Why Can't I

By: esmtz

"So could someone fill me in here? Who was that guy?" May asked as she tried to hide her blush.

Everyone started heading on their way to the Pokemon center so that they all could get a room and put their stuff away.

"That's Paul he's my rival when it comes to Pokemon battles" Ash replied looking at May.

"Yeah but he's way different from Ash. He treats his Pokemon like dirt and doesn't care at all if he hurts them plus as you heard him say he's only after the strongest Pokemon" Dawn said gritting her teeth still angry.

May looks at her and then looks away smiling slightly to herself.

"Well besides the fact that he acts like that towards everyone I think he's pretty cute" May blushed hard as everyone stopped and looked at May shocked.

"Are you serious May?! Why do you like someone like him?!" Dawn asked a little loudly making everyone jump a little.

"Um…well I don't know I just think that maybe we should try to get to know him more instead of always getting angry with him. Maybe he has his reasons why he acts the way he does" May replied looking away nervously.

"Oh yeah what kind of reasons could there be?" Ash snorted as he and Brock started walking again.

"That's why im suggesting that we try to get him to open up to us" May said frowning slightly "is he really that much of a pain for you to say no?"

"Yes!" Ash said right away not looking at her "trust me he isn't worth it"

May just sighed and shook her head.

"Stubborn as usual"

May hadn't noticed the look on Dawn's face when she said that she wanted to get to know Paul. It was a half annoyed and half jealous but she hid it so it wouldn't look obvious to everyone else.

"Yeah well let's go it's getting dark and we still need to get us a room at the Pokemon center" Dawn said as she walked next to May.

"She's right let's just get going" Brock said.

As soon as they get there they immediately go up to Nurse Joy and she tells them which room they were to sleep in and as soon as they reached the door, the door next to them opened and Paul came out and was startled to see them.

"Oh it's you guys why is it I always end up running into you losers?" Paul asks sighing and then looking at them.

Immediately Dawn and Ash tried running at him but was held back by Brock and May who had their arms around their waists.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Ash and Dawn yelled.

"You guys are annoying as always" Paul says as he puts his hands in his pockets and walks past them and he and May immediately have eye contact and she starts blushing furiously as she watches him walk by and she lets Dawn go.

"Grr I have had just about enough with him and his attitude!" Dawn said as she walked inside the room and quickly grabbed a top bunk.

"Just you wait I'll beat him one of these days and he'll be sorry he ever messed with me!" Ash growled as he and Brock followed Dawn inside.

May stood where she was at for a few seconds before deciding to follow him and as she went back to the main entrance she immediately spotted him headed outside and was about to follow when someone called out her name.

"May is that you?"

May jumped and her heart started pounding hard in her chest.

'Is that Drew? But he wasn't coming here was he?' May thought to herself as she quickly turned around and saw him standing in front of her with a surprised look on his face.

"D-Drew hey I didn't know you were going to be here!" May blushed as she looked at him nervously.

He shrugged.

"Yeah well I thought of trying out some contests here instead I heard that you had to dress up in these contests" Drew said smirking at her as he held up a rose and gave it to her "I also didn't know you were coming here May"

"Yeah well im just here visiting some old friends" May said as she took the rose from Drew still blushing.

"So you weren't here for the contests then?" he asked.

"Yeah actually I am that's the other reason why im here!" May replied.

"It's too bad then May because you still don't have a chance against me maybe if I wasn't here you would actually have a chance!" Drew said flicking his hair and smirking as he watched May's face turn a bright red.

"You know just as well as I do that I can so beat you, you just got lucky last time that's all!" May yelled startling a few people who were around them.

"We'll see about that May!" Drew said as he walked past her and went in the direction where the rooms were at.

"Wait you're spending the night here?!" May cried out as she turned to face him.

"Uh yeah why would I sleep outside when the Pokemon center is here" Drew said looking back at her "is that a problem?"

"W-Well no…"

Drew just smirked as he left.

'Oh no this isn't good great now what?' May just sighed as she sat down on the floor leaning against the nearest wall and put her face in her hands 'I like both of them what am I supposed to do?' she thought to herself.