Yeeeah, it's been a while :/, I have no excuses. But finally party scene :D yay!

Let's just get to it.

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Saturday, September 8th

Dear Diary,

I just came back from Drew's party and boy do I have so much to tell you!

Okay, before any excitement overcomes me, let's start from the beginning.

I was almost done with my make-up when my mom called from downstairs.

"Dawn, come on, let's go! We still have to pick up your friend!" The friend she was referring to was Barry. He called me asking if he could get a ride because he didn't want to show up alone.

"I'm coming!" I said as I finished putting my lip gloss on. I put my make-up bag in the small gym bag that I was bringing to Drew's that contained a few essentials, such as deodorant and toothbrush, as well as pyjama's and an outfit for the day after.

I took my bag and looked at myself in the mirror before I left.

I wore a blood red coloured dress. The dress stopped a little longer than mid-thigh. It was a halter-styled top that was very loose at the top, but waist down was more fit. Also, at the waist was a silver belt. I had this in my closet somewhere, I completely forgotten about it; it's the first time I'm wearing it. I didn't do anything special with my hair; I only put it through a straightener.

"DAWN!" my mom yelled impatiently from downstairs.

"Yes, yes, I'm coming!" I ran down the stairs and followed my mom at the door.

*&^%

We picked up Barry and drove to Drew's house. All of the lights were on, so I saw how big his house was; it was big.

My mom waved bye to us and then drove away. Barry looked at me, "you look great Dawn!"

"Thanks Barry, you look great yourself."

"Don't I," he said proudly. Barry was wearing faded jeans with an off white button down shirt.

"Shall we?" he asked sticking out his elbow.

I laughed as I locked my arm with his. "Let's," I said as we walked towards the front door.

When we got in, it was full, there were so many people.

"Whoa, are Drew's parties always this crowded?"

"Yeah, they are," he said as he let go of my arm.

That's when Zoey came to greet us, "well, don't you guys look fabulous."

"Well, you do look rather dashing yourself Zoe," Barry commented. He was right, she looked amazing in her emerald dress, it was lengthy and dropped down like a beach dress. "You do look stunning."

"Hey Barry," she started, "I saw this guy that would be perfect for you." I had to take a double take.

"Zoey, last time you tried to set me up with a guy, he turned out to be straight."

"But this time I'm more than positive, come look," she said grabbing his arm and leading him to the living room. I followed.

"Him," she said as she pointed to a guy in a gold button down shirt and black pants, he has spikey dark brown hair. He was sitting down and talking to some guy.

"Ok, he does look cute. If he turns out to be straight though, I'm going to fine you so hard it'll take a life time to pay up!"

Zoey chuckled awkwardly, "don't worry."

Barry left to go talk to the guy.

Zoey then turned to me. I had to say, "I didn't know Barry was gay."

"Really? Well almost everyone knows, including our gang."

"Hmm… oh well, I guess I'm finally clued in." I look around the room. "Zoey, Gary is all alone, go talk to him!"

She smiled, "I will, I'll catch up to you later."

She walked towards Gary and I looked in Barry's direction, he seemed to be having a good chat with the guy; seems like Zoey had made the right choice this time.

I spun around and saw Ash behind me holding two drinks in his hand.

"You look… beautiful."

I looked down and smiled, and then back up to him, "thank you, you look really good as well." He did, he wore dark jeans and a red shirt, it looks as if we had tried to colour coordinate.

"Drink?" I nodded as he handed it to me.

I took a sip, "bitter."

"Yeah, it tastes like that at first," he said as he took a sip himself.

The music suddenly got really loud and everyone cheered as they started to dance.

I looked toward the dance floor to see Drew dancing with this girl I recognize from my science class, Brianna. He seemed to be having a really good time with her.

Oh no.

I scanned the room for the brunette. I found her looking at them and it was as if I could feel her heart breaking. We all knew she liked him, we were wrong about Drew though. May closed her eyes and walked into the other room.

"I'll be right back," I told Ash as I walked in Drew's direction.

"Brianna, right?" I asked as she nodded her head. "I'm just going to steal Drew for a minute." I took his arm and led him off the dance floor.

"What are you doing?"

"What do you mean 'what am I doing'?"

I just cut to the chase, "what about May?"

He looked at me almost annoyed, "I keep telling you guys that I don't like her. I wasn't lying when I said it." I remembered that day in the lunch line when he denied it flat.

"I thought you just didn't want to tell us."

"Well you guys all thought wrong. Sorry to disappoint," he said as he went back to dance with Brianna.

I turned around to come face to face with Zoey. "I'll go talk to her," she said as she walked to where May ran off.

I went back to Ash. "He told us, many times," Ash said as he took another sip from his cup. I nodded.

"Hey, let's dance." I stuck my hand out to Ash. He raised his eyebrow seemingly confused at my sudden topic change, but smiled and took it, "sure."

The music was getting really good. Ash and I were dancing to the rhythm. He's a good dancer, is it bad to say that I was surprized?

Around an hour later, Gary, Misty, Zoey, and May all came to dance with us. Whatever Zoey told May worked because she didn't seem depressed at all. In fact, she was laughing along with the rest of us. It was as if the scene before didn't take place.

To end the night and to tell everyone who wasn't staying for the sleepover to leave, Drew had the DJ play the only slow song of the night. I decided to sit this one out. Ash did come up to me to ask if I wanted to dance with him but I turned him down, my feet were killing me from dancing all night. I told him that and he just sat next to me as we watched the others dance. Gary and Misty were dancing together, Drew and Brianna were dancing together, and I had to laugh when I saw Zoey and May dancing together, they were dancing elaborately as if to make fun of all the other couples. I knew why they were doing it, and I'm glad that they were doing that instead of moping around.

Half way through the slow dance, Ash and I decided to go outside to take a breather. We walked out to the backyard and to our surprize, all of Drew's pokémon were there. I was most impressed with his Flygon. Since it was night, most of his pokémon were sleeping on the grass. Ash and I just stayed on the patio. It was a beautiful night, especially since we didn't have the nicest weather this week. I was looking at how peaceful Drew's pokémon looked that I felt like I wished I had brought my pokémon over. I diverted my eyes from Drew's pokémon to the sky full of stars above us. Since Drew's land is vast, you could see the stars clearly.

"Beautiful isn't it."

"Sure is," he responded.

I looked at him, he was looking at me. I caught on as I looked down and smiled making sure he didn't see the blush that spread across my face.

That's when May and Zoey came outside to tell us that everyone left. Ash got up first to help me up. We both walked inside as we were greeted by the faces of Barry, Gary, Misty, Drew, May, and Zoey.

Zoey and Barry were talking probably about the guy Zoey "set" him up with. I definitely wanted to know what happened, Ash followed me.

"He was great! I actually have a date!" he said smiling the whole time.

"I'm glad Zoey set you up with the right guy this time," I said.

"Oh, you mean not like last time," Ash laughed.

"Hey! It was an honest mistake," Zoey countered.

"You guys going to come join us?" Drew interrupted.

"Yeah," we all said in unison.

After getting some drinks we all went to the living room to find out what to do.

"Hey guy, I think we should know Dawn a little better," Gary suggested.

"What?"

"Don't worry," started Ash, "you'll get to know us also."

"What-"

"It's called 'Have You Ever'," explained Gary.

"Basically," started May, "we ask have you ever questions that apply to everyone. If you've done it, you take a shot, if you haven't, you do nothing. Rules for questioning the do-ers are set at the beginning of each game."

"There are also passes, say you are asked a question and you don't want to answer it, you could use a pass. Those are set at the beginning of every game as well," Misty added.

That's when Drew got up, left the room, and came back two minutes later with a bowl that held folded pieces of paper.

"This is where the questions come from, we each take turns picking them," he said.

Seemed simple enough.

There are some mild questions, deep questions, and sexy questions. They told me to pick first and I'm pretty sure I picked "Have you ever been on a roller coaster?" the only person who didn't drink to that was Drew who said that he refuses to ever go on one.

We asked about a hundred questions and there are only a few that I really remember.

"Have you ever been drunk?" Barry asked.

Misty, Ash, May, Zoey, and Gary drank to that. Zoey and Misty had their little "Oh my gosh, remember that?" moment, but that was really it.

"Have you ever liked someone that didn't like you back?"

Zoey and May cheered before drinking, and Barry, Ash and Gary drank as well. Zoey then immediately asked Gary who, but he used his pass not to answer.

"That's not fair," Zoey complained.

"I'm allowed," Gary counted as he stuck his tongue out at her.

"Have you ever dated someone within the group?"

Gary, Misty, Ash, and May rose their glass.

Okay, what?

Misty and Gary aren't official yet, so… May and Gary? Misty and Ash?

"Misty, who did you date?" I asked, her answer would help.

"Ash, like over a year ago."

"Oh." More of a surprised oh if anything.

"Yeah, it lasted for seven months," added Ash.

"Have you ever lost your virginity?"

Ash, Zoey, and Gary drank to it.

No way

"To who?" I asked Ash. Misty didn't drink so I have no idea. "Pass," he said as he picked up a question from the bowl to read aloud.

"Have you ever had a rumour spread about you?"

May, Drew, and I drank to that.

It was in my old school back in secondary one. It wasn't anything bad though, just that I was secretly going out with the most annoying kid in our grade that actually helped the rumour carry on. Eventually it just died down.

May and Drew's rumours were the same, that they were dating.

The last question I remember was asked by Zoey.

"Have you ever been hurt emotionally?"

Barry, Misty, Drew, and I drank to that.

"What happened, Barry?"

"Well, I'm all out of passes," he said, "So I guess I have to tell you. When I told my parents I was gay, they didn't accept it. My mom eventually warmed up to it, but my dad still isn't okay with it. He rarely talks to me anymore and it hurt because we used to be close. I'm glad you guys accept it though," he smiled.

The word 'of course' was spread through the room.

"What about you Dawn?" Barry asked, taking himself out of the spotlight and directing it to me.

"Pass."

I didn't want them to feel sorry for me; I had enough of that back home.

See, finding out my father died had hurt me more than anything else ever could. He was kept prisoner by Team Galactic. Apparently, he had information that was essential for their new operation. When he didn't spill a word, they tortured him. My dad was a Pokémon Researcher and he had found something my important on the legendary Pokémon. My mom and I never found out, the only way we knew of this was because we had a secret agent tell us. He was impersonating a Galactic grunt. He was the one who told us he died. He told us what happened.

When we ran out of questions, we decided to change into our PJs and set up our sleeping bags.

We all set up our sleeping bags at different times, depending how fast we changed. Even Drew decided to sleep on the floor even though he had his bed in sight.

I was putting my sleeping bag near Zoey's when Ash came with his rolled up bag and stationed himself next to me.

"Yes~?"

"Am I not allowed to put my sleeping bag here?"

"Uh, sure?" I looked at Zoey who chuckled and shrugged. May was next to Zoey so I knew they'd be conversing a lot, so I guess I was happy that Ash was sitting next to me.

We all kind of made a messy circle with our sleeping bags, which was weird because it wasn't the usual straight line thing I was used to, whatever.

Anyways, after we got settled in it was around midnight. Misty suggested on a movie, we all pretty much agreed instantly. Choosing the movie however, that took some time; it was a war between horror and comedy, so I suggested on Scary Movie, everyone except Gary –who was a horror fanatic- was okay with it. Eventually though, Gary warmed up to it, what other choice did he have.

We went to his theater room that had two rows of seating; Zoey, Barry, May, and Drew sat up front while Misty, Gary, Ash, and I sat at the back.

The movie was great. I'm a fan of horror movies; they don't really scare me, so a horror spoof like Scary Movie would definitely not get me on end. But that didn't stop Ash from asking me if I was scared every twenty minutes.

After the movie it was almost 3am, so naturally we decided that we should probably go to bed. Of course by the time I actually went to bed it was way after. Ash had kept me up. We just spoke about random things; he asked how my life was back in Twinleaf and if I was in a long distance relationship with anyone, and I asked about him in Pastoria. I wanted to know about that year that he wasn't in the group, but he never revealed much of it. He didn't want to talk about it. He said that he never talks about it because he doesn't want to go back. I understand, but it doesn't stop my curiousity. If he didn't want to talk about it though, I'll drop it, so I did.

I don't know exactly what time we went to bed or how. Ash and I were talking for most of the early hours, but I have no idea when we stopped for goodnight. Regardless, despite a few differences, we have more in common than not which if I was told this at beginning of the week I wouldn't believe.

Not much happened this morning though, nothing really worth mentioning, except one thing. When I woke up this morning, Ash was awfully close to me.

And did I mind? Not at all.

I'll write soon!

Dawn.

Penny for your thoughts? :D

Did you guys expect Barry to be gay? Did you expect Drew to not like May? I hope I at least slightly surprised you.

This is where the build up of cliche ends :P, Drew actually doesn't like May, Dawn did not take Ash's hand to slow dance, May and Zoey were not bitchy about being lonely, they did not play Truth or Dare, they did not watch a scary movie where Dawn buried her face into Ash's oh-so-built arms, Ash and Dawn only start HERE.

I pretty much have the rest of the story planned, and there are 5 chapters left. Yes it's a short story, it was never meant to be very long.

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