt the wind whip her bangs around. She felt her heart fell into her stomach. She couldn't see. However she made her smile grow even wider. No need to worry, no need to worry, no need to worry! She recited her mantra.
"Lopunny, spotlight!" Dawn called throwing out her pokeball. Once Lopunny landed her flip, Dawn instantly felt like everything would be ok. She was in her old grove.
(Now this little pokemon part is for my amusement. I read that Buneary had a crush on Pikachu and I am taking full advantage of it. Gotta love pokelove)
Ash's Pikachu was in the stands watching Dawn, when he realized that the silly bunny that he used to run from was no long a Buneary, he froze. He turned to ash and asked "Pika Cha?"
Ash looked at his pokemon and shrugged, "Maybe she won't bother you anymore. Some pokemon change when they evolve."
Pikachu did not seem to like that thought very much, ergo the growl that he let out. "Pi Cha!" The electric pokemon called out.
The bunny pokemon's ears perked up and heard that mouse pokemon's call that she found so adorable as a Buneary. Lopunny looked at the mouse pokemon and waved with a beaming smile.
"Pi Cha! Pi Cha!" Pikachu chanted excitedly.
"Umm, Ash I think Pikachu finally realized that he likes Dawn's Lopunny." May laughed to Ash. May was currently in between Ash and Misty, because Misty was still angry Ash took her mallet and would not give it back to her.
As Dawn called out her appeal Paul watched from the opposite side of where she was standing, in the stands. He smirked when the pokemon landed her flip. He did however seem a little concerned with the fact her bangs were flopping around. Why was the girl so stupid to not keep her hair out of the way?
However Dawn and her Lopunny finished their appeal without a hitch and she waved to the crowed before she walked back to the dressing room.
Paul nodded with approval, of course no one saw him. Lord that would have been embarrassing if someone had.
A few hours went by until the results for who would be in the final round popped up on the screen. Dawn was confident she would make it through to the end, so see stood proud after she won the semi final round. However when she was looking at the screen she was mortified to see Ursula's picture pop up next to hers.
Ursula walked over to her. "Good luck, you will need it."
Dawn erased the mortified expression and followed up with a snide comment to Ursula before the pink headed girl was out of ear shot.
Dawn went to her bag and looked for her clip pieces. The wind outside was becoming wild, and it severely worried her. When she dug around in her bag she pulled out two clips with purple stones set in them. Where in the hell did these come from? Dawn asked placing the clips in her hair. They matched her dress and looked stunning.
Dawn stood up, super confident now that her hair would no longer be a problem. Her head was held high as she walked out to face Ursula.
Paul had moved at this point in time to the opposite tunnel that Dawn had walked through and stood just inside the tunnel from the inside of the stadium. He could see the jewels on her clips sparkly in the fading sunlight. He let a smile appear on his face, not a smirk, but a smile, when he thought, Good she found them, hopefully she likes them to.
Ursula called out her Wormadam.
Dawn called out her Piplup.
They began the battle and the sun was setting and as the time limit got nearer and nearer the damage bar went down equally. In the final seconds of the battle Dawn called her last attack and she was just slightly behind on damage.
Paul stood on edge as he looked at the broken battle field and then immediately to the scoreboard.
In the few second for the winner to pop on the bored, time slowed down for Dawn. She kept her head up but her hand went to her mouth. Ursula never beat her, so this was not the time nor place for Ursula to win. Not at the Grand Festival, it just couldn't happen.
Finally what seemed like a life time the scoreboard popped up the picture of the winner. The winner was Dawn!
Paul did a small fist thrust, not over his head but it was enough for Dawn to see. Because you see, when Dawn saw her picture she looked at Ursula who was in complete shock, her eye was drawn to this movement and she saw Paul. There was confetti in the air and Piplup was in her arms, she never recalled him jumping there, but he was there none the less.
Ursula stormed past Dawn not saying anything, and Dawn ran to Paul. She had no idea what she was doing. She just knew that she was running to him. The why to that question, did not even register in her head. When she got to him, she leapt up and hugged him around the neck.
Paul was surprise she leaped to him. He saw her running to him, but he didn't plan on her leaping into him. However luckily for the both of him, he embraced her and turned against the tunnel walk so he wouldn't fall over.
Dawn muttered something into his shoulder.
"What was that?" Paul asked hugging her. He didn't care to keep up his stoic act. He was proud of her and she needed to know that. Plus, once he had bought the clips he knew he wanted to tell her how he felt. He took a deep breathe in her hair, and the aroma of strawberries flooded his nose.
"I won!" Dawn pulled back to look at his face. Her face was red. He was unsure if it was because she was excited or what. She realized she was in his arms and she quickly got out of his arms and backed up a couple of steps. "Oops sorry!" She put her head down.
"Dawn would you please, keep your head up?" Paul said slightly irritated. This habit of hers had to go.
Dawn pulled her head up and revealed her cheeks were covered with a dark red blush. "I won!"
"You did!" Paul smiled a wide genuine smile, "Congratulations!"
Dawn was taken back by his words and actions.
"I see you like your new hair clips." Paul said shoving his hands back in his jacket's pocket.
Dawn dropped her jaw and looked at him in shock and confusion.
Paul laughed, "You should probably go back out there."
Dawn looked at the stadium and most of the people sitting were looking at the two of them. Dawn's entire face turned a deep red. "Oh right." She said as she took a step to run back.
Paul grabbed her by the wrist to pull her back. Dawn looked at him confused, "What?" Dawn asked confused.
"I…" Paul paused.
Dawn looked at him head cocked to the side, "Yes?"
Say it! Paul's conscious screamed at him. "I love you" Paul blurt out.
Dawn smiled and hugged him, "I love you too Paul."
"I have something for you, when the ceremony is over." Paul whispered in her ear.
Dawn nodded and kissed his cheek and ran back into the stadium.
As the ceremony started Ash, Misty, Drew and May all had shocked faces. They knew Dawn liked Paul but never in a million years did they ever thing that 1) Paul would hug her back, 2) Dawn would run stopping the celebration into Paul's arms, 3) Paul would hug her back, 4) They would kiss in front of everyone!
Once the ceremony was over Dawn ran around the grounds looking for Paul. The longer it took the more her hopes fell. She started to think he was being an ass and pulling a prank on her.
"Troublesome, behind you." Paul said tapping on her shoulder.
Dawn spun around to see Paul smiling at her. She smiled and hugged him. "I thought you were just messing with me by playing a cruel joke on me." She said into his chest.
"No, I wouldn't joke with you about this." Paul said into her hair. Damn he really loved the smell of strawberries. "If I was however, I would have left your troublesome ass in the field this morning." Paul chuckled.
Dawn pulled her head back to look at his face, "What?"
"After you finished training Lopunny, you lie down and fell asleep. I picked you up carried you to your room, took your pokemon to be healed, set your alarm, put your pokemon back, and knocked on your door at six to make sure you got up." Paul listed everything he did and realized two things. One, he sounded very creepy and stalkerish. Then two, he was way out of character.
To him, both of these realizations worried him because he did not want her to reject him. "Oh and then there are those hair clips. At first I thought you were stupid enough to forget hair clip until I went to put those in your bag and saw the broken ones."
Dawn had so many questions so she merely said, "Let's go to my room in the PokeCenter."
"What about your friends?" Paul asked as he walked with Dawn to her room.
"Oh, they will find me, no need to worry." Dawn said beaming.
Once they got to Dawn's room she sat on her bed against her head board and Paul sat at the foot of the bed. "You bought these clips for me?" Dawn asked touching her clips.
"Yes I knew she would use your hair against you, and I…" …wanted to help you. Now that sounds real stupid Paul. Paul reprimanded himself.
"…wanted to help?" Dawn asked smiling at him.
Paul just nodded.
"Thank you and they match my dress." Dawn said taking one out of her hair to admire it.
Paul nodded again.
Dawn then got quite and whispered, "You did all that for me last night?" A small blush powdered he cheeks.
"Yes, I knew you couldn't over sleep, but you also needed your sleep, and I don't need a whole lot, so I just tied up the loose ends for you.
"How can I ever repay you?" Dawn asked lunging across her bed to hug him.
"Be my girlfriend." Paul said quietly.
Dawn looked at him smiling like a mad man, "Absolutely."
Paul leaned down to her and laid one soft kiss onto her soft lip gloss covered lips. Both of their hearts jumped and Dawn put her hand in his hair bringing him closer. Paul then pulled her into his lap and slid one hand through her pony tail.
Dawn broke for air and looked at him as he licked his lips. He smirked.
"What?" Dawn asked.
"It was even better than last night." Paul smiled and then in a moment the smile and color drained out of his face. You are a class A moron! No you are worse than that what the F*** is wrong with you! Paul mentally screamed at himself.
Dawn oblivious to his facial expression asked, "What?"
"I… er… kissed you this morning." Paul said with his pitch very low.
Dawn smiled, "Oh my sleeping body just to cute for you?" Dawn joked realizing he was terribly uncomfortable.
Paul thanked her silently with an answer, "…That and you were much quieter." Paul joked back.
Dawn swatted his arm, "Hey!"
"…But it is better when you kiss back." Paul smiled kissing her again. "Plus, I love the flavor of your lip gloss."
"Oh that's right you love strawberries." Dawn smiled.
Paul jumped, "How did you know that?"
"It was the only time you took one of my poffins I made. They were strawberry flavored, and I have seen you eat strawberries like Ash eats everything else."
Paul smiled, "Do you use strawberry shampoo too?"
Dawn nodded, "That and perfume."
Paul hugged her and smiled.
"Thank you," Dawn smiled.
"What for?" Paul asked.
"…Taking care of me, helping me train Lopunny, and telling me to keep my head up."
"You have beautiful eyes and smile." Paul said looking at her face, "You should show them off."
Dawn laughed and took her hair down out of the pony tail. Her midnight blue hair fell around her shoulders and back. "Is that what you like about me?"
Paul laughed heartily, something he did very rarely, "No there is much more," Paul said running his hair through her hair. "I love the color of your eyes, you smile, the color of your hair, which is very soft by the way. I love your laugh and how troublesome you can be." Paul looked her up once more, "That dress also looks stunning on you."
Dawn beamed, "Thank you, it is my favorite color. Plus, it reminds me of you."
Paul cocked his head to the side.
"It is the color of your hair, and your eyes."
"Since when did your favorite color become purple?" Paul asked fairly bemused at the second part of her answer.
"A few years ago, when I turned 12…" Dawn laughed.
Dawn sat there with Paul and talked for hours.
Alright I got that at the very end Paul was out of character to anyone's standard; however I am a firm believer of when you love someone you want to tell them everything. Hope ya'll all like it. I did not intend for it to be this long.
Rin