Why Can't I
By: esmtz
"Ok well it all started I guess you can say when I was really little….I remember that everyday whenever my father came home from work the first thing that he would do would beat me." Paul said flinching a little still looking at May who had her mouth wide open.
"Paul…" May started to interrupt but Paul just shook his head.
"Let me continue. Anyway it didn't matter if he came home drunk or not. It was always the same and my Mother never did anything to try and stop him in fact she was the one who kept encouraging him to hurt me. I guess they just never wanted me in the family. I was an abomination to them." Paul said sadly as he closed his eyes.
'No wonder he is the way he is' May thought to herself sadly as she looked at Paul.
"Then one day my dad ended up hurting me so badly that I was sent to the hospital and as I expected they didn't care. The person who found me and brought me to the hospital was my uncle on my dad's side of the family. I was kind of surprised when he did that especially since I never met him before and so he told me who he was and ever since then I've pushed everyone who got near me away as I knew I couldn't trust anyone after that." Paul sighed as he opened his eyes and looked at May "The memories are too painful so I always act like everybody else is below me to help make me feel better about myself."
May just nodded understanding why he did what he did.
"Paul you know you don't have to feel that way anymore now that im here. You can trust me I would never hurt you that badly and toss you aside like you were nothing plus that isn't true Paul. You've been able to make a name for yourself now that you've started doing gym battles and believe me I will root for you all the way!" May exclaimed as she got a little closer to Paul and smiled at him gently "Of course I still need to root for Ash too."
Paul chuckled a little.
"Thanks May for hearing me out. I didn't think anyone would."
"No problem and if you need to talk to anyone about anything you can always talk to me!" May said blushing a little as she stood up and held her hand out to help Paul up. He took it and stood up.
"Thanks May I might take you up on that" Paul replied smiling at her warmly.
"So Paul I kinda heard you and Drew talking earlier. Were you serious about entering the contest?" May asked as she saw him turn red.
"You heard that huh….yeah I am I already entered when you guys showed up at the Pokemon center" Paul admitted, embarrassed that she heard what he told Drew as he rubbed the back of his head with his free hand as he hadn't noticed that he still had a hold of May's hand.
"Really?!" May's face brightened as she hugged him "Awesome though I'm afraid that this does make us rivals now"
Paul turned bright red.
"Um…yeah I guess it does"
"Just reminding you that it's in three days so you have plenty of time to train and also if we end up facing each other im not going to go easy on you!" May said as she pulled back from the hug and looked at him. He smirked.
"I don't expect anything less from you May" Paul replied "I'm not going to back down either you can count on it"
Both of them shook hands as they headed off to go look for different places to train. Later that night May was about to head to bed when she heard noise coming from outside the room. She went to see what was going on only to find that Misty had shown up early, but she wasn't the only one. May looked from Ash to Gary and saw that Ash looked angry.
"Hey what's going on?" May asked as she walked closer to the group and stood next to Brock who had his arms crossed.
"Well Misty's here and from what it looks like she arrived with Gary" Brock told her.
"Wait she's not going out with him is she?! I thought she liked Ash!" May yelled out in surprise.
"No I'm not going out with him and what makes you think I like Ash!" Misty cried out her face turning bright red.
May sighed.
"Well it's kinda obvious Misty."
Both Ash and Gary left the room and Brock sighed shaking his head.
"Looks like Ash challenged Gary to a battle….again. I better go and be the referee." Brock said as he followed behind them.
"So when did you get here Misty?" May asked her.
"Like half an hour ago. I already signed up for the contest." Misty replied.
"That's awesome!" May said excitedly. But then looked around frowning slightly.
"What is it May?" Misty asked.
"You haven't seen a boy with green hair and a girl with blue hair wearing a hat by chance? I haven't seen them since earlier today" May asked worried.
Misty just shook her head.
"Sorry I haven't. Like I said I haven't really been here that long for me to really run into people." Misty said.
"Oh ok" May sighed "Oh Misty do you know which room is ours?"
"Don't worry about it May, Ash showed me earlier before Gary showed up." Misty replied blushing furiously.
"Wait so you guys didn't come together then?" May asked.
"No of course not it was just a coincidence!" Misty said a little loudly.
"Um…ok" May sweat dropped.
"Well let's just get some sleep for tomorrow. Ash and the others will come back in a bit don't you worry May" Misty smiled as she went to the room.
"I hope you're right Misty" May said silently to herself as she also went back to the room.