Chapter 5: Hear Me Now
"I keep searching for something that I never seem to find.
But maybe I won't, because I left it all behind."
-Hear Me Now: Hollywood Undead
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It was Saturday morning, the sun had risen hours ago but a 17 year old girl still remained under her covers. However her phone rang out in a generic ringing from her bedside table, she grasped it without looking and pulled it as close as she could as it was still connected to the charger on the wall.
"Hello?" Dawn poked her head out of her comforter, She was sure her hair was a mess of static and her mascara had transferred to below her eyes.
"Are you still in bed?" May's voice came out the line in a scold and Dawn fell back on her pillows. "I'm coming to get you in half an hour!"
"I'm up, I'm up!" Dawn replied and unplugged her phone, taking it with her to the bathroom.
"Alright, I'll text you when I'm in the driveway! Byeeee!" May hung up the line and Dawn turned on her shower so it could warm up.
After a quick shower, she picked out the yellow skirt that Rose had picked out, a white kami, and a grey cardigan to go over the top. The senior put her hair up in a sporty ponytail and grabbed her black strapped sandals to take downstairs. Picking out a bag, she placed her wallet and phone inside and shut her bedroom door behind her.
"Good morning Rose." The woman has in the kitchen making her breakfast and turned to look at the younger girl's outfit as Dawn took a bottle of water from the fridge.
"I love your outfit! You look so cute!" Rose smiled at her and Dawn politely smiled back, her phone beeping in her bag.
"Thank you Rose." Dawn said as she checked the message.
I'm pulling in now.
-May
"You have fun today dear!" Rose called and Dawn went to put on her sandals to head out the door to meet her friend.
May's red jeep pulled to a stop just as Dawn shut the door behind her. The blunette climbed into the two-door vehicle and buckled her seatbelt, May turned around her car and the two were on their way.
"I'm excited to go shopping!" May said as they traveled the road into La Rousse. They had texted last night and decided to go shopping the next day to go shopping. Dawn nodded in agreement and turned the volume up on the radio to sing along.
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"So are you going to go to homecoming?" May asked as they slurped on the last of their shakes, walking along the glass windows of the shops in the mall. Dawn threw her empty cup in the trash can and simply shrugged.
"I don't know." Dawn replied and stopped when she noticed that May was no longer beside her. The brunette was peering into the window of the shop.
"Dawn come look! It's so pretty!" May called the blunette over and Dawn looked to see the sight.
In the window was a beautiful white, glittering dress, almost something out of a fairytale with its sparkles, strapless hold, and long train. May stared at the dress in wonder. Finally after a few moments they carried on their way.
"Hey there's Ash and Paul!" May spoke and waved to get the attention of the two other seniors. The two boys turned around and waited for the girls to catch up. Ash smiled at her.
"Hey Dawn." He smiled and then also greeted May.
"Good morning Paul, what are you doing here?" Dawn asked the purple-haired male, who held up a bag from his hand to show her.
"Just getting a new pair of gloves, mine ripped last night." Paul replied and Dawn nodded, she had watched him during the game, and also had cheered for him. Dawn pulled out her phone and slide through the pictures to show him the picture of Drew, himself, and her from last night.
"Here's from last night." He looked over the picture and smirked.
"You're short little Blue." Paul said and looked down at her as to prove his point. He looked at his phone for the time and then placed it back in his pocket.
"I have to go to work Ash." The raven-haired male stopped his conversation with May and bid her farewell.
"Bye Dawn!" Ash told her with a smile, always the happy one.
"See you Blue." Paul said and turned to follow his friend to the nearest exit. Dawn felt an elbow in her ribcage as soon as the boys were out of earshot.
"Blue?" May grinned and Dawn blushed in response.
"It's what Drew calls me," The blunette attempted to shrug of her friend's tease.
"It's different when it's Paul!" May reasoned and Dawn turned away to hide her blush. "Oh girl!"
"We're only friends May, he's a good guy." Dawn spoke as the two began walking again past the shops.
"You're the only girl he talks too! He's been in classes with me and he's never even looked at me." May stopped to look at another dress, it was obvious that the upcoming dance was on her mind.
"So, we're friends. Friends talk to each other." Dawn said and waited for May to catch back up.
"So we're like best friends?" May's voice made Dawn stop and see the smile on the brunette's face.
"Of course, best girlfriends." May squealed and wrapped the girl in a hug, her bags swinging.
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"Hey little sister." Her brother's voice came from the doorway as Dawn placed her bag on her bed. "How was your little shopping trip?"
"Good." Drew entered her room and shut the door, moving to sit in her office chair. He had gotten up a few hours ago and was dressed in a pair of athletic shorts and a loose shirt. It was near mid-afternoon on that Saturday and the late rising was typical for the green-haired male.
"Heard you ran into Paul and Ash." Drew spoke randomly as she separated her purchases into different piles on her bed to put away. She nodded in agreement and continued on with her task.
"Okay, well I've got to work on that English stuff, I'll see you later." Drew got up off of her desk chair and shut the door behind him. Dawn watched him leave and put her newest clothes away in the depleting space of her closet.
Once she finished, Dawn threw away the bags and sat down at her desk. She opened her email account to check her inbox. Finding a new email she opened it and read its contents; it was from a few days ago.
Dawn,
I hope that you are adjusting to your new school well, from what you have written it seems as though you are. It's sad without you here, Kenny is fine and I can tell he misses you too.
We've been friends for a long time, and I know that are going to find new friends in Hoenn and I just hope that you won't forget about me. I don't think you will; but distance this far can hurt even the best of friends.
Call me sometime?
-Zoey.
Dawn reread the email again. Did Zoey, her best friend at her old school really believe she would forget about her? The conversation with May earlier at the mall made her guilty, she missed Zoey, but May was a sweet girl.
The blunette shut her laptop without responding and decided to start on her homework instead. Maybe she would give Zoey a call sometime soon, the time difference would make it difficult; but her and Drew had been communicating for years with it. She could arrange it.
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Dawn huffed and blew the bangs out of her eyes as the English professors droned on about the upcoming project. The blunette didn't really bother to pay attention as the teacher had just given the students a paper that explained the rule and regulations of the project at the beginning of class, but insisted on going over everything anyways.
When doodling on her notebook became nothing more than half-attempted flowers; Dawn looked up and around. She noticed that Drew was flipping through the textbook with no purpose and Paul was slumped backwards with his arms crossed over his chest.
"Are you sleeping?" Dawn whispered and poked his arm. The purple-haired male flinched and Dawn tried not to feel guilty; he looked exhausted.
"Hey, are you okay?" She tried once again as he looked up at their professor then back to her.
"I'm fine." The dark circles under his eyes told otherwise and Dawn decided against provoking him for answers. He didn't look in the mood. She looked at the clock instead, there was over 20 minutes left of class time and with the next period being lunch, it made the class seem longer.
"Now since this is a large portion of your grade, I chose your partners for you." The teacher called and pulled out a slip of paper, this caused the sleeping class to sharpen their senses.
Dawn snorted when Drew was paired with none other than Brianna, the same female who had a thing for him and flirted with her brother any time she could. Drew let out a groan in annoyance and gave his sister a pleading look.
"Dawn Berlitz and Paul Shinji."
The blunette paused and looked at the male who had to be her partner, he looked back at her. She gave him a warm smile; this project would be a breeze for both of them.
"You may use the rest of the period to discuss with your partner." The English professors went back around to her desk. Brianna plopped right next to Drew in front of her and Dawn turned to Paul.
"So, when do you want to meet up?" Dawn asked the purple-haired male.
"Well I have practice after school every day, and I work every day except Wednesdays and Fridays. And I am sometimes off on Saturday mornings." He explained and Dawn nodded at his schedule.
"Well you have games on Fridays correct?" He nodded, "So we can skip those days, do you want to meet on Wednesdays after practice to start out? I am free every day after school." Dawn reasoned and the football nodded. Paul pulled out his phone.
"I already have your number." He spoke and Dawn raised her eyebrow.
"You do?" Dawn repeated and Paul gave her a smirk.
"Your brother gave it to me." Dawn rolled her eyes and wrote down her email address on Paul's project sheet so he could have it. They discussed topics until the lunch bell rang.
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"So you got paired with Paul for the English project?" May asked as they changed out of their gym clothes and back to their school clothes. Dawn adjusted her skirt to make sure it was smooth.
"Yeah, we have to have our topic decided by Friday." Dawn shrugged and balanced on one foot to slip on her sandal to complete her dressing outfit.
"Mmmhmmm." Dawn rolled her eyes at May's suspicious look.
"We're friends May, didn't we just have this conversation?" Dawn questioned and picked up her bag, only waiting a few seconds for May to close her own locker then headed out of the locker room with May behind her.
"For now your friends." May giggled and walked down the opposite hall as Dawn found her brother waiting for her to take her home. Drew texted on his phone as she approached.
After dropping her off, Drew headed back to school for football practice to start. Dawn headed up to her room and dropped her things in her room, and started on her homework.
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"Ugh! Where is that stupid book!?" Dawn asked herself as she looked around her room. She had finished her homework and was looking forward to reading some more of her book but couldn't find it anywhere in her room.
Suddenly remembering where she last had it, Dawn went downstairs; she had long ago changed into the sweatpants and tank top she usually wore around the house, and went to the garage to see if her father's car was in it's place. Opening the garage door she saw he was home and opened the backseat to look inside. She remembered she had last read it on the way to Drew's game last Friday.
Seeing the cover underneath the driver seat she grabbed for it but her fingers touched something else. Pulling out her book and whatever else it was Dawn dropped both the book and the object once she noticed what it was.
It was a pair of underwear, ladies underwear. Dawn gasped and looked at the offending looking white lace from its place on the car floor. What was it doing in her father's car under the seat? It had to be Rose's unless….
Was her father having an affair?
Dawn used the corner of her book to push the panties back under the seat and out of sight. Shutting the door to her father's car she did a run-walk back to her room and took the stairs two at a time and shut the door behind her.
"Dawn?" The voice almost made her scream in fright. She clutched the book to her chest and her back hit the door that she had just closed.
"Whoa! Sorry I scared you. Why are you so jumpy?" It was only Drew, sitting in her desk chair like he usually did when he came to her room. Dawn took a deep breath to calm herself then answered.
"Nothing, you just scared me." It wasn't a lie, he did make her jump out of her skin and he seemed to take the excuse as she plopped onto her bed onto her stomach. Drew looked at a paper in his hands then back to the paper on her desk.
"What are you doing in here anyways?" Dawn questioned as he continued to look between the two sheets.
"Seeing what you put down for the English assignment." He answered and then set his paper next to hers. His phone beeped with a new text message, he groaned.
"What's wrong dear brother?" Dawn asked, curious with her brother's rash actions.
"Brianna won't stop texting me, we had to exchange numbers for the English project and now she won't leave me alone." Drew didn't reply to the text and put his phone on her desk instead.
"Speaking of phone numbers, Paul already had mine. What do you know about that?" She questioned and Drew merely blinked at her.
"I gave it to him once I knew you were going to school here, in case you needed something."
"if I needed something, why didn't you give me his number instead?" Dawn rolled her eyes and Drew frowned.
"Good point." Her phone beeped on her desk where she had left it before and Drew tossed it to her.
Here's my number.
-Unknown
Dawn looked at the number and didn't recognize it, so she faced her screen to her brother, who got up from the desk chair to get a closer look.
"That's Paul." Drew said and picked up his phone and paper off of desk and left her room. Dawn added the new contact to her phone.
No giving my number to creepers okay?
-Dawn
Dawn looked at her book that was beside her on her bed once the message was sent. Seeing the book made her think of what she had to touch to retrieve her book and suddenly…
She didn't feel like reading right now.
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Done! This chapter kind of jumps around a little bit but covers some important things for the future!
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