Update April 2013: This chapter has been updated and revised from its original version. Past errors have been fixed and adjustments have been made but the plot of the chapter, characters, and events have remained the same.
I don't really have much to say except for two things. The first is that I'm very sorry that I'm getting this update up on a Tuesday. I've been trying to update every Saturday for this fanfiction and I've done just that for the first two chapters, but this week I've been busier than usual and Fanfiction wasn't working when I had time to do it so I had to get this up three days late. I'm sorry! Forgive me? D:
Second is that I'd really like to thank you all for all of the reviewing, following, and favoriting you've all been doing for this story! I really appreciate it loads! You honestly have no idea how happy I get every time I receive an e-mail from Fanfiction informing me about these things. I'd give each and every one of you a hug if I could, but since I can't, I'll just give you all a virtual hug! *hugs* :D
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EeveeTransformed: Don't worry, this is more of a journey fanfiction, only the beginning involves them being in school. I'm glad that you enjoyed it though! As for now, I'm getting started on the next one, so you should read this one, review, and then wait for the next update? Go go go! :D
SiennaxShipper: Yay! You continued reading! Thanks!
EeveeTransformed: I'm sorry! I actually said something about the senior class in chapter two in hopes that it'd indicate that Drew and May are around the age of seventeen or eighteen, but I guess that didn't work so I'll just tell you now! May's seventeen and Drew's eighteen. :) And it's okay, I can't spell either and I had a PE teacher like that, too! She was horrible, hah! Also, I was planning on making this fanfiction around twenty-five chapters long, but that number isn't set in stone. I'll see how this goes! Stick around until the end to find out? :)
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ch0c0latehell: I'm glad that my last update qualified as "soon" for you, that means I'm doing a good job with the updating-every-Saturday thing! :D And it isn't? No! I liked Ar-see-us better too! D: But anyways, as a thank you for the wonderful reviews, I included Max's opinion of the Hayden family in this chapter. Hope you likey? :)
sarah94306: Paul will be Dawn's boyfriend in this fanfiction and I already listed May's Pokémon in a paragraph near the end in chapter two. As for Drew's, they're just the ones that he had in the anime—Roserade, Masquerain, Flygon, Absol, and Butterfree. I will be adding more as the story goes on when...well, you'll have to read to find out. :)
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Love Unexpected chapter 3
Perched on an espresso colored end table beside a large bed, a torchic shaped alarm clock began to elicit a loud chirping as the hands both struck six. A massive groan could be heard as a hand reached out from beneath the burgundy covers on the bed for the clock. It maneuvered around blindly for a few seconds, seeking out the device until it finally made contact. With a hearty slam on the snooze button, the hand ceased the infernal chirping. Once it was quiet again, it withdrew into the covers as the owner sighed into her pillow and flipped over onto her back.
"I don't want to go to school," May mumbled as her eyes slowly opened to a blank burgundy colored world.
The warmth and darkness provided by the covers that still enveloped her were more than enough to convince her to stay in bed. She decided that she had no desire to get up as she closed her eyes again, something that she did every morning. But then the four-minute time interval of her alarm clock caused the annoying contraption to chirp again. Just like every morning.
"You stupid, bloody device," she muttered with a groan while throwing back the covers. After shutting it up once more, she finally willed herself to get out of bed in order to get ready for school.
An hour later, May had successfully—though slowly and groggily due to the early hour—gotten herself dressed in a casual winter outfit. Afterward, she threw her hair up into a high ponytail and grabbed her shoes and bag before she left her room. She was just closing the door behind her when the door to Max's room opened up to reveal the navy haired boy. It was evident that he had just woken up.
"Why are you just now getting up?" she demanded of her little brother.
Max squinted at his older sister in the dim lighting of the hallway before putting on his glasses. He then preceded to yawn once before actually giving his sister a satisfying answer.
"I was up until twelve in the morning doing homework and playing video games with Drew," he told her, his voice thick with drowsiness.
May wrinkled her nose in disgust at the name. "You mean that annoying grasshead?"
Max's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "Drew? I didn't think he was annoying," he expressed. "I thought he was pretty cool."
"You wouldn't be saying that if you were in my shoes," May insisted.
A grimace formed on Max's face as he glanced disapprovingly at his sister's suede boots. They were so brown and fringy and...girly.
"I don't think I'll be wearing your shoes any time soon," he said, and brought his eyes back up to his sister. "But I don't know what you're talking about, May. I didn't see anything wrong about him. Me and mom—"
"Mom and I," May interrupted, enjoying the rise that she got out of him like every time she corrected his grammatical errors.
"Fine, mom and I liked him," he corrected with an eye roll, irritated by her interruption. "It's probably just you. He was pretty cool and his mom was pretty nice, too."
May rolled her eyes back at him. It was unsurprising that Max would approve of Drew's mom; he was a teenage boy after all. Having grown bored of their conversation, she turned and headed in the direction of the stairs.
"What definition of nice are you using there, Max?" she asked as she passed her little brother
The question made said boy stop in his tracks on his way to the bathroom. When he turned to look back at his sister, his eyes and mouth were wide with disbelief.
May, having felt his eyes on her, turned around to face him just as she made it to the top of the stairs. She tried not to laugh at his bright red face.
"Well? Aren't you going to get ready? Brendan and I aren't going to wait for you if you don't hurry," she told him.
With that, she began her descent down the stairs, her high ponytail swinging with every step.
"Wait, could you repeat that?" Dawn requested of May, unsure whether or not she had heard the brunette correctly.
May lifted her head from where she had slammed it a few minutes prior on the desk she was currently occupying.
"He's my next door neighbor," she mumbled, and then slammed her head back down again.
"You're kidding," Natalie breathed in awe. "How'd you find out, May?"
"He was in my room after I walked back in after my shower. He—"
"You weren't naked, were you?" Dawn inserted, her eyes having already widened after the first sentence.
May's head snapped up immediately, her eyes widening as well.
"No! Thank Arceus I wasn't. I think I would've died if I was," she said with a shudder. "But that brings me to the next thing: the jerk actually had the nerve to tell me to change in front of him! And as if that wasn't enough, he ended up staying for dinner and I found out this morning from Max that the two of them stayed up until twelve playing video games and doing homework." She paused to sniffle. "He was in my house while I slept!"
Dawn exchanged an amused look with Natalie while May leaned over to rest her head into the crook of Natalie's neck. It was then that she noticed the reason for her stress walking into the classroom—still looking as smug as he had the day before—and her eyes narrowed.
"It's bad enough that I have to deal with him for two class periods of the day. Now, I have to deal with him being my next door neighbor, too," she grumbled in a voice that was barely audible while leaning in closer to Natalie to conceal herself from him. "Just kill me now."
Natalie pressed her lips together in order to suppress the laugh that was rising up her throat, but it did not work for long.
"It'll be fine May," she insisted with a chuckle. "We graduate in a few months, anyway. Then you'll be on your way on your journey and you'll never have to see him again."
May instantly piped up at the thought and pulled away from Natalie with a grin.
"You're right—we do graduate in a few months! Then, I'll be on my way on my journey and I'll never have to see him again! Perfect!" she exclaimed as she leapt to her feet.
Both Dawn and Natalie watched her with amused smiles while she scurried back to her seat before returning to their own desks to get ready for the day's lesson.
"Alright, everyone, quiet down. We have two matches left in this round. The last match will be between Drew and May. As for now, Tyra and Austin, please step up to the field!" Mr. Ellis announced.
From the stands, Tyra, a cute girl with a dirty blonde pixie-cut, and Austin, a fairly tall guy with shaggy chestnut hair, stepped down and headed for their respective sides of the water field. Being the first to reach her side, Tyra was also the first to release her pokémon of choice: a stantler. The pokémon materialized from the white flash of the PokéBall on one of the white platforms inside the pool. A few seconds later, Austin followed with his poliwrath, whom he released into the water.
The two pokémon and their trainers stood in place while Mr. Ellis reprogrammed the large display screen that was mounted on one of the four walls. Once the screen displayed both Austin's and Tyra's pictures and a new score meter below each of them, he gave the two trainers the approval to begin. The battle commenced with Austin launching the first attack.
"Poliwrath, use Ice Beam!" he commanded.
At the sound of its trainer's voice, Poliwrath leapt out of the water and onto a white platform where it flexed first before firing the attack. An icy blue beam of ice shot from its belly at an incredible pace, making a beeline for Stantler, who had yet to receive a command from its trainer. Regardless, the normal-type pokémon still kept its face passive as it waited patiently for its trainer to speak.
"Stantler, counter with a Shadow Ball!" came Tyra's voice.
Stantler obliged immediately by launching out the attack from its mouth. A sphere made of different dark hues of purple shot forward from its mouth like a bullet into the path of the charging Ice Beam. Where the two attacks met, a small explosion of smoke erupted, canceling out the two attacks and deducting an equal segment from Austin's and Tyra's points. There were only three minutes left of the five-minute time limit.
"Water Gun, Poliwrath!" Austin said quickly before the smoke vanished.
A tunnel of water immediately swirled out from Poliwrath's belly through the smoke and right into Stantler, who had not been prepared to counter or dodge the attack. From above on the display screen, another segment from Tyra's meter disappeared as a result. The girl gritted her teeth in response.
Mr. Ellis, on the other hand, nodded in approval.
"Did you all see the way that Poliwrath used that Water Gun? You want to train your pokémon to use their attacks in that sort of manner in a real contest battle," he reminded while pointing at the scene with his grading pen. "Remember that a contest battle is more than just a regular battle. You want to put an artistic spin on your pokémon's attacks, not just launch them so as to take out the opponent. That's how you truly defeat your opponent in a contest."
The battle carried on for another two minutes with the pokémon exchanging blow after blow with one another and dodging whichever ones that they could. Meanwhile, Tyra's and Austin's points decreased steadily in a retaliating manner until each of them only had a small segment of points left. Though Austin was in the lead by a smidge, he still seemed more than eager to wipe out the rest of Tyra's points in the last minute that was left of the battle.
"Poliwrath, go use Hyper Beam on Stantler's platform!" he commanded.
A massive white beam shot forward so quickly from Poliwrath's belly that neither Tyra nor Stantler could think of a way to stop it. As a result, the white platform that Stantler had been standing on was sent flying to the end of the pool, knocking Stantler right into the water. Everyone sitting in the stands gasped in shock.
"Oh no, Stantler," May breathed in awe as she watched the poor pokémon struggle to break through the surface of the water.
From beside her, Drew chuckled as he watched her toy with the gold chain belt around her waist in an act of anxiety to the suspense of the battle.
"What?" she demanded as she turned to look at him, having caught his snicker.
"Just watch—Tyra wouldn't have chosen to battle with Stantler on a water field if she didn't have a way to get out of a situation like this," he told her, lifting a hand to silence her when she opened her mouth to retort.
To this rude act, the girl's mouth hung open in shock for a second before she huffed.
"You annoying grasshead," she muttered under her breath as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"What was that?" the so called grasshead hissed at her.
May flinched in surprise; she had not expected him to have heard her.
"You know what Andrew? Ju-just face forward and pay attention," she told him and lifted a hand to silence him just as he had her, but ended up smacking it into his face by accident.
This earned her a growl from the boy that she waved away dismissively.
"Just watch the battle, Hayden," she said with a small smirk.
Drew scowled at her but did as he was told, turning his attention back to the battle. Tyra had just come up with a way to save her Stantler before the time ran out.
"Stantler, use Psychic on a white platform!" Tyra cried.
Stantler instantly stopped struggling in the water at the sound of its trainer's voice. A pink aura surrounded the nearest white platform as it began performing Psychic, its eyes narrowed in concentration. In a few seconds, the platform had been brought underwater to Stantler, who climbed the white object and allowed it to carry it to the surface.
To this, the class cheered and Mr. Ellis nodded approvingly. Austin, however, narrowed his eyes in response and commanded a Psychic of his own to bring the platform back from beneath Stantler. In retaliation, Stanler used Psychic again to keep the platform from moving. A mental game of Tug of War was thus thrown into action.
The entire room went quiet as they watched the white platform waver underneath Stantler's feet as the two opposing Psychic attacks fought over it. Even so, Stantler still managed to keep its focus on the Psychic attack it was keeping up just as Poliwrath was doing with its own. Meanwhile, the time was running out for the battle but no one except Tyra was paying attention. She was keeping an attentive eye on the clock as she waited until the appropriate moment to strike. Once five seconds were all that was left of the clock, she called her final command.
"Thunderbolt, Stantler!"
A flow of paralyzing electricity flew out from Stantler's antlers straight towards Poliwrath. Though the attack had required Stantler to let go of its hold on the Psychic attack, its element of surprise managed to surprise Poliwrath enough that it had to let go of its focus of its own Psychic attack. Not only that, the Thunderbolt also struck Poliwrath right in the belly, successfully getting rid of the rest of Austin's points just before the time ended and winning her the battle. Poliwrath was down and out.
"That was excellent!" Mr. Ellis cried over the cheering of the class. "Great job to the both of you! That definitely does something for your grades! Keep that up and you'll win contests for sure!" He waved over the last pair to battle. "Now, let's get Drew and May up here so that we can get the last winner for this round. Drew, May, please step up to the field!"
Drew smirked over at May at the sound of their names. "Are you ready to battle, May?" he asked her as they stood up together and began to make their way down to the field.
May's eyes rolled automatically, something that was slowly becoming a habit of hers whenever she was around him or whenever he was mentioned.
"Why wouldn't I be, Andrew?" she asked him back.
"Because I'm going to beat you?" he asked as if it were a given. "And why do you keep calling me Andrew? I thought I already told you yesterday to start calling me Drew."
May's eyes rolled once again. "You're not going to beat me," she insisted. "And because Andrew's your name. Would you rather me call you Hayden?"
Drew opened his mouth to respond but was interrupted when May abruptly turned around to say a witty remark. Caught off guard by her sudden movement, he was unable to stop himself in time before he slammed into her, causing her to lose her balance and sending her in a teeter. Everyone in the classroom watched anxiously as she wobbled back and forth unsteadily on one foot by the edge of the pool. Luckily, Drew was quick to grab her around the waist just in time before she was sent flying into the water.
"That was close," he breathed over her shoulder as he held her trembling body in his arms.
However, Drew's words of relief were spoken much too soon for when May finally realized what position they were in after recovering from her state of shock, it sent her back into a state of panic. She gasped and shoved against his back so that he would break his hold. Unfortunately for her, his arms recoiled from her waist in the middle of a shove, causing her to lose balance once again. This time, she was sent flying straight into the pool.
Everyone in the room gasped as Drew gaped down at the splash in the pool where May had fallen in, watching as the girl struggled for a moment before she could finally resurface. Once she did so, she began gasping desperately for air and coughing out some of the water that had gotten inside her mouth. Their classmates and teacher quickly rushed over to help her out of the pool.
"May! Are you alright?" Mr. Ellis asked as he threw his jacket over her after a few students had helped her out.
The shivering girl tried her best to utter a response, but her chattering teeth prevented her from doing so. She only managed to muster a smile, and Mr. Ellis eyed her sympathetically.
"You need to get home and into some dry clothes," he told her. "What class do you have next?"
"I hav-v-v-e lunch next. C-c-could I j-just s-s-stay home?" May requested as she cuddled into Tyra and two other girls in the class who were all hugging her to keep her warm.
Mr. Ellis nodded and hurried over to the desk in the far right corner of the room where the computer was perched. He pulled something out of one of the drawers and returned a few seconds later with a neon pink slip in his hand.
"Here's your pass," he told her as he handed it to her. "Do you need a ride home?"
"I'll take her, Mr. Ellis," Drew offered as he stared at May with an apologetic expression.
"N-n-no thanks-s-s," she spat as an angry shudder ripped through her body. "My f-f-friend Brendan has a f-f-free period right now-ow-ow. I'll have h-h-him take me."
Drew immediately opened his mouth to protest but the menacing look that May shot him suggested that it was best that he did not. He grudgingly closed his mouth, loathing the pang in his chest as May turned away from him without a word.
A few minutes later after being called down by Mr. Ellis, Brendan rushed into the room with a jacket in his hand. May's face instantly brightened at the sight of her friend, who crossed the room immediately to pull her in for a comforting hug. He earned a few smiles from the girls in the class for his act of care.
"Thanks, Mr. Ellis—I'll get her home," he assured the teacher as he exchanged the jacket around May's shoulders with his own. After handing Mr. Ellis's back to him, he wrapped an arm around May and led her out of the room.
All the while, Drew stood off to the side with an expression that was a mixture of anger and guilt as he watched the two walk away. The pang in his chest lingered.
Author's Note: Aw, Drew. :( And poor May! Tsk tsk tsk. Accidents happen I guess.
Thanks for reading! I know I got this update later than usual, but I promise that I'll try not to let this happen again! I was just particularly busy this week and Fanfiction wasn't working...so yeah. Anyways, please leave a review to tell me what you guys thought! See you guys next Saturday for the next update! Hope you enjoyed. :)