Hey guys. I left you on a cliffhanger last time. Sorry for the long wait. I had a lot of school work to do, and since I get done baseball at around 5:30 or 6:00, and I go straight to dinner from there, I don't start till really late, so I've been trying to continue as much as possible.

Well the wait is over. I only got a few reviews last chapter so either I'm doing well and there isn't anything else to say, or no one is reading my story. C'mon people, review.

There's a mature scene in here that might raise a few eyebrows about changing the rating, but I think teens can handle this. There's also going to be quite a bit of swearing in this chapter and probably more to come, since unfortunately, it is stuck into my vocabulary. Basically, I swear a little too much because i've heard it so much, it's almost an instinct to swear. But every teen swears, so I don't think that will be a problem regarding the rating.

Also, since Enough1122 has passed up on the OC offer, I'm opening up OC submissions for anybody. The details of the submission are in the author's note at the end of this chapter.

Well, enough of my talking. On with the fic!

Ash was speechless. All he could do was gaze at the sight in front of him. Dawn was standing in Ash's bathroom with absolutely no clothes on. She had one over her breasts and the other covering her genitals. Her blue hair was soaked and water was dripping on the bathroom floor from her body. Her freshly cleaned body was still wet and shone and glistened in the light of the room. Her skin was a little pale, but it suited her. Her face, on the other hand, was so red it seemed as if it was an apple, and her face showed more embarrassment than an older sibling being embarrassed by his younger sibling. To say Dawn was shocked about the situation was a vast understatement. She had not expected this one bit.

Dawn turned off the water and squeegeed the shower. She then stepped out of the shower and remembered that she forgot to get a towel. She carefully walked, so she wouldn't slip on the wet floor, over to the linen closet to retrieve a towel, but she found that there were none. "Shit, there's no towels. Ash must've not realized there were none in there," she cursed. "How am I going to dry off now?" She thought of a risky plan, but hesitated whether to do it. She decided that she had no other decision, so she carefully walked over to the bathroom door, and started to slowly open it, so she could only peek her head out to ask Ash to get a towel for her. She slowly started to turn the door knob and cracked open the door, but before she could go a little further, the door blew open to reveal Ash staring at her.

She was trying to move, but she was so embarrassed she couldn't mover her legs. Ash was trying not to stare either, out of respect for Dawn, but her body was so perfect, he couldn't take his eyes off her. Ash had good self-control though, so he reverted his eyes away from her. He then started to talk to Dawn, but facing away from her to show respect towards her and hide his massive blush. "Why are you out here without a towel?"

"You said there were towels in there, but when I looked in the linen closet, there were none," Dawn responded while trying to hide her blush, but there was no avail.

Ash suddenly realized his mistake and said sheepishly while scratching the back of his head, "Oh, well I guess that's my bad then."

"Yeah, it was," Dawn retorted sternly.

Ash walked out of the room to get a towel for Dawn, but with his eyes closed, so he bumped into almost everything in the room, before feeling his way out. He rushed down to the laundry room, and soon enough found a laundry basket full of freshly cleaned towels. As he exited the laundry room with the basket in hand, his mom walked into the door. Ash started to panic in his head. He tried to speed walk so he could reach the stairs, but his mom stopped him. "Hi Ash," she said to him.

Ash replied nervously saying, "H-Hey mom." He tried to escape upstairs, afraid his mom might find out about a naked Dawn in his room, but his mom grabbed him by the shoulder.

"Why are you in such a rush? And whose car is that out there?"

"Well, I want to put away these towels really quick, and that car, I borrowed from a friend. I'm going to give it back to them tomorrow," Ash lied. His mom wasn't buying it, but decided not to press the subject.

"Alright, just come down after you're done. I want to hear about your first day of school."

"No can do mom, I gotta do homework first." That wasn't a lie, he wanted to start this project with Dawn, but he doubted she would want to work on it tonight after their awkward situation.

He sprinted up the stairs and burst into his room. The bathroom door was closed, so he assumed Dawn was in there. "Hey, Dawn!" Ash screamed, but no so loud that his mom would hear him.

"Yeah," she replied from the other side.

"I got clean towels here."

She cracked the door open a little and stuck her hand out the crack, waiting for a towel to be given to her. Ash put a towel in her hand, and she retracted it and closed the door. Ash sighed in relief, and wiped the sweat from his forehead. His mom hadn't found out about Dawn being naked in his room, plus he saw her naked, too. He blushed thinking back to the awkward encounter, but his thoughts were interrupted by a nervous Dawn, who exited the bathroom and was fully clothed. She sat down on Ash's bed and Ash sat next to her, but not too close, so he wouldn't seem perverted. There was an awkward silence, before it was broken by Ash. "Sooooooooo, do you still want to work on that project tonight, or do you want to go home?"

Dawn thought for a minute. She thought maybe tonight wasn't the best night to work on the project, given what just happened, but they hadn't even started it. She contemplated for a while before coming to a decision. "We should probably work on the project now, so we don't fall behind."

Ash nodded in agreement and they continued to work on the project for another hour and a half, until they were interrupted by the ringing of Dawn's phone. She looked to see who it was, and her eyes widened in fear when she saw it was her mom. She had forgot to tell her she was going to Ash's house. She slid her phone across the screen, and answered. "Hello."

"Dawn, where are you?! Do you realize what time it is?!"

She looked at Ash's digital clock on his nightstand and saw it was 8:30. "Shit," she said to herself. "Sorry mom, I guess I lost track of time."

"Where are you though?"

"I'm at May's house. I drove there after school to hang out with her," Dawn lied. She never ever lied to her mom unless she really had to. She hated to do it because her mom was such an honest person.

"Well get your rear end over here!"

Her mom then hung up and Dawn put down her phone. She turned towards Ash and said, "I gotta go, my mom's pissed at me."

"Well, we can't let my mom see you, or she might get the wrong idea."

"Well, she wouldn't be getting a completely wrong idea," Dawn said, while blushing and chuckling at the same time.

"Yeah, I guess you're right, but still."

Dawn nodded her head and asked, "So how do you suppose I get out without your mom noticing me?"

Ash thought for a minute then thought of an idea. "Stay here," he said, and he left the room and checked to see if the coast was clear. He went downstairs and didn't see his mom. He went back upstairs to his mom's room and checked there. She was in there laying on the bed. Ash went back to his room to get Dawn. "Okay," he whispered, "my mom's laying down in her room, so let's hurry."

Dawn nodded and followed Ash quickly, but silently out the door and down the stairs. He let Dawn out the door, and he followed her, closing the front door behind him.

"Sorry for what happened tonight," As said embarrassingly.

Dawn felt bad. What happened was an accident, and Ash was acting like it was his fault. "No, it's all right. I was an accident. I don't think any lower of you than I did before." She needed to reassure him, it made her upset to see him upset. "Besides," she continued, "I kinda enjoyed tonight." Ash smiled and Dawn smiled. Then they hugged each other.

Dawn melted into his arms. It just felt so right to be in his arms. She felt so safe when she was with him, like nothing or no one could hurt her. She snuggled her head against his chest and just wanted to stay in this embrace forever.

Ash had the same warm feeling he got when he talked to Dawn after Physics class. He loved her body against his, and loved the embrace they were in, enjoying every second. He caught the clean and soapy scent of her hair, and sighed in content.

They eventually, but reluctantly broke their embrace. Both of them didn't want to, but they knew they needed to, or else two things would happen: Dawn's mother would call screaming at the top of her lungs for her to get her ass home, or Ash's mom would notice them and might get the wrong idea. Dawn walked over to her car and got in the driver's seat. She waved to Ash, and he waved back, then pulled out of the driveway.

Little did either of them know that someone was watching them from the window of the house. "I'm so proud of Ash," Delia said. "My little boy is starting to become a man before my very eyes. I just hope he's happy in the end." When she noticed Dawn pull away and Ash start to walk inside, she decided to go downstairs and talk about this later with him.

Ash entered the house through the front door and plopped down onto the couch. He took his hat off and ran his fingers through his hair, thinking about the moment he and Dawn had just shared. "Wow," he thought to himself, "I keep getting this warm and fuzzy feeling. The weird part is, I don't want it to go away. Maybe I'll ask mom later on, but I need more time to think about this."

Ash was interrupted from his thoughts by the sound of his mom coming down the stairs. "Hey, mom," he said nonchalantly as she reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Hi sweetie. Did you put those towels away?"

"Yes."

"And do your homework?"

"Yes."

"Great. How was your first day of school?"

Ash was starting to get a little annoyed with his mom interrogating him. "Fine," Ash replied with a little annoyance in his voice.

"Did you see all your friends, or make any new ones?" Delia said emphasizing new. She saw a blue-haired girl hugging Ash affectionately, but she didn't know who she was, Hopefully he'd tell her about her.

"Yeah, I saw Gary, Drew, and Paul. Same ol' them."

"And any new friends?"

Ash was wondering why his mom kept asking if he made any new friends, even though he did, he didn't feel like telling her now. "Nope," Ash replied.

Delia knew that was a lie, but maybe he doesn't want to tell her yet. She decided to just try again later. It was 8:45 and neither of them had ate. "What do you feel like having for dinner?"

"Just some leftovers is fine."

"Okay, my little man."

As Dawn was pulling into her driveway, she was wondering how her mom would react to her coming home at 8:45. Her mom sounded pissed off to high hell on the phone, so she was scared to confront her, but the longer she waited, the more her mom got mad. She got out of the car, walked to the front door, and slowly turned the door knob. When she opened it, her mom was sitting on the couch, looking at her, with her legs crossed, her arms crossed, and a pissed off expression on her face.

Dawn started to go upstairs to avoid her mom, but as she set her foot on the first step, her mom sternly said, "Dawn." She stopped and turned her head to face her mom with a sheepish look on her face. "H-Hey mom."

"Sit. Now," her mom said more stern than last time.

Dawn nervously walked over to to a chair across from her mom and slowly sat down in it, while looking at the floor. She looked up at her mom for a second, but looked back down at the floor. Her mom had a more pissed off expression than a Gyarados.

"Dawn," her mom said sternly. Dawn slowly lifted her face and looked at the rage in her mom's eyes. "Why are you home this late at night?", she said not as stern as before, but still angrily.

Dawn thought, with a scared expression on her face, about if she should tell her mom where she really was. I mean, she had never met Ash until today, but now they were acting like they've known each other for years. But they haven't, and her mom doesn't know who he is, so her mom would obviously get the wrong idea. Well, not completely wrong, it's not like they did anything intimate, but they did share an awkward "moment" together.

"Dawn?", her mom said again in a slightly annoyed voice.

Well, if she didn't tell her now, she would have to come up with a good lie, something she wasn't good at doing. "I was...at someone's house," she finally said.

"Whose house?"

"A friend."

"Do I know this friend?"

Dawn felt like she was being interrogated by the police. "Ummmmmm, no."

"So, who is he?"

Dawn's head shot straight up. Shocked couldn't begin to described how she felt. Her mother assumed she had a boyfriend. Well she does kinda like Ash, but they have a great friendship, and she doesn't want to mess that up. Dawn continued to have an awed expression on her face while staring at her mother.

"Well?", her mother said.

"Well, he's a friend, but not that kind of friend."

"So what were you doing over there?"

"Well, we met at lucnh. He sat down with his friends, who were sitting at the same table as my friends and me. I've seen him before since, but never actually met him. He and his friends introduced themselves, and we did the same back. They're all on the football team, so I've seen them before."

"Oh great, sports jocks," her mom said in a sarcastic tone.

"They're not all like that," Dawn said in a defensive tone, "the guy I was hanging out with is a real sweetheart. He puts other before himself, he's modest, he's smart, you don't know anything about him." Dawn was really mad that her mom would jump to conclusions like that.

"Well it seems you have a little crush on this guy," her mom said with a smirk on her face.

Dawn's face was burning, she couldn't stop blushing no matter how hard she tried. "Maybe just a little, but we've become really good friends, and I don't want to ruin that."

"Okay, but you never said why you were over his house."

"Well, he and his best friend are in my Physics class, and the teacher assigned a project, so he could evalute our understanding of certain topics that will be covered throughout the year. The teacher assigned partners for it, and it was me and him. So after our practices, we agreed to go to his house and work on the project."

Dawn's mom scoffed, "Of course he chose his house."

"It's not like that. He actually didn't care, I suggested his house because his mom was at work and we'd have more quiet," Dawn argued.

"And a parent wasn't home, even better," her mom said sarcastically.

"Whatever, it wasn't like that," Dawn said while crossing her arms.

"May I know the name of this mysterious boy?"

"His name's Ash Ketchum."

"Oh, the star quarterback for Pallet High?"

"Yeah."

"Well, you seem to have an interesting friend. A star athlete who's kind and caring, unusual, but in a good way."

Dawn only nodded her head, then stood up. "Well, I'm going to get ready for bed. Goodnight," she said.

"What about dinner?", her mom inquired.

"I'm not that hungry," Dawn replied.

Her mom nodded her head, and went into the kitchen.

Dawn headed upstairs, relieved her mom wasn't too upset about the situation. She did her nightly routine, then got in bed. She sighed dreamily, thinking about Ash.

Well I decided not to leave you on a cliff hanger since I won't be posting a new chapter until after Easter. I have family coming over, so it will be too hectic to work properly. I'm sorry again for taking awhile. Review and tell me what you think of this chapter.

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