Chapter 3

Authors Note: For those of you wondering, this story will have action in it, it just has to warm up to it. But it'll also have some very intimate moments. I won't give any hints but you'll just have to read to find out. Anyway I hope you are enjoying it so far. I have a lot of ideas so with everyone's support im sure I can finish this easily. Reviews would be nice too by the way just to see if your liking it or not.

May is 18.

Disclaimer (I don't own anything that has to do with Pokémon)

Soon dawn was back at the front porch of her house. She slowly opened the front door not wanting her mom to find her home and bombard her with questions, but it didn't last very long. Not realizing piplup had already walked inside she continued to walk until…

"eeeeppp!" she yelled as she tripped over her first Pokémon.

"pip piplup!" piplup huffed and puffed at his trainer for not paying attention.

"Ow, sorry about that" she replied nervously laughing. But then she heard footsteps knowing she was caught.

The blue haired mother ran out of the kitchen to see what all the commotion was.

"Dawn what happened?" she said while sighing.

"Oh nothing I just tripped over piplup" she answered a bit shyly due to the reason why she fell.

Again her mother sighed "sometimes dawn… anyway, you had a call from May about an hour ago.

"Really, An hour. How long have I been gone?" she questioned surprised she was gone for that long.

"Yeah really, you've been gone since this morning. It's almost midday now." her mom replied with worry on her face.

"I'll go call her now" dawn headed off upstairs taking the phone off the wall as she went.

"Okay dawn, but were going to have a talk about what's been bothering you at some point" she yelled after her.

"Okay mom" was all she said in reply.

She ran into her room closing the door behind her and quickly found the redial on the phone. The phone rung three times before anyone picked up.

"Hello" a familiar voice on the other line said.

"Hey May its dawn" she said eagerly to hear from one of her best friends.

"Dawn, I'm so glad you called, I've been wanting to talk to you!" she yelled over the line.

"Well I'm glad you called, do you need anything?" dawn asked.

"Well" may started out "I hope it's alright but I was actually in Sinnoh and I was wondering if I could drop by" she asked hesitantly.

"What really, Yes of course you can!" dawn said excitedly.

"Great!"

"I'll be wonderful to have you over, it's been too long." Dawn exclaimed.

"Yeah I know" may agreed.

"How soon will you be arriving?" dawn asked.

"Well to be honest I'm in twinleaf town right now. I just got here, I kind of already expected you to say yes" she laughed.

"Oh wow, that's great though, I can't wait to see you!" dawn said cheerfully.

"Well wait no longer!" she yelled closing the phone.

Dawn was confused at the last remark, but then she took a look out the window and there she was. May, down the street. Dawn got up and ran downstairs and out the door leaving a confused Johanna in the living room.

Piplup was right on dawn's heels as she ran and spotted the brunette.

"Hey!" she yelled waving her hand.

"Hey dawn!" may replied.

"What brings you out here in Sinnoh?" dawn questioned when she got near.

"I just finished a few contest and I wanted to drop by and see what my old friend was up too, I also saw you win at the Sinnoh Grand Festival recently" she stated.

"Yeah it was great; I'll show you the trophy I got."

"piplup it's good to see you again, you're just as cute as ever" may greeted the blue Pokémon beside dawn.

"piplup!" he responded with his chest puffed out.

Dawn and May both laughed and headed back to the house with piplup at their heels.

"And who's this?" Johanna asked dawn as she walked through the door. But then she thought "wait your May aren't you; I've seen several of your contest. You're quite good."

"aww thank you, I've been trying, but even your daughter has given me a run for my money." She laughed

Dawn was pleased to hear that comment.

"Mom is it okay if may can stay here for a bit" dawn asked.

"Yes of course it is, it'll be great to have one of your friends over"

"Thanks mom" she said giving her a hug.

"Alright alright, looks like the sun is setting so I'll start dinner" Johanna said.

"Come on May, lets head to my room" dawn said pulling may along with her.

"Thank you again for letting me stay here" may said to dawns mom before she was up the stairs.

"Okay may, you have to tell me everything you've been up too, it's been so long" dawn said excitedly.

"Okay okay, just settle down" may jumped up on her bed but before she said anything something caught the corner of her eye. A picture sitting on Dawn's nightstand.

"Dawn, are you and ash… together?" may questioned her.

"What, what makes you ask that?" dawn turned around in surprise only to see may holding the picture.

May then held out the picture so dawn could see.

"Oh that, we just took that picture before ash set off back home" she sighed at the thought.

"Oh, I must say, I do miss his goofy little smile and his reckless acts" may laughed putting the picture back in place.

Dawn smiled but had a hint of jealousy when may mentioned missing him.

"It's been a long time hasn't it?" may stated looking down.

"Yeah it has" ever dawn was getting bumped out now.

"You know he's practically famous now, I even heard he's joined the Pokémon rangers"

"Really, where'd you hear that?" dawn asked.

"Well I went down to professor Birch's lab and I found him talking to professor Oak. I couldn't help but ask about ash and that's what he told me. He's even living there in Pallet Town, in a house of his own too" may explained.

"Wow that's great, it looks like ash is doing very well, I just wish I could see him again" dawn sad with sad eyes.

"You know dawn, there's going to be a Pokémon tournament in Viridian City pretty soon" and that's really close to Pallet Town, what's say you and I make a little vist?" may winked at dawn.

"Really, that would be just great!" she yelled not bothering to hide her excitement of her possible reunion with ash. "You hear that piplup, we might get to see ash again and all his Pokémon" she said while picking up piplup and spinning.

"Hold on their dawn, we still have to make sure it's okay with your mom, and too see if there's a fairy to Viridian City anytime soon" may exclaimed.

"Oh right" dawn blushed

"You seem a little excited dawn" may winked at her "does someone have a crush on ash?"

"What, noooo, how could you even think that!" dawn yelled in defense with a face turning a dark shade of red.

"Oh I don't know maybe because you have a picture of you two together next to your bed, not only that but you seem way more excited about seeing ash then when I even said I was coming over" may smirked.

Huff* "whatever" dawn replied wanting to change the subject.

"Dawn, May, dinners ready!" a voice called out.

"Come on, will discuss this over dinner" may said jumping off the bed.

"Sounds good"

May and dawn proceeded down the stairs to the dining room where dawns mother awaited them. They instantly spotted the generous amount of food laid out on the table defiantly not expecting this much. Dawn say May's mouth water at the sight and tried to keep from laughing knowing how big her appetite was. They sat at opposite sides of the table with Johanna at the head of the table. Dawn was starving since she hadn't eaten much today and she even thought her appetite could rival mays at this moment.

"Wow, this looks amazing" may said as she grabbed two of everything.

"Thanks mom!" dawn cheered.

"You're both very welcome, now eat up. Don't want any of this going to waste"

"No need to worry, you won't have to worry about left overs with May here" dawn said jokingly. She looked at May who was sticking her tongue out and she couldn't help but giggle.

They began eating. May digging in with little manners that she had. Johanna laughed but continued to eat at the sight. And dawn sat there eating little by little wondering how she should ask her mom about her and May's little trip.

"So…" May decided to break the silence. "I was thinking I was going to head to the Kanto region after I finished here" she winked at dawn to play along.

"Oh really, what for?" dawn asked taking the hint.

"Well see there's this big tournament that's coming in Viridian city soon. And I thought it'd be good to get out there because it's been so long since I've been to Kanto" may explained.

"That sounds interesting; I actually think I've seen it advertise on TV not too long ago" Johanna replied. "Who all will be going?" she questioned.

"Anyone I suppose, all I really know is that the winner of the tournament will be facing the strongest trainer in Kanto" may explained.

"Wow it sounds great, I'd like to go" may bursted out.

"You should go dawn" the blue hair mother said.

"Huh?" May and Dawn said in unison.

"Yeah, I think it'll be good for you. It's been awhile since you've been out" dawns mother stated.

"umm gee mom thanks!" the midnight bluenette responded.

"When should you leave?" Johanna then asked May.

"We should get the tickets by at least tomorrow to see the available dates for departure"

"Okay, dawn remind me and I'll give you some money tomorrow to purchase your ticket"

"Thank you mom"

They all were just finishing eating and like dawn said, there were no left overs due to May's over eating.

"I think I'm just going to run to the girls room to brush and get ready for bed" may said as she headed up stairs looking like she was about to puke. Dawn simply laughed at her friend.

"Dawn" a voice called keeping her from leaving the room.

"Yes mom?" dawn questioned.

"I'm not as dump as you think you know; I know you guys planned that out. It's fine, don't worry. You know you can ask me anything. I also know there's more of a reason why you want to go with may" she eyed her daughter wanting to get to the bottom of it.

"I'm sorry mom for not just coming out and asking, but really there's no other reason" dawn began waving her hands defensively.

"Dawn I'm your mother, please I can help you with whatever it is"

"Thank you, but it's really something I need to deal with on my own" the daughter stated.

"It's him isn't it… ash"

"Yeah" dawn gave up trying to hide it from her mother.

Johanna's face instantly lit up "I thought as much, now here's some advice. Do whatever you can to make him yours, and don't give up" she winked at her daughter.

Dawn lifted her head only to smile "aww you're the best mom" she said running into her mother's hug.

"No need to worry right dear?" she questioned.

"Of course not, now I believe I'm going to get ready for bed" dawn eagerly ran up the stairs.

Johanna just simply smiled. 'I always thought of them being together, I couldn't see dawn with anyone else. Plus I really like ash, I can only imagine how much he's grown' she thought to herself.

With that, May and Dawn proceeded to get ready for bed. Both of them thinking of the day beforehand and thinking of their possible meeting with their longtime friend after so long. Dawn took one final look at the picture of her and ash took so long ago and smiled.

'Will see each other again soon ash, I promise' she then kissed the picture hoping for luck and closed her eyes with that raven-haired boy on her mind.