Chapter 4: Paul and the Restaurant
Ever wonder what would occur if all our favorite couples were to go out to a nice fancy dinner? One word would be best to describe it: disaster. It was a Saturday night and all three of our lovely couples agreed in going out to dinner. As they entered the fancy, expensive looking restaurant, a waiter attended them and seated them.
May and Ash stared in awe at the menu, while the rest simply scanned it, seeing if they'd like to order anything in particular. A different waiter had arrived at their table. A young male, with black hair, he wore a uniform and had hazel eyes.
"Hello, I'm Marcus and I'll be your waiter for today, is everyone ready to order?" he asked kindly.
"Hello Marcus! And you bet we're ready to order!" exclaimed May. Dawn who heard this, set her menu down.
"No wait! I haven't even decided on what to order!" she protested. Marcus leaned in close to Dawn.
"For one so beautiful, you should probably get the pasta." Dawn smiled at him.
"Thank you! You know what, I'll take your word for it and order the pasta!" Marcus smiled and wrote the order in his notepad.
Paul, who was right next to Dawn, gritted his teeth. Unknowingly, his hands had curled into fists. He didn't like how close that Marcus guy was to Dawn. Marcus straighten up and focused on the rest.
"What can I get for the rest of you?" immediately May ordered and Ash followed after. Misty sighed before ordering as well. Paul answered rudely before shoving the menu to Marcus. All except one person was still undecided. May elbowed Drew.
"Drew! What are you going to order!?" she pressured.
"Well, I don't know, I'm undecided." he faced Marcus.
"Any way you can get my order later?" Marcus nodded.
"No problem, I'll be back later then." and he had left.
May proceeded to discuss the menu with Drew.
"Get the steak."
"Nah, don't want to."
"Get pasta."
"I ate pasta yesterday."
"Get a salad!"
"I wouldn't be full." May clenched her fists, Drew could be so picky when he wanted to and this was one of those times.
"Get enchiladas!"
"That's not even on the menu." May sighed. Marcus had come by, with his notepad.
"So, are you ready to order?" he asked, Drew placed the menu down.
"Well-" before Drew could answer May spoke up.
"He will gladly take one of everything in the menu!" Marcus dropped his pen and his eyes widened. The rest had the same expression, including Drew.
"Uh... one of everything!?" Marcus said, nearly screaming.
"No!" Drew quickly intervened. May sighed.
"Ok, he'll have a salad." Marcus noted that down and winked at Dawn before walking away. Drew glared at his girlfriend.
"I didn't even want a damn salad!"
"Boohoo, you're getting a salad."
Ash laughed as well as Misty. Dawn joined their laughter. Paul simply ignored it. He was still pist off about that guy. After a few minutes of waiting, Marcus had come back with their orders. He placed them down one by one until he had only one left.
"For the lovely lady." he said placing the dish in front of Dawn. Dawn blushed a bit at the comment.
"Thank you."
"So, what's your name beautiful?" asked Marcus.
Paul threw him a glare, to which he took no notice of. His undivided attention was on Dawn. Dawn blushed again.
"Dawn."
Marcus kissed her hand, Paul growled. Dawn blushed even more. May and Misty stared at Paul and then each other, knowing what would occur if Marcus was going to keep flirting. Ash was without a care, eating away. Drew looked at Paul then to his girlfriend who was staring at Misty, and then back to Paul. This was not going to end well. Although Paul could contain such jealous feelings, he wasn't really the type to last very long. Dawn giggled.
"You're quite a gentlemen, Marcus." Marcus grinned.
"I am a gentlemen and I am honored to have been your waiter for tonight."
"I think we all get it, so you can leave." Paul rudely said.
Dawn took notice in Paul's tone of voice. She knew Paul was furious. She felt guilty for being kind to Marcus. She began to fidget. This situation was becoming uncomfortable. Marcus raised an eyebrow.
"Excuse me, but I believe I was talking to the beautiful lady, so why intrude?"
"The beautiful lady as you say is my girlfriend." May leaned to whisper to Drew.
"I think this isn't going to turn out good." Drew whispered back.
"You think."
"Oh...really? A guy like you? Dawn you can do so much better then him, say I don't know someone more like...me." Dawn nervously laughed.
"That's...kind of you, but I think its best for you to go." she tried her best to be polite.
"Oh but Dawn we were getting to know each other."
"She isn't interested moron! So just leave!" May said, she was getting annoyed by this person. Marcus threw her a glare.
"I wasn't talking to you."
"I don't care if you were or were not! You're such a bother! Can't you see my friend is uncomfortable because of your presence!" May retorted.
"If she were uncomfortable she would just say so."
"She asked you to leave, so go." Paul added. Marcus turned his attention to the purple headed boy.
"Stop budding in!" he said rudely.
By this time Misty was ready to pounce on the guy and Ash was slowly eating, amused by the scene. Drew rudely stared at Marcus, May mimicking. Dawn was unable to do anything. She was trapped in the middle of the fight.
"Umm, it's best to leave. Please. I don't want any problems." Dawn said.
"Stop being kind to this jerk Dawn!" Misty yelled.
"You shut up." Marcus added.
"You don't shut me up!" Marcus ignored Misty and continued on talking to Dawn.
"Forget them. Let's ditch them and have some fun."
"No, now please leave." Dawn insisted.
"Oh come on, I'm sure you'll have a blast and maybe you can dump your boyfriend." Dawn glared at Marcus, she was becoming rather impatient and she didn't like his comment one bit. She stood up and slap him right across the face to which many...including the others in the restaurant gasped.
"Listen here Marcus, I'm not interested. I kindly asked you to leave, but you're just a persistent bastard! You drew the line when bringing in Paul. Now leave before I seriously hurt you." Marcus threw Dawn a glare as he rubbed his cheek.
"Fine, who needs a ugly ass like you." that was the wrong thing to say.
Paul moved Dawn aside and punched Marcus in the face, sending him to the floor, with a nosebleed. He then grabbed Dawn's wrist and exited the restaurant. Ash was forcefully being dragged by Misty. Drew grabbed May's hand and followed the gang. The attendant in the front yelled out.
"You haven't paid for the food!" May stopped and turned to face the guy, sending him a nasty glare.
"With waiters like that you don't even deserve tips!" with that she stormed out the restaurant, leaving a gapping attendant .
"What a jerk!" Misty yelled, Ash was busy sulking.
"We could have waited until I finished my food." May smiled.
"The bright side is we didn't pay!"
"I guess I agree, free meal." Drew added. Dawn walked in silence, since Paul hadn't said a word to her, so she decided it was best to try and talk things out.
"Paul?" she asked nervously, Paul didn't respond to her, but she knew he was paying attention.
"You're not mad at me? Are you?" she asked. Paul stopped walking and faced her.
"No, just upset over that lunatic." Dawn sighed in relief.
"Good, so...you were jealous?" Paul turned around and continued walking. Dawn ran after him.
"Paul! You were jealous!" Paul didn't answer. Dawn giggled.
"Shows how much he cares!" May yelled out, since they were farther from them.
"Or how violent he can be!" Misty called out.
"Or how about you shut your mouths!" Paul added. May laughed along with Misty. Ash had an amused smile, while Drew just shook his head chuckling. Dawn had finally caught up with Paul, she grabbed his hand.
"Paul, you know your the only one I love." Paul blushed a bit, but said nothing.
Drew laughed, as well as Ash. Misty sighed, she loved romantic "lines" as she put it. May elbowed Drew, and started lecturing him. Drew sighed and tuned her out. May always complained about his lack of romantic-ness. He continued to walk, not noticing the pole a few steps away. He crashed into it. May couldn't contain her laughter and burst into tears. Drew glared at her.
"You could have warned me!"
"I...I-" May couldn't even start or finish her sentence. She was too busy laughing.
"She...did tell you...but...you never...heard her...I guess." Misty said in between her laughter.
Drew stood up and had slightly colored cheeks.
"Yeah...whatever." he said while walking away. May caught up to him, still laughing.
As all of them parted ways and left to their homes.