Hey guys. Thanks to those people who took time to read and review my story. Glad to know that I'm off to a good start. Be sure to check out VerifiedBreeze's story Love&Basketball, which is the inspiration of this story. It has put my heart through a lot, but it's a great story.

Also, congrats to Enough1122 for correctly guessing the college I was referring to in the previous chapter. It was the University of Florida Gators. That should of been easy since on my profile, it says the Gators are my favorite collegiate team. Enough1122 can submit an OC via PM messaging and he/she will get a part in the story.

Anyway, enough of by blabbering. On to the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon because if I did I wouldn't be doing this. I'm not going to be doing this all the time because it's tedious so this last time should do it.

Last Period, 2:00

Ash was walking to his next class, when he spotted Gary a few feet from him. "Hey Gary!" Ash yelled.

Gary turned his head and saw his best friend waving and walked over to him. "Hey Ashy-boy, what's up?"

"Nothing, I'm just walking to Physics. How about you?"

"Hey I have Physics too. You have Professor Birch?"

"Yeah."

"Awesome!"

Gary and Ash walked to the science building and entered the classroom. They took their seats next to each other and just played games on their phones for a few minutes. Every minute, more and more students entered the classroom and took their seats. Ash looked up when he heard someone fall down. When he looked up, his heart started beating a little bit faster. It was Dawn who had fallen. She was frantically trying to pick up the spilled contents of her backpack. Ash instinctively went over to help her, as he was known to help anyone in need. He started picking up Dawn's materials with her. When Dawn noticed a hand pick up one of her books, she looked up and saw Ash, and slightly blushed, but Ash didn't notice. "Thanks," Dawn said.

"No problem. So you're in Professor Birch's Physics class too?"

"Yeah, but I didn't think a star athlete would be in a class like this one."

"Well I guess I'm one of a kind then," Ash said while scratching the back of his head.

Dawn chuckled a little at Ash's attempt to be funny.

"C'mon. Come sit next to me. I'm right next to Gary there," Ash said while pointing to his seat.

"Alright."

Dawn sat in the desk next to Ash's and immediately started to feel warm and started to sweat. "No boy has ever had this kind of effect on me before, not even my childhood friend, Kenny," she said to herself. "I've seen him before since I cheer at the football games, but never had got to know him. Well from now on, I'm going to become his friend, and maybe more...no, no what am I thinking, a guy like him would never go out with an ordinary girl like me." Dawn drew her attention to Professor Birch who had been calling her name for a minute now and he was getting impatient.

"Dawn! What are you day-dreaming for? Pay attention."

Dawn put her hand on her cheek and her elbow on the desk and stared at Ash for about 10 minutes, only catching a few things the teacher said. Then Prof. Birch said something that caught her attention.

"As a way of getting a first impression of your current knowledge of the material in this course, I will be assigning a project. You will do this with a partner," everybody started to look to their friends in the class as he said this, "that I will be picking." Everybody then groaned. "Okay let's see..." The teacher started to pair up students. "Gary and...hmmmm...Clemont." Gary knew who that was, he was a big science nerd, so obviously, being the lazy bum he is, Gary was relieved to have a nerd do the project for him, since he planned on doing none of the work. Clemont had messy blonde hair, had big round glasses, and wore a blue jumpsuit. "And finally, Ash and...Dawn."

Dawn jumped at her name being called, "Yes," she thought, "this is my chance to get to know Ash." She kept smiling and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get rid of it. People started to look at her weirdly, but she didn't care.

Soon class was over and she started to gather her books. She went over to Ash as he was walking out with Gary, "Ash," he turned around and looked at her.

"What's up Dawn?"

"I was wondering if you wanted to start working on that project after school today. You know, after our practices, of course," she said twirling her hair with her fingers. Ash noticed this and found it cute.

"Yeah, but I didn't drive today, and my mom is working late so I have to take the bus after practice."

"No worries, I drove today I can give you ride with me. Where do you want to do the project?"

"I don't care."

"Can we go to your house, my mom is home and since you said your mom is working late, we'll have more peace and quiet."

"Sounds like a plan. Do you want me to drive since you don't know where my house is, or do you want me to just direct you?"

"You can drive, that way there's no chance we'll get lost."

Ash nodded is head and walked with Gary to football practice, thinking about Dawn the whole time.

"Why am I getting this weird feeling I've never had before?" Ash thought to himself. "I'll think about this later. Right now, I gotta concentrate on practice."

After Practice, 5:00

Ash and Dawn met up with each other after their respective sports practices. "So, how was practice, Mr. Superstar?" Dawn said in a teasing tone. She had only known this guy for one day, yet she feels like she's known him for years.

"It was fine. I saw you practicing on the track," Ash said with a smirk on his face.

"Oh, you did?" Dawn replied with a little of a blush.

"Yeah, you looked pretty cute in your little practice outfit there." Ash clamped his mouth with his hands. "Wait, what did I just say?" Ash thought to himself.

Dawn was blushing like crazy. You could mistake her face for a tomato. They both decided to just disregard Ash's last comment. There was an awkward silence before they headed off towards Dawn's car. When they both got to the car, Ash got in the driver's seat and adjusted the seat, since Dawn was significantly smaller than him. Dawn got in the passenger's seat and they drove off.

The whole ride, Dawn kept thinking about what Ash said to her. "He called me cute. Does that mean he likes me?" she thought.

Ash was too thinking about what he said to Dawn. "Where did that come from? It just slipped from my mouth. I bet she thinks I'm a pervert or something," he thought.

They pulled into Ash's driveway, and got out of the car. Ash opened Dawn's door for her and she thanked him. As Dawn got out of the car, she looked at Ash's house. It was fairly small, but not that small. It was white, it had two floors, and she saw a garden on the side of the house. As they entered she looked around the interior and saw a small living room with a small couch and a recliner chair around a flat screen TV. There was a kitchen connected with the living room. It had a small table and a stove on the countertop, along with a oven. "You have a cute little house," she said to Ash.

"Thanks, a lot people ask how I live in such a small place, but since it's just my mother and me, (A.N. no it's not my mother and I) it doesn't feel that small," Ash replied.

"Just you and your mom? Where's your dad? And don't you have any siblings?"

"Yeah it's just us. My dad died in a plane crash when I was an infant, so I never really knew him. And no, I don't have any siblings."

Dawn felt bad for Ash, but she was in a similar situation. "That's the same thing with me. I don't have any siblings and my dad died when I was a baby, but it was from cancer." There was a brief silence. They both felt there was finally someone who understood their situation. It stayed silent before Dawn spoke up. "Well, enough of this gloomy subject, let's get going on this project." Ash nodded and he showed her around upstairs. There were five rooms. She saw the bathroom on her right, a bedroom with floral wallpaper that she assumed to be his mother's room, two other rooms on her left, and a room at the end of the hall that she assumed was Ash's since it had a "Keep Out" sign written sloppily and in green crayon. "Hey Ash, what are those other two rooms?" Dawn asked while pointing at each door.

"Oh those, those are just guest rooms."

Dawn made an "o" with her mouth and they continued towards Ash's room. As they entered the room, Dawn looked around. There was a bunk bed, a bunch of posters on the walls of different sports teams and players and TV shows. There was a book shelf with a bunch of books, and an impressive number of trophies and other awards on top. She knew he was a great athlete, but not this great. There was also a desk and a few clothes on it, and a bathroom. Dawn noticed the bathroom and smelled herself. She reeked. She hesitated a few times before getting Ash's attention. "Hey Ash." He looked towards Dawn and she reluctantly asked, "C-C-Can I use your shower. I-I thought I could wait until I get home, but I stink."

"Sure, there's a towel and everything in there. Help yourself."

She thanked him and walked into the bathroom and started to undress herself.

As she turned on the shower and waited for it to warm, she started thinking to herself. "Ash is such a nice guy. He has a good heart, and he's like me. I've never met anyone with the same situation as me. Everyone used to bully me because I had no father. I would come home crying to my mom every other day. Well now I have someone to help me if anyone bothers me." She smiled as she stepped into the shower.

While Dawn was in the shower, Ash was trying to think of ideas for their project, but he couldn't. All he could think about was Dawn. She was unlike any girl he had ever met. She was smart, funny, beautiful, wait...beautiful, what was he thinking, he just met this girl, but she was using his shower. Damn. No, no, no. She's here to do a project with him. But, he couldn't help but picture her in ther shower and dirty thoughts came to his mind. He stared blankly at nothing in particular while thinking about her naked body, her smooth, soft body. He snapped himself out of his thoughts and continued trying to think of something he could use for his project. They were assigned to give a presentation about The Laws of Motion. He had learned this briefly in science before, but because it was a general science class, he didn't learn it in depth. He thought and thought until he felt a cool autumn breeze. He noticed a window was open, so he went to close it. Before he could close it, though, the wind blew open a door and Ash's jaw dropped to the floor.

Oooh, cliff hanger ;) But you probably have an idea of what happened. I may have updated this quickly, but I can;t guarantee these quick updates constantly.

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