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.

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Oh yeah, this is going to be one of those tear-jerker chapters...just saying.

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Love Unexpected chapter 14

Time seemed to have stopped for Brendan, Drew, and May. None of them said a word to break the dreadful silence that fell upon them; they were frozen in surprise. Neither Drew nor May had expected to see Brendan, and vice versa; he hadn't expected to see them either.

"Hey...what are you doing here?" Brendan asked May after a while.

As if it wasn't bad enough that he had had her on his mind ever since their last meeting, she had to appear in the same Pokémon Center that he was going to check out in as well. If he would have known that he was going to see her—and him—then he would have settled for going to Unova instead of sticking with his original plans and coming to Kanto.

But then again, how was he supposed to know that he was going to run into May so early into his journey? He would have liked to run into her at some point after some time had passed for the both of them to recover from the incident two days ago—had it really only been two days since his confession?—but this was far too soon. It had only been two days and already she was standing before him! He had even decided not to participate in any Pokémon Contests for a while just to avoid her! Arceus sure was cruel.

"I'm...uh...just stopping by here for the night," May answered, while diverting her eyes to the ground because she couldn't meet his eyes.

There was an uncomfortable ache in her chest where her heart was, and it hurt. She wanted so badly to just throw herself into his arms, but she couldn't. Not with the awkwardness and uncertainty that hung around them. She didn't want to cause him anymore pain than she already had.

"Oh," he muttered, and his eyes began to wander after meeting hers for only a split second.

It only took them a second to fall upon Drew, who was standing behind her. At first, Brendan wondered why he was there, until he remembered that the guy was traveling with May. A bitter feeling washed over him when he saw the guy. He only acknowledged him with a curt nod before turning back to May.

Drew understood Brendan's meaning immediately. Even if the guy didn't voice his wish, it was clear what he wanted: alone time with May. Had it only been his desire alone, Drew never would have even considered granting him his wish, but it was evident that someone else shared his wish as well. He didn't want to grant Brendan's wish, but he did want to grant May's. If getting some time alone with Brendan was what she wanted, then he would give it to her.

"I'm going to go grab some dinner," he announced reluctantly, more to May than Brendan. "I'll see you in the morning, May."

May only nodded in response. Her eyes were locked on Brendan's, but she still saw Drew leaving through the automatic doors in her peripheral vision. She knew that it was his way of giving her some time alone with Brendan, and made a mental note to thank him later.

Brendan smiled at May a moment after Drew left. The smile didn't quite reach his eyes like his old ones did, but it was a smile nonetheless. It offered May a bit of comfort knowing that her best friend was still willing to smile at her. Her lips automatically spread into one in return.

"I'm assuming that since he didn't eat yet that you haven't either?" he asked.

"Yeah, we just got here like ten minutes ago. We didn't have time."

"Would you like to go get something to eat with me, then?"

May smiled brightly.

"Of course I would," she told him.

After Brendan went to check himself into the Pokémon Center, he and May set out into city together and found themselves a small diner to eat in. Over dinner, their conversation took the course of those of their past ones. It was as if Brendan's confession had never happened and a wedge had never been driven in between their friendship. Bright smiles were plastered on their faces and genuine laughs came out of their mouths. May had begun to think that the things were finally going back to normal...until they returned to the Pokémon Center.

"Are you seriously going through with this?" Brendan suddenly asked her, when they stopped to wait for the elevator.

May turned to him with confusion and watched as his smile fell from his face. Dread began to seep in when she realized what was coming.

"Going through with what?" she murmured, even though she had an idea of what he was asking.

"With traveling with Drew," he told her. "Are you really going to continue traveling with him?"

May took a deep breath before answering.

"Yes," she whispered.

Brendan huffed in disbelief and ran a hand through his hair in frustration. Then, he grabbed her abruptly by the wrist and pulled her so that she was facing him. She jumped a bit in surprise before dread settled in when she saw the pain in his eyes after she met them with hers. The words that came out of his mouth next felt like repeated jabs in the chest.

"Why, May?" he asked, his tone angry and exasperated. "You don't have to go through with this. No one's going to blame you if you just walk away now. You can just leave with me in the morning and leave him behind—it's just that simple. He'll have no right to blame you if you do. He forced you into this. Why can't you just..."

He trailed off when he saw her shake her head. Watching her as she did so made him feel as if someone had just rammed a blade through his heart. All of the anger that had been boiling in him melted away, leaving desperation to take its place.

"What are the odds, May, that we would run into each other here?" he asked her, his voice barely a whisper. "I didn't know that you were coming here, and you didn't know that I was coming here. Don't you think this is fate? Don't you think that Arceus somehow planned this and made it happen? Don't you think that this is a sign for you to leave Drew? Why are you being so stubborn?"

May kept her eyes clamped shut as she shook her head over and over again. She wanted to shake herself awake so that when she opened her eyes, the past few days would have only been a figment of her imagination. Brendan never confessed to her, and the wedge between their friendship wasn't there.

But of course, she wasn't that lucky. When she opened her eyes, she saw Brendan still looking down at her, his amber eyes smoldering with hurt. She couldn't find the words to respond to him. She couldn't even find her voice. The only thing she could do was divert her eyes to the ground in shame, unable to meet his eyes.

"I really thought that tonight would have been enough to convince you to come travel with me instead," Brendan said solemnly when he realized that she had given him his answer, even if she hadn't voiced it. "I really thought that tonight would've changed things, but I see that it hasn't. I shouldn't have tried."

May tried to speak, but he continued to cut her off.

"No, forget it. Don't say anything else, May. Just...forget everything that happened tonight, alright? And everything that happened that night, too," he requested, his voice strained. "Pretend like I never said anything to you and pretend like we're still how we were before...just pretend like our friendship's still the same as it was before all of this happened."

But it wasn't. No matter how badly both of them wished for it to be the same as it was before, it wasn't. The wedge in their friendship had only been driven further, even when he pulled her into a hug. His arms formed a constricting bind around her waist, while she let her tears fall against his chest. He wanted to hold her to him forever, to bring her along with him on his journey so that she wouldn't have to go back to Drew.

But he couldn't because she wouldn't let him. Even if she did, he no longer knew if he wanted to do so anymore. Not if it was out of guilt. Not if it was against her will. Not if he could barely bring himself to look at her anymore.

"I'm going to take a walk," he told her as he pulled away. He kept his eyes off of her face to avoid having to see the tears, to resist the urge to wipe them away. "I'll see you in the morning."

With that, he turned and headed for the doors of the building.

May watched him as he left, tears streaming down her face as he did so. She had done it again. She had hurt her best friend once again only days after breaking him. The elevator had to make three total trips to the second floor and back until she was finally able to bring herself to get in.

After she reached the second floor, she made a beeline for her bed, wanting nothing more than to escape into the land of sleep where troubles and pain were absent. Thankfully, sleep took pity on her and seized her the second she settled under the covers.

Early the next morning, Brendan checked out of the Pokémon Center and made his way out of the city before everyone in the building was awake. Everyone including May.

Drew set out from the Pokémon Center with May the next morning after he went to retrieve her from her room. He was surprised when he first saw her. She looked more dead than alive with the light in her eyes gone and the look in them distant and hollow. Her mouth was unusually clamped shut, and not even Lillipup could bring a smile to her face when she let it out for its daily walk. She just remained silent with an emotionless mask on her face.

It drove Drew crazy.

"Say something," he pled, finally unable to remain quiet. "Anything. Anything at all."

When May remained silent, he reached out and snatched her wrist, pulling her so that she faced him. Her feet halted, but no sign of surprise was registered on her face. She just stared aimlessly at the floor, her eyes still void of emotion.

He gripped her arms and shook her. "May."

At the sound of her name, May's mask suddenly crumbled away to reveal the pain that she actually felt. The way that he said her name was just too much like Brendan, and the way he pulled her into him was exactly like how Brendan had done last night. Breaking away from Drew, she burst into sobs. Heart-wrenching, body-wracking sobs that choked her and rendered her incapable of standing. Her legs buckled from beneath her and she fell to the ground, her tears creating dark circles in the dirt beneath her.

"May," Drew gasped in alarm and lowered himself to the ground beside her. "I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have forced you to talk!"

Taking her into his arms, he held her head to his shoulder with one hand while his other hand rubbed soothing circles on her back. He could feel his shirt soaking up every single tear that she shed.

"It's all my fault," May managed to choke out in between her sobs. "I hurt him so much that he couldn't even stand to be in the same building as me! He had to check out this morning extra early just so he could avoid seeing me again! It's all my fault..."

Tear after tear fell from her eyes as she clutched onto Drew, repeating her last three words over and over again. Drew remained silent as she did so, letting her sob until she couldn't sob any longer. His heart ached and his arms tightened their hold around her with every sob that she let out. It seemed like a lifetime until her cries finally subsided to hiccups and her tears gradually dried up. A small patch of dirt had turned to mud beneath her after she was done.

"It's not too late to catch up to him now, May," he murmured to her grudgingly.

It killed him to say the words, but he couldn't bring himself to watch her suffer any longer. Watching her cry instantly made him regret ever coming up with the wager. He never should've forced her into traveling with him. All of this wouldn't have happened had he not been stupid enough to do so. If letting her find Brendan could spare her from any more pain, he was willing to let her go.

"I can leave and you can go find him. He couldn't have gotten far," he said.

May reacted instantly.

"No, don't leave me!" she begged frantically, clutching onto his arms and holding him in place. "I need you, Drew! Don't leave me!"

Drew head nodded once, his arms tightening around her. Happiness swelled in his heart, but it wasn't enough to make him feel better about her pain.

"I'll be here with you for as long as you need me," he whispered to her.

She pulled away to look at him, searching his eyes for any sign of dishonesty.

"Do you promise, or are you just going to disappear later like Brendan did?" she asked.

A small smile tugged at the corners of his lips as he shook his head.

"I promise. I'm not going to disappear unless you wish for me to," he promised her.

Reassured, May dropped her head back down into the crook of his neck and settled deeper into his arms.

At that moment, a cry rang through the air. Drew and May immediately broke apart, snapping their heads up and trying to pinpoint the source and location of the sound. It was loud, even with the sound of rushing water in the background. Another one rang through just after it in the direction of the forest. After listening to it closely, May realized whom it had belonged to.

Lillipup.

All of the color drained from her face and fear surged through her. In all of her despair, she hadn't noticed that Lillipup had left in search of something to cheer her up with. She leapt to her feet immediately and her legs kicked off in the direction where the scream had come from. Drew was quick to follow behind her, while she dashed through the forest. Leaves smacked into her eyes and branches left cuts on her face, but she didn't slow. She needed to get to Lillipup.

Another cry from Lillipup pierced the air again, and May accelerated herself forward even faster. Her feet trampled over a bed of flowers, but she didn't even stop to feel bad for destroying them. Nothing could stop her from pushing herself forward. Adrenaline fueled her every step.

When May finally broke through the trees, she was horrified to find Lillipup being carried down a rushing river. Her eyes widened.

"Lillipup!" she cried.

Her legs kicked off again and she began to race down the edge of the river, trying desperately to get close enough to Lillipup so that she could grab it and save it. Her feet pounded into the ground, her legs crying out in protest as she ran, but she didn't stop. Not until a blurred figure leapt into the river in front of her. It took her a split second to register the head of green hair.

"Drew!" she exclaimed, eyes wide with fright.

She watched in horror as Drew fought against the rapid current, swimming with every ounce of strength he had toward Lillipup, who was thrashing as it was pummeled by the water. He reached it in time just before it hit a large boulder in the middle of the river. Wrapping his arms around the small pokémon, he turned himself around so that his back slammed into the boulder instead. His cry of pain pierced the air as the river continued to rush forward. He fought against both it and the pain in order to throw Lillipup to May.

The pokémon soared through the air toward its owner, coughing out water when it landed in her arms. Relieved for the moment, she quickly withdrew her Lillipup and reattached the PokéBall to her bracelet before she looked over at Drew. He was struggling to hold onto the boulder and to keep his mouth shut so that no water could enter it, but he failed miserably in doing both. In a split second, the water forced him away from the boulder and down the river again, carrying him away at a speed that no human could even hope to keep up with.

"Drew!" May called after him, starting to run after him, but then thought better of it.

Thinking fast, she quickly released Blaziken from its PokéBall instead of chasing after Drew.

"Get him!" she shouted at the pokémon, and it obliged immediately.

Even though it was a fire type pokémon, which were weak against water, having it get Drew gave him a better chance of surviving than if May went after him. She could only hope that Drew hadn't drowned yet as she ran along the river, watching as Blaziken leapt across the boulders in the river with amazing speed.

In a minute that seemed much too long, Blaziken had caught up to Drew. Reaching out with its claw, it grabbed the green-haired boy and pulled him safely into its arms. Quickly leaping back to land, it hurried over to May and placed the guy on the ground in front of her.

"Drew!" she breathed in relief and fell down to the ground beside his limp body when she finally reached her blaziken.

His body was soaking wet and his lips were slightly agape, but that wasn't what scared her most. The thing that scared her the most were his eyes. His lifeless, emerald green eyes.

"Drew," she gasped, her hands flying up to clutch his face.

She shook him once, but he didn't move. Fear washed over her like the rushing river beside them. Her hand shook as it came down to his neck to check his pulse. It wasn't there.

"Oh Arceus...no!" she cried in despair. "Drew!"

Her hands found their way down to the middle of his chest. Stacking one over the other, she repeatedly pressed down on his chest a couple of times, performing compressions before she leaned down and pressed her lips to his. She breathed into his mouth.

"Drew! Wake up!" she urged. When he didn't respond, she repeated the process. "Drew, breathe!"

More compressions, but still no response. Hysteria took over her and she fell to the ground.

"Drew!" she sobbed, her voice quivering in fear. "Do you not hear me? Wake up, you idiot, wake up!"

Tears soaked her already wet cheeks. He wasn't waking up. Why wasn't he waking up? He couldn't be gone. He just couldn't be. Her unwillingness to accept the fact sent a surge of adrenaline and anger through her. She got back on her knees and hovered over him again. Her hands shook his limp body.

"Andrew Hayden! Wake up! You can't die, you hear me? You can't die!" she screamed at him. "I'm already all alone out here—you can't leave me! You promised me you'd be here for me as long as I need you! I still need you! Wake up!"

Her fists raised above her head before she sent them slamming down onto his chest. She did it once.

"You promised not to leave me!"

She did it again.

"You can't leave me!"

She did it a third time.

A fourth time.

A fifth.

By the sixth time, all of her strength left her and her fists only landed on his chest with the touch of a beautifly. They bounced slightly on contact and froze, sliding off of him slightly as she fell back onto the ground.

"Drew," she sobbed and gave his heart one last, weak pound before she fell back from him and wept.

Author's Note: Well, now I don't really know if that was really tear-jerking material, but it sure as heck made my heart pound while I went back to revise it. That was a suspenseful chapter, that was. My hands shook just typing it. O.o What'd you think? Review?