Hey guys. I'm sooooo sorry I've taken so long updating this story. I'll tell you why at the author's note at the end of the chapter. But, I've kept you waiting long enough. Also OCs are credited to espeon44, Coyote2486, randypandy11, and Blue Phoenix 20th.

Ash's eyes fluttered open before he rubbed them. He yawned while looking at the clock before becoming alarmed (A.N. Haha get it). His clock read 7:20, which meant he overslept. "Shit," he said, "I gotta shake a leg."

He didn't even bother taking a shower, he just brushed his teeth and put deodorant under his armpits and on his torso. Then, he wet his hair a little so it didn't look like there was a Pidgey on his head. He hurriedly put on his clothes and ran down the stairs. While hurrying he tripped on the stairs and fell at the bottom. "Ugh," he groaned.

Ash rubbed his head and looked up at his mother who standing over him and making a "tsk" sound over and over.

"You should wake up earlier so this doesn't happen," his mom said in a joking manor.

"Yeah yeah yeah I know," Ash replied in an irritated tone.

Ash sped walked into the kitchen and looked at the clock which read 7:35.

"Ah fuck it, I'll eat breakfast in the car," Ash decided.

"Don't use that language in this house young man," Delia stated sternly.

"Whatever."

Ash grabbed a banana and an untoasted bagel, slung his backpack over his shoulder and rapidly put on his shoes before he ran out the door. Ash then came back, opened the door, and said, "Oh, love you mom! Bye!"

Delia smiled and replied, "Love you too honey!"

Ash drove while stuffing food into his mouth while also trying to stay within the speed limit. He threw his empty banana peel into the woods on the side of the road and almost hit a person jogging on the side of the road.

"Hey watch where you're throwing that kid!"

Ash ignored him and kept driving.

He arrived at school at 7:45. After parking his car, he got out and saw Drew walking in the parking lot. "Drew!" Ash screamed.

Drew turned around and waved to Ash and cried, "Hey man!"

Ash ran over to Drew and walked with him to the lockers. "How was the first day of school for you?" Ash asked.

"Eh, boring. You?"

"Same. Well….. actually….Professor Birch assigned us a project with partners."

"A project, on the first day? What a dick."

"I know, but….it was with partners, soooooo yeah."

"Who was your partner? You didn't get Gary right?"

"Thank Arceus no. I got Dawn."

Ash's face started to get red and he sweat dropped anime style.

"Oh that cute bluenette we met yesterday?"

"Yeah."

"Did you start the project?"

Ash was about to answer but exchanged his books from his locker first. After he was done, he and Drew walked to Spanish together.

"Yeah she came to my house to work on it last night." Ash immediately covered his mouth realizing he had said too much to Drew.

"Sooo, you were alone with her, huh?" Drew said in a perverted tone.

As Drew asked that they walked into the classroom, so Ash took this as an opportunity to not answer Drew's question. But, his hopes were deterred when he saw Dawn sitting at a desk. "Shit," Ash thought. He was glad to see Dawn, but at the same time, Drew is going to be a pain in the ass and ask her about last night. Dawn saw Ash and Drew and waved them over. Ash sat next to Dawn and Drew next to Ash.

"Oh Ash," Dawn said, "I forgot to get your phone number yesterday."

Drew smirked as Dawn said this and looked at Ash while moving his eyebrows up and down. Ash flipped him off and turned around to Dawn.

"It's (347) 478-2843 (A.N. This is something I randomly typed so my apologies if this is anyone's number)," Ash said.

Dawn typed it into her phone. "Thanks. I'll text you." She typed a silly message and sent it to him.

Ash looked at his phone and read her text:

Hey cutie ;)

Ash quickly recorded her number into his phone and put it in his pocket. The teacher, Juan, entered the classroom and started speaking in Spanish. "Hola clase. ¿Cómo están?"

The students looked dumbfounded at Juan and he sweat dropped anime style.

The class kept quiet until one of the students, Brian Mills, broke the silence. Brian was a junior a little shorter than Dawn, had green eyes and short brown hair, and was overweight. Though, his large size didn't keep him from hitting on every pretty girl in school, including Dawn and her friends, much to their annoyance. He said, "You're a male Spanish teacher? I didn't know they existed." The class started to giggle until Juan said, "You only speak Spanish in this class, comprende?!"

"Sí," Brian said sighing.

Juan continued speaking in Spanish, which most of the class didn't understand. They could get the gist of what he was saying, but nothing past that.

Ash sat in his desk with his head rested on his folded arms, barely keeping awake, until he heard his phone vibrate in his pocket. He discretely pulled out his phone and checked it to see that Drew texted him. Ash turned his head, while keeping his current position, and looked at Drew, who was smirking at him. Ash looked at the text from Drew which read:

So what happened with Dawn last night?

Ash quickly responded saying:

This isn't the right time. We're in class, if you haven't noticed.

Drew replied back:

Fine. Then tell me now or I'll ask at lunch. Remember, Dawn will be there when I ask.

"Shit," Ash thought to himself. He was wondering if he should give in to Drew, or tell Dawn that Drew knows something. He nudged Dawn, who was sleeping in the same position as Ash.

Dawn fluttered her eyes open and mouthed, "What?"

Ash showed her the text Drew sent him and she gasped a little. She whispered to him, "We'll talk about it on the way to Physics."

8:45am

The bell rang, signaling the end of class. Dawn, Ash, and Drew walked out the door together before parting ways.

"I got to History so I'm going this way," Drew said while pointing left. "I'll see you two later," Drew said with an unsettling grin on his face.

Ash and Dawn headed right towards the science building. They started to talk about their little predicament with Drew.

"What did you say to him?!" Dawn exclaimed.

"I just said that you came to my house to work on the project with us," Ash replied.

"Why was he acting like he knew something funky happened?"

"We were talking about our days yesterday and I mentioned I had a project with a partner. He asked who I was with, so I wasn't going to lie to him about that. Then he asked if we started the project and I told him we went to my house to work on it. That's when he started thinking dirty."

"Does Drew think like that all the time?" Dawn asked.

"Sometimes, but he isn't as bad as Gary though," Ash replied.

They arrived in the Physics classroom and sat down at their desks. They just hoped Drew didn't start spreading any rumors.

8:50

The bell started ringing, signaling the start of the next period. Drew walked in just as the bell rang and quickly searched for a seat. He saw May and she saw him, as they made eye contact with each other.

Drew started to walk over the empty seat next to May. He sat down and said to May in a teasing tone, "Sup toots," as he smirked teasingly.

May was surprised a little at Drew's comment. After a few seconds she replied back in the same tone, "Sup pretty boy."

Drew took this opportunity to tease her some more and said, "So you think I'm pretty, huh?"

May started to blush and she covered part of it with her bandana. "Oh shut up," she replied.

The teacher entered the classroom and addressed the class. He was on the elderly side, but he had a stern facial expression that made it seem like he doesn't fool around.

"Hello children," the teacher said.

"Hello Professor Rowan," the class responded in unison.

Professor Rowan is the Pokémon History teacher at Pallet High and has been for 25 years.

Drew muttered under his breath, "What's useful about talking about things that already happened?"

"Because cabbage head," the whole class started to laugh when Professor Rowan said this, especially May, who couldn't contain herself, "history repeats itself, so we learn it to not repeat it."

Drew felt humiliated by Professor Rowan's little name for him. He called him it yesterday on the first day of school.

*Flashback*

Professor Rowan was taking attendance.

"Napoleon Black."

"Here"

"Ally Shadow"

"Here"

"Shadow Kudo"

"Here"

"May Maple"

"Here"

"Drew Rose"

Drew decided to try to be cool and said, "I would like to be called something else," in a confident tone.

"Okay then, I'll call you cabbage head."

The whole class erupted in a hysterical laughter. May almost fell back in her chair from laughing so hard. She held her hands over her stomach and looked like she might die of laughter.

*End of flashback*

"My name's Drew by the way. Not cabbage head."

"I think I like cabbage head better," Professor Rowan replied back.

The class started giggling until Professor Rowan cleared his throat to silence the class. He started to talk. "So this year we will be talking learning about…."

Drew zoned out when Professor Rowan started speaking and turned to talk to May. "Hey, did you hear about Dawn and Ash?" Drew whispered.

"What about them?" May replied back.

"Ash told me they're partners in a project and they worked on it at their house, alone."

May gasped. "You don't think anything happened, right?"

"I don't know for sure. But when I asked Ash, he said he wouldn't tell."

"Ahem," Professor Rowan said to get May and Drew's attention, "is there something you would like to share with the class?"

"No sir," May and Drew said in unison.

"Well it seems you're more interested in whatever you're talking about than what I'm teaching, so why don't you two tell everyone what's so interesting?"

May and Drew nervously walked up to the front of the classroom. They were both sweating like crazy.

"We're not going to actually tell them the truth, right?" May whispered in Drew's ear.

"No. I'll think of something, but you have to go along with it," Drew whispered back.

"Okay," May reluctantly said.

"Well, we're waiting," Professor Rowan said impatiently.

"Well, ya see," Drew started, "May and I were talking about football season starting." Drew looked over at May as a way of saying to continue the lie.

"Yeah," May said, "I was saying how he was the kicker and he wasn't that important to the team."

The whole class burst into a roar of laughter. Professor Rowan even started to laugh a little.

Drew blushed in embarrassment and started to become flustered.

"Then, I argued that without a reliable kicker, there would be more empty possessions. It's better to come up with three points than none."

The class became silent as they realized Drew's point, until Professor Rowan broke the silence.

"Okay May and cabbage head, you can sit in your seats now."

The class broke out into a crazed riot of laughter. May had to wipe a tear from her eye she was laughing so hard.

Drew put his elbow on his desk and his hand on his cheeks and had a sourpuss on his face. "Man, this is going to be a long year," Drew muttered under his breath.

Ash, Dawn, Gary, and the rest of the class all stared with a blank and bored expression on their faces as Professor Birch droned on about gravity. Well, everyone except Clemont, who was always eager to learn about anything science related.

"And g is used to represent the acceleration of anything falling on Earth, which is 9.8 meters per second squared." Professor Birch wrote that on the board expecting the whole class to jot it down in their notes. But when he turned around, he only saw Clemont jotting it down while half the class was asleep and the other half was staring blankly at him. He sighed, disappointed his class wasn't even the tiniest bit interested in the material. Then, the bell started ringing, and all the students quickly zipped up their bags, put them over their shoulders, and rushed out of the classroom.

"Wait, don't forget your mini projects are due at the end of the week!" Professor Birch exclaimed as the students exited the classroom.

10:05

Ash, Dawn, and Gary all exited the classroom together. Then, they walked down to the Meeting House (Explanation of what this is in the author's note at the end of the chapter) for Meeting for Worship. They shook hands with the Mr. Hoopes, the Head of the Religion Department, at Pallet High, and entered the Meeting House. When they entered it was complete silence. They looked for seats when they all spotted their friends in the back row. Misty was sitting next to Paul, May was sitting next to Drew, and Leaf was on the end. Everyone scootched over so Gary, Ash, and Dawn could sit, too. Gary got in first and sat next to Leaf, while Ash got in and sat next to Gary as Dawn sat next to Ash. Mr. Hoopes entered and took his seat in one of the front benches, which signaled the start of meeting. A few people stood up and voiced their thoughts, but most students either slept or played on their phones.

Soon, Ash laid his head against the wall behind him and dozed off. Dawn fell asleep too and unconsciously put her head on Ash's shoulder. Leaf peeked over Gary's shoulder and saw Ash and Dawn.

"Oooh, they look so cute like that," Leaf thought to herself, "but I shouldn't disturb them.

Leaf nudged a sleeping Gary. He fluttered his eyes and had that "What?" look on his face. Leaf subtley directed her eyes to her left, and Gary looked next to him. He saw how Ash and Dawn were positioned and a perverted smirk grew on his face. He started moving his eyebrows up and down before Leaf pulled the hair at the very back of Gary's head. Gary almost screamed, but he didn't want to break the silence. He looked at Leaf with a pissed off expression on his face. She took it lightly and lightly touched Gary's nose. Then they fell asleep, waiting for meeting to be over.

10:40

Mr. Hoopes stood up and shook hands with Professor Oak, the principal of Pallet High, who was sitting next to him, signaling the end of meeting. Everyone else started shaking hands with each other, as they left.

Dawn yawned and lifted her head from Ash's shoulder. Ash woke up as Dawn yawned. They both blushed a deep crimson red as soon as they realized what had just happened. They shook hands with each other and left with their friends. As they were walking out of the Meeting House, Leaf came up next to Dawn and had a sly look on her face.

"So Dawn, how did Ash's shoulder feel?" Leaf said.

Dawn blushed deeply and put her beanie over her face. "It was an accident, I swear," Dawn said as she defended herself.

"Sure it was," Leaf said unconvinced. "Well I gotta head off to class. See ya!" Leaf said as she hugged Dawn.

As all her other friends went to their classes, Dawn walked next to Ash. "So Ash, what class do you have next?" Dawn asked.

"Oh, I have a free period right now," Ash retorted.

"Oh, me too!" Dawn responded

"Awesome."

Ash and Dawn walked in silence for another minute until Dawn broke it. "Sorry about what happened in meeting," Dawn said blushing lightly and twirling her long, blue hair.

"That's fine Dawn. Plus, it kinda felt...nice. Ya know, your head on my shoulders," Ash replied.

"Oh, well I'm glad it didn't bother you."

"What are you talking about? You could never bother me."

Ash and Dawn both blushed again.

They entered the student center called Marshall, which is like a lounge for the students. There's a main floor, which is made out of wood. There's couches and chairs spread across the room, a TV on the wall, a ping pong table, and a pool table, which was covered. There's also a bookstore with a bunch of food and drinks, along with school supplies. Then there's a place where you can get grilled and fried food called Bettye's. In the basement are the student lockers and three vending machines.

Ash and Dawn entered the main floor and sat down on a big couch. They got a few chairs and couches and made a little nest for themselves.

"Well I'm tired, so I'm going to sleep," Ash said. He layed down on the nest of chairs and couches and started snoring a little.

Dawn gazed at Ash dreamily as he slept. "He's so cute when he sleeps," Dawn thought to herself. "Well I'm tired myself, so I should sleep, too." Dawn layed down next to Ash and looked at his handsome face while smiling, before she dozed off herself. Dawn uncharacteristically was drawn to Ash's body heat and unconsciously snuggled up next to him. Neither of them had any idea they were doing this, but one person did.

A short, shadowy figure peeked his head over a chair, as he looked at Ash and Dawn together. "That should be me, not that loser," the mysterious figure said to himself. He got out his phone and snapped a picture of them before walking down to the basement of Marshall.

I'm sooooooooo sorry guys that I took a while. I put on my profile that I had a lot of big assignments due. While that may be true, those ended weeks ago. I got lazy and watched Youtube and played video games. This week is exam week for me and after this Thursday I'm done school. But I'm leaving for a service trip I'm doing with my school on June 11th. I'll be gone from the 11th to the 22th, so this is the last chapter before I leave. Also, I have my first job, summer baseball, summer reading, and college stuff to worry about so I wouldn't call it summer for me. I'll try my best to update as frequently as I can.

So to explain, Meeting for Worship is a Quaker thing where people gather in a Meeting House and sit in silence. But, the point is to stand up and share anything they would like with the community. I go to a Quaker school so I do this once every week (and no I'm Quaker). Look it up if you woud like a better explanation.

Also, the school schedule for Ash is based off mine.

Also, sorry to the people who submitted OCs. After I asked for OC submissions, someone pointed out to me to not ruin the story with OCs as main characters, so I only gave them cameos.

So, what will happen next with Ash and Dawn? Who is this mysterious person? Follow, favortie, and review to find out. Until next time, this is Halo Ash signing off.