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.
So, how did everyone's first week of 2012 go? I hope you all had fun on New Year's Day! :) Guess what I discovered? Since I was born in December, I've always assumed that I was a winter baby, but I just realized on New Year's Day that the day I was born on is technically still in autumn. I literally spent my entire life wondering why I hated winter but loved autumn so much if I was a winter baby only to realize 16 years later that I was born in the fall... FAIL WHALE. And the fact that my parents never bothered to correct me after all these years just made things worse. -_-
Well, now that you guys have just read that bit of unessential information, I don't have much to say now after that aside from the usual so here it is: happy reading and please review! :)
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chocolatehell: Me too! It's so adorable! And the kid of who played Bryce was pretty cute, too. ;D But thanks! LOL about the "inappropriate evil manic laughter".
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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to xxTheBloodyRosexx, happy birthday to you!
Ahem...be thank that that was through the internet and not in person because...heh heh...I can't sing for the life of me... :p Anyhow, are they really? I'm glad you think that and I'm happy that I manage to make you happy! :D
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Love Unexpected chapter 13
"ANDREW HAYDEN!" came a loud, ear-splitting screech from May's mouth as she pushed away from the boy, whose arms she had just woken up in.
If her decibel didn't wake him then her hands smacking into his chest certainly did the job. Drew was wide awake and sitting upright in a split second.
"What? What?" he cried in alarm, while snapping his head from side to side to find anything unusual in their room that could possibly be the cause for her sudden scream. When he found nothing, he turned to glare at her. "Why'd you scream?"
May glared back at him with disbelief, as if she couldn't believe that he had the nerve to ask her.
"What happened to the blanket barrier?" she demanded of him.
"What do you mean what happened to the blanket barrier?" he demanded back, the aggravation melting off of his face.
Confused, he turned and looked to his side at the place where the blanket barrier was...or should have been. His brows knitted together in confusion when he found it missing.
"What happened to the blanket barrier?" he asked her in shock.
May growled and turned around to snatch her pillow from behind her. Drew barely had time to dodge before she sent it slamming into his bicep.
"You're asking me? You did something to it in your sleep!" she accused him. "Don't ask me what happened to it!"
"Calm down, May," he sighed and fell back onto the bed with a thud. "What proof do you have that I did? Maybe you were the one who did something to it."
"Me? Why would I do something to it? I was the one who made it!" May exclaimed.
"Oh, what's the big deal?" Drew groaned, looking at her in exasperation. "Maybe you did something to it, or maybe I did something to it—who cares? It's not like I raped you in your sleep or something just because it wasn't there."
"No, you didn't. But I woke up with your arms around me, so it's not that far off," she snapped, her eye twitching in anger.
Drew had to cross his arms behind his head to hide the pleased smile that he had let slip. So, he had her in his arms as they slept, huh? Great. And it got her annoyed? Even better. The look on her face was so amusing that he had to bite his tongue to keep from laughing. It was because of those types of looks from her that made him constantly tease her whenever there was an opportunity, and what gave him the satisfaction whenever he was successful in irritating her.
"Geez, May, your face is redder than a tomato berry," he joked, just to annoy her further. "What could possibly be so bad about waking up in my arms? Many girls would love to be in your position right now."
"Did I not clarify when we first met that I'm not one of those girls?"
"You're just in denial," he insisted with a nonchalant shrug of his shoulders as he turned his head in the direction of the window.
His eyes shut as he prepared to go back to sleep, but of course May wouldn't let him do that.
"I'm in denial?" she practically screeched at him. "You're just too full of yourself!"
"Whatever you say, May."
His eyes opened again as he spoke, and it was then that he noticed how dark the room was and how dark it looked outside, even with the blinds drawn over the windows. It was still early in the morning; they probably hadn't been asleep for long.
"It's practically yesterday," he sighed and closed his eyes. "Let's get some more sleep instead of debating about this, shall we?"
"You honestly don't think I'm going back to sleep without something between us, do you?"
"That's fine. I'll just get this bed to myself then."
As much as May didn't want to sleep in the same bed as him, she wasn't about to let him take the entire thing. It took her a minute, but she finally began to settle back under the covers of the bed. But she made sure to put as much distance between her and Drew as possible.
A smirk spread across his lips when he felt her do so.
"I thought so," he muttered smugly.
"Do you get some sick pleasure out of annoying me?" she grumbled back.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't."
"You're a jerk."
"That's debatable," Drew yawned. An amused smile spread across his lips after he shut his mouth again. "Good night, May."
Drew and May didn't wake again until the sunlight poured across the bed from the curtained windows. Drew was the first to stir out of his sleep since he was facing the window. With an audible groan, he turned on his side so that he was facing May.
To his dismay, the girl had managed to stay as far away from him as the bed allowed as they slept. He wouldn't have minded waking up with her in his arms again. But as he thought about it, he figured that it was a good thing that they had stayed so far apart from each other on the bed. He didn't want to have to face her wrath again when she woke up before him.
An hour later, they were both ready to set out again from Vermillion City. Their first destination was Mulberry City, a city just a little ways east of Vermillion, where they planned to stop at briefly before continuing on to Lavender Town, where a contest was set to take place in another week.
The trip to Mulberry wasn't a long one, so they would be able to reach the city by nightfall, even if they took a couple of breaks. Thanks to Drew's excellent navigation skills and timing, they were already halfway to the city by late afternoon.
"So, is Lillipup the only pokémon you brought with you?" Drew asked May just to make small talk a couple minutes after she had let out the puppy pokémon.
She shook her head in response.
"I brought along my Blaziken, too," she replied, flicking the remaining PokéBall on her bracelet to show him that she had.
"Where'd you get it?"
"Who? Lillipup or Blaziken?"
Drew nodded at the little pokémon, who was trotting in front of them, and May made a sound of understanding.
"Oh, I got it from Gary as a graduation present," she explained.
Drew almost groaned at the sound of the guy's name. Just when he had thought that he wouldn't be hearing it for a while, she brought it up. He wished that he had just kept his mouth shut instead of asking where she had gotten Lillipup. Why did it matter to him, anyway?
"Well, that was nice of him," he said bitterly.
May smiled fondly at the thought of Gary, completely oblivious to the tone of her traveling partner's voice.
"Yeah, it was," she murmured dreamily.
Drew made no other comment.
The rest of the journey to Mulberry City went without many words being spoken between the two, aside from the occasional whine from May about how exhausted and hungry she was. Each whine had been met with an eye roll and remark from Drew, which had earned him a vicious glare from her. By nightfall, she had learned to keep her whining to herself, though. The city was slowly coming into view, anyway, so there was hardly any point. She would be able to contain her hunger and her whining for a little while more.
"Hey, look, the city! Now you can stop whining about your hunger," Drew exclaimed with a smirk at May when he saw how relieved she looked.
The smile on her face fell instantly. So much for containing herself.
"Don't act like you're not hungry yourself," she snapped at him.
"I'll admit I'm hungry, but at least I have the decency to not whine about it every five minutes."
"I did not whine about it every five minutes!" May protested.
"Maybe not, but you whined enough for it to seem like you were whining every five minutes," he insisted. Then his voice changed into something that sounded like the crossbreed of May's voice and chimchar's squeal.
She watched with disgust as he began to mock her, repeating every word of every whine of hers that had been spoken in the past three hours. Her cheeks colored after he finished his little reenactment of her.
"I do not sound like that," she deadpanned.
"Are you sure? Because that's exactly how you sound like to me," he smirked, enjoying the rise he was getting out of her.
"Urgh!" May growled as she threw her hands in the air in frustration.
Her mouth opened again to retort, but nothing came out; she was too annoyed to think of anything else to say. Instead, she sent one final glare his way before she stomped off for the rest of the trail and right over to the pavement of Mulberry City.
A chuckle from Drew could be heard from behind her as he stepped up his pace and caught up with her.
The city's Pokémon Center was a lot further from where they entered the city than they had originally anticipated or wanted. It would have been nice if the building was just a few yards away, or right in front of them when they entered, but instead it was at least a mile away. Even after a consecutive half hour of walking, they had yet to see a building with a large PokéBall at the middle of the roof.
"Let's just go grab a bite to eat, May," Drew suggested after his impatience got the better of him. "I'm starving."
"Oh no, I'm not falling for that again," May declared. "I fell for that yesterday. We're sleeping in separate beds tonight."
"But I'm starving! Aren't you starving?"
"I am, but I'm not going to risk sharing a room with you again. You can wait, Andrew."
"Fine," he grumbled. "But if we don't see the Pokémon Center in the next five minutes, we're going to a restaurant."
Much to Drew's dismay, they wound up finding the Pokémon Center in under three minutes, so their quest to find a restaurant had to be delayed. When they approached the front desk, May threw an arm out to block him from stepping any closer to the Nurse Joy, who was sitting behind the counter.
"I'm checking in this time," she told him when he gave her an annoyed and confused look. "Just in case you decide to sabotage the check-in process again."
"I already told you, I had nothing to do with—"
"Oh, but of course you didn't, Drew," May laughed sarcastically, drawing odd looks from Drew and the other people around them. She ceased to do so when she noticed, and her expression fell into something more serious.
"I'd be more clueless than a slowpoke if I believed you," she deadpanned.
Drew didn't bother trying to prove his innocence to her anymore.
He didn't know if it was his aggravation, his hunger, or just his impatience that made the registration seem much longer than usual, but it felt as if they were in the Pokémon Center longer than they needed to be. He watched as the hand on the clock above the counter that accounted for every second ticked agonizingly slow. It seemed like an entire hour passed before May turned back to him with two separate room keys and a smug look on her face.
"Here's your room key," she said as she reached down to grab his wrist, twisted it so that his palm was facing up, and slapped the silver and green card into his hand. "We can go eat now."
May began to head toward the automatic doors of the building, leaving behind a gaping Drew, who stared after her disbelievingly. After he managed to snap back into the present, he bowed his head and shoved his hands into the pockets of his pants as he began to follow her. He was so busy muttering something about impatience that he didn't notice that she had frozen in her tracks. He almost ran right into her back, but he managed to look up just in time to stop himself.
And just in time to see Brendan Birch walking into the Pokémon Center.
Author's Note: My apologies if this chapter was a little short; my teachers decided it'd be fun to load me up with work the first week back from break so I didn't have much time to write. -_- Hopefully the next chapter will be longer. Sorry to leave you guys with a cliffhanger. :p Thank you for reading, please review!