Me: So I have planned out the whole rest of the story. It should be 19 chapters then an epilogue.
May: Make sure you answer earlymorninglight12's question before she explodes
Me: Oh yeah! I meant to answer this question but I got distracted.
Leaf: Not surprising.
Misty: Anyway, a B-story is… well I don't really know. It's kind of like the smaller story that goes on while the big one is going on.
Drew: Weird
Dawn: Surfergurl14 doesn't own.
Ash: You didn't finish lazy.
Paul: Like you're talking.
Gary: Paul's defending his girl!!
Dawn and Paul: NO HE'S NOT!!
Me: The LONG ANTICIPATED Chapter 13: Blame Me. Contestshipping. Another story summary up, number 9. Summer Paradise.
Paul: Well if its long anticipated then shut up and get on with the story.
"May?"
May woke groggily, and turned to a side of her bed to see an upset and sort of ashamed Dawn were dried tear stains down her cheek.
"Dawn? What's wrong?"
Dawn buried her hands in her face and started mumbling and crying.
All May understood was, "My powers" and "I'm sorry."
So Dawn lost her powers as well. She's in love with Paul.
May sympathetically smiled and put her hand on Dawn's chin. "It's alright. No need to be sorry. You're in love."
"But he doesn't love me."
"I'm sure that he loves you just as much. Paul needs time to figure out what he wants. Like you say, no need to worry, right?"
Dawn sadly smiled, "No need to worry!" Then she sped away to go get ready for school and disguise her face so it looked as if she hadn't cried.
May yawned and stretched her arms and proceeded into her bathroom. She stared at her reflection.
'May Maple,' her concise roared, 'Those words were bullshit and you know it. You're upset because you haven't fallen in love.'
"How are you so sure? Maybe I have but my brain doesn't know it." May was talking to her reflection in the mirror.
May liked the sound of that, "How are you so sure?" she said smiling.
MAY'S POV
I was attacked as soon as I stepped into the classroom.
"You!" a brown-haired girl screamed at me. Her name clicked in my head. Brianna.
Brianna continued to yell at me, "How dare you show up at this school and take Mr. Drew's attention from us. We're his fan club!"
Mr. Drew? What the hell? Does that cabbage enjoy harassing me in the classes we don't even have together?
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Calm the hell down. What are you talking about?" I asked.
Brianna scoffed as she turned to two other girls. Erica and Solidad?
"Did you hear? She asked what we're talking about." She told them.
Erica stepped forward and faced me with fiery eyes, "You're dating Mr. Drew! Does that name ring a bell? Andrew Hayden? The hottest guy at this school? You are dating him and we have a problem with it."
May blinked like five times, trying to comprehend the ridiculous words that were exiting the girl's mouth. She was dating…Drew Hayden? In his dreams!
"No I'm not," she replied.
Solidad produced a pictures of her and Drew on their date at the carnival, at Starbucks, and in the café she stormed out of last week.
"There's plenty more where that came from," Solidad said, emotionlessly.
What the hell? What's with all these pictures? These girls are a little crazy or weird or completely obsessed stalkers! Or all three.
I raised an eyebrow, "Stalker much?"
Brianna pointed a finger at my nose, "Just watch yourself and stay away from Mr. Drew. If you are anywhere near him we'll know."
They simultaneously clicked their heels and walked away. Drama queens…
Oh great! Now I have an enemy in the Drew Hayden fan club aka the Looney Bin. They are totally off their bonkers. Me and Drew Hayden? No way possible in the whole world. And I'm not even dating Drew! And where did they get those pictures? Drew reserved the whole café. There was no one else there! It was only us two there…
As I was exiting 2nd period, Drew pulled me aside and took my hand and led me away.
He ignored all the hoots and catcalls of "Oh yeah Hayden!" and "Good one Drew!" and "May! You're so lucky!" and led me to an empty locker hallway.
"Uh," he started, "Have you heard a rumor going on that we're…dating?"
"Actually yeah," I answered, "Your little fan club was about to butcher me on the spot."
Drew scratched his head awkwardly, "Sorry about that."
My eye twitched, "Well how are we going to squash this rumor?"
Drew's face turned serious. "I suggest we find out who did it first."
"But it was only us two."
"I know."
Harley passed by us in the hallway and my mind clicked back to the day Drew and I were supposed to be practicing lines. Harley was our waiter. He was the only other one there. And he goes to our school. I saw Drew growling at him.
"It was Harley!"
Drew turned to me, disgusted. "What?"
"He was our waiter."
Drew shook his head, glaring in Harley's direction, "That kid's been out to get me since I stole his title as Top Coordinator."
"Which I plan on stealing from you," I said with a mischievous smile.
"Oh really," Drew said with a sly smile as he grabbed my wrists.
I smirked and leaned forward, "That's a promise."
"I'm looking forward to the challenge." Drew leaned forward.
Oh my gosh, Drew is going to kiss me! His lips are right there! Right when my lips were going to meet with his, there was a click and flash of a camera. There stood two angry fan girls and an emotionless Solidad with a camera. The same ones who bugged me approximately an hour ago.
"What did we say?" Brianna stepped forward.
Drew rolled his eyes. "Shut up. I'm never going to go out with any of you girls so can you leave me alone."
Erica and Brianna gasped with hurt then turned angry glares at me. If looks could kill, I'd be long dead by now. Thanks a lot Drew.
They made a dramatic exit then Drew turned to me and touched my hand very softly, "I'll err, see you later."
He hastily walked off leaving, leaving another rose in my hand.
THIRD PERSON POV:
Drew groaned, "What's wrong with me??"
Paul shrugged, "You like May, I'm not repeating it again Hayden."
"But why I think straight around her," Drew whined.
Paul growled, "Do I look like some sort of love guru to you?"
Drew blinked and looked at Paul, "Well you're in love."
Paul growled, "No I'm not."
"Yeah, you're in love with Dawn that's why you lost the contest."
Paul growled louder, "Shhh. Ash and Gary don't know yet and I rather it stay that way, they're both out anyway. And as for that dumb, troublesome girl, I hate her. She made lose. I was supposed to win! How can I go back a loser! Damn girl," Paul shook with anger.
The said damn girl decided to walk in at that moment.
"Hey," Dawn chirped as she took a seat beside Drew.
"Hey," Drew said ruffling her hair.
Paul pretended to gag, his bitterness toward Dawn at an all time high.
"Hi Paul," Dawn said very loudly toward the cold boy.
"Hm," was all she got in return as Paul refused to acknowledge her existence and turned his face away.
Dawn looked hurt and walked away to go sit with her friend, Marina and her boyfriend Jimmy.
Drew punched Paul, "Good going, you almost made her cry."
Paul kept his head turned but as class started Drew saw Paul look at Dawn in an apologetic and sorrowful way that Drew didn't even know Paul was capable of.
May sighed as she changed after gym, when she noticed a sticky note on her bag.
Hey May, I left your shorts in the janitor's closet. Sorry! Luv ya! –Mel.
May giggled at Melody's note. It didn't look like Melody's style but maybe she was in a rush. Sighing, May made her way to the janitor's closet in the locker room.
When she walked in, she looked around. "There are no shorts in here," she said to herself.
Suddenly the door shut.
May immediately found the light and tried to open the door, it was locked from the outside.
She heard giggling from the outside. Fan girls…Drew's fan girls to be exact.
"We warned you," Brianna hissed.
So much anger filled in May's body and mind. She felt like she could strangle someone. Brianna, Erica, Solidad…Drew.
Drew.
Her anger made its way to find a common enemy, the guy that caused her all her hardship, the guy whose friends caused her friends more sorrow than they could ever want.
'Fuck you, Drew Hayden.'
Drew slammed his locker. Harley was waiting for him though.
"So Drew," Harley started, "The Coordinator's Cup is coming up, ya know the one where they name the Top Coordinator and I was thinking you want that rumor squared of you and May right?"
"Yes," Drew said through gritted teeth, "I also know it was you who started it."
"So? You think just because you know that will stop everyone from believing? Oh! You found out it was me, big deal. No one cares. The whole school is dying to now the Drew Hayden group and the new girls. If you deny it, they'll think you're ashamed of May, that's a good way to lose her."
"Will you shut up and tell me what you want!" Drew had getting fed up. He was far passed fed up. He wanted to beat Harley up and stuff his remains in one of the empty lockers.
Harley asked, "Isn't it obvious? It's common knowledge that you and I will be in the last round. It will be you against me for the title of Top Coordinator."
Drew cut him off, "Just tell me what the hell you want, you damn gay fag!"
Harley twitched with anger. It seems like gay was a soft spot for Harley. " I want you to lose so I can have my title back. If you lose then I will deny the rumor as false."
Drew's eye twitched, "And what if I refuse?"
"Let's just say it'll get ten times worse," Harley leaned in to whisper to Drew, "I just might tell the school about your actual crush on May."
Drew froze. His back stiffened and his eyes widened. Drew's hands silently shook.
There was no possible way that Harley could know that he liked May.
His response gave Harley the answer to his question.
"So you do like her? Well you better heed to my request."
"Just think about it." Harley yelled as he stalked away.
His secret had to stay quiet. None of the school could know about, but it would cost him his title. The title he wanted since he was five, the title he strived for since he was nine, the title that was the dream he never gave up.
Drew could vaguely hear his father's voice. "If you want to succeed, Drew, don't let anyone figure out your weakness."
He didn't have a weakness, until May Maple showed up.
Drew growled in complete anger as he punched a dent in someone's locker.
'Fuck you, May Maple.'
Leaf spun around and threw her arms around James's neck. He hugged her stiffly, very unusual from normal.
"We need to talk," James said very seriously.
They walked in silence to the bleachers of the football field. James looked very sad and angry mixed together.
"Did I do something wrong?" Leaf asked.
"No, Leaf. I did."
"What's wrong," Leaf told him, with a concerned look.
James looked Leaf straight in the eye, "We need to break up."
Leaf's breathing stopped and her heart raced, and she fell back slowly and landed on the soft, wet bright green grass and buried her hands in her face.
James broke his stiff and serious posture and reached for her.
"What did I do?" she whispered. "What's wrong?"
James gave her a sympathetic smile, "I want you to be happy and in love."
"But I'm happy with you!"
"But you're in love with Gary."
Leaf stopped, "How did you-"
"And he loves you too," James finished. "He'll do anything to have you in his life."
"He broke my heart," Leaf said bitterly.
"And I mended it, you're heart is strong enough to go after him again."
Leaf nodded, there was no way she was going to convince him otherwise. She sniffed and took off the necklace the James gave her, the one with I Love You engraved on its cool gold surface.
She held it out for him to take. He took it from her and took her hand, dropped the necklace in it, closed her hand and handed it back.
"Keep it," he said. "I still love you. It might be fun to remember me ten years from now with this necklace.
"I'll never forget you," she assured him.
"And there's no way I could forget you," he said pulling her into a hug.
She hugged him back, clinging to him because she knew this was going to be the last time she hugged him.
Then they parted and went in opposite directions with one final glance of each other.
Lunch was a bit interesting. Dawn was pissed at the loss of her powers, but she couldn't resist not talking about what they were. Melody and Zoey were intently talking with Misty and Dawn about the new summer style that would be coming out soon. Misty was actually happier now that helping Delia helped her keep her mind off of Ash. Kenny was sleeping; he had no interest in women's shopping and such. Leaf, James and May were missing though.
Leaf dragged her body to their table and sat down.
"Where's James?" Zoey perked up, asking Leaf.
"Broke up," Leaf said rather dull.
Melody put an arm around Leaf, "I'm sorry girl."
Leaf coughed, "It's alright. I just suck when it comes to love."
Dawn looked around, "Hey, anybody seen May?"
May shivered in the janitor's closet. Her stomach rumbled. She checked her watch. She should be at lunch right now. She had been in there for an hour. It was creepy, small and not well lit. The room was crowded with mops and buckets; while her only companion was a dead rat in the corner and the cockroaches that were creeping around. It smelled like a mixture of cat pee and bleach.
Suddenly the door opened.
May gasped as the janitor stepped in. She scratched her head, "I won't even ask."
And with that May was free! She ran out to the girls' normal lunch table in the courtyard, taking in the fresh air. After being in that room for an hour, she thought she would puke.
She collapsed on their lunch table.
Dawn looked at her, "May! Where have you been? Lunch is over in five minutes."
May coughed, "Have you heard a rumor about me and Drew dating?"
The others nodded.
"Well it's not true."
"What!" Melody exclaimed, "And here I was thinking it's about time. It's so obvious you two are like madly in love with each other."
May pretended to throw up and continued, "But Drew's crazy fan girls locked me in the janitor's closet."
Misty glowed with anger, "Are you serious? Show me who they are and I'll beat them to a pulp." She stood and quickly turned and crashed into Ash who was headed to their table with Gary.
Ash picked Misty up, "Sorry Mist. Why are you so worked up?"
Misty blushed, "Just going to go beat up some of Drew's fan girls! Bye!" She hastily fled so Ash wouldn't catch her blush.
"She doesn't even know who I was talking about," May sighed.
Leaf had her face buried in her hands.
"What's wrong with Leaf?" Gary mouthed.
"Break-up with James," Melody mouthed back.
May stared in shock at the news of James and Leaf breaking up.
Gary reflected the same face as May. He, for one, was not expecting that.
Ash's eyes widened as he stiffened. He didn't think…that James…would break up with her. Just because of Gary. Because of a past. Because of a love Leaf wasn't responsible for.
Ash pulled Gary away quickly as the bell rang.
"This is because of you," Ash hissed to Gary, "Make her happy, make her smile, make her feel some sort of love."
Ash took his wise words and walked away, leaving Gary's mind to finally click and realize James dumped Leaf so she could be with him…
Gary got sight of James as James walked toward the soccer field.
"Ridgeway!"
James turned to meet a running Gary, "What's up Oak?"
"Why? You left her so I could be with her."
"Leaf? Yeah," James said looking down sadly, "You love her."
Gary raised his eyebrows, "But you love her too."
James looked in Gary's eyes, "But there is a difference. She loves you, not me. Just do me a favor and take care of her for me."
Gary felt tears in his eyes as he nodded, "You're a good guy. Better than me. I would have ripped you guys apart just for my own satisfaction, but you sacrificed the girl you love so she could be happy with a jackass like me who broke her heart so many times."
James smiled as he took a choked breath, "Its fine. I'm happy with the time I had with Leaf. But I gotta go, soccer practice you know and the play's in a week. Gotta prepare. Catch ya later Oak."
Gary watched James as he walked away.
'James is the kind of guy that Leaf deserves. I have to change for the better, for her sake.'
MAY"S POV
I saw Drew's mess of green hair and I chased after it angrily. He was going to suffer for what happened to me!
"Andrew Hayden!!!"
I stalked over and grabbed the back of his collar and pulled him back. He roughly tore his collar from my hand and turned. We stood in the patch of sidewalk in between our houses, his to the left, mine to the right.
"What do you want?" he said rather bitterly.
He has no right to talk like that to me! He should be running for his life if he wants to get out alive!
"What's your problem? Because of you I was locked in the janitor's closet for an hour and I missed lunch because of you so don't get arrogant with me, mister!"
"Does it look like I care," he said coldly.
Whoa, who replaced Drew with Paul?
"You should care! It's your entire fault. Sometimes I wish we never met you guys, we'd just be living normal and maybe we would have met nice guys who actually care about us," I spat out venomously.
Drew boiled over with anger, "Shut up! Just shut up! You think only bad things happen to you? My situation is ten times worse than yours."
I opened my mouth to ask why but he cut me off.
"I'm not telling you so don't ask. But it's all because of you and I wasn't even going to blame you but now you've pissed me off. It's all because you showed up! If you hadn't, then my life would be normal right now."
I recoiled in shock. Something must have happened. Something really bad.
"You know what else?" he continued, "None of who should have showed up! Dawn is okay but your friends have changed my friends!"
How dare he? Talk about my friends….
"Gary is a love-sapped mess chasing after Leaf, he should be cocky, and funny, bringing different girls every week, but now he's trying to change for the better and all he does is sing sad love songs and stare at pictures of him and Leaf from when they were young!"
Gary…must really care for Leaf.
"Ash turned from his dense self who only cared about copying Paul's homework, food and his mom to some wise philosopher who actually does his homework and he hasn't overeaten since you guys should up! And he's totally depressed because his mom denied the right to seeing Misty and he's totally lost it! All he does is read books, sit in his room all day and listen to sad, emo music like Coldplay!"
Ash…what happened to him?
"And don't even get me started with Paul. He won't say anything but Dawn has him totally whipped, he actually talks more and instead of saying something when we need him to, he's tired of everything. He's angrier, trying to deny his feelings. I swear he's going crazy, he's so sad covered up by anger and scowls and I can't help him. He's my best friend!"
Paul… and Dawn?
"And me! I'm trying to protect you from everything my friends are doing to yours so you don't end up like me, obsessively worrying about them. I've been taking you out so you like it here and I was hoping all of this would clear over. I don't know why I keeping wasting all my time over you, over and over again! I never thought I'd be stuck in this mess and now…I might be…You…"
Drew broke off and he let out a choked breath of air and clenched his teeth as if he was fighting with himself. His face was red with anger. He suddenly closed his eyes tightly.
"Forget it," he said hoarsely. He turned and quickly walked over to his house, opened the door and slammed it as he entered. Not once did he look back.
But I stared at his retreating back the whole time with tear-filled eyes. Drew. Why did your words hurt me so much? Drew. Please. Come back to me. Tell me what's wrong. Please. Forgive me. For whatever it was.
I let out a held breath and walked up to my house and fell onto my red and white bed. I hugged my favorite red, heart-shaped pillow and cried.
Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you?
When it's easy enough to find someone who looks down on you.
Why is it so hard to find someone who cares about you?
End! Poor May, what do you think Drew was about to say?
3 girls down, one to go. And apparently 3 boys have lost this contest; Drew is the only one to be remaining.
The Song at the end: Someone Who Cares-Three Days Grace.
The play is in 3 chapters! Here's the outline for the rest of the story.
Chapter 14: Worth Saving Me. Ikarishipping.
Dawn gets a visit from someone unexpected. After that person leaves, Dawn gets a call from her mom. Dawn finds herself spiraling toward darkness. Could her time in Belle Town really be over? Can Paul realize what's happening and save her? Total Ikarishipping.
In the B-story: All the guys make a bet against Drew. Can he keep it?
Chapter 15: Foreign and Familiar. Pokeshipping.
Delia invites Misty over for dinner with her and her son. Misty discovers Delia is Ash's mom. When Misty realizes Delia was the one who crushed her heart, can Ash convince her otherwise?
In the B-story: Gary tells Leaf to meet him by the lake.
Chapter 16: The Play Part 1: All or Nothing
The play begins! Can May and Drew push back their differences and put on a good performance?
Chapter 17: The Play Part 2: Stealing a Kiss.
The second half of the play becomes interesting as real-life feelings take over Drew and May's bodies by storm. Hint: CONTESTSHIPPING.
Chapter 18: Lift Me Up Again
May begins to not trust her instinct now that Drew has cursed her soul. Only Drew can turn her back to normal. Hint: CONTESTSHIPPING.
In the B-story: The guys want to explain their actions to the girls, now that all is said and done.
Chapter 19: Life Starts Now
Both the guys and girls meet up by the beach and reveal their darkest secrets. The girls get an utter shock at what they discover.
Chapter 20: Epilogue: Only Time Will Tell
Okay that's all for now. Could you guys get me to 200 reviews. That may not be possible. But i wanna try! Thanks in advance to those who do!