After may signed in for her contest ash said his goodbyes and made his way towards the pokemon centre. When he got there he called his mum and explained that he would be a day late because he helped a girl who bumped into him. After his phone call he gave nurse joy his pokemon except pikachu who didn't want to leave him and went for a walk
A few hours later
Ash walked into the pokemon centre to pick up his pokemon and leave.
"hey, ermmm Ash over here" a familiar voice called out to him. Ash turned to where the voice came from to see the girl who ran into him a few hours ago "hey there, i never got to thank you" she said in a angelic voice
"sorry i had to call my mum to tell her i was gonna be late" ash said rubbing the back of his head
"see i knew i was causing you trouble" may said hanging her head "i could of got there without causing people trouble"
Ash crouched down infront of her and smiled "i told you, you weren't causing trouble i was gonna be late anyway because my ferry got here late" he said keeping his smile warm "anyway how did your contest go"
"oh erm, well i was worrying about you the whole time so i got knocked out in the third round" may said while looking a bit depressed
"in that case how about i treat you to dinner as a appology for making you worry" ash said with a appologetic smile this time
"do you have a smile for every occasion?"may asked while laughing "ok ill come with you but you dont have to treat me you know"
"well i've got alot more money than usual so its not a problem" ash said holding back a proud smile for his 'achievement' "anyway shall we go"
May looked abit shoked at his last question "wait where not eating here?" she asked ash as he stood up
"why don't you want to come" he asked looking back to her
"no its just i thought that we was going to eat here" she said while standing up. She winced slightly as she put some weight on her sprained ankle
"maybe we should eat here so you dont make your injury any worse" ash said conserned
"yeah maybe your right so anyway where are you headed" may asked while sitting back down
"im headed back to kanto" ash said taking the chair facing her "i just finished competing in the sinoh league and was on my way home when i bumped into you"
"oh so your quite a strong trainer then?" she asked with a smile "because you have to be strong to get into the sinoh league right?"
'you have no idea' ash thought "well you have to be strong to beat any gym leader so collecting all 8 is quite the task but so is collecting ribbons"
"well ribbons are hard to get and to even get into the grandfestival is a great achievment but im sure the sinoh league is tougher" may said still with a smile
"the sinnoh league isn't the first league i've been in you know" ash said a little proud of himself "i've also been in the indego platoue the silver conferance and the hoenn league"
Mays face looked like she just got hit with a magikarp. Ash found the face funny but suppressed the laugh "oh i also won the orange league and the kanto battle fronteir" her next face did make ash laugh.
"how do i know your not lying to me" she asked still trying to get over the shock
"hmmm, well you could come to kanto with me" he said proud of his decision "well how about it i could use some company anyway"
"huh, its a bit sudden don't you think?" may asked quickly "we only met today"
"so, i always travel with complete strangers but most the time its because they saved pikachu from a gang of crooks that are alawys following me and i feel i owe them so i watch over them and keep them safe" ash stated "but with you its because your ankle is sprained from running into me plus you seem like a nice person"
May gave it a little thought but one thought wouldnt get out of her mind 'what if hes a theif and hes just after my pokemon' she thought but then she realised what he had done for her 'wait if he was going to steal from me he would of done it while on his charizard then he could have left me some where far away from here'
"well you seem to be thinking about it but judging from the look on your face you don't trust me" ash said without losing his smile "atleast your cautious enough not to trust a complete stranger but if i was lying why would i name 6 extremely difficult leagues and say i won 2 of them"
"well if you won 2 of them why haven't i heared of you" may asked "if you won 2 of them then wouldn't your name be all over the place"
"well the orange league i won when i was 12 so the publicity off of that would have died down but the battle fronteir isn't a public event" ash said looking up at the sealing "its there to test a trainers ability not only in stregnth but how well they cope with pressure in situations where its not in a controlled enviroment and big crowds dont help trainers feel that so the fronteir brains don't broadcast there battles all over the place"
"wow you talk about it like your one of the fronteir brains" may said watching his reaction to this
"i could be if i wanted to" ash said not noticing may's eyes widen "after winning the battle fronteir i was offered the posistion to become a fronteir brain the next time one of them steps down"
May was frozen by what he was saying but regained her composure after a few minutes "so did you take up the oppotunity?" she asked eager to know the answer
"no" ash said not braking his gaze from the sealing
"WHAT?" may screamed making ash jump and whip his head towards may "HOW COULDN'T YOU TAKE AN OPPOTUNITY LIKE THAT?"
"arceus may, you could have killed me there" ash said clutching his chest "i didn't take the position because i was 16 and i wouldn't be able to handle the pressure of a fronteir brain at that age"
"oh, erm sorry about screaming it was a shock to hear that you didn't take the position" she said looking at the ground "i know alot of boys that would kill to even battle someone as strong as the fronteir brains"
"don't worry about it, i know what you mean" ash said looking at may this time "anyway tell me about yourself, all we've been doing is talking about me"
"oh, well my names may i come from petalburg city in hoenn, my dads the gym leader there" may said looking at ash
"wait norman maples your dad?" ash asked a little shocked at the fact he finally met normans daughter
"yeah he can be scary at times but he always means well" she said giving a nervous laugh while worrying incase her dad gave ash a hard time
"ha' next time you speak to him tell him ash from pallet is still waiting for him to challange me" ash said with a huge grin
"wait he wants a rematch with you?" may asked shocked because her dad rarely asked challengers for a rematch
"yeah he said i gave him the best battle he'd had in a while although i bet hes had better trainers challangers than me since i was in hoenn" ash said the grin still on his face
"well ill make sure he gives you that rematch then" may said while smiling herself
"yeah well ill hold you to your word may" ash said begining to laugh
The rest of the night carried on this way. Ash would tell storys about his battles he had fought in the 6 leagues he had entered and May would tell storys of contests she had conpeted in until about 11pm when ash stood up
"your leaving?" may asked a little disapointed
"yeah i got here late and by the time i arrived here all the rooms where booked so ill have to camp" ash said picking his bag off the floor
"well if its ok with you theres another bed in my room, but if you'd rather camp thats fine too i was just worried because theres meant to be a storm tonight" may said struggling to get the words out
"are you sure? A few hours ago you was worried about traveling with me now your saying i can sleep in the same room as you" ash said a bit shocked at her words
"ITS NOT LIKE THAT, ITS ONLY BECAUSE THERES A STORM AND ITS MY FAULT YOU COULDN'T GET A ROOM ANYWAY!" May said quickly while blushing heavily
"well if your sure your ok with it then i wont refuse a roof over my head" ash said with a gental smile