Why Can't I
By: esmtz
The next day, both May and Dawn had started training their Pokemon for the upcoming contest. May was training with Ash and Dawn was training with Brock as they had just finished perfecting their entrance performances and now started working on the actual battle.
"Piplup use bubblebeam! Buneary use your ice beam!" Dawn cried out as she watched her Pokemon's attacks head straight for Brock's.
"Marshtomp, Sudowoodo dodge and use water gun and rock throw!" Brock yelled as both sides continued exchanging attacks.
As they kept on with their match, May and Ash had just finished theirs with May barely managing to get a win over Ash and his Pokemon.
"That was great May im sure you will do a great job in this contest!" Ash said as he recalled Aipom and picked up Pikachu.
"Thanks Ash I sure do feel confident that there's no way I can lose this now!" May said as she hugged her Glaceon and Skitty.
"I still can't believe Drew's here in the Sinnoh region. I thought you said he wasn't going to be here" Ash said frowning slightly.
"Yeah well I didn't know either he just showed up all of a sudden out of nowhere and surprised me" May sighed as she stood up and recalled her Pokemon.
"Well what are you going to do now May, with your crush on him and Paul at the same time?" Brock asked as he took his eyes off the fight for a few seconds to look at her.
May blushed.
"Um im not really sure I just hope that I don't end up in the same room with both of them at the same time"
"Yeah I got it!" Dawn yelled out excitedly as Brock quickly turned back around and saw that both his Pokemon had fainted.
"Good job Dawn!" May said smiling at her.
"Thanks" Dawn replied quietly not looking at her as she recalled her Pokemon making May look at her confused.
'Did I do something wrong to make her mad with me?' May asked herself.
"So finishing up your training for the contest huh May?" May turned and blushed as she saw Drew right behind her as he flicked his hair "it's not going to do you much good though since I've been training hard too myself and I caught some new Pokemon" he said as he looked at her smirking.
"Well I didn't expect anything less from you Drew but like I said before im not going to go down this time especially not without a fight!" May said as she glared at him a little.
"I see you still have that temper of yours careful if you don't want to end up embarrassing yourself in front of everyone" Drew replied as he held out a rose and as usual May took it now really glaring at him.
Dawn looked on at the scene in front of her and immediately started shaking with anger as she started feeling even more jealous of May.
"I'll see you later May I got to go get myself registered for the contest" Drew said as he walked off.
May stood there for a few seconds when she realized that she needed to register as well.
"Dawn come on we have to register for this contest too let's go!" May cried as she and Dawn started chasing after Drew while the boys quickly followed right behind.
As they were running May accidentally bumped into someone as she fell to the ground.
"Ow…im sorry I didn't see where I was….going…."
May looked up and started blushing again as she saw that she had bumped into Paul. He shrugged.
"Its fine don't worry about it" Paul said as he helped May to her feet.
"T-Thanks"
As they were talking Drew immediately saw them and started glaring at Paul, eyes full of hatred.
'Who does he think he is?' Drew told himself as he clenched his hands into fists.
"I'm sure you heard about me, I'm Paul" Paul said introducing himself to her.
"Yeah I heard and my name is May it's really nice to meet you Paul" she smiled at him happily.
"Let me guess are you entering this thing that's happening here?" Paul asked as she nodded.
"Yeah I am actually why are you?" May asked.
Paul crossed his arms.
"Not really interested in doing stuff like that I'm mostly interested in gym battles."
"I'd like to see you battle sometime…I-I would really like to see how you battle" May said nervously as she starting blushing more as she puts her arms behind her, her left hand grabbing her right.
Paul blushed a little.
"Thanks I better let you go since your friends are waiting for you…." He says "plus the way she's looking at me is getting annoying."
May turned and saw that Dawn was gritting her teeth looking at them angrily shaking a little. May sweat dropped.
"Yeah ok…um will I'll see you again sometime?" May asked him.
Paul nodded as he walked away.
"I thought you said we needed to register for the contest so let's go!" Dawn harshly pulled May's arm and dragged her towards the Pokemon center where a crowd of people was standing in line.
Drew continued to watch as Paul kept walking knowing that the next time that he saw him would be the time that he'd punch his lights out.