Ash and Brock were sitting in the lobby of the Pokemon Center. "Brock, I'm starving! I don't think I can take another minute of waiting for them." Ash was lying down on the couch and was pretending to die. "Ash, just be patience. The girls are probably hungry too."

Not a minute had pasted before the girls came running out to the guys.

"Sorry we're late!" Dawn shouted to the boys.

"I'm starving!" Josephine exclaimed, her stomach soon agreeing.

"I think I look stupid." Yasmin was still angrily looking at the other girls who were twirling around in their dresses.

"Hey Ash, don't you think I look nice?" Dawn said and she twirled a little in her dress.

"Uh sure." Ash said with a smile. Dawn always asked him how she looked and he didn't know why.

"Hey why is everyone dressed up? Are we going someplace fancy that I need to wear nice clothes?" The raven haired boy asked the older guy, who was somewhat of a big brother.

"No. Well I don't think we are." He looked at his map of the city to see what restaurants were there even. "Where do you guys think we should go?" Brock held the map out to the other four.

"I think Red Krabby." Dawn said.

"I think Furret Eats." Josephine stated.

"I like Lotad's Pad." Ash declared.

"I think Chimchar's Grill?" Yasmin said.

"Yasmin, when did you get here?" Ash had yet to notice her because of Dawn trying to get all of his attention. Yasmin didn't know this, got angry, and Ash ended up on the floor after getting hit in the face. "I've been here the whole time, Ash!"

"I'm sorry okay." Ash was rubbing his face when he saw Yasmin looked pretty. He looked like he was in a dazy and everyone thought it was from her hitting him to hard.

Plan get-them-together is working! Josephine thought. That's why she dressed up Yasmin, and everyone else so the two trainers wouldn't firgure it out.

"Well I think Chimchar's Grill is a good place to eat. Ash go change into something else." Brock told the boy as he ran back to their room. Ash was gone for not even five minutes before he ran out of the room. Wearing a white button up shirt and kakis, Ash ran back over to everyone. His hair was in its crazy way as everyone laughed at the fact Ash was still buttoning his shirt as he ran out.

"Hey I'm hungry! Now let's go!" Ash lead the group out of the center into the vast city.

"Brock you know where this place is right?" Josephine inquired. She was hungry too but wouldn't yell it as loud as Ash.

"Yeah, if we just walk a block this way and take a right, the restaurant should be there."

"Okay Brock." Yasmin stated as everyone was walking behind Ash.

About 10 minutes later everyone had gotten to the restaurant and was seated. The place was Chimchar and its evolutions themed. The group sat at a round table, Ash in between Yasmin and Dawn, Josephine sitting next to Yasmin and Brock between the two coordinators.

"Yasmin when we get back can you show me Leafeon? I really wanna see her so I can choose what ribbon would go best with it." Josephine begged Yasmin, who was the older, and less girly, one of the duo.

"No Josephine. No more ribbons on my pokemon. Ever since you gave Pika that blue one back in Kanto she never wants to take it off."

"You mean, you let Pika battle with the ribbon on even?" Dawn asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Cause I made a cute jacket for my buneary. She takes it off during battles and contest though so it doesn't get dirty." Dawn thought of her adorable rabbit-like pokemon wearing its jacket.

"You have a buneary? I want one of those so bad! Yasmin and I once spent a whole day searching for one. But instead I caught a swablu, which evolved later."

"You have an Altaria? Those things are so cool!" Ash thought back to the first time he saw one.

"Yup! Yasmin helped me train Altaria every day. At one point she wanted to trade me for it even. She thought her Beautifly would be okay to trade me. But maybe cause Beautifly likes to do contest like moves. Whatever the point is I kept it. I can show you guy tomorrow morning if you want." Jospehine said, but then realized that she had begun to ramble, losing Ash's attention to the bread that the waitress brought. Of course Brock had to then hit on her. Ash then thought to push his hand into Brock's back, making Brock and the waitress feel uncomfortable.

"Ash what are you doing? Couldn't you tell she loved me?" Brock was being over dramatic again as the waitress walked away.

"I thought because Croagunk always puts its PoisonPoint in your back when you're bothering a girl." Brock went back to his chair and Dawn giggled a little.

"Oh Ash you're so silly sometimes." Dawn put her hand on Ash's shoulder as he stuck some more bread in his mouth.

"Uh, mwhanks Mawn." Ash couldn't speak from the bread, which he quickly swallowed.

Everyone was talking about the upcoming battle or contest combos or remembering old times. Brock, Ash, and Yasmin were talking about places that were fun to visit in Kanto and Josephine would occasionally join, until she noticed she was rambling again.

When the food came, Ash stopped talking and started to swallow everything whole, forget chewing.

Ash would eat fast but Josephine ate a lot. "Remember that time we went to the buffet, Josephine? You totally cleared them out!" Yasmin told Josephine, to her embarrassment.

"Oh, Yasmin you're exaggerating!" Josephine didn't want to seem bad to their new friends.

"It's okay Josephine. Look at how I eat." Ash had food around his mouth, as if he was a little kid trying to eat.

Yasmin laughed at this as Dawn looked at her in jealousy. Why is Ash paying her so much attention? I even bought this new dress to show him.

After everyone was done eating they sat around the table, talking in one full conversation rather than multiple.

"So Marill was your starter pokemon, Josephine?" Ash inquired, and thinking it very strange that she would have that instead of a Johto starter.

"Oh yeah. One day, about two weeks before I found Yasmin, I caught my marill at that same lake. Well I didn't really catch Marill, it more of followed me home after I played with her." Josephine smiled as she remembered when she was little with her aqua mouse pokemon.

"What made you think to put on the ribbons or hats on your pokemon?" Dawn thought about this but couldn't figure it out herself.

"Did you think it was going to make them be friendlier to you?" Brock, being the breeder he is, thought this was true.

"Well I kind of thought that but also it's to make them look uber super adorable!" Josephine almost yelled out. Yasmin sweat dropped from her friend not thinking of the pokemon but more of how they look.

"Like I just love the little hat I put on my Pachirisu. With that red ribbon on it! I think my little Pachirisu has to be the best and cutest one ever!" Josephine was getting excited from the sugar in her dessert as well as the thought of her cute pokemon.

"What do you mean cutest ever?" Dawn asked.

"I mean that no other Pachirisu can be cuter than mine." Josephine said, making Dawn angry.

"You do know I have a Pachirisu too right?" Dawn said in the calmest way she could.

"Oh, well my Pachirisu is the cutest I've ever seen." Josephine, having yet to see Dawn's Pachirisu, considered that it was okay for her to say that.

"Well if you're gonna be like that then we aren't friends anymore! Plus you're never going to meet Justin Bieber if you hang out with a coordinator hating person like Yasmin." Dawn got up then a walked back to the Pokemon Center.

"You guys go after her. I'll wait for the bill." Brock said, mostly wanting to see the waitress again.

"Okay Brock." Ash said before he left followed by the two girls.

"Thanks for the meal Brock." Yasmin said before she left with everyone else.

Everyone got outside and started to run to the center, after not seeing Dawn close by. Josephine got left behind since she had decided to wear heels and she couldn't run as fast as the other two with the dressed up shoes.

When Ash and Yasmin got to the center they went to the girl's room. Yasmin opened the door with her key to find Dawn was not there. They looked around the room but couldn't find her. Josephine had caught up to the two trainers by this time. Josephine thought that maybe Dawn was in the gardens out back, meaning everyone had to go together to the flower garden next to the battle field. Dawn had gotten Piplup, her favorite and starter pokemon, back from Nurse Joy. The penguin pokemon played in the flowers as Dawn watched it from a bench.

Ash walked over to the young coordinator as the other two girls tried to hide. "Hey Dawn! Are you okay?" Ash inquired the blue-haired girl. She looked up at Ash, away from her pokemon. She didn't say anything for a minute; she just looked at him, studying his features.

"Hey can you see what's going on?" Yasmin whispered to Josephine as she tried to move the bushes for her to see.

"Yeah, uh, Dawn's just looking at him right now and Ash looks freaked out." Josephine replied. "I really have no idea what is going on."

"Here let me see." Yasmin pushed Josephine to the side so she could watch the two. Josephine then pushed part of the bush out so that the duo could both see.

"Uh Dawn? Are you okay?" Ash had been standing there and was feeling pretty sick from all of the food he had eaten. He wanted to get whatever this was over with quick so he could go to sleep.

"Huh? Oh Ash it's nothing that you'd care about."

"What do you mean? If you're this sad from it then it has to be important. So I do care. Plus Brock told me I should check on you."

"Oh, well then it's just that I thought Josephine and I were going to be good friends until she said that. And then Yasmin. Don't even get me started!"

"Why what's wrong with Yasmin?" Ash didn't quite know what was up with Dawn. Whenever they met any other new people she was normally very nice to them.

"Hey Jospehine can you tell what they're saying?" Yasmin asked Josephine since she could somewhat read lips.

"Uh Ash said something about Brock and then Dawn said something about me. And now she's saying something about you."

"Is that why is looks so angry suddenly?"

"I guess." Josephine looked to her friend, knowing about both of the crushes was hard work on the coordinator.

"That bitch! What's she saying now?" Yasmin asked angrily yet quietly.

"Uh I can't tell really."

Dawn stood up after she said that and walked closer to Ash. He started to blush as she was really close to him now. "Ash, do you like me?" Dawn asked coolly.

"Uh yeah, I like a lot of people." Ash said, not knowing what Dawn had meant.

"Okay whatever Ash. I'm perfectly okay!" Dawn had walked away from Ash and picked up her Piplup. She was upset even more now that Ash was acting stupid to her.

"Okay then!" Ash smiled. "Let's go inside then, everyone should be waiting for us."

"You can head back in, I'll be there in a minute." Dawn responded, making Ash walk back inside.

"Hey Ash is going back inside. Does that mean Dawn's with him?" Josephine whispered to Yasmin.

"Uh I think so. But she must be on the other side of him cause I can't tell from here."

"Well does that mean we can get out of these stupid bushes? They're messing up my dress."

"Yeah come on." Yasmin grabbed Jospehine's hand to lead her out, but soon found she was stuck to the foliage.

"Dang Josephine. This is why I don't wear skirts. They get caught on things." Yasmin was tugging at the denmin skirt she was wearing.

"Yasmin, don't pull it. You're only gonna make it worse." They were satrting to talk louder.

"Grr! Stupid Skirt!" Yasmin yelled out. And before long Dawn had popped up next to them.

"What are you two doing?" Dawn asked, hoping they hadn't hear her and Ash's conversation.

"We're uh..." Yasmin couldn't think of anything to say.

"We're watching stars, right?" Josephine said quickly.

"Y-yeah. We're watching the stars!" Yasmin had pulled her skirt off of the branch, ripping it slightly, as she and her friend laid on the ground and said constellations randomly while pointing up to the sky.

"Uh Okay then." Dawn was creeped out now and walked back into the center.

"Ha she totally bought it!" Yasmin said as soon as the door was closed.

"That was close. We have to be more careful."

"Well I'm sorry I'm not a ninja." Yasmin said as the two girls stood up.

"Yasmin, are you going to tell Ash?" Josephine asked her.

"What do you mean tell him? Tell him what?" Yasmin would sometimes not pay attention to some details.

"You know."

"No that's why I'm asking you, stupid."

"Hey! Don't call me stupid!"

"Stupid."

"Ugh!"

"Okay but back to what you were saying."

"Oh yeah! So are you going to tell Ash that you like him?"

"What? I-I don't like Ash. I mean I like him but I don't like like him as like that!" Yasmin started to have a mini-spaz attack.

Jospehine placed her hands on her friend's shoulders. "Yasmin calm down! It was just a question."

"Oh yeah I knew that." Yasmin said as she pulled her friend's hands off of her.

"So I'm guessing you're not going to tell him?"

"...no." Yasmin said quietly.

"But why?"

"Cause Ash has Dawn now. And remember that one time when we went back to the Cerulean Gym. I don't really remember why we went back but remember how sad Misty looked that Ash was gone? That means that Ash and Misty are meant together. Plus they always were together on TV so yeah."

"Oh yeah! I almost forgot about Misty!"

"Well that's cause when we went to the gym I battled Daisy, who was surprisingly easy to beat for being a gym leader."

"Well you had an electric type, Pika. Plus you had Eevee, Pigey, and Butterfree."

"Yeah I know but still."

"Yeah so you're not telling him?"

"For the last time, no!" Yasmin said in an almost yelling way. "Come on Josephine let's go inside."

"Okay."

The two friends walked back into the lobby where they greeted everyone. Ash was falling asleep, so the group went back to their respective rooms. Yasmin slept on the bottom bunk, Josephine on the top, and Dawn in the bunk across from them. Yasmin was having trouble sleeping since she was thinking not only of the battle but also of Dawn and Ash. It was appeart that Ash didn't like Dawn the same way she did. But Dawn could be with Ash forever. But then Yasmin started to think of other things. And then random things like the "Pokemon Ondo" dance. I have a weird brain. Yasmin thought as she finally fell asleep.

Okay! That took forever. Now the next chapter will be the big battle! I kinda wrote this chapter in a hurry since I'm leaving in awhile to go on vacation. :D