Part 3:

"Morning, Drew!"

Drew's eyes burst open, and he sat up.

May was already out of her sleeping bag, kneeling on it, brushing her hair. "It's time for you to wake up and get ready to walk to the boat."

"I'd rather not." Drew said, lying back down.

"C'mon! Get your shirt and shoes on and lets get going! It's leaving in a half hour!"

Drew noticed he'd forgot to keep his shirt on. It hadn't crossed his mind, he usually slept without it. He grabbed it and pulled it over his head, onto his body, but didn't get out of his sleeping bag.

"Well...that's a start." May said to him as she tied her bandanna on her head.

"You get up too early." Drew told her.

"Twenty more minutes until we miss it!" She warned.

"To where, again?"

"To Kanto, you stupid!" May screamed, "Now get up!"

"Fine, fine." He murmured, and got out of his sleeping bag. He pulled on his shoes and rolled up his sleeping bag, wile May did the same.

"Off to Kanto we go!" She cheered, happily, as she skipped in front of him and to the port.

Drew smiled at her, from behind. "This is gonna be good." He told himself. "real good."

May stepped onto the boat next to Drew, and inhaled the salty ocean water. "I love the ocean!" She said, exhaling.

"Lets go to the room we got in advance." Drew suggested, and began walking.

"Okey!" She called, and ran after him, holding the keys in her hand, letting them jingle as she stepped.

May collapsed in the bed when she hit the room, then noticed she was on the only bed in the entire room.

"Oh no." She said, sitting up.

"Yeah, nice one. You got us a room with one bed." Drew groaned.

"Not my fault! I said two travelers! They should've known better!" May whined.

"No you should've known better!" He corrected, as he looked around for another place to sleep. "and there's not even a chair or couch or something I can sleep in."

"This bed's big enough for two people." May suggested.

Drew thought about it for a while. "Um...I'll think about that." He decided on as an answer.

May was silent. She was thinking about how Ash was. She thought he probably hated Drew for taking her away from him. But there was the possibility of him hating her, for leaving him. She wanted to keep her friendship with him, but she wanted to stay with Drew badly.

"What are you thinking about so deeply?" He asked her, looking at her concentrated face.

"Ash." May said, without thinking.

"What about him?"

"Stuff." She said, quickly, not wanting to let Drew distract her.

"Do you..." He trailed off.

May stopped thinking and looked at him. "What?"

"Do you...like him?"

"Yeah, has my friend." She replied, curiously.

"I mean like...do you have a crush on him?"

May was surprised that Drew would think that. "N-no."

"Really, now?" Drew said, doubtingly.

"Yes, I really don't!" She squeaked, holding her hands up in defense.

"Then what were you thinking about?" He wanted to know.

"Promise not to tell Ash I told you!" She blurted.

"Yeah, yeah, I wont tell him." He said, sitting on the bed next to her.

"Before I left he...told me he likes me." She told him, quietly.

"Like, he has a crush on you?"

May nodded.

"That's all you were thinking about?" Drew urged.

"I was thinking about if he was mad at me for choosing you over him. Or mad at you, for some reason." She confessed.

"You can go Travel with him to Sinohh if you want." Drew told her. "I'll be fine on my own."

"No!" She cried, "No! I wanna stay with you!" then blushed when she noticed what she said.

Drew laughed, then questioned before thinking: "Do you like anyone then?"

May thought about a good answer. "Maybe..." she said delicately.

"Who?"

"Not tellin'!" May paused. "So...do you like anyone?"

Drew was surprised she would ask this. "Maybe." he said slyly, smirking at her.

"Oh, come on! Tell me!" She demanded.

He just snickered and was quiet.

There was awkward silence.

"I wanna know more about you. If we are going to travel together, we should at least know each other." May said to break the silence.

"I know about you." He differed.

"Oh yea? What?" She waited wile he thought, smiling cutely.

"You're a coordinator." He declared, "And you're a girly-girl, and you like cute Pokémon, and your nice, but you get worked up easily."

"What?" May squealed. "Girly-girl? Get worked up easily?"

"Yup." Drew snickered. "What do you know about me?"

"You're mean!" May turned away from him. "And you tease me a lot."

"Oh, Really?"

May looked at him, and giggled. "And your a really good coordinator, and your quiet, like, you don't talk much, and...what else?"

"You don't know much." He agreed.

"Then that means we should tell each other about ourselves."

"Well...what do you want to know?" He asked her.

She thought, then said, "Do you have any siblings?"

Drew thought about how to answer this. "I...don't know." he said, truthfully.

"Oh...were you adopted?" May looked down.

"Yeah."

"Why?" May wondered aloud.

"You really wanna know?"

"Yeah."

He sighed. "Alright."

May leaned back against the pillows to get comfortable for a good story.

"My real parents...didn't want me...once I turned six." He was staring into space, his eyes calm. "They just...treated me like a pet that they were stuck with. They stopped giving me food, acted like I wasn't there. No matter how much I cried or begged they wouldn't even look at me. I overheard them talking to each other one night...they were saying that eventually I would run away, and they wouldn't have to deal with me. So...I did."

May just stared at him, dazed.

"I packed food, water, and nothing else. And I ran."

"How did you get new parents? Did you get new parents?" May questioned.

"I went to the orphanage, and was adopted the third day I was there. My new parents loved me very much, but thought there was something wrong with me."

"Why?" May wanted to know.

"Because I never talked to them. Not once, until I turned ten and went on my journey, I said 'goodbye.'"

"Why wouldn't you talk?"

"You ask to many questions." Drew informed her.

"Just tell me."

He sighed again. "I don't know." He lied.

"Is the same reason why you didn't talk to them the reason why you don't talk a lot to people now?"

He nodded. She saw the pain in his face and wrapped her arms around his neck thoughtfully. "I…guess you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"I'll think…about it…"