Aaah, sorry for not updating in forever! I completely forgot about it, but here's chap 16, r&r

Chapter 16

"We're sitting together Ash Ketchum," said Karen as she walked away from Ash and May; waving.

"Okay, see you at the dinner!" replied Ash excitedly.

May looked from him and to Karen. They had landed at Goldenrod and took the train, all the while, May was busy throwing up. Every so often, she had to get up from her chair and run to the bathroom. It annoyed her, but it made her happy that Ash was always there, trying to help her.

And now they were in Saffron, waiting to get their hotel room. May felt sad, seeing Ash feeling happy when he could have been so much happier with Misty. May shook her head, no; maybe Misty didn't call because of that. She had dumped Ash, so why would she want to get back together?

"Come on May." said Ash, turning over to the brunette. May looked up at him and nodded. "Is there something wrong May?"

"Nothing," she replied with another forced smile. "Lets just get to our hotel and tour the city. I remember them having a mall here somewhere right?"

"Um yeah I think so." Ash shrugged. "But I don't think we can tour, there's no time."

"Okay, then I want to see our room." said May.

Ash grinned, "Our room it is then."

The two of them began to walk as Ash explained what the dinner was for. "We're meeting with the Kanto League Championship owners, gym leaders, and new Pokemon Masters."

May gulped, "g-gym leaders?"

"Yeah, gym leaders of Kanto. I think Brock's mom is coming, but not Misty."

"Why not M-Misty?" asked May, relief in her voice. She didn't want Ash to see Misty, get back together with her, and leave May in Saffron.

"Because of her sisters' weddings, she's too busy to come."

"Oh."

"Anyway, we have this dinner every year. Three different ones. One in Kanto, one in Johto, and one in Hoen. The one in Kanto are for the Pokemon Masters who are to observe the Kanto league championship, the Gym Leaders of Kanto, the people who take care of the Kanto Pokemon Championship, you know schedules, food, seats, trainers; and the new Pokemon Masters who previously won the Kanto League Championship. Same thing goes for Johto and Hoen. Gym leaders of Johto, Pokemon Masters of Johto, Pokemon Masters who are to observe the Johto League championship, and so on."

"So what's really the purpose of this?" asked May

"So you can meet everyone of the Pokemon League and discuss what you're going to do there and stuff." answered Ash.

"Seems pretty pointless."

Ash smiled, "I thought that too, until I got to the food."

"Does it taste good?"

Ash rubbed his stomach as if showing May how much he loved the food. "It was delicious."

"And you had to go last year?"

"Yeah, but to the one in Hoen. That is the league I won after all."

"Yeah," May pointed towards a building ahead of them. "Hey Ash? Is that where our hotel is?"

Ash looked up, "yup that's it."

May began to walk after Ash, "so, is our room good? Or is it worse than the room we had in Montgame?"

Ash grinned, "Its better in some ways."

"What ways?" asked May, picturing a room with a bigger bed for them to share and a pool in the back and room service.

"Well it doesn't have a beach in the back, or a pool. But I made sure we have different beds so we don't have to share. Isn't that great?"

May froze and stared at Ash, her mouth gaping open. "Different beds?" she repeated, as if the word had not gone through all right. She liked sleeping with Ash, she liked snuggling close to him and hearing him snore. There were times in the night she woke up with his arm around her. She felt so happy to be beside him and now, now she would have to sleep by herself again.

Ash looked back at her happily. "Yeah! Isn't it great? Now we don't have to share or fight about who gets which side."

May looked down at her feet. "Yeah," she said slowly. "What I always wanted."

"What? Do you WANT to sleep in the same bed as me?"

May blushed madly and looked up at Ash with a glare. They weren't the only ones standing in front of the hotel, there were so many people coming in and out and when Ash had said that they all froze and looked at the two. Some people laughed a little saying, "get to your room, will ya? Some of us don't want to see you have sex!" "Ooh, look at those two lovebirds, adorable!" "Love isn't all

that it's cut out to be, huh Romeo?!" "Trouble in paradise?"

Ash ignored their comments and kept his stare fixed on May. "Well, do you or not?"

"Of course not!" said May, stomping past Ash. "I would love to sleep on my own bed!"

"Okay," said Ash, following her. "Do what you what you want."

"I will," May marched up to the front desk with Ash not far behind her. The lady behind the desk

looked up at the two teenagers in disgust. "Oh no, another one."

"We'd like a room please," said Ash, placing his elbow on the desk.

"Whoop di doo," said the lady sarcastically. "Name."

"Ash Ketchum."

"Age?"

"Sixteen."

The lady smiled and looked up at Ash. "I'm sorry honey, only twenty one and up can sign in for a room."

Ash reached into his pocket and pulled out his trainer card. "I'm here for a dinner, and this should be enough to get me my room."

The lady grabbed Ash's trainer card and sighed, "Room 154."

"Thank you." Ash and May grabbed their backpacks and left to the elevator.

"Why is she so mean?" asked May.

"Who? Mrs. Violet? She's just like that today because she hates it when a lot of trainers check in." Ash looked over at May. "If you didn't want to share beds, then why were you so angry that we got two beds?"

May smiled, "angry? Me? Are you kidding? I was just, uh, surprised! Yeah, surprised that you actually got us a two-bed room."

"Okay, whatever you say."

"Um, Ash?" May slipped her hand into Ash's. "How long will the dinner be?"

"From six to nine." Ash grinned, "It's not only a dinner it's a whole other meal! They give us so much to eat; it's a wonder that anyone finishes their food without gaining so many pounds. I'm lucky I usually have Pikachu help me finish some of it."

"What about this year?"

"I'll have you finish it!"

May looked up at Ash then turned away, "I'm so bad Ash."

"No you're not."

"Yes I am," May pulled her hand away from Ash's. "Worse than you know."

"Well what is it then? That's making you so bad?"

May turned back towards Ash and was ready to tell him that Misty called when the elevator doors opened. Ash stared at May expectantly but she shook her head. "We should go to our room."

"Okay," Ash grabbed his backpack and followed May to their bedroom. This one was bigger than the one in Montgame. It had on big screen TV, two computers, two beds, one closet and two windows facing the Saffron city gym.

May rested her head on her bed as Ash emptied out his backpack. "You'll be fine, right?" he asked, looking towards her.

"Yes, I will. You enjoy your dinner."

"Are you going to stay in the room?"

"Yeah."

"Okay," Ash took several deep breaths before making it to the door. "If you get in any trouble, I have my cell phone."

May stood up immediately and pulled Ash's cell phone away from him. "I'll be fine!" She said quickly. "Now you just go and enjoy your dinner! Be sure to save me something!"

"But, my cell phone."

"Oh, this thing!?" May smiled and tossed it onto the bed. "Do you know how bad these things are Ash? So very dangerous! I can't believe you wanted to take it with you! Shame on you!"

Ash stared, "what?"

"Very, very dangerous." said May, pushing Ash out of the room. "Now remember!" She said closing the door. "Save me something!"

Ash stood there as the door was slammed in his face, "um, okay."

May slid down the door when she heard Ash leave. She knew how rude of her that was to take his cell phone away, but she didn't want Ash to get Misty's call. She hugged her knees. Although she knew fully it wasn't her business of who called Ash and what they did to him. She knew that she was supposed to tell Ash Misty called, but she couldn't get herself to. She couldn't get herself to give up someone like Ash. If she did, she would be alone. "I'm not going to give up Ash," she heard herself say. "I'm sorry Misty, but I won't give him up."

And then, as if Misty had heard her, Ash's phone began to ring again. May stood up to see it was Misty, calling Ash again. She frowned and threw the phone onto Ash's bed. "He's not here." She crossed her arms and turned to watch TV, but the phone continued to ring. And that was when May started to get annoyed. She wanted to pick up and tell Misty that it was too late, Ash had her. She wanted to tell Misty how miserable Ash was without her and now that he was happy again, she couldn't just decide to re-enter his life.

But Misty didn't quit, she kept calling. Maybe I should tell her that Ash isn't here, thought May as she flipped through the channels. Maybe I should tell Ash that she called because whatever the reason, it seems pretty serious. But May didn't budge, she reached for the telephone instead and called for room service. "What would you like?" asked the lady on the phone.

"What do you have?"

"Whatever you want."

May smiled, "well, in that case. I would love three bowls of ramen, four scoops of mint ice cream with chocolate chips, two scoops of strawberry ice cream, one scoop of cherry, three scoops of chocolate ice cream, five scoops of vanilla, t-"

"Um, excuse me?" said the lady. "I couldn't hear you over the music, can you turn it down?"

"Music?" May looked around the room. "I don't have music on."

"I hear something."

"Excuse me," May put the phone down and searched her bed. Finally picking up her cell phone, "oh yeah!" she said with a small laugh. "I'm so stupid, my cell phone." She picked it up to see Drew had replied to her text message.

From: Drew Almond-(556) 812-4459

To: May Maple-(556) 582-2875

Thanks for replying May. I'm going to tell, but I have to go down to Little Root to tell the Officer Jennys, again, thanks May. I never thought you would reply. I'm sad we can't get back together, but I guess that's just the way the world spins. Anyway, I'm on my way to Little root, so see ya.

May stared down at the text message and for the first time in a long time, she smiled at what Drew had to say. She closed her eyes and pictured him in her head.

"Um, miss?"

May opened her eyes and reached for the phone. "I'm sorry!" She said, "I, um, had to get that call."

"Ash, over here!"

Ash looked up and saw Karen waving towards him. He smiled and ran towards her to see she was saving him a seat.

"It's great to see you made it here Ash!" said Karen as they sat down.

"Of course I'd make it!" he replied. "I could never miss the food."

Karen laughed. "Good ole Ash, your only reason to live is food."

"That and Pokemon."

"Speaking of Pokemon, where's Pikachu?"

Ash looked down. "He got hurt bad in training so I had to leave him in the Pokemon Center."

"Oh I'm so sorry!" Karen rested her hand on Ash's. "I hope he gets better."

Ash looked up, "yeah, I do too."

"Something like that happened to my Tentacruel once. He got sick and every time I called him out to battle, he sort of whined. I ignored it at first, but his whines became louder and louder so I took him to the Pokemon Center. And Nurse Joy told me that Tentacruel was suffering from a bad fever and she had to keep him overnight. I felt so bad after that I thought I would never use tentacruel again in any of my Pokemon battles. But you know what? Tentacruel got better and I used him again and again and he never got sick again. So all you have to do is have faith in Pikachu, Ash."

Ash smiled up at Karen. "I will; thanks."

May thanked the man who gave her the food. She happily took the cart away from him and stared at her food as drool began to slip out from her mouth. "Which should I start on?" she asked, "ooh! I don't know, they all look so good!" She reached for the hot dog she ordered and turned on the TV. It was perfect. There was a good program on, she had food to last her the night, she and Drew were on good terms, and Misty stopped calling. May smiled and pushed the hot dog in her mouth, maybe this trip was really going to go her way. She reached for the remote when she gulped the hot dog. It seemed to go down slowly, she could feel it go down and finally hit her stomach. But for some reason, it didn't agree with her stomach, and May was rushing back to the bathroom. She kneeled over the toilet and threw up again, throwing out the rest of her vacation with her.

"Let's have a Pokemon battle!" insisted Lt. Surge as soon as he saw Ash. "I wanna see if Pikachu can still beat my Raichu or not."

Ash grinned. "I don't have Pikachu with me, but what about the rest of my Pokemon?" He reached for his pokeballs but found none. "Huh, must have left them at the hotel."

"You can't go now Ash!" said Karen. "What about the food? Everyone's not here and this dinner is so important to Lance!"

"I'll be back," said Ash. He looked up at Surge. "Can you wait a little bit? It won't take me that long to get back to the hotel."

"Alright," Surge smiled. "I guess since you don't have Pikachu, I'll have to battle you're other Pokemon, but they better be worth the wait."

"They will be, I promise!"

"Come back soon Ash," said Karen.

"I will!" replied Ash, running outside the room.

How did I leave them? He asked himself as he ran towards the hotel. I usually always take my Pokemon with me Ash tried to think back to when he was leaving the hotel and remembered May pushing him out. "Oh yeah," he grumbled. "I forgot because May pushed me out."

Once he got back to the hotel, he didn't have time to wait for the elevator, so ran upstairs.

"May!" he shouted once he got to their door. "I forgot my Pokemon and came to get them."

There was no reply so Ash tried to open the door and found it open. "May," he said again as he entered the room. "I'm here for my Pokemon." He looked around but saw no May. What he saw instead was a cart full of food, the TV on, and his cell phone ringing. He was going to get it when he heard something in the bathroom. "May?" He left his cell to ring and left to the bathroom, sure enough there sat May; throwing up in the toilet. "Oh no," he said before kneeling beside her. "Again?"

May gave a short nod, but started to throw up again.

Ash sighed, "I'll be right back." He stood up and went back to his cell phone that stopped ringing.

He started to dial in Karen's phone number.

"Hello?" she said.

"Um yeah Karen, this is Ash."

"Oh, hey Ash. When are you coming back?"

"I can't." Ash looked back towards the bathroom. "I, um, am needed here."

"Really? But…"

"I'm sorry; can you tell Surge that I can't come back?"

Karen sighed. "Alright Ash, see you on the plane ride back?"

"Definitely." Ash hung up the phone and walked back towards May. She was already sitting up. "Y-you didn't have to do that." she whispered.

"Yes I did," Ash sat down beside May. "You're sick, I can't leave you alone."

"B-but you've been waiting for that dinner all day."

"There will be other ones."

May stared at Ash, "b-but."

"It's no problem May, really." Ash stood up and reached for a paper towel. "Anyways, you need to get better." He handed May the paper towel. She stared up at him; she could hear his cell phone ringing. "Um, Ash?"

"Forget it," said Ash, kneeling beside May again. "It can't be important."

May looked sadly at Ash, Oh, it is Ash. More than you'll ever know

End of Chapter 16