Wow, these chapters are so short. but whatever, let's get on with it already!

Chapter 15

"We're going to be late!" shouted Ash, running towards the airport.

"I'm not the one who's supposed to set up the al-al-alchoo!" May reached for a tissue in her pocket. Yesterday felt like a dream, their kiss just a memory now. She looked over at Ash, he seemed to be himself again and that was what reminded her that last night wasn't a dream. That and the fact that she had been sneezing from the morning, which wasn't fair considering Ash wasn't sick at all.

They made it to the airport, got their tickets checked and made it just in time to catch their plane.

"You're lucky," said the flight attendant as May and Ash boarded the plane. "We were just about ready to leave."

"Yeah, lucky us." said Ash, sitting down on his seat. May would have added something, but sneezed instead.

"Are you alright?" asked Ash, worriedly. "You've been sneezing all day."

"I'm bine, really." said May, blowing her nose. "It's just a tupid code."

Ash gave May one last look and turned to the window. "What do you think Pikachu is doing right now?"

"Not having a code." May sneezed again.

"No, really, I wish we could have stopped by there today but…"

"Ash, we were too late. You're lucky we even got to get this plane when we were supposed to leave last night. Anyway, I bet Pikachu's doing just fine."

Ash sighed, but decided to let it go. It was best to anyway. He stared out the window as they began to lift off of the ground. Yesterday, he pictured it over and over again in his head. Had it even happened? He remembered battling Sydney, and then Pikachu collapsing, he ran over to the Pokemon Center, May was there, Nurse Joy said something about Pikachu staying overnight, and then the rest felt like a dream. The rain, the darkness, the running, the hugs, the kiss. He even remembered waking up this morning yelling for Pikachu and seeing May right beside him sleeping. Ash sneaked a glance at May; she was still blowing her nose. He wondered, would they always do that? Kiss each other? Or was that a one time thing? He decided not to ask May and looked back outside.

A brown haired girl passed by where Ash and May were sitting. She gave them a quick glance, moved on, froze, and looked back. "Ash?"

Ash looked up, and immediately smiled. "Karen?"

The girl giggled. "Oh my gosh, Ash! Did Lance tell you go to go to the dinner too?!"

"He sent you there as well?"

"Yes!" Karen smiled. "We have to make sure to sit next to each other! I can't believe you're on this plane, I thought I was the only one late!"

Ash shrugged "I forgot to set up the alarm clock. Anyway, sitting next to each other sounds cool."

May looked up at Karen, she had on a blue t-shirt with a black skirt, her eyes were hazel and her hair reached her shoulders. Great, thought May, Another Amy.

Ash grinned at Karen before pointing towards May. "And um, Karen? I'd like you to meet my friend May Maple. She's a Pokemon Coordinator and is visiting me this month."

May glared over at Ash. Friend? Friend?! Do you mean that kiss meant nothing to you?!

"And May," said Ash pointing over at Karen. "This is Karen; she's going to be a third year in May while I'm going to be it in December. She helped me a lot when I first became a Pokemon Master. Believe me; I probably wouldn't have survived all of what I had to do if it wasn't for Karen."

Karen giggled again. "Oh please!" She said, waving her hand at Ash. "I didn't do that much."

May rolled her eyes.

"But seriously Ash," said Karen. "I haven't seen you much ever since last year and seeing how I am going to start being a third year in a week I won't be able to see you at all."

"That's true!" said Ash, sitting up. "We should do something together."

Karen smiled. "You read my mind."

"So what do you think we should do?" asked Ash.

May looked over at the airplane's TV, this was pathetic. She couldn't help but feel like shaking

Ash crazy until some sense was knocked into him. There were times she actually believed he was sixteen, and then there were times like these, when he looked like he was ten again. It was so obvious that Karen was falling for Ash and was trying to get him to take her on a date, but Ash didn't see that, he saw a clear moment to hang out with his friend again. May rolled her eyes, and it was such a wonder that so many girls fell for him.

"Let's have dinner!" said Karen. There were a few trainers behind her and were beginning to get annoyed. "Will you go to your seat?!" asked the boy behind her. Karen sighed and turned back to Ash. "I have a free seat beside mine; apparently the person who reserved that seat was late.

Anyway, why don't you sit there and we can talk some more."

"Okay," Ash stood up and passed May without much of a word and followed Karen back to her seat, which was five rows ahead of where Ash and May were sitting. The brunette glared at the two, she glared at them for so long that if she had super powers, they would have melted already. She turned away from them, that was it, it was so clear that what had happened to them last night didn't matter to him. "I cried for no reason." She sighed and reached for her cell phone. Now that Ash's problem was done, it was time to think about Drew's. She read his message again before typing.

From: May Maple-(556) 582-2875

To: Drew Almond-(556) 812-4459

Saying you're sorry isn't enough Drew. What's done is done, and we can't do anything about it.

Amy did suicide? Because you dumped her? And of course I replied, although I hated Amy, that isn't a reason to wish upon her death. I'm not evil Drew.

Okay, her parents being abusive and you dumping her, I guess she thought you were the only one who loved her and now that you don't care for her anymore, there isn't anyone else to love her. So she did suicide.

Drew you have to tell them it's Amy who did suicide, since her stupid parents aren't. You have to!

The guilt will go away, I promise!

May clicked send and put her cell phone away. Now what? She could hear Ash and Karen laugh somewhere ahead of her and everyone else had someone to talk to, she felt like a loser for being alone. There was nothing to do on the plane, the movie that was on was some sci-fi and she hadn't brought anything to read. She stared outside the plane. "That's it," she muttered to herself. "I hate planes."

I dreamt… I dreamt that in the deepest of oceans… deepest of oceans… we would meet.

May reached for her cell phone.

Petalburg Gym-(556) 951-3476

May placed the phone on her ear, "Hello?"

"May?" It was Carolyn. "I haven't heard from you ever since you left! How are you honey!?"

"Fine, I guess."

"You guess? What, what's wrong?"

"Nothing! It's just that I've been so busy trying to get used to everything."

"So, what do you think of Pallet?"

"I'm not in Pallet."

"You're not?" Carolyn stayed silent for sometime. "Then… where are you?"

"Um, I think I'm going to Goldenrod. Then I have to catch a train to Saffron."

"…what? I thought you told us that you were going to Pallet."

"I did go to Pallet, but then, change of plans."

"Who are you traveling with?"

"Ash," May paused. "Sort of."

"Sort of?"

"He's sitting with some girl in the front right now."

"Wait, he's not with you?"

"No," May reached for her stomach, it was starting to feel queasy. "Um… can I call you back, mom?"

"Why? What's wrong?"

"Nothing!... I just need… to do something…. I'll call you back… I swear."

"Okay May." Carolyn hung up, and the second she did, May dropped her phone and rushed towards the bathroom. Everyone who was sitting down stared up at her as she made her way towards the bathroom. Her stomach, her breakfast, something was making its way up her throat and hoping to come out.

Fortunately for her the bathroom was unoccupied. She pushed the door open and without bothering to close it and threw up in the toilet. May felt weak at her stomach and fell to her knees, her face hovering over the toilet waiting for more vomit to come out.

Behind her was the sound of feet running. And the next thing she knew there were people yelling. "She's going to be sick!" "What kind of idiot goes on the airplane if they're air sick?" "Yuck, I'm not using that bathroom again!" "What's wrong with her?!"

Finally May heard the voice she had been waiting for. "May? Are you alright?" It was Ash; he was kneeling beside her, rubbing her back.

May stared down at the toilet. "I-I…" But she was cut off from her breakfast spilling out again.

"Did you eat something bad? What did you eat for breakfast?"

"P-p-pancakes…"

"Maybe there was something bad in that. First the cold, and now throwing up?"

May pulled her self up and shakily walked towards the sink to wash up. "I-I'm sorry Ash."

"Why?" Ash stood up and walked to her side.

"For doing this, I've been nothing but a burden to you this trip. I know you wish you called off the whole thing because of your break up with Misty. And now you get to see your friend and I'm getting in the way by throwing up."

Ash looked into the mirror and turned back to May, "you're not a burden to me May. I really like having you on this trip. If it wasn't for you, if I didn't bring you along, I probably would have still been depressed about Pikachu and in my hotel room crying." Ash put his hand on May's shoulder and gave it a quick squeeze. "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been on this plane and would have gotten in trouble with Lance. Yesterday, last night, if you hadn't been there; I seriously don't know what I would do. I'm really happy you came."

May reached for a paper towel to wipe her mouth. "You're kidding, I didn't do anything."

"Yes you did, you let me see that it's not good to keep everything from everyone, and I've been doing that lately."

May stared back at Ash. "So why didn't you just tell everyone what was wrong?"

Ash shrugged, "Figured they didn't want to know."

"Everyone wants to know!" said May staring into Ash's eyes. "Everyone cares about you Ash and they don't want to see you hurt!"

Ash smiled, "I know that now, thanks to you May."

May blushed and looked away, "um, no problem."

Ash reached over at May's bandana and pulled off of her head. "You know, you've been wearing bandanas for a long time, when are you going to give them up?"

"When are you going to leave the bathroom?!"

Ash and May looked outside the door to see a short boy holding on to his crotch, hopping up and down. "I REALLY need to use it."

May flushed the toilet and she and Ash left the bathroom. May felt for her stomach again as they made their way to their seats; holding it with both arms.

"Are you going to be sick again?" asked Ash, walking behind her.

"I don't think so," replied May. "It's probably the pancakes."

"I told you not to eat so much."

"Yeah? You try to feed two mouths."

"I'd say I would, but I can't."

May groaned. "Back to my seat, alone."

"Don't worry, I just have to finish up with Karen and I'll be back."

"Yeah; whatever." May slid into her seat and watched Ash walking towards Karen's seat and sat

down beside her. She sighed and reached for her cell again. Was it time to call Carolyn back? No. Carolyn would no doubt go crazy if May had thrown up, and would probably end up worrying all through out her vacation and May didn't want her to do that. May closed her eyes and decided to take a short nap when someone's phone began to ring. At first she ignored it, thinking someone would pick it up. And then she noticed that the phone was near her. She opened her eyes and reached for her cell phone, but it wasn't hers. She looked over at Ash's to see that he had left his cell phone there. May picked it up to see who was calling.

Misty Waterflower- (556) 502-4356

May froze, staring at the screen. No, it couldn't be, Misty? Why was she calling? Hadn't Ash said they broke up? That Misty dumped him? May gulped and threw the cell phone into Ash's backpack. She knew she should have gone to him and said Misty called. She knew that Ash would have been excited to hear from Misty again. But she didn't want to let him go, especially after yesterday.

Ash appeared beside her chair seconds later, "I thought I heard my cell phone go off. Did it?"

May stared up at Ash; he was everything to her now. He was so kind and loving; it wasn't fair that she had to give him up just because Misty called. She wouldn't allow it because she knew that if she did let him go, she would be depressed and the two of them wouldn't be able to share special moments together like they had.

"May? Did anyone call me?"

May forced a smile and looked up at Ash, "no, no one."

End of Chapter 15