Hey Beauts

I had to rush this chapter because I wanted to get one out today but I have a match tonight so I wrote this pretty fast.

Sorry in advance if there are mistakes!

Okay my match starts in 10 minutes, I need to go!

Enjoy!

Chapter 6

It was another hectic morning for me getting ready for my second day of school. I headed downstairs and noticed my mom was already gone for work. I had a quick cereal breakfast, packed my soccer gear (I thankfully remembered what Brock had told me the day before) and headed out the door to catch the bus. The bus came earlier that day. I need to leave the house earlier. I thought. If I miss this bus, I'll have no idea how to get to school.

The bus was a lot emptier than the day before. This day was already turning out to be better than the last! I found an empty double-seat so I could talk to May when she got on.

At the next stop, she did indeed get on and sit next to me.

"How's it going, Ash?"

"Very well! And you?"

"Good, good. Hectic night, eh?"

"May, I think we should all just put it behind us and carry on."

"'Put it behind us'? Didn't you tell Dawn that last night?"

What the heck? Was she psychic or something?

"Yeah, how did you know that?"

"Oh, Dawn did not stop talking about you on chat last nigh..."

Immediately, May stopped talking, placed her hand over her mouth, and turned red in the face. I was so confused.

"Huh?" I asked her.

She tried to act casual, but I could call her bluff. Her face remained red.

"Oh, nothing at all!"

"I know you're hiding something from me, May, but I don't care. It's fine." What was I saying? I cared extremely. But I didn't want to let her know that.

At the next stop, the regular wave of weirdo's got on and I wondered if they even cared what people thought about the way they dressed or looked. I laughed silently at their carelessness.

I noticed that May was no longer sitting next to me. I looked around the bus. She was sitting at the back talking to Gary. I didn't even realize he took this bus! I was about to get up and say hi, when I saw Dawn get on. Right! This was her stop too.

She got on, immediately saw me, smiled, and waved. I waved back. She was coming to sit beside me. THANK YOU SO MUCH MAYI thought.

Wait a second. May was on this bus. And so was Gary. Dawn only took the time to acknowledge me. Wow! This was a very little and probably worthless discovery that I had made, but it made me extremely happy nonetheless.

"Heey!" She greeted me.

"Hi, Dawn! You feeling better?"

"Yep! All thanks to you!"

Gah! All thanks to me! Could this really be happening?

"Well I'm glad I was able to help!"

"What you did last night was very sweet. I mean we hardly know each other, but you decided to try to help me out. I really appreciate that!"

She was speaking magic to me. I couldn't believe my ears. Was all of this real? Could this really be the perfect day?

As we both got off the bus to enter the school, we saw two starly playing with each other in a tree. I always loved seeing pokemon get along, and I told myself that there were many valuable lessons to learn from them.

We said our goodbyes as we separated to go to our lockers. I went downstairs to find Gary leaning on his locker. He was wearing a polo shirt with which he had the collar popped. He seemed mad. I was just about to say hi when...

"Are you stupid or something, Ash?"

Excuse me? What the...

"Huh?" I really didn't know how to respond to that.

"Why'd you have to go and kiss Misty last night? You made the whole night awkward for everyone and we had to leave early!"

"Gary, I didn't kiss Misty! She kissed me!"

"Oh what's the difference?"

"There's a HUGE difference, Gary! I didn't want it!" Both our voices were rising. Luckily no one else was really around.

"Yeah, right, whatever. You know what you did, Ash."

"All right, look Gary. If you're just gonna ignore the fact that I did NOT want to kiss Misty, then there's no point in arguing. See ya later." I was raging at that point, and I stormed out.

"Ash wait!"

I turned around furiously. "WHAT, Gary?"

"There actually is something I wanna ask you."

"So spit!"

"Well, how long have you known May for?"

May? That was probably the last thing I ever thought he would ask me.

"Oh I don't know, since like grade 2. Why do you care, Gary?"

"Oh! Uh.." He seemed lost and nervous, and he avoided eye contact with me. Something was up. "I just wanted to ask if you knew what kinda stuff she was into."

Are you kidding me right now, Gary? I asked myself. Gary what are you doing?

"Why don't you just go ask her yourself, Gary? I'm off. Later." As I started for first period I thought I heard him mumble something under his breath, but I ignored it and carried on.

I had to go all the way up the stairs to go to math class. As I was climbing, I bumped into a huge figure.

"Aw what the hell, man!" I recognized the voice. It was Flint.

"Sorry Flint."

"C'mon, Ash!"

"Sorry, it's probably because you're," I waved my arms in the air and mimicked his voice. "sooooo huge!"

He surprisingly laughed and picked his things up. "I like you Ash. In fact I like you so much that I wanna show you something secret. Meet me at the back of the school after your tryout."

I guess I had to accept his offer because he walked away. What could his secret be? Considering his wealth, it's probably something amazing! I was so excited; it was incredible! I couldn't wait to find out! I turned to corner and entered math class.

I took the same seat that I had yesterday and pulled out my books. I looked awkward just sitting there alone, so I pulled out my cell phone. 8 new messages.

Misty, Misty, Misty. "Hey where are you?", "Meet me in the mall", "Is your phone on?".

Jeez, this girl!I thought to myself. She was really starting to annoy me. She never seemed to leave me alone. As I read on, I found more and more useless texts from Misty. However, there was one message that caught my eye. It was from an unknown number. I opened it.

"Hey, Ash. It's Dawn. I..."

"Hey Ash!"

That voice caught me by surprise. I quickly looked up to see Dawn sitting beside me smiling. How did I not notice her coming? Suddenly, a jolt of happiness shot through my body. I forgot that she sat beside me in class!

"H-hi!"

"Are you reading my text? That was just to give you my number. I got it from Misty!"

"O-oh! Cool!" I guess that I still wasn't used to talking to her so openly, despite what happened last night, because I still stuttered and was embarrassed. "I'll make sure to add you then!"

"Awesome. Oh and by the way, if I sit beside you for the whole semester, I'm probably gonna need loads of help!"

That's ABSOLUTELY no problem with me!I thought.

"Haha it's cool. I don't mind."

She smiled and the lesson started.

Math class was much better that day that it was previously. We hit it off much better, but the class was still had some awkward silences as we simply decided to listen to the teacher.

I entered my music class and Misty was not there. I took a seat beside Jasmine.

"Hey! Where's Misty?"

"Hiya, Ash! To be honest, I have no idea. She was here this morning. She was looking for you."

I frowned. "So I've heard."

"Listen, Ash. I think I know what's going on here. Realize that Misty does have feelings for you, and don't be so hard on her!"

Wait, what?

"What do you mean, you know what's going on?"

"Ash, I know."

That's all she said. For the rest of the period we said nothing. Could she really know everything? Did she figure it out? I wasn't sure.

I went out for lunch with Brock so we could discuss the after-school tryout.

"Listen, Ash. There will be some jerks there who think they're all that. Even Paul will be there. But don't let them get to you. Just play your game."

So I let Brock's words of wisdom sink in all throughout P.E. But I noticed that Paul wasn't there. Maybe he wouldn't be at the tryout after all!

Finally, last period. Physics. I walked in and noticed that this time Paul was there. Then where was he last period? I sat in my seat and waited for Dawn. As she entered, I waved at her. She smiled back, but went to go sit beside Paul and strike a conversation with him. I slowly turned around, and spent physics class alone, trying to ignore Dawn and Paul's occasional laughs and giggles.

At the end of the day, I went straight to the change room to change for the tryout. I was, once again, alone in the change room. I kitted up in my old uniform, tied up my cleats, and headed out the door for the field. As I was walking out, I bumped into someone. Flint again, probably.I thought to myself. No, this time it was Dawn!

"I'm so sorry Dawn! Here."

I picked up all her books and handed them to her.

"It's okay. Thanks, Ash. Headed to tryouts?"

"Yeah." An idea popped into my head. "Hey, why don't you come and watch?"

"Yeah, I agree with Dusty Ash. I'd like you to come and watch." A familiar voice spoke from behind the corner.