The time that May thought she had until the upcoming contest seemed to melt away slowly and suddenly the day of the contest arrived. May was in the back room with the rest of the coordinators with Drew and she was panicking fairly badly. No scratch that, she was panicking horribly. She was running in circles and flailing her arms screaming about how she wasn't ready slamming into several walls on the way. Drew, on the other hand, was sitting there watching May's melt down with mild amusement.
"I'm not ready! How did this happen? I thought that the date of the contest was forever away!" May screamed and slammed into a wall, again.
Drew smirked, 'She's cute when she freaking out. God I have to stop thinking about this stuff!' he thought silently cursing himself. He grabbed May by the back of her vest and sat her down forcefully, "Stop freaking out before you put yourself into a concussion," he said sternly glaring at her.
May blinked and then smiled mischievously, "I didn't know that you cared Drew,"
Drew turned pink and looked away flicking his hair ignorantly, "I don't, I just need you to be completely awake for the contest,"
May made a small sound and then crossed her arms scowling.
Then out of nowhere five girls ran over to the two young coordinators and started gushing over Drew asking him if he'd kiss them and so on. Drew looked absolutely mortified while May was watching in amusement as his fan girls screamed and giggled, more girls were arriving by the second and Drew was trying to move away as May watched laughing.
"Umbreon, physic," came a voice behind all the girls. Out of nowhere Drew's fan girls floated upward and then out of the room.
May looked over to Drew's savior and found that it was Jade and her Umbreon, as usual.
"Hey bro, u okay?" Jade asked cocking an eyebrow slightly.
Drew regained his usual air and nodded sitting back down, "I'm fine, nice to know some people help," he said and glared at May.
May rolled her eyes, "I was bored and they gave me amusement,"
Jade snickered, "Well, I better get going, I need to get to my seat," she said and then picked up her Umbreon waving good-bye walking away.
May stared after her and then looked towards Drew, "Hey Drew can I ask a quick question?" she asked.
"You just did," Drew snorted.
"You know what I mean!" May shouted glaring.
"Alright, alright. Just ask already," Drew said flicking his hair.
"Does Jade ever keep her Umbreon in it's Pokeball?" she asked biting her lip slightly.
Drew shook his head, "No, ever since it was an Evee she kept it out of it's Pokeball," he said and shrugged his shoulders.
"Oh, sort of like Ash and Pikachu," May commented and played with the edge of her vest nervously.
Drew noticed this and grabbed her hand making her look at him. Drew gave one of his rare smiles, "Don't be nervous, you're a great coordinator and you'll be fine. Don't forget you have me,"
May blushed and nodded staring into Drew's eyes, "That's makes me feel all the better," she said honestly leaning slightly closer.
"I'm glad," Drew muttered leaning forwards also.
"And welcome to the Cherrygrove Pokemon Contest, I'm your master of ceremonies Sara now, let's get busy!" the red headed MC shouted making Drew and May separate almost immediately.
"Sorry," May muttered her face beat red.
"No… problem," Drew answered his face a light shade of red.
"And first up, we have Harley and Solidad!" Sara yelled.
May and Drew's heads snapped up almost immediately to the screen showing what was going on, on stage with their two closest friends/rivals.
Harley and Solidad ran onto the stage and brought out their Pokemon, which turned out to be Banette and Lapras. Drew and May watched closely surveying their every move closely. At the end of their performance everybody was cheering and whooping, they had done a nearly perfect performance.
This only made May more nervous as she became jumpy and afraid. Drew kept his cool while trying to calm May down even by the tiniest bit, but they didn't have much time.
After two more performances it was their turn, "Alright, next let's give a warm welcome to, Drew and May!"
May squeaked and followed Drew shaking slightly. When they stepped into the center of the arena May's fright seemed to evaporate and a determined look was on her face. Drew smirked and flicked his hair, causing most of the female part of the audience to cheer louder.
May scowled slightly but grabbed one of her Pokeballs anyways, " Skitty on stage!" she shouted and her Skitty came out beautifully and landed gracefully purring slightly.
Drew smirked and flicked his hair throwing his own Pokeball, "Roselia go,"
When they had finished they bowed and ran off the stage. May was laughing and smiling brightly talking on and on about how great they were and Drew just listened silently.
When the first round was finished May had gone back to being extremely nervous sitting there ringing her hands shaking slightly. Drew sat next to her calmly feeding his Roselia some poke block quietly.
Two roses suddenly came fly towards the two and they each caught one quickly. They were both black and blue, which could only mean one thing.
"Jade, where are you?" Drew called looking around the room past some coordinators and their friends searching for his little sister.
"Try behind you," came a mysterious voice.
Drew let out a small noise of surprise and then spun around staring at Jade with wide eyes, "Jade, you scared me!"
May laughed and turned towards the small green haired coordinator as well, "Hi there Jade!"
"Sorry about that bro. I just wanted to see your face," she said smirking widely, "Hello again May,"
"What's with the rose?" May asked staring at hers.
"Well you guys were probably the best out of all of them so I thought I would congratulate you both," she said shrugging her shoulders picking up Umbreon, who was circling her feet purring softly.
"Oh, well thanks!" May chimed smiling brightly.
"Yeah, thanks," Drew said flicking his hair.
"No problem," Jade said flicking her own hair, "Well I'm going back to my seat. Good luck to both of you," Jade commented and then turned walking away.
"Okay! Now time to find out who's going to the second round!" Sara yelled.
Drew and May looked towards the board silently and watched as the faces appeared on them. Out of all of them they saw their own, not to mention Harley and Solidad's, who were celebrating on the other side of the room.
May squealed and hugged Drew, "We did it! We did it!" she shouted jumping up and down.
Drew blushed when May hugged him and then clear his throat, "Yeah, we did. You can let go you know," she said looking away trying to hide his blush.
May blush also and let go of Drew coughing slightly, "Sorry," she muttered looking away also.
"Okay, these are the people you will be facing in the second round, watch closely coordinators!" the MC shouted and then looked towards the board.
At the end of the contest Drew and May won at a close final battle against Harley and Solidad. May was literally jumping for joy and Drew was smirking flicking his hair every other minute.
"And I am proud to present the Cherrygrove Ribbon to, Drew and May," one of the judges said and gave them their ribbons gracefully.
"Yes!" May squealed shaking with excitement.
"Drew took it quietly a smirk on his face flicking his hair once more.
Back in the locker room May was talking a mile a minute about how they won and so on. Harley and Solidad told them that they would all meet up for dinner and had already left leaving May and Drew the only ones in the locker room.
"Drew! I couldn't have done it without you! Thank you so much!" May exclaimed and then grabbed Drew kissing him.
Drew's eyes widened quiet far and he turned a bright red, which was pretty interesting against his green hair.
May finally figured out what she was doing and her own eyes widened and she pulled away quickly blushing furiously, "Uhhh, I'm sorry!" she said quickly and then sprinted out of the room.
Drew just stood there for a moment his mouth agape in a very uncharacteristic way for a little while before he shook it off walking out of the room also not noticing the small girl hidden in the corner with a smirk on her face and an Umbreon circling her feet.
For dinner the four coordinators went to a fairly fancy place just for some celebration.
"Oh congratulations you two! But you won't be so lucky next time," Harley said in a singsong voice, yet again.
"We've heard you say that fifty times tonight, will you shut up?" Drew asked glaring at Harley.
May sighed, she hadn't said much the whole time trying her best not to blush every time Drew spoke.
"Hey, May, you alright?" Solidad question looking at her young friend cocking an eyebrow.
May snapped out of it and then nodded, "Yeah I'm fine," she said stuffing a piece of bread into her mouth.
Solidad looked doubtful but continued eating anyways.
"Oh hey May, Drew, Solidad, Harley. Lovely day ne?" Jade asked appearing behind Drew seemingly out of nowhere.
May let out a small squeak and nearly fell over in surprise, Solidad almost choked on her food and Harley did a spit take. Drew was the only one who was unfazed by the small girl's sudden appearance.
"Jade how many times have I told you not to sneak up like that," Drew said twisting around giving Jade a look.
Jade giggled and pulled up a chair in between Drew and May, "I know big bro, no lecturing tonight though, k?" she asked plopping a piece of his food into her mouth despite the looks he gave he. She cleared her throat slightly, "So, what is this? I double date?" she asked smirking.
The four others turned red, "Of course not, it's a dinner celebrating their win," Solidad said staring at her plate.
"Oh but you wish it was one," she said snickering and then looked towards May, "So, May, kissed any cute guys lately," she said mysteriously.
May, who was drinking some of her soda, nearly choked on it coughing loudly trying to clear her windpipe, "Wh-what?" she exclaimed hoarsely.
"Ya know, you, kissing some cute guys. Ya know, cute as in… my brother cute," she said mischievously.
May paled significantly and twitched slightly, "O-of course not. Wh-why would you ask that?" she sputtered.
"Eh, no reason," Jade said and then stood, "Well, I'm out. See you guys later," she said and then walked away.
Drew was beat red and May was very pale making Harley and Solidad look at them suspiciously.
"Anything you guys would like to tell us?" Solidad said looking from Drew to May cocking an eyebrow.
"No!" both of them yelled at once.
Harley looked pretty convinced at that point; "Well then, let's continue eating!" he shouted gleefully and continued.
Solidad looked very unconvinced but let it slide and started eating again as well.
May and Drew didn't look at each other or ever say a thing to each other the rest of the night staring determinedly at their plates.
Later that night when they came back to the Pokemon center they found Jade standing at the font desk talking with Nurse Joy gathering her Pokeballs back together. They saw her nod and then she turned. Upon seeing the four coordinators standing there she walked over to them, "Hello," she stated plainly, "And good bye," she said passing them walking out the door.
Drew blinked and turned running after her and on an impulse May followed.
"Jade!" Drew shouted as he ran up to his little sister, "Why are you leaving so soon?"
Jade turned back around staring at her brother scratching her Umbreon's ears out of pure habit, "I don't know, I just have to keep moving, ya know? So, I'm leaving now rather than later," she said shrugging her shoulders.
Drew blinked again and nodded, "Well, why don't you travel with me, Harley, Solidad, and May? It won't be that much trouble. I mean we could all—" Drew began but was cut off.
"I can't Drew. You know how I react when I'm around a lot of people. I just prefer to be, I dunno, alone," she said smiling at Drew, "And anyways, I think the less people around for you and May will be better,"
Drew turned red and frowned, "How many times have I told you I don't like May?" he asked scowling deeply.
Jade snickered, "Yeah, yeah. Well, see ya," Jade said starting to turn around but stopped, "And Drew, don't be afraid of being rejected," she said as a final word and then walked away into the sunset.
Drew looked after her wondering what se meant by that until someone besides him cleared their throat. He looked over and found May standing there staring at him, "Yes?" he asked cocking an eyebrow.
"So, she won't come along?" May asked blinking.
"No, she prefers being alone really," Drew said sighing shrugging his shoulders, "I just hope she's okay,"
"She'll be fine Drew. She's a strong girl," May said laughing.
"Yeah, she is…" the green haired trainer said frowning.
May's smile faded a little as she stared at the ground, "Listen, Drew," she said looking at him again, "I'm sorry about earlier. I was just so happy and I didn't know what—" May began.
Drew placed a finger on her lips and smirked, "It's okay," he said and leaned closer to her.
May leaned in also but then blushed pulling away, "I'm tired, I'm going to go to bed," she said and walked away.
Drew stood there for a moment wondering what was happening between the two of them before walking back to the Pokemon Center as well seeing as the group needed to leave early in the morning.
A/N: yeah, not very much Jade until the next contests after this so… anyways. This chapter took me awhile and if it seemed like I cut some corners I'm very sorry. I was just trying to finish this! Review please! Any review accepted, even if you want to criticize me! Which some probably will seeing that my writing isn't too great… anyways review!