Hi :] This chapter is Dawn & Ash's "outing". It isn't very long, sorry about that.

Also, if there are any "tense" mistakes, I'm sorry it's hard to be writing a past and present tense story at the same time, it gets me all mixed up :/ But I did look over it, if I missed anything sorry.

Regardless,

DISCLAIMER! I do not own Pokémon!
Enjoy :D!

Sunday, September 16th

Dear Diary,

Yesterday was awesome! I had so much fun on my outing with just Ash; it was great to spend some alone time with him to see if I really liked him or not. All we did was go to the movies and the park, but I know how I feel about him now.

But before that let me explain to you what actually happened yesterday.

Before we did anything, Ash and I decided to bring our Pokémon to a Pokémon spa that was along the way so that we weren't the only ones having a good time. Ash's Pikachu and Piplup connected easily; talking in their Pokémon language as soon as we got into the car.

I felt bad for leaving Piplup out of my hectic life recently, so I called Ash two hours before he came to pick me up to ask if Piplup could join us, he said he had a better idea. Hence, spa. Piplup really enjoyed it though, that made me happy.

Regardless, back to the outing.

Right after we dropped off our Pokémon at the Pokéspa, Ash's mom dropped us off at the movie theater. Ash decided that I should be the one to choose the movie, so I chose a romantic comedy. Even though Ash insisted to pay for me, I decided to pay for myself. If it was a friend outing, I wasn't going to let him pay for me, I'd leave that to when and if we actually go out on a real date.

During the movie was great too. Ash decided to put his arm around me half way through the film.

"Friend outing?" I reminded him.

"Yeah, but I like hugging you," he said as he pulled me closer to him and let his arm hang across my shoulders.

A big smile spread across my face. I could definitely get used to this. Get used to him.

That was pretty much about the time I admitted to myself that I liked this guy as more than a friend. And I just did what any girl that liked the guy next to her would do at that moment and leaned my head on his shoulder. I hope he took it as a good sign, because it couldn't have meant anything else.

Anyways, when the movie was over, we decided to go to the park across the street from the movie theater.

It was a really quiet night and we were alone in the park, or at least we seemed to be, I didn't see anyone else. Since I've never been to that park, I sort of followed Ash, he seemed to know where he was going.

He led us to a hill and we took a seat on the grass below us. Well, I sat down. Ash lay down with his hands behind his head.

"It's a really nice night," he commented.

"Yeah, it's peaceful," I agreed.

We sat there in silence for a while. I really wished it could have been a comfortable silence, but it really wasn't, it was a very awkward silence.

None of us knew what to say. We both kind of made an advancement on our "just friends" relationship status.

"Did you like the movie?" he asked me.

I laughed, "I did."

"Why'd you laugh for?"

"Because this is so awkward."

He chuckled, "Sorry." I shook my head.

I lay down next to him and looked up at the sky. I could tell that he was looking at me, but I didn't want to look at him, things would just get a lot more awkward; we were too close together. So I made a random comment.

"It's beautiful," I said looking at the stars that shone brightly in the sky.

"I know." Same compliment he made at Drew's party.

I looked at him. "I meant the stars," I said pointing to the sky.

"I know what you meant. Too bad we aren't talking about the same thing though, especially when you're much more interesting than the stars."

I was probably beet red. I did not expect him to say that, or something even remotely close to that.

Thank goodness his phone rang right then, because he left me speechless.

"Hey mom," he answered.

We ended up meeting his mom back at the cinema. She picked up Pikachu and Piplup from the spa before she came to pick us up. They jumped into our arms as soon as the doors opened.

"I missed you too Piplup!" I said while I gave him a big bear hug.

"Pip lup pip!" he said happily.

When we got back to my house he walked me to my door and gave me a long intimate hug before he let me go and went back to the car.

Piplup jumped in my arms again.

While I watched them drive away I mumbled to Piplup, "I really like him Piplup."

It was around midnight when I walked into the house. My mom was still up watching TV.

"Hey honey, how was your night?"

"I loved it mom, it was amazing! I had so much fun!"

She just smiled at me knowingly. But I didn't care, I wasn't going to lie to her and fight about it. Instead, I rushed upstairs to call Zoey.

"No way~!" she said after I told her everything that happened earlier this evening. "But now the real question is: Do you like him?"

I nodded my head even though she couldn't see me. "I do."

"I'm so excited for you Dawn! Dude, he's totally heads over heels for you. I think he's just waiting for your okay."

"I'd totally give it to him. I mean, he's a really nice guy and I'd be a fool to say anything other than yes."

"Aw! I'm really excited for you guys. I cannot wait until its official."

I smiled. "Me neither," I admitted.

When we hung up, it was almost 2am so I decided I should probably get to bed. But I didn't really sleep. All I kept thinking about was how much fun I had with Ash tonight, when is our next "outing", and what will happen now.

I don't know, but I do know that I shouldn't be disappointed.

I'll write soon!

Dawn.

Thoughts?

I tried to make it as realistic as possible so I used my boyfriend as reference to what Ash would say. :]

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